Dr. Oki has been a controversial eminence in the field of neurochemical engineering. As a Mech pilot, his achievements are numerous and earned him a place among the Legendary pilots, but he achieved great renown as scientist when the doors of the Galaxy Senate were opened to him, earning him influences that he used to obtain juicy military contracts to improve the pilot-Mech interface technology whose profits made him an obscenely niode-millionaire scientist.
However, his good fortune changed when the nature of the experiments he was carrying out in his secret laboratories got leaked. In those hide facilities he was experimenting in the integration of human pilots vivisected brains with the Mecha's A.I.s. These experiments caused a disgust and horror in the Senate as in the Major Power authorities, which revoked any privilege that the Doctor had enjoyed until then and issued an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity.
Although Dr. Oki was forced to leave behind his immense fortune as well as his abominable studies, he managed to elude the authorities, escaping with a custom Mech built with Oxidative Phosphorylation (called "Myto Mech"), and a handful of Niodes, just a shadow of the immense fortune that he had harvested and that was confiscated by the authorities and diluted in the endless legal corners of the bureaucratic corruption of the Galaxy.
Some believe that the real cause of the Doc becoming an outlaw for all the Major Powers of the Galaxy was not the numerous lives lost at his hands through his bizarre experiments but the accident in which the first-born of an influential politician suffered damage permanent brain during the installation of improved neuronal hardware.
Since his fall from grace, he roamed the galaxy for 200 years, during which time he used his advanced knowledge of nanotechnology to repair his micro physiology and DNA, until he met the mercenary clan Zeon.
During the year 3317, Dr. Oki partially redeemed himself by creating the Portal Stabilization Device or PSD, a tool that proved to be of paramount importance in the fight against the threat against our dimension led by the Unification attacks and later the Xeon clan.
Dr. Oki O'Conn is, in his own words, a mad scientist, both in and out of character.
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Date: February 19, 3332
Location: Redacted at the request of the interviewee.
Mechanomicon - Greetings Dr Oki. Let’s start about your origins. Where are you from and how did you became a Mech pilot?
Oki O'Connor - I am from a small world that was called ALTeran. It was one of the early colonies. It's gone now. Mech piloting was a hobby until my expulsion from the GS Scientific Advisory Board.
Mechanomicon - You are also known to be a renowned neuro-chemical engineer. Which one is your highest devotion? The Science or the Mech warfare, why and how do you combine both?
Oki O'Connor - Well... That's a very long story and basically how everything came to this. My company (MitoSENS Industries) had a contract with the Galactic Armed Forces to develop improved interfaces b/w Mech pilots and their Mecha. As your readers are well aware the GS "ethics" committee thought that my methods went too far leading to my expulsion from the SAB and eventual conviction for Crimes Against Human Genetics; which was ridiculous, but I escaped in my MitoMech and have been a merc' or clan member of various stripes ever since.
Mechanomicon - Your first registration in the Mech Tournaments was dated in March 3267 (Clan Wars III) with the Buffaloe Soldiers’ gang, with which you continued until 3272 to 3273. How do you remember your experience among them?
Oki O'Connor - Fools incapable of spelling the name of an extinct large mammal. Oh how far the mighty had fallen...
Mechanomicon - After your career in the Tournaments with Buffaloe, in 3274 you joined the mercenary clan “Republic of Zeon” that later has been better known as Zeon, entering in the elite standards and earning your first Gold Medal during the CW IX (May 3275). And since then, you have been a devoted and eminent member of Zeon until their remission, all a legend in the pilot competitions as in the history of our Galaxy.
How was your experience and success in that time?
Oki O'Connor - Until this point I had been keeping my head down, hoping that law and order in the Galaxy would deteriorate to the point where I could safely emerge from my exile. It did, and I saw in Zeon a group of knuckleheads that I might be able to soar back to prominence with. Mostly I kept my head down, kept my head on its shoulders, got my kills in, and quietly rose in seniority, until, well shit happens and you end up in leadership.
Mechanomicon - January 3286. You won your first Gold in a Limited Gateway KotM, afterward, you managed to win another 14 KotM medals in multiple modalities. Which one is your favourite KotM competition and how do you envision the impact of KotM specs compared with CW specs?
Oki O'Connor - I've always kept up with Mecha innovation which means that I was always the proud owner of every new Mech on the market. Thus I would say that my favorite lineup was the single rainbow. As far as CW events I have only one comment: Triple Rainbow isn't a real specialty! It's basically just Unlimited! Wake up sheeple!
Mechanomicon - In 3301, Mito was released as a Box Mech factured by the Craftsmen to support your Mitocondrial research. What could you tell us about that research?
Oki O'Connor - Yes, well when I'm not fighting for control of the galaxy I'm working on developing a gene therapy for mitochondrial disease. Mito disease happens when you get mutations in your mitochondrial DNA. You can learn more at:
Mitochondria power all our cells, and their failure as we age drives many chronic diseases.
Mechanomicon - With the discovery of the Chroniode, you are known to be one of the few privileged scientists to manipulate such artifact technology, bringing to existence the Device to unlock Gates to the alternative universe of the Unification and Xeon. How do you think did that technology impacted in our world? And, do you have future projects?
Oki O'Connor - You would think with all my work on this project that I would have received a full pardon from the Galactic Senate. Nope! Still waiting. Maybe it got lost in the mail. Also, I'm tired of getting blamed for everything my various evil clones and parallel universe selves have done! It wasn't me!
Mechanomicon - When we faced the true nature of Xeon, the evil twin counterpart of Zeon in the alternative timeline, how did you and your clan react when noticing none other but your own incarnation there, Dr. Okee, and the Clan Xeon, were the number One threat to the both worlds of existence?
Oki O'Connor - That guy can't even spell Oki right, geez. You have to admit, he did have style though. The one way you can tell that he's not the real Oki is that he put himself in the spotlight at the center of it all. That's the best way to earn your home system a Dark Forest Strike, if you ask me. No thank you, I'll stay three dimensional for a few more thousand years if you don't mind.
Mechanomicon - Did Zeon contacted Xeon anytime, and if affirmative, what happened?
Oki O'Connor - Ok, I'm only going to answer this question one more time: the allegations of my sending and receiving Chrono-encrypted messages to my inter-dimensional counterpart are completely unfounded and that GS special prosecutor failed to find enough evidence to even pass muster with one of their flimsy grand juries.
Mechanomicon - Turning on Mech technology. Which one is the Mech of your choice and why?
Oki O'Connor - Mito Mech, obviously. I'm not saying you should try this at home, but if you tune your mech-neural interface to a compatible frequency interface between the pilot's own mitochondrial polarization rate with that of the Mito Mech's then you'll be in for a pleasant surprise. As long as you don't fry all your neuronal mitochondria getting it right...
Mechanomicon - Do you have any favourite Mech capacity?
Oki O'Connor - Eh, I just spread it around so I can hop into any Mech I find and start making modifications right away. I don't like to specialize too much.
Mechanomicon - Do you have any message for our readers?
Oki O'Connor - Don't do drugs kids. Unless those drugs give you a neurological advantage over your opponents and peers in which case all is fair in the battle for limited research funding.
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