Professor Haywire

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Professor Haywire was a supervillian operating out of Madison, Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}.

Abilities and Personality

Professor Haywire was a Tinker specializing in "interdimensional tech". Besides the general tinker-tech creations of power suits and lszer rifles that he would outfit himself and his minions with whenever he needed to secure the funds and materials needed for his experiments. Haywire also created things like 'tag' ammunition that temporarily shunted the victim into another reality, along with ammunition that could sink into one reality to get around a obstacle and surface in the datum reality to strike it's target.Some of his enduring creations where viewing lenses to see what was occurring in other realities, and multidimensional portals that could be used to travel between realities.<ref name="R1">Interdimensional tech. Multidimensional projectiles, guns that fired 'tags' that shunted people into other realities for a time, created doors between realities, a lens that could be tuned (like a radio station) to peer into different realities. He could also build basic tinker stuff (power armor, ray guns) - All of this came with costs - the inter-reality stuff was expensive to build, and all the while, he had to endure multiple personalities. Not so much one head with different personalities taking turns, but three conjoined (in a manner of speaking - they were connected between realities, not physically) heads with constant communication between. A little crazed as a consequence. Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Because of his powers he was in constant communication with two other versions of himself on alternate earths, this presumably helped him to set up much of his inter-dimensional tech in the first place. His behavior was further influenced by his Passenger, forcing him to take risks and nduce conflict where he may have been content to stay in a lab.<ref name="R2">Keep in mind, also, that the shards aren't inclined to let people sit around and spend months of time working on side projects without getting any dose of conflict. What happens is you get Spheres and Professor Haywires and Leets. Wildbow agian on Reddit</ref>

History

Background

Professor Haywire tore a hole between realities sometime before 1988. He was stopped from completing his plans.<ref>Interlude 15.z</ref>

He died sometime well over two years before the story started.<ref name="17.6"/>

Legacy

The hole between realities that Professor Haywire created led Earth-Bet to discover Earth-Aleph. It also allowed the two alternate earths to communicate with one another. It also almost sparked a war.<ref name="17.3c2">Explanation isn’t in story, but I’ve given it before. Bet’s and Aleph’s residents almost came to war, over fear of what would happen if one earth tried to prey on the other for resources. Bet had more firepower. Major players in Bet (some who’ve been named already) offered concessions, and taking the name ‘bet’ was one of several symbolic measures.Comment by Wildbow on Migration 17.3</ref> Thankfully several agreements between the politicalentiees of the earths prevented this.<ref name="19.7">“There’s sanctions, treaties, truces. If you open this hole to Earth Aleph, it could mean a war between universes.”Scourge 19.7</ref>

However the Hole was largely restricted to allowing the transmittion of data through radiowaves.<ref name="17.3c1">Mostly radio waves, but there’s also an exchange of media and regular transmissions of news and data (mainly but not wholly) for research which is how Alec was able to get his hands on DvDs from the other world. Comment by Wildbow on Migration 17.3</ref> Besides research, media was one of the few things that could be traded back and forth through the hole - leading to the trade of books, movies and DVDs of TV shows.<ref name="3.4">Agitation 3.4</ref>

The Simurgh would later access a vault containing Professor Haywire's technology before creating large-scale versions of it. The Simurgh used this technology to create two gateways - one between Earth-Aleph and Earth-Bet and one between a part of Cauldron's research facility and Earth-Bet. The portal had dumped the buildings, soil, plant life and all the residents into Madison, Wisconsin.<ref name="17.6">A vault holding the equipment of now-deceased supervillain ‘Professor Haywire’ was accessed by the Simurgh. Migration 17.6</ref>

This set up a series of events that would impact the world for years to come.

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