Anton Labser

General Anton Labser was the supreme commander of the Army of the Colonies of Guntreland and the founder and the first Governor of the United Archipelago Confederation.

Twenty Four Years' War
It was General Labser's strategic genius that determined the initial phase of the Twenty Four Years' War, given that after his nine glorious victories it was the Guntrelandian Neuland which held almost all of the teritory hitherto controlled by Sigisland. Nonetheless, the results of his campaign were reversed by the defeats he suffered at Hettin and Ransburg from the native Sigislandian army, under command of Francis Francisen.

The Elizine Congress and the Confederation
At the Elizine Congress, Anton Labser was offered the crown of the Federal Kingdom of Neuland, which he, considering hereditary monarchy to be deeply unjust, refused. Along with his most loyal officers and others dissatisfied with the new Congress order he became a renegade, founding the United Archipelago Confederation on one of the equatorial archipelagos outside the sovereign zones of the Congress monarchies.

Death
When Francis I arranged a banquet for the jubilee of his reign, he invited all of the foreign rulers to Neuland. including Labser, who was now Governor of the Confederation. Possibly afraid that Labser might claim the throne of Neuland previously offered to him, or simply out of vengeance, Francis had his servants club Labser to death as soon as he had arrived at court.

Legacy
Labser's refusal of the crown of Neuland is celebrated in the Republic of Guntreland as an early example of Republican virtue.