#back story

- Paul Brodtkorb, Jr., Ishmael’s White World(1965)

Hey, my name is Liam and I … make things.
I uh take items and junk and I have an ability to bond them together.

Give me a handle from a gun and a dozen forks and I could make a knife or gun.
I can even mesh technology together and … sometimes I can control what it becomes, or maybe I’m just lucky at guessing. I made a helicopter thing, once out of some junk I found in an abandoned house.

Years ago when I was a kid, my home town was attacked by some kind of alien. He alien wanted to build a ship to leave our world, but he was physically weak and needed slaves. So he used his powerful psychic talents to force us to build him a ship.

We spent weeks as his slaves, a lot of us died and he didn’t care, he only cared how quickly the ship was made. But our minds were filled with information and knowledge on how to construct his vessel.
Some soldiers showed up to stop him but we forced them away. The alien was getting upset and put some of his power into a bunch of us in order to activate our latent psychic abilities.
With these new powers we were better able to work and fight off the soldiers.

Long story short, the soldiers killed almost everyone and the alien died. But me and 12 others got the left over psychic energy, making us VERY powerful.
Most of them went mad, one simply disappeared, and another was taken by the military.
After everything that had happened, I lost almost all of my powers and I was bounced into foster homes after my mind was wiped.

But one day I regained my memories and I got new powers. Everything the alien understood of combining matter and energy was in my head and I could build almost anything.

So I was visited by the Company and they recruited me as an engineer.
After the battle with Kain, I was contacted by our mutual friend and he said he had a new job opening.

So now I fight monsters and try to save the world while making money.
Nice to meet ya’ll.