Transgenic City, or more commonly: T.C.), a place where they could live and defend themselves from the hostile " ordinaries" (normal humans), as well as the government, and makes a stand with Max and the other transgenics.Īs is standard with X5s (and partially shared with the other transgenics), he has many superior physical traits, including: By the end of the series, he and Max work together to build up the new community for Manticore escapees dubbed Terminal City (a.k.a. Wired for survival, he's initially looking out only for himself, but, through Max's influence and his own repressed conscience, he changes enough that he willingly and often risks himself for friends and transgenics in distress. However, he did limit himself to products that won't get his clientele killed, limiting his customer base. He also ran various scams and had shady business dealings around the city. Alec then emulated Max by getting a job at her work, Jam Pony, (a bike messenger service) in order to secure a Sector Pass and scout potential places to steal from. He wasn't planning on doing this long, but ceases altogether (excepting mental coercion) after he gets caught, is blackmailed into killing other transgenics, and then is nearly killed himself, by Ames White, the deadly agent assigned to hunt down and destroy all escaped transgenics.
Once free, he engaged in various methods, generally illegal, to gain quick cash one of the first was cage fighting. Observing the facility in flames and human soldiers attempting to kill his fellow transgenics as they were escaping, he made a hasty retreat. 494 did not have a name, so Max named him Alec for "Smart Alec." Alec was already outside of the compound when Manticore was brought down, assigned to corral Max back to Manticore and to facilitate the capture and/or death of Eyes Only. 494 did not achieve his freedom until more than 10 years later, when Max instigated the destruction of Manticore and freed the transgenics. Manticore tightened its grip on the remaining X5s, with the twins of the escapees being subjected to the harshest discipline for fear of them following in their brothers' and sisters' footsteps. X5-494 was not one of the '09 escapees as he was not in their unit, although his identical twin brother Ben/X5-493 was. Not long before " The Pulse" (an electro-magnetic pulse bomb set off over the United States), Max/X5-452 and a number of her unit escaped from Manticore in 2009.
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