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Jacob Krigstein (bio)
"You can't kill a man for trying to save the human race from Nutrasweet, Pokemon and Governor George W. Bush."Real Name: Dr. Jacob Krigstein
First Appearance: The Authority Vol 1 #13
Affiliation: The Authority
Vital Stats
Species: Human
Height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Date of Birth: unknown
Birthplace: unknown
Known Family: none
Powers/Abilities:
Though Krigstein possesses no abilities himself, his uncanny genius can turn any man into a super-human with astonishing powers.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio:
Jacob Krigstein was a gifted creative intellectual and was hired by then-President Dwight Eisenhower to work for the American government in creating and training super-soldiers during the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union responded in kind, creating a shadow arms race. Thus, many superpowerd soldiers were trained and formed to protect and defend every major city in the United States. After the closing end of the Cold War, many of Krigstein's super-humans were deactivated around the same time both Cold War combatants disarmed their nuclear missiles. However, Krigstein see the long-term problems of the aftermath of the Cold War: capitalism left unchecked would become bloated and unworkable, and like communism, it would cause the world to fall into chaos and anarchy. Krigstein then drafted a survival plan for the future and presented it to President George H. W. Bush. However, Krigstein's plan was based on a utopia enforced by superhumans and a society designed entirely to his specifications, and the Bush Administration dismissed Krigstein as a crank. During the night of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Krigstein disappeared along with obtaining secret bank accounts, the remaining super-soldiers, and the codes for all five invisible U.S. hangers. After his disappearance, Krigstein spent ten years in fine-tuning his plans and creating new "super-characters" unlike anything mankind has ever seen before.
By the early 21st-century, Krigstein, commanding in his secret hanger in New York City, resurfaced and was perturbed by the Authority's way of handling the world, such as their recent actions in overthrowing a dictatorship in Southeast Asia and causing an economic crisis in that region. Having acknowledge the birth of the spirit of the 21st century, Jenny Quantum, Krigstein ordered his team, the Americans, to kill the baby. However, when Jenny Quantum unnaturally showed her powers in defending herself against the Americans, Krigstein sees vast opportunity in having the baby then orders the Americans in capturing her, in which they succeeded after losing their numbers to the Authority. With the Authority searching for him, Krigstein then unleash his plan of having his new trained and created armies of super-humans in attacking and invading every major cities and capitals on Earth. However, the Authority and every superheroes on Earth battled Krigstein's super-soldiers and having put on a stalemate. Krigstein is then confronted by Swift who then reason with him in stopping the hostilities, and offers him membership into the Authority to enable him to express his works and plans for helping people, in which Krigstein at first disbelieve of it and then eventually accepted it. After taking Swift's offering and advices, Krigstein established New Indonesia and apparently helped solved Southeast Asia's economic problem.
When the Authority were incapacitated by Seth Cowie and being replaced by the G-7 nations sponsored Authority (G-7 Authority), Krigstein was unofficially booted off of the original team and has been taken his living in Southeast Asia. Embittered with the "cheap knock-offs" of the new Authority, Krigstein had attempted to send his superpowered creations against the new Authority, in which the battle(s) remain inconclusive. However, when the G-7 Authority has all been slain by Midnighter and Apollo, Krigstein remains off the team ever since, though the Authority's Carrier still holds some of Krigstein's odd "experiments" and tech in his former quarters.
Due to the leading events of the Number of the Beast, Jacob Krigstein's "unorthodox" notes were put to use by the American government into cloning the remains of the High into super-soldiers. However, the initial experiments were very unsuccessful and scores of failed 'projects' were buried in mass graves, in which some still remain undiscovered. Eventually the United States Army Corps of Engineers manage to created a whole partheno-genetic division devoted entirely on the High, known as the "Reaper Initiative". This initiative successfully manage to create a series of High clones which were controlled by neural inhibitors and were dubbed "Reapers". In the result of the events of the Number of the Beast, the Reapers went out of control and ultimately cause a extinction level event on Earth, in creating a nuclear fallout and severe environmental changes to the planet.
Trivia:
- Dr. Krigstein was created by Mark Millar & Frank Quitely.
Appearances:
- The Authority Vol 1 #13, #14, #15, #16, #24
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