Post by Carlos on Sept 30, 2012 17:10:51 GMT -6
Long ago, during the Rialeen War, one of the brightest minds in the Emperor's War Retinue was disgraced. He was found performing inhuman experiments upon Rialeen prisoners. So vile were his actions that even some of the xenophobic war supporters demanded he be tried for his crimes. With an outcry from the masses that caught wind of it, pressure from the anti-Imperial rule Houses, and of course damaging the chance for peace with the Rialeen. The Emperor decreed this man would be tried for his crimes. A disciplinary force was promptly dispatched.
Surprisingly a fire fight ensued at the scientist's compound. Followed shortly after by the entire compound exploding. The scientist was declared dead. A decade later, a colony was found on an ice planet believed to have been looked over by the ancient colony ships of Lost Terra, a ship had indeed landed there. The ship had crashed and sank beneath the ice. Immediately a rescue mission was launched by the Imperial Court. However, when they finally made their way inside, they hoped to rescue the ancient dormant citizens of Lost Terra. What they found were experiments. The perpetrator was identified as the scientist from the Rialeen War.
Both the scientist and the rescue mission forces sunk further beneath the ice. Many expeditions, not just from the Imperial Court, they all sought to recover the colony ship. However the planet's core is a swirling mass of ever crystallizing and melting ice. Making exploration beyond the realm of normal danger.
Over time other stories of the vile scientist continued to spread. However nothing ever concrete. When the Rialeen war had occurred the scientist was in his fifties. The event with the colony ship occurred forty years later. And his stories span several more decades after. But none were proven to be true.
Until the Tetranni war. The Tetranni carried out experiments on humans and developed a biological weapon. A plague that infected an entire planet within minutes. It had to be quarantined. The woefully under strength colonial forces had no choice but to blockade any traffic from entering the area. However a single vessel managed to slip through them. It'd design and origin is unknown.
From the imaging of the ships in orbit. They found that a single person left the craft. Within a few days, the near death populace was cured within three days. The ship made it's escape once more. It did so because the blockade ships couldn't get a lock on it or catch up to it.
However an advance recon Imperial Ship under the authority of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau arrived. These ships are some of those advanced ships in the Empire. Designed to infiltrate anywhere. However despite being fast itself, it failed to capture the fleeing ship.
With their lives saved. The populace of the planet erected a statue of the man. The man depicted there is none other then the scientist from the Rialeen War.
He has lived for almost three hundred years and has not aged. These days they simply refer to him as The Foreverman.