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'''Henry van Statten''' (sometimes misspelt as "'''VanStatten'''" ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}, {{cs|Support Site & FAQS (feature)}})) was a [[billionaire]] who had a vested interest in the collection of alien technology — stemming from a childhood fascination of the universe — to reverse engineer into products sold by the corporation [[GeoComTex]], of which he was [[CEO]]. He owned the [[Internet]] by [[2012]] and gained enough influence to sway the course of the next [[President of the United States|presidential]] elections. | |||
== Biography== | == Biography == | ||
===Early life=== | === Early life === | ||
[[File:Van Statten young.jpg|thumb|left|Henry van Statten by [[2006]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Henry Van Statten (short story)|Henry van Statten]]'')]] | [[File:Van Statten young.jpg|thumb|left|Henry van Statten by [[2006]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Henry Van Statten (short story)|Henry van Statten]]'')]] | ||
Van Statten was the son of [[Edward Van Statten]], the billionaire owner of the Van Statten Corporation, a wealthy business dealing in oil and | Van Statten was the son of [[Edward Van Statten]], the billionaire owner of the [[Van Statten Corporation]], a wealthy business dealing in [[oil]] and [[armament]]s during the later [[20th century]]. Henry felt isolated from his father, who was endlessly away on business trips throughout most of his childhood while Henry was left to live in isolation in [[Housing complex (Dalek)|a housing complex]] within the [[Utah]] desert. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) Henry grew up watching ''[[Star Wars]]''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) Henry found comfort in [[Otto von Donitz]], one of Edward's personal assistants charged with educating and caring for Henry in his father's absence. On his seventh birthday, Otto gifted Henry a [[telescope]], claiming his father bought it him as a [[gift]] to look out at the [[star]]s and aspire to one day reach them, and demonstrate [[ambition]]. However, when Edward returned home and learned Otto had gifted Henry the telescope, Edward fired Otto and had two henchmen destroy the telescope [[6 (number)|six]] [[week]]s later. | ||
Embittered by his father's action, when Edward neared death and gifted Henry inherited one million dollars from his father on his fifteenth birthday, he used the knowledge of Keynesian and Friedmanite economic | Embittered by his father's action, when Edward neared death and gifted Henry inherited one million dollars from his father on his fifteenth birthday,{{what?}} he used the knowledge of [[Keynesian]] and [[Friedmanite]] [[economic model]]s Otto taught him to invest the money into the [[telecommunication]]s business and the [[internet]], a decision which infuriated his father, who wanted the money to be cycled back into arms dealing. Henry refused and insisted his father sign the Van Statten Corporation to him rather than his lawyers on the assurance his skill in investing would ensure his father's name survived beyond him. Reluctantly, Edward conceded and Henry took over the company, eventually renaming it Geocomtex. | ||
When Edward eventually died from his illness, Henry had all his workers mourn the man's death for ten minutes before firing them all and redesigning the entire corporation to achieve his childhood dream of exploring the concept of space and alien life | When Edward eventually died from his illness, Henry had all his workers mourn the man's death for ten minutes before firing them all and redesigning the entire corporation to achieve his childhood dream of exploring the concept of space and alien life, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) to be an [[astronaut]] who would befriend an alien on [[Mars]], as he wistfully later put it. The first piece of otherworldly material acquired by Van Statten was [[moondust]], which he found at an [[ammo fair]]. While this had been easy for him, he found it to be "ultimate" to have alien [[grit]] run through his hands. He then began collecting actual alien artefacts, which was more of a challenge. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) | ||
He began utilising [[the Gray Market]], an underground [[trading]] scene, [[addiction|addictively]] purchasing alien "[[leftover]]s and [[curio]]s" with the large sums [[of money]] earned from his firm as it began to "take off". He also knew how to differentiate real alien objects from the [[fake]]s, which were "easy pickings" in the Market. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) Winning these artefacts at [[auction]], he reverse engineered them to create "new" technologies which he exploited commercially. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}) Some of the objects he acquired included: [[material (Henry Van Statten)|an unidentifiable material]]; [[rock (Henry Van Statten)|a curious rock]] around the size of a [[Jolly Rancher]] that took the combined force of [[3 (number)|three]] [[people]] to lift; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) and technology salvaged from the [[Roswell crash]] which he used to create [[broadband]]. He kept these artifacts in a private collection, inside a bunker called [[The Vault (Dalek)|the Vault]] more than fifty floors below ground in [[Utah]] near [[Salt Lake City]]. Henry also now owned the [[Internet]], and influenced American elections to favour his desires. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}) | |||
===Acquiring the Metaltron=== | === Acquiring the Metaltron === | ||
On his forty-fifth birthday, Henry decided he wanted to finally purchase a living alien creature rather than parts of now deceased ones. Using his influence, he learned one such creature was in the hands of a private collector [[Hiram Duchesne]], a middle-aged businessman in the ice cream industry. Henry offered the man twenty-five million dollars for the creature, but Duchesne refused. Angered, Henry bought out the man's company and left him bankrupt but Duchesne still refused to sell despite needing the money. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') By [[2006]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Operation London (short story)|Operation London]]'') Duchesne was ill with cancer and, having heard rumours Henry's scientists had used alien technology to create a cure, he finally agreed to sell the creature to Henry. By now Henry was fifty-three years old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') | On his forty-fifth birthday, Henry decided he wanted to finally purchase a living alien creature rather than parts of now deceased ones. Using his influence, he learned one such creature was in the hands of a private collector [[Hiram Duchesne]], a middle-aged businessman in the ice cream industry. Henry offered the man twenty-five million dollars for the creature, but Duchesne refused. Angered, Henry bought out the man's company and left him bankrupt but Duchesne still refused to sell despite needing the money. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') By [[2006]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Operation London (short story)|Operation London]]'') Duchesne was ill with cancer and, having heard rumours Henry's scientists had used alien technology to create a cure, he finally agreed to sell the creature to Henry. By now Henry was fifty-three years old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') | ||
