MINISTER OF THE ARTS: Son of a renowned politician, the Minister of the Arts responded to the horrors of the A.I. Wars by devising a brilliant plan to stabilize the planet and form a world government. A cornerstone of his program was to get everybody so zoned out on technology and the uber-culture that no one wanted to fight anymore. As the wildly popular head of the new world government, Arts has diverted science away from hyper-drive research to design the Solar Eclipse, angering his opponents on the Global Council who want to start colonizing the galaxy. Hedonistic Arts makes the most of his orbiting masterpiece, blissfully unaware of the efforts of his rivals to bring it all down on his head.