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Dr Charlene Henshaw

Charlene comes from a military family, but never followed in the family business and studied physics at university. Consequently she is the only one of the technicians to have a formal doctorate, which she got at Cambridge in work connected to string theory. She is a first class theoretical physicist and was working on Membrane theory when all funding for her research was cancelled by the government. It was felt she was getting too close to discovering the existence of the alternative universe of the Mystical Realms

Charlene was given the option of continuing her research on M-Theory under government supervision, but for ideological reasons, Charlene ended up working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN looking for the Higgs Boson. While she was there she discovered from the LHC data the existence of the Mystical Realms anyway, but was unaware that her supervisor was in league with the cult of the Magnus Timor who was using the LHC to awaken the Magnus Timor in exchange for a place on a new world for his son and his family.

When her supervisor's treachery was unmasked and Charlene had witnessed inter dimensional entities, she was recruited to the IDEC, where she became friends with Sue-Lim Wang and Pete Smith.

Charlene and Sue-Lim worked together to create two artificial wormhole generators that would be able to produce larger wormholes to enable heavy combat vehicles and a Prospect space craft to pass through them.

During the attempt to liberate the central city from the Magnus Timor cult, Charlene went with the marines to take part, staying at a base camp out side the city. When that operation was betrayed, Charlene barely got back to Earth with her life, thanks to friendly faeries, (minus all her clothes as wormholes generated by faeries are very tight)

In appearance Charlene is a platinum blonde and tends to insist on going braless all the time and from time to time out of a desire not to show a visible panty line, eschews any underwear. Also when she goes to the beach she always goes topless and in fact never even bothers to pack bikini tops. This fits her profile of being a bit of a rebel.

Before she was recruited, Charlene had taken part in a number of anti Iraq war demonstrations, although since joining the IDEC, she has put all that behind her.

Charlene, like most scientists is a bit of a trekkie