Thomas Hobbes Backstory

     Once, long ago in the forgotten annals of history… or maybe it was only a few decades ago… or from your perspective it hasn't actually happened yet… Who knows; Am I on trial?! Anyway… at sometime or other… there was a wide-eyed idealist (Actually, no, he was pretty cynical even then.) and political activist named Thomas Hobbes. Born and raised in the Socio-capitalist collective of the O.W.N., from his youth, he had always been a productive and utilitarian member of society who went out of his way to help others, and had a strong dedication to bettering his overall surroundings and society.
      So he dedicated himself to giving speeches, and petitions to reform in his country. For awhile he was able to do some small, rather insignificant good, though it took place through the inspiration his speeches inspired in individuals, rather than through actual governmental reform. But this was not good enough for him. Seeing the atrocities which were allowed not only in his own country, but all across the universe, he packed up one day, and set off for the Free-state of the Libertarians in hopes that he would be better received there, and it would give him better opportunities to be useful.
      He set up shop in one of the poorest sectors. On an all but abandoned planet in one of the poorer sectors of the Libertarian Zone. A planet which people had all but forgotten had at one point been the origin of humanity. And through time and hard work, though entering their political bodies, and moving up through them, gaining power, he eventually set up a small functional cohesive large-scale-state there, which was a concept the people considered wholly alien in those parts.
      Of course there were setbacks. Like in any poor area, at first, he had to ensure that he was sufficiently protected from those who wished to disrupt him. But the people were too worn out, and his offerings were too great to them for them for them to try to inhibit it to any large degree. So he set up a state, and through clever workings, and unshakeable faith, (also a significant amount of money) he managed to extend it around most of the world, and even onto the others in that solar system besides in only a few short decades.
       But people will never be satisfied for long. Though his governmental system required intense participation which they were willing to supply at first, for the benefits it afforded them which they had never known back when they lived in anarchy, their understanding that this had to be worked for to sustain waned over time, and all of Thomas Hobbes' speeches and cries for help began to go unheeded.
       So though he could form a government, and spread it across multiple worlds, there was nothing he could do to override human laziness and opportunism. And so once again, the places he had gone fell into disarray, and people ended no better off then when they had began.
       But Thomas Hobbes was too determined to let his dreams fall apart so easily. Though over time, he had lost all hope for reasonable success in the utopian way he had first envisioned it, people who are determined will always try to find a way to fulfill their desires. And so, in the depths of his despair, he turned, and fell, and came to make dark deals with dark dealers.
       It was a man named Maitreya. Maitreya was affiliated with a weapons and energy production company, though the origins and extent of which was unknown to Hobbes. Maitreya had promised he would help him in return for allowing it free reign on a personal level to do what it needed without inhibitions in the new state, and to have a constant supply of resources as it did so. Maitreya knew of course that Thomas' state was finished without the power, and new energy source they provided, so he likely expected Thomas to walk into the deal knowing full well that the end result was likely going to be a new power growing out of his control, and which he would be little more than an accessory to.
       But what happened next was something even Maitreya's organization had not expected upon making the deal. Thomas Hobbes at no behest of his new allies took the enhanced weaponry which had been devised, and used it himself, upon his own country, in order to try to get people to comply with the order he had envisioned. But people resisted. They had grown lazy since Amasia's original change of hands, and even threats of violence would not deter them from pursuing the freedom they had once had, and which to them now became more valuable than the peace they had worked for. So there began a civil war among the country, which through underhand support from the O.W.N., the people seeking freedom had come at last to slowly topple one part of it after another, eventually leading them up to the very doors of the head of government, with seemingly little left to fight them off.
      Of course, Hobbes had prepared for this eventuality, and in his older age had become fearful, and surrounded himself with legions of armed guards and weapons, so that come as they might, even the strongest forces would have little way to break his final line of defense. The rebels and the O.W.N. marched on, not knowing the surprises which lay in store for them, and slowly getting their legions decimated one by one.
       But then all at once… the defenses ceased. And just in time for an Arial strike, too. Though Hobbes had not been informed why, nor even did he know it was planned, Maitreya, and the company he represented abandoned Amasia in the midst of this final battle, taking with them only what they could carry. They gutted the power plants they had created to replace the old ones that had been used by the Libertarians, and left without even a warning to Hobbes that they no longer were backing him. At first he felt despair once again over the fact that he knew he now no longer had the means to defend against the rebels, but eventually he came to realize that the significance of this was far more than he had thought.
        When he had made the deal with Matreya, one thing they had supplied him, and all of earth with was the new power supply. The power plants they had created for him had replaced the old ones for cost effectiveness and were now the only ones being used. The entire world was powered by a few super-plants, which he had been promised would never fail, and which had now, along with most of the city, been gutted and then overtaken. The only remaining power was the emergency backup system, which would power it for a few days at most, if used sparingly.
         But this was a far bigger deal than would be assumed at first thought. Earth had been slowly moving away from the sun, and now had thick unnatural clouds and would have been frozen in an excessive solar winter if not for the giant heaters that each city had been long since equipped with to sustain livable conditions. The heaters would give out, and save for those few who had kept theirs workable in preparation for this possibility, the entire planet would become unlivable long before anyone would have the time to reconstruct the old power supplies they had used on any large scale. (This was also due to the damage sustained from the final moments of the war, and the following ravaging, however.)
           And so, knowing not only that his dream was gone, but that he had inadvertently led to the death of an entire world, with no nope left, and nothing left to live for, his last action was to rush to the headquarters that Maitreya resided at, and if it was possible that they had not yet departed, get revenge on those who had destroyed the world for ends which he could never have known.
            But when he got there, they were already gone. He climbed to the top floor, through parts of the facility even he had never been allowed access to, and came upon a single rebel mercenary, who had gotten trapped there during the commotion outside. But it was a face he already knew. One which he had come upon before, and been told to expect again. With nothing else left in his soon to be shortened life, he restrained the rebel, and sought to before his death receive at the very least as best an explanation as he could from the person he had been informed he would one day come face to face with.