Ludwig Gewher

Ludwig Gewher was born the 5th of July 1998 in Germany. Brilliant scientist, he discovered a new type of pluripotent stem cell, capable of introducing a new DNA strain in a given host permanently unless it is being introduced during the embryonic stage of development.

These cells were quickly named by the scientific community 'panacea cells'. Later on, doctor Louis Amadeus improved the process and thus the 'panacea serum' was born. The key necessary to create anthros had been found. Amadeus's genius was to blend and shuffle several strains of the panacea cell inside the same compound, allowing to add tens of millions of nucleotides to an existing genome as to tweak and alter its properties.

Although Professor Gewher isn't directly the anthros creator by himself, he contributed to making them a reality, as his researches been a fertile ground for research and development of all kinds in biomedicine. His researches on panacea cells made the task of creating an anthro possible, as they allowed to expose a lot of workarounds to make it happen.

Ludwig Gewher is anti-anthro (against proliferation of anthros) since the start.

He advanced the human race would go extinct by 2086 for it would entirely assimilate with the anthro one and their genome compatible with human DNA.

He has been a mentor for Louis Amadeus when they had to work on the Serval Project together. Gewher and Amadeus always been rivals to each other. They both have their own finetuned formula of the panacea serum, both offering different perks and inconvenients.

He feels guilty to have solved the issues of anthro mass production, along as finding a cure for Yamagami decoherency, that was originally the only big weakness of anthro demi humans.

His work combined to the one doctor Amadeus provided made the manufacturing of anthro beings viable and profitable.

Gewher quickly got ethical concerns regarding anthros, especially when the first successful test subject learnt human language in less than 3 weeks after birth.

He actually understood the dangers of an anthro society when he observed the accelerated growth, along as the very precocious puberty (28 months) of demi-humans.

He understood humans couldn't survive in a world dominated by anthros when he saw that same demi-human almost behead a scientist by clawing it out of spise. Since this incident, his weapon is always loaded and at reach during experiments.

While the doctor Amadeus is a genome genius; professor Gewher is the top specialist on metabolism and RNA. He is better at creating elements from scratch rather than altering existing ones. Gewher is also a prodigious chemist as a result.

Once his work on the Serval Unit creation was over, he worked for the pharmaceutical conglomerate Ombrelle, a holding firm owning most notably Cryotek (cryostasis and nitrogen solutions, genetical engineering), Deckhartes & Borwynn (cybernetics, robotics and brain-machine interfaces) along as Magnaline (medicine, plasmas, semi-synthetic organs and surgical material), the big pharma company.

He only worked and sold his expertise to them as to beneficiate of the immense subventions and research & development funds from the megacorporation. He used them and the gear he had access to in laboratory then so to create a weapon capable to annihilate any anthro by a mere exposure (it later given the SAARIM compound).

To earn their trust, he created the extremophile bacteria Neptune-Gamma-B3 at Cryotek's P4 antarctica facility.

He will later on assist as a consultant on the Amarok project; but the Amarok anthro, made from Neptune-Gamma-B3, actually isn't his creation, as another reseaech team will actually create the creature's genome and manufacturing matrixes.

Finally, still in possession of stolen data on Doctor Amadeus's panacea serum from the era of the Serval Unit creation for the DGA (the french Darpa, a high technology avantgarde weaponry laboratory), he will use this data to create an optimized substrate of the serum (this variant is named the 'Gamma-Cryotek' serum from the name of the company holding the proprietary technology and patent). This serum, proprietary to Cryotek and developped by the professor, is at its fifth iteration currently.

Gewher had a lot of struggles to accept to furbish to the corporation capacities of production for high-performance anthros just to have sufficient funds and gear to develop a satisfying answer to this ever-growing threat.

