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Oh, I'm not an inventor. I'm the inventor.
[ which wasn't so much his ego (okay, his ego was playing a large part there, can't lie about that) as it was the freedom to lay claim to his name in a setting where time and faked deaths had no meaning, where there weren't greedy world powers out and about who would be more than happy to secure him for whatever scheme they had up their sleeves. (really, it's a miracle the human race hasn't obliterated itself yet.) ]