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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. | 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 | When Edward eventually died from his illness, Henry had all his workers mourn the man's death for [[10 (number)|ten]] [[minute]]s 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 [[ | 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" ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) in the [[dotcom]] boom of [[1995]]-[[2001]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}}) 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)}}) | ||
Although in the early few years of the [[21st century|new millennium]] Van Statten did not publicly discuss his belief that aliens had visited Earth, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}}) after the [[Slitheen famil|Slitheen]]'s attempt to [[London UFO crash|plunge Earth into a nuclear war]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, {{cs|World War Three (TV story)}}) Van Statten allowed himself to be interviewed by conspiracy theorist [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], owner of the website [[Who is Doctor Who?]], about his thoughts on aliens; he talked about the "event" that happened just the week prior and his [[ambition]] to collect alien [[artefact]]s, which he admitted was fuelled by his childhood dreams. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) | |||
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In 2012, the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] arrived in the Vault in response to a distress signal, unaware that the signal came from a Dalek. They were quickly captured by van Statten's guards. At this time, [[Diana Goddard]], van Statten's personal assistant, and [[Adam Mitchell]], a scientist, worked for him. Learning the Doctor was alien, van Statten examined his [[Gallifreyan physiology]]. He had plans to make use of his [[binary vascular system]] in a marketing venture, branding it as his own creation through a patent. When the Dalek freed itself, he gave the Doctor free rein to deal with it. By the time events came to a conclusion, two hundred GeoComTex personnel had died and the Dalek had self-destructed. Goddard took charge at this point and van Statten got a taste of his own medicine: she ordered van Statten to be taken away, mind-wiped and dumped on the streets, "somewhere beginning with an 'S'," due to him causing the death of 200 personnel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') According to another account, however, he willingly wiped his own memory, mentally regressing himself to an infant, after being shown a nightmarish vision of brutally killing everyone he had ever harmed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') | In 2012, the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] arrived in the Vault in response to a distress signal, unaware that the signal came from a Dalek. They were quickly captured by van Statten's guards. At this time, [[Diana Goddard]], van Statten's personal assistant, and [[Adam Mitchell]], a scientist, worked for him. Learning the Doctor was alien, van Statten examined his [[Gallifreyan physiology]]. He had plans to make use of his [[binary vascular system]] in a marketing venture, branding it as his own creation through a patent. When the Dalek freed itself, he gave the Doctor free rein to deal with it. By the time events came to a conclusion, two hundred GeoComTex personnel had died and the Dalek had self-destructed. Goddard took charge at this point and van Statten got a taste of his own medicine: she ordered van Statten to be taken away, mind-wiped and dumped on the streets, "somewhere beginning with an 'S'," due to him causing the death of 200 personnel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') According to another account, however, he willingly wiped his own memory, mentally regressing himself to an infant, after being shown a nightmarish vision of brutally killing everyone he had ever harmed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') | ||
To the public, Statten mysteriously disappeared. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') On | To the public, Statten mysteriously disappeared. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') On [[2 May]] [[2012]], Van Statten, now akin to "a homeless, brainless junkie" was involved "a disturbance" at [[Riverside Boulevard]] on [[Sacramento]], where when cautioned by [[police]] officers, simply asked "Don't you know who I am?". When the incident was submitted five days later, one person noted the vagrant's resemblance to Van Statten, which another flatly denied. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doctor: His Lives and Times]]'') | ||
==Personality== | ==Personality== | ||
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*According to [[Russell T Davies]]' ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|The Writer's Tale]]'', the original script for ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' had Henry van Statten name-dropped as a billionaire like [[Bill Gates]] and [[Joshua Naismith]]. | *According to [[Russell T Davies]]' ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|The Writer's Tale]]'', the original script for ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' had Henry van Statten name-dropped as a billionaire like [[Bill Gates]] and [[Joshua Naismith]]. | ||
*In the online game ''[[The Last Dalek (video game)|The Last Dalek]]'', which presents an alternate version of the events of ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', van Statten does not appear, but he has an entry in the [[Metaltron|Dalek]]'s memory files. He is described as; ''"Male subject. Age 40. American. Effortlessly powerful. Always with a glint in his eye. The sort of man that won't allow himself to be bored for a single second. Consider potentially dangerous."'' | *In the online game ''[[The Last Dalek (video game)|The Last Dalek]]'', which presents an alternate version of the events of ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', van Statten does not appear, but he has an entry in the [[Metaltron|Dalek]]'s memory files. He is described as; ''"Male subject. Age 40. American. Effortlessly powerful. Always with a glint in his eye. The sort of man that won't allow himself to be bored for a single second. Consider potentially dangerous."'' | ||
*Henry shares some similarities with [[Nigel Rochester]] from ''[[Jubilee]]'', which ''Dalek'' was adapted from: Both of them are collectors of alien technology, both of them own a Dalek which they torture in an attempt to get it to talk, and both are betrayed by a woman whom they hold in their confidence. | *Henry shares some similarities with [[Nigel Rochester]] from ''[[Jubilee]]'', which ''Dalek'' was adapted from: Both of them are collectors of alien technology, both of them own a Dalek which they torture in an attempt to get it to talk, and both are betrayed by a woman whom they hold in their confidence. | ||
*To explain how van Statten was unfamiliar with the Daleks, ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'' suggested that the [[Van Statten Incident]] took place in a [[timeline]] where the [[Cult of Skaro]] did not emerge from [[the Sphere]] and precipitate the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] in [[2007]] and so did not go on to [[Invasion of Manhattan|influence]] the construction of the [[Empire State Building]], nor was the [[Earth]] [[Planetary Relocation Incident|transported]] to the [[Medusa Cascade]] since the [[personal timeline]]s of both [[The Doctor's time stream|the Doctor]] and the [[Daleks' timeline|Dalek race]] had not progressed to the point where those events occurred. | *To explain how van Statten was unfamiliar with the Daleks, ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'' suggested that the [[Van Statten Incident]] took place in a [[timeline]] where the [[Cult of Skaro]] did not emerge from [[the Sphere]] and precipitate the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] in [[2007]] and so did not go on to [[Invasion of Manhattan|influence]] the construction of the [[Empire State Building]], nor was the [[Earth]] [[Planetary Relocation Incident|transported]] to the [[Medusa Cascade]] since the [[personal timeline]]s of both [[The Doctor's time stream|the Doctor]] and the [[Daleks' timeline|Dalek race]] had not progressed to the point where those events occurred. | ||
**Alternatively, the events of ''Dalek'' occurring within [[2012]] place them after the events of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]], during which the memories of those alien incursions were lost due to the [[time field]]. | **Alternatively, the events of ''Dalek'' occurring within [[2012]] place them after the events of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]], during which the memories of those alien incursions were lost due to the [[time field]]. | ||
** However, as Van Statten acquired the Metaltron circa 2006 as per the information revealed on the ''[[U.N.I.T. (tie-in website)|U.N.I.T.]]'', then the time field wouldn't have happened soon enough to avoid the identification of the Metaltron as a Dalek. | |||
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