Lucian Randolph – PG-13 version

Lucian is hard to describe. We're pretty sure he escaped from some government lab when he was young. Now he is a practicing roboticist, biophysicist and biomechanical engineer. He is also a research fellow and senior strategic analyst for a private science think tank. His primary specialty is high-technology and bleeding-edge science, which really just means he likes cool toys. He has also been called a polymath and a futurist, but he says that just means he's hopeful. He has been called other things – but we're trying to keep this under an 'R' rating. Technically, he is a paid thinker, AKA – brain for hire. Some of the guys he works with refer to him as one of the mega-thinkers, but that's code for "Geek with the big brain." You could also call him a consultant. The tax man considers him that. You don't want to know what Lucian considers the tax man. We're still trying for under an 'R' rating.

Most importantly, he is the creator of the Freedom Contract Party, a new movement in Amercian politics designed to circumvent the mainstream political process. In addition to several companies founded on his technology, Lucian has also been independently contracted to invent and develop some of the most advanced robotic equipment on the planet. He has a thing for robots – preferably the female kind (because all complex machines are females – and vice versa). He has consulted for projects under the direction of numerous government and private groups around the world. In addition to robotics, he has a portfolio of advanced technology that he has been directly responsible for developing or inventing. His designs and inventions cover a broad range of industries including biomedical, construction, telecommunications, military, and aerospace. Virtually all of his technology is Restricted or Classified (mostly as a result of who actually has enough money to build the things he thinks up).

Outside his Entrepreneur and Science work, Lucian is a prolific writer. Professionally, he produces more than one million written words per year. He's also been producing multimedia for public internet distribution since the beginning of the broadband era. He's a recognized pioneer in the podcasting field and has been on Apple iTunes since it began handling video. He was the host of the Planet TV Show, which was one of the original non-commercial science and technology TV shows on the web and one of the first video podcasts in the world. The show was seen in 124 countries worldwide at the peak of its popularity and his videos have been downloaded millions of times each month. Even now, years after the last new episode was produced, the show is downloaded or viewed thousands of times each month. Lucian has authored numerous technical tomes that are not available to the public in addition to a series of science fiction novels published on Amazon. He has written several unpublished screenplays and about a half dozen other novels that are unpublished. He says he has to write fiction because he needs to get all the crazy things he's seen and been through in his professional life out of his head, otherwise he'd go insane. But he admits that might only be a matter of semantics. He does most of his fiction writing in the middle of the night, because he does his professional writing during the day. He jokes that he hasn't slept since the mid-eighties. His wife thinks it's probably not a joke. She says Lucian hasn't slept since she met him.

It's possible he has a thing for robots because he is one.
Who Is This Man?