Viktoriya Anatoliyevna Oshkina, Captain of the Committee of State Security of the Soviet Union

N/A as of this time, though the party may assign her one as they see fit.

Biological Age - 30
Temporal Age - 230

Female

Euh, you'll have to ask the Russian army?

It is rare to see a non-American in the Wastelands of the post-war North America. Even rarer still to see a Soviet from the pre-war World, and one so identifiably so. Viktoriya stands at five feet and ten inches tall, with short - almost boyishly so - raven-black hair, usually concealed beneath a peaked cap bearing the red star of the Soviet Union, or a fur ushanka. Her eyes are of a greenish-grey colour, with a piercing stare that almost looks through you, rather than at you directly, with round, full lips usually bearing either pink or red lipstick. Her skin is pale, almost white - as one might expect from someone who hails from frigid climes such as northern European Russia, and without scar or blemish, though she sports several tattoos - most notably the tattoo beneath her left eye, as well as a large double-headed eagle across her upper back. She is relatively well-built, as one would expect from someone who is primarily a soldier, weighing in at around 190 pounds, with a relatively full bosom, though commenting on such will likely get you a hard slap.

Viktoriya can usually be seen sporting Soviet 'Chasovoy' (Sentry) military gear looted from former Soviet embassy guards, as befits a former member of the KGB outfitted for a hostile environment. She usually has a thick red greatcoat with additional armoured shoulder plates, armoured gloves, heavy reinforced and armoured boots, an armoured chestpiece with integrated rebreather and mask, and a heavy 6B51 helmet, all rated to stop or deflect most incoming fire. Outside of her Chasovoy gear, Viktoriya usually sports a traditional Soviet green officer's uniform with black leather gloves and a peaked cap with insignia of the KGB.

To most people who pass her by, Viktoriya seems to be a 'typical' Russian; hard-bitten, cynical, no-nonsense and a woman of few words. And that much is true - at least, that much is true so far as she wants most people to see her. Viktoriya is a woman of two faces - an official face, and a personal face. Her official persona is just that: brusque, even blunt, and straight to business. She does not suffer fools gladly, nor will she tolerate idiocy. She is quick to call out bullshit, and does not care for sugar-coating, nor does she overly care for flattery. Those who stand in her way die. Those who betray her, or attempt to, die screaming. The distinction is important. And those who have information she wants... will be broken.

However, on a more personal level, to people she can trust, or to comrades-in-arms, Viktoriya opens up, and almost pulls an about-face. She is a warmer, more tolerant, easy-going person, swapping stories and singing old songs around a campfire. Those who are more familiar with Viktoriya's more official persona may be somewhat shocked, or disturbed, at this change, and might be left in doubt as to which is actually Viktoriya's true personality. The truth is, of course, Viktoriya's personality is whatever she needs it to be at that occasion, as one might expect from a former intelligence operative. Personalities are malleable, to be shaped and moulded to one's situation.

Viktoriya is fearless. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

Okay, in all seriousness, Viktoriya has a few fears, and most of them are related to one particular time... Her biggest fear is perhaps that of being left alone in the wasteland to survive by herself, in a hostile world full of raiders, mutants and mutated wildlife. Her journey south out of New York City was a torrid and dangerous one, filled with death, blood and monstrous creatures - one that she is not eager to repeat any time soon. She saw too many of her former comrades-in-arms torn apart by the creatures of the former city of New York, and any attempt to broach the subject with her will not end well. She often wakes up at night from nightmares screaming, where she relives the horrific fights for her life in New York.

City of Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Soviet Union

Viktoriya Oshkina was born on March 24th, 2050 to Kapitan 1a Ranga Anatoly Oshkin and Natalya Oshkina in the city of Arkhangelsk in the northern USSR, on the shores of the White Sea. Her father was a noted naval officer, commander of the Typhoon II-class nuclear guided missile submarine Komsomolets, assigned to the Northern Fleet, whilst her mother Natalya was daughter of Viktor Serebryakov, a member of the Politburo - as such, Viktoriya was born into as high-class a family as one could get in the Soviet Union, a daughter of the Party and of the Soviet Navy. However, Viktoriya's home life was not an easy one. The Soviet Union in the 2050s was going through a difficult and painful transition to a nuclear-based economy, and common goods and energy shortages were common. Popular unrest was rising, whilst in Europe and the Middle East, tensions had already boiled over into all-out war, with nuclear exchanges. It was in this maelstrom of violence, rioting and state suppression that Viktoriya grew up, with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact beginning to slide ever closer to war with its closest neighbours. Anatoly Oshkin was often away from the family home, deployed for ever longer periods of time aboard the Komsomolets, ready to strike with nuclear missiles at any of the Union's enemies.

