The OVM

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## The OVM (defunct)

### Known Members

Konstantin Denisov (formerly, now deceased)Oleg Yudin (formerly, now deceased)

The OVM (Russian: *Otdel Vremeni Manipulirovaniya*), or 'Department of Time Manipulation', was a secret Russian facility outside of Moscow set up to rival the QIA.

## Location

The OVM's facility lay approximately 1 mile off Pyatnitskoye Shosse, 32 miles from Moscow in Russia. It was within a military-style compound made up of several buildings, including the Svod (Hub building) and Obrabotka Dannykh (Data Processing), protected by an outer fence and a checkpoint halfway between it and the road.

## History

### Origins

According to Irina Polyakov, it had been the ambition of the Russian government for some time to explore time-travel for themselves, and as such an effort was made to acquire data and schematics from the QIA. To achieve this, a deal was made with Brent Hall, who used Sacha Bell as his courier, and began to send them periodic data 'drops'. However, before the final drop could be made, both Bell and Hall were arrested by the London Hub, leaving the OVM unable to commence operations. ("Moscow")

It was later revealed that much of the software used by the OVM was designed by Aki Sievinen ("Virmayarvi").

### Sacha Bell

It was not until a few months later, when the final data drop was missed, that the Russians realised that Bell had been arrested and was awaiting extradition to America. Therefore, they struck a deal with the UK Foreign Office to take him into custody instead, which put the QIA in a tricky position as he was about to be deported to America. During the negotiations, Irina revealed the existence of the OVM to Agents Sarah Cunnington, Iulya Dalca and Carlos Sánchez, and agreed to give them a tour of the facility. During this tour, Iulya attempted to upload a virus into their system to disable their operation, but this was foiled. In addition, data regarding the facility that Irina had promised them was later irrevocably wiped. ("Moscow")

Despite not being operational yet, somehow a future version of OVM operative Konstantin Denisov was somehow able to not only perform a quantum shift, but in fact an extremely precise one, Jumping aboard the airborne jet that was taking Bell to America. Denisov murdered the whole security team and abducted Bell, delivering him to the present-day OVM. Bell was subsequently tortured for information before later being sent to Black Dolphin prison. Meanwhile, having learned that the final data files required were in the possession of Sophie King, Denisov next paid her a visit and copied them, before murdering her as well. ("Ghosts")

### Legitimacy

Following the Prometheus Leak, the OVM was given legitimacy - and praised by many, for breaking away from the QIA's monopoly on time travel - with Irina as its public face. ("Eleven")

### Clash with the London Hub

During the Hattuvaara mission, it later became apparent that Konstantin was the sniper who had murdered Rolf Vikander to save Aki Sievinen's life, and thereby safeguard the OVM's future. During this mission, however, the team learned that not only is Konstantin somehow able to Jump with an entire car, but that after the theta.exe file disabled all three of the QIA's Hubs, the OVM's was still operational. ("Virmayarvi")

This led to a plan devised by Enora Gallou to take down the OVM's Hub while simultaneously restoring the QIA Hubs. The main part concerning the OVM itself was the Moscow mission, in which Carlos and Iulya were able to upload a second virus, this one designed by Anna Vogel, before they then bombed the entire compound, killing Oleg Yudin in the process. Despite attempts by Konstantin to stop them, the two agents managed to get away, and while Konstantin was later killed during the Black Dolphin mission, Irina herself was arrested for treason, the President having apparently deemed her and the OVM project an embarrassment. Consequently, the Russian government allowed the QIA to resume operating within their territories as the OVM was officially shut down. ("Bell", "Voyna")