Ted Kaczynski

*"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulﬁlling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inﬂicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inﬂict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries."*
—Ted Kaczynski in *Industrial Society and Its Future*
**Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski**, also known as the **Unabomber** (the name given by the FBI), is the elusive perpetrator of a series of bombings from 1975 to 1995 in the US that killed three and wounded 23. The victims were mainly academics in technological disciplines, airline executives, and executives in business thought to affect the environment.

Kaczynski escaped from prison and married Victoria Foxtrot, taking her surname and going by his full name. As **Theodore Foxtrot**, Kaczynski resumed his domestic terrorism after he awakened his superpowers. He successfully caused a several months-long national blackout, until he was thwarted by the Arcadian Rebels.

## Biography

### Early Life

Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Kaczynski had a tendency to isolate himself due to an incident when he was nine months old, where he developed a case of hives and had to be quarantined for 10 days in a hospital and recovered for a long time.

When Kaczynski was ten years old, he and his family moved to Evergreen Park, Illinois. He displayed an extremely high intellect after scoring 167 on an IQ test in the fifth grade.

### Academic Career

*"It is argued that continued scientific and technical progress will inevitably result in the extinction of individual liberty."*
—Ted Kaczynski
Entering college at the age of 16, Kaczynski earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard. While a college undergraduate, he was a research subject in an ethically questionable experiment, that of the illegal MKUltra project. After graduation, he attended the University of Michigan where he earned his master's and doctorate in mathematics. He began his brief teaching career at University of California at Berkeley. In 1967, Kaczynski considered undergoing a sex change operation, but he decided not to follow through with it.

After resigning his teaching position, he eventually moved to a small cabin near Lincoln, Montana. While living in the cabin, Kaczynski's main method of transportation was a bicycle.

### Bombings

Kaczynski directed his first mail bomb in 1978; the intended target was a college professor. In the same year, Kaczynski briefly returned to Illinois to work in his family's factory. He was subsequently terminated for insulting a female co-worker.

Before he became known as Unabomber, Postal Inspectors were referring to him as "Junkyard Bomber" on account of the materials he used to create his bombs. A 1979 bomb which failed to detonate properly was found in the cargo hold of a jet airliner. Kaczynski's first fatal victim was Hugh Scrutton, who was killed by a bomb placed in the parking lot of his store.

In 1995, Thomas Mosser was killed by a mail bomb Kaczynski mailed to his home; in a letter Kaczynski wrote to the New York Times, he said Mosser was targeted because his company worked to improve Exxon's image after the Exxon-Valdez incident.

In all, 16 bombs were attributed to Kaczynski, which injured 23 people and killed three. His 35,000 word essay, which eventually became known as "The Unabomber Manifesto" was entitled *Industrial Society and Its Future*. In his manifesto, Kaczynski speaks of Leftists as "mainly socialists, collectivists, politically correct types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like."

### Imprisonment

*"No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit."*
—Ted Kaczynski
The first big break in the case came when Kaczynski's brother came forward after publication of the manifesto. They were specifically able to pinpoint that it was him due to forensic linguistics, and his usage of the phrase "you can't eat your cake and have it too." This unique wording of the popular cliche was what eventually led his brother David Kaczynski to notify the FBI of his suspicions of Ted.

Kaczynski was apprehended by the FBI in 1996.

In 2012, Kaczynski responded to the university's inquiry for the upcoming 50th reunion of the class of 1962; he listed his occupation as prisoner. Prosecutors initially indicated that they would seek the death penalty, but Kaczynski avoided that by pleading guilty to all charges. He was sentenced to eight life sentences without the possibility of parole. For information which led to Kaczynski's arrest and conviction, David Kaczynski and his wife received a $1 million reward which they donated to the families of those killed and injured in his brother's bombings.

### New Campaign

#### Escape from ADX Florence

In mid-summer 2019, Kaczynski awoke his powers while in prison, the Stand "Radio Cure," which allowed him to escape. He married a woman named Victoria Foxtrot, taking her surname and going by his full given name as an alias: Theodore Foxtrot.

#### National Blackout

*"You've done well, but your attempts are futile. We will liberate the people from the machines made to enslave them, but your attempts to carry out the status quo are done with good intent, no doubt. You will be eliminated. You will not stop us. You will be freed. Even if you've been brainwashed into not desiring it. Your autonomy will be returned to you."*
—Ted Kaczynski to the Arcadian Rebels
Alongside his wife, Kaczynski and his wife mounted several attacks against the Arcadian Rebels. He eventually upgraded his Stand with a dark matter-irradiated arrow, and activated a nation-wide blackout. With the Rebels defeated, Kaczynski returned to his cabin in Lincoln, Montana and abandoned his wife.

Over the course of a few months, Kaczynski laid out numerous traps leading to his cabin, incase the Rebels had followed him.

