Sir Stanley Nelson

Fleet Admiral Sir Stanley Nelson
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Origin	Bretonia
Affiliation	Bretonian Armed Forces
Born	May 11 781 A.S., Planet Leeds
Died	Still alive

Sir Stanley Nelson KBE DSC NSM, is the current Fleet Admiral of the Bretonian Armed Forces, and chairman of the Fleet Admiralty Board as official representative of the Monarch.

During his career in the Armed Forces, both the QCRF and the regular BAF, Nelson has served in the defence of Bretonia on countless occasions becoming regarded as a competent pilot, but an excellent officer and leader of men. His grasp of tactics and strategy is excellent, being a student of military history, whilst his charismatic and friendly demeanor has made him the empitome of Bretonian politeness, tact and phlegmatic steadfastness in the face of danger.

Since assuming leadership of the Bretonian Armed Forces in mid 817 A.S. from his predecessor Percy Nelles, Sir Stanley has attempted to alter the course of the Tau War by a change in stance of the BAF's war effort, towards more bold offensive operations and with a tightening of control over supply lines both to Bretonian positions and across the Leeds blockade.

Background

Born as plain Stanley Nelson on May 11th, 783 A.S., he is the son of Richard and Helen Nelson, middle-class Leeds industrialists. In 788 A.S., when Stanley was 5 years old, his parents were killed during an attack on one of their transport ships near LD-14 by gaian terrorists. From this day until the age of 18, Stanley was raised by his grandfather Archibald Nelson. His childhood was somewhat difficult owing to the loss of his family's wealth upon the death of his parents, though Stanley worked hard and excelled at school, remaining in education on Leeds until the age of 18. Witnessing first hand the outbreak of the Nomad War above Leeds in 800 A.S. when he was 17, Nelson was struck by the bravery and dedication to duty of the Bretonian Armed Forces in repelling invading Rheinland Military warships.

After finishing school at the age of 18 during the closing stages of the Nomad War, Nelson secured a place at Cambridge University to study Military History. He enjoyed his studies there greatly, but in 803 tragedy struck with the death of his granfather back on Leeds, most likely from a long-term respiratory infection as a result of a lifetime spent on the planet. With no remaining family and precious few friends back on Leeds and with his opinions of the Armed Forces further enhanced by his studies of their past operations Nelson decided to enlist himself and the following year he applied and was accepted as a cadet for the graduate officer training programe at Dartmouth Naval Academy.

Early Military Career

With his enthusiasm for tactical and strategic studies, his sharp intellect and ability to assume responsibility and tackle difficult challanges with ease and a calm, relaxed nature, Nelson excelled at his officer training, coming top of his class upon his graduation in 807 A.S. As was customary for the top performing officer-cadets Nelson was granted a commission aboard a Battleship, serving as second navigation officer on the HMS Glorious, being promoted to first navigation officer in 809 A.S. before transferring to a fighter wing the following year.

During the continuing period of peace which lasted until the Tau War buildup began in 813 A.S. Nelson served with the BAF in a fighter wing in the Cambridge Planetary Fleet, distinguishing himself more for his calm and polite manner and ability to diffuse tense situations through discussion and negotiation than for his skill in a fighter, though he served dutifully and achieved several notable combat victories through use of superior tactics and intelligence including the destruction of a corsair cruiser threatening New London in only his fighter by luring the vessel into the planetary atmosphere.

When the Tau War finally broke out, Nelson was assigned to non-front line duty and served from 812-184 A.S. as adjutant to Commodore Richard Windsor of the 2nd CPF Battlesfleet, becoming Admiral Windsor of the Cambridge Planetary Fleet in 813. He proved just as capable in an administrative role as he had done commanding in the field, but when Windsor left the Admiralty Board in 814 to found the QCO Nelson's position was undermined. The suspicion of Windsor and all associated with him in the eyes of the Admiralty Board prohibited Nelson from taking up another adjutant's position under the Board's supervision, whilst Nelson's personal background made him unsuitable for the QCO under Windsor's command.

For the next 14 months Nelson served as a desk officer with the Defence Intelligence Staff; an unglamourous job but one at which he excelled nonetheless, instituting significant administrative reforms of the information relaying system for the Cambridge Planetary Fleet which were later copied and repeated across the BAF. It was only with the formation of the Queen Carina's Regulars in late 815 A.S. once the Board has reasserted its control over the QCO that Nelson was finally eligible to join Queen Carina's Royal Fleet and he did so, being accepted into the QCR as one of its founding members.

With the QCRF Nelson returned to space once more as a flying officer, serving across Bretonia and well into Tau, fighting on the front lines against Kusari for the first time. In the summer of 816 A.S. he personally commanded a BAF strike force deep into the Kyushu system and which reached briefly into New Tokyo itself. By late August of 816, however, the QCRF was embroiled in a political crisis surrounding the rebellion of George Mountbatten and with the death and capture of his respective superiors, Captains Isaac Brock and Sam Windsor and the resignation of several other key officers Nelson was forced to assume responsibility as second in command of the QCR service branch under his old wing-commander Mark McKenna. It was in this role that Nelson was tasked with personally accepting the surrender of Mountbatten and the King George's Loyalists above Leeds on 3rd October, an act which earned him considerable prestige and did much to redeem him in the eyes of the Admiralty Board.

As the political crisis of 816 drew to a close with the exile of the Populist Party in mid-October, however, Nelson and McKenna were to ultimately be forced to oversee the dissolution of the QCRF itself, as political neccessity forced the hand of the Monarch. The Admiralty Board disbanded the Royal Fleet, the privateers were disowned, the QCO and QCR absorbed into the main fleets; McKenna was made Commodore of the 1st NGF Battlefleet and Nelson received the rank of Commander in the Suffolk Fleet aboard the destroyer HMS Steadfast, soon promoted to Captain and given command of the ship.

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