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First Found

First by C.J. when he stumbled on the original parts from Blackstone Industries on a train bound for the scrap heap. The parts came together on their own and saved C.J.'s life from Desdemona. CC "accidentally" started everything. The parts and C.J. first parted ways when C.J. wound up hopping a different freight in Little Rock, Arkansas and accidentally hopped on a boxcar bound for Chicago where he would ultimately meet Gossamer for the first time. The parts itself, went on to Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where due to a snafu in paperwork, the boxcar was dropped and abandoned on a siding. The railroad car they would later join in was parked next to the boxcar, a remnant of a streamlined train called the Mexicali Rose, a train that used to go from Miami to Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico via the Gulf Coast, crossing the border in Texas. The train ceased service with the formation of Amtrak, the train was split up, the observation car wound up in Louisiana. The rest is unknown.

Creation of Elias

Dun' was the first to find everything looking for C.J. and Arell, who were hiding out from some trouble they wound up in. Checking the boxcar first, he saw some strange pieces of equipment flashing lights when he accidentally bumped into a switch looking for his brothers. When he alerted his brothers to it later, the three went to inspect it further. The artificial intelligence side blipped out a message Arell was able to translate from Morse Code: Save Us. Scrapyard. They originally were going to try to move it to Arell's truck, but the weight of everything proved too much for the back of the truck. They decided to move everything to the railroad car ahead when they noticed the door had pretty much been rusted open due to age.

The parts tended to start to adapt to their new surroundings and tried to make itself more "at home" with the surroundings. Over time, the guys found out more about the equipment. Originally, Dun' put the finishing touches on everything to go back and rescue Nick from some life choices, but after Nick returned and more situations (breakup, Nick almost demolishing the boys' home in a drunken rage, etc.) he told C.J. to take over, so disgusted with the idea he almost used that machine for helping the mobster. When the cops caught up to their bootlegging and bank robbing streak later, C.J. took shelter in Elias and barely managed to escape from St. Agnes and the feds. C.J. would later agree to testify on Blackstone's behalf about the Breaux Bridge raids to keep it on Razolli in return for Blackstone helping clear the charges against them. After the cops arrested the Razolli family and essentially banished the mafia clan from operating in the gulf coast, the town of Breaux Bridge just let him have the train car. (They weren't using it anyway.)

Maintenance/Runs

Elias runs off Magitech, often fueled by equal parts raw magic and Ethanol. (C.J. and Arell keep a spare still to help keep Elias running. Half of the shine they make goes to fueling Elias.) Magitech comes from the parts getting a boost from Edel's magic later on. The magic part of the Magitech helps it maintain the spaces it needs, creates rooms at will, helps ensure it's able to accomplish the tasks at hand.

In turn, C.J. takes a month (every October, the month he originally ran into the parts. Elias reminded him.) to essentially take Elias and go through to repair what needs repairing, maintenance, the whole nine. The process takes him a month where he just returns to Florida, gets his tools and gets to work. Oil changes, turbine repair, the whole nine. Since the parts aren't exactly stuff he can get from Autozone, he sometimes has to adapt, hence why some of the parts Nova was appalled to find held together by duct tape, bailing wire, and sheer dumb luck. After the incident in Ciudad del Reyes and the Raizon incident, Nova, Kettle, Arell, and Del Toro helped C.J. give Elias a complete overhaul. Lawson provided the new car body under the table, feeling the NSHU was partially (mostly) responsible for Elias' destruction in the first place. Lawson considered it an olive branch when he found out that C.J. was still angry and nervous about NSHU ANYTHING after the Raizon incident, and between Lawson the NSHU's branch leader and Jeb the boys' father, Jeb won out and he purchased the new railroad car. Delivering it himself via some of C.J.'s friends on the railroad and his brother-in-law, "Uncle Curtis", who got it shipped as "part of a military operation" to circumvent Peters' prying eyes. They overhauled it at the Del Toro's private trainyard, which is why Lawson and Emily (who came down and helped, bonding with C.J. over their love of classic cars) are two of nine C.J. outright trusts from the agency.

The other seven being Arell, Dun', Nick, Chase, Nicole, Scarlet, and Dorian (Deputized when Lawson needed to find the boys in Mexico).

He DOES, however, go back and make up for any time lost when he finishes though, which is how he still is seen with the circus sometimes in October.