Life was harsh for Viktoriya - with her mother stressed from the global situation, and bereft of her father for much of her childhood, Viktoriya grew up a loner, dedicating herself to her studies and her physical fitness, for Viktoriya's ambition was to follow her father into the armed forces. The same armed forces were plunged into full-scale combat for the first time since 1945 on the 1st of April, 2061, when the fragmenting European Commonwealth imploded into the European Civil War, and the Warsaw Pact's leaders saw an opportunity to expand Soviet influence towards the Atlantic to provide a buffer against any potential American eastward expansion back onto the European continent... and the Soviet Union saw an excuse to fight a war that could distract its populace from the hardships they were facing on the home front.

Soviet and PACT forces attacked West Germany's Fulda Gap, Iceland, and Norway. Immediate gains were solid, with the European forces having been focusing on killing each other, rather than paying attention to any buildup of forces in the Warsaw Pact's territories, whilst European naval skirmishes were brief. However, initial progress slowed, and the Soviet forces became mired in fighting along the Franco-Belgian-Dutch border line, after the conquest of West Germany. Further strikes against Turkey, northern Italy and Denmark opened further fronts for the Warsaw Pact's forces to make further headway against former Commonwealth states, but still, France and the United Kingdom held firm.

In the meantime, the Sino-American War had broken out in 2066. Despite American concerns as to whether the Soviet Union would become involved in the War on the Chinese side, the Union had no intention of supporting their supposed comrades in the revolution. Indeed, Sino-Soviet relations were at an all time low following several border clashes in Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, and war had been threatened by the Politburo if the Chinese did not cease and desist with their actions. The Chinese, who could now ill-afford a war with the Soviet Union as well as the United States, backed down after a period of tense negotiations, but this left a bitter taste in Moscow's mouth, and overtures were made towards the United States for another period of detente between the two nations. The Soviets were not the powerhouse they once were, of course, and the United States were wary of the Soviet intentions in Europe following their invasion in 2061, but both sides had a common goal; to contain the Chinese. It was as a result of these diplomatic ties that the Soviet Embassy in New York City was re-established on December 4th, 2068.

At the same time, Viktoriya had turned 18, and had been conscripted into the Soviet Armed Forces. Ordinarily, she would have perhaps been destined for a career in the Navy, as her father was, but instead, her grandfather's influence was shown to have its effect - instead, she was inducted into the lower ranks of the KGB State Security Forces, as a Mladshiy Leytenant (Junior Lt) of State Security. Her posting was initially as a lower-ranking member of the guard at the Arkhangelsk Naval Yard, protecting the Soviet Union's primarily nuclear missile submarine base, but again her grandfather was able to pull some strings in the background - in 2071, Viktoriya was promoted to Leytenant and moved to the Russian Embassy in New York City, where she would remain for the next six years. During that time, Viktoriya became acquainted with several of her opposite numbers in the American intelligence service, rooting out Chinese infiltrators and spies within New York City. The KGB and American intelligence had often been foes of each other, but as always, crises such as the Sino-American War made for odd bedfellows. Indeed, shortly after the conclusion of the Alaskan theatre of war in 2077, talks were held between General Secretary Obukhovskiy and the President of the United States as to a potential Soviet entry into the Sino-American War, citing renewed border tensions over Heilongjiang, Manchuria and Mongolia, but negotiations stalled over potential territorial gains for the Union in northern China, and as such the Soviet Union's forces remained in action only in the European theatre of war - though the Soviet Navy was also widely at sea in the Atlantic and Arctic.

