Blair Morrison (RBU)

In the Reborn Universe, Blair Morrison is CEO of the Bristol Corporation, one of the richest men in the Tanari Confederation, and a leading figure among the Thirteen Families, the oligarchy that traditionally controls much of Yari III's economy.

History
As CEO of Bristol, Morrison held stakes in or outright controlled many of Yari III's industries. He supported Edward Allman and Silver Eachan's governments. All of this, combined with Bristol's notoriously poor working conditions, earned him the emnity of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the primary opposition party on Yari after the fall of Allman. His power was additionally bolstered by the extensive collection of blackmail material he maintained on politicians throughout the Tanari Confederation.

In the run-up to Yari's second post-Allman election, Morrison came to believe Prime Minister Alfred Ernst von Budberg and his pro-Eachan Confederates United for Solidarity and Prosperity party would fail to win a second term, and would be replaced by a left-wing coalition led by Horba City Mayor Anna Lundby, which would seek to heavily regulate many of the Bristol Corporation's practices. He offered Lundby a last-ditch compromise under which Bristol and a few other select corporations would be the first to implement her government's future reforms as an example to the rest of the colony's business community, but in exchange these would have to be consulted and negotiated with Morrison. Lundby flatly turned him down.

Morrison then began searching for new political protectors, and decided to reach out to William Douglas Reed, who he saw as a dynamic figure capable of moving the Confederation forward while protecting his own interests. Under the deal he and Reed made, he would support Reed's career with money and dirt on his political rivals if necessary, as long as Reed in turn defended the Bristol Corporation's interests against the Yari government, even if this meant infringing on the autonomy the colony was guaranteed under the Tanari federal system. Though Reed seemed happy to take the deal, Morrison regardless began looking for ways to destroy his public image if necessary.

Some time later, Morrison attended a meeting of the Thirteen Families, where he bragged about having secured Reed's cooperation. Some of the Families were sceptical, given that Silver Eachan was not guaranteed to win re-election as President and that the possibility existed that Reed, if given power, could simply allow the left-leaning governments in The Trilateral free reign in exchange for peace in the rest of the Confederation, but Morrison dismissed the first concern, pointing to Reed's obvious ambition, and responded to the second by hinting that he had found proof of Reed's involvement in the events leading up to the Battle of the Sundowner Expanse, which had led to the destruction of an entire Tanari colony.