NPC Webman #

General Webman has both positive and negative qualities in the clone world.

1. Military conqueror:

Webman is introduced as a general leading a powerful army with technological superiority. He captured the Clone Earth Government Center, occupied the principalities and forced the clones to surrender, demonstrating strategic and military strength.

2. Reformer and administrator. After the victory, Webman moves from war to management. He initiates large-scale economic reforms:

• Conducts an audit of resources, enterprises and real estate.
• Plans to modernize state-owned enterprises (sawmill, mine, etc.), introduce trade unions and change the work schedule.
• He intends to reform the private sector, increase social benefits for farmers and improve infrastructure.
• The emphasis on “economic recovery” and “prosperity” indicates his ambitions to transform Clone Earth into a sustainable system integrated into his own.

3. A charismatic leader with dual motivation:

• Pragmatism: Webman uses both force and persuasion. He lifts sieges to reduce resistance and promises improvements, but maintains control through military officials and the suspension of the private sector.
• Personal History: The mention of past defeats and “near misses” adds to his image as a tenacious strategist who achieved power through overcoming difficulties.
• Ideology: His speech combines threats (“negligent units will be destroyed”) and promises of peace, typical of an authoritarian leader justifying the takeover as a “benefit” for the vanquished.

4. Symbol of external intervention:

• Webman and his team (“foreign engineers and economists”) represent an outside force invading the traditional way of life of the Earth of Clones. His reforms are a mixture of colonial exploitation (resource review) and modernization, which causes a dual reaction: the Chancellor’s capitulation and the hope for “strengthening” through new knowledge.

Summary #

Webman is an authoritarian conqueror-reformer, combining military aggression with economic pragmatism. He takes over the Clone Earth using technological superiority, but positions himself as a “savior” who intends to modernize the conquered territory through strict control and reforms. His true motives remain ambivalent: the desire for power and resources is disguised under the rhetoric of progress and prosperity. This is the typical image of the conqueror-educator, whose actions can bring about both the destruction of the old order and the creation of a new, dependent system.