*Doctor Charles Gears; famed both for his unmatched contributions to the Foundation's goals and whims, and his lack of a startle response. Uncannily operating more like a machine, it was as if he carefully chooses his every word and glance; unaffected by any mayhem. For Gears, emotion was a distant memory- sacrificed on the altar of duty to safeguard reality itself. Is it true that no cost is too high, when that cost was one's humanity?* "We die in the dark, so that you may live in the light."