Military Science
Over 50 years of military science has created the ideal soldier. A super soldier.

What are Super Soldiers? According to Knowle in "Existence" he tells John Doggett that rumours about making Super Soldiers came out after the Cold War. They are supposidly soldiers that have no weaknesses and can't be killed.

In "Nothing Important Happened Today II", Shannon McMahon tells John Doggett that she has become a bio-engineered combat unit, the product of 50 years of military science. She does not need to sleep, she can breath underwater. Essencially, Super Soldiers are unstoppable.

Knowle and Shannon were the first to be transformed into Super Soldiers. They were drafted right out of Bravo Company, becoming the first, Adam and Eve. Shannon also tells John that she and Knowle are alike in every way, the only difference is that she hates what she's become and Knowle does not.

Through out time on "The X-Files" it is discoved that Super Soldiers have a weakness. We see it with The Shadow Man ("Trust No 1") and with Knowle Roher ("The Truth"). That weakness is magnetite, which is in the rocks where the Super Soldiers meet their end. Or do they? Can they really be killed? In the past they have been known to regenerate. Billy Miles in "Existence". Knowle Rohrer in "Nothing Important Happened Today II". Even Shannon McMahon kept going and was "alive" after Knowle punched his fist through her. Is it possible that if they are removed from the location of the magnetite that they could regenerate and continue on?

Magnetite obviously has a magnetic pull to the Super Soldiers. In "Existence" we see that they are made of a metal, so perhaps that is what draws them to this magnetic material.

So when did Knowle Rohrer become a Super Soldier? There are many theories that could be set into play here:

1. Shannon McMahon says that she and Knowle where draved right out of Bravo Company and entered into this project, becoming the first Super Soldiers. This is more than likely what happened, but my mind continues to be fishy about that since Knowle acted all too human in "Per Manum", leading me to option number 2...

2. Yes, Knowle and Shannon were drafted out of Bravo Company and into the project to become the first successful Super Soldiers. But it could take years for the science to be completed and tests would have to be done on them. So perhaps there were transitions, and maybe they weren't even aware of what was going on until it was too late. Knowle just seemed too human in "Per Manum" to be a full-blown Super Soldier at that time. The transitions could have been taking place through out a period of time. By "Three Words" he was becoming less human, and by "Existence" he essencially had no human left in him, but perhaps he didn't know this until after the car wreck he was in at the end and that's when he realized he was unstoppable and began to like what he had become.

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