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Adam (Kane)
Who, or perhaps more apply, what is Adam?
Despite knowing him more than two decades, and making careful investigations of every possible source of information about him, Adam remains a mystery. From available records, he seems to materialize one autumn day in 1971 at Stanford, sliderule clipped to his belt. (Not a guess on my part, but an actual recollection from a classmate who recalls seeing him wear a sliderule until acquiring one of the bulky early calculators sometime early in 1972. This was the ‘style’ among serious geeks of the time.)
The story persists that Adam lived with Breedlove and Singer as a child. There are no first person accounts, photographs, or school records to substantiate this story, but with Adam, most anything is possible. This would explain Adam’s special relationship with them both, and Paul Breedlove’s willingness to cover almost any of Adam’s crimes.
Curiously, during the time I knew him, Adam never once mentioned his childhood or parents.
After years of financial irregularities (well into 8 figures) and the diversion of controlled substances from the Genomex infirmary, Adam left the company after a particularly heated argument with Paul Breedlove in 1998. Amusingly, Adam now describes this as an “escape”, but all he did was walk out the door, drive away, and leave his keycard with the security guard on the drive out. Adam was never one to let the simple truth get in the way of personal drama.
Shortly thereafter, stories reached Genomex that Adam had some kind of bunker in the hills, and that he had put together a kind of gang that he called Mutant X. This was the first Mutant X ‘team’; there were others, each unaware of the previous members killed while serving Adam on ‘missions’. Adam carefully selected individuals with few ties to the outside world, preferably from dysfunctional families. He set himself up as a father figure and created a kind of family for them; their loyalties would be to Adam and each other.
For a detailed discussion of Adam’s cult-like Mutant X teams, refer to Agent Hoelzel’s enlightening report at http://www.masonesque.net/html/daddy.html.
The loyalty Adam inspires from Genomex mutants is truly amazing when one considers that he is the person responsible for creating their problems, and creation of the two devices, the subdermal governors and stasis pods, that he paints as the bane of their existence—as peculiarly mine, which they are not.
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