The Sinking Isles (Collaborative Writing Adventure)

Name:Doctor Reginald Brasser Jr.

Race: Human; expresses the phenotype associated with the recessive Mad Scientist gene.

Gender: He/Him/Your Brilliance

Text Color: indigo

Biography: For the record, Reginald Brasser earned that Doctorate of his; unlike all those other mad scientists who slap together the customary affront to nature and stick a 'Doctor' in front of their name. Indeed, Reginald completed the Doctorate program at the Port Ferrous Institute of Engineering with flying colors. As such, he has a much more solid understanding of the principles he's working with than most other Mad Scientists in their thirties.

Since his graduation, Doctor Brasser has made an extremely lucrative career out of putting together seemingly impossible public works projects, with a side of military contract work to sate his more destructive urges. Previous inventions include a teleportation-based public transit system for the nation of Arstotzka, a space-launch facility that turns the rocket's entire ascent path into vacuum to eliminate air resistance, and several mostly automated medical facilities in rural areas.

Now, he has come to Defiance with a single goal in mind; he is going to stop the islands from sinking, and he intends to do it by drilling through that planet's crust and using the resulting artificial volcano to provide materials to rebuild the island.

Description: Doctor Reginald Brasser Jr. is a man on the edge of being considered 'middle-aged', at around thirty three years of age. He has long brilliantly red hair which he keeps neatly tied back, and his eyes are a piercing grey. Standing at a mighty six-foot seven, Doctor Brasser cuts an imposing figure, undermined only by the somewhat visible flab around his stomach area. Contrary to the stereotype associated with mad scientists, Doctor Brasser is calm, focused, and keeps his current goals in mind at all times. That said, he does have a bit of a narcissistic ego about him.

Inventory and Abilities: As a Mad Scientist with an actually earned Doctorate in engineering, Doctor Brasser is capable of constructing machines that tell the rules of nature to go cry in a corner. Admittedly this process takes time, effort, raw materials, and much trial-and-error, but Doctor Brasser is definitely capable of producing machines millennia in advance of what would normally be possible.

There are some gadgets that Doctor Brasser makes a point of keeping on his person at all times. First is a concealed lightning pistol and a personal force-field generator belt, just in case he unexpectedly winds up in a fight. He also wears a pair of boots equipped with short-range jump jets for emergency mobility.

The rest of Doctor Brasser's gear, including tools, lab equipment, and about half a ton of assorted parts is carried by his self-built Haulbot, an anti-gravity platform with a built-in autopilot that he uses to haul his lab from place to place between projects.