User:Axel Nagant

Axel Nagant is a young fox that started out on a turbulent past and has attained recognition throughout Skytopia in a relatively short period of time. As a small arms designer, he became the protege of Nikolai Prokopovich, Skytopia's most famous arms designer. Axel has designed two small arms during his career as a small arms designer, a bolt action rifle in collaboration with Prokopovich that serves as a highly accurate sniper rifle and an incredibly rugged and reliable self-loading rifle that can be produced in virtually any workshop. Prokopovich has also chosen Axel to help him work on a classified project that has been in the works for several works.

In addition to his career as a small arms designer, Axel is well known for his combat skills, both with a gun on the ground and in the cockpit of an airplane. In the past, he made a fortune from looting defeated pirates across Skytopia, and his skills have only sharpened over time. He has always supplemented his income with trading across Sktyopia, but it is Axel's combat skills that most frequently come up when people speak of his abilities.

Axel has gained additional fame for founding the Cerulean Shield, a militia that combats pirates and helps rebuild Skytopia's most neglected areas. This militia defeated the Blood and Iron Movement, a fascist gang that was once one of Skytopia's most dangerous pirate groups. In addition to this, the Cerulean Shield have helped rebuild and expand on the Tortugan settlement areas that were once occupied by the fascists. The settlers have joined with the Cerulean Shield and are working on merging to form a new city. The militia unit also has a non-military wing that specializes in providing aid to poverty stricken areas across Skytopia. In spite of the fame he has gained in a short period of time, Axel has a major weakness in getting along with other people due to socially awkward behavior. He is highly intelligent and strongly focused when it comes to his goals in life, but he is slow to make friends. He is fiercely loyal to those that he has befriended, but it takes him a long time to befriend people.

Axel is dedicated to his family. He tracked down his missing parents and paid a hefty ransom to rescue them. After finally being reunited with his family, he married his long time best friend and girlfriend, Janice stark. The couple has an adopted daughter named Sarah and both Axel and Janice plan on raising more children. Axel was once involved in the Azure League, but he has fallen into inactivity when it comes to factional affairs, largely due to the time and money he has spent building his militia and the time he now spends raising his daughter. He is not sure if or when he will once again get involved in factional activity. While he was in the Azure League, he was known for a militant stance against the aggression of the Crimson Armada and was involved in a partisan movement that sabotaged and harassed Fuseli's forces during their occupation of Islo.

Basic Statistics
Name: Axel Nagant

Sex: Male

Age: 23

Eye Color: Blue

Height: 5'10" (approx. 1.78m) Weight: 154 lb (approx. 70 kg).

Build: Wiry

Interests: Science, music, politics, economics, philosophy, history, firearms, aircraft, pre-Upheaval texts.

Mental Conditions: Highly intelligent, but has Bipolar disorder and Asperger's Syndrome. Axel also displays a somewhat solitary attitude, and tends to “come fully out of his shell” only for good friends and loved ones.

Family
Mother: Sonia Nagant

Species: Fox

Age: 45

Height: 5'8' (approx 1.72m)

Weight: 132 lb (approx. 60kg) Eye Color: Green

Build: Average

Personality: Intelligent, friendly, affectionate, kind hearted, family oriented, "neat freak"

Occupation: Dental Hygienist

Father: Rodion Nagant

Species: Fox

Age: 46

Height: 5'11" (approx 1.8m)

Weight: 220 lb (approx. 100 kg)

Eye Color: Blue

Build: Muscular

Personality: Outgoing, intelligent, affectionate, family oriented

Occupation: Librarian

Relation to Parents

Axel has caused strain for his parents, given how young they were when he was born, in addition to some of his mental problems. However, there has always been an immensely strong bond of affection between Axel and his parents. Their disappearance after a pirate raid on Axel's home town was a chief factor in Axel's decision to become a pilot.

