Frederick Statcher

Statcher was a former Nazi scientist during World War 2. The Enneagram Alliance had been helping to fight against the Nazis in the war, and he had been witness to some of their actions. With the knowledge that magic existed, he was interested and sought to research it further, with the added intention of benefitting the Nazi cause. However, all his attempts were stifled as he found nothing but ridicule among his colleagues and was unable to obtain any funding. When the war was ending and Germany looked sure to lose, like many of his fellows he sought to defect to America. However, unlike his fellows, he was unsuccesful and was captured by the British. While being transported to a prison camp the convoy was attacked and he was believed to have been killed. However, he actually escaped and went into hiding.   He was discovered years later by members of the early incarnation of ORCHESTRA. With his eagerness to research magic scientifically and his contempt of it generally, as he knew they had fought against his side, he was the perfect person to recruit for the organisation's rather hollow science division. He stayed with the organisation throughout their early periods but made few discoveries, with most intel the organsation had on the nature of magic being stolen from the Enneagram Alliance. However, Statcher was eventually able to figure out that magic worked at an atomic level and was linked to the element carbon.   Eventually, with the gradual improvements of particle acceleratiors in the mid-twentieth century, ORCHESTRA managed to arrange for him to have brief access to one in Germany to perform experiments. In these experiments, Statcher was able to observe magically-excited carbon atoms, and saw that they appeared to gain energy and mass from nowhere. Despite the briefness of these experiments, he was able to use the data to predict the existence of the stem particle. He spent the next few years creating the first theories on how the particle worked, it's properties, and how magic was built off it. While there were still many things left to explain, and as of yet no concrete use for this information to ORCHESTRA, it was something the Enneagram Alliance did not know and the starting point for the organisation's 'science of magic' which would eventually help them achieve victory over the magical world.