Franz Hopper

Franz Hopper's History

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Starting from 1974 to sometime in either the late 1980s or early 1990s, Waldo Schaeffer was working with a group of scientists on Project Carthage, a secret government program he created to intercept enemy communications. Waldo, realizing that the success of this project would have grave consequences on the world, decided to flee with his wife and young daughter.

The family had fled to Switzerland in an attempt to hide from Waldo's employers, who later kidnapped Anthea as a warning to Waldo. He most likely took his daughter and brought her to Boulogne-Billancourt, France, where he got a job as a science teacher at the local boarding school. Waldo changed his first name to Franz, and used his wife's maiden name, Hopper, as his last name.

Franz and Aelita had moved to the Hermitage since he wanted Aelita and himself to have a fresh start. He then began to build his own Supercomputer in a local abandoned factory where he created Lyoko using the files that he stole from Project Carthage. He soon used his computer knowledge to create a sentient and autonomous artificial intelligence/multi-agent system, called X.A.N.A. to be his assistant and act as a deterrent against Carthage should the project ever be unleashed. Franz Hopper was forced to repeat the same day over 2,546 times so that he could make Lyoko perfect: not realizing at the same time doing so made X.A.N.A. stronger. Given that this was done in a 24 hour time period, this would mean Franz spent a maximum time there of just under seven years (six years, eleven months, three weeks approximately).