On the 21st of September 2077, the Soviet Embassy took delivery of two large, strange machines, destined for the Sverdlov II-class nuclear cruiser Daniil Moskovskiy, which was steaming at high speed across the Atlantic from Murmansk, escorted by several destroyers. These machines were in actuality cryostorage units, designed to keep those inside in a form of suspended animation until awoken by external monitors at a certain date or through external intervention - To Viktoriya, now a Captain and second in command of the KGB detachment at the Soviet Embassy, no doubt these were prototypes designed by a joint team of Soviet and American designers that were offered to the Soviet Union as an alternative to the 'Vault' Program that the United States government had embarked upon in the decades before the 2070s in order to protect their top governmental structures from a nuclear attack. It was thought that with the Chinese destroyed in a nuclear strike, perhaps what remained of a Soviet and American nation would perhaps be able to rebuild and restore the Earth from the destruction of a global thermonuclear war... though it would be a long process. No sooner had the Daniil Moskovskiy arrived in New York City late on October 22nd, 2077, than Soviet intelligence detected large-scale activity from the Chinese nuclear arsenal. Viktoriya and other Soviet personnel in the Embassy were woken from their sleep to discover that Chinese naval assets had been spotted moving off the American and Soviet coastlines, in violation of territorial waters. Unbeknownst to Viktoriya, her father aboard the Komsomolets had already engaged Chinese submarine forces in the Sargasso Sea, whilst the Soviet Northern Fleet had detected two further Chinese submarine presences in Soviet Arctic waters, and had engaged both with deadly force. By 0330 EST, Chinese bombers were sighted over the Bering Strait, which prompted the Soviet Air Force to scramble all available jets in the area, and all Soviet armed forces moved to full combat readiness. It was only a matter of time...

By 0600 EST, there was no turning back. Soviet air defence had reported initial missile strikes in Petropavlovsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Magadan, Chita, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude. In response, the Soviet nuclear arsenal was unleashed on the Chinese, the order being given at 0701, but this brought the Europeans into the fray, with Soviet air defence detecting launches from British and French nuclear silos an hour later. All of this had occurred before even the first launches had targeted the United States. Millions had died, and all the guards at the Soviet Embassy could do was watch in horror as they witnessed perhaps the death of their country in clouds of broiling nuclear fire. And then, at 0913 EST, it was the turn of the United States. The IONDS estimated the first four missile trajectories. Four minutes later, NORAD confirmation, as they say, sealed the fate of the world. The President of the United States ordered the American nuclear arsenal fired in response at 0926, whilst in the Soviet Embassy, all but the most important staff retreated to the embassy's fortified underground bunker. Major Yuri Kurotkin, commander of the KGB guards, was left with a difficult choice - what would they do with the cryogenic storage pods in the bunker? There was no time to load them aboard the Daniil Moskovskiy, which itself had already made preparations to set sail with her escorting fleet, and only two people would be saved if they decided to use them. Kurotkin, as such, made his fateful decision.

Viktoriya, as his second in command, and the Soviet Ambassador, General Ivan Komskiy, would survive. Despite Viktoriya's protests, Kurotkin's decision was final. Viktoriya hesitantly agreed, and stripped to her underwear to avoid the worst of the cryogenic process. No sooner had she climbed into the storage pod, and the world began to grow dark... and cold...

The first nuke hit New York City.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - As a former KGB operative, Viktoriya is well-versed in many facets of espionage, including hacking, assassination, sabotage and infiltration. She is a master interrogator in particular, able to wrestle information from even the most resistant of individuals - though she is not at all above using torture or other methods to achieve her goals. However, since the end of humanity as she knew it, she has had little chance to exercise her abilities in espionage save for a few odd jobs, mostly relying on her soldiery to get by since emerging from the Russian consulate.

New York Survivor - New York is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous cities in all of the former United States; a heavily-irradiated hellhole, infested largely by feral ghouls, southern gargoyles, deathclaws and other monstrous creatures, it's a miracle if anything makes it out of there alive. Viktoriya is one of those miracles... though it came at a heavy price to the Embassy guards.

Knowledge of English - It might seem a bit superfluous to note down, but Viktoriya has a near-native command of the English language.

Knowledge of the Past - As someone from the pre-War world (whose face isn't rotten like a piece of meat in the sun), Viktoriya is in a somewhat unique position. Her pre-war knowledge would undoubtedly come in handy in several situations - and even when not, it's a nice way to keep morale up by asking questions about what the world used to be like before the bombs fell.

FSS-034 Helmet-mounted Light
Water Canteen
Multitool
Watch
60-litre Backpack & Load-bearing equipment
1-PN-019 Multi-Vision Scope
First Aid Kit (including morphine, epinephrine, clotting agents, field dressings, bandages)

"She's KGB!" - KGB operatives are trained to a high standard, able to go toe-to-toe with some of the best of the best. Viktoriya is no exception. Able to improvise her way out of many situations, Viktoriya is perfectly capable of killing a man with her bare hands in several different ways, be it strangulation, a broken neck, or even simply blunt force trauma applied repeatedly to the skull. Viktoriya is not afraid to get her hands dirty, and is perfectly happy to engage someone at close range if necessary. She is an adept knife-fighter as well, able to use speed and agility to avoid injury and aim for the opponent's vitals, to deal with them swiftly and as silently as possible.

