Richmond

# **About**

Richmond was the CEO of Richmond Inc a company which together with the government tried to extract biological weapons out of the supercluster which they created themselves.

Along the way the company fails to keep the supercluster or the operation stable, leading to multiple minor outbreaks and spilling into the real world. Richmond himself realized that the supercluster cannot be shut down as it would lead to a complete failure resulting in the "collapse of Novelia", desperatley trying to find a solution to the problem. Eventually the main headquarters was raided by Oswald, Lime and Magenta, where Magenta was held at gunpoint by Richmond begging him to not shut down the supercluster, warning him of impending doom.

Magenta did not believe him and shut it down, causing multiple Portal storms across Novelia and the supercluster to briefly completley leak into Novelia, causing it's collapse and a Civil War.

# **Backstory**

Richmond was born into a life of hardship and adversity. Growing up in a small, impoverished town, he was the only child of a struggling single mother. His father had abandoned them when Richmond was just a baby, leaving his mother to work tirelessly to make ends meet. As a result, Richmond spent most of his childhood alone, often going without proper meals or adequate care.

Despite these challenges, Richmond was determined to break free from the cycle of poverty that plagued his family. He excelled in school and showed a natural affinity for science and technology. As he grew older, his passion for knowledge only intensified, and he became obsessed with finding ways to improve the lives of those around him.

When he was only 19, Richmond's mother tragically passed away after a long battle with a debilitating illness. Heartbroken and filled with rage at the injustice of her suffering, Richmond vowed to dedicate his life to finding a cure for the disease that took her life, as well as other ailments that affected humanity.

# **Richmond Incorporated**

Richmond Inc was founded by Richmond at only 20 (1967) starting out as a small registered company. He bought a office space in Union with his peers and started the company by doing research for other pharmacutical companies. They were contracted by ViviLabs multiple times through which Richmond had already established a few connections. They soon expanded into Research and began to study and test vaccines for the Government and other Private Companies.

They were humble beginnings however the plagued mind of Richmond and the constant reminder of her painful death lingered on, driving him crazy on the inside. Richmond however remained calm and calculated on the outside, effectivly expanding his company and getting it onto the stock market. After a Vaccine Scandal which Richmond Inc had uncovered the stock rose by 280% propelling it forward, giving Richmond Inc much more assets and power. Effective Stock gambling on Richmond's part along with a high-tech dive into vaccine research gave them a fortune, effectivly being able to spend money on what they saw fit.

Richmond Inc started focusing on more cheaper ways to produce cures, achieving a revolutionary one for Malaria which was distributed all across Africa and produced in mass, giving Richmond Inc a plethora of wealth. During the late 80s in the scientific community a new and radical board had believed to refude the claims of how spacetime works, intrigued by this Richmond contacted the leader, Dr Oswald and set up a connection. In 1991 a deal was made that Richmond would give Dr Oswald assets and funding along with personell, effectivley working for Richmond Inc, in exchange for his full loyalty and sharing all research. Richmond believed that somehow he could tap into alternate realities to gain more insight into future diseases, and already prevent them. This Theory was brought to him by a person he never recalled when he met, however became his right hand man. The Conductor. He heavily influenced Richmonds thoughts during this period and convinced him to give Dr Oswald the assets.

Thus Project S.C./s was born (Super-cluster / structure) it proved to be very promising at first, validating Dr Oswalds spacetime theories. It would however take 30 years for the Superstructure to be generated and to be accessed by Richmond Inc. During this time they used the cure for cancer as a cover for almost everything, in the meantime focusing on more controversial projects such as human DNA splitting, radiation and mutation testing and often using human trials for all these.

After the creation of the Superstructure Dr Oswald had realized his mistake as he saw the first reports of Cribers and Infections and fell into a deep depression causing a almost demented state. Richmond took over along with the Conductor who had been tasked to contract everyone and keep on oversight over all controversial projects. It was not rare for him to assasinate people under direct orders of Richmond, who had grown more crazed over the 30 year span. However even Richmond realized the danger of the Superstructure, but by Dr Oswald fleeing no one really knew how to effecivley shut it down without causing armageddon.

After the Civil War Monroe's Government hunted down and imprisoned or executed almost all Richmond employees who were involved in the Controversial Projects. Today most alive Richmond associates are imprisoned in Ridgecliff, and followers do not exist anymore. For a few months some Richmond fanatics continued to meet and group, however Xing exposed them and they were swiftly arrested.

# **Rapture-Timeline**

In the Rapture-Timeline, Richmond is still alive and has not accomplished any of the large tasks he had in the real timeline meaning the Civil-War never happened. Richmond lives off making tech and weaponary to clans and other buyers. These deals are illegal in places like EKAN.

# **Trivia**

Fishington, The Detective and Richmond are all british... Hmmm..

Richmond as seen in The Controverse, 2021Richmond as seen in The Controverse, 1991