Leo Caine had always been a bit peculiar; obsessive, impulsive and very suspicious of anyone asking about his work and personal life. At a young age these traits showed themselves in strange ways; obsessively repeating activities until he had mastered them completely and a refusal to play with anyone else.
His parents worried, but as he grew older his tendencies seemed to grow less and soon they put them out of mind. He did well at anything he put his mind too, not because of great intelligence or skill, but because of his unrelenting urge to try until he succeeded.
He finished schooling with top grades, and with no urge to start a specific career he joined the military. A few months of training proved he wasn’t suited to standard combat situations, his suspicion of even his team members causing him to attempt to operate alone and complete the training exercises by himself. The military believed he still held potential and sent him to work in weapons research and development.
The job proved to be exactly what Leo wanted, the careful calculations and endless testing appealing to his obsessive nature. Several years of weapons development passed and Leo was promoted in rank and put in charge of increasingly large and important development projects and he soon gained a reputation for excellent weapon design and manufacturing, his endless testing stamping out defects and inefficient components.
His streak of good fortune was not too last. As more and more people became interested in his work and questioned him about his techniques his suspicion and paranoia increased. Soon he would only work alone and refused contact with anyone else.
Dark suspicions crowded his mind, the military wanted his secrets, they wanted his weapons, they wanted his ideas, they were always watching him and they couldn’t be trusted. Eventually his paranoia climaxed and he broke into secured military data banks using weapons of his own invention to bypass and disable the security, intent on finding out why they wanted him.
Before he could get the information he wanted a fast response military force descended upon him and he was instantly detained. Such a valuable mind couldn’t be wasted, so he was sent to the Kali-Ma, where he wouldn’t be able to cause any trouble, and from where they could easily find and use him when he was deemed sane enough.
Very suspicious of anyone he doesn’t know, Leo is a skilled weapons-maker, and naturally a practised shot with both E-Mag and Laser weaponry as he primarily tests the weapons he makes himself.
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