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Perold Jones (later Perold Jonas)

⚠️ ChatGPT export source — flagged for accuracy review. The creator has noted that ChatGPT began generating errors, hallucinations, and inaccuracies in nearly every export conversation. Treat facts on this page as provisional, not settled canon, until reviewed. See ChatGPT Source Reliability — Review Tracker.

Type: Character — Founder/Director/President/General Status: Canon — extensively documented via the Original Colonists series

Overview

Perold Jones was the first baby born aboard the Ark Royal, during its transit voyage from Earth to Maf, born to Anita and Eric Jones shortly after Earth's nuclear devastation — treated by the ship's crew as a profound moment of hope. He grew up as a member of the large Jones family (200+ members, effectively the leaders of nearly every major Ark Royal activity), for whom Jonesboro — the city founded on land ceded by Peplle — was named.

Confirmed Timeline (Maf local calendar)

  • c. 1893 (voyage, pre-landing): Born aboard the Ark Royal
  • 1893: Ark Royal crash-lands; area settled by Original Colonists (city of Jonesboro formally founded 1895)
  • 1898: The Jones family (of which he's a member) incorporates LMT (Maf) in tribute to Vee's Earth-based LMT Corporation
  • c. 1927–1930: As a disillusioned Fellow Associate of LMT, leads the "Jonesboro Posse" — a 300-person group — in public demonstrations, handing out flyers, and posting broadsides against LMT/the Jones family leadership in Jonesboro
  • 1930: As Posse members begin dying under mysterious circumstances (deaths, fires), Perold negotiates a truce with his family and the Fellow Associates: the Posse halts public demonstrations in exchange for an end to the mysterious deaths/fires. Perold uses the truce period to sell LMT shares and finance an expedition. See "For Development" for the full story arc, not yet written scene-by-scene.
  • 1932: Departs Jonesboro with the 300-person Posse, leads an overland expedition along the north bank of "the great river" (✅ confirmed to be the same river referenced in Aa Konta's prophecies)
  • 1937: Reaches the opposite shore of the continent, aided clandestinely by LMT aircraft
  • 1939: Crosses the ocean by seaplane, discovers the Janastian Islands; upon reaching the main island nation of Janast, changes his name to Perold Jonas and enrolls in the Durin College of War in the capital city of Jolin
  • 1940–May 1944: Attends Durin College of War, graduating 3rd in his class; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant by the College itself on his matriculation day
  • May 1944 (next day): Admitted to the Janastian Army, transferring his College commission directly into military service
  • 1994: Publishes "Toward a Swarming Doctrine," examining the evolution of drone warfare since World War 3. ✅ Its featured case study, "The Battle of Kila Vas," is a confirmed hypothetical illustration (set in 1992, with Jonas depicted as a Colonel) rather than a real event in Jonas's actual career — see The Battle of Kila Vas (Hypothetical Case Study).
  • ~2005 (per Dating Systems): As General Perold Jonas, commands Maf's fleet (alongside Admiral Vasalo Sutoi) in the War of IFTR against Earth's IFTR forces — see below
  • (undated) Later known as "Perold Jonas — Director, Founder, President" per the NPC Roster article
  • (undated) Also served as Executive Director of Defense for MACOFS and President of Janast — see expanded section below

✅ Chronological Tension — Substantially Eased

Earlier archive notes flagged an apparently impossible gap between his birth (aboard the Ark Royal, pre-1893) and his generalship in the War of IFTR (~Maf year 2005) — a gap that looked like 2,000+ years before this article's dates were known. With Jonesboro's 1893 founding now confirmed, the real gap is closer to ~112 years (1893 to 2005) — a very long human lifespan, but no longer an outright impossibility in a sci-fi setting with plausible advanced medicine or life-extension technology. Still worth watching for direct confirmation of how he achieved such longevity, but this is no longer treated as a severe, likely-unresolvable contradiction.

✅ RESOLVED — Arrival in Janast: 1939, via Refagio

The creator has confirmed: Perold Jones arrived in Janast in 1939 (not 1930), where he changed his name to Perold Jonas — matching "Original Colonists Part Three." He and several others arrived aboard 3 large seaplanes they had built in what is now Refagio (already independently listed in this archive's Planetary Governments roster). All but 5 people — including Perold — returned to Refagio afterward; those 5 remained in Janast. The earlier "1930, shipborne refugee group" account from "Government to Commercial Shift" is not accurate and has been removed.

