Before the events of Batman Begins
Doctor Victor Fries. One of the best cryogenic scientists in the world. He worked for a company called "Gothcorp", a corporation located in Gotham City. Victor was proud of the work he has done in the past and what he shall do in the future.
As a cryogenic scientist, his job was to study the production and behaviors of certain materials at incredibly low temperatures. Colder than even this frozen wasteland of Antarctica, which on average the temperature of Antarctica would be well-below zero degrees and the lowest temperature ever recorded was 184 degrees Kelvin. Which for people that were not cryogenic experts was about -129 degrees Fahrenheit or -89 degrees Celsius. Because he was a cryogenic expert, he did not use the Fahrenheit or Celsius scale, instead he used Kelvin because of the extremely bitter temperatures he works with
184 degrees Kelvin was nothing compared to what Victor Fries' job requires him to do. At the very least, he had to work with a temperature of 123 degrees Kelvin (-150 degrees Fahrenheit). He works with liquid nitrogen, watched a thermal shock, along with other things that helped the world in the field of cryogenics.
Currently, he is located in Antarctica where he is buliding, among others, a machine that could, would, change the world for the better. Everybody knows about global warming and how it's affecting our world. Nobody is doing anything to stop it, nobody except for Victor Fries.
He believes that because the people are continually using anthropogenic greenhouse gases such as automobiles, the release of air pollution from factories across the world, the removal of natural habitats, with many, many, others without stopping, he thinks that instead of trying to stop people from doing things to the environment that Victor should use his knowledge to stop the glaciers from melting, as that is one of the major things that is happening to the world.
Victor Fires along with Ferris Boyle, designed an entire mobile base in the Antarctic. It was huge, nearly one hundred meters long in length, and it runs on a total of eight giant wheels that are each ten meters in height, with four wheels on each side. The width of the base was 50 meters, and looked basically like a giant rectangle on wheels.
It was painted totally black, as you could be able to see it coming miles and miles away, with the words "Gothcorp" painted in red across the middle of the base on both sides and underneath it read the slogan of Gothcorp; the words "A People's Company".
Gothcorp was a political company that always, at least it was suppose to, put the people's needs first and so decided the best way to "help" people was to hire Dr. Fries and tell him to stop global warming. So that is what he did, he built this base as a research facility that would hopefully help others with their experiments
The part that would change the world was a giant freeze cannon located on top of the base. The cannon itself was ten meters by ten meters and could only fire at up to about three shots per minute, but it must be within one thousand feet in order to work.
It's job was to fire at glaciers. The melting glaciers that threatened to raise the sea level up, if they got a report that a major glacier was melting and on the verge of collapsing, the base would travel to the coordinates at maximum speeds of nearly two hundred miles per hour, which was dangerous, so they only go about fifty at the most, to the glacier, activate the cannon and refreeze the glacier, thus ending global warming.
Victor Fries received the Noble-Prize award for Psychics.
"…And I accept this prize with a feeling that with this new Freeze Base, the world can focus it's attention on more important matters now. I promise that with this new technological marvel we can finally achieve peace in this world; our only world, for without this, where would we be?" Victor Fries said for his acceptance speech. He has never been this happy before, knowing that his work will be talked about for years and years to come.
Well, of course, there was one thing more important than his work and that was his wife, Nora. Married over two summers ago, Nora Fries has followed Victor every step of the way with this project and Victor could not imagine himself going this far without the love and support from her.
Victor was about to explain how he first got into cryogenics and why it was important to him when…
"Victor!" called one of his workers, Jacob. "Victor! It's your wife! She has just be rushed to the hospital."
Victor nearly dropped the prize right than and there. "What?!?" he yelled. "Where is she?"
"Gotham Hospital, sir. She is fine they say, but they need you to come immediately back to Gotham City." He told Victor.
Without even thinking, he took off, without saying a word to the twenty people actually at the live meeting in Antarctica or speaking to the camera guy recording all of this to the millions of people out there watching him right than and there. He just ran to the helicopter that was stationed at the U.S Base and took off.
Oh, Nora. He thought. I'm coming