ENOCH's Plotlines

Humanity? Bah!
Nathan Levinson's personal goal is abandoning his physical form for a series of Environmentally Neutral Cybernetic Hosts. The current ENOCH body is a shadow of his ultimate goal. Please understand that Levinson isn't a bad man, but isn't exactly a good one. The people and institutions in his life are merely a means to his ultimate goal. He works with the Host because of the funding and expertise they provide.
    The project's earliest stages involved driving a car mentally from within his laboratory. The one of Levinson's grad students 'drove' the car in the race, just because the officials needed a body in the car to allay suspicion. The student panicked and wrested control of the car, sending it into a skid that cost him his life. The incident left a pall across Levinson's career, costing him his original funding. He later worked with Michael Rosen, another scientist with similar dreams, but Rosen and Levinson came to a difference of opinion, and Rosen vanished with copies of much of their research, taking off to Trans Bialka. Currently Levinson is working at the University of Indiana, splitting his time between there and the Host's LA headquarters.
    Over the course of City of Angels, several people try and make Nathan realize the importance of his central humanity, from Lazarus Murdoch to Istanbul Smith to Janice, his Teaching and Lab assistant at UI. Janice has even discovered the nature of the Host equipment, but none have gotten Nathan to abandon his dream. Still, his contact with the human race is increasing. Given that he recently locked himself in his lab to rebuild the ENOCH body for the upcoming alien invasion, it is unclear how much his humanity will mean to him in the end.

The Sky is Falling
Upon discovering that there was a credible alien threat to the planet Levinson threw himself into analyzing their technology and finding ways to defeat them. This has led over the year to the development of an extensive network of scientists and inventors who Levinson swayed with the force of his evidence, even if he can't reveal that evidence's origins. Much of this research is involving the matter transmission technology.
    This is an obsession almost as great as his dreams for abandoning his body. Eventually, it drives him to lock himself in his lab full time, designing weapons and technologies for use against the aliens, and convincing others of his passion and sanity.

The Black Rose
Michael Rosen, Levinson's former partner in the ENOCH project, took his dream in a different way, mastering the art of 'netrunning' through cybernetic enhancements. These enhancements originated in Trans-Bialka, home of the Nazi cybernetic experiments, the Übermensch projects, and vampires. Once Rosen had the cyberware working at entered Levinson's files, looking for technological innovations he could steal. Instead, he found the basic information on Plovian Matter Transmission technology. Hypnotizing Janice through the computer screen, he has her send him the files.
    Nathan discovers what happened to the tapes, and uses Host resources to track the materials theoretically required for the technology's production. Even with the incomplete data, Rosen might be able to generate an infinite amount of Plovian weaponry through energy-matter conversion. Once his trail is found, Nathan and Jerry enter Trans-Bialka as ENOCH and Zachriel. They recover the tapes, destroy the Trans-Bialkan back-up copies, and confirm the rumors of vampires through a personal encounter. When Rosen breaks into the satellite feed and takes over the ENOCH body, Nathan sets the processor in a perpetual loop, rigs the transmitter to break in a nano-second and beams out. Rosen is left in a coma from the consciousness feedback.
    The head of the Trans-Bialkan secret police (a vampire of course) uses chemicals to rouse Rosen. They wake him, enhancing his abilities, and cost him the use of his legs. Rosen trades knowledge for freedom to act. He tells the king of Trans-Bialka of synthetic memory drugs discovered by the BLF: Rosen's power are excellent for ferreting out such secrets. The Chief is sent off to claim a sample of the drug, while Rosen plots. Rosen knows full well that Levinson must be ENOCH of the Host, but this is a private war.
    Levinson has been tracking the Synthetic Memory since the '48 Hours' incident, and Jerry witnesses the theft of the information from a Church of Divine Harmony compound. Levinson arranges a Host strike into Trans-Bialka to prevent any further research. ENOCH and Uriel level the factory, and Rosen (nicknamed the Black Rose) is apparently killed under a crush of machinery. He is pulled barely alive from the rubble by the Chief, who embraces him rather than have him die. Rosen completes his plan, cybernetically exiting his body to evade the mystical controls of vampire, and kills the Chief with the compounds remaining weapon systems. He is now healed, more powerful than ever, and free to pursue his revenge against Levinson and the Host.

   

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