Iyderan Thirdleg

Iyderan is an opposing character during most of the series. He is the king of Jupiter and the leader of the Gas Giants, later the Gas Giants Warm, and later the United Gas Giants

Before the war
Not much is known of Iyderan's early life and reign. It is however known that prior to the War Against the Red Light, he had tried to maintain the peace between Mars and the Gas Giants. As a king, he was relatively well liked before the War. He was credited with various reforms and policies to maintain peace and safeguard the survival of the Gasan people. When he understood that the Martians could not be reasoned with, he tried to invest heavily in roofed farms and the terraforming of moons to develop the Gasans' weak agricultural sector. He tried to attain some level of agricultural autarchy, at a great financial cost. As local food production was rather costly on the Gas Planets, he later realized that he could not feed his people without Mars, and because of their increasingly nationalistic and hostile feelings in regards to the Gasans' neocolonialism on Mars, the Martian people would have to be subdued for the economic future of his country. He then began to massively invest in his military, building dozens of new triremes and recruiting thousand more men. His massive military buildup further worsened the tension between Mars and the Gas Giants.

After the War
After Iyderan secured and stabilized the country by putting an end to the Civil War, he once again changed the country a lot. He transitioned the Federation of Gas Giants into the United Federation of Gas Giants. The main difference was in the vote system. The Gasans had always relied on referendums to pass laws. Before the War, he voting body had been fractioned in four: for a law to pass, it had to win the majority of votes in every single planet, with the population of each planet voting separately. This system had been put in place to ensure that each planet had the same power in the Federation. Iyderan abolished the four part referendum and instead formed a voting system which accounted for the collective population of the country in a single vote. This essentially stripped away power from Neptune and Uranus, as the population of Jupiter and Saturn were much larger in comparison.