| Renowned entomology professor Dr. August Hopper was fired from the Metro College for aggressively promoting his radical theory that ionic bombardment could transform insects into giants, posing a potential threat to humanity. Despite this, Hopper was subsequently hired as a research scientist by Ryan Chemicals, where he developed some of the world’s most effective insecticides. Because of these successes, the company gave him exceptional freedom and privacy in conducting his research. Growing increasingly reclusive and bitter, Hopper resented his reputation as a scientific crackpot and the loss of his academic position, and he became convinced that his past and present employers had taken all the credit for his accomplishments while he toiled in relative obscurity. Slowly going mad, Hopper secretly developed the means to enlarge insects He plotted to terrorise humanity with his giant insects in his new identity as the Locust, then discover a means of stopping the bugs as Hopper, hoping to be hailed as humanity’s saviour. |