✅ Name change motive confirmed: Perold changed his name to "Jonas" before enrolling at the Durin College of War, for two reasons: (A) to further distance himself from his family and LMT, and (B) to blend in more readily with the local Janastian populace, among whom "Jonas" was a popular surname.

Expanded Military Career (confirmed via ChatGPT export material)

  • 1969: Loses reelection (of an unspecified prior office) in Janast to the pacifist "Peace-Progressives" party, who move to dismantle Janast's military — prompting Jonas to found the Janastian Warhawks as a private military company from still-serving Janastian military members
  • Christmas Day, 1973: Combin attacks Janast; by mid-1976, Combin has overrun most of Janast except a mountain redoubt, where the Warhawks wage a guerrilla campaign — 99% are eventually killed
  • 🔴 RETCONNED: an earlier account had Jonas ordering a nuclear strike on Fainbrotair at this point in the war — the creator has confirmed this did not happen, as it was inconsistent with Jonas's character. How the Janast-Combin War actually concluded, and how Jonas and the 323 surviving Warhawks (including deputy Lt. Gen. Johovus Helvatica) came to arrive at Kila Vas by submarine, is pending — the creator has indicated more detail exists in later, not-yet-processed export files.
  • ⚠️ CONFLICTING LATER SOURCE (fog of history — preserved, not reconciled): a separate ChatGPT export ("Book opinion and commentary," discussing MACOFS Military Maxims) explicitly restates the Fainbrotair nuclear strike as having happened, with additional detail not present in the earlier account: the Warhawks numbered 33,000 at founding (1968, per this source, rather than following the 1969 reelection loss), were reduced to 351 survivors (not 323) after 3 years fighting the Combinese invasion (winter 1973 onward), Combin lost an estimated 500,000+ troops hunting them, and the strike killed millions of Fainbrotair civilians. Per the creator's explicit instruction, this is preserved as an additional, unreconciled account rather than overwriting the retcon above — future sessions should seek creator clarification on which version is authoritative, or whether both represent different "in-universe historical accounts" of contested events.
  • 1977–1978: Trains the Empire's "Northern Army" (millions of troops); formally takes command in 1978 from Gen. Latimer Hollings
  • May 31, 1987: Leads the decisive Allied WW3 counter-offensive (see World War 3)
  • 1988: Becomes Helvatica's first "Chief of Military Forces"
  • July 1991: Leads the first assault onto a planet from space in Maf history, against Zambetq — victory in under 3 weeks
  • 1999–2000: With economist Ravel Magrep, designs Kila Vas's anti-inflation policy and Police and Crime Act of 1999 (Peacekeepers, Free Zones, time viewers) — see Kila Vas Reforms of 1999–2000
  • 2000: Renounces association with Kila Vas/the NWMG in protest of Jon Medaris's presidency; purchases his Masite spacecraft planning retirement
  • 1994–2006: Semi-retired but re-engages as part of the secret "committee" (with Zarkof Androve, Harold Bronson, Ravel Magrep, and others) that ultimately founds MACOFS — see that page for full detail
  • (undated, later) Executive Director of Defense for MACOFS, appointed by nephew David Jones

✅ Full Alternate Military/Political/Literary Biography (Full Text)

Per the creator's fog-of-history instruction, this alternate, richly detailed account (from "Book opinion and commentary") is preserved alongside the timeline above rather than merged into it, since it contains dates and framing that don't fully align (e.g., Warhawks founding year, survivor counts) but offers substantial additional detail not found elsewhere.

