Role: Occult Engineer – FDG Technical Division (Experimental Containment Unit)
Active Years: 1973–1986
Status: Presumed deceased (missing following “Tilbury Event,” 1986)
Background:
Born 1935, Basildon, Essex. Electrical engineer and physicist formerly employed by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). In 1972, Dr. Cray was attached to a team investigating a series of unexplained power surges along the Thames Estuary — surges that resulted in substation explosions and unexplained magnetic interference patterns.
Initial reports blamed faulty transformers or sabotage linked to IRA bomb threats, as the sites coincided with the ongoing energy crisis and rolling blackouts. However, Cray’s data showed irregularities inconsistent with conventional physics — current flows rising in equipment that had been fully disconnected, and arcs forming without heat signatures.
Following the 1974 explosion at Allhallows Relay Station, Cray was quietly seconded to the FDG under a government contract. His findings — handwritten on thousands of index cards and pinned across his flat in concentric rings — described the phenomenon as “non-human resonance behaviour manifesting through electrical systems.”
Skills:
* Electrical and electromagnetic containment design.
* High-voltage pattern mapping (fae resonance tracking).
* Improvisational engineering under field conditions.
* Field stabilisation of “live” machinery affected by fae presence.
Personality:
Brilliant, irritable, deeply superstitious beneath his rationalist veneer. Chain-smokes Players No.6 and carries a small horseshoe magnet “for luck.” Listens obsessively to shortwave radio, claiming the static “talks back.” Prone to mood swings — the FDG file notes “possible electrochemical destabilisation due to long-term exposure.”
Motive:
To understand what he calls “the living current” — a hidden force that preys on human infrastructure. He believes the fae have found new ways to manifest through electricity, feeding on human light and communication. His obsession is personal: his younger brother, an apprentice lineman, was killed in a power surge Cray later suspected was not an accident.
Notable Case: “The Static Orchard”
During a period of national power cuts, a substation near Grain exploded during routine maintenance. Witnesses reported blue-white arcs “hanging” in the air long after power ceased, and fruit trees along the fence began to emit faint electrical hums. Birds avoided the area for weeks.
Dr. Cray determined the site acted as a resonant field where fae energy had bled through — attracted by the sheer human frustration and fear surrounding the blackouts. He constructed a containment lattice using iron and carbon filaments, though he later admitted he’d heard “voices in the wires” directing his hand.
Later Years:
By the early 1980s, Cray’s theories shifted toward **“electrical sentience”**, suggesting that repeated human power surges and emergency grid rerouting had *created* thin spots where the fae could manifest through static resonance. His last known project was the Tilbury Experiment (1986), where he attempted to “ground” a power surge within a containment coil built from submarine cable. The entire facility vanished for four seconds. Cray was never found.
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