the son of a Nebraska state fireman of Irish descent and Puerto Rican school mistress, Andrew Martin had a normal life, the middle class life. He attended a nice little public school, where his mother taught, he went on to be an above average student in high school and then went on to the Nebraska State University where he gained a double degree in Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry. Whilst in College roomed with a young man by the name of Benny 'Knuckles' Velasquez, Benny and Andrew whilst trying to make some extra party cash started dabbling in trying to 'extend' the government issued stimulants, Andrew with his new found knowledge of Chemistry he found a secret additive to make cocaine almost three times as potent, when it was burned, it turned blue.
Benny, being an marketing major and budding amateur film-maker decided that they needed a smarter way to market this new found product. Together they decided to hit the books, surprisingly Andrew bore a strong resisemblance to a Columbian native due to his genetic make up, therefore they decided to use Andrew as the figurehead for their organisation, he'd change his name to Andre Escobar and they'd say his lineage went back to the great Pablo Escobar. Benny being a rather heavyset Hispanic man whom stood about 2 metres tall and about 400 pounds would pass himself off as Andre's personal bodyguard. This way the two of them would always be together during negotiations.
During their college years they produced enough 'Columbian Blue' to fill a small football field and subsequently made the cash of a large software company. Not bad for two run of the mill middle class boys.
A year into their operations Benny being the marketing genius that he is decided that they needed to target bigger fish and since the State of California broke away and fell into the sea in the early 2300s Vegas was now the west coast and the Mecca for excess, Hollywood relocated there in early 2233 as the Jewish moguls could sense the end of the state of California and wisely moved east. Benny decided that they would quadruple the asking price of their 'Blue' and deal it exclusively to the Hollywood elite, they'd make double what they did already and only half the work, so Benny setup Starmaker Productions, a celebrity management firm acting as a front to move 'Blue' into the Elite arena. It was such as success that Benny took over operation of the Vegas operations whilst Andre setup base in New New York, they needed to move into the financial sector.
Somehow, mostly through dumb luck they avoided the authorities. That is until one of Andre's 'celebrity' clients was convicted of murdering one of their clients and threatened to blow the lid on the whole situation. Andre tried to keep his 'cover' going and stupidly threatened the local authorities but with Benny on the other side of the country Andre pulled a laser pistol on a federal agent whom unleashed a round from his rail gun right through Andre's sternum.
All Andre needed to do was to become Andrew Martin again but the illusion had fooled him too.
Benny at the news of Andrew's demise disappeared into the Nevada desert.
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