The Soldier (1944–1992): Graduates Durin College of War, Janast, 1944; enters the Janastian Army. Janast has an ancient, centuries-old enmity with Combin. As a young officer, defeats Combinese forces in border skirmishes. 1951 — as a Major, rallies Janastian troops to repel a large Combinese invasion. 1954 — as Lieutenant Colonel, uses armor/artillery/air support and pincer movements to encircle thousands of Combinese troops during a full-scale war; his maneuvers become case studies in combined arms tactics. 1957 — as full Colonel, wins five named battles against a Combinese winter invasion (Battle of Winter Plains, Battle of Snow Drift Pass, Battle Lord's Summit, Battle of Yolan Fields, Battle of Gorzonla Mountain), cementing his popular reputation. 1958 — as General commanding Janast's entire border defense, stops a Combinese penetration 20 miles into Janast and personally leads an armored thrust to within 30 miles of the Combinese capital, Shala, forcing an armistice. 1960 — elected President of Janast. 1968 — founds the secret Janastian Warhawks (33,000 members) after the Peace-Progressives Party partially defunds the military. Winter 1973 — Combin, after a 10-year buildup, invades; Janast's regular military collapses within weeks, but Jonas leads the Warhawks for 3 years of resistance. Early 1976 — reduced to 351 survivors, hunted by a 5-million-man Combinese army (estimated 500,000+ Combinese losses in the hunt); Jonas launches a nuclear strike against Combinese forces concentrated on Fainbrotair, neutralizing several million troops but killing millions of Fainbrotair civilians. Jonas and the 351 survivors are extracted by an Empire transport submarine to Kila Vas, where the Empire makes him training commander of its Northern Military Command. December 1976 — World War 3 begins (Desert Empire); by March 1978 the Desert Empire is within a few hundred miles of Kila Vas. Jonas is elevated to Commanding Officer of the Northern Military Command, halts the Desert Empire within 60 miles of Kila Vas, then over subsequent years pushes them back (20 miles, then 120 more miles). March 1987 — launches an amphibious assault on the Desert Empire's flank plus a simultaneous air campaign; a week later, an armored blitzkrieg advances nearly 3,000 miles by October, to within 100 miles of the Desert Empire's center. November 1987 — peace treaty signed. 1991 — leads the first planetary assault in history, defeating Zambetq's 5-million-man garrison in under 4 hours at a cost of just 117 troops. 1992 — retires 2 weeks before marrying General Tammi Li Akarin, who succeeds him as Commanding Officer of the Empire's Planetary Assault Command.

The Constitutional Architect (1984–2005): 1984 — while commanding the Northern Military Command, writes Helvatica's Constitution. 1998–1999 — with Empire economist Ravel Magrep, drafts the Constitution for the New World Maf Government (NWMG), encompassing over 300 nations from both sides of WW3. December 2005 — Jonas and Magrep convene the Constitutional Conference on Northern Island (thousands of miles north of Kila Vas, near the Arctic Circle); delegates from 30 star nations, 12 planetary governments, and 5 Kila Vas corporations draft MACOFS's Constitution — a star nation of 22 states encompassing over 500 inhabited planets. ✅ This independently confirms the "30 star nations / 12 planetary governments / 5 corporations attended, only 22 joined" figures already established on The MACOFS Constitution page.

The Advisor and Scholar (2005–onward): After the 1st and 2nd Viachon Wars (both Maf losses — Viachon's stated aim in both cases was only "to teach Maf a lesson," seeking no territory or reparations), Jonas advises on training/force structure for the fleet that subsequently defeats Viachon in the 3rd war. In 2005, Maf loses a war against IFTR (Interstellar Federation of the Terran Republic, based on Earth, Milky Way Galaxy) but wins the peace — the resulting treaty is so humiliating to IFTR that it tears the country apart in a 10-year civil war (Jonas had no direct role in this war or its negotiations). From 2007–2009, Jonas again advises on training, tactics, and force structure for the growing MACOFS Starfleet, whose guidelines lead to victories in wars in 2010, 2017, and again later in

  1. Jonas is also a prolific author: nearly 50 books on military

affairs, biographies of military leaders, and campaign studies. His three-volume Tractics: Strategy and Tactics of Armored Warfare is considered the definitive text on maneuver warfare and blitzkrieg tactics. ✅ Publication year confirmed as 1964 (a separate source's "1967" reference — see "The Empire's Interest" below — refers only to when the Empire pieced together his true identity, a coincidental proximity rather than a conflicting publication date). He remains a sought-after guest lecturer at colleges, universities, think tanks, and military academies, and is frequently consulted by policymakers across the continent and beyond.