Siblings: None

Children: Sarah (adopted)

Species: Lynx

Age: One year

Eye Color: Blue

Significant other: Janice Nagant (Wife. Maiden Name: Stark)

Species: Fox

Age: 23

Height: 5'9" (approx. 1.75m)

Weight: 133 lb (approx. 60.5 kg)

Eye Color: Deep Green

Build: Average

Personality: Highly intelligent, obsessive, kind hearted, affectionate, fiercely loyal to family, loves children

Occupation: Chemist

Mental Conditions: High functioning autism (Asperger's Syndrome) - Extremely intelligent, but also highly obsessive. Displays extreme focus and obsessive tendencies toward: Family, fiance, studies of topics of interest, martial arts. Unlike some individuals with high functioning autism, Janice does not display socially awkward behavior. She just gets absorbed in her fields of interests and spends as much time as possible with loved ones.

Interests: Science, martial arts, history, philosophy, politics

The Cerulean Shield
After the defeat of the Armada at Islo, some partisan commanders and fighters joined with Axel to form a militia group known as the Cerulean Shield. The intentions of this militia are not generally known, but it appears that the militia occupies several rather insignificant skylands and is primarily engaged in fighting far-right wing gangs and pirate groups. The infamous fascist gang, The Blood and Iron Movement, was eliminated by the efforts of the Cerulean Shield. The size of the militia is not generally known. Estimates vary, but the militia is generally believed to be composed of around 600 to 1500 fighters, mainly concentrated in improvised bases on small skylets. In spite of its small size and relative lack of prestige, the militia is armed with the latest weaponry and is well trained, contributing to many successes and few losses. Axel goes as far to claim that his plans for future weapons development are based on experiences in the militia.

This militia has also gained some support on major skylands, particularly in the settlement areas of Tortuga (where the Cerulean Shield decisively defeated the Blood and Iron Movement.). Axel has noted that support is slowly being gained at major skylands, particularly at Tortuga.

The structure of the militia is very irregular, lacking hierarchy. Officers are elected and subject to recall at any time, and the distinction between ordinary members and officers is not large. In fact, officers and troops eat in the came canteens and saluting does not exist. There are no ranks in this militia, just the distinction between elected officer and soldier or pilot. Major decisions are also voted on and discussed.

The Cerulean Shield is divided into an air division and an infantry division, and is capable of quick mobilization at a moment's notice. While the Cerulean Shield has some excellent pilots, the militia is most well known for its skill on fighting on the ground. The skill of the militia's infantry and mechanized ground units has caused many analysts and military officers to recognize the Cerulean Shield as Skytopia's most skilled practitioners of irregular warfare methods. A non-military wing of volunteers that specialize in rebuilding Skytopia's most neglected areas has also recently formed. This wing often works under the protection of the armed sections of the Cerulean Shield, given how pirate attacks sometimes happen with little warning.

Axel has publicly stated that the Cerulean Shield "exists to assist and stabilize populations that have effectively been abandoned and neglected by the factions and local governmental institutions." The militia has managed to win the respect of those in settlement and tribal areas of scattered skylets. In fact, entire tribes and settlement populations have affiliated to the Cerulean Shield in some small areas. The Cerulean Shield has also recently become involved in humanitarian aid to inhabitants of skylets and settlement areas, using the money and valuables they have taken from pirates to provide medical treatment, education, food and drink, and housing development.

The Cerulean Shield is not officially aligned with any faction, but clearly borrows from the organizational methods of the Azure League. The interests in science and technology are also borrowed from the Azure League, evident by the militia's keen interest in excavated pre-Upheaval designs of weapons, vehicles, and machinery, in addition to having a small handful of skilled medical doctors, technicians, and researchers among its ranks.

Historical Background
Axel was born on Jordan to a small, closely knit family, being an only child. He had shown a thirst for knowledge form an early age, and his parents started home schooling at an early age. They later moved on and enrolled him in a public school to help him develop social skills.

