Rho Bowman

Dr. Rho Bowman is a playable character in Anachronox.

Biography
When Dr. Rho Bowman's controversial book, Mys-Tech Awake! First hit the SenderNet feeds two years ago, it was an immediate success. Eschewing technical jargon for layman aesthetics, its mixture of radical science and liberal spiritualism struck an immediate chord. The book was widely interpreted as a metaphor for the awakening of self by a generation of people looking for answers.

The scientific community hated it. Not just for her particular brand of populist prose, but also for stating her theories were proven based on one unreplicated experiment.

Criticized for peddling bad science for profit, Rho was branded a "Heretic" by the Scientifica Association and cut off from all her major funding. When her career in the scientific community was over after an effective smear campaign, she disappeared into obscurity.

Her controversial ideas concern Mys-Tech, mysterious ancient alien artifacts scattered across the galaxy. Hoarded by art designers and antique collectors, Rho believes there is powerful energy inherent in every slag of Mys-Tech just waiting to awaken.

The daughter of an acclaimed astrophysicist and a respected mechanical engineer, Rho spent her formative years traveling wherever her parents were lecturing that given week. Rho currently resides on Sunder, the center of science in the galaxy, and through the auspices of private donations, continues her attempts at activating Mys-Tech.

She is intelligent, well-spoken, compassionate, straightforward, and determined. What a gal...

Personality
To be Added

Weapons & Abilities

 * Moebius Wave
 * Static Pulse Injector
 * Cubic Impactor
 * Tesseract Impactor
 * Atomic Debinder


 * Scanalyze
 * MysShield
 * Plasma Wall
 * Pocket Singularity

Trivia

 * On her ship after escaping the destruction of Sunder, one of the scenes that play is one where she talks to Fatima about a past romantic breakup, having no specified gender for her partner. This was confirmed to be intentional by Tom Hall, who said that this was done “…So it didn’t lock her down to a specific partner preference. :)”