Prof. Zed
Professor Evron Zediker
They didn’t call Professor Zediker mad, at least, not at first; overzealous, certainly, irresponsible, even. His willingness to cut corners and ignore precautions made colleagues nervous, especially since some of the physics involved had the potential to collapse the universe, or at least draw the Earth into a super-black hole (theoretically). Zediker—“Professor Zed” as some called him—didn’t appear to care.
When an accident in the lab endowed a slacker night watchman with power over the very dimensional forces he sought to control, Professor Zed took advantage of the situation. He convinced the young man he would die unless he used his newfound powers to help Zed acquire certain components and materials, things the university wasn’t about to provide. Once he had all he needed, Zed vanished, leaving behind an empty lab and his “protege” to take the fall for him. The authorities put out an order for Zediker’s arrest, but it seemed likely he was far, far outside their jurisdiction.
So it was a surprise when a very different Professor Zed returned to Earth-Prime. He’d visited alternate timelines, some where technology was far more advanced, but many more where the Earth was a ruin and humanity was extinct. He’d plundered numerous worlds, looting their technology and information, and had insights into some of the things that were coming—and the dangers and opportunities they promised for Emerald City. It was a place unique amongst the dimensions in many regards, and Zed was not about to let opportunity slip through his fingers a second time. Professor Zed will secure the future of Emerald City, whether it wants his help or not.
Physical Description
Apparel & Accessories
A brilliant mind with considerable insight into quantum and dimensional physics, Professor Zed’s primary powers come from the advanced technology he has purloined from various realities. He wears a suit of adaptive nanotech, protecting him not only from hostile environments, but rendering him immune to any hazard or attack, once it has had an opportunity to analyze the threat. In essence, Zed can never be attacked the same way twice; by the time the second attack comes, his armor has already adapted and rendered him immune. The armor also negates gravity, allowing Zed to “walk” on air, enhances his physical abilities, and provides a suite of sensors and scanners.
Professor Zed wields a baton-like device he calls his “Zed Scepter” which contains dimensional control circuitry able to create temporary wormholes through the omniversal fabric. At the simplest level, he can use these portals to bring forth gouts of energy from other realities: heat, cold, electricity, radiation, and so forth, even geysers of matter, from water to plasma. The Zed Wave can also open portals to transport the Professor and others across space or into other dimensions.
Mental characteristics
Intellectual Characteristics
Always pompous, success and power have made Professor Zed extremely arrogant, bordering on megalomania. He feels his insights into the nature of reality and the potential futures of Earth-Prime make him uniquely suited to do whatever is necessary to take control and steer the world through the rocks and shoals threatening its course. He has always felt the intellectually superior should guide through reason and understanding, but now sees just how high the stakes are, having visited Earths ruined by short-sightedness and irrationality. There is no more time to coddle or concede to such forces in human society.
Ultimately, Professor Zed is a selfish manipulator interested solely in his own aggrandizement. He wants to be acknowledged as the greatest scientist in human history, and believes his discoveries will be placed on a timeline with man’s first uses of fire, the wheel, and language. He foresees a safe, controlled world under his guidance he can use as a home base for further explorations of the omniverse... all for the betterment of humanity, of course.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Professor Zed operates from Zero Point, a vast floating platform equipped with its own anti-gravity and Zed-wave engines, able to move between dimensions and serve as a hovering base. Zero Point is “staffed” by robots which maintain and operate its systems, although Professor Zed is also capable of recruiting crewmen from other realities, particularly those where civilization has collapsed and life as a dimensional raider is preferable to the daily struggle to survive.
Professor Zed’s desire to “protect” his home Earth means other would-be conquerors and dimensional raiders are potential rivals to eliminate before they become threats. Unless he can turn them into his allies (and betray and remove them at his leisure when they outlive their usefulness) Zed is likely to try and nip any potential rivalries in the bud.
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