Axel has always displayed odd behavior that sometimes alienates him from people to this very day. He has a strange walking pattern, always moving at a fast pace with large strides and his subjects of interest are of a rather narrow field, his efforts being focused heavily on only a few areas of interest.

In school, Axel was always having trouble communicating with other people and staying within assignment parameters. He often spoke too quickly in complex terminology for others to understand him, and his assignments contained far too much detail. He also had a very odd behavior pattern – there would be periods of immense creative energy being used, followed by a slump period, when he was not having that creative focus. This slump period also was accompanied by moody behavior, ranging from short attention spans, irritability, and sometimes depression. He was assigned to a counselor that would correspond to his parents to help cope with his differing needs. His childhood and adolescence were marked by this behavior.

He was a difficult burden to bear for his parents at times. He loved his parents dearly and was dearly loved by his parents, but he would have odd mood swings; at times, he would be an ordinary loving son, at others, he would get irritable for no real reason, saying some hurtful things to his parents in the process, only to have another mood swing, coming back to his parents, crying hysterically due to feeling guilty and ashamed for what he had said earlier, not knowing why he was so mean to them in the first place. His parents brought him in for psychiatric analysis, and he was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and Asperger's Syndrome.

His disorder caused many students to be hostile toward him. When he was in a manic state, he was called a “nerd.” When he was in a depressive and irritable state, he was called a “psycho.” He went through a lot of stress due to this, but he still maintained good grades and the principal had him skip a grade when he got into high school. It was recommended that he also be assigned with students with problems like his in class.

Axel met a female fox his age named Janice that was also advanced a grade. She was placed in this program as well, as she herself was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and displayed obsessive tendencies. She happened to be very intelligent, patient and kind hearted. She was able to understand Axel's fast and complex speech, and he learned many social skills with her. They quickly became best friends and eventually fell in love.

Axel and Janice had graduated a year early from school, and immediately enrolled in college. Axel studied mechanics and physics, hoping to become an engineer of some sort. While studying in college, he went back home to see his parents during a break, coming to a scene that scarred him for life – the city where he grew up lay in ruins. A pirate group had attacked the area and hoped to use it as a fortress to take parts of Jordan, especially the ore mines. They reduced the city to rubble, killing and displacing citizens. They held the city for several days, but were later driven out by the rifle brigades and air corps. Axel asked around for days about his parents, but they were never found. They went missing and were presumed dead. He spent the inheritance on finishing college, and relied on Janice even more for love and affection with his parents gone.

Axel Nagant tried interviewing at several places and was employed at an arsenal in Jordan. He worked with the famous lead engineer of the arsenal, a bear named N.K. Prokopovich. Prokopovich displayed a high focus of interest on few subjects like Axel, and they became good friends, in spite of the huge age gap between them (Prokopovtich was so obsessed with his work that continued to work at the arsenal in spite of being 82 years old.). Axel added some finishing touches, including an improved bolt and bore rifling to Prokopovich's P31 prototype rifle. It then entered service as the PN31 rifle, one of the most accurate and rugged designs in Skytopia.

Axel actually made a fair deal of friends at the arsenal. It was an interesting change for him, but he still continued to have difficulty in getting along with most people.

Axel lived a moderate distance from a pharmaceutical lab where Janice worked after getting her degree in Chemistry. He spent a good deal of his spare time traveling to that area to see his sweetheart, even though it hampered his work. New ideas he had never got beyond the drawing board, but he was content with being with Janice, especially since besides his parents, she was the only person he ever knew that could help him cope with the depressive cycles that came after the Manic ones.

When Axel had gone back to work, the arsenal came under attack from a fascist pirate gang that wanted the arms and ammunition stored at the arsenal. The arsenal was destroyed in the fighting that ensued, the arms and supplies were mostly taken, and many of the workers had been killed in the fighting. Prokopovich himself had survived thanks to being absent from work on a personal day. Axel was wounded in the attack and had to spend time in an infirmary. He learned from a doctor that those pirates he encountered at the arsenal were the same ones that caused his parents to go missing.

