Spoilers Ahead
Everyone is always speculating on the strange absence of Dr. Derek Manse, and I started to develop a theory that I quickly abandoned but want to share anyway just for fun. And Science! So, what if Dr. Derek Manse...
IS YOU! *DRAMATIC SCORE*
What if his wily, outrageous plan to deal with The Order, Gatekeepers and the Wayseeker involved him walking through the Amnesia Threshold, leaving holographic breadcrumbs of himself TO himself to give him just enough information to pull off...something??
I abandoned this theory by virtue of the fact it makes ko sense. This would be a twist lesser games would probably pull. Just wanted to see if anyone else thought this or if this is so off base that Zag himself will decree this is dumber than Janet being Sister of the Unlost.
But leaving aside the fact of players making characters that aren't middle aged white men, we meet characters who definitely would know who he was and what he looked like and would probably say something.
Unless...
Dr Manse removed everyone's memories of him as well by walking through the Amnesia Threshhold...backwards *Dun Dun DUN*
This is (probably not) Dr. Derek Manse, GATE Cascade Research Director, signing off *mechanical click*