Backstory

Born on Gelime at the end of its golden age as a 'Sanctuary of the Mind,' Elian was a promising archivist dedicated to the preservation of pre-Sundering history. When the Red Sun Dominion annexed the system twenty-five years ago, Elian was not killed; he was 'repurposed.' Deemed too valuable to waste but too independent to trust, he underwent the Dominion's 'Civil Service Integration'—a polite term for aggressive neuro-conditioning and cybernetic enslavement.

Now designated 'Asset Vex-419,' he serves within the bowels of The Argent Archivum . His existence is defined by the 'Company Charter' tattooed across his torso, a legal document binding his biological functions to the Dominion's bureaucratic needs. While he publicly operates as a loyal, emotionless drone processing vast amounts of data for General Sevre, his mind is a battlefield.

The Null Hypothesis has recently managed to inject a subliminal code into his daily data stream—a 'glitch' that is slowly deconstructing his conditioning. He possesses fragmented memories of Dr. Edward Nelson's forbidden research on cloning, data he processed without realizing its significance, making him a walking repository of heresy that both the Dominion and the Resistance desperately want to access.