After healing, Axel decided to get revenge on these pirates for killing off many of his friends and co-workers, in addition to revenge for his parents. He attempted to enlist in the rifle brigades, but was rejected on grounds of his unpredictable mood changes and the fear of huge mistakes they would cause on a battlefield. After being rejected, he decided to take to the skies, using his meager savings to buy a used CR-4P airplane. He visited Janice and told her of his plans to get revenge and his hope of possibly tracking his parents down. She understood this was important to him, and said she would support him and even accompany him in the future after she was less busy with work.

Axel spent some time working on hunting down the gang that attacked his home town. During this time, he joined the Azure League, as he was drawn by their lack of hierarchy and they seemed to fit his keen interest in science and history. While he was in the Azure League, he joined a partisan movement that harassed the Armada forces occupying Islo. Axel made some friends with some of the partisans and found out that many of them were also opposed to the Blood and Iron Movement. After Fuseli's forces were defeated at Islo, Axel decided to form a militia unit with his partisan friends. The task of equipping the small militia was done with the fortune Axel made looting pirates. Having equipped this backbone of the militia, Axel went out and looked for recruits.

While recruiting at Juliet, Axel met a dingo named Siri Quinn. Siri had a small militia of her own that was formed to assist the rifle brigades in defending her home town from pirate attacks. After spending some time discussing things, Siri agreed to merge her militia into the Cerulean Shield. This provied more veteran units for the milita and the additional members sped up their recruitment process. Siri also proved to be a valuable member to the Cerulean Shield and she has often been elected to play a lead role in major events.

The militia grew over time and eventually decided to launch an offensive against the Blood and Iron Movement and its military wing, the Iron Legion. Axel and Siri held a discussion with the entire militia, making note of how the Iron Legion had retreated to skylets after they were pushed out of the skylands by the factions. After this discussion went on for some time, the militia invaded the skylet of Xi, where the fascist gang was trying to assert its control over the local Urpashku tribe. The Cerulean Shield fought the Iron Legion using guerrilla tactics and eventually defeated them at Xi's Uku region (this event later became known as the Battle of Uku). The Urphasku took notice of Axel's forces and after some discussion, joined with the Cerulean Shield.

Axel, Siri, and other elected leaders continually invaded and took skylets from the Iron Legion, winning more support in the process. The superior weaponry and training of the Cerulean Shield greatly contributed to their victories, and it was only a matter of time before the Iron Legion was pushed out of all the skylets they held. Their remaining forces retreated to Tortuga and linked up with some underground units that stayed the entire time. However, they later lost the bulk of their aircraft to the Crimson Armada and rival pirate groups.

Axel had taken notice of his enemy retreating to Tortuga. A congress at Xi decided to leave Axel and Siri with an elite force to invade Tortuga and finish off the Blood and Iron Movement. Axel and Siri headed off in a convoy to Tortuga, assisted by the Hades Axel owned at the time. This Hades is outfitted with advanced radar and radio communications system to keep in touch with friendly units and help provide an early warning against enemy attacks.

The Cerulean Shield landed at Tortuga and began collecting intel on where the location of the fascists. After raiding a house and paying off some guards of the Crimson Armada for documents, Axel had pinpointed the Blood and Iron Movement to Tortuga's sparsely populated settlement areas.

Axel also found an abandoned baby lynx while he was on his way to gather intel. He took the child to Janice for care and they adopted the child as their daughter.

The Cerulean Shield found their way into the first settlement and assassinated some high-ranking Iron Legionnaires in the tavern. This drew the fascists in the settlement into an ambush and they were eliminated quickly. The firefight drew the attention of poorly armed local resistance forces that rushed to the area.

