Professor and retired Major Adam Jonathon Fenix was a former Gear and devoted professor at the La Croix University, as well as a member of the Defense Research Agency. He was the husband of Doctor Elain Fenix and father of legendary war hero Marcus Fenix. He fought in the Pendulum Wars, but accepted a position designing weapons to try and end the war faster. He helped plan Operation: Leveler, and completed development on the captured Hammer of Dawn technology. When the war with the Locust began, Adam tried to find a peaceful way of ending it, and only reluctantly agreed to using the Hammer of Dawn to try and stop the Locust. After this failed, Adam continued trying to find a way to end the war, until his assumed death at the Battle of Ephyra. He was really kidnapped by Chairman Richard Pre