Larry Wild is one of the Four Musketeers introduced midway through the novel 1632, and is the central character in "When the Chips are Down", which canonically reveals some of the problems and solutions incorporated into the Emergency Committee policy of Gearing down. Wild is killed in the Battle of Wismar while piloting the most capable speed boat, "The Outlaw", as the Grantvillers support Gustav's Confederated Principalities of Europe under the onslaught of League of Ostend naval forces accompanying invading expeditionary forces. His death, along that with aviator Hans Richter inspires the feelings of nationalism that shortly afterwards sweep through central Germany and result in the new stronger government of the United States of Europe with Mike Stearns as first prime minister.
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