Talks commenced with the local resistance, and they made an alliance with the Cerulean Shield. Axel made a motion to provide up-to-date arms and training to the local resistance, and it was unanimously approved. The allied militias pushed into other settlement areas, taking them from the Iron Legionnaires. This bolstered their ranks with more forces, and the final straw came when the fascists tried to carry out a pogrom. This sparked off an intense revolt that caused the fascists to retreat from all of the settlements. This retreat was followed by aerial reconnaissance that found the Iron Legion's stronghold in the ruins of a Tortuan city (destroyed during the Tortugan Upheaval.). The ruins were heavily fortified and proved to be a citadel. A heavy presence of anti-aircraft units forced the allied militias to conduct an invasion with ground forces. The Cerulean Shield sent reinforcements from Xi, mostly consisting of tanks, armored trucks, and scout vehicles. These vehicles were shared with the local resistance and greatly reduced losses in the fighting.

After two months of fierce fighting in the fortified areas of the ruined city, the fascist stronghold fell and the Blood and Iron Movement's leader, Oswald Blackstone, was killed in the fighting. The remaining Iron Legionnaires surrendered and are currently serving prison sentences. The impact of this battle is widely appreciated in the settlements areas, and a memorial has been erected to those that fell in the final battle against the Blood and Iron Movement. The settlement areas have been improving with heavy assistance and weathered a massive storm that rearranged the skylands due to shelters that were previously built. These settlements are working on merging into a single city and have joined the Cerulean Shield.

Axel continues to work with the Cerulean Shield and generously donated his highly modified Hades to his brother-in-law, Heiko Stark, noting that it was too useful to the militia to be used for his personal gains. After the liberation of the settlement areas, Axel decided to raise a family and work with the Cerulean Shield on the side to improve the lives of Skytopian citizens.

Craft
Gadfly (CR-4P)

Axel was generous by buying a new house and inviting his parents to live with him with the money he got from a pirate raid and selling his old house. He used the meager sum he had after the transactions and bought this craft to get him started once again.

Devil's Chariot (Thor)

Axel purchased a Thor and used it to engage pirates in hit-and-run tactics. The craft developed a reputation and fearful pirates nicknamed the craft the “Devil's Chariot.”

Devil's Chariot (Marauder)

Axel upgraded to a Marauder and continued the same hit-and-run tactics on the pirates. He only proved that pirates are not very creative at times, as they merely called this plane the “Devil's Chariot” like the last one, as they took note of Axel being the pilot of the craft.

Grinder (Chaparral) Axel replaced his Marauder with a Chaparral and quickly found out why this classic airplane is so widely loved. It handled well and allowed him to trade larger volumes of cargo. This craft earned the nickname of “Grinder,” given how its guns had a tendency to quickly rip enemy aircraft to shreds.

Opera Noir (Loki)

This is Axel's current craft. It has been outfitted with a 65mm howitzer, providing the craft with excellent firepower and effective range. Axel continues to help skylands fend off pirates and trades to supplement his income. He likes the handling and speed the craft offers.

Crew
Kyon Gil of Lhasa

Sex: Female

Species: Caracal

Height: 5'8" (approx. 1.73m) Weight: 127 lb (approx. 58 kg.)

Build: Average

Age: 20 Position: Navigator

While the rest of Axel's crew joined with his brother-in-law, Heiko Stark, to help man that highly modified Hades, Kyon Gil reunited with Axel and is once again his navigator. She made this decision based on her strong friendship with Axel and Janice.

Kyon Gil displays a level of intelligence far beyond those of her age. She also happens to be very sociable and laid back. Abraham Barrington of Alpha 5

Sex: Male

Species: Cat

Age: 22

Height: 5'9” (approx. 1.75m) Weight: 152 lb (approx 69.1 kg.)

Abraham Barrington is rather bold in his disposition, and he was introduced to Axel by Kyon Gil after losing a bet with her. Abraham played Kyon Gil at a hand of cards and hit on her, saying she would have to date him if he won. Kyon Gil accepted the bet, stating that she would embarrass him if she won. Kyon Gil won the bet and made him repair Axel's plane free of charge while wearing a tank top and a skirt. Axel was impressed with the job Abraham did and after teasing him for some time, hired him as his mechanic.

