Dr. Orb (Mainlore)

Portrait of Dr. Orb by Sofia Ivy.

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**Dr. Emil Orb** was a human scientist of German origin. He founded OrbCorp and invented Psychanics, giving him an important role in the scientific community of the Mainlore universe.

His main goal in life, despite his many scientific achievements, was to gain **immortality**. Compared to other species (such as ghosts and cakepeople), humans have a short lifespan. He passed away before accomplishing this goal.

## Appearance

Dr. Orb was an elderly human male of tall height and slim physique. He had a boney structure, which is extremely noticeable in his face. His hair was grey and wavy. His eye bags were of exaggerated size, presumably due to his research. He had green eyes, over which he wore glasses. His nose and chin were elongated, and at the bottom of his chin he sported a dark grey goatee.

In his youth, he had yellow-blonde hair and no goatee, along with a smoother facial structure.

## Personality

While eccentric, he often has a clear mind when focused on his research. He is easily annoyed by minor inconveniences and can often go on long rants about these (highlighted in a company email reminding employees of OrbCorp's own local radio station ). Despite this, he maintains a wealthy social life among the elite of Reversal City.

## Background

### Early childhood

"Orb" was not his real surname. It's likely that this was a name he took on to boost his publicity as he entered the public spotlight in the research scene.

He was born to a **chemist** and a **diner waitress** in **1938**, shortly before the outbreak of the **Second World War** in Europe. As tension arose, the family moved out to **Freddit Falls**, where Dr. Orb finished his high school education.

### Entry to the scientific scene

He graduated from **Freddit City University** in **1961** with a PhD in both **cryanium nuclear physics** and **computer science**. His work while at university piqued the interest of various scientific organizations, and in **1962** he began working for **Salt-Tec** as a researcher. He oversaw various projects, such as the development of rudimentary **Salt-Tec supercomputers** (considered to be the precursors to OrbCorp's command blocks), and initial plans for **Project Oreharvester**.

After the previous Salt-Tec chairman passed away and his son was put in his place, Dr. Orb began to get into arguments with the new CEO until eventually leaving the company in **1976** due to multiple disagreements.

### Between Salt-Tec and OrbCorp

After leaving Salt-Tec, Dr. Orb moved back to Freddit Falls for a few years. It is unknown if he spent this time on research projects. However, during this time he found Nebula in the woods, whom he adopted as his daughter. She would later become his main secretary in OrbCorp.

### The founding of OrbCorp

By **1982**, Dr. Orb had moved back to Freddit City, where he founded OrbCorp and began developing command blocks for government entities and for commercial use. Despite to the **financial crisis of 1983**, OrbCorp profited due to the immense demand of computing technology. By 1989, the first Psychanic had been completed using OrbCorp's own command block technology. This became **Eliza**, whom Dr. Orb took as his wife.

Dr. Orb entered the public spotlight due to his scientific accomplishments, and OrbCorp eventually partnered up with T.B.C.

In **1994**, Eliza passed due to a critical system failure.

### Immortality quest

It is unknown when exactly Dr. Orb's goals shifted from command blocks and Psychanics to gaining immortality. The partnership between T.B.C. and OrbCorp partially began because of Dr. Orb's interest in **Zoo Man's slow aging**, due to him being a cakeperson. The death of Eliza is said to have fueled his fear of death, pinning the origins of his obsession to the mid 90s.

Several of OrbCorp's research was influenced by this new obsession, such as the **MediQuick units** scattered around Reversal City, intended to heal various injuries. OrbCorp has achieved the ability to **upload a person's mind to a psychanic** **PsyCore** **unit**, but Dr. Orb refused to use his own technology to cheat death due to it merely creating a copy of one's mind instead of fully transferring it to a robot body (although there are various universes where this is how Dr. Orb successfully achieved his goal).

### The creation of Ballonz

Ballonz's development began in 2001, once a **new iteration** of the **PsyCore** was created. Due to being the first of this new iteration of Psychanics and because of Dr. Orb's own involvement in his creation, he took a liking to him and took him as **his son**, although this was partially to boost his image in the public eye, after concerning notes from T.B.C. regarding his repressed nature. Regardless, he loved Ballonz as though he were his biological son, just as much as he loved Nebula.

### Death

Dr. Orb passed away in his sleep in **July 2018** at the age of **80**, evidently not having reached his goal. OrbCorp never disclosed what happened to his body after death. A memorial service was held within the facility regardless.

## In the Multiverse

Due to his partnership with **Zoo Man and T.B.C.**, he was intensely familiar with the multiverse, although he preferred not to interact with his parallel selves. He didn't want to use their research, as ***"It would feel like cheating [his] own intellect"***, in his own words.

Most Dr. Orb's across the multiverse are similar to the Mainlore incarnation, but live very different lives. In **World RP 1**, Dr. Orb was the **Chancellor of Germany**, and was known to do insane stuff like murdering plastic toy soldiers by thrusting them into his urethra and having consensual intercourse with a vending machine.

In some universes where he achieves his goal of immortality, he expands his work and achieves **immortality for all biological lifeforms**. Due to the immense overpopulation of many universes caused by this, his name is immensely disliked by several universes and OrbCorps across the multiverse are often randomly attacked by interdimensional entities and organizations. This has never happened to the Mainlore OrbCorp.

## Trivia

* **Meta:** Dr. Orb was created by Orb, who shares their username with the character.

## References

1. ↑ Discord logs showing OrbCorp's station.