#### Defeat

Kaczynski was eventually found and defeated by the Rebels. In their final battle, Kaczynski restored electricity to the country in order to use Radio Cure to defend himself. However, Flag's upgraded Stand swiftly claimed victory while Almanac forced Kaczynski to imbibe from a bottle which would transfer his soul into it.

With Kaczynski trapped, the Rebels saved the United States of America. Kaczynski is currently trapped within "A Case of You," which is stored securely within the Rebels HQ to prevent it from being opened.

## Personality

*"Ted only cares about himself and reaching his end goal."*
—Flag
Described by his physics teacher as "honest," "ethical," "sociable," and by his guidance counselor as "reflective, sensitive, and deeply conscious of his responsibilities to society," Theodore Kaczynski is incredibly calculated and logical, driven by his ideals. He can often come across as cold, as seen by his abandonment of his wife Victoria Foxtrot after her Stand ability was no longer needed.

Kaczynski did not seek glory nor fame for his bombings. He detests modern technology and its role in modern society.

Kaczynski suffers from dysphoria, nightmares and sexual repression. At a young age, he was shy and anti-social.

### Philosophy

*"I basically feel that technological society is incompatible with individual freedom, and, therefore, we have to destroy it and replace it with a more primitive society so that people can be free again."*
—Ted Kaczynski
Ted believes that while good aspects of technology exist, they are not worth the copious amounts of negative traits that come alongside it, and that there is no way to separate the good aspects from the bad. He believed sending mail bombs to officials was the only way to draw attention to his cause and begin overthrowing the industrial society he lived in. Ted didn't do what he did based on vague and abstract humanitarian values. His philosophy was built upon experiences he had gone through himself firsthand, which shaped his outlook and made him feel like a cog in a greater machine.

## Physical Appearance

Kaczynski is an old man. He has long hair and a beard, both of which are gray and scraggly. He wears a warm brown coat and a straw hat that covers most of his face.

## Powers and Abilities

### Radio Cure

* Radio Cure Statistics
* Radio Cure: Ashes of American Flags Statistics
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Radio Cure has below-average power and durability, average precision and potential, and above-average speed and range. Ashes of American Flags has below-average power, speed, durability, precision and potential, and above-average range. It has the most range of any Stand, including its predecessor, Add It Up, Bloom, and Led Zeppelin Act III-IV.

* **Electromagnetic Pulse Emission:** Radio Cure has the ability to wipe out all electronics within a set area. His range can be up to several hundred miles, his greatest extension being that of Smog City, or roughly 300 square miles. When pierced by the Stand arrow he'd used to recruit his following, Kaczynski's ability was "awakened," upgrading it substantially to "Ashes of American Flags." Now instead of 300 square miles, Radio Cure's abilities can disable electronics across the entire United States of America, or roughly 3.7 million square miles. However, this comes with a sacrifice. As long as Ashes of American Flags is activated, Radio Cure's offensive abilities like paralysis or super speed are inaccessible. In order to utilize these, he'd have to deactivated AAF, effectively restoring power to the nation.
* **Paralysis Inducement:** When Radio Cure strikes an opponent, it is incapable of doing tangible damage. However, using its ability to cancel electrical charges, it can use this to halt electrical pulses from the brain from reaching said muscles, and paralyze them.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Radio Cure can move incredibly fast, often quicker than humans can react, enabling it to use its paralysis abilities to their fullest.

