Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
Jeremy Haas, cosmologist. Creator of the Haas Deep Space observatory. One of the members of the original Crystal One development team with Clarence Gage,Edgar, Kathleen Adair, and James Thalim.
Kathleen Adair, Theoretical Physicist and childhood friend of Hakon BlackAxe. Best friend of Clarence Gage, and primary member of the Crystal One team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
“Professor Gage, we would like to complement you for accomplishing the nearly impossible task of, not only, identifying a unique physiological marker hidden in every living person on the planet, but also for displaying technological mastery beyond the scope of your peers to manipulate the fabric of reality and safely delete this marker from your team. It is a testament to your inherent brilliance that you implemented such a strategic move designed to enhance the operational security of this operation and allow your team to enter this facility undetected.
Please do not allow the fact that this strategy was entirely ineffective and that we’ve been following your progress the entire time detract from our genuine respect for your remarkable accomplishments.”
On the other hand, it’s nice that they’re not bearing a grudge about it. Not everyone’s that sanguine about their security/surveillance setup being tampered with…
I’d attribute it to the fact that the towers probably had multiple redundancies in their security, so removing the marker was probably nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Plus, the team was practically invited guests, they just didn’t know it. Had this been anyone else, I doubt the outcome would have been as pleasant.
Please do not allow the fact that this strategy was entirely ineffective and that we’ve been following your progress the entire time detract from our genuine respect for your remarkable accomplishments.”