Tad Wallam-Crane

## Family Members

**Wife:**

* **Father**: Thaddeus Odysseus Wallam-Crane
* **Mother**:

**Grandfather**: Thaddeus Napoleon Wallam-Crane

## Biographical Information

### Personality and Characteristics

Tad is often obnoxious in his constant asking of questions and annoying in his assumption that he has the right to ask them, partially because of the way he was raised, as the heir to the Wallam-Crane dynasty but mostly because he is webbed and with just a thought has access to unlimited amount of knowledge and data.

All of his life he has known that he must reinvent portal technology to save the 500 planets of humanity where the existing portals are breaking down from age. Tad knows that if he doesn't succeed civilization will fall and all of the planets will be on their own. This knowledge and failure has caused him to loose a lot of overbearing assurances and he realizes that the fidelis project may be the last hope to save civilization.

“*Tad alternates between moments of working miracles and moments of total incompetence,” said Donnell. “There never seems to be anything in the middle.*”

### Early Years

When Tad was 6, his father was kidnapped and murdered. His Grandfather took his mother to court to gain custody and forced Tad's mother to move to Apollo.

*Tad shrugged. “I don’t care about Adonis customs or what my grandfather expects. It will sound ridiculous, but the person I most respected as a child was one of my martial arts trainers."*
*“I don’t see anything ridiculous about that.”*
*“The ridiculous bit is that he was an Adonis Knight,” said Tad.*
Tad wanted to go through the 10 trials but was denied by his grandfather who told him he didn't have time and they were too dangerous. Even though the family were not among the first settlers they were given Honorary Knight status so Tad qualified to attempt the trials. He deeply believes in the Adonis Knights oath and tries to live his life by it's principles. Which Blaze discovers is what attracted her to him in the first place.

When Tad was 9 years old he was implanted with a Web so that he could access the planet's "net". Since the technology had been lost for about 50 years to create and maintain implanted webs, a used Web had to be recovered and implanted. The web was salvaged from a deceased child's brain, one that had died when everyone was still implanted at age 7. Tad was terrified of having something implanted in his brain and of using one from someone that was deceased. His mother support of him caused the final break between her and his grandfather. His grandfather took her to court and gained complete guardianship of Tad. He was forcefully implanted with a web. His web was modified so he could access it and do any tuning that was required as his brain grew and changed.

*See also: Webbed, Adonis Knights, and Wallam-Crane Family Tree*

### Portal Failures

After the infrastructure on earth failed due to the mass exodus of people, it became impossible to manufacture new portals and replacement parts. After 50 years the international portals started to fail. The Wallam-Crane family was expected to figure out a simpler portal so that the parts could be manufactured. Tad's father had been webbed and was working on this problem when he was kidnapped and murdered to stop the recreation of portal technology.

When Tad was 14 his grandfather put him in charge of the Portal project and told everyone that he was a genius, even thought he was only a bright boy with the advantage of being webbed. He hadn't been able to come up with a solution and the government of Adonis lost faith in him. But then a delegation from Beta Sector came to see him and talked him into joining the Fidelis Project.

Before heading to Zeus, Tad along with Phoenix his research assistance and Braden their pilot, both need to get to Beta Sector for personal reasons, go to New York City to retrieve a part from one of the early prototype portals at the Wallam-Crane Museum. After retrieving the part, they exit the Museum only to discover that the plane was parked to close to a skyscraper and it was damaged from falling debris.

They saw the smoke coming from the Parliament House so head there where they discovered the last remnants of humanity in New York City.

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## See also

* **Tad Wallam-Crane Biographical**
* Tad Wallam-Crane Scavenger Alliance Summary
* Tad Wallam-Crane Scavenger Blood Summary
* Tad Wallam-Crane Scavenger Exodus Summary
* Wallam-Crane Family Tree
* Fidelis Project
* Blaze Clan
* Wallam-Crane Charitable Foundation
* Wallam-Crane Citadel
* Wallam-Crane Monument
* Wallam-Crane Portal Company

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edwards, Janet. Scavenger Blood (Scavenger Exodus Book 2) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* *Scavenger Alliance (Scavenger Exodus Book 1)* (2017)
* *Scavenger Blood (Scavenger Exodus Book 2)* (2019)