Beckett Family

### Pre Portal

Sometime near the beginning of the 20th or 19th century, four men named Brice Shen (father of MCs), Jean Grey, Brock Beckett, and John Curran created a company called Null Cryogenics, which specialized in freezing people for them to wake up in the future. Their ideas and inventions immediately brought them immense wealth and success. However, right as their company started booming, John took a portion of the shares from the company and left to start his own company, which revolved around digitally coded robots that could be utilized for labor. John’s idea had so much potential until he was murdered by Brock before the idea reached the public’s eye. Brock was jealous, but also amazed. He saw the possibilities with this idea, to which he would use a fair share of the income from Null Cryogenics to fund his own company with the idea of John’s robots, called Beckett Motorized. He used John’s prototypes to learn and create better and smarter robots that could eventually learn from human behavior.

### Post Portal

After the portal from the Primordial Creed, Brock used his cryogenics chamber to freeze him, along with his two sons Victor (younger) and Gale Beckett, who were in childhood at the time, around 900 years into the future. After awakening, Brock was amazed by the alien technology he found on Earth. He decided to keep Victory and Gale frozen until he felt it was safe for them to come out. He studied and utilized this technology to eventually build an even more advanced robot that is actually sentient, called Cognizants. He eventually built a factory that can mass produce these robots.

### Gale and Victor's Awakening

Gale and Victor were awoken, to which they were informed about the technological advancements that Brock has made using the advanced technology scattered around the world. Brock taught Gale and Victor the Cognizant robotics and how it worked, hoping he could continue his army of Cognizants by passing this information down to his children. Gale quickly excelled in this field and advanced engineering in general. He had a conqueror's mindset just like his father. Victor on the other hand also had great knowledge in engineering, but he felt morally conflicted and was soft when it came to life. Brock made Victor and Gale compete in a way, where the one who exceeds the most in engineering comes out as victor. Gale would always out compete Victor, to which Victor would be severely beaten by Brock. The beatings were so bad that Victor suffered extreme brain damage and eventually was frozen back into the cryogenics chamber.

### The Girl and The Giant

After Brock’s death, Gale took on the legacy of his father and continued the Cognizant empire. Gale would have a daughter named Lucinda Beckett, who was expected to be the successor of Beckett Motorized. Gale’s influence spread across the land, now having multiple Cognizant factories in different areas. Gale’s most recent invention, the Giant, was by far the biggest Cognizant he has ever created. It was about 200 meters tall. The Giant in particular was soft and caring. After experiments on the Giant, Lucinda would always play with it due to the sternness of her father. She hated how competitive and aggressive her father was, so she liked to be around the Giant. The Giant also hated being experimented on, making them a perfect pair. Lucinda was around 5 years old at the time. Lucinda and the Giant became close friends, and everyday after an experiment, Lucinda would visit the Giant. One day, the Giant was finally moved outside of the factory and walked on Earth for the first time. He still had to undergo experiments, but it was now outside. One day, Lucinda and the Giant realized they did not want to be around Gale and the rest of his Cognizant army, so they planned on escaping. When they escaped, Gale quickly realized and ordered a special force of Cognizants that had much of their sentience removed to retrieve Lucinda and destroy the Giant. When they were surrounded, the Giant let Lucinda go to go back with her father. Lucinda knew that the Giant would be destroyed, so she refused to leave. When the Giant put her down, she quickly ran back to the Giant. However, the Cognizant forces started opening fire at the Giant to which it stepped backwards on Lucinda. When the Giant realized what it had done due to the Cognizant forces, its soft and caring personality quickly became aggressive and murderous. The Giant quickly wiped out the entire army of Cognizants and went for Gale, who was the one who ordered the strike. The Giant destroyed most of the factory but before it could destroy it all, it was quickly outnumbered by another force of Cognizants. The Giant fled and walked into a nearby ocean, never stepping foot on land again.

### Lucinda Incident

Gale retrieved Lucinda, who was surprisingly but barely alive. Gale has always wondered about human consciousness being transferred into a Cognizant, so Lucinda was his first test subject as an attempt to save her. His idea worked and Lucinda’s mind was transferred into a robot. With human intellect in these types of robots, it enhanced her brain to be able to use telepathy and interact with the physical work. She was able to let items float and move around all with her mind. While at first Gale grieved, he was now intrigued.

### Victor's Retrieval

One of Gale’s experiments involved Constituencies, in which he was in a fatal accident and had to use a special cane to walk for the rest of his life. Gale knew his life was coming to an end, so for his fathers legacy, he had to retrieve his brother, Victor, to carry on the army of Cognizants. When Victor was retrieved he was in extreme condition and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Regardless of his schizophrenia, he was able to learn more about the Cognizants and eventually dissociated from Gale to build another factory in the name of Beckett Motorized.

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In the present day, Victor is not a major antagonist, but more of a comedy relief character that causes problems and attempts to mess with the main characters.

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