You are Rex Chance a world renowned adventurer, war reporter, and explorer. Your innate abilities as a scout and story teller have earned you much acclaim. Thousands of readers hang on your every word as you spin tales of adventure in your weekly newspaper column. But you carry a secret. You remember little of your youth. You'd trade all your adventures for your one true quest, to search for your father, Dr. Eric Chanikov who disappeared when you were just a babe. Only by finding your father, you are convinced, can you hope to learn who you are and where you came from.

Lucy Willing is a brilliant young scientist and co-developer of the Sigma Technology. For years she has worked closely with Dr. Chanikov helping him to refine the complexities of the science. She believes that Sigma can be used for the betterment of humankind. She is unaware of Upton Julius's true nature or of his evil intentions. She will be instrumental in your quest to seek out and discover the whereabouts of Rex's father.

Upton Julius is a wealthy industrialist who financed the development of Sigma and plans to use it to guard his life of opulence. The pending war in Europe fuels his paranoia and he plans to launch his own initiative to halt any encroachment, letting nothing-and no one-stand in his way.

Whitey Hooten is an ex-whaler who feels at home only in the sub-zero temperatures of the Arctic. He is a hulking and powerful man who sees compromise as a weakness. He enjoys chastising and berating his henchmen. He is not very smart, but his brute strength and quick temper make quite an impression on others.

Valinka LaPette is a crafty aviator with a keen tactical mind. She has a love of flight and likes to fight dirty with poisons and plagues. A cunning woman, perhaps she was the true "power behind the throne."

Dr. Otis Ganglion is perported to be a veterinarian, but not out of any love for animals. He developed quite a reputation creating all kinds of strange animal hoaxes that he peddled to freak shows across America. A diminutive man, what he lacks in height, he makes up for with evil. He is the epitome of the classic mad scientist.