"I will, after all, have to be the one that carries us to Eternity."
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BASIC INFORMATION
FULL NAME: Retus Abyss
AGE: 1,001,825
BIRTHDATE: 16838-8-4 GE (-997,564 DUC)
SPECIES: Human (Grandhold)
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 201cm (6' 7.1")
JOB: Grandhold Administrator
SPECIALIZATIONS: N/A
ID NUMBER: 27dfc0-0d8012-16ddd3-a0e7de
ACCESS LEVEL: 5.0
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APPEARANCE
Retus is a very tall male Grandhold-Human with long white hair. He wears a white sweater, white pants, black shoes, black aviators, and the traditional Abyss jacket; a monotone purple jacket with one sleeve.
He is very extensively augmented; everything but the parts of his brain that have to do with his personality is replaced by metal. All of his cybernetics are hidden under his clothing.
His eyes have a white base, two-segmented blue iris, and black pupil.
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PERSONALITY
Retus has a warm, fatherly demeanour. He is also sociable, collected, and strong-willed. He cares deeply for his citizens.
He is aromantic and bisexual. In Grandhold terms, he is romantically null and sexually plural-dual.
As a Grandhold-Human, he has an emotional stress response; for him, it is righteous fury. He is resilient to extreme emotional stress.
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BACKSTORY
Retus Abyss is a former ruler of the Grandhold of Abyss, and the oldest surviving member of the Abyss bloodline. He is Epoch Abyss' direct predecessor - such obvious by his age of 999,820. He oversaw the late Age of Unity, gradually bringing the Grandhold deeper into its forming utopic serenity.
Eventually, age came for him. With only a few decades left to live, he gave birth to Epoch, who took the throne once Retus was satisified with his progress. He was narrowly saved from succumbing to age through the invention of universal clinical immortality. With Epoch already rightfully as Grandhold Administrator, Retus opted to live a much more quiet life from then on, pursuing game development - a dormant passion of his across this multi-thousand-year life. His near-million years of experience since then should be testament enough to how well that went.
Just like Epoch, he is the personification of the Grandhold ideology, albiet a slightly older iteration. He remembers the days where force had to be regrettably used to resolve some instances of unrest, so he carries deprecated parts of the ideology such as civil obedience.
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DIVERGENCE
Retus remained where he'd been for the past near-kilomillennium when the Great Collapse came; on the sidelines, only able to watch as his son put in his all to save the Grandhold from complete destruction. He is one of the few to remember just how far Epoch went in the name of survival.
Retus had been almost successfully evacuated from the galaxy when the evacuation ship he was stored in had been attacked by a Liondian planetcraft. The Horizon-class he was stored in survived, but it was unable to join the evacuation to Andromeda.
Two-thousand years later, Retus was recovered by a near-superpower UCP. He immediately took back the mantle of Grandhold Administrator once he learned of the current state of affairs.