Carlson


 * "Gold GB Ranger!"

Carlson is the Gold GB Ranger. He is part of the second set of GB Rangers to join the team. His Cybuddy partner is Beetitan.

Biography
Carlson was a well-known engineer known for having a quirky, light attitude & a penchant for preferring quirks in machines rather than aiming for perfection. He was highly admired by Bradley Roach. Once, he had judged a contest wherein Bradley was a participant. However, when his work was found to be too perfect, Carlson judged him only onto second place. As an engineer, he also worked with the Global Beneficiation Corporation & was one of the people who went into Hyper Space years prior.

Though working in another block during the incident years ago, Carlson ended up in subspace regardless when his fellow researchers sacrificed themselves to trap Automon. Trapped in subspace, he created Beetitan to aid him by placing his body in stasis & creating an avatar of himself to move about. When he learned of the others' fate as Automon's engineers upon being contacted by Sheinfeld, given the plans to the Beetle Grappler he developed, Carlson decided to escape the subspace & back into the real world.

The Global Beneficiation Corporation's Hyperspace Analysis Division received some transmissions from Carlson, which led to Commander Tash agreeing to meet him once again in the real world. Their meeting surprised him, as no one had ever made it out of Hyper Space. Even more surprising is despite being in his forties, he appears as if he hasn't aged years ago since.

Carlson also showed himself & his Cybuddy to the GB Rangers, introducing himself as the Gold GB Ranger. However, he let the Viratron they were battling go, which called his actions into question. Later however, he & Beetitan return, this time with Beetitan transforming into the Silver GB Ranger & both taking the Viratron down. However, it turns out that they wanted the Enetron for themselves.

As the GB Rangers later confront him for information, in the ensuing battle, he throws himself in harm's way to divert a missile to Enter. In the ensuing explosion, it appears as if both were incinerated into nothingness. However, Beetitan acts as a marker to "revive" Carlson, revealing that he is in fact an avatar; that is, he is a remote extension of the real Carlson. This is the reason why he appears younger, and this form of his couldn't truly be destroyed. He reveals that while he was in the complex 13 years ago when it was brought into Hyper Space, he was in a different block, and had had no interaction with other humans within Hyper Space for years.