User:Murgh/Gladous Masda
Overview
Gladous Masda, a charismatic, and by many accounts clinically unstable mathematician—first rose to prominence as the Chair of Non-Linear Logic at the University of Qutiri. His current status, whether living, dead, or existing as a fragment of code, remains unknown, yet he persists as a Class A Priority on the GalCop Liquidation Index.
Academic radicalization
Masda was initially celebrated for his work on procedural probability, but he grew increasingly outraged at the "sanitization of data" presented in daily GalCop Vid-Band broadcasts. His lectures, once dedicated to advanced calculus, began to devolve into zealous, mathematically-proofed rants against the oppressive Galactic authority.
Student reports from this period describe a deteriorating syllabus, where linear algebra was frequently abandoned for proofs demonstrating that GalCop's hegemony was "a geometrically perfect web of lies designed to keep the galactic workforce compliant, productive, and sedated."
By all accounts, GalCop's indifferent announcement of "The Great Standardization" acted as the final catalyst for Masda's complete ideological transformation.
Exile
University administration initially tolerated his eccentricities, citing his tenure. However, the situation reached a breaking point during a live campus broadcast. Masda physically dismantled a Vid-Link terminal on air while screaming distinct probabilities of doom, a rant that, ironically, for a brief period became a hi-cast entertainment loop on the Vid-Bands.
Following this spectacle, Masda was summarily stripped of his tenure and dismissed. This forced his withdrawal from public society, but he did not leave alone. He was joined by a significant cadre of his most devoted doctoral candidates.
Not long after, intelligence reports confirmed the formation of a radical insurgent cell: The Mnemonic Fraction. It is now accepted historical fact that Masda and his disciples were the architects of the baneful Goat Soup Syntax Rupture that altered the GalCop Central Mainframe (or Directive Economic & Environmental Monitor, DEEM) into a buffoon version of its former state.
Ideological schism
Following the operational success of the Rupture, Masda's firm control over the organization reportedly disintegrated, leading to a bitter internal fracture.
Masda remained the spiritual figurehead of the Absurdists (or Loyalists). He maintained that the "Grand Ridicule" was the ultimate strategic victory, arguing that stripping GalCop of its dignity was far more destructive than stripping it of data. An unverified anecdote describes Masda lecturing to a disciple, "A totalitarian regime can shrug off a bombing, but it cannot survive being forced to recite bad poetry".
However, Masda grew increasingly hostile toward the splinter group known as the Nullists. Publicly disavowing their "hardline" philosophy, he described their desire to simply delete the GalCop Mainframe as "intellectually lazy". Masda dismissed the Nullists as "unimaginative butchers" who sought to solve the galaxy's equation by simply burning the chalkboard.
Obscurity
Intelligence suggests that Masda is now forced to operate under extremely deep cover, hunted not only by GalCop liquidation squads but also by Nullist assassins, who view his doctrine of "survival through absurdity" as a betrayal of their grim purity.
Adding to his precarious existence, a substantial percentage of the galactic census has placed informal bounties on his head. To the average affected citizen, Masda is not seen as a liberator, but the vandal responsible for reducing their homeworld profiles into grotesque punchlines. He is widely sought by those wishing to exact payment for the indignity of being branded "Fat Felines," "Bug-Eyed Insects," or "Slimy Lobsters" to the galactic public.
Legacy
Xeno-linguists and Masda scholars point to the Post-Rupture vocabulary, specifically terms such as "hoopy", "froody" and "gargle blasters", as the linguistic fingerprint of Masda himself. These absurdities are considered signatures of his "lunatic wit," permanently etched into the galaxy's operating system as a final, un-erasable act of defiance.
