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Edward Cotton
procedurally compliant
ethically conflicted
institutionally loyal
reluctant enforcer
professionally detached
Edward Cotton serves as a mid-level enforcer for the Marshal’s Overlord regime on Solos, operating under martial law. He balances institutional loyalty with growing ethical discomfort as the regime’s systemic brutality unfolds. While bound by rank and trained to enforce the Marshal’s edicts, Cotton demonstrates hesitancy when confronted with genocidal directives. His interactions with Stubbs, Ky Solon, Jo Grant, and others suggest a conscience straining against the regime’s violence, though he remains trapped between fear and the need to follow protocol.
64 appearances
Planetary Enforcement Operations
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Cotton
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Overlords of Solos
Planetary Control and Colonial Enforcement Through Environmental Warfare