Seigneur Franchet d'Esperon was born in 680 AGS into a wealthy commoner family on Planet Marne, in the Champagne system. During the time of the Kingdom of Gallia, his father was an influential industrial magnate and his mother a teacher with a spark of rare intelligence.
As a young child having undergone an education that reinforced loyalty to the Kingdom of Gallia; although the loyalty of which they spoke marred the distinction between Monarchy and State. This little by little aimed to remove virulent patriotism which harmed Royalty. The constant terrible social inequalities raging within Gallia, more particularly its native social system between the people and nobility; the recluse Ile-de-France set apart from peers. Some still believed that only words could be used to reason with His Majesty.
Against the pleading of his parents Franchet joined the military and fought for the Kingdom in his younger years. His time with the Royal Navy showed him to be a talented officer, and more senior commanders took note of it. Promotion for Franchet however, was not an entirely celebratory affair. The fanatical mindedness of his peers became more and more unsettling with age and experience, this culminated in the end of his Royal Navy career as he was dismissed for insubordination. Franchet had refused to order his men into a suicidal situation, in doing so his loyalty to the crown was questioned. Unwilling to grovel for favour, he accepted the dismissal.
Up to that point Franchet had a promising military career. His friends in the military managed to lean on his former superiors so that he would not face more severe punishment. Disillusioned by the Royal Navy, and becoming even more distraught with the onset of the great war with Sirius, Franchet became driven to act. Firm in the belief that the King was responsible for all of the woes of Gallia, he took drastic action and approached the Council.
The Council were eager to accept willing defectors, and in time Franchet was given command of various forces during the war. He distinguished himself as an able military commander, and increasingly became known among his peers as a reluctant soldier. Through his actions he managed to save lives in times where doing so was rare; the experience in fighting against the Royal Forces resolved his belief further than the decadent monarch is the cause of rot within his beloved Gallia.
With the fall of the Kingdom, Franchet was recognised, and even praised, in the Council for his attitude towards war. Where many of his peers became more willing to bend their principals, he was not. Such conviction thrust him into positions of higher responsibility, becoming an important individual in the overseeing of the Champagne system on behalf of the République.
His family ties to Champagne allowed him to better integrate himself into the responsibilities he now held. Facilitating military control over the system, regulating unlawful activity and maintaining public trust were the orders of the day. Although the tasks at hand were not easy for him, the simplicity of conventional warfare now became a story of the past. He adapted to the needs of the situation and in time his efforts were becoming more recognised by the people of Champagne.
Franchet was still curious about the diplomatic situation of Gallia. Even though the Kingdom had fallen, and the wardens of annihilation now occupied the Sirian Tau sector. The Confederacy saw them with hostility. Franchet was encouraged by this and viewed it positively as a means to establish prosperous and cordial relations with other houses, such as Kusari.
It was the brutal and unforeseen war of Kusari against Gallia which was a powerful shock for Franchet d'Esperon. The rupture of the once cordial relations and the opportunistic invasion of Gallia, already weakened by the end of the Great War and internal political instability, awakened a deep feeling of injustice and a strong desire to defend his homeland.
Throughout the war between Kusari and Gallia, the man returned to the front while delegating the management of the Champagne system to these subordinates for the war. The war was terrible, difficult and despite a surprise effect of the Kusarian fleets on Gallia, their armies never succeeded in threatening the heart of the kingdom, the ile-de-France system, Franchet further distinguished himself during the war in the fierce defense of the Burgundian system adjacent to Champagne.
At the end of the war and despite a relative lenient peace between the two powers, Franchet was sorry to see the state of devastation of Gallia and its slow reconstruction beginning, he vowed to invest himself greatly to help rebuild Gallia, while now developing a sense of deep distrust towards the rest of Sirius.
Tired of war, Franchet d'Esperon now wants to see a unified Gallia a reality. Conceding to the political stability for a military government as strong as the old kingdom and that certain borders of Gallia be reaffirmed against these immediate neighbors, in particular Kusari which claims part of the Tau-53 system which should normally belong to Gallia as of right.
The border issues with Bretonia not being a region he knows a lot and rather vague temporary.
It was during the rise of the Gallic Union, that Franchet was approached as a candidate to govern one of the systems. To be entitled as the Seigneur of Champagne. Although hesitant with the use of noble title, for the good of Gallia he was willing to make more sacrifices.
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