Julian St Stephen

Julian St. Stephen was a psychologist who worked as a consultant to the Ministry of Defence in 1964. He was the boyfriend and eventual fiancé of Dr. Allison Williams.

Biography
In university, Julian joined the Young Fabians but flirted with the idea of joining the Socialist Review Group. Consequently, the MoD was initially somewhat reluctant to hire him as it was feared that he was a Trotskyite.

He served several months in the Greek Islands as part of his national service.

After Dr. Archibald Hemmings committed suicide by jumping under a train in 1964, Julian assisted Allison and her Intrusion Countermeasures Group colleagues Group Captain Ian Gilmore and Professor Rachel Jensen in investigating the Sen-Gen Facility, where Hemmings had been working until his death. Due in part to his anti-military views, he did not have a particularly high opinion of Gilmore, remarking to Allison that the Group Captain was so buttoned up that he was surprised that he could fit his head through his collar. Similarly, Gilmore was not fond of Julian on either a personal or a professional level. He was contemptuous of the science of psychology, claiming that it involved nothing more than getting people to talk about their feelings and who their mothers at length. He told Julian that he had several elderly aunts that spent most of their time doing the same thing.

He and Allison had started dating in 1961 but, after three years, she was becoming concerned as to what he wanted from their relationship. When the artificially intelligent Sentient Engine Generator 2 computer (Sen-Gen) had tapped into her mind and amplified her subconscious fears, Allison went to his flat and cut all of his clothes with the exception of his tennis outfit into shreds and wrote, "Why don't you love me enough?" in Pastel Pink lipstick across his wardrobe.

Under Sen-Gen's influence, she later threatened to shoot him. However, Julian told her that she could resist Sen-Gen as she was the strongest willed person that he knew. He explained that he did not take their relationship any further as he did not want to hold her back. In order to reaffirm his love for her, he proposed to her. She accepted and put the gun down. Julian later reflected that they would have to come up with a story to tell not only Allison's mother, whose presence he claimed was enough to trigger a psychotic episode, but their children in years to come.

Impressed by his initiative during the Sen-Gen incident, Sir Toby Kinsella offered Julian the opportunity to be re-assigned to General Peters' staff in order to assist with a special project of the utmost secrecy. (CM: Artificial Intelligence)