A professor of geology and archaeology who served as head of the USTA's Ancient Sciences Research Department. While leading an expedition across Earth on a study of the planet's postwar environment, he discovered the remains of an ancient civilization on a dried-up seabed — a civilization with a level of science that the human race had yet to achieve. He later combined DNA retrieved from the site with his own Y chromosome to give birth to Edge, one of the Seeds of Hope. In A.D. 2082, he took a young Edge along on a second trip to explore the ancient culture, only to be attacked by an experimental bio-enhanced fighter that escaped from a military facility. He would later die from his injuries. While laid-back in personality, his unbending belief in his convictions as he dealt with thorny pr