Mirek Seik
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Mirek Seik | |
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| Born | Mirek Gilit Seik 2 December 1987 (age 38) |
| Nationality | Fendiralian |
| Occupation | Paramilitary leader |
| Years active | 2023-present |
| Known for | Iron League of Serka |
Mirek Gilit Seik (born 2 December, 1987), popularly known as Colonel Seik, is a Serkan-Fendiralian paramilitary leader and former military officer. Following the Two Day War and demilitarisation of Fendiralia, he founded the Iron League of Serka, an ethnic-Serkan paramilitary group closely associated with the Patriotic Volunteers' Brigades movement, and quickly became one of the most well-known paramilitary leaders in Fendiralia. In 2025, he acted as a senior military commander during the Nagroda Incursion, briefly occupying the city of Bolka Hrad before relinquishing the city to government forces.
Born in Ogroztyn, Serka, Seik grew up on a remote island with his uncle, Kotlik Seik, after the death of his parents in a freak accident. Despite having only limited contact with wider society throughout his childhood, he joined the Fendiralian Imperial Army after Kotlik's death in 2004. Between 2006 and 2007, Seik received a scholarship at the Lorava Military Academy, and was enlisted into the Fendiralian Army officer corps. He supported, but did not participate in, the 2011 Fendiralian coup d'état. At the breakout of the Fendiralian Civil War, Seik had achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel, commanding a battalion based in Western Fendiralia. Seik was specially exempted from an ordered transfer of ethnic-Serkan officers out of Western Fendiralia, aiming to prevent defection to the Serkan National Army (SNA), after personally appealing to president Marek Berdjadz. During the war, Seik played a key role in ending the occupation of Bolka Hrad by the SNA, for which he was awarded the rank of Colonel. After failing to invade Serka, the Fendiralian government signed an armistice with the SNA, but Seik continued to be stationed in Western Fendiralia to prepare for a new offensive, remaining there at the time of the 2022 Two Day War.
Seik saw no combat during the Two Day War, and complied with orders to end hostilities, though it is widely suspected that his battalion cached large amounts of weapons before formally disarming. With the dissolution of the Fendiralian Army, Seik became a private citizen in the Rex Omnian occupation zone, where he briefly worked in a school. Seik quickly formed connections with former members of his battalion, and particularly other ethnic-Serkan military veterans in Western Fendiralia. In January 2023, Seik established the Iron League of Serka as a paramilitary anti-occupation organisation for veteran Serkans; by the end of the year, membership had exceeded 200. Though close to members of the associated PVB movement, Seik did not declare the Iron League a formal part of it, due to its ethnic basis. While the group returned to Serka proper in mid-2023, it was quickly forced to evacuate the region to Western Fendiralia after the end of the Braitian occupation in the area and establishment of an SNA government. In the following years, Seik gained notoriety for his eccentricity, as well as the criminal activities and vocal pro-Berdjadz activism of the Iron League. By 2025, Seik was a large enough figure adjacent to the PVB movement to become one of the main leaders of the Nagroda Incursion, which took place during the Fleetian-Fendiralian War, alongside Milan Rudnay and Petr Stur. Following the success of the incursion, Seik evacuated Bolka Hrad, but permanently settled the Iron League in Nagroda Oblast, where he continues to lead it.
In 2026, Seik established a new paramilitary organisation under the PVB movement, known as the Patriotic Volunteers' Flotilla. The group, reportedly dominated by members of the PVB-NW but including a significant Iron League component, consists of a small number of watercraft and associated crews. While declared the 'admiral' of the new organisation, Seik has remained chiefly attached to the Iron League, and continues to reside in Nagroda Oblast.