Rifle Expertise - The AK-15 was the KGB's rifle of choice before the bombs fell, and was one of many that continued the long line of Kalashnikov rifles created in the USSR, along with the AK-112 and other Kalashnikov pattern guns that Viktoriya is familiar with. Trained primarily as light infantry, KGB security personnel are expected to maintain a high level of marksmanship and familiarity with assault rifles, and Viktoriya is no exception.

Grenadier - Grenades are second only to diamonds as a woman's best friend, and Viktoriya would never be without them. Light infantrymen live and die by their ability to deal with larger targets with grenades and other explosive weapons, and Viktoriya is a deft hand with a frag, gas or stun grenade. She also is more than capable of ruining someone's day with an RPG to the face.

Name: Project 959B Izumrud-class, US designation Typhoon II-class
Builders: SEVMASH Dockyard, Severodvinsk (designed by Rubin Design Bureau)
Preceded by: Konkurs-class
Succeeded by: N/A

Built: 2045-2051
In Service: 2049-2077(?)

Planned: 7
Completed: 7
Active: 7 as of October 22nd, 2077
Lost: 0 (7 during Great War?)

Type: Ballistic/guided missile submarine
Displacement: 32,500 - 35,700 tons surfaced (31,986 - 35,136 long tons)
61,000 - 71,500 tons submerged (60,036 - 70,370 long tons)

Length: 282 m
Beam: 57 m
Draught: 32 m

Propulsion: 2 x OK-800 pressurised water reactor nuclear reactors (260 MWt each)
2 x VV-940 triple-geared steam turbines (55 MW, or 74292 hp each)
Twin high-speed pump-jet propulsion units, plus MHD-01 'silent drive'

Speed: 24.81 knots (45.95 km/h) surfaced
35.48 knots (65.71 km/h) submerged

Endurance: 180+ days submerged, limited only by food stores onboard

Test Depth: 2800 feet (853.40 m)

Complement: 235 officers and men

Armament: 6 × 533mm torpedo tubes (32 torpedoes/missiles)
- UGST-M conventional torpedoes
- USET-50 wake-homing torpedoes
- VK-128 'Uragan' supercavitating torpedoes (nuclear warhead-capable)
- RPK-12 'Liven' Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC) missiles (torpedo or nuclear depth charge)

2 × 650mm torpedo tubes (6 torpedoes/missiles)
- Type 65-RSMK wake homing torpedoes

16 × RSM-80 SLBMs

32 × 3M70 cruise missiles

TK-305 RZHEVSK
Commander: Captain 1st Rank Alexei Konstantinovich Grazhin
Laid down: 21st June 2045
Launched: 18th August 2048
Commissioned: 19th October 2049
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet

TK-306 DMITRI DONSKOI
Commander: Captain 1st Rank Yelena Pavlova Stanisheva
Laid Down: 8th August 2045
Launched: 19th March 2050
Commissioned: 22nd April 2051
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet

TK-307 KOMSOMOLETS
Commander: Captain 1st Rank Anatoly Anatolyevich Oshkin
Laid Down: 25th March 2050
Launched: 1st September 2052
Commissioned: 12th October 2053
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet

TK-308 MAGADAN
Commander: Captain 1st Rank Pavel Daniilovich Serov
Laid Down: 28th March 2050
Launched: 1st September 2052
Commissioned: 18th October 2053
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet

TK-309 NORIL'SK
Commander: Captain 1st Rank Kuzma Stepanovich Khromchenko
Laid Down: 14th May 2050
Launched: 19th October 2052
Commissioned: 29th November 2053
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet

TK-310 IOSEF VISSARIONOVICH STALIN
Commander: Kontr-Admiral Lev Isaakovich Ibramov
Laid Down: 15th May 2050
Launched: 27th December 2052
Commissioned: 8th March 2053
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet

TK-311 SAMARKAND
Commander: Captain 1st Rank Nikolai Nikolayevich Andreyenko
Laid Down: 1st February 2051
Launched: 9th June 2054
Commissioned: 23rd May 2055
Fleet: Red Banner Northern Fleet