Comrade Red Fox

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Stephen Crowe is the son of wealthy industrialist Charles Crowe and his wife, Ellen Crowe (born O'Malley), both from Chicago. The young man who was to become Red Fox, grew up with every conceivable luxury in Chicago, New York and on his fathers estate in Omaha. As a young man, he studied extensively, traveling all over the world, discussing philosophy and politics. Gradually, his ideas became more and more radical. Returning to the ISA at the death of his father, he shocked both family and friends by investing in the poverty-stricken midwest, finally abandoning the ISA altogether for the newly formed People's Collective.

A romantic at heart, he believes in world revolution and the rightness of the red cause, but hasn't considered the consequences. He likes to think of himself as a revolutionary, but lives a life of comparative luxury on the old family estate. He brought with him badly needed capital and expertise from his father companies in Chicago, and Red Fox Industries is a badly needed airplane manufacturer for the Collective, so his bougeoise ways are tolerated.

Being a philosophic idealist, Red Fox has a problem with the christian factions within the collective. He wishes to spread world revolution, particularly to the oppressed masses of the ISA, but simultaneously sees that the hope of a prosperous future for the collective lies in finding markets for farm products in the great industrial states of the east, particularly the ISA.

As a pilot, he is only mediocre, but he is a natural crack shot. He swears by the Defender, considering it a symbol of the ingenuity and pride of the new state, yet he has quietly replaced the engines of his planes so that they gain the improved acceleration the design can be capable of. He prefers pretty female wingmen, and has worked through a few before he settled for his current choice, Laura Bowles. She is the first of his wingmen he hasn't had an affair with, and maybe that's why she has been able to stay.

His callsign is inspired by his love for the red fox, and also by his curly red hair. The above picture depicts him in the new"revolutionary style", free from all embellishments.

There is also a bio on the real man on the picture in more sobre days.