Olde Mac-Donald

The Rise of Olde
Olde inherited an apple plantation from his father, Douglas Donald. His mother, Laurene Mac, was the president of Macintosh Apples, an apple distribution company. Their combined wealth and a boom in the apple industry led to Olde growing up in luxury unknown to many in Wisconsin.

In his early adulthood, Olde gained a keen hand at business dealings, using his many connections to expand his parents' empire. A majority of his early wealth came from trading livestock, a variety of which was supported by the excess land area on his multiple plantations. Surpluss produce allowed him to acquire more land on which to grow more produce and livestock, leading to his rapid rise. Olde also founded the famous Big Macintosh brand of cell phones, and considerably funded his brother Ronald's successful fast food franchise.

Olde learned that it was easier to buy political leverage through campaigning himself rather than buying politicians. He became the governer of Wisconsin in Year 69. An experienced career politician, he founded Olde's Grand Party, and opposition to the majority Democratic Party, and ran for the galactic senate in Year 94, winning with a history setting 69% majority. The Olde's Grand party is currently the oldest surviving party in the Alliance, lasting over 100 years. Up to three generations of Mac-Donalds have simultanously held seats in elected positions during this period.

While his early years can be characterized as a pioneering adventur adept in livestock trading, Olde's later years can be characterized as that of a root vegtable plantation lord, owning swaths of land so vast they had to each develop independent governing systems. Among all the root vegetables, Olde never grew any potatoes, himself believing it to be an oversaturated market and barely profitable. Olde's brother Ronald became moderately succesful in potato distribution, having received aid from Olde during the potato famine.

Olde's Legacy
Upon Olde's death, his empire was divided into 5 estates amongst his children. The largest estates were given to Olde's sons Eugene and India. Eugene, the eldest son, held the Macintosh supply chain as a subsidiary under the eggplant plantations and therefore accumulated much greater wealth than the other Mac-Donalds. He eventually bought out most of the other estates and privatised all their holdings under Macintosh Inc.

India ran his father's root vegetable plantations extremely well, but revolutions on planets led to him losing much plantation land to revolutionaries. India's estates were sold and partitioned into India, East Bengal and West Bengal.

Eliot the egg tycoon inherited Olde's egg farms, which held proprietary value to all avian related livestock. They were never sold to Macintosh Inc. Currently, Eliot the egg tycoon is the oldest living Mac-Donald but is the third richest, after the children of Eugene.

Olde's only daughter Indigo inherited the indigo plantations, which held the highest value after the potato famine subsided. However, much of this value was lost because Jung, Indigo's cousin was running the company as she was still in school at the time of Olde's passing. Jung sold much of the company's value away when he gambled in the new Azure market, thinking diversifying in different dyes would be profitable. Indigo became a "self made" woman, relying on just her connections to become a politician in the Iota sector.

Oliver the onion lord, youngest of Olde's sons, leads the rebellion against the conservative faction of the Old Mac-Donald party. Running on the same campaign slogan since his first victory, which calls for lower taxes on root vegetables, Oliver has yet to be unseated as the prime councelor of onion land, the largest onion producing planet in the galaxy.