Editing Campaign:Pokemon Bismuth/Ted Palm (section)

===Background===
Ted grew up with a childhood much like any other, but where other children wanted to go out and become '''POKEMON CHAMPIONS''' or some other such thing, Ted knew he wanted to be a Pokemon Professor. So, unlike many other kids, who went off to go have ''ADVENTURES'' at a fairly young age, Ted went to study under the Kanto region's pokemon professor: Gary Oak (The previous Professor Oak having retired some years earlier). It was a tough 8 years as he learned the basics, but Ted was a quick learner, only hampered by his rather terrible luck and tendency to do thing like fall into Trapinch sandpits. Of particular interest to Ted was a specific pokemon evolution line: The Porygons. 

Ted obtained his first official pokemon when he personally helped develop it in Gary Oak's lab. By now the means of creating a Porygon were fairly well understood and the process was not terribly difficult. With a few personal tweaks, Ted had managed to produce an above-average Porygon specimen whom has since learned to communicate via electronic devices. While it is quite intelligent and capable of complex thought, it tends to convey messages with a bit of crypticness stemming from its odd thought processes. 

It was this experience that prompted Ted to choose his area of specialization. He believed Porygon, as an artificially created pokemon, was essentially modular and had a great deal of room for expansion, possibly variations that encompassed all the various typing combinations. He has hence devoted himself to a specialization in Porygons, though he is still accomplished when dealing with other pokemon. 

Now Ted's apprenticeship is nearly at an end; his last task before officially becoming a full-fledged pokemon professor is to do some solo field-work and he has set out to the Hoenn region chasing rumors of an unidentified pokemon having been spotted there.