Guy begins as a Lab Technician Three at GeneDyne Edison, despite impressive credentials that include a PhD from M.I.T. A smart man, he wrote his dissertation on the tertiary and quaternary protein structure transformation of a viral shell. For Carson, accepting a position at Mount Dragon is much like a homecoming, as his family dates back to Kid Carson, who worked as a drover on the Spanish Trail as a teenager. His great grandfather had a land grant in Hidalgo County where his father eventually managed to go bankrupt after a number of unsuccessful attempts to diversify from cattle ranching. Carson's interest in genetics came out of a failed attempt at crossbreeding cattle that his father attempted.