Zymyr is a brilliant scientist and member of the long-lived and technologically sophisticated race known as the Gil'Dishpan, Zymyr dissented from the official policy of gentle co-existence with sentient beings of races unsuitable for survival on the high pressure worlds Gil'Dishpan dwelled on. Zymyr believed that such lesser creatures were suitable for the amusement of his fellow master beings, and committed what were decreed to be crimes in experimenting on humans.