[b]Name[/b]: Dr. Rodney McNivens

[b]Alias[/b]: Cagehead

[b]Gender[/b]: Male

[b]Alignment[/b]: Helios

Skills: Considerably intelligent. Capable of calculating complex equations in his head, fluent in several languages (Latin, French, Arabic, German). Tested positive for a mild psionic presence, although he barely registers more than a standard deviation above normal. Can see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

[b]Powers[/b]: Technically none, although his research has led to the creation of several rather interesting devices that help make up for it.

[b]Equipment[/b]: His ever-present clipboard that he's constantly writing on. His attaché multitude of testing devices, including a scanner designed to read ambient energy sources, his laptop, and his Cerebral Amplification Generation Engine. Pocket watch. Phone.

[b]Personality[/b]: Stern and unforgiving. Dr. McNivens is a hard man, one who does not tolerate waste or frivolity. He's rather obsessed with his work, and considers himself a visionary in what he refers to as the field of "Quantum Esoteric Field Testing". Actually doesn't care much for Helios, but he's more than willing to work with them if they provide the funding he needs. He is not a people person. He's claimed that humanity as a whole has been dragging its feet, and he's determined to push mankind forward into a new age of enlightenment and understanding. Considers most people who aren't himself to be an idiot and wasting his time.

[b]History[/b]: Rodney McNivens had a rather interesting childhood. After getting perfect marks throughout school, he accelerated through academia, although he was often chastized numerous times for refusing to pay attention in class and taking his projects in odd directions. Tended to stargaze quite a bit as he was growing up. Applied for a number of research grants after finishing his education, most of which were denied under grounds of being "nonsensical", "incoherent", or in one case "batshit fucking crazy". 

Finally, after three dozen different labs rejected him, he was accepted into Helios. While the main research branches in the corporation didn't want anything to do with the visionary, he was eventually admitted into one of the more esoteric laboratories, the Fennerman Special Research Group. While The Fennerman Group wasn't the most popular or well-organized research group, its study with experimental and bizarre subjects fit Dr. McNivens perfectly.

Dr. McNivens rose through the ranks of the Fennerman Group fast, eventually rising to the position of top researcher. His iron fist tendencies has set him up in almost direct control of the small research laboratory, and while the subjects it studied were considered odd at first, he took them entirely off the rails, determined to break the pitiful bonds of human understanding and destroy the preconceived notions of Euclidean physics. Thanks to his Cerebral Amplification Generation Engine, he ended up with the  nickname of "Cagehead", although uttering this name out loud is grounds for immediate dismissal from The Fennerman Group.

[b]Appearance[/b]: Tall, thin, and straight-laced. Wears glasses that he tends to fiddle with. Slicked back hair, and tends to switch back and forth between a suit and his lab coat. Not a very athletic person.

[b]Other[/b]: The Fennerman Special Research Group isn't a very large or powerful institution. It mostly consists of Helios's side-projects, ones that might have some potential but are considered too "out there" to be given priority. While Dr. McNivens might travel quite a bit, the main headquarters for The Fennerman Group is located within the Skyreach Mountain Range, a perfect place to keep the more stranger projects out of sight. Both to provide the group with the privacy needed to work with their more delicate subjects, and to keep it out of the way of Helios's main focuses.