PILOT
Name: Nastasza Swarc / Natalie Schwartz

Age: 26

Former Rank and Affiliation: First Lieutenant and Political Commissar, Air Forces of the New National People’s Army and Ministry for State Security (Stasi)

Height: 166 cm

Weight: 63 kg

Pilot Class: TBD

Nationality: Polish, citizen of the New German Democratic Republic

Appearance:

As a proud officer and Political Commissar, Natalie makes a point of keeping an impeccable appearance. Except when flying and sleeping, she wears her service uniform properly and keeps it clean as if it were the only clothes she has, from the cap to the boots. The only exception to this rule is that she forgoes the waist belt, finding it to be inconvenient for her form, making a distraction for her comrades. She keeps herself very clean due to relegating work on her aircraft to technicians and engineers and has never been seen with a single mark or blemish on her uniform or her face. Her blonde hair is silky smooth due to near-excessive care given to it. As for her body, she has a very feminine figure and she attempts not let this be the main impression that she gives by moving and generally carrying a posture of authority. She wears a cross necklace as a memento of her late father, whose death she caused.

Bio:
Born in a small village in a Polish speaking area of central Europe’s countryside, Nastasza Swarc was raised by a single father who cared for her after her mother was taken in a raid on their small village. Life was hard, though it was peaceful, with the villagers doing their able best to help one another, like a large family. The worst memories she had of her childhood were raids on the village by bandits and needing to hide in the cellar of their small house as it was ransacked and ruined, often losing everything they had gathered over the last few months.

One day, a rumble could be heard throughout the town, a sound normally associated to raiders, but this steady roar was much different than any that had been heard before. Rather than a team of bandits, Nastasza and her father found men in uniforms with rifles and vehicles marching through the town, speaking a strange language and claiming that the area was now part of the New Polish People’s Republic, a tiny puppet state of the New German Democratic Republic, being made to neighbor the NGDR in former Polish land. Soon enough, the so-called “socialist” (a new word to the villagers) forces had established a hold on the town. Hearing of cities to the west, in the NGDR, where the buildings were only half in ruins and there was never a danger of being raided, Nastasza and her father moved to the city of Leipzig, the provisional capital of the NGDR until the “liberation” of Berlin.

Here, Nastasza was shown a new life and the young girl soon found herself enamored with the lifestyle and regime of the people, seeing as synonymous with order, peace and rebuilding from the ruins of the old world, even under the oppression of the Party and, particularly, the Ministry of State Security, Stasi for short, who watched every citizen and made short work of any perceived “enemies” of the state, whenever they were reported. It was a place where husbands reported their wives, parents snitched on their children, workers on coworkers and the list only went on and on, however, for Nastasza, these were means to the end of keeping order and eliminating dangerous oppositon. By her own choice, she decided to join the Young Pioneers and her loyalty to the state and Party only grew from there. She became a fervent partisan, happily taking part in the adventures of her Pioneer group, listening to the myth-like stories of socialism in the old world with wide eyes.

When she was 10 years old, she came home one night from her Pioneer activities to find her father drinking and playing cards with other Polish friends, as she had become accustomed to. Now, however, she decided to listen in on their conversation and she was horrified to find them criticizing her beloved Party. Everything they said sounded to her like plotting against the Republic and she went to bed in tears at the horrors she had heard. By noon the next day, the act had been done; she had reported her father and his friends to the Stasi, without the slightest remorse, though she loved her father dearly as her only family. Over the next few months, the Zersetzung went on. A psychological technique devised by the first Stasi in the old world, it used the powerful network of collaborators, records and power over institutions to psychologically oppress political enemies, often by devising a steady collapse of their life, at least in the new Stasi’s definition, without the victim ever suspecting the Stasi. Her father lost his job, lost money gambling, was beaten up by crooks and muggers and began drinking, until five months after Nastasza had reported him to the Stasi, she returned home not to find him drinking and happily talking with old friends, but hanging from the ceiling lamp.

At the age of 14, four years later, Nastasza, now living by the German name of Natalie Schwartz joined the Free German Youth, the official youth movement of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and four years later, after finishing school, she wasted no time joining the Air Forces of the New National People’s Army. With her past as a Pioneer and a member of the youth movement, she was chosen to be not only a fighter pilot but also a Political Commissar, the officer assigned to a unit to monitor morale and more importantly ensure loyalty and that the squadron carries out its tasks in accordance to the will of the Party and the people. Even if she had a superior in the squadron, she was able to supersede and countermand orders issued by her CO, she also had the power to carry out summary executions on deserters and traitors, a privilege which she used freely and often. As a country that considered itself the only nation truly dedicated to the rebuilding of its territories and with the only ideology that could be dedicated to this, the New German Democratic Republic was practically constantly at war and over the next six years, she gathered a huge amount of experience fighting whoever the NGDR decided was its enemy, whether it was the WEC, other Germans or countries to the east and west, sortieing daily in her MiG-21PFn.A.

Soon, she had gained a fearful reputation, but not so much among her enemies as among her allies. Anyone who wasn’t totally loyal to the Party feared her and even hated her and as rumors spread of her snitching on her father, even disgust towards her was felt. Still, this didn’t keep her from ruling over her squadron with a red, iron fist and she had no mercy for those she deemed “counter-revolutionaries”. This caught the eye of the Stasi and following a rough mission that left her with some leave time and a leg that would heal fast anyway, she was recruited by the Ministry of State Security. During this time, she learned English, French and learned to speak said languages with a small handful of accents and she participated in a spot of foreign espionage before returning to her fatherland to work on hunting rebels, defectors and even hunting dissidents within the Party itself. After two years, she was returned to the Air Force and was put at the head of a squadron manned entirely by pilots who were secretly Stasi agents, with the objective of hunting down mid-mission any military units which were thought to participate in counter-revolutionary activities. She fought many of the best pilots of her own Air Force, all while participating in some of the most dangerous missions in order to distract from her squadron’s true purpose.

Coming to the present date, following a posting by her superiors in the Stasi of Natalie on mercenary boards and lists as a way of investigating other countries and soldiers of fortune, she was given the mission of joining the Red Baroness’ group and investigating her operations and goals...

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