Jason Shaw

Jason Shaw
Jason Shaw was a URM Scientist who was considered the Father of Modern Space Travel.

Biography
Jason Shaw was born approximately 2069 to Maximilian Shaw and Maria Shaw as a third generation "Mars Baby" his parents were originally NASA Scientists who volunteered for the permanent settlement on Mars. His father was a Engineer and his mother a Geneticists. They were second generation URM Born Humans. However, due to differences in their anatomy, they determined it would be impossible to return to Earth without serious health risks. As such, his mother created the Interplanetary Low Gravity Protocol which would implement genetic engineering to create humans who could survive easily on low gravity environments, without risking serious injury or death upon return to Earth.

During his child-hood he was singled out from his peers as being intellectually bright, and at 14 started schooling at the newly established University of Utopia Planitia where he would study particle physics, and write his doctorial at 18 in 2087.

There is little information on his personal life between 2087 and 2117 due to a data processing loss on the Mars colony.

Earth Years and Mark I Development
In 2110 he would be among the first humans from Mars to return to Earth. Unlike their un-altered counter parts they did not have extremely tall height, reduced bone mass, or muscle mass, as such they easily made the transition. Although the first few months would be excruciating as their organs would need to adjust to the extra weight put on them.

In 2111 during a symposium in Munich Germany, he would meet siblings  Akira Miyazaki, and  Sito Miyazaki, one an engineer, and the other a quantum physicist. When Akira Miyazaki presented the paper on Co-Axial Jason Shaw would see an opportunity to work together to achieve both their goals of creating a faster than light drive.

They would secure a grant that would also give them 15 years to use the NASA Ames Research Facility that was used from 1939 until World War III, in relative exclusion, it gave them an opportunity to focus on their work.  In 2119 they would successfully debut the Mark 0 which could not operate without a internal power-source due to the nature of the machine, as well as the fact that all attempts to static fire would drain the West Cost power-grid. As such, they relied on Entropy Crystals highly valuable and sought after material that would give the Mark 0 a source of energy. Though only powered at 5% they successfully "trans-located" the machine from Ames to Area 51. The success was ground-breaking as it proved their theory correct, that space could be folded.

The Mark 1 would later be installed on the Enterprise the first Interplanetary vessel, however, the Mark I would be a success, the fusilage would be lost, due to improper mounting, and gravimetric stresses, unforeseen. The data would be used to create the Mark II which would be dubbed the Shaw-Miyazaki Drive in honor of it's three creators. The Mark II would be installed on the Resolute Class ships the first Interplanetary Faster-Than-Light Capable vessels, which would embark on a 15 year journey in 2130.

Death
Jason Shaw would die in 2132 from Aplastic Anemia however, it would only be a cover up, as the new drive would prove invaluable, the Ames Research Facility would be renamed the Jason Shaw Deep Space Propulsion Laboratory in his honor. It would be in 2232 one hundred years after his death that his official cause of death would be formally de-classified, due to a law-suit IMC VS. Peter Doe in which it was revealed that he died from a rare disease called Fletcher's Syndrome cause by direct contact with Vector Radiation, from the Entropy Crystal. The Laboratory in his name would be continuously operated until 2450, and closed and turned into a museum after a lengthy reclamation process to de-irradiate the area. The new laboratory would be placed on Harris's World, far away from any major settlements, where they would create the Mark IV, fixing the radiation leak.