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I mainly thought of this because I found Beruga's characterization rather confusing and somewhat slapdash (why would an apparently logical-thinking scientist turn people into vegetables just so they could live forever, and then decide to kill everyone for no reason?), but I think there is something that could justify everything: After being revered as one of the greatest people on the planet by curing almost all of mankind's ills, he encountered something that he couldn't stop in time: the virus. I can imagine him furiously trying to create a vaccine, and when he's finally finished, walks outside and finds that he's too late. Everyone's already infected (making his vaccine useless, because [[Artistic License: Biology|vaccines don't work if you're already infected, Quintet]]), so all he can do is watch in horror as everyone he knew died around him before he locked himself in cryostasis. This would take a heavy toll on anyone, and in Beruga's case, causes his mind to ''snap''. He desperately tries to find the secret of immortality, not caring that it turns people into mindless vegetables, because ''Who cares as long as no one ever has to die again?'' As for all of his mass murder, it could be because he convinced himself that their lives were meaningless somehow. Perhaps because he feels that they aren't "real" since they're from a different cycle than the one he lived in?