Nova 6

Nova 6 is a chemical weapon developed by Nazi, Soviet, and Coalescence scientists in Call of Duty: Black Ops continuity.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops, Nova 6 was originally developed by Nazi Germany during the course of World War II by Friedrich Steiner and intended for use in V-2 rockets targeted at major capital cities, such as Washington, D.C. and Moscow. It was later seized, refined, and used by the Soviets, as a component of a grand Soviet sleeper-cell plan by Nikita Dragovich. Preventing its release is one of the primary aims of Alex Mason and the CIA in the 1960s.
Before the events of Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Nova 6 was being secretly manufactured by Coalescence Corporation, on behalf of the CIA Black Project named SP/CORVUS. Due to an incident in a laboratory deep beneath the earth, possibly from the birth of the AI virus Corvus, trace amounts were accidentally released into urban Singapore, enough to rapidly cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and creating a permanent quarantine zone in what would become the worst unexplained industrial disaster in history. In the final ambiguous mission of the campaign "Life", it also appears to be the cause of death of Rachel Kane after being tricked by Corvus.
Nova 6 also appears in Call of Duty Online as a form of currency. Project Nova itself is also mentioned in Call of Duty: Vanguard.
According to a microfiche in "Payback", Nova 6 contains neodymium, rhenium and sulfur.
==History==
===World War II===
When it became clear that the Allied Powers were on the path to a military victory, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis began searching for less conventional ways to destroy their enemies. What they found was a weapon more devastating than even the Nazis could've imagined. Development began in January 1944 under the leadership of Friedrich Steiner, and by 1945, weaponized samples had been produced in sufficient numbers to arm at least a battery of V-2 and the experimental V-3 rockets.
According to reports made by MI6 at that time, the original Nova 6 test site located outside the municipality of Poland was destroyed by heavy bombing. Subsequently, the compounds were transported along the Elbe River to a freighter in the North Sea. Officially, MI6 claimed the freighter was sunk under the direct order of attack and the shipwreck was locked in the Arctic ice. In actuality, the SS survivors tried to salvage what they could from the ship and then rigged the ship with scuttling charges to prevent capture by the Allies. By the time the work was completed, Berlin had fallen and the war in Europe had ended, making an Allied attack inevitable.
===Post-World War II===
In October 1945, after Kravchenko and Dragovich learned of the project's existence from Dragovich's interrogation of German prisoners-of-war, they begin to search for the freighter. The mission was successful in capturing Steiner (who had contacted Dragovich to cut a deal for his own life) and the stockpile of the gas on board. Due to a longstanding grudge, Dragovich had the members of Reznov's squad used as test subjects for the gas to witness its power. While Dimitri Petrenko, Vikharev, and Belov were gassed to death, Reznov, Nevski, and Tvelin managed to escape the gas chamber with the arrival of the British Commandos dispatched to secure or destroy the Nova 6. Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner fled, while Reznov and what was left of his men managed to escape the attack and activate scuttling charges to destroy the ship and the Nova 6 along with it.
===Cold War===
While the original sample of the gas was destroyed, Steiner, Dragovich, and Kravchenko escaped with small samples of the gas; with Steiner alive, the Soviets were able to re-synthesize the gas. According to CIA intelligence, in 1959 Dragovich finally obtained the Party's approval on the use of Nova 6 as a first-strike weapon in the event of World War III.
In 1964, a British chemical engineer, Daniel Clarke, defected and joined the Nova 6 research team to help stabilize certain "volatile compounds". But in 1968, he escaped to Kowloon City in Hong Kong. Dragovich sent Spetsnaz operators to eliminate Clarke, but CIA agents Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver were able to reach him first and obtain information about the Yamantau complex where Nova 6 was being weaponized, as well as the number sequence that would be used to activate the gas. Clarke was killed before he could be safely extracted, however, and his Kowloon lab was destroyed.
The Soviet-produced Nova 6 was developed in a secret facility at Mount Yamantau. Compared to its German predecessor, it was more stable in transport and far more lethal when in use. It was a component gas, mixing two different chemicals to form the final product. First lab-tested in Rebirth Island and then field-tested in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It also saw use in the fighting at Rebirth Island. Both sides, who were anticipating its use, continued the fight in Hazmat suits.
In Dragovich's plan to "strike at the very heart of the west," sleeper agents all across the United States, logistically supported by front company GKM, would release Nova 6 after receiving the broadcast from the Rusalka, a broadcast station disguised as a Soviet freighter. This was to be done as a crippling first strike in the event of a Soviet invasion against the US. However, after Mason remembered the location of the broadcast station, the U.S. Navy bombarded the ship and destroyed the relay, stopping Nova 6 from being unleashed.