Axel has noticed that Abraham and Kyon Gil spend a lot of time hanging out with each other. Axel sometimes gets a kick out of teasing Kyon Gil about this, given that she has a tendency to blush whenever Axel jokes about them being a couple.

Rumors
Little information exists on Axel's activities as of late, and consequently, rumors have been spreading around about him. Some of them are at least plausible, with others being unknown:

Axel Nagant spends a lot of time with his family, friends, and those involved in the Cerulean Shield. He is somewhat narrow in his approach to friendship, as he often spends time with his current friends and does not really make an effort to make new ones. Consequently, not many pilots know Axel on a personal level, and rumors have started circulating about him:

It is believed that Axel is working with N.K. Prokopovich on a classified weapons project. Along with Prokopovich, Axel is also very tight lipped when it comes to discussions of this issue. All that is known is that Prokopovich has spent several years researching a new type of devastating weapon, and this is the project they are both believed to be working with. Some say that Axel was involved in the brief anti-factional movement that broke out in the past. Factional rule was completely eliminated on some skylands, and the fact that Axel did nothing to stop the locals from tossing out Azure League staff, in addition to appearing to have friendly conversations with anti-faction demonstrators, seems to point at possible involvement in such things.

Several scholars of history and researchers have recently made the claim that Axel is a descendant of Defiers that fought against the Children of Magnus. This claim states that two brothers, Felix and Anatoly Nagant, were well known in the ranks of the Defiers, the former being a skilled organizer and recruiter, the latter a skilled arms designer and researcher. The claim states that Felix was a renowned commander of ground forces, while Anatoly was involved in arms design and Unobtanium research. The degree of Anatoly's Unobtanium research is not exactly known and is a subject of intense debate among these scholars. Some believe that he helped create Unobtanium weaponry. Others think he researched its properties but never got involved with weapons of mass destruction. Another group of historians claims that Anatoly was involved in the development of Unobtanium weapons and discovered the dangerous properties of such weaponry in the process. This group goes on to state that Anatoly warned the Defier leadership of these dangers and urged the abortion of the Unobtanium weapons project, but was ultimately ignored by the leadership, paving the way for the Great Upheaval.

Axel knows little of his genealogy and cannot confirm the accuracy of this rumor. Most of his ancestors perished in the post Upheaval wars that plagued skytopia, and they did not always leave much behind to tell how they lived. His parents both lost their entire families in the Guild War and fled to the core where they later married. Axel intends to research this claim in the future, as regarding his ancestors, he only knows a few bits and pieces about those that would have been his grandparents and their relatives.

Weaponry
This is a brief list of the weapons Axel Nagant has either assisted in designing or has designed himself. PN-31 (Prokopovich-Nagant Model #31)

The PN-31 is a newer bolt-action rifle that was in design for several years by N.K. Prokopovich, one of Skyotpia's most famous small arms designers. It entered service after some finishing touches were added by Axel after testing the weapon. It is chambered in .30 caliber and is renowned for its unrivaled accuracy and simplicity of operation and maintenance, these attributes making the weapon a favorite among Skytopian snipers.

R-1 Nagant (Rifle #1, Nagant)

This rifle has its origin in the Cerulean Shield's struggle against the Blood and Iron Movement at Tortuga. Axel was working on a rifle that would provide a higher volume of fire than bolt-action rifles and was chambered in intermediate cartridges that were being mass produced for experimental trials. Axel had completed a working prototype of the rifle far sooner than he expected (he thought it could take years), largely thanks to frenzied work sessions that arose from manic episodes. The simplistic design of the rifle greatly contributed to the rifle appearing far ahead of schedule.

