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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikelaff" data-source="post: 4335851" data-attributes="member: 39664">Q: You mention Tesla - what's he doing in Soldiers and Spellfighters20?A: Quite a bit. Here's his bio from the Mexican Invasion section Nikolai Tesla - Born at midnight during an electrical storm in July, 1856 in the Austrian Empire, Nikolai Tesla immigrated to the US in 1884. Tesla worked initially for Thomas Edison in New York, but the inventors had a dramatic falling out – and became bitter rivals. Through the late 1890s, Tesla remained on the East Coast – openly feuding with Edison. He allied himself with the Westinghouse Company and he invented radio, alternating current, radar and modern robotics. Tesla was declared by many as a genius and while his detractors (such as Edison) labeled him a mad scientist.  In 1898, Tesla tired of his high public profile and desired a remote setting where he could research and conduct high voltage experiments in peace. He established a remote laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Below: Time lapse photo of Tesla in his lab in Colorado Springs<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c382/mikelaff/soldiers%20and%20spellfighters%20promo/Tesla_colorado_adjusted.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Always a prolific creator, Tesla hit an invention spurt shortly after the Tunguska event. There was speculation amongst both his admirers and detractors that he was an early immigrant from Faerie - as some of his theories did not seem to conform to the known laws of earthly science but worked nonetheless. There was conjecture that his theories wouldn't have worked without the increased magical energy that had been released by the Tunguska event.  There were even some who advanced the theory that he may have been responsible for it. Inscrutable and intensely private, Tesla publicly disregarded as balderdash all suggestions that he was otherworldly or that his inventions were fueled by sorcerous energies. His eccentric personality (he always insisted on walking around buildings 3 times before entering, demanded 3 specifically folded cloth napkins with every meal and reportedly would hold long, animated conversations with pigeons) did little to detract from the rumors and the whispers followed him throughout his life. In this spurt of creativity in 1909, Tesla breathed life into some of his wildest conceptions - inventing a particle ray cannon (which he produced in handgun, rifle and field artillery models), electric force fields that absorbed magical energy (these were small backpacks – provided DR7/magical attacks) and electric hovercraft that used a new invention, a magna-coil, to surf over the earth's electromagnetic field. There were rumors that Tesla had developed weather control equipment that could call lightning from the skies and a teleportation portal that could transport a man anywhere on a continent in seconds - - but if he did - he kept these secret. Fearful of the impact his inventions on a quickly changing world - and heartened by many of the political changes he saw being wrought by revolutions that were spurred by the awakening of magic, Tesla kept his inventions largely to himself and remained in his Colorado refuge - away from the entreaties of corporations or governments.<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c382/mikelaff/Teslathinker.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The Great War and the Mexican Invasion changed his position. Seeing the horrors that magic made possible on the battlefield, Tesla despaired - and released he'd been wrong to keep his inventions secret. He made a proposal to the governor of Colorado for the defense of the state and was given command of the Colorado Springs militia - soon renamed "the Electrical Brigade". With the manpower from the militia, he was able to quickly produce dozens of hovercraft, lightning rifles, personal shield devices and one massive teleforce cannon (which was constructed on a tower near Trinidad along the Colorado/New Mexico border.) (Not a military man, Tesla deferred strategic decisions and field leadership to experienced officers. Captain George Patton –on detached assignment from the US Army - took command of the hovercraft squadron.) Tesla's shielding devices could absorb magical attacks and his weapons were able to penetrate magical shielding. Armed with this equipment, the Electrical Brigade was able to stop the advancing Mexican army at the battle of Trinidad in Southern Colorado. With Tesla's forces holding the Colorado border – and the Mormon Divine Spellcasting Battalion holding line in southern Utah, the US army had a chance to regroup after their stunning defeats early in the war. In another crucial service to America, Tesla smuggled early long-range radio sets past enemy lines to both General Pershing and the Native Confederation (rumors persist that he used teleportation technology to accomplish this). This enabled instantaneous wireless communication of intelligence about Mexican troop movements from the Native Confederation that was invaluable to US forces.In 1929 Tesla was buried in Colorado Springs with full military honors.  50,000 people from across the country attended his funeral.</blockquote>

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