### Abilities

*"He's got an IQ of 167. He's a bona fide genius. He attended Harvard on a full scholarship at age 16. Got a PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in '68, which correlates with the formatting of the manifesto. His dissertation was brilliant. It won prizes, got published. Just it was so advanced, only four or five mathematicians in the world could understand it. But this plays into his need to be listened to and acknowledged as a profound genius thinker. Now, he taught at Berkeley for two years before he withdrew into the woods in Lincoln, Montana. Built that cabin with his brother."*
—James R. Fitzgerald
* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Kaczynski has an IQ of 167, putting him on par with Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. At an early age, his intelligence stood out, as he skipped the sixth and eleventh grade and his brilliance shined at Evergreen Park Community High School. At said high school, he was called the smartest student in his class, and he was a member of the mathematics, biology, coin, chess, and German clubs. He graduated from high school at age 15 due to having also attended summer school. He was one of his school's five National Merit finalists, and when he was 16 he was accepted into Harvard College on a scholarship before he had his driver's license. In Lincoln, Montana, he volunteered at the local library said he visited frequently to read classic works in their original languages. He read up on sociology and political philosophy, namely the works of Jacques Ellul. One of his former classmates described him as "a walking brain" his guidance counselor referred to him as "very challenging intellectually," and his friend Theresa from the library stated he was a "very well-educated" and "very intelligent man."
	+ **Master Mathematician:** Kaczynski is a former respected mathematician. He took a deeper interest in mathematics in high school, as he spent hours studying and solving complex problems. Kaczynski was so far ahead of his classmates that he was placed in an advanced mathematics class. He graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and an above-average GPA of 3.12. In the same year, he enrolled at the University of Michigan for postgraduate education, where he earned his master's (1964) and doctoral degrees (1967) in mathematics and was noted by his professors for his passion for mathematics. He also applied to the University of California, Berkley, and University of Chicago, both of which accepted him but Michigan had more benefits. At Michigan, he specialized in complex analysis, specifically geometric function theory and bounded harmonic functions. He earned 5 Bs and 12 As during his 18 courses at Michigan. His dissertation *Boundary Functions* won the Sumner B. Myers Prize for Michigan's best mathematics dissertation of 1967, and he published two journal articles related to his dissertation, and three more after leaving Michigan. His doctoral advisor called *Boundary Functions* "the best [he has] ever directed." The same year, Kaczynski became the youngest assistant professor of mathematics in the history of University of California, Berkeley, where he taught undergraduate courses in geometry and calculus. His students rated him as an above-average mathematics instructor. Kaczynski also designed his cabin to a "perfect" mathematical ratio.
	+ **Explosives Mastery:** Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski designed 16 increasingly advanced explosive devices, which would end up killing Hugh Scrutton, Thomas J. Mosser, Gilbert Brent Murray and injured 23 others. He purposely left misleading clues in the devices and took extreme care in preparing them to avoid leaving fingerprints, without leaving a trace of evidence.
	+ **Expert Survivalist:** After moving to a cabin he had built near Lincoln, Montana in 1971, Kaczynski taught himself survival skills such as tracking game, edible plant identification, organic farming and bow drilling.
	+ **Expert Tactician:** Kaczynski is an expert strategist and self-taught chess player. He successfully executed the national blackout of 2019 (after targeting several dense urban populations with his group), and laid out a series of complicated traps for the Arcadian Rebels to find on the path to his cabin. Before his escape from prison, Kaczynski was serving eight consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
	+ **Skilled Musician:** Kaczynski played the trombone in his high school marching band. He has studied the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi, and he wrote original compositions for himself, his younger brother, David, and his father to perform at home. He continued to play trombone in college.
	+ **Expert Literarian:** Kaczynski is an author and bibliophile, having 257 of books in his home before the FBI raided it. His reading list included works by Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Julius Caesar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thucydides, Eric Hoffer, and Joseph Conrad. Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto has been called a work of genius and compared to Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World* and George Orwell's *1984*. James Q. Wilson described his paper as "carefully reasoned" and "artfully written," putting him on par with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine and Karl Marx.
	+ **Skilled Engineer:** Kaczynski is a deadly craftsman. Using only hand tools, he fashioned a working pistol out of wood and metal.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Kaczynski speaks his native English and was a member of the German club in high school. He read classic works in their original languages.

*"I will kill. But I will make at least some effort to avoid detection so that I can kill again."*
—Ted Kaczynski
* **Stealth:** Kaczynski, as the Unabomber, eluded capture for nearly two decades. After awakening his Stand, he managed to escape from his super-maximum security prison.
* **Intimidation:** Kaczynski's homemade letter bombs struck fear across the United States.
* **Skilled Combatant:** Kaczynski wrestled during his time at Harvard. Despite his advanced age, he was able to put up somewhat of a fight with Almanac during his final stand.
* **Indomitable Will:** Theodore J. Kaczynski is a man primarily about ideals. Nothing will come between what he believes is righteous. James R. Fitzgerald stated that Kaczynski "[had] the courage to live according to his ideals." His ambition to revert America to a pre-Industrial Revolution society allowed him to defeat the Arcadian Rebels.

## Relationships

* Wanda Theresa Kaczynski † - Mother
* David Kaczynski - Brother
* Linda Patrik - Sister-in-Law
* Victoria Foxtrot - Ex-Wife

Allies* Gilmour Waters
* Yeezus
* Viktor Vaughn
* Tina Byrne
* Button Eyes
* Stuart Pot
* Jimmy Brown
* Aladdin Sane
* Thomas J. Mosser † - Victim
* Gilbert Brent Murray † - Victim
* Arcadian Rebels

## Trivia

* The name "Unabomber" was derived from an acronym for his preferred targets (UNABOM, University and Airline Bomber).
* Kaczynski's favorite book is Joseph Conrad's *The Secret Agent*.
* Kaczynski enjoys Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
* Kaczynski was portrayed by Paul Bettany in *Manhunt: Unabomber*.
* Kaczynski's pseudonym, "Foxtrot," is an allusion to the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco. This album is also where Kaczynski gets the namesakes of his Stand(s), "Radio Cure" and "Ashes of American Flags" both being tracks off this album.