===Revival===
Project Nova was briefly revived by Adolf Schlussel in the Winter of 1977, years after his mentor, Friedrich Steiner, was killed. He returned to the Yamantau complex and attempted to resume operations, but the CIA caught wind of it, and a group of soldiers led by Frank Woods fought their way into the complex and killed Schlussel inside. Schlussel had also developed an ICBM with Nova 6 dispersal units, and one that was being tested in Mt. Elbrus was destroyed by Woods. Much like his predecessors, Schlussel tested his Nova 6 on human subjects, as seen when he does so to a captured American soldier.
By 1981, Kravchenko had samples of Nova 6 and its research kept in his office in the Lubyanka Building, implying he was trying to replicate and experiment with the gas himself. During the mission "Desperate Measures", Dimitri Belikov can optionally break into Kravchenko's office and steal the Nova 6 samples to use as poison in Anton Charkov's drink.
In January 1984, Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin, a Soviet operative who was formerly in charge of the production of Nova 6 on Rebirth Island, once again began recreating the agent for Perseus. Stockpiling the agent at the Mall at the Pines, Stitch lured his archenemy Russell Adler and a small task force to the mall and ambushed them with his own men, seeking to eliminate Adler for stabbing out his eye and subsequently causing him to be dishonored by Kravchenko years prior.
===Rediscovery by Coalescence===
Nova 6 has been the chemical agent responsible for the "Singapore Incident", where trace amounts of the gas were released into the atmosphere as a result of the SP/CORVUS DNI experiments gone wrong, killing 300,000 citizens in Singapore. Several Nova 6 canisters also can be found around the old Coalescence facility in the mission "Hypocenter". An unmarked canister of Nova 6 can be collected by the player as well. During the mission "Life", Nova 6 is seen inside the Coalescence Corporation headquarters at Zürich, as a part of renewing the Corvus back project. In the mission "Life", Rachel Kane is killed by the gas after being tricked into entering a chamber which the Corvus entity then sealed off and pumped Nova 6 into.
==Nightmares==
In the Nightmares version of the Call of Duty: Black Ops III campaign, it is revealed that Nova 6 was fused together with Element 115 to create a mind control serum during the DNI testing in the Coalescence facility in 2060. However, it backfired and created a portal to Malum, which allowed Deimos to escape from Malum. He then releases 61-15, the name of the new combination of the two elements, around the world in gas form, in order to create his undead army.
==Masterminds of Project Nova==
Drago-photo2.png|Nikita Dragovich, leader of Project Nova.
Steiner-Intel.png|Friedrich Steiner, the original creator of Nova 6.
Daniel Clarke.png|Daniel Clarke had defected to help stabilize certain volatile compounds.
Kravchenko-Intel BO.png|Lev Kravchenko tested Nova 6 in Vietnam and Laos.
===Other perpetrators===
*Adolf Schlussel was a protégé to Steiner who sought to continue his mentor’s work and revive Nova 6.
*Vikhor Kuzmin was responsible for managing the Nova 6 production facilities on Rebirth Island, reporting directly to Kravchenko. He later resumed his old work of manufacturing Nova 6 for Perseus and his organization to help bring upon a new Russia.
==Appearance and effects==
According to the periodic table, the three basic elements in Nova 6 are (S), (Re) and (Nd).
In the form the Nazis developed, Nova 6 appears as a dark green gas. Upon inhalation, it causes vomiting, violent coughing, muscle convulsions, bleeding from the eyes, and blackening of the skin (necrosis), followed by an agonizing death within 10–20 seconds of exposure.
In the form the Soviets manufactured, Nova 6 retains its green color, albeit with a slight yellow tint, and has a much more instantaneous effect. Once inhaled, it has the same effects as its Nazi version but adding nausea, suffocation, scaling and burning skin, with death "occurring before the body can even hit the ground"."A nerve toxin so deadly that you'd be dead before you hit the floor." - Jason Hudson. The Marine in Rebirth also dies before hitting the ground. This has a 100% fatality rate, as noted by Dr. Clarke in "Numbers". According to Kravchenko in "Victor Charlie", the gas was tested on infants, causing death within 30 to 40 seconds. It is easily noticeable and can be avoided by using gas masks and MOPP-4 hazmat suits, but its extreme potency, lethality and lack of an available antidote still makes it a horrific weapon when used against a civilian target.
