Ryan Kepler

# Basic Information

Gender: Male

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Blue

Retina Designation: EKZ-9931

Designation: Researcher

Security Level: B3

# Health Information

Basic Physical: Nominal Health

Psychological Health: Stable

Known allergies: Morphine, Wasps, Poison Oak

Alterations and Improvements: Modified Nerve Dampener, Altered Retina, Improved Metabolism

DNA Profile Number: OIF-999371224215

# Background

### The Beginning

After joining the Company, Ryan was assigned to a research role in the corporation. Specifically in command of Genetic Programs, Kepler began to conduct work within clinics around the world in an attempt to manufacture gene therapy techniques. The corporation determined these ventures profitable and as such placed Kepler in charge of Project Kuiper.

### Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper was a program located in Osaka, Japan. The use of gene therapy to study the application of Neural Pathway enhancements was the primary function. Kepler's work led the way for this project's future work in overwriting the personality construct in a living person's body and forcing the truth out of an unwilling subject. The development of technology that could scan the brain and upload data wirelessly allowed the research to explore the idea of adding memories into a human brain. Kuiper was re-designated to Project Armstrong after the revelation was revealed to the board. However, an unknown faction leaked the plans to an outside force. Armstrong was forced to shut down after the site's labs detonated.

### Revenge

After the failure that was Armstrong, Kepler was assigned to Operator Task Force "Verun Porta" in an effort to hunt down the perpetrators. The task force was deployed to the United States, the UK, Germany, Russia and finally Greenland before discovering the break off faction "Rebellion". A large firefight was conducted on the northern edge of Greenland before Verun Porta was successful in destroying the faction. After completing the mission, Kepler was assigned back to researching Gene-tailoring technology.

### Project Icarus

Kepler was assigned to a Project Icarus under Dr. Isaac Perkins. Essentially a lab assistant, Kepler was regulated to cleaning and writing notes for Dr. Perkins. As of now, Kepler is still waiting for his chance to work on the tech he was sent to research.

# Family

Father - Classified

Mother - Classified

Partner - Classified

### The True Backstory - Spoilers

Ryan Jameson Kepler was born June 25th 1933 in Los Angeles, California. His mother and Father both passed when he was seventeen. After that, he would enlist in the United States Army and participate in the Korean war before he was injured. Forced to return home, Kepler decided to go into medicine as a profession. He was a well known Geneticist and Immunologist. After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Kepler was recruited into the Corporation's Research and Development department as a low level medical assistant. After years of work, Kepler was raised to the rank of B2 and was a Chief of Research in charge of a new highly experimental program. This program was dubbed the "Erebus Program" after the god Erebus. The program was intended to allow the corporation the ability to overwrite the human will and force someone to comply with their commands.

### Success and Death

Kepler's work was revolutionary in the science of neural revision therapy. Many of his subjects unfortunately did not survive the early procedures, but once Kepler developed the "Archeon Drive", a device created to store and edit the Neural DNA of the subject, his tests became more successful. After several years of development, Erebus was converted from a program meant to override the human will to a program meant to overwrite the brain itself. As the board began to demand more report and more success, Kepler was forced to take drastic measures. On March 4th, 1963 Kepler was forced to initiate the first trial of the Neural Rewrite therapy. Using his own DNA, Kepler selected a subject whom was unfit for the therapy. The subject was placed in total sensory deprivation for Five weeks. Afterwards, Ryan used the Archeon Drive to transfer his memories into his subject. Due to the imperfect subject and poor preventative protocols, the subject reacted in a violent manner and killed both Kepler and himself. After his death, Kepler's wife, Dr. Isabel Kepler, collected Ryan's Neural DNA and preserved it until another attempt could be made.

### Rewrite Therapy

Darren Phillip Walsh was born June 25th, 1993. He never knew his parents and he was raised in an orphanage owned by the corporation. His whole life, Darren was told he would grow up to help the world. On his tenth birthday, Darren was taken away from the orphanage by Dr. Isabel Kepler. The now defunct Erebus Program was still functioning despite the board's orders for it to be shut down. Dr. Kepler placed Darren within a sensory deprivation chamber for 10 weeks with intermittent breaks for food and rest. After ten weeks, Darren's perception of reality was destroyed. For the next twelve years, Darren would be subjected to trials of drugs, gene mapping, invasive surgery and high voltage therapy. Darren's memory was slowly removed using the Archeon Drive and his body would be shaped into the shape of Ryan Kepler. At age twenty four, Darren was indistinguishable from the original Ryan Kepler. Isabel would begin the process of uploading Ryan's memories through hypnosis and the Archeon Drive. The process was halted when the board discovered the hidden program still in function. Dr. Isabel Kepler was terminated during the process, this left Darren with incomplete memories from the original.

### Re-integration of Erebus

After the semi-success of the program, the board decided to restart the program. Now that Darren was almost fully replaced with the late Dr. Kepler, he would be trained in the sciences and physical combat skills required to function in the corporation. Darren, now Dr. Ryan Kepler III, was designated as a researcher at security level C3. His access to any documents from before 1993 would be restricted and he would be barred from accessing his own personal history. After a period of rebound, Ryan would be assigned under a new handler, Dr. Isaac Perkins, in order to observe and study the effects of converting the human brain.