Lous Brenom

A faciast dictator from the Ramn Confederation who systematically exterminated over 2 billion of his own citizens during a 3-year ethnic cleansing. He was a very hands-on leader, and activated the gas chambers at various death camps himself on many occasions. He is also regarded as a serial killer and is known to have killed over 1000 victims.

Lous lived from A.Y. 2491 to A.Y. 2547, with the cleanins happening during the 3 years preceding his death.

Rise to Power

Lous lived during a tumoltous time in the Confederation, when dozens of nation states were finally coming together to form a 1-world government. Lous was originally elected democratically but seized absolute power some years later by replacing high-ranking officials with his own trusted lackies. After changing his title from Prime Minister to Emperor, he waited ten years to consolidate his power.

Then the killings began.

Genocide

Ramn has a population of around 9 billion, of which nearly 4 belonged to a racial subgroup. Though this group had once been enslaved thousands of years earlier, there was little racial strife in modern Ramn. Indeed, for the most part the Ramnins had moved beyond petty differences of skin color.

For the most part, except for a few small regions were the old hatreds still lingered. Lous hailed from one of these regions, and his anger was so strong that he sought to wipe his enemy from the face of Ramn.

For five years he built up an intense program of racial segregation and subjigation, barind his hated people from many jobs and regions, displacing them, and finally rounding them up into ghettos and labor camps. The camps were only the first stage, however, as the slave labor was used to build the massive infrastructure of death.

Poison and disease were effective, but the most efficient means of death came from the gas chambers. Lous personally designed and oversay the construction of many, mechanising and automating death to a level never before or since witnessed. His most famous method involved loading prisoners onto ore cars in trains, filling the large buckets to capacity. The train would then be driven into a tunnel which could be ceiled at both ends, the locomotive uncuppled, and the entire train load of people gassed. The train could then be driven to a mass grave where the bodies were simply dumped out of the ore cars like heaps of rocks.

Personal

Lous was a sexual sadist, who never took a wife but was well known for his torture and abuse of prostitutes. This was kept strictly out of the media, but his inner circle often had his consorts put to death to ensure they would not talk.

Not long after the cleansing bega, Lous initated a daily ritual that would cement his place in history as the worst man ever. Every morning, his servants would bring one of the people from the death trains in and have them wait by his bed. In the first few days it was random, but Lous quickly developed a fondness for young girls, instructing his servants to find "The most innocent, frightened young thing you can." They would be brought to his chambers and forced to wait beside his bed. Lous would then awaken, and begin his day by strangling the prisoner to death.

This went on for over three years.

How many more he personally killed is unknown, the accounts say he may have takne three or four a day, depending on his schedule. He was often quoted as saying "It just puts me in a good mood, to see one of them die."

Downfall

Though officially a Gudersnipe Protectorate and member of the Alliance, the Ramn Confederation was located in a fairly remote Autonomous Region of Joint Space. With no off-world trade and little communication, it took three years before word of what was happening on Ramn reached the Foundation.

Gudersnipe's responce was swift, dispatching over 100 battle groups, uncluding two Mercury Ships and a Mothership. This was most certainly overkill, but well in line the Foundation's favorite motto: "There's no kill like overkill!"

The fleet division took hard burn to reach the Ramn System as quickly as possible, and wasted no time on an all-out invasion of the planet, systematically anhilating military forces and liberating death camps. The attack was so well executed that it took only five days to completely secure the planet.

It was especially successful in that Lous himself, along with most of his senior staff, were captured and able to be held accountable for their crimes.

Crimes

In all, Lous's cleansing claimed the lives of over 2 billion people, roughly 1.8 million per day over a three-year period. The millitary force that was complacent in these deaths and that carried out msot of the killings was largely anhilated during the attack(anyone in a Ramn uniform was shot on sight with no chance to surrender and no prisoners taken). It was only the uper echelons that were intentionally taken alive, though a trial was not really carried out.

Lous specifically chose brutal, sadistic men like himself to run his government. All of them were corrupt, and supported Lous only because he not only allowed, but encouraged them to carry out grevous crimes against his hated people group. In addition to the genocide, most were guilty of sexual slavery and barbarism not seen since the Marcon Alliance, collapsed nearly 3,000 years before.

These wicked men forever changed the face of the Ramn confederation, and in their lust ultimately destroyed it.

Aftermath=

Most of the government officials were not given any form of trail, but held until investigation could confirm their guilt. They were then executed, usually by a single bullet to the head.

Those that were given their day in court did not recieve anything resembling a fair trial. The highly publicized proceedings were all for show, with both the defense and prosecution following a scripted and well-rehersed plan. It was meant to clearl vilify the worst offenders and forever mark them as the enemy in the continuing history of the Ramn Confederation.

Lous himself, however, was given special consideration. Officially, he was tried and executed by firing squad. However, as a rule, Gudersnipe does not record executions, so his death was not publicly show. Due to the unusually severe nature of his crimes, death was not good enough by any standard. After being marched into the execution chamber, he was secretly spirited away to the Counting House, where he was made into a vampire.