The Coalescence produced Nova 6 is mostly similar to the Soviet form, although its color is now light green. Effects on victims seem to be the same as the Soviet variant as evidenced in "Life".
==Victims of Nova 6==
*Dimitri Petrenko (killed by Nikita Dragovich in Project Nova)
*Belov (killed by Nikita Dragovich in Project Nova)
*Vikharev (killed by Nikita Dragovich in Project Nova)
*Fulsang (killed by a Spetsnaz Mi-8 Hip deploying N6 canisters in Rebirth)
*Civilians of Rebirth Island
*Several SOG Operatives (killed by Lev Kravchenko)
*Several Viet Cong Members (killed by Lev Kravchenko) 
*Several Spetsnaz Operatives (Killed by Lev Kravchenko)
*Civilians of Vietnam (killed by Lev Kravchenko)
*Captured American Operative (killed by Adolf Schlussel)
*Anton Charkov (poisoned by Dimitri Belikov via spiked drink) (player-determined)
*300,000 civilians in Singapore (killed by the accident in the SP/CORVUS black project)
*Rachel Kane in Coalescence Corporation HQ, Zürich, Switzerland (in Life)
==Call of Duty Online==
In Call of Duty Online, Colonel Harker mixed Nova 6 with Element 115 to create dirty bombs.
==Gallery==
InfectedBO.JPG|Pvt. Fulsang poisoned by Nova 6.
Nova 6 being released on Petrenko in Project Nova BO.png
Dimitri Patrenko Nova6.PNG|Dimitri Petrenko as he dies from Nova 6.
Dimitri's Death Project Nova BO.png
Nova 6 effects on Petrenko Project Nova BO.png|Nova 6 effects on Dimitri
nova 6.png|Component chemicals mixed together to form Nova 6.
Bomb TP Model BO.png|Nova 6 bomb in third-person view.
Search and Destroy Bomb BO.png|Arming a Nova 6 bomb.
Nova6.png|Nova 6 insignia.
Nova 6 boom.JPG|Weaponized Nova 6.
Nova 6 targets.JPG|Grigori Weaver photographing the targets.
Nova 6 test.JPG|Intel photos of Kravchenko's test.
Nova 6 Bomb.jpg|A picture of the Nova 6 shown in the cutscene before "Redemption".
Nova 6 Cutscene.jpg|Nova 6 during Project Nova cutscene.
Nova 6 containers "Five" BO.png|Original Nazi containers as seen in the labs in "Five".
Nova 6 BO3.png|Nova 6 in Black Ops III
Nova 6 effects BO3.png|Rachel Kane dying from Nova 6.
Nova 6 canister Life BO3.png|A Nova 6 canister in "Life" Black Ops 3.
==Trivia==
===General===
*There are at least two identified strains of the Nova gas in addition to Nova 6: Nova 4 and Nova 5.
**In Call of Duty: Warzone, the intel mission "Outside Influence" reveals that Nova production was underway in Rebirth Island, while shipments of Nova 4 were delivered to Verdansk for "wartime trials".
**In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, one of the upgrade variants for the Decompressive Isotopic Estrangement Machine is called the D.I.E. NOVA-5.
===Call of Duty: Black Ops===
*On the Wii version of Call of Duty: Black Ops, the necrotic effects of Nova 6 are not displayed.
*Canisters of Nova 6 can be found in the Zombies map "Five" in the labs section and Kino der Toten near the teleporter.
**This also extends to the remake of "Five" in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4; Classified, however all Nazi symbolism was removed from the canisters.
*Some of the states in the U.S.A. aren't targets of the Nova 6 gas as seen when Weaver takes photos of the map with the targets. However, in a piece of intel, it shows all the states are targets.
===Call of Duty: Black Ops III===
*Coalescence Corporation received Nova 6 from the CIA after Sebastian Krueger found out about Alex Mason's story by reading messages from the Black ops Terminal and asked the CIA to get him Nova 6. This can seen within messages in the Black ops 3 terminal. 
===Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War===
*The periodic numbers of the three elements within Nova 6 (neodymium, rhenium and sulfur) act as the combination to Kravchenko’s safe in his office within the Lubyanka building in Desperate Measures, forming the code "16-75-60".
*When switching to the D.I.E NOVA-5 variant in Die Maschine, Elizabeth Grey would make references to Nova 6.
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III===
*Multiple barrels of Nova 6 can be found within the map, Sub Base.
==References==
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops Lethal Equipment