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| Name = Ulysses Messer
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| Race = Human
| Gender = Male
| Role = Tenth [[Imperator]] of the [[UEE]]
| Faction = UEE
| Born = {{Start date and age|2702|sctime=yes}}
| Died = {{Start date and age|2781|08|12|sctime=yes}}
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| Party = Messer Regime
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| Office = Imperator
| Office Start = 2751
| Office End = {{Start date and age|2781|08|12|sctime=yes}}
| Constituency= UEE
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'''Ulysses Messer X''' (* 2702; + 2781-08-12, [[Angeli]]) was the tenth [[Imperator]] of the [[UEE]]. He was deposed in a coup d'etat by his own children.

== Regency ==
He became [[High-Secretary]] under his uncle and predecessor [[Galor Messer|Galor Messer IX]] in 2722 and later de-facto regent of the UEE after the old Imperator's health decreased. He became Imperator in 2751,<ref name=":0">[[Galactapedia]], acc. 2019-11-23</ref> while Galor was still in office.<ref>''Galactic Guide: Leir System Mya'', [[Jump Point (magazine)|Jump Point]], vol. 04, no. 10, p. 52.</ref>

His reign was overshadowed by tax raisings, stripping of enviromental protections, market deregulation, the elimination of minimum wage and expanded police powers. Treason laws were rewritten and the minimum working age was reduced to age 10.<ref name=":0" />

Ulysses had become aware of the public's growing resentment of the Messer regime and in 2778 attempted to distract the populace with a series of large scale building projects to exemplify the UEE's greatness.<ref name=":1" /> Since his appointment as High-Secretary Ulysses spended large amounts of resources for the reconstruction of government buildings.<ref name=":0" />

He prepared the [[Khanos Stadium]] on [[Angeli]] to be his legacy. This backfired as the Khanos Stadium became a symbolic target for the resistance to aim at.<ref name=":1">''Rayar Inc.'', [[Jump Point (magazine)|Jump Point]], vol. 05, no. 6, p. 19.</ref>{{fact}}

== Death ==

On 2781-08-12, history records that Ulysses Messer was attacked in a bombing of the Khanos Stadium orchestrated by his daughter [[Fiona Messer]]. Ulysses ultimately took his own life, after it became clear that his son [[Linton Messer]] had control of the military and a coup was imminent.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/14074-This-Day-In-History-The-Beginning-Of-The-End|text=This Day in History: The Beginning of the End|int=Comm-Link:This Day in History - The Beginning of the End}}</ref>

== See also ==
* '''[https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/bBp6YZPOGO-ulysses-messer-x Ulysses Messer X]'''[https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/bBp6YZPOGO-ulysses-messer-x , Galactapedia article]

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