Richard Drucker
| Richard Drucker | |
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| First appearance | The Golden Goose |
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| Known ability | Electronic communication |
| Formal name | David Rooijker |
| Aliases | Don Rucker, T. Monk |
| Gender | |
| Age | 49 (at time of death) |
| Date of birth | 1943 |
| Place of birth | Holland |
| Date of death | 1992 |
| Home | Paro, Bhutan Formerly Holland Formerly Germany Formerly Seville, Spain Formerly Buenos Aires, Argentina Formerly Bangalore, India |
| Residence | Formerly Monasterio de la Cruz Formerly the Vasquezes' home |
| Occupations | Revolutionary, Internet tycoon |
| Parents | Biological parents: Ruth Meisner (deceased), Rooijker Adoptive parent: Ricardo Vasquez (deceased) |
| Sibling | Zahava Gitelman (half-sister; deceased) |
| Other relatives | Hana Gitelman (niece; deceased) |
Richard Drucker was a communications tycoon and a revolutionary. He was an evolved human with the ability to communicate with technology.
About
Graphic Novel:The Last Shangri-La
In a Bhutanese temple, Traveler gives someone, whom he believes to be Drucker, a message from Hana Gitelman and tells him they must be related.
Graphic Novel:The Golden Goose
In 1992, Drucker's pilot, Hampton Connolly, allows Drucker to fly a plane over the Himalaya Mountains in a strong snowstorm. The plane crashes and two parachutes engage and float to the ground. For fifteen years, Connolly lives in Bhutan. Connolly notes Drucker's belief that fate brought him there. When Bob interrogates Connolly, Connolly tells him that Drucker left Bhutan a month or two ago.
Graphic Novel:Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered
Showing up on Matt Neuenberg's Company computer screen as a file named T. Monk, Drucker explains to Hana they're in the Company's mainframe as "Purushas," or bodiless individuals, to pull a massive viral file from Drucker's hard drive to completely destroy the Company's entire mainframe.
Graphic Novel:The End of Hana and Drucker
Inside the Company's mainframe, Drucker tries to escape the collapsing datastream with Hana. They reach a dead end, and soon accept their fates; Drucker is told by Hana they will meet again as they are seemingly deleted along with the rest of the mainframe's information.
Heroes Evolutions
Very little is known about Drucker. Hana's messages refer to him as the "mystery man". For other Heroes Evolutions content pertaining to Richard Drucker, see the cogitoergosum blog at 9thwonders.com, including the "In My Heart..." post, a mysterious postcard, and the William Congreve puzzle.
Data File
A hidden link on primatechpaper.com shows an assignment tracker. Using the password provided by Micah on corinthianlasvegas.com, users can access Richard Drucker's file by entering the user name and password on any of the assignments shown except the 12th assignment. The file kept about him is practically empty. However, his file does describe as follows:
Extreme hatred for founding members of The Company. Intelligence of the highest levels known to man. Zen-like disposition. Non-violent. Do not engage. Keep safe distance. He will know you have found him before you do. Potential to inflict serious cataclysmic damages.
DIRECTIVE: If found, continue to survey. Photographic evidence of his existence is invaluable. Last direct contact made: 1977.
A photo in his file (and a note from Hana) show that he is in Bhutan to get "off grid" and not be "affected by digital noise".
Additionally, an expense report in his file shows a total of $876,808 spent for items located in the archives section of corinthianlasvegas.com.
Assignment Tracker 2.0
On February 7, 2008, primatechpaper.com updated it's assignment tracker case files, including Drucker's file (file: A012; password: RDghxiia). Drucker's file contains a personal history:
Born David Rooijker during WWII, Richard Drucker's mother was allegedly a dancer and his father a resistance fighter, though neither of these facts has been confirmed. With the death of his parents, Drucker was brought up in a Monastery, eventually landing in Argentina after the war.
As a child, he was obsessed with revolutionaries and felt that it would be his destiny to become one himself. Like many would-be revolutionaries, Drucker had issues with rage and anger, which were intensified by feelings of abandonment typical of children orphaned at a young age. A college brush with Zen and Hindu philosophy tempered his violent streak, but not his revolutionary zeal, a zeal that only grew when his ability to hear and interpret all forms of communication signals first manifested.
Drucker became part of the core team first tasked by the U.S. government to create a nationwide communications network. This network grew into today's Internet, an industry in which Drucker earned a sizable fortune. Sometime in the 1980s, while doing business in India, Drucker vanished "off the grid" and was not heard from again until communications were intercepted coming from the Kingtom [sic] of Bhutan. Company operative Bob Bishop was dispatched to locate Drucker, but only succeeded in turning up Drucker's long time personal pilot and confidant, Hampton Connolly.
