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| “ | Even if he was an unwilling participant, what kind of example am I setting if I let him just walk out of here? Loyalty... is a very important part of my business. | „ |
| ~ Alexander Rook |
Alexander Rook is a major antagonist in the 2015 Syfy series Dark Matter.
He is the CEO of Dwarf Star Technologies, a space technology corporation that is a front for a race of aliens known as the Beings from an alternate dying universe. They gave Rook the resources he needed in order to perform his unethical and illegal experiments to create artificial humans that they can use as host bodies. His first successful experiment was Two, an artificial woman who broke free from his experiments and became an infamous mercenary.
He was portrayed by Wil Wheaton.
Personality[]
Rook is shown to be a highly sophisticated and immoral man, creating synthetic humans in order to please the Beings, who he fears disappointing. Despite this, his actions are not only motivated by fear, as the Beings explain to Three that the reason they enlisted Rook's help was because he already wanted to perform these experiments, and they simply gave him the tools to do so. He is very manipulative in his relationship with Two, as it's clear he does not view her as a person but his property, constantly trying to convince her to return to Dwarf Star Technologies so he can continue experimenting on her, and desiring to have her killed the moment he creates a more advanced version of her. He has a complete intolerance for disloyalty, executing Eric Waver for betraying him even though Eric was forced to do so against his will. He is also petty, as he uses Three as one of the hosts for the Beings despite Three not being a synthetic human and therefore not able to host one of the Beings for very long, simply doing it out of spite.
Biography[]
Alexander Rook at some point in the past founded Dwarf Star Technologies, an technology company with the goal of creating synthetic humans. Unable to achieve this on his own, Rook was contacted through unknown means by the Beings, a race of aliens from another universe that is dying and need humans hosts. However, when they take human hosts the bodies break down very easily, and therefore they need Rook's artificial humans hosts to survive. They give Rook technology that allows him to start working on nanites, artificial cells that he can use to create a synthetic person with superhuman abilities. His first successful artificial human is a woman named Rebecca, who he has ruthlessly tortured to test her pain receptors and abilities. Eventually, she manages to break free of her facility and kill everyone present, with the exception of Eric Waver, a scientist that treated her kindly compared to the others. She would then rename herself to Portia Lin and go on to become a mercenary and take control of a ship called the Raza, although Rook continued to try and hunt her down over the years. During a mission, the crew of the Raza suffer a glitch with their status pods that causes them to lose their memories, and proceed to name themselves based on the order they woke up, with Portia renaming herself to Two. While the crew does find out they used to be mercenaries, they decide to change their ways now that they can't remember their past, although they do search for who they are. Two eventually tracks down a Dwarf Star Technologies lab with the rest of the crew, where they are ambushed by Rook and his guards. Rook uses a signal that shuts down her nanites, therefore knocking her out. Rook explains to Two who she really is, and reveals that he plans to dissect her and start again on a new synthetic human.
Thanks to the intervention of the Raza's Android, the signal attacking her nanites is shut down, allowing Two to kill the guards holding her captive and escape from the facility. Rook is then seen speaking to one of the Beings, which is inside the body of an old dying man. It explains that the body is only twenty-six years old, yet is physically elderly, proving that the Beings cannot continue inhabiting human bodies and need Rook's artificial humans. Rook assures the Being that their new prototype, Rebecca 2.0, was almost ready. A few weeks later, Two finds that her nanites are beginning to fail, meaning the crew needs to break into a DST Station on Earth in order to get the new upgraded version. They get onto the station by forcing Eric Waver to help them, who manages to sneak Three and Six onto the station. They are ambushed by Rook and his guards when trying to get the nanites, and Rook decides to execute Waver despite him being forced to help them. Rook then has Six locked in a cell and Three used as a host for one of the Beings. Two breaks into the facility in order to steal the nanites where Rook confronts her, stating he no longer needs her, at which point he unveils Rebecca 2.0, a synthetic human that is completely loyal. The rest of the crew manage to arrive in time and kill Rebecca 2.0 before he can kill Two, and they take the nanites from Rebecca 2.0 and inject them into Two to save her. The crew manages to remove the Being from Three and shoot it into space, but Three continues to have a connection with the Beings following this. The crew of the Raza eventually break into another DST facility where they find hundreds if not thousands of synthetic humans that Rook has created, being kept in status for the Beings to inhabit. The Beings eventually puncture a hole in reality so they can travel from their universe to the prime one and use the synthetic bodies as hosts, and it's unknown what became of Rook after this.
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Trivia[]
- On the SyFy website page for Dark Matter, Rook was referred to as being a former scientist for Ferrous Corp, although this aspect of his character was never seen in the series itself.
External Links[]
- Alexander Rook on the Dark Matter Wiki
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