Jonesboro Posse (1927–1932)

✅ See Perold Jones's Origin: The Ark Royal, the "2000 Secret," and the Long Journey to Janast for the full, richly detailed original account of this period — including his psychological state under the weight of the "2000 Secret," the Fellow Associates invitation, the Great Expedition across the continent, crossing the Sharmarin Ocean, and his arrival at Durin College of War. Perold Jones's 1927–1930 public dissent against LMT/Jones family leadership, the 1930 truce, and his 1932 departure with 300 followers — including the sensitive reveal that the Jones family were cloned in Vee's labs, and the Integrators/Builders/Insiders factional splits aboard the Ark Royal — is documented in full at Jonesboro Posse.

Executive Director of Defense, MACOFS (confirmed via ChatGPT export material)

Jonas served as Executive Director of Defense for MACOFS, appointed by his nephew David Jones, MACOFS's newly-elected head of state — a controversial appointment. He also served as President of Janast at an earlier point, and founded/personally trained the Janastian Warhawks, which grew from its founding into one of the most powerful military forces in known space (confirmed strength: ~28 million members at the height described in this material). He is credited with training and leading the first space assault in human history, and authored 40+ books on warfare, including the controversial "MACOFS Military Maxims," seen by many professional officers as reductive/insulting to their profession. See MACOFS Military Maxims for the complete 256-maxim text. ✅ Two more titles confirmed: "Deep Blue: Subliminal Covert Operations" (1994) — a deeply classified treatise on engineering slow-burn societal collapse through orchestrated "background hum" disruptions (infrastructure failures, natural disasters, minor accidents) timed to soften a state for external control or covert regime replacement, sometimes mislabeled by rumor as "warfare of the 4th kind" — and its 1996 follow-on, "Ultraviolet: Deep Blue Operations Against Individuals," which extends the same doctrine to individual psychological manipulation (gaslighting, targeted dis/misinformation) to gradually shift a person's beliefs. Both remain classified on Maf and across allied intelligence services; discussion is restricted in many official circles. See Allotrox System Intelligence Directorate (ASID), which maintains classified analysis of "the Jonas Doctrine."

LMT heir: Jonas is one of hundreds of heirs to LMT — in this material referred to as "Lion, Maf-Terra," described as the largest company in known space with operations on thousands of planets. ⚠️ Note: this matches the creator-flagged old/superseded LMT name ("Lion, Maf-Terra") — this ChatGPT conversation is the confirmed original source of that now-outdated name; current canon is LMT — Landfall Manufacturing & Trade.

Personal: Never married, no children, but had a strong romantic interest in General Tammi Li Akarin, Commanding Officer of Empire's Planetary Assault Command, whom he met around the time of his Defense Director appointment. Owned a Masite-class spacecraft (a 6-mile-long carrier-type vessel), purchased in anticipation of a retirement he ultimately didn't take once he met Akarin and his nephew was elected.

Respected across multiple nations': military forces of Empire, NUNE, EUN (Eastern United Nations), Peplle, and others hold him in high regard, despite his controversial reputation among some professional military circles.

Viachon Wars — Full History Confirmed

This material confirms the Viachon Empire is a starnation located "coreward" of MACOFS (toward the galactic core). The first contact/conflict between Viachon and MACOFS spanned three wars over roughly 12 years — MACOFS lost the first two but won the third. Afterward, Viachon and MACOFS became two of the (then) 15 allied powers of the MACOFS Treaty — directly confirming and dating the "1st/2nd/3rd Viachon War" progression already documented from the Medium article series.

In a later Viachon expansionist war against several "inner planets," Jonas advised the Viachon against the campaign; Viachon proceeded anyway and became deadlocked, now losing. Viachon political leadership privately blames Jonas and the Warhawks' neutrality (and the Warhawks' active convoy support — military equipment, food, medical supplies — for the opposing inner planets, as fellow MACOFS Treaty members) for their military predicament.

Physical Description

Confirmed as 6 feet 4 inches tall — notably tall for an Original Colonist (their claimed "homeland" height range was 5'2"–6'6"), and closer to the height range of Maf's native population (men roughly 5.9-7+ ft, women roughly 5.6-6.7 ft).

