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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1686083" data-attributes="member: 118">Okay, here goes...Gordon Aster, 28, is a brilliant untenured post-doc and rising star in the field of theoretical physics.  His studies (mostly mathimatical models and gedanken experiments) focus on such things as string theory, dimensional folding, and quantum mechanics.  Shortly after Earth passed through the comet's tail, everything became clear to Gordon - he can comprehend and manipulate the spatial nature of the universe at its most fundamental level.  He can fold space in such a way as to observe distant places or momentarily join them.(In game terms, Gordon has ESP and teleportation abilities.)The revelation rocked Gordon to the core and essentially short-circuited his career by making his research useless.  He fears to publish his knowledge, however, as it is so comprehensive and so powerful that it could easily be used as a weapon long before peaceful applications would be developed.  He is left at a cross-roads in life, unsure as to how to proceed.Parents are still alive - father is a high school science teacher and his mother teaches art part time at a community college.  Gordon married while in grad school, but he and his wife are separated and on opposite coasts of the US, each pursuing their own research.  Gordon knows deep down that it is a prelude to divorce, but he keeps holding out hope that they'll reconcile.  (Hook #1 - relationship woes and/or his wife's research subject...open ended...could come into play.)(Hook #2) - Part of Gordon's doctoral research was done at Los Alamos National Laboratory under a DOD grant.  While the subject matter was mostly theoretical and compartmentalized, Gordon saw enough things during his tenure there that he is starting to piece together a more distressing picture of some black military programs.  And being a former employee of this project, certain operatives may periodically check up on him.</blockquote>

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