baikal daud is what the player could've been minus the story point bullshit and op isekai main character skills (omega man)

he's a man from the slums, he knows his shit about being a spacer or two, he's a great fucking leader

he KNOWS your struggle

he KNOWS your suffering

and most of all, he UNDERSTANDS what it means to be coming from nothing to handling everything

unfortunately, he is just another human in a human government

he's trying his best to keep the shithole of the hegemony from imploding in of itself

he might be your opponent (inspections, wink wink)

but he is never your enemy

unless you deliberately make yourself so