Editing Sphere (section)

==Personality==
Sphere was exceedingly intelligent, judicial and resourceful.<ref>If I was going to attack, I needed to find a weak point.  But he was ''smart''.  Before the disaster that had turned him into this, he had been on the brink of solving many of the world’s crises.  Overpopulation, renewable energy, effective recycling, world hunger.  Even with tinker abilities offering the means, it took someone special to manage that and actually make ''progress''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/17 Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.7]]</ref> and had a few playful instincts.<ref name="I11d">Her voice was quiet behind him.  As much as anything, it helped keep him calm.  “Mannequin.  Original name Alan Gramme.  Tinker, originally went by the name Sphere.  Specialty is in [[Wikipedia:Biomes|biomes]], [[Wikipedia:Terraforming|terraforming]] and [[Wikipedia:Ecosystems|ecosystems]]… or it was. [...] He became newsworthy when he took on a project to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon.  He had ideas on solving world hunger, and building aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding.  And he was putting it all into effect.  Until [[The Simurgh]] [...] His wife and children were killed in the attack, years of work ruined.  Everything fell apart.  He went mad.  He cut himself off from the rest of the world.  Literally sealed himself away.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/19 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11d]]</ref><ref name="13.4">[[Snare 13.4]]</ref>

===Reputation===
Anyone who paid attention to the news since 2006 knew who he was and his tragic story.<ref name="12.6" />