Born in London in 1950, the son of two scientists: Masado Stasarik, a brilliant research physicist whose work in theoretical quantum mechanics is reported to have "rattled" Albert Einstein, and Sandra Willoughby, the daughter of the eccentric Scottish-born Texas mathematician Edward McKay Willoughby.

Roja's parents were killed in an explosion (caused by sabotage planned by criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan) when he was just 5 years old. His father's old friend and colleague, Professor Toichi Hikita, using the entire world as his classroom, raised young Roja, and the lad grew up to be, among other things, an extraordinarily skilled neurosurgeon.

Dissatisfied with a life devoted exclusively to medicine, Roja Stasarik perfected a wide range of skills. He designed and drove high-powered automobiles. He studied bujutsu and particle physics. His skill with a sixgun is reputed to eclipse that of Wyatt Earp. He speaks a dozen languages and writes songs in all of them.