Command & Conquer Generals: Maelstrom/Dr Thrax

Introduction
Dr Thrax is a GLA general specialized in toxic weapons in Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour: Maelstrom. His super unit is the Ninkilim. His main technologies are biological agents, hazardous chemicals production and improvised spraying system.

History
Little is known about the GLA associate codenamed "Dr. Thrax." While background intelligence indicates that he received training as an immunologist in Jordan (allegedly getting his degree from a mail-ordered college), he left academics in 2005 and disappeared into a GLA-controlled ghetto in Cairo. For years, he has produced chemical and biological weapons for terrorist organizations across the globe, including the GLA.

Recent eavesdropping on cell phone traffic indicates that Dr. Thrax has become more involved in day-to-day operations of the GLA. He has scattered labs across Asia and the Middle East, where low-cost WMDs are produced and distributed to local terrorist cells. A cautious and scientific personality, Dr. Thrax never sleeps in the same bed two nights in a row and undergoes frequent cosmetic surgery to alter his appearance.

There is overwhelming evidence that from this point on Dr. Thrax busily produced ever-more lethal biological and chemical weapons, which he sold to various terrorist organizations, including the GLA.

During the First GLA War in 2013, Dr. Thrax was identified as a key leader in the GLA by the US military. When a new chemical weapon was used in a warhead by the GLA and launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome against an American naval base in Northern Europe, the US started to hunt down the scientist. Documents obtained from US operations in Somalia and Mt Elbrus revealed that Thrax had massive influence in the terrorist organization. Having had his funding cut off by the Americans in Operation: Black Gold, Thrax fought a fight to the death against them in the classified Area 52, where his main stronghold was located. Thrax had threatened to launch four warheads against key metropolitan centers but the US army managed to thwart his plans (with help from GLA defectors who were unhinged by Thrax's insanity). Thrax's base was destroyed by the US forces, and it was assumed that the doctor had perished in the battle. His disappearance had led to a short internal power struggle within the GLA after the battle.

While his peers were at each other's throats on their road to power, Dr Thrax actually survived and organized everything in the dark for the GLA to rise up again after China inflicted it a terrible defeat. He changed his appearance and his name as a fake university teacher in Chemistry in New Delhi, India. Once "Deathstrike", still recovering from his defeat, decided to revive the GLA in 2020, Thrax contacted him and financed the reorganization until its completion in 2023. He reappears in Maelstrom after years of hiding and playing dead; and played a role on helping General Mariam conquer Israel and vouch for her promotion, much to the more traditional members anger. He also vouched for Prince Kassad's rehabilitation within the GLA.

He is currently stationed at his secret laboratory somewhere between Medina and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.