“The unfortunate victim of his own inquiry into the past misdeeds of Gamasot Laboratories, Stapleton managed to find sufficient evidence to convict himself, and his excuses that his action was on behalf of company, CEO, and long time family friend Kelly Moon were to no avail. Although his involvement was largely on the security side, and so he escaped the fate of Moon and Choi, he was nevertheless implicated in the deaths of Avalon and her companions in the Lake Geneva Incident. He was promptly imprisoned for a period of five years (although several proponents within the company later revealed that he had left an AI counterpart to himself in charge in the meantime).

After his imprisonment, he rejoined his wife, Sylvia Stapleton, and rejoined JCG as Chair of Biological Research. The rest of his life pre-retirement was dedicated to magical and biological research: heading the new, more ethical face of the powers development programme, including superpower removal, as well sensor expansions for AI (see Chapter 17: The CAITLIN Cake Addiction Incident), and magical batteries.”

- The JCG Executives: A History by Martin Falk

“Please be aware that the Stapleton consciousness is on very, very old hardware. Questioning is restricted to Category III Advice and above until the entity can be transferred to new hardware”

- JCG Service Announcement, 2204