Peter Knorr

September 16, 2002: Peter Knorr was the leader of the Wolfpack, a cadre of eight highly trained baseline mercenaries who'd accepted an assignment in Asia. They were to fight alongside nova elites on behalf of Pakistan in the Kashmir Conflict. They knew it would be rough, but they weren't expecting it to be a suicide mission. It was. Not one of the seven men he led survived the first hour of combat against the elites. Knorr was in shock and looked like easy mop-up work for the elite who was bringing up the enemy's rear. The nova was approaching Knorr to deliver a death blow when Knorr reached out to the earth beneath his enemy and made it stir. Enormous vines with sharp thorns shot up from the soil and tangled the elites long enough for Knorr to rip the nova apart with his bare hands. It was his only revenge for those he lost. Knorr survived and found his way back to base, never speaking a word about what happened to his men.

After returning to the U.K., Knorr heard about Project Utopia. He visited the Rashoud faciliity in London, where he learned to control his abilities. He worked in Utopia's Ecological Engineering sector assisting with terraforming for a few years, but he needed something that offered more action. He was eventually invited to join Team Tomorrow, taking the name "Thorn".

While his nova abilities aren't especially potent, Knorr's understanding of group dynamics, tactics and combat, as well as his ability to lead others, have helped him rise to the leadership position of Team Tomorrow Europe.

Pax has his doubts about Thorn's place on Team Tomorrow. He thinks that Knorr is overly enthusiastic about conflict and dangerous situations too readily. If the other member of T2M-Eu weren't so devoted to him, Pax would have replaced Knorr months ago.

when not "on" with Team Tomorrow or doing PR, Knorr is quiet, some would say haunted. He sees a therapist twice a week to deal with the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that has been his cross to bear for the last six years. He has vowed to minimize the effects of nova conflict on baseline populations, because he has seen firsthand the horror that results. Though he has never spoken of the Wolfpack to the other members of T2M, the names of his fallen comrades are a litany in his mind, recited over and over