Adventurer, inventor, philanthropist, billionaire, industrialist, property tycoon, owner of the Knight City Capes baseball team and the Flamers Formula Dee motor racing team, and movie producer Nick Law is one of the great names of modern Knight City ... and almost certainly the richest man within its boundaries. He also a commander, and financier, of The Agents Of C.O.M.P.A.S.S.
 | A sketch of Nick Law from his cameo appearance in the HeroPress comic: The Patrollers |
Law has devoted his life to the betterment of mankind through the study of its past and future. A true 'futurist', he has often stepped in - when the cause deserved it - to solve the city's problems in a very 'hands-on' sort of way.
As a young man he left school and established his own advertising agency - Flotex - in 1981, which invested in a bizarre Australian horror movie that grossed millions in America. Nick then used this money to make the first of the epic Killer Tomatoes From Beyond Mars films (which have spawned multiple sequels) and finance his worldwide archaeological digs.
Nick went on his first Tunguska dig with Zolotov in 1983 and spent four months hacking through deepest Siberia on the fruitless hunt for alien artifacts.
In 1984, on his famous Egyptian dig, he uncovered the lost pyramid of Euclopes The Small, The Boy King, and a year after he tried to repeat his Tunguska dig, but was pushed off course by fierce magnetic storms and ended up in Tibet.
While trapped in a hidden Tibetan valley, LAW Enterprises went public with a ten-times oversubscribed floatation. Who can forget the massive "Have You Seen Nick?" campaign, handled by his own agency. The irony, of course, was that no-one had - he was lost in Tibet!
The sole survivor of the Tibetan expedition, he was nursed back to health by monks who trained him to master his mental faculties in record time - what takes some people a lifetime to learn, Law learnt in six months before returning to Knight City.
Nick vanished again, this time for three months, in 1995 when he led an expedition to South America, looking for the the Golden Condor of the Incas. The expedition was trapped by an avalance in the Andes - Nick doesn't like to talk about this period of his life.
From the company floatation, he bought up a struggling electronics firm - Microcompasitor Components - and after three months of asset stripping tunred it around and started exporting computer parts to Japan. Two thousand new jobs were created in Knight City and he poached Professor Claus Zepplin from CHILD Industries to run it for him.
Nick set a new standard in micro-electronics and was made a Knight Commander by the Queen of England in the New Years Honours List, for his services to global commerce.
Good friends with Mayor Peter Salmonson, Law was once a familiar figure around the city and in the newspapers, but in the last few years he has almost disappeared from public view.
So busy with all his activities and rarely seen outside the CBD-dominating LAW tower these days, he is, nevertheless, one of the men, over the last 20 years, who helped make Knight City the major East Coast metropolis it is today.
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| art by Rebecca Whitaker |
