Born in 1967 to no money, Knight worked at his family's sophisticated DNA labs. Obsessed with the idea of preserving youth, he eventually created a serum that allowed humans to live for hundreds of years. He needed the government to approve his invention for public use but the government only wanted to use it as a chemical weapon. Knight fled with his serum but was caught and injected with a version of it, only for him to turn into a vampire-like creature. He escaped to England and assumed the name Midknight, living in London for 130 years. He longed to find a cure for both him and the millions contaminated during a 'Third World War', something he finally achieved. In 2101, before he could put the finishing touches to an antidote, a goverment official found him and stabbed him with a magne