Warlord

==For Mother Russia==
Yuri Gregorovich was born in a small Russian village before the collapse of the Soviet Union. His mother died giving birth to him, which made his father resent and hate him. When he was old enough he stole away from home and joined the Soviet Army, eventually working his way into the elite fighting unit known as the Spetznas. He had been hand selected by his superiors to take part in a special Soviet project before being sent into the war brewing in Afghanistan. Dr. Milan Ryzl, a Czechoslovakian biochemist who performed parapsychological experiments, and who pioneered research in mind control experimented on him along with a small group of others to create a squadron of psychic soldiers. Yuri was the only subject to show real results and was placed on a team of special operatives. He used his new telekinetic and telepathic powers to ravage and destroy the enemy. His psychic powers grew daily, causing him to have nose bleeds, intense headaches and emotional problems. Despite all this he completed all objectives given to him and the team he was with, people like Lucifer and Dragunov. He was even given his own code name, the Voyevoda or Warlord. The Americans and Mujahideen both feared him and his powers and he reveled in the destruction he caused.
==Loosing the Battle==
Then came the collapse of the war in Afghanistan and with it the collapse of the Soviet Union. Soldiers from the new Commonwealth of Independent States soon came and arrested him and he was to spend the next fifteen years locked away as an embarrassing reminder of a failed system. A special cell was created to house him and contain his powers. Thinking he was finally powerless and a relic, he was released in 2010. The world had changed and his once great and proud nation was reduced to a laughing-stock by it's old enemy the United States. His old squad was either dead like Dragunov and Byelobog or had disappeared like Lucifer. America had bought the hearts and souls of the Russian people and filled them with poison and apathy. Everywhere he looked he saw his old enemies mocking him and his pain. He turned to alcohol and solitude to hide his depression and the physical anguish he suffered still as a result of his abilities.
Then he witnessed on the television the Soviet Superwoman streaking her way across Russia, trying to revive the old regime and the honor and prestige that came with it. A spark ignited in his heart. sign he had been looking for all these years locked away. The Soviet Superwoman was an experiment, like he was, overseen by Stalin and pointed like a sword at the Nazis and the Americans. She had crushed both of these enemies in her own dimension and had come here to deal with the traitors that had destroyed the nation they both loved. Yuri wept tears of joy as she advanced towards Moscow. He once more clad himself in his actuator suit and made ready to help her usher in this new era of strength and order. A coup that never came. His hopes and dreams of a powerful new Soviet Union disappeared as Olga stopped her approach and returned to Angel Falls because of the heroine Walkiria. Soviet Superwoman had proved to be just as weak and useless as those responsible for the dismantling of the USSR, more so because she had the power to make it whole again. He decided in his rage to go to Angel Falls and destroy her, to show the world that he was the only true patriot left from the Soviet Union and to make sure that Walkiria felt her loss as strongly as he felt the re-birth of his nation slip from his grasp.
==A New Life==
The Warlord cut a swath of destruction across the city, even managing to use his incredible mental powers to defeat the Soviet Superwoman before he was defeated at the hands of both Walkiria and the cyber-assassin known as Grendel. His acuator suit destroyed in the struggle, he attempted to slip away into the masses to plot his revenge when he was suddenly and abruptly killed by the Nazi monster known as Genocide, who had herself been plotting the downfall of the Soviet Superwoman for many years. His head was squashed to a pulp, but Yuri did not die. His consciousness drifted in the astral plane momentarily until it took control of the closest living person, a high-paid stripper working at a club nearby who came outside alerted to the noise: Catherine Gale. Once in her body, Yuri crushed her mind out of existence and began to plot his revenge on both Genocide and the heroes who had defeated him. Choosing to go after Genocide first, he cornered the terrorist leader and almost managed to humiliate and kill her had it not been for the last-minute intervention of the demonic Mr. Black, Ilsa's ally and confederate. The Warlord was implanted with a cortex bomb and forced to serve the very woman he had attempted to assassinate.
Catherine directed her attentions on once again destroying the Soviet Superwoman and her one-time lover Grendel (After taking the time to meet with the Occupant, head of the Canadian Syndicate and a powerful psychic himself, and the cold-blooded murder of the heroine known as Chantico). Again, her plot came dangerously close to succeeding with her mentally pitting Olga against the cybernetic woman in a physical battle to the death. Grendel managed to overcome her adversary and viciously stabbed the Warlord with her wrist-blades. Greviously wounded, the Warlord was loaded into an ambulance but not before managing to destroy the implant that Ilsa had been controlling her with. Olga was last seen giving the A.F.P.D. special crimes division information on who she really was and just how dangerous she could be as they were tending to her wounds.
==Powers==
Telepathy - The Voyevoda is a master telepath of prodigious talent.Her specific powers include the ability to read minds and communicate telepathically, astral projection, painful mind-blasts which can injure or even kill an adversary, the ability to erase a person’s memories and to heal mental trauma through “psychic surgery,” the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a person’s brain, to subtly brainwash susceptible minds and persuade them to do her bidding, and to telepathically sedate someone for as long as she continues to exert mental control. The Voyevoda can also use her powers to create realistic illusions with apparent ease. She uses them to mask her presence from those around her, to alter her appearance, and to cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring. Catherine also has the ability to channel her psychic energies into what she has dubbed an "Ultrablast", a cone-shaped psionic shock wave that can kill or incapacitate those around her. The Voyevoda has also used her powers to cheat death, projecting her astral presence into another body and wiping out the existing personality. It is unknown whether she can achieve this feat a second time.
Acuator Suit - A battle-suit that took energy from an electrical current running throughout and converted it into motion. This type of suit was designed primarily to provide incredible protection against all forms of physical attacks such as crushing and ballistic impacts, as well as enhanced speed, strength and agility. With it he could lift people into the air with a single arm and throw them great distances, with great force, breaking human bones with ease. It was the pride of Soviet engineering and coupled with his mental powers made him incredibly formidable. It was destroyed by the combined might of Walkiria and Grendel, it's remains eventually ending up in the hands of the Occupant.
Fighting Ability: Spetnaz special forces training with Systema and Sambo.
Category:Villain