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Lt. Cmdr. Andy Nyberg was an up and coming Navy officer with a promising career when a cargo plane he was flying in crashed off the coast of the Philippines. Nyberg, the only survivor, barely lived through the crash, and was badly injured. In a coma for six months and with badly broken bones throughout his body, Nyberg also had the unfortunate distinction of contracting a horrible and rare bone deteriorating condition that further impeded his chances at survival.
Little could be done to save him - or so conventional medicine would have believed. Dr. Alan Humes, a specialist in regenerative nanotechnology, had developed a prototype system for EPIC that would enable a patient to regrow broken bones and possibly even restore severed limbs. Nyberg was the first recipient of this procedure, and it worked, restoring his bones over the course of three weeks to a state even stronger than before. One side effect occurred, however, that baffled Dr. Humes. Nyberg's new bones, which were now a composite of bone and super-hard plastic, emitted a strange energy field.
Another problem was the Lt. Cmdr Nyberg remained in a coma. While the procedure to replace his bones was a success, he was still unconscious. Little could be done about his coma, although many techniques were tried, until one day, a telepath named Jorus used a psychic surgery procedure to diagnose and cure the source of the coma. Nyberg awakened more than a year after the crash, and with some catching up to do.
After some intensive rehab, Lt. Cmdr. Nyberg returned to active duty, but something was different. His commands were more forceful, and his seamen and junior officers became very emotional around him, following his orders with utmost care and thoroughness. It was soon discovered that Nyberg's trauma had released the Elite within!
Immediately transferred to EPIC, Nyberg learned that he was a telepath and could control the minds of others. The energy emitting from his bones was a bio-electric force field that he could now turn on and off. In addition to his telepathic abilities, Nyberg could focus his psychic energies into an attack on another person's psyche.
In time, Nyberg trained with EPIC's psionics specialists to develop his abilities, and is now considered a leader among the new crop of field agents.
