Adam Collier was a male human born to parents Leonard and Pamela Collier. Adam was raised by a Computer in an Environmental Simulator for most of his young life. He believed he was Otto Vogel, a German born in the year 1914. In that program, Adam grew up to become a particularly notorious member of the Nazi Party, placed in charge of a concentration camp.
Adam learned the truth of his origins in the early 25th century when the Simulation ended and Adam was rescued by Ed Mercer and Kelly Grayson of the USS Orville. After a lengthy period of integration into society and re-education, Adam lived the remainder of his life on Earth as a baker.
History[]
Adam Collier was born to Leonard and Pamela Collier, two Union scientists illegally studying null-space-energy near the border of Krill space. When the Krill attacked, Pamela hid Adam - only a newborn baby - in an Environmental Simulator. The program was set to New York City in April 1914. She dropped Adam off with the staff of a hotel. As the Simulator was set to continuously run, the Colliers hoped the simulated people in the program would raise Adam. The staff unexpectedly gave Adam to a German couple, Gunter and Ilse Vogel.
The Vogels adopted Adam, renaming him "Otto" and returning to Germany. As he grew up, Otto eventually joined Germany's Nazi party, rising through the ranks and becoming a Nazi Obersturmführer. Within the simulation, he married a woman named Annelise and had a son, Alger Vogel. When the Nazis conquered Poland, Otto was made the overseer of a Nazi concentration camp.
When Ed Mercer and Kelly Grayson came before Otto, passing themselves off as Red Cross representatives, they inspected the camp before a firefight broke out at which point Grayson ended the simulation before Adam was sedated so he could be brought aboard the USS Orville. Over the next few days, the crew and Adam's parents attempted to convince him that the Orville was the real world only for him to retreat back to the simulator, into a fantasy where Nazi Germany had won World War II before he was stunned by Talla Keyali.
In the aftermath, the Colliers left the Orville. With no one sure if Adam should be prosecuted for his crimes as a Nazi, or indeed if he had committed any crimes, Adam was sent to the Melbourne Center to be rehabilitated. By the early 26th century, Adam had been deprogrammed and was living as a baker in Germany. It was the only part of this past within the simulator that he considered still to be worth something, as Gunter Vogel had been a baker.[1]