Ardem Wyatt
Director of the Interior Ardem Wyatt | |
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| Royal Governor of Draakur | |
| In office 1 July, 2006 – 30 June, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Piotr Farren |
| Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ardem Tomus Wyatt 25 May 1939 Kohlburg, Staalmark, United Kingdom of Ottonia |
| Citizenship | South Ottonia |
| Nationality | Ottonian |
| Political party | Nonpartisan |
| Profession | Civil Servant |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Ottonian Royal Army |
| Branch/service | Logistics Branch |
| Years of service | 1957 - 1967 |
| Rank | Staff Sergeant |
| Unit | 4th Regular Division |
Director Ardem Wyatt is a South Ottonian and Draakuri civil servant and statesman. From 2006 to 2022 he served as the Governor of the Dominion of Draakur on the behalf of the South Ottonian monarchy, and since July 1 2022 has served as the Director of the Interior for the Emergency Transitional Administration government under his former deputy, Stevan Grimmeburger.
Wyatt was born to an impoverished family in Staalmark at the tail-end of the Great Ottonian War. The post-war period was one of privation for many families in both Ottonian states, and the Wyatt family was no exception. The harsh conditions of Wyatt's youth led to him falling in with a rough and radical crowd, and not taking his studies especially seriously in the nascent South Ottonian public school system, until at 18 he was conscripted into the Royal Ottonian Army. Wyatt would finally find a sense of civic engagement and belonging there, and would re-up his enlistment after his initial mandatory four years were served, ultimately rising to the rank of Staff Sergeant over his ten year military career. In 1967, amid talk of the creation of a new Royal Civil Service Bureau to help better administer the South Ottonian realm, Wyatt requested and received his honorable discharge from the ROA and applied to join the nascent uniformed civil service.
He would come to distinguish himself well enough between 1968 and 1976 in the Staalmark branch of the RCSB, proving himself a proud and energetic administrator. Wyatt was, by 1972, considered a rising star in the RCSB, with some of his superiors even remarking that he seemed destined for high office, perhaps in the Ottonian Senate or in the Royal Privy Council, in the not-too-distant future. However, that would all come crashing down in 1976, when he was denounced by a coworker (and former childhood acquaintance) of having Wernerist and North Ottonian sympathies. The allegations, though not true, were not entirely groundless; Wyatt's companions in his teenage years had largely been Wernerist, partially a result of their town's conditions. Although Wyatt was able to satisfy state security officers that he was not ideologically-opposed to the South Ottonian government and state, the accusation had a chilling effect on his career, and his once-steady upward advancement came to a screeching halt. Despite keeping his head down and grinding away for another nine years, Wyatt's career had stalled and, amid rising frustration with both the RCSB and the Staalmark office in particular, Wyatt, requested a transfer to the Draakuri branch of the RCSB in 1985, a request that was granted the following year.
Over the ensuing decade and change, Wyatt kept his head down and served in the administrations of a succession of outside-appointed Royal Governors for Draakur, endearing himself to officials who were increasingly quite happy to look past Wyatt's youthful indiscretion to avail themselves of an energetic, experienced, and above-all competent administrator. This reached its peak when, in early 2000, one Piotr Farren, himself a rising star in the RCSB, was appointed governor and, at the recommendation of the outgoing governor Aldus Wylsunn, requested that Wyatt serve as his Lieutenant Governor, and Wyatt accepted. When Farren's climb continued in 2006 and he found himself appointed to the Ottonian Senate, Wyatt was the obvious choice to take over the governance of the increasingly-backwater Draakur Archipelago. Wyatt was well-suited to the role, and found his term renewed in 2012, and again in 2018, all while he used his perogatives as a Royal Governor to make Draakur a haven for capable officials, especially in the RCSB, who had found their careers derailed and stalled by circumstances beyond their control.
Since the establishment of the Emergency Transitional Administration following the events of the South Ottonian Revolution, Wyatt has essentially continued discharging the same duties he did as governor, now under the title of Director of the Interior.