Antares Castiglione

Dr. Antares Castiglione (Earth-2619)
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Affiliation	Consortium
Position	Handler
Agent	Dietrich Falkenrath, Jaeger Falkenrath
Area of Expertise	Operations planning, Biochemical engineering, Strategy
Aliases	Chief of Special Projects
Played By	Nick

Card. Antares Castiglione (Earth-2620)
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Affiliation	The Host
Position	Cardinal
Choir	Virtues
Area of Expertise	Strategy, Manipulation, Bureaucracy
Aliases	None
Played By	Nick

Dr. Antares Castiglione (Earth-9150)
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Affiliation	GSI
Position	Director
Directorate	Research & Development
Area of Expertise	Biochemical engineering, Quantum mechanics
Aliases	None
Played By	Nick

Antares Castiglione is a critical figure on several parallel Earths. He is often, but not always, associated with a medical or scientific research role. On Earth-2619 he works as a Handler of Agents for the Consortium. On Earth-2620 he is a Cardinal responsible for the Virtues Choir of the Host. On Earth-9150 he is the Director of Research on the Object for the Global Security Initiative.

Earth 2619

Early Life

Antares Castiglione grew up in southern Italy, his father had been a medical doctor and his mother had been an American expatriate artist traveling across Europe. The pair had met at an art exhibit and quickly fell in love. His father's strictness was balanced by his mother's kindness but although he preferred the arts, he was forced into science and technology by his father and continued down that path through university until he came to the attention of the Consortium.

As a Researcher for the Consortium

Dr. Castiglione was well-regarded from his onset by even his most senior leadership. His ability to think through complex and lay out a strategy by which gaps could not only be bridged, but shortened, allowed him to advance quickly. By his third year with the Consortium, he'd been named the Chief of Special Projects and was once of the few staff invited to sit in with Sapientia as well as learn the truth behind the Carrion Virus and the Consortium's role within it.

Though still a junior researcher at the time, Castiglione was the first to call attention to the unforeseen effects of Compound 36 in those with similar or near identical genetics. He provided evidence of his findings, specifically relative to Severine and Emilia Lafaille. While the head of the innovations team at the time was interested, not much was done in the way of exploration as the formulation for Compound 36 was within the works. It was only a short time later that the 9th Generation then defected but the idea had been planted in his mind to continue to work with twins with compatibility with the Compound.

Over time, Castiglione's work became more and more noticeable by the Sapientia, who then promoted him to Chief of Special Projects. This gave him carte blanche to focus and direct his own brand of research however he deemed fit. He coordinated with several Consortium lawyers at the time, Aleksandr Orlov among them, to begin documentation of identical twins being treated at Consortium hospitals in order to begin building a database of twins along with their genetic compatibility ratings with the Compound. Of particular interest to him were twins with no legal guardians that had become wards of their respective states and nations.

Physical Appearance

Antares Castiglione is an older man in his early 60s with grayish-black thinning hair. He is of average build and is slightly taller than average, just over six foot. He's considered pale for a southern Italian, taking after his mother's Scot-Irish background. He has no distinguishing marks to speak of.

Powers and Skills

Although he has no powers to speak of, Antares is skilled in many academic area and had political connections both inside and outside of the Consortium. He is one of the leading minds within the Consortium think-tank and is regularly called upon by the Sapientia for his knowledge and recommendations. Perhaps even more dangerous is his ability to influence policy to obtain whatever he wants whenever he needs is.

Where he lacks in perhaps physical strengths, he excels in academics. He is a scientific genius with specialties in biology, medicine, biochemical engineering, and mathematics. By using a combination of these disciplines he's able to understand and predict impacts to changes in chemical compounds and how they'll benefit or damage biological systems.

Other Information

Antares Castiglione is fluent in Italian, English, and Latin and is conversational in several other European languages as well.