gammon krüze

 

Gammon Krüze (aka Nicholas Toland) is thirty-two years old and has spent the last four years of his life behind the walls of San Quentin. He is a physically powerful and imposing man with cold grey eyes and a shaven head criss-crossed with scars. Numerous scars also mark his hypertrophic musculature, the result of too many yard fights and self-inflicted surgery.

Krüze is the adopted son of noted Marin-County therapist Gregory Toland and was himself diagnosed with autism at an early age. After a lengthy stay at his father's retreat and numerous sessions with the Nexus Interface, he was able to interact with normal human society. Unfortunately, he was ill-prepared for this and soon developed into a violent young man with delusions about alien conspiracies, secret military experiments and an obsession with occult sciences that mutated into a bizarre cult called Cybermancy. He left his home and never saw his father again.

 

After attracting numerous followers, Krüze and his cult embarked on a year-long spree of mayhem, culminating in the bombing of a medical research building in which 72 people (staff and patients) lost their lives. A lengthy stand-off with police anded in his capture and subsequent life sentence (the death penalty was considered but ultimately the court ruled against such a sentence, much to the anger of the general public).

 

Krüze killed a fellow inmate shortly after his imprisonment and was moved to solitary confinement. The killing was declared an act of self-defense and aside from some fights, Krüze was considered a model prisoner. He began reading voraciously and started a kenjitsu dojo within the prison (of course, the group was not allowed real weapons...instead, Krüze relied on visualized swords, kata, discipline and observance of etiquette). After a year, with many members lost due to death, release or attrition, Krüze and his remaining adherents were a well-organized, disciplined group of warriors (as they referred to themselves) and took to defending weaker inmates from the more violent prisoners and brutal guards.

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