Bob Page

"Everybody knows that Bob Page is the world's richest man. And, well, that's about all everybody knows. Oh sure, there are the biographies, official and unauthorized. There are the daily news reports of meetings with presidents and prime ministers, the announcements that can send the market soaring or reeling. There are rumors, hundreds of them every day. But nobody knows who Bob Page really is or what he really wants. The most important thing about Bob Page right at the moment is that his company is the only source of the plague vaccine known as "Ambrosia." Page says he's producing as much as he can and more is on the way, but for now Ambrosia remains a privilege of the rich, powerful and connected."

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Bob Page is a wealthy philanthropist, the founder and owner of Page Industries, and a member of the Illuminati. By 2052, he left the Illuminati and founded and became the co-leader of the Majestic-12 with Walton Simons, and is one of the most powerful men throughout the world.

Early life
Bob Page was a special protégé to Illuminati leader Morgan Everett. Although Page was a good student, he was also impatient and short-tempered. In 2027, Bob Page participates to a secret conference of people while discussing Montreal, the Biochips, Neuropozyne recall, the LIMB clinics and Megan Reed's discovery. Sometime later in the same year, Bob Page discussed the Morpheus initiative with Morgan Everett, and with Megan Reed about the chimera nanite virus.

After the Morpheus project, Page and Everett developed Daedalus, an AI program that would help the Illuminati keep track of and control the new communication technologies. The duo also started a project trying to improve the augmentation of nano-technology that Majestic-12 would eventually turn into the Gray Death virus. Page was a major power behind the push for nanotechnology, and was a part of the enhancement project that JC Denton and Paul Denton went through.

Page grew impatient with Everett's unwillingness to use the technology and the Illuminati's slow, gentle ways, and rebelled by leading Majestic-12 in a coup that saw The Knights Templar obliterated and the whole of the Illuminati infrastructure taken over by Page and his allies. The final blow to the Illuminati was when Page gained almost total control of the information infrastructure through the Aquinas System at Area 51 and the Daedalus A.I., thereby making it unsafe for the Illuminati to communicate over the Internet and instead forcing them to communicate by other means.

Wanting to become god
In 2052, publically, Bob Page is the richest man on Earth; a trillionaire and head of the massive Page Industries, Page likes to groom his image in the public eye as a great philanthropist by donating millions of credits to the needy. In secret, however, he schemes to plunge the world into chaos in order to promote the conditions that will allow him to create the perfect world of his visions.

Bob Page plans to perfect the use of nanotechnological augumentations through the Denton brothers and Walton Simons so that he could use the perfected version on himself. Instead of turning him into something akin to a super-soldier, Page's modifications would allow him to link himself to the Aquinas Router (which monitored all communication technologies on earth) and then merge with the Helios A.I. He would then unite his system with a series of Universal Constructors, which would allow him to physically create anything he desired on a near-infinite level. With this completed, Page would be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful; essentially, he would be God.

Behind the Scenes

 * One of Bob Page's greatest personal heroes is Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. According to Thomas Aquinas's theories about god, once Bob would merge himself with the Aquinas Router, Page would become what the Catholic Chruch believes god to be, with the exception of whereas god's world consists of flesh, emotions and belief, Page's world would consist of machine, logic, and information.

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