Descended from a long line of heretics who refused to believe that Maxwell's equations were the last word. This family is renowned for developing the earliest gyroscopic lifters back in the late 20th century on Earth, where they first demonstrated that space access could be achieved with little more than a cleverly rigged gyroscope array, and a simple internal combustion engine. This came shortly after their discovery that electrolytic batteries could be persuaded to recharge themselves, and that electrical circuits could be made not just lossless but provide positive power from apprently nothing.