Henk the Spider

Introduction and Initial Inception

Henk was an experimental robot designed and developed by Jose Fangjian, a computational psychologist. He was devised in order to explore phobic reactions in human subjects by deploying the phobic object into the periphery of an unsuspecting subject and observing his reaction. The observations themselves are of course conducted by Henk itself, without the need of a research assistant or other individual to observe.

Encounter with Breeman

Kevin Breeman first encountered Henk just after finishing some work in the science labs of the USS Independence-A. The initial encounter was less than pleasant and Henk soon realized that he had a good candidate for therapy.