Ari Clerks
Summary
Ari Clerks was the owner of Clerks and Co., the largest importer/exporter in the Vinland colonies. He is credited with the creation of the Fishing Line, an efficient way of processing Jullicut's incoming and outgoing goods. Before the War of Revolutions, he was one of the main organizers of the Grand Colonial Council where he introduced the Vinland Constitution. Following the war and the ratification of the Vinland Constitution, he went on to become United Vinland's Vice President.
Colonial Vinland
Thanks to Jullicut's preference toward private ownership, Ari Clerks created Clerks and Co., and entered partnerships with many of the fleets within the colony to receive their goods and distribute them within Colonial Vinland while also handling the receiving and outgoing shipping of Colonial Vinland's exports.
He is largely credited for the creation of the Fishing Line, a system of processing imports and exports by assigning a single task to a worker, and having that worker repeatedly perform that task as each good reached them before that good moved to the next worker in the line. There are rumors that his wife at the time, Theresa Grills, was the truly creator of the fishing line, but that rumor has not been confirmed.
While running his business in Jullicut, he was approached by a Jullicutter named Art Penn who had intentions of starting his own company to create a new product he developed called the Internal Combustion Engine. Seeing the potential of this product, he backed Art Penn's company and gifted him the land for his factories. The land which would one day become Camlann.
The Grand Colonial Council, the Wine Bath, and Imprisonment, and the War of Revolutions
Increased duties ordered by Deus Ultima led to increased tension among many of the sailors who worked until the Clerks and Co. banner. Noticing the various protests occurring in Jullicut as well as in the other colonies, Ari Clerks arranged for important colonists to meet to discuss independence as well as introduce his idea for a master contract to govern the new country, the Vinland Constitution.
The Grand Colonial Council ended without a decision, and upon his return to Jullicut, he was greeted by a rebellion led by one of the captains of his fleet, Sam "The Torch" Baharme. In an incident known as the Wine Bath, Sam Baharme and other members of his crew threw all of the wine barrels off an outbound ship. This led to a sea battle between The Blessed and Sam Baharme who did not survive. Ar tossed vice president. He was also a framer, but on the side of wrangling business, financial, and legal as opposed to Harmen’s military wrangling. He gave harmen the presidency nod because he viewed the presidency was better with the general as the first
United Vinland
president for nationwide unity. It was his land in Jullicut that he donated to Pitt Penn to create Asher.
that idiot Sam Baharme forced me into it when he pulled his little Wine Bath stunt on my ships. Once he threw all of our cargo out, the Antilleans saw me as a rebel as much as they saw the Baharme crew. I had no choice but to join the fight. And to tell you the truth, I did hate giving up my business at first