Gustaf Beitz

Hans Gustaf Beitz was a high-ranking Aesculapian and the coordinator of the Huang-Marr Biorg Project.

Biography

Beitz was one of the original partners in the Montressor Clinic; his insistence on keeping up the facility's previous plastic surgery business while the new practice was getting established ensured their ongoing financial solvency.[1][2] When Matthieu Zweidler became the majority stakeholder in the practice on Montressor's death, Beitz backed him against the other five doctors. Along with Pierce Monahan, he became the core of the clinic's leadership.[2] He also took over long-range planning tasks, the sort of thing Zweidler was personally uninterested in.[1]

In 2102, Beitz was one of the people Zweidler confided in regarding his "hallucination" prior to becoming the vitakinesis Proxy, and one of the first vitakinetics triggered in the formation of the Aesculapian Order.[3] Unlike Zweidler, Beitz found it entirely reasonable to make deals with Aberrants from time to time; know you enemy, and such.[4]

Beitz first became aware of the research of Abel Marr and Ella Huang shortly after an Aberrant attack on Tethys Station in 2117. Beitz immediately saw the potential of of their work, and brought them together with Celia Wu of Orgotek to establish the Biorg Project.[5] His position of power withing the Aesculapians allowed him to identify researchers with the flexible morality necessary to support the project and to secretly divert the resources it needed to operate invisibly, all right under Zweidler's nose.[6] He was also the one who suggested to Drs. Huang and Marr that the use taint in the matrix, prompting Wu to quit the project.[5]

Beitz communicated with the conspirators in the guise of "Minerva," and few actually knew his identity. When the Cantor Station Incident threatened to expose operations on Luna, "Minerva" ordered the lab at Beaulac Clinic shut down and the resources (including researchers) transferred away.[7] As the conspiracy unraveled, Beitz systematically transferred the most trust conspirators to Eyrie Station, and arranged for the rest to face unfortunate "accidents."[8] This included Heinrich Mangels, who was transferred to Basel under a pseudonym; Mangels, however, deduced Minerva's true identity, and threatened to expose Beitz if any harm came to him.[9]

When investigators from the Aeon Trinity came to Basel in search of the Huang-Marr conspirators, Beitz used a scheduled trip to Sao Paolo as cover to escape to Eyrie station himself.[10] He was killed in the Chromatic attack on the station.[11]

Name

Beitz is referred to as "Gustaf" throughout Descent into Darkness, but as "Hans" in Shattered Europe. "Hans Gustaf" would be in line with traditional naming patterns in German-speaking countries, where a Biblical name ("Hans" derives from the same origin as "John") is used as a first name, while the middle name is the name the person uses as a personal name.

References

  1. 1 2 TU: Darkness Revealed 2: Passage Through Shadow, p. 112
  2. 1 2 TU: Shattered Europe: Psi Order Æsculapian and Europe Sourcebook, p. 20
  3. ↑ TU: Shattered Europe: Psi Order Æsculapian and Europe Sourcebook, p. 21-22
  4. ↑ TU: Shattered Europe: Psi Order Æsculapian and Europe Sourcebook, p. 68
  5. 1 2 TU: Darkness Revealed 2: Passage Through Shadow, p. 15
  6. ↑ TU: Shattered Europe: Psi Order Æsculapian and Europe Sourcebook, p. 11
  7. ↑ TU: Darkness Revealed 1: Descent into Darkness, p. 28-30
  8. ↑ TU: Darkness Revealed 2: Passage Through Shadow, p. 29
  9. ↑ TU: Darkness Revealed 2: Passage Through Shadow, p. 30
  10. ↑ TU: Darkness Revealed 2: Passage Through Shadow, p. 38-39
  11. ↑ TU: Darkness Revealed 2: Passage Through Shadow, p. 102
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