It all began with the Tunguska Event.

A blue light appeared over Tunguska, in the Russian steppes. It slowly descended, too slow to be a comet fragment or meteor, yet when it touched down, it release a burst of energy that flattened the surrounding forest and carved out a small lake.

The initial search team didn't find what had fallen. It took a hundred and fifty years for scientific instruments to become tuned enough to detect the signals emerging from the Tunguska Crater.

The science team from Prometheus Labs in the multi-cultural city of Victoria Egypt, traveled there and unearthed a crystalline shard about the size of a coffin. Within they found genetic material unlike anything they had ever seen along with a mathematical cypher that contained detailed instructions on how to create a hybrid from the local, dominant species.

The humans were perplexed, but began to carry out the instructions under tightly controlled conditions. Alas, they found that through simulations, a zygote produced by the fusion would be unsustainable. It required additional genetic material to create a sustainable organism. Since they had already used the finest human samples they could find... Olympians, Astronauts, great orators, negotiators, business moguls, scientific masters and renowned artists, they took the best stock from what their simulations showed to be the most compatible lifeform on Earth...

Canis Lupus. The wolf.

The wolves of Yellowstone's Druid Pack were selected to donate material and a zygote was finally produced, living in a synthetic womb and developing.

As nine months passed, the scientists began to have strange dreams. Voices, like whispers in their heads started to pervade. They would dream of crystalline landscapes and towering structures that glittered under an alien sun. And dwelling among those crystals were beings that defied description.

The day came when the experimental zygote had matured enough to birth from the synthetic womb and the lab staff gathered around as the tiny creature they had created, this new life, opened ocean blue eyes for the first time.

No tears or screams, only joyeous laughter and smiles.

It was that moment that the staff knew they would never terminate the project.

They named him using a mishmash of Egyptian and Spanish.

Thus, did Zucca Xerfantes begin his first year of life out of countless years.

The other ninety-nine zygotes they had developed were kept in stasis while the hybrid infant grew to maturity. The CEO of the lab company had taken a deep fondness for the child and became the prominent father figure in his life while the lab staff became like aunts and uncles.

He grew, often sneaking out into the streets to wander the desert, explore, swim in the Nile or walk among the humans. People who interacted with him would act surprised when they were asked why they didn't react to such a strange creature walking about, but they insisted he looked perfectly normal to them.

The boy had been using what the science team determined were potent psionic powers to influence the minds of others so they wouldn't be alarmed.

His good nature kept him from more nefarious and dangerous uses of his power.

All was well until the day Alpha Centauri invaded Earth...

They had developed faster than light travel and had set their eyes on Earth for its resources and its territory.

These aliens were not the mysterious entities behind Zucca's origins. These were similar to humans. Easy to understand. Easy to fight.

All resources of Earth were called upon to fight this invasion.

And Prometheus Labs were no exception.

The militaries learned of Zucca's ability to influence minds and saw a silver bullet for the campaign against the invaders.

They took the fourteen year old child, training him in the art of war as well as infantry work and the most effective martial arts. They also extensively conditioned him, breaking him down and instilling in his mind certain rules. Always protect humanity, always do as humanity asks, and so on.

As labs reverse engineered captured Centauri starships to unlock the secrets of interstellar travel, the training and conditioning carried on.

He soaked in the information like a sponge and soon Earth's finest generals found themselves being upstaged as the hybrid studied battle information and drew upon the minds of all the strategists to create composite tactics.

Under his leadership, both in the trenches and behind the curtain, it was as if he knew where the Centauri would be before they did. The forces of Earth rapidly overwhelmed Centauri's defenses and Zucca stayed their hand after crippling their combat infrastructure, recalling Earth's forces, saying that they knew better than to attack again.

Not long after his victorious return, a twenty two year old Zucca was approached by one of the lab techs who had raised him.

She had an impossible task for him. Something he couldn't do as it contradicted his mental conditioning.

She wanted him to kill. He couldn't. But she was asking it of him.

He had a mental breakdown and in her enraged state, she attacked him.

His training kicked in and before he knew what he was doing, she lay dead at his feet.

And just like that, Earth's favorite hero had become a murderer.

Knowing they could do little to stop such a powerful psychic, humanity did the only thing it could.

They banished him.

He took a single starship and in his grief, unlocked a new ability.

The ability to travel between dimensions!

Thus began his endless journey. When he was sixty, he realized his body was not aging at all. It was around that time that he lost his arm, legs and some brain matter when he tried to save someone who couldn't be saved...

As traumatic as it was, which required him to learn to walk, talk and carry out basic tasks again, it undid the conditioning and he found himself an entirely new person.

Alas, as he journeyed, he found he could not bear children. His genetic code was too complicated and overengineered.

That is.... until the day The Traveler, in his five hundred and sixty-eight thousandth, four hundred and twenty-ninth year, was detected by the agents of SPEAR, in Azeria.

"Class Five psionic waveform detected."

The Traveler had come.