Exempars Viho
Following is Viho background that was exemplars specific and thus was surgically removed from time.
When the New Men appeared, Viho was quite interested in how people could manifest such powers. In speaking with colleagues who were more knowledgable in science and biology about it, it sounded like there must be a genetic component, but identifying it was neigh impossible without sequencing the entire genomes of normal and gifted people. Teaming up with Dr Katarina von Wolfenberg of the Jake Cannon School for the Gifted and Dr. Richard Spanos of the Genetic Research Institute at MIT, Viho designed the first automated DNA sequencing machine in 1986. Large numbers of Viho's Sequencers were made and set to work 24 hours a day. Over the next decade, the genomes of three gifted and three normal humans were sequenced, and subsequently analyzed by vonWolfengerg, Spanos and others. Unfortunately, and surprisingly, no identifiable genetic changes were identified. This may be because there were none to find, or that the changes were too few and varried to be identifiable in such a small sample size. In any case, although the primary objective was not achieved, sequencing the human genome was a feat in itself and was a huge breakthrough in enabling genetic research.
Ciquala's continued collaboration with von Wolfenberg was quite productive. Togther they devised various analytical equipment to investigate the powers of Primes. Equipment to measure energy output on multiple wavelengths were useful in dissecting at least some of the basics of mentalist activities. Although such equipment has yet to shed light on the mechanism by which telepathy or other mental abilities work, it has shown that mentalists show similar characteristic energy emmissions and that as their power increases, so do these readings. Other useful equipment were less revolutionary, but no less useful. Viho designed a small wind tunnel that the Cannon School uses to train students with flying abilities. They can thus simulate changing wind and shear forces to train students to handle flying in different weather conditions. Such training would otherwise require travel to active hurricanes and would be incredibly dangerous in real world settings. For one student who was incredibly fast, Viho designed a treadmill that could record speeds up to 300mph and a dexterity test to record reaction times down to 1 nanosecond. By 1996, most of the useful gadgets had been created and Viho's active collaboration with von Wolfenberg decreased. They remain in contact and occasionally when a new student with unique abilities emerges Viho and Venture Industries are contracted to build custom training or analytical equipment.
Through vonWolfenberg, Viho met Austin Opperman, a truly remarkable scientist proposing breakthroughs in physics that Viho could almost, but not quite, understand.
