After an unidentified aircraft was shot down by the military in close vicinity to the Roswell air force base in June of 1947, the salvage crew found a small spacehip with the body of an obviously extraterrestrial humanoid being inside at the crash site. The corpse of the small, grey alien creature was immediately brought in a hush-hush operation to a secret underground facility beneath the Roswell air force base, where a team of scientist from different fields, under the direction of Dr. Hayden Creed, began to study the being from another world.
1963, still working on the alien after decades of groundbreaking scientific advances like the discovery of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Dr. Creed eventually managed to decipher the structure of the double helix and unlock the secrets of the genetic code of both human and alien and discovered that they are genetically related to 99.5%. He even managed to find the gene sequence responsible for the 0.5% difference which he dubbed the „Xenogene“. But when he wanted to start experiments on human beings, his work was shut down by his superiors and his research came to a sudden halt. Shortly after the disgruntled scientist vanished with all his research records.
Eleven years later, in 1974, he was found by the american soldier Ryan Murphy in the Song Be province of vietnam, where he worked on an experimental drug based on the „Xenogene“ in a secret chemical laboratory of the Viet Cong. Managing to escape, he again disappeared for several decades working in the underground under various fake identities where he eventually discovered that some of his human guinea pigs had the extraterrastrial Xenogene sequence embedded in their own genetic code. But his secret experiments didn‘t remain undetected and in 2010 – now already 95 years old but still fit as a fiddle – he was finally captured by the military and brought back to Area Zero, where he continued his research under ward by the United States.
When two years later the alien „Harvesters“ attacked earth, Dr. Creed played an essential role in the outcome of the following war, by managing to activate the dormant Xenogene in several human test subjects which subsequently developed superhuman abilities. Using the chaos following a Harvester attack on Area Zero shortly after, Dr. Creed once again managed to escape and, after using his research to alter his own physical evolution, later resurfaced as the „Evolver“ – a megalomaniac who is obsessed with the idea of using the „Xenogene“ as a source to perfect the evolution of the entire human race and every other species indigenous to earth …
Powers/Abilities:
The Evolver possesses the ability to control the evolution of his own body and make it circumstantial, which allows him to adapt his extremely malleable physiology to any situation by adjusting his body to his environment. As a byproduct of this, he‘s in fact immortal and can survive indefinitely in harsh conditions and/or without water or nourishment. Having also evolved his own brain to its full potential, he has virtually unlimited knowledge and intellectual ability, especially relating to genetics and bio-engineering.