Origin of the Name "Jonas"

Source: conversations-002.json, "Maf Game Overview" — see RAW SOURCE. On learning "Jonas" is a popular surname among Janastians, he adopts it — chosen partly because it's close enough to his own name to be easy to remember. He applies to the Durin College of War just weeks after arriving in Janast, and receives his acceptance letter only a week or two before term begins, meeting it with an exuberance he'd never felt before and hadn't known was in him. Decades later, when the Janastian Warhawks choose him — rather than any lesser official — to sign their founding documents, the significance isn't lost on anyone: "Anyone else would be someone signing a document. But when Jonas signs, Jonas is signing history."

The Longevity Mystery

By 2016, Jonas still doesn't look, feel, act, or seem "old" — his hair may have grayed, but that's the only sign. The same is true of the other Original Colonists from Jonesboro, and the mystery goes unsolved for a very long time before the explanation turns out to be simple: Maf isn't Earth. Its atmosphere carries unique microorganisms, airborne viruses and bacteria, exotic gases not found on Earth, and an almost-nanoscopic airborne dust that is, in fact, an enzyme — one that, interacting with those exotic atmospheric gases, produces measurable health enhancement and extended longevity in certain DNA profiles. The Original Colonists' DNA happens to fit that profile exactly.

The Singing Sands (1976)

In the desert south of Kila Vas, the mystics, soldiers, and Kaolsani who pass through all marvel at the Singing Sands — dunes that produce sound as they're disturbed, which feels impossible but has a straightforward scientific explanation few people outside academia have actually read: the sand is a quartz-and-ordinary-sand mixture, and the quartz here has an unusually strong propensity for holding a faint electrical charge, too small to register on most instruments. Walking on it, squeezing it, or otherwise disturbing it releases that charge as sound — which is why children play in it, soldiers sometimes stamp on it deliberately, and old men sit by dying campfires just to listen to it sing.

The Empire's Interest

Source: conversations-002.json, "Maf Game Overview" — see RAW SOURCE. The Ministry of Assigns maintains no fewer than one Minister at every Empire embassy, and Jonas was flagged as remarkable from his very first days as a junior lieutenant — first for his conduct in an early war between Janast and its longtime rival Combin. By 1967, the Ministry had pieced together his true identity: Jonas is in fact Perold Jones, heir to the Jones family and LMT, who turned his back on both decades earlier. Initially, this discovery is treated as little more than "a line in the file" — the Ministry's actual interest in him is driven first by his demonstrated battlefield competence and second by his published military writing, which the Ministry judges visionary enough to begin reprinting for study in the Empire's own military academies, well before his family connection becomes relevant.

The connection eventually becomes public knowledge: after Jonas's own refusal to return to the family fold, the Fellow Associates — by then a gentler generation than the "old guard" they'd replaced — quietly decide to help him anyway. A disgruntled Fellow Associate (or someone on their staff) leaks the story to the press: Perold Jonas was born Perold Jones. The Empire's own public statement afterward is characteristically blunt: "We have known his origin for decades" — an overstatement, since in truth it had only been a little over two years since the Empire's own confirmation.

Appearances

  • NPCs Sample (article) — as "Perold Jonas"
  • Original Colonists Part Two (article) — birth
  • Original Colonists Part Three (article) — expedition, Janast, name change
  • War of IFTR (short story) — as General
  • ChatGPT export ("Fate RPG Familiarity") — MACOFS Defense Director role, Janastian Warhawks founding, Viachon Wars history, family/relationships
  • ChatGPT export ("Government to Commercial Shift") — full WW3 military career, Janast-Combin War, Zambetq campaign, MACOFS founding committee role

Open Questions

  • ⚠️ Minor date discrepancies across ChatGPT sessions: his ouster as Janast's President is dated both 1968 and 1969 across two conversations; his takeover of Empire Northern Army command is dated both 1978 and
  1. Not reconciled — likely just inconsistent recall across separate

brainstorming sessions rather than meaningful contradictions.

  • How did he achieve/survive to a ~112+ year active career? Not yet explained — candidate for advanced medicine, life extension tech, or simply a very long unassisted lifespan in this setting
  • Fate of his parents, Anita and Eric Jones, after the crash not detailed
  • Relationship between his Executive Director of Defense role (MACOFS) and his War of IFTR generalship — same period, sequential roles, or need reconciling? Not yet clear.