trinko was found under a rock by a wandering tribe of Albanian nuclear physicists. Used as a radioactive source for a series of illegal interstellar rocket tests during his youth he finally escaped by imitating a government bureaucrat and boring his captors into a coma. He made his fortune by suing the developer of the pet rock for copying his personality. Financially independent he settled down to a life of leisure in the American Midwest. Unfortunately he lost his wealth through a bad investment in a biotechnology company which was attempting to develop a mouse which looked like Elvis. Forced to wander the world he started taking odd jobs as a mad scientist and incompetent photographer..