John Clarke

Appearance and Personality
A young, upbeat inventor of household devices. Not all of his machines work as intended, but when they do, they're the talk of the town. His work as a repairman allowed him to run quite a successful workshop. His father was a humble watchmaker who passed this craft on to his son. He has been living in Milton Station and has been married to Catherine Clarke for a few years. Often times he's quite paranoid.

Story
John was approached by Abraham Arkwright years ago to design a non-lethal restraining weapon that channels electricity to apprehend criminals. His work was so brilliant that a few months later, Arkwright approached him to develop a device that could remotely immunize those plagued with The Hunger. The result of John's invention was a success, but in meeting with the Arkwright and Nicholas Vorherr, John began to question the true mandate of the project.

He begun to fear that his completed prototype was going to be reverse engineered and produced as a weapon. When the time came to hand it over, he didn't comply. He instead planned to leave on the S.S. Providence with Catherine and take the machine with him, thus keeping it out of the hands of those who would weaponize it.

Vorherr recieved word from Calvin Todd (a member of the Bureau of Security and Intellegence) that John was planning on leaving. Vorherr takes this as his chance to make the John's machine "dissappear" and into his own pocket. Himself, Todd, and Frommholtz show up one rainy night to talk to John. He refuses to let them have it, and so they take it and kill John.

The following day, his murder is investigated. Abraham Arkwright hears word of this and once he finds that the machine has been stolen, he arranges the situation to be covered up and John's body cremated. His ashes are then given to Catherine as she takes his remains to the new world on the S.S. Providence.

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