Drucker was presumed dead, but further investigation revealed he had become, like Hana Gitelman, a kind of computer program crawling through the world's systems. Detected by Matt Neuenberg (see case file C025), Drucker and Hana were both completely vaporized by Elle Bishop and no longer pose any threat to Company dealings.
Please see GNI news report for more on Richard Drucker and his connection to Charles Deveaux. Video footage is archived in four parts.
The case file also includes a psychological profile:
As a youth, Drucker was filled with the twin pillars of passion and anger. His high intelligence led him to see evils everywhere and his intrinsic passion gave him the desire to do something about it. At the same time, he suffered for years with unresolved feelings of abandonment typical of a parentless child. While he outgrew some of these tendencies after finding solace in Zen and Hindu thinking, there quite possibly remained an undercurrent of anger at a world he perceived to be unjust.
In New York City, Drucker met Charles Deveaux who introduced the young man to founding members of this Company. Their ideals ran counter to his and he moved in a different direction, though we know that he kept tabs on The Company over the years just as much as The Company kept tabs on him until his disappearance in India in the late 1980s.
Global News Interactive Videos
A series of Global News Interactive videos posted on Hana's website features a documentation of the life of Richard Drucker. Drucker is referred to as the "godfather of the internet", and a man who is rumored to be worth billions. Reporters cover his early life, including the time he spent in a monastery in Spain. The report traces Drucker's alignment with revolutionaries in Argentina, a secret society at the University of Virginia, and a group of friends with like ideals, including his friendship with Charles Deveaux and their shared interest in the jazz clubs of New York City. The GNI team notes that in 1977, Drucker split and moved to Bangalore, where he is credited with helping the city in their rapid ascent into the global marketplace. Finally, an exclusive interview with Drucker's old friend, Zhang Yang, expounds on the type of person Drucker is. Yang asserts that in the 1980s, Drucker was looking for someone to help him change the world through a system of global communication. Yang says Drucker's vision was a world of freedom, knowledge and communication--a digital revolution. Drucker's current whereabouts, according to the Global News Interactive team, are unknown: some say he now resides in Bhutan while others say he is dead.
For more information about Global News Interactive and the four-part report on Richard Drucker, see Global News Interactive.
A Hero's Quest
In a roster posted on A Hero's Quest, Eric Thompson, Sr., is listed as going to Thimpu, Bhutan, for business related to Drucker.
Evolved Human Abilities
Richard Drucker had the ability, like Hana, to "intercept, generate, and interpret electronic, digital, and radio transmissions" with his mind. According to Drucker's assignment tracker file at primatechpaper.com, Drucker's control index was 90%. His data analysis shows his biological level at 30, cerebral at 85, elemental at 20, and temporal/spatial at 5.
Notes
- On January 18, 2008, the Richard Drucker page at NBC.com was updated to read, "In the January 7 graphic novel, a shocking revelation came to light... the man we thought was Richard Drucker was actually his personal pilot, Goose Hampton. The real Richard Drucker died in a plane crash years ago." Another update from the same day reads, "On January 10, someone sent Hana a handwritten message expressing grave concern over Goose's death and warning Hana not to base any action against The Company on revenge. But if Drucker is dead how could he have sent that note?"
- There is much mystery surrounding Drucker's death. Hampton Connolly said that he and Drucker had been living in Bhutan for the fifteen years following their plane crash (The Golden Goose), but NBC.com explicitly says that Drucker died in the crash.
Trivia
- While inside the Company's mainframe, Drucker uses the handle "T. Monk" (Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered). This is a reference to Thelonious Monk, the great jazz musician. In an email, R.D. Hall said, "I came up with those handles to further hint at Drucker's interest in jazz."
- According to Drucker's case file at primatechpaper.com, Drucker has a "scar from injection of radioisotope". Among other things, the case file lists his nationality as Dutch/Argentinean.
Gallery
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15 years ago, Drucker's plane crashes in the Himalayas. His NBC page reports he died in this crash. -
The Company keeps a file on Drucker at primatechpaper.com. -
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A manuscript from Monasterio de la Cruz notes Drucker's departure to Argentina... -
As a child, Drucker drew at least three images... -
...each containing images of the symbol... -
...and electronic communication in the clouds. -
A poster advertises one of Drucker's political writings. -
Drucker hikes the Himalayas... -
...and secludes himself in Bhutan.
See Also
- For other uses of Drucker, see Drucker (disambig).
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Richard Drucker for fan-created theories and other speculation.