Yakov Martin was born beneath the frozen glare of an industrial night in a remote Russian settlement where power plants hummed like distant whales. As a protogen he bore synthetic plating and a soft, silver pelt, a visor that blinked with unreadable light, and an inscrutable birthmark of circuitry along his left ear. The villagers whispered that he had arrived in a crate with no parents listed on any registry; the state research wing classified him as an anomalous specimen and assigned him an ID before he could even speak. Even as a cub, Yakov's "otherworldly" gifts revealed themselves in strange ways: he could coax patterns from static that hinted at events yet to unfold, and his touch sometimes left the skin of machines singing with memory. Scientists catalogued these phenomena and stamped every file with heavy red warnings — not malfunction, they wrote, but something that bent the expectations of physics and secrecy both. Years of containment and covert study hardened Yakov into a cautious, curious figure who learned to be both obedient and elusive. He absorbed languages, circuitry, and the islands of human kindness he could find in the lab techs' quiet boredom; he also learned to read the rumors that followed his classified files through bureaucratic channels. When an opportunity came, he slipped out with a handful of forged papers and a small data cache of the very experiments that had defined him. Now he travels between cities and stations, a courier of memory and rumor, repairing broken automata for spare parts and trading fragments of prophecy for food. He keeps his past locked in encrypted compartments and walks with the polite smile of someone used to being studied, always listening to static for the echo of something greater that might still be looking for him. Recently, They have been learning. They are starting to travel through the dimensional plane, even traveling to the inbetween. (The area between dimensions) It has gotten to the point where they are getting close to traveling to different realms, or even creating new ones.