(the states without any active anthro program are entirely dependent on Cryotek for being furbished in anthros [at least on the paper], that are nowadays indispensable among sectors of the industry and predominantly defense. Cryotek sells anthros to no less than 145 countries across the globe, the only nation they lost as a client is Humanny when the WHO Dream-Team managed to take over their antarctica facility and defeat a dozen of Amarok type anthros in their most ideal environment, to the cost of important casualties on the humans side [barely 23 survivors, including the General Hermann and the Northern Irish mercenary John Macready]. Because of this defeat Cryotek had to give away anthro manufacturing capacities to Humanny to not get their entire operations shut down on the European continent, the most profitable one to Cryotek in times of open Conflict of Malamutes).

The Professor developped two strans for SAARIM:

The first one, 'Alpha', only targets pure-breed anthros. It is ineffective against hybrids and is made specifically to spare regular humans (any being with more than 54% of human DNA is safe from the Alpha strain SAARIM compound).

The 2nd strain, 'Delta' is made so to theoretically be capable to target human-anthros hybrids as well (at least on the paper), it is supposed to affect any creature that holds up to 89% of human DNA, it has never been field-tested. 'Delta' is a safety net made to exterminate the 'super-anthros', hybrids that has the appearance and might of an anthro, but with a highened intelligence, ending up most often smarter than most humans (the average super-anthro has an IQ of 114; exceptions among super-anthros includes Wüstenfuchs, with 158 of IQ, or else Elizabeth Cannisky, with 161 points of IQ). However, despite all the professor efforts, Delta is also lethal on humans, but he doesn't know it yet, as the Delta strain never been tested on the field to prove or dismiss this allegation.

Appearance: He is 1m74 tall for 63 kilograms. He has brown eyes, wears a pair of glasses (presbyopia). He has slicked back blonde hair. He always wears a white shirt no matter his outfit. Some people could have thought he was the body double of the actor Val Kilmer when he was younger and on pictures in which he is 20-35 years old.

Personality: He is a man of science, although he believes in a superior moral order; he is deterministic. In this sense, he is at the antipodes of Louis Amadeus, Louis being fatalistic and an unbeliever.

Ludwig isn't a mad scientist (despite he might sometimes sound or look like one to most people because of his demeanor, creativity, overall antisociality and boundless hatred of anthros, a significant part of most countries populations by 2054) and is always very meticulous in his work. He is very perceptive and can quickly see any potential downward side in any situation. He holds no regret over his past actions, saying we always learn way more from mistakes, our own and those of others, than we are learning from success.

He could be compared to a post modern Josef Mengele somehow as he sometimes used less than ethical means to make advance the knowledge of science on how to destroy anthros in the easiest way, with the use, research, development or overhaul of undiscriminating weapons along the way.

His biggest fear is a wold managed by the anthros, in which critical thinking and science are bound to disappear to the profit of a state theocracy and a boundless tribalism between anthros, without humans to tamper the situation in such a world (he basically fears a 'planet of the apes' scenario if humanity disappears).

He is pessimistic regarding the future, and see his last invention, SAARIM, as humanity's last hope. He is convinced that when he will die, humanity will die alongside him, be it from his hand, from the governments, from those in charge of humanity, or from the anthros.

Signature weapon : Beretta 92 FS Inox with custom copper grips holding a 'shipwreck patina' finish on them, offering the grips a lot of nuances between copper, blue and green colors. There is the motto 'verba volans, scribetum persistent' (words flies but writingd stay) laser engraved on the right grip of the gun. On the left side, the number 10 is engraved (reference to 10 words making the sentence : 'we have to protect our human children from the anthros', sentence used most predominantly by human supremacists along as the Gest'anthro). He uses a specific type of bullet, containing a small capsule of SAARIM Delta inside the tip of the bullet, currently anti-anthro prototype ammunition. This type of bullets allows humans to finally be able to kill an anthro with something more portable and less tedious to use than an assault rifle. He only has 5 anti-anthro bullets in its first magazine, the 8 others being regular type. He mixes them in the pattern 1 SAARIM bullet, 2 standard FMJ, then 1 SAARIM, bullet, 2 FMJ until the magazine is full. His first loaded round is always a SAARIM one. The SAARIM bullet kills its target in barely a minute at exposure contact, a simple drop on skin is sufficient to kill, there is no known cure for any strain of SAARIM.