Professor Chiron

Anyone who knew young Georges Kairos would never have expected an academic life for him, as he was a wild young man from a poor family, prone to getting into trouble. That changed when his older sister was killed in a tragic accident. Georges enlisted in the Greek military where he displayed a remarkable technical aptitude and a talent for engineering. Unfortunately, he had barely finished his basic training before being sent off to a conflict in the Middle East, where he lost both legs to a land mine.
After recovery and rehabilitation, Kairos threw himself into his studies. A combination of military benefits and scholarships allowed him to earn advanced degrees in engineering, and he focused on bionics, cybernetics, and robotics. Rather than focusing on traditional efforts to create replacement cybernetic limbs, Dr. Kairos looked to other models, particularly an equine body-frame capable of containing additional support structures. His prototype earned him the nickname “Professor Chiron,” after the mythic centaur teacher of heroes.
When Kairos learned that, as a part of his funding, the military was looking into battlefield applications of his research, he was infuriated. When budget cuts looked to force the closure of the project, with all research turned over to the military, he acted. He locked the prototype’s cybernetic control systems to his own nervous system, preventing anyone else from using it, and concealed all of his research.
After some time operating as the armored “Professor Chiron,” he earned such respect from the public that the government and military chose to settle with Dr. Kairos, rather than create further public ill-will by prosecuting him. He now splits his time between scientific research and using his technology to investigate and protect the people of Greece and Europe from a variety of threats.