GRAHAM MANDERS

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Name: Graham Manders

Story: The Machine

Universe: Nu

First seen in: The Machine part 1 - The Red Kite issue 1

Age: 52

Birthdate: 1965

Birth Place: Cambridge

Currently Lives: Cambridge

Politics: Centre-left

Kinsey Rating: 1

Relationship: Married to XXXX

General Info:

Graham Manders is a proper Cantabrigian, he was born in the "town" but became "gown" when he passed his entrance exams to the city's historic university with flying colours. He went on to become a brilliant student in the emerging fields of cybernetics and robotics. Being from Cambridge, he also loved cycling... until 1987 when, close to the end of his university career, an accident left him unable to walk.

Not letting that hold him back, Graham went on to become one of the principal investigators in the university's Department of Applied Cybernetics, and a world authority on the subject. He now had an extra reason to be interested - one day, cybernetics might allow him to walk, and cycle, again. Late one night, he found a sample of a fluid designed to preserve brain tissue indefinitely was actually still working perfectly, though it had somehow been discarded as a failiure by the other scientists. Graham realised he could transfer a brain into a robotic body and theoretically keep it alive far beyond a typical human lifespan. But all of the approval procedures and ethics comittees would take so long to allow a human test, that he'd be long dead before then... unless he bypassed all of that and did it himself, with "borrowed" robot surgery and physiotherapy equipment, Just before he decided to do it, his granddaughter was watching The Avengers at his house. He saw Iron Man and thought why should be just walk, he could fly!

Occupation:

Scientist / Superhero

Mini Timeline:

1965: Born

1987: Car accident puts him in a wheelchair / gets married

1988: Daughter born

2011: Granddaugther born

2017: Becomes The Machine

Vehicles:

Volvo V70

Weapons:

Arm-mounted mini-rockets

Relations:

XXXX

Friends:

XXXX

Current Status:

Alive... ish? Living in Cambridge

Character Origin:

As blatantly acknowledged in the strip, he's an Iron Man ripoff... only using various promising advances in modern materials science.

Little Known Fact:

The stories will be more like British superheroes of the 60's to 80's, way more "grounded" than their American counterparts (except maybe Spider-Man).

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		Name: Graham Manders
		Story: The Machine
		Universe: Nu
		First seen in: The Machine part 1 - The Red Kite issue 1
		Age: 52
		Birthdate: 1965
		Birth Place: Cambridge
		Currently Lives: Cambridge
		Politics: Centre-left
		Kinsey Rating: 1
		Relationship: Married to XXXX
General Info:	Graham Manders is a proper Cantabrigian, he was born in the "town" but became "gown" when he passed his entrance exams to the city's historic university with flying colours. He went on to become a brilliant student in the emerging fields of cybernetics and robotics. Being from Cambridge, he also loved cycling... until 1987 when, close to the end of his university career, an accident left him unable to walk. Not letting that hold him back, Graham went on to become one of the principal investigators in the university's Department of Applied Cybernetics, and a world authority on the subject. He now had an extra reason to be interested - one day, cybernetics might allow him to walk, and cycle, again. Late one night, he found a sample of a fluid designed to preserve brain tissue indefinitely was actually still working perfectly, though it had somehow been discarded as a failiure by the other scientists. Graham realised he could transfer a brain into a robotic body and theoretically keep it alive far beyond a typical human lifespan. But all of the approval procedures and ethics comittees would take so long to allow a human test, that he'd be long dead before then... unless he bypassed all of that and did it himself, with "borrowed" robot surgery and physiotherapy equipment, Just before he decided to do it, his granddaughter was watching The Avengers at his house. He saw Iron Man and thought why should be just walk, he could fly!
Occupation:	Scientist / Superhero
Mini Timeline:	1965: Born 1987: Car accident puts him in a wheelchair / gets married 1988: Daughter born 2011: Granddaugther born 2017: Becomes The Machine
Vehicles:	Volvo V70
Weapons:	Arm-mounted mini-rockets
Relations:	XXXX
Friends:	XXXX
Current Status:	Alive... ish? Living in Cambridge
Character Origin:	As blatantly acknowledged in the strip, he's an Iron Man ripoff... only using various promising advances in modern materials science.
Little Known Fact:	The stories will be more like British superheroes of the 60's to 80's, way more "grounded" than their American counterparts (except maybe Spider-Man).