You see me to be a timid person, but at heart I am very inquisitive and I believe that each person has to decide their purpose for existing. The most significant person to me is Dr. Ledgester because she was my teacher and only true friend and the space station I was raised on is a place that holds a special meaning to me. When I'm out in the universe, I always keep her scientific journal close at hand, as it gives me comfort to have it with me.
Test Subject Sigma began as a lower life form. A rat, selected at random from a litter of lab-bred, cage fed, and doomed to something greater and far also far worse than life as a simple street scavenger. Unknown, received a large sum of credits to conduct research on a promising newly discovered compound that could allow for very specific genetic modification. Head researcher Dr. Ifan Balak has assured shareholders that he has found the secret to unlocking almost any potential phenotype from rodent DNA and has put together an elite team of scientists to produce a new race of intelligent members of society that will bridge the gap between lower and higher life forms. What he didn’t tell them, was that his largest backer, Unknown, has placed an order for a very specific kind of life form: obedient and ruthless soldiers.
Most of his colleagues unaware, Dr. Ifan Balak has begun making soldiers with extraordinary abilities on his unusually large and intelligent test subjects. Test Subject Sigma, however, has fallen short of most desirable qualities in a soldier. He’s not very strong. He doesn’t always follow commands. He is hesitant to commit violence. He asks too many questions. Neuroscientist Dr. Correinne Ledgester, seeing this oddball test subject, takes him under her wing and protects him from “discardment,” much to the annoyance of Dr. Ifan Balak. Dr. Correinne Ledgester begins to notice that certain subjects go missing without proper explanation, and begins to suspect that Dr. Ifan Balak is not conducting research ethically, and perhaps has reasons that go beyond scientific betterment. She reports her concerns to the board of shareholders in hopes they will investigate where her attempts have been thwarted, but this decision backfires, as Unknown decides it’s time to cash in their investment and take what soldiers have been produced and “burn the evidence.”
On Unknown Research Station, TS Sigma has been learning at an incredible rate, and becoming a very apt research assistant to Dr. Correinne Ledgester in making bio-enhancement serums. Other test subjects, have been injected with nanites to give them abilities apt for combat, but Test Subject Kappa, has been a perfect fit for Dr. Balak’s designs. He obeys orders from Dr. Ifan Balak unquestioningly, and very aptly and coldly dispatched several of his fellow test subjects in secret arena test fights.
Soon after Dr. Correinne Ledgester’s report to the board, Unknown sends a force a mercenaries to seize the “usable assets.” The mercenaries board the station with no warning and begin executing witnesses and stealing data. One of the researchers manages to activate a station alarm and Sigma and Dr. Correinne Ledgester manage to hide in a shuttle bay and nearly escape, but the just before leaving Dr. Correinne Ledgester sees an opportunity to send video footage of the assault to the board of shareholders. Doing so costs her life, but she is able to send the message and jettison the escape pod that Sigma is in. Sigma escapes the research station, but to remain unseen, does not activate the pods engines for several hours. Upon activating the engines, he realizes the pod was leaking antimatter fluid and power is nearly dead. He has enough thrust to push him in a direction, but that’s all. He chooses a direction, activates the thrusters, and drifts, hoping he can find a place of refuge…