He
was reluctant to take the power of the government into his own hands,
as he wanted to distance himself from his brother. He tried to say
no, but the people wouldn’t hear of it. He was their choice, and
that was that. Eventually, he accepted the position. For a time.
He told the people that there must be a set term. The government
made that term be a millennium, followed by a possible second term,
but that was the limit allowed. No way was someone going to be
president for over ten thousand years!
Fredrik
Wallace became the first president of the new Earth Republic. He was
Willem’s brother, but they looked nothing alike. Their father had
divorced and remarried in the time between their births. Also, while
Willem’s mother had appeared generally Scandanavian, Fredrik’s
had been African. Thus, the people did not consider the brothers to
be any bit the same.
Fredrik
wanted there to be even more of a separation, so before he took
office, he had his name changed. He kept his first name, but his
last name came to signify the people of the new republic. Freeman.
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