"Think of this, Doctor. To once again touch the skin of your beloved. To hold your beautiful child in your arms again. To have love once again. Oh yes, Doctor, I would kill for that!" -- Penthos Dr. Gordon Pento was a scientist who was among many colonists, including some soldiers who migrated from Earth and terraformed the small asteroid, Chapman 17J. However, after attempting to defy the amourous soldiers who requested his wife and seven-year old daughter, he was maimed in an explosion. Rebuilt with cybernetics but losing his connection with other lifeforms - he became Penthos, a tragically hateful and scorned individual who desires to be human again and will do anything to acheive it.