Rudolf E. Krelter

Rudolf Edgar Krelter (7th of January 968 - 8th of September 1020 in northern Zoran Union) was a Zoranian Scientist. During the Zoranian Civil War he was drafted to fight for the armed forces of the Parten Alliance. During the Civil War he was serving in the same unit as Anton Relvski did. When Anton Relvski fled his unit stationed on the frontline during the night of the 24th of November 1019 to join the forces of the Zoran Union, Rudolf E. Krelter was aware of Relvski´s plan to do so. He had talked to him before and handed him some important documents about his scientific work. Krelter was prior to the civil war a scientists working for the Zoran Union and also independently. But when he was drafted he was prohibited to conduct anymore research by the Parten Alliance. He was arrested a day after Relvski left the unit and accused of treason against the Parten Alliance. As a consequence he was put into a prison camp where he had to work 12 hours a day in hard manual labor. Almost a year later during the 8th of September 1020 him and other prisoners managed to overpower some of the prison guards and to escape the camp. He himself grouped up with at least four other prisoners that he found shortly after his escape. Among this four prisoners were also Karl Ingerson and Joseph Martens. Despite their best efforts and even managing to contact someone who offered help via radio they were caught before leaving the area by a large group of Parten Alliance soldiers. Those were clearly aware that the prisoners would be coming that way and started firing on the truck after a short conversation with the driver who was bribed to smuggle the prisoners out of the area. Rudolf E. Krelter was killed by the gunfire.

### Early life

Rudolf Edgar Krelter was born into a wealthy family. His father owned a considerable area of land and multiple factories. His mother worked for the local newspapers. His father hoped that Rudolf would one day inherit the land and factories he owned. That is why he raised him in a way he believed was best to prepare him for that task. He sent him to the best schools he could find. Krelter however became interested in science very early. In 980 he asked his father to move him to a school that was more focused on teaching the basics of scientific research. His father refused. In 986 he sent Krelter to a business school where he was supposed to learn and train the most important skills for managing a business. Krelter was only an average student in this school and one of his teachers noticed very quickly that Krelter was a very talented young men but not really made for managing a business like his father´s. When the teacher tried to talk to his father to change his mind Krelter´s father was outraged. When he confronted his son about it and his son told him that he does not want to inherit the business but wants to work with science instead his father kicked him out of home.

Krelter found an apartment nearby the school he was attending. Fortunately his teacher helped him to get financial support for a proper education in various fields of science. When he finished his school in 990 he started attending university.

### Career as a researcher

Krelter showed great talent when working in any field of science. This got him the attention of the Zoranian Government in 995. He was offered a well paid job that would allow him to work on important and partially top secret research projects. Krelter accepted the offer. He was immediately put to work and his assigned superior was Frank G. Veter.

His talent, creativity and the fact that he was unafraid to try experiments that everyone else deemed as "safe to fail" accelerated the progress of many research projects he was working on. This is why his superior Frank G. Veter gave him permission to start and work on his own projects under Veter´s supervision in 998. Krelter was the youngest scientist who earned that privilege at the time.

Krelter was approached by a stranger in 999. He offered Krelter to pay him as much money as he desired if he would work on a "side project" for him. Krelter was unsure about this offer. He decided to talk to his trusted superior Veter about it. Veter revealed to him that they attempted to make him work for them previously as well. He advised Krelter to accept the offer even if he does not want to. This would be the only way to figure who exactly that stranger is and what his plans with this "side project" are. Krelter accepted the offer and was shocked when he learned that the project he was supposed to work on for the stranger was a deadly biological weapon. Krelter wanted to contact the stranger and tell him that he would not work on a lethal weapon under any circumstances but Veter convinced him to work on the project. Veter said "I know it goes against your own morals amd against your ideals. But this is the only way we can figure out who they are and what they plan to do with this weapon. Besides If we work on this project we will have all the knowledge about this weapon. It would allow us to know not only how to produce it but also how to develop countermeasures."

By 1001 Krelter learned that the stranger was part of an organization which would later be responsible for another organization called "BWD". The stranger approached him again to give him more projects to work on. His superior Veter convinced the Zoranian Government to build and open a new laboratory and to give him full control over all employees. This meant he could choose who would work in this facility. In this new laboratory Krelter and Veter could be more open about the projects they were working on and dedicate more time to them. When he finished his first lethal biological weapon Krelter did immediately start to work on a proper countermeasure. He did not want the weapon to be delivered before a countermeasure would be available and confirmed to be working.

Between 1001 and 1015 Krelter worked on many official projects but on even more side projects for the organization of the stranger. He eventually started building his own archive about the projects he worked on. This archive has still not been discovered to the present day and while it is believed that Veter might have knowledge about it it is unknown if anyone else could know about it. The archive includes tons of knowledge for developing lethal biological, chemical and even weapons based on radiation but also for developing countermeasures against them. The knowledge could cause catastrophic damage if it was to find its ways into the wrong hands. However it is unknown how much of this knowledge and scientific breakthroughs Krelter actually shared with the stranger.

### Final project and outbreak of the civil war

In 1015 Krelter used the money he earned from the stranger to quit his job for the Zoranian Government and to open his own laboratory. There he was working on one final project that he personally initiated. It was known as project "Blue Blood". What exactly this project was about is something that could likely be found in his archives because he never shared that knowledge with outsiders. Only a few chosen scientists who he trusted were allowed to work with him in his laboratory. The only other person allowed to visit him and work with him was his old superior Frank G. Veter. The project made great and significant progress and Krelter was confident he could finish it in less than a decade. But in 1018 he was drafted to serve in the military of the Parten Alliance after the Zoranian Civil War started. At the same time because of his previous work for the Zoran Union he was no longer allowed to work as a scientists and his laboratory which was located within the territory of the newly formed Parten Alliance was closed down. Rudolf E. Krelter was killed on the 8th of September 1020 leaving his final project to likely never be finished.