Doctor Gero

[Omni]

[float=right][/float]Location/Role: Doctor Gero technically holds many titles, but the catch-all term would be ‘Mastermind of Research and Development.’ Since the earlier days of Diablo’s invasion, Gero has been responsible for some of the most abominable (yet effective) weapons of the Empire, whether they are biological, chemical, or mechanical. He has created everything from guns to pathogens.

Despite his prominence in the imperial hierarchy, Gero is the least public member of the ‘inner circle.’ He prefers to spend his time in his laboratories where he won’t be bothered by lesser minds or thugs.

Story: Before arriving in the Omniverse, Doctor Gero was the head scientist of the Red Ribbon Army, a large paramilitary crime organization that had a large portion of the world under its thumb. Prior to his ‘acceptance’ into the organization, he had been your run-of-the-mill engineering major. He had received high marks on all his coursework and tests, yet most of his professors tended to focus only on his academic qualities when reviewing him. Gero made little friends and appears to have been somewhat reclusive.

When Gero finished his doctoral-level studies in engineering and biological engineering, he worked for a small firm before he was released for unknown reasons. Rumors persist that several employees who were not on good terms with Gero became deathly ill. Whatever the cause, Gero was recruited by the Red Ribbon Army within days. In his capacity, Gero served as both a researcher and an engineer, designing and overseeing the creation of many of the army’s advanced weapons. With a college, he even managed to successfully create a synthetic human warrior.

The doctor’s passion, however, was weaving together mechanical projects and analysis of biochemical processes. In secret, he worked to design the perfect synthesis of man and machine.

For years Gero toiled away for the sake of the Army and its heinous goals. One day, the commander decides to start hunting down artifacts known as ‘dragon balls,’ for their ability to grant wishes. In the process of hunting down them down, the Red Ribbon Army crosses paths with a powerful young boy who proceeds to systematically destroy the Army, culminating in the death of most of the senior officers.

Always a survivor at heart, Gero slinks away as the facility is under siege by the child. Taking all of his years of research with him, the doctor retreats to a secret lab in the north that he had financed gradually. For fifteen years, Doctor Gero has the freedom to experiment as he sees fit, continuing his line of androids. At this time, he also branches out into other fields, by kidnapping a pair of orphaned twins and using them in his cybernetics trials. He ultimately seals them away when he is unable to suppress their rebellious free will.

With his eyes always on the young boy (now a grown man) who destroyed the Red Ribbon Army, Gero continues to chart the man’s phenomenal growth and that of his allies. By harvesting their DNA over the years, he completes his masterpiece--a biological construct based on the strengths and skills of the planet’s strongest warriors. Gero seals away the new experiment, as it will take years to properly grow.

At some point before he could execute his plans, Gero fell down in his lab and woke up in the Omniverse. He wandered to Coruscant, drawn in by the modernity and its familiarity to his own version of Earth. Fortune favored Gero, who was one of the handful of primes to arrive in the ‘first wave’ that took place years after the arrival of the first two primes. His genius intellect and wealth of knowledge helped him to immediately ingratiate himself with Emperor Palpatine and King Bradley.

As Coruscant suffered from occasional demon raids, Gero received carte blanche to design effective counter-measures. The doctor, now aided by the power of omnilium, designed line after line of terrifying mechs and biological agents aimed at repulsing the demons. Beyond that, he would also requisition corpses, captured enemies, and even wounded imperial soldiers to serve as guinea pigs for new ideas. Just as he had been fascinating with the genetic structure of his enemies, Gero was now fascinated with analyzing the DNA of the Omniverse’s myriad species and races. It is unknown just how many prisoners or wounded soldiers wound up in Gero’s hidden labs, but none of them ever left. When the war with Diablo ended, all the records of the operations were burnt, and any attempt to dig into the topic has become tantamount to treason in Coruscant.

Since the banishment of Diablo, Doctor Gero’s studies remain unimpeded by morals, supplies, or finances. While his main labs are on the First Tier, Gero maintains several facilities, some public and some secret, throughout most of Coruscant. The doctor continues many of his pet products, including synthetic humanoids and biological agents of terror. It is rumored that an outbreak of plague in the more remote villages of Camelot was caused by a pathogen created by Gero.