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Mara K. Fulton

Gender	Female
Age	28 (as of 19 August 2006)
Rank/Position	Major, Kahanistan Republic Guard
Height	168 cm (5'6")
Weight	50 kg (110 lbs.)
Blood type	AB-
Frame	Slim / slender, 86A-69-84 (34A-27-33)
Hair/Eyes	Dark brown / gray
I.Q.	103
Economic Left/Right	(3.12)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian	(1.91)
Religion	Agnostic
Education	B.S. in communication, Kahanistan Military Academy, 2001, M.A. in political science, expected 2007
Hobbies / Interests	Reading, politics, foreign cuisine.
Languages spoken	Arabic (competent), English, Spanish (fluent)
Weapon	M-16, Beretta M9, Merkava VK MBT
Affiliation	Kahanistan Republic Guard
Service	Freekish invasion, 2006 Kahanistan riots

Mara Kaitlin Fulton (born 14 August 1978) is a Kahanistanian military officer and the current commander of the Presidential Guard. She is also responsible for speaking to the media on events in the Presidential Palace.

Early life

Fulton was born in Najaster, capital of Kahanistan, and grew up listening to her parents talking politics. Her father was very left-wing and her mother was very right-wing, and their discussions interested her since she was five. Mara would often fall asleep with her head pressed against the door of her parents' bedroom where she had been listening to their conversations and debates.

By nine, her political views were shaped similar to what they are today. She was also an avid reader, picking up foreign books to get ideas from other perspectives, even reading them in their original language. Mara decided at about the age of eleven she wanted to become a police officer; she felt that corruption would only be solved if the corrupt lived in fear of a secret police system where they did not know who would cooperate and who would not.

Military career

At 15, Fulton started at Kahanistan Military Academy. By all accounts, she was an average student, never getting in trouble but always quiet. She was trained as a military police officer and commissioned at age 23, in 2001.

At this point, she never expected to be part of the President's security team. However, in late 2001 after her promotion to First Lieutenant, she was advised by a colonel to go into military intelligence. She performed well, but decided policing and sentry duty was more suited for her. It was not until 2003 and her promotion to Captain that her police, sentry, and intelligence background attracted notice, and she was assigned to the Presidential Guard as deputy commander. In 2005 her superior was killed in a terrorist attack and Fulton took over command, with promotion to the rank of Major.

Shortly before the third Kraven invasion of Kahanistan, Fulton flew a combat sortie into The State of Britain, despite having minimal flight skills and having crash-landed a transport less than two months earlier carrying President Marcellus Valens to St. Fedski. Information is limited, but she survived the mission unharmed. Shortly after her return, she ordered the Presidential Security Detachment doubled and asked the Ministry of Defense to assist in finding a way to train the newer recruits.

In late 2006 and early 2007, she was assigned to train the Presidential Security Detachment in Skgorrian territory. The plans given to her, from what information is not classified, suggest they are training intensively in an uninhabited region of Skgorria, combating the dangerous wildlife that reside in the area and training patrols.

Personal life

Fulton has a one-year-old daughter, Kathy. Her fiance, the father of her child, disappeared in battle during the Freekish War. As he had been sent to detonate a nuclear device in Freekish lines which never took place, Fulton is haunted by the belief that he suffered Puritania, a ghastly Freekish method of torture and execution. She changed significantly after the war; while before, she was always upbeat and friendly, afterwards, she was more absorbed in her work, visibly depressed, and rarely smiled.

Politics

Fulton describes herself as a right-leaning moderate and patriot. She believes that the capitalist system is corrupt, but socialism is potentially even more corrupt as the government is placed in control of huge amounts of money. She is generally a believer in allowing anything that does not harm others, but is critical of Kahanistan being a drug haven.

She has publically accused the Amestrian State of committing war crimes, and has assisted personnel from the Xirniumite Federation of Human Rights (XFHR) in inspecting secret archives in the Defense Ministry to find evidence, and was involved in the arrest of former President Mohammed bin Yusuf al-Za'if for war crimes shortly thereafter.

In August 2006, Fulton accompanied President Marcellus Valens to St. Fedski to engage in discussions with St. Fedski and Xirnium over the future of the Adamantine Alliance. She vocally opposed St. Fedskian attempts to hold the delegations shortly after Xirnium's withdrawal from the alliance, but was equally opposed to the termination of the pact.

Recently, she was involved in Kahanistanian efforts to obtain the Demogade advanced fighter, the F-90 Guardian Angel. Available information suggests that early efforts have been far less successful than the Kahanistanian military hoped for.

Controversy

Fulton is criticized for her alleged inaction during the riots, mainly by those who lost property or family in the carnage. She defends her position by the fact that the military has very strict rules of engagement with civilians.

Fulton is also controversial for her views on General al-Ghazi, a far-right anti-Amestrian. She has been accused of supporting his ideologies, but denies it, saying she sees him as a "genius", but also a "deranged mind."

Quotes

"Captain Foster and Lieutenant Holland are not terrorists. They did only what they were required under international law to do, do everything in their power to prevent war crimes from taking place. I only hope I'd have the courage to do the same thing, if I were in their position. They were pardoned because the government was forced to admit that it had committed war crimes, and killing the messenger wouldn't change that." - to a far-right Amestrian reporter.

"This guy is good, he should get his own talk show." - on General al-Ghazi's speech to an angry crowd, shortly before it exploded into a violent wave of anti-Amestrian hatred.