Typhon's Role

35 years ago Typhon was a very bright diplomat and money man. The product of a Biomade Oversight Council special initiative he had an inside track from day one in experimental genetic research. He understood what it took to manage an effective laboratory, to keep his researchers on target, and to come in under-budget. His acumen was noticed by the Directors of Goshi Mining Corp which was going through a transition at that time, and seeking to expand its operations into other City-States outside Geneva Prime. Typhon's connections, skills, and diplomatic aplomb attracted Goshi and they offered him a position in senior management.

His first year with Goshi was essentially a competition with another man, at that point unknown to the world at large, for the job of Executor. Depending on his performance Typhon could have taken on the title of the most influential man in Karia. Of course, history had other ideas. Typhon's competitor was an unheard of negotiator from Omexon, a low-level bureaucrat named Katashi Blade. It is no secret that Typhon always resented Blade who in that first year upstaged him in almost every way. Each man was put in charge of a branch of the corporation and evaluated on their progress, efficiency and innovation. While Typhon made many strides in that year, Blade had a practically supernatural level of success in implementing strategies that have changed Goshi policies for the foreseeable future. Blade had the job by a unanimous decision.

The new Executor apparently expected the Directors to let Typhon go after he failed to take the head job, but they chose instead to create a new position, specifically designed for his talents - the role of Liaison to the Biomade Oversight Council. The enmity between the two men over this uncomfortable state of affairs never dissolved, though their collective skills rewrote the history of these past three decades.

As Liaison, Typhon essentially created his own role for Goshi and thus the R&D arm, and especially a series of secretive codenamed projects began to be funded. Countless of these projects were funded, failed and canceled over the years. Some led to the development of the Hei-Shi. Many accounted for advances in psychic genetics which are already becoming common in the general populace.

Two programs in particular spawned out of a shocking discovery from the mines.

In sector 43A, a deep section of the mines just being opened at that time, digging burst through into a live chamber containing a new mineral never before encountered. Impervious to most tools it was at first regarded as a mere nuisance, and since the single formation was the only one found (and remains so till this day) it was assumed to be a mere geological oddity. When the Miners began complaining of Tee-Shee sightings in 43A, someone finally decided the Whiterock should be tested.

Typhon took a sample of the rock and had it tested at first for energy producing properties like Blackrock. Almost nothing was successful, but when heated the stone emitted a red light. Around the room it projected a series of runes - First Mind writing. It was completely indecipherable to the scientists, but they knew then that they weren't dealing with just a hunk of rock. Still, after months of experimenting produced nothing more substantial, the hunk of rock was sold off to an up and coming researcher named Inase Spark.

For two years Typhon thought nothing more about Whiterock, but then Inase Spark came back to him with a project proposal. He'd received approval for something called Project Scion from the Biomade Oversight Council and required funding. Typhon was running the most lucrative R&D investment body in the world. The two made an agreement and Project Scion was started out of a laboratory in the outskirts of Geneva Prime.

Typhon should have paid more attention. Relying on the brilliance of Inase Spark and assuming that he could easily recoup the losses of any failed projects with future successes, Typhon didn't realize what Spark was learning about the stone. When Project Scion literally went up in flames about 19 years ago most of Spark's progress was completely lost. However, out of the few remaining files Typhon managed to grasp that the properties of Whiterock enable it to draw on a new power source, unlike psychic energy or electricity and it was apparently drawing this energy from a far distant location. Whiterock, it appeared, literally had the ability to warp space and extract energy from some unknown distant star system.

New experiments commenced.

These new experiments went under several project names - Star Power, Battery Stone, and Karian Geo-Force. None of them stuck and it has been colloquially referred to as the Whiterock Project by everyone involved.

Early into the exploration phase the laboratory was attacked - literally assaulted - by some kind of extraordinary Karian entity calling itself Tanuki. He was eventually contained and imprisoned, but his sole purpose for attacking was to gain access to the Whiterock. He obsessed over something called Mana, which researchers eventually determined was his name for this new energy source. Given his strong reactions to the Whiterock, and even with very small amounts brought into his presence he manifested bizarre changes, the project conceived a new direction - the Whiterock would be tested for its effects on Karians.

Typhon meanwhile was taking credit for all of these discoveries, even of the stone itself, which he claimed to have ordered extracted from the mines. Whether it was his or Spark's brilliance behind the Whiterock project no one should dispute that he ran it exceedingly well. It was he who first suggested that the rock's ability to transport energy might be employed for matter as well. Though it produced grizzly results, Karian responsiveness to the stone did enable researchers to "dislocate" portions of Karian flesh almost immediately.

Researchers learned soon that different species of Karians responded in different degrees to the presence of the stone. Jevumm responded the least. Gogajin and Zipsum were more responsive, but not as much as the Anakarix and certainly not as much as the Prill. Still, none of them seemed to be quite responsive enough to enable complete successful teleportation.

Then they captured a Vorax.

Throughout these experiments Tanuki would periodically attempt to escape, but so long as he was restrained away from the stone he appeared not to regain sufficient energy to accomplish anything. With the sudden success the project was having with the Vorax however, they almost completely forgot about keeping Tanuki secure. A fact which was later to prove to have been a terrible mistake. No one knows who actually released Tanuki from his cell, but... we're getting ahead.

Approximately 3 months before the first public test of the DisLocator device Typhon's remarkable career came to an abrupt end. The media announced that he had died of an undisclosed medical condition, which of course no one believed because he was a Biomade in peak health. The Executor was prominently absent from his cremation and subsequent corporate restructuring folded the role of Liaison to the Biomade Oversight Council into the responsibilities of the Executor's office.

Despite frequent requests from the media, the Biomade Oversight Council has repeatedly refused to release documents related to the experiment which produced Typhon. Wild speculation has gone so far as to claim he was a Pyrokinetic prototype, but both the Council and Goshi have gone out of their way to erase genetic evidence concerning him. We will probably never know.