Operation: PUSHKIN

Operation: PUSHKIN was an underworld destabilization campaign established across the galactic frontier during the . The operation was spearheaded by Lieutenant Commander Ryder Kedar, a intelligence operative. Lieutenant Commander Kedar was deeply suspicious of ONI's close working relationship with the Syndicate and believed that fragmenting the criminal empire would better advance the 's interests in hostile and independent space. The ambitious operative forged an alliance with Tobias Lensky, the elusive scavenging magnate and deposed head of the Syndicate. Kedar planned to use independent criminal gangs and fringe elements to undermine the Syndicate's operations without arousing the suspicion of corrupt government officials and military officers. Tobias Lensky used his immense wealth to establish a network of spies and outposts across the frontier. Unfortunately, Operation: PUSHKIN's unguarded movements in space interfered with pirate operations linked to . The Didact's Hand dispatched his Kru'desh raiding legion to deal with the meddlers. The legion's newly installed commander, intent on killing lensky and eager to avenge previous slights from Ryder, aggressively targeted the burgeoning network and utterly destroyed it.
Operation: PUSHKIN ended in complete failure. Tobias Lensky, his vast fortune depleted, fled into obscure poverty on Furthest Point. Ryder Kedar's swift rise through ONI's sphere of influence came to an ignominious halt. Kedar later used intelligence gathered through PUSHKIN's network to plan his raid on Asphodel Meadows, which also failed and let to Kedar's defection to the at the Battle of the Gilboan Citadel.