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 As noted in his original initial psychological profile, the result of his cold and detached parents consequently left Maxwell a withdrawn and isolated child. At a very early age he learned to retreat into his own mind, finding company in books and finding escape in mathematics and physics. It was this ability, and perhaps a desire to escape an unhealthy home environment that led him to apply seek his education on earth.
+At age 16, he applied and was accepted for the Natural Sciences tripos at St. Johns college at Cambridge.
 ===At Cambridge===
-At age 16, he applied and was accepted for the Natural Sciences tripos at St. Johns college at Cambridge. And although he did exceptionally academically, his physical adjustment to planetary life was poor. Confined to a wheelchair at earth normal gravity, he was extraordinarily disabled. (See medical file for more detail). One incident that stood out was not long after he first arrived, a professor patted him on the back congratulatorily, and was horrified to hear the sound of three of Maxwell's ribs breaking. Maxwell would describe his first years on earth as like 'living under the bottom of the ocean'. His lungs labored to breathe in and he constantly felt the sense that he was drowning, his heart struggled to provide enough circulation for his body. Physical therapy proved inadequate and only served to accelerate his physical decline. He was, and still is, in a constant state of fatigue and exhaustion that increases cumulatively the longer he is in earth gravity. It is for this reason that during this time, university physicians told him he would in all likelihood have a far reduced life span if he continued to live in a terrestrial environment. Although they initially predicted him perhaps making it as far as into his late thirties or further, such an optimistic prognosis was later revised to be considered unlikely.
+Upon his arrival on earth, it would be revealed to him that his entire acceptance at Cambridge was engineered by a think tank of patients at a secret Federation mental hospital referred to only as "the institute" who had been genetically engineered in a process called 'accelerated critical neural pathway formation'.  Their plan was to recruit Max for their project to alter the cosmological constant of the universe, ensuring that the cosmos never collapses into a 'big crunch' nor continues its acceleration fast enough that spacetime is torn apart.  They needed Max's ability to intuitively grasp the mathematics of space and time.
+Max refused to help, believing that the price of failure would be too high.  The project was halted when Max brought it to the attention of their supervising psychiatrist, Dr. Karen Loews.  Maxwell continued on to Cambridge, trying to put the incident behind him.
+And although he would do exceptionally there academically, his physical adjustment to planetary life was poor. Confined to a wheelchair at earth normal gravity, he was extraordinarily disabled. (See medical file for more detail). One incident that stood out was not long after he first arrived, a professor patted him on the back congratulatorily, and was horrified to hear the sound of three of Maxwell's ribs breaking. Maxwell would describe his first years on earth as like 'living under the bottom of the ocean'. His lungs labored to breathe in and he constantly felt the sense that he was drowning, his heart struggled to provide enough circulation for his body. Physical therapy proved inadequate and only served to accelerate his physical decline. He was, and still is, in a constant state of fatigue and exhaustion that increases cumulatively the longer he is in earth gravity. It is for this reason that during this time, university physicians told him he would in all likelihood have a far reduced life span if he continued to live in a terrestrial environment. Although they initially predicted him perhaps making it as far as into his late thirties or further, such an optimistic prognosis was later revised to be considered unlikely.
 All this only served to further deepen his existing psychological scars; his growing isolation and his escape into his studies and away from other people and the rest of the world. While as a result of his disability, he was extremely focused and productive at this time (achieving several all-time high test scores at the university) this should be best viewed as an example of an unbalanced individual. His advisor noted that on many occasions Maxwell described himself as 'something wrong, something that should have never been brought into the world.'