Wayland Williams III

Wayland Williams III

Ship : The Airship Nox

Title : weaponer

Age : 30

Race : (If applicable)

Homeworld : an alternate Earth.

Hometown : Alabama

Date of Birth : September 15th, 1832

Personality:
A gracious southern gentleman, always polite, even when he’s insulting you. Not quite sane – he focuses on his work sometimes to the exclusion of all else – like eating and sleeping. Has an opinion on everything and is not afraid to share it.

Biography:
Born in 1832 to an industrialist family from Mississippi, Wayland grew up privileged and receiving the best education his parents could give him. When the South seceded and war broke out, Wayland couldn’t have cared less. He didn’t care about the politics or the reasons behind the war, the only thing that held his interest was invention and creation of new things. Wayland discovered that he had a talent for creating weapons that were just plain better than the ones currently in use. Trying to push the envelope and create better weapons, he funded his projects by selling what he had created to whoever wanted it. This gave him a reputation as an iron monger and war profiteer. However, Wayland’s true inspirations did not hit him until 1863. The massacre at Gettysburg when Union and Confederate forces fell, not to fighting each other, but to the horrors unleashed by the great ghost dance, the red man’s revenge against all that the white man had done, and the world was changed forever because of it. New fuel was discovered and science seemed to explode outward as a result. As a result of this, Wayland’s own ideas became more fantastic and outlandish. He made an oath to use this new inspiration to change the world. Unfortunately his creative focus was still on inventing new weapons. It wasn’t until a near death mishap that also killed his assistant during a weapon firing test that he began to broaden his own creative view. Once again, vowing to make something that would change the world for the better, Wayland secluded himself and began work. His first design, however, would be his last…on his world. In an experiment to create a point to point system of travel, he yanked himself out of his own dimension and landed rather roughly on the Airship Nox. After some additional mishaps and a very brief and tense moment, Wayland and Captain Perrin of the Nox reached an amiable understanding. Wayland has since then worked hard aboard the Airship Nox. In the process discovering, much to his own surprise, that though he is an industrialist and an inventor by nature, he is an adventurer at heart.