Basil Czajka is considered AWOL by his old colleagues, enlightened scientists from the Iteration X Convention of the Technocratic Union.
Overview[]
His new colleagues, the Board of Directors of the Pentex, were only stringing him along, providing him material and spiritual assets until such time as they could hijack his project for themselves. He had to stay well ahead of their machinations. His only begotten son depended on it. The Unmaker. The astonishing being he had birthed through his enlightened science wedded to the toxic seed provided to him by the Wyrm. That seed, an embryo of an ephemeral creature dubbed a Nexus Crawler, had been augmented by his genetic modifications. The true advancement, however, had come from his superior knowledge of particle physics, and the breakthrough he had made when he paired it with his understanding of dimensional science — the study of spirits and the Umbra, the term Pentex used for the mirror dimension of reality where beings and things were made from a plastic substance called Ephemera — spirit matter. The final secret, though, had been his direct vision of the void at the end of time. His technocratic colleagues did not approve of his entropic studies when they veered from theoretical physics and chaos mathematics into territories more the subject of the religion of reality deviants like the lycanthropes. He had to keep his deepening understanding a secret until, finally, he had been forced to sever ties and go rogue with his operation.
References[]
- W20: The Song of Unmaking, p. 73