| “ | I remember the man in charge of my particular project, Conrad Lukas, made a face of rather overstated disgust when he told me I wouldn’t be up there entirely on my own. I got the distinct impression he was one of those people who feel that ethical restrictions do nothing but bind the hands of the true scientist and leave them at the mercy of their subjects’ limitations. | „ |
| ~ Carter Chilcott's describing Conrad Lukas. |
Conrad Lukas is a minor antagonist of the Rusty Quill horror podcast The Magnus Archives, serving as the main antagonist of Mag 57: Personal Space. He is a member of the Lukas Family and by extension a servant of the Lonely. He was placed in charge of a portion of the space station Daedalus and ran an experiment surrounding isolation meant to torture an astronaut named Carter Chilcott.
Personality[]
Being a servant of the Lonely, Conrad valued isolation and seemed to personally enjoy it while seeking to inflict it forcefully on others. He had very little empathy and hated moral restrictions, seemingly because they got in the way of forcing people to be alone. Despite this, he was somewhat honorable and preferred to hold up his end of bargains.
Biography[]
Conrad was born to the Lukas Family in the Moorland House, and subsequently dedicated his life to the Lonely, along with most of his kin. He grew up to be a scientist, working at the Daedelus, a space station owned by the Lukas family, Simon Fairchild, who was connected to the Vast, and Maxwell Rayner, the leader of the People's Church of the Divine Host.
Hoping to use the space station to give a person to the Lonely, Conrad hired Carter Chilcott under the guise of an experiment. Conrad sent him to the Daedelus and kept him in a few isolated rooms, publicly claiming that he was trying to see the effect of isolation on the human psyche and that there were cameras watching the astronaut to ensure safety. In actuality, there were no cameras as that would hurt Chilcott's sense of isolation, although Conrad did have a personal way of watching him.
Over the next few months, Conrad watched as Chilcott lost his mind due to the isolation. Eventually, the astronaut began begging to be returned home but discovered that he was not connected to Earth in any way. Conrad may have affected the man's environment to make his situation more unpleasant, although this may have been just Chilcott's imagination. Eventually, Chilcott began to starve himself as a method of escaping the space station, and Conrad was forced to retrieve him, not wanting to deal with the legal issues of an astronaut dying during his experiment. He presumably went into hiding after this, although he did pay Chilcott in full.
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