Dr Hermann

An artist's sketch of Dr. Hermann.

## The 'Reaper'

Dr. [REDACTED] Gustavius Hermann was born in Magdeburg, Germany on February 5th, 1920. His father was German who had migrated to Argentina in 1890 to open a Ranch, and then moved back to Germany in 1918 following the War to seek employment. Meeting his wife, Griselda, in 1920, they quickly married and [REDACTED] Hermann was born. Fleeing the regime that followed in 1933, a 13 year old Hermann and his family moved first to France, then in 1939 moved to the United States, living in New Mexico.

Hermann himself stated his interest in the supernatural and paranormal began when he saw lights in the sky during his time living in New Mexico, and he studied [REDACTED] in order to begin his own Agency. When Hermann was 26, he witnessed the Mushroom clouds caused by Operation Ranger at the Nevada nuclear test site in 1951. Hermann had seeked to obtain a nuclear device to destroy the so-called 'Harbinger' he had documented the year prior.

Hermann created and was the sole member of Agency 1, which he launched in 1941 at the age of 21, whilst studying [REDACTED]. This was short lived, as Hermann lacked the support and funding. In 1941 following the collapse of his Agency 1, He was approached by a mysterious Oil Magnate who offered the funds needed to form Agency 2, and hire members. This Oil Magnate died to unknown causes in 1946, but before passing he left his possessions to Hermann, to avoid the Government from seizing his land and Oil money. Hermann now had acquired $1 billion dollars, enough money to run his Agency.

Upon Agency 2's founding, they hired Hermann as chief researcher due to his fiery passion and hardworking demeanour. Hermann quickly expanded the departments to include the Japanese psychological department, and brought in various bright minds from across the globe.

Hermann himself had been riddled with poor health his whole life, which would eventually force him to retire in 1995. Upon retiring, Hermann had a fall-out with the new head of the Agency, the democratically elected Lieutenant General. Sidney Emmanuel Holland. Holland radically transformed the Agency into a militarised force, prioritising the military market over researching and containing specimen for the safety of mankind.

Following this event in 1995, Hermann launched a 'coup' in the Agency by rooting out Holland his hardliner supporters. With the help of recently retired Dr. Daigo Keitaro, whom was democratically elected by a forced vote, Keitaro shut down all operations and announced the Agency would cease to exist at the dawn of the 'New Millenium'.

Hermann died in New Mexico at his family's ranch in 1999 due to his poor health. He was surrounded by former Agency members at his death, whom he regarded as his 'family' these included Lieutenant Colonel. Ugumori Motoyasu, Dr. Daigo Keitaro, Asst. Dr. Vijya Padhya, Dr. Kurt Lund and Dr. Wikus Van Der Westhuizen. After hearing of Hermann's death, Former Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Semyon Dumanovsky, now a Colonel in the Russian Army, sent his regards along with a pair of treasured shot glasses that himself and Hermann had used to toast to friendship back in 1968.