Ryan Gorsuch burst bodily from the chest of actor John Hurt in 1979.  He is skilled at evading motion trackers, electric pods, flamethrowers, grappling guns and various models of self-destructing spacecraft but,because his blood is actually a highly corrosive acid, has a tendency to break guitar strings.

Rachel Sams Schott was raised in the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage in Calumet City, Illinois.   She was introduced to music by a lovable janitor and is the owner of Cheryl, the only minivan on the planet that's got a cop motor, a 440 cubin inch plant, cop tires, cop suspensions, and cop shocks.

Joe Kendall is the only son of First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar and his Sioux wife Stands With a Fist. He enjoyed a happy childhood in Colorado playing in the shadow of the abandoned Fort Sedgwick and still remembers the ways of his medicine man grandfather, Kicking Bird.

Nick Lorenz was born at 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955 in the fictional Hill Valley, California. At the beshest of the Hill Valley Preservation Society a clocktower that was struck by lightning at the precise moment of his birth was left unrepaired.

Michael Sams emerged from his mother's ribcage near modern day Nepal sometime between 623 and 524 BC. At the age of 29 he left his father's kingdom on a quest to understand the nature of human suffering and in the years that followed practiced extreme asceticism, learned meditation, achieved enlightenment and eventually took up the drums.