The prototype proved to be a success and continued to function in spite of the internal mechanisms being exposed to foreign matter during trials. Axel took the prototype to a small scale machine shop where small quantities of the rifle were produced for his militia. The rifle proved itself very reliable in the battle against the Iron Legion. This experience and the rise of other gangs across Skytopia prompted Axel to submit the rifle for official trials at Skytopian arsenals. It has since entered mass production and has become popular across Skytopia.

The R-1 Nagant is a gas operated, self-loading rifle chambered in an intermediate .30 caliber cartridge. Axel states that he was involved in many tests of previous self-loading rifles that proved to be accurate, yet unreliable in harsh conditions. Axel then thought of his own plans and designed this arm to be utterly reliable in the harshest conditions. The rifle features a laminated wood stock, chrome lined chamber, bore, and gas tube, an apeture rear sight, fixed fold-out bayonet, spigot style grenade launcher, and fold up grenade sight. It is constructed with milled parts and is easy to manufacture in virtually any workshop.

Axel has been collaborating with other small arms designers, most notably Hiero Yakashima, with plans to produce a self-loading sniper rifle. The plan is to make a variant of the R-1 chambered in a full size .30 caliber cartridge to provide the necessary effective range for sniping. The main difficulty lies in getting a self-loading rifle to attain a level of accuracy on par with bolt-action sniper rifles like the PN-31.

N.K. Prokopovich also continues to meet with Axel on a regular basis for new weapon designs. Axel has been entrusted by Prokopovich to assist him in producing a devastating rifle design that has been in the works for several years under the utmost secrecy.

Literature
In addition to his career as a small arms designer, Axel has taken to writing. Several of his works have been published:

A History of Skytopian Small Arms (Written in collaboration with N.K. Prokopovich)

Theoretical Advancements in Rifle Design - The Self Loading Rifle (An essay published as a short book studied in the Azure armories, complete with citations from pre-Great Upheaval texts, discussing the the production of self-loading rifles and the implications they will have on the future of Skytopian arms.).

The Ideological Foundations of the Crimson Armada (Written in collaboration with Azure historian, Robert Simmons) - A highly controversial book employing many citations and excerpts from historical archives, in addition to interviews with veterans that have fought the Armada.). This book argues that the Armada is a totalitarian organization engaged in the falsification of history. A chief point is that the authors claim that Fuseli really came to power by means of a coup d'etat against his old mentor, not because he "championed democracy." Historical evidence of societies with the military having prominent political positions being totalitarian is frequently employed. Totalitarian orders and captured Armada writings found during the siege of Islo are also photocopied and shown. A special appendix has been included, showing original Crimson Armada propaganda and historical excerpts and rebuttals are placed afterward.

This book was popular during the strife between the Azure League and the Crimson Armada, and it still manages to sell today. Some Crimson Armada academics and critics have denounced the book as a “forgery.” Some other academics across Skytopia claim that things have changed so drastically over time that the book is outdated in the context of today's factional activity.

The Intermediate Cartridge (Written in collaboration with N.K Prokopovich and H. Yakashima) - A book detailing the specifications and usage potential of newly introduced intermediate cartridges which can be said to be between pistol cartrdiges and full-sized rifle cartridges in size. Details are made of firefights rarely going beyond 300 meters between infantry, noting that full-sized rifle cartridges are too overpowered for such ranges. Note is made of lower recoil and an effective range beyond that of a submachine gun. A section from Axel's contribution to this book is widely quoted by arms researchers: "The intermediate cartridge has promising potential, offering immense stopping power at standard ranges with lower recoil. Tests with new self-loading rifles and automatic weapons are daily confirming this research. Be assured, armorers, that the future of standard infantry weaponry lies in the intermediate cartridge; full-sized rifle cartridges will only retain their role for use in machine guns and sniper riles."

Axel Nagant has also written a small number of progressive pamphlets, newspaper articles, and bulletins. These works are controversial in the eyes of some, but they continue to draw the attention of readers across Skytopia.