03 - Rodrigo

Profile Radio:

Adrian Hildegarde is a first generation, in-situ grown Martian.  He lived in the Margaritifer Terra  Dome for 42 years and earned 14 advanced degrees in subjects ranging from Mathematics to Engineering to Politics.  At age 37 Adrian developed Alzheimer's disease.  He was relocated to the nearby Ares Vallis Dome and was treated in the Ares Vallis Hospital.  The treatment was unsuccessful and he was denied bio-cycle on the grounds that his memory was sufficiently deteriorated.

Adrian did not give up a hope for a cure.  Instead he began to work at first independently, and eventually in a small team with other like minded Martians to reverse his condition.  In a strange turn of events, Adrian's obsession and tireless work finding a cure busied his mind enough to slow, and in some cases reclaim some of his lost memories.  For three years Adrian collected data, however the results of his self-conducted and unsanctioned tests were not accepted by the medical staff at the Department of Welfare (DoW).  According to the DoW, Adrian was still mentally degenerative, albeit selectively, and he was further denied treatment.

At this point records and close friends indicate that Adrian became "unhinged" and he began a downward spiral into dementia.  He stopped his daily functions as a Citizen and secluded himself in his residence.  Two months following Adrian's seclusion he disappeared and the DoW closed his public record.

The details of Adrian's escape from the dome are mysterious however in the classified DoW database his record continues.  Adrian reappears living in the wilderness referring to himself as Radio, denying his previous identity.  Radio quickly began putting his efforts into communications monitoring and drew the attention of some of the Dome's senior officials.  Radio's ability to tap into communications systems and databases astonished the Department of Security.  Director Kahn was one of the officials who took notice of Radio's actions.  Kahn took it upon herself to monitor Radio. Kahn reverse-engineered Radio's own techniques against him, and eventually Kahn was able to cipher his advances.  Quickly Kahn took the upper hand and Radio was shut out of Dome's databases and communications.

Kahn and the the Department of Security learned from Radio's breach and tightened up their systems.  Radio was given restricted access and Kahn continued to monitor his activities to learn more about potential flaws in the system.  Seven years have passed and Radio has made little to no effort to breach the Dome's systems.  Instead he merely monitors the few channels that Kahn allows him access to.

Flash forward to the present: Radio has promised to hack a live feed between Rodrigo and Director Kahn and broadcast it to the Dome's public.  In exchange for his service he expects Rodrigo to provide him a new body by bio-cycling him into a vessel using the salvaged transfer pods from the relay station.

Radio's mental state is questionable however he does seem lucid enough to understand the implications of being able to bio-cycle himself with the help from Rodrigo.  It is unclear whether bio-cycling will reverse or cure Radio's condition.  At the same time, keeping busy mentally seems to have minimized the effects of Alzheimer's for him thus far.  Perhaps providing Radio with a clone of himself will speed his recovery, or at least provide him more manpower to find a cure.