User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20160206060538/@comment-4867780-20160302101947

An important thing to understand about Lawrence is that he's not the human who gained powers like it usually happens, he is a unique entity that was born when the shard gained sentience and identity through its merging with the human. To use a comparison, Lawrence is kinda like Alex Mercer from Prototype : not actually Mercer himself, but the Blacklight virus whose primary identity was set in stone by its first host.

Except Lawrence knew from the start he was a different entity from his historical host, due to his History Absorption and Data Manipulation abilities, that allowed him to immediately understand the source of his own identity. So who the human was and what kind of life he had doesn't matter all that much, since he was ultimately someone else.

Nonetheless, he does owe him his long-standing core identity. As such, he recreated his host afterwards and returned him to his family. Over the course of a generation, he turned their native society into the first utopia, that became the prototype for the future Selforge Protectorates and Project Salvation, expanding until it encompassed their whole world.