Vasily Stasevich

Terran Alliance

* Anti-Sith Assault Team

Colonel Vasily Stasevich, a human male, is a former member of the Soviet Army's Spetsnaz and a current member of the Anti-Sith Assault Team. Stasevich was chosen for the Anti-Sith Assault Team when it was first formed. He fought in the Battle of Volgograd during the Terran campaign, and several battle throughout the Clone Wars. He was also the second member of the team to fight a Sith when he fought Savage Opress on Florrum.

## History

### Early Life

Vasily Stasevich was born on May 14, 1961 in Volgograd, USSR. In 1979, he began attending Moscow State University. During his time at the University, he met and married Natalia Petchkin. After graduating in 1983, he commissioned as an officer in the Soviet Army.

In 1988, as a 1st Lieutenant, he was selected to join the Spetsnaz. He completed his training with the Spetsnaz in 1989, and was promoted to the rank of Captain in November, 1990, shortly before his first son, Victor, was born.

### Anti-Sith Assault Team

#### Induction and Training

When the Republic arrived on Terra in 1991, the Anti-Sith Assault Team was formed as a defense against the Sith for Terra. Stasevich was chosen for his skill at hand to hand combat and his impeccable personal history.

Stasevich and the rest of the team began their training under Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker on December 5, 1991, when Stasevich chose a green-bladed lightsaber for his lightsaber. Stasevich quickly developed a fighting style based a little more on power than agility.

#### Terran Campaign

When the Separatist arrived, and the Terran campaign began, Stasevich was sent to his home city of Volgograd. When the Separatist attacked the city, Stasevich was given command of a battalion. Stasevich fought on the front lines, eventually effectively leading an entire regiment by the end of the battle.

When the Separatists retreated from Volgograd, Stasevich was able to rest for a few hours before he received orders to travel across the country to Vladivostok to aid in the defense of the city. He arrived in Vladivostok only an hour before the last of the droids were destroyed.

Following the end of the Terran campaign, Stasevich, by executive order of the Terran Joint Command, was promoted to the rank of Colonel. He was one of the five members of the team immediately deployed to the Andromeda Galaxy, and was assigned to Coruscant.

#### Early Clone Wars duties

In early April, Stasevich and Colonel Shaul Peretz took part in a mission to rescue Mace Windu, who had been targeted by the young Boba Fett. They saw no combat, but were successful in the rescue. In May, Stasevich returned to Earth for eight months of duty on Terra, after which he returned to Coruscant.

Almost immediately after his return to Coruscant, Stasevich was sent as part of the task force to rescue Captain Samuel Adams and his team from the Citadel. He flew on the LAAT that picked up the team from Lola Sayu.

#### Facing Maul and Savage

On September 17, 1993, Stasevich was recruited by Obi Wan Kenobi to accompany him and Jedi Master Adi Gallia to attempt to track down Darth Maul and his brother Savage Opress.

Stasevich accompanied Kenobi and Gallia to a Banking Clan station in the Outer Rim, where a break in had been reported. The three investigated the station, and its commander informed them that the two culprits were Zabraks wielding red lightsabers, confirming their suspicions that it was Darth Maul and Savage Opress. The commander also informed them that the two were headed to the Sertar sector.

Suspecting Maul and Savage were targeting Florrum, Stasevich and the two Jedi made their way to the planet. Once there, they allied with Hondo the pirate to fight Maul and Savage.

After landing on the planet, the three of them realized that Maul and Savage had recruited some of Hondo's pirates to fight under them. Stasevich, feeling that Kenobi and Gallia could handle Maul and Savage, moved to help Hondo and his loyal pirates against the traitorous pirates, using an AK-74 assault blaster and equipped GP-25 grenade launcher.

After a minute or so of supporting Hondo, Stasevich saw Savage kill Galia. Seconds later, Hondo called for Kenobi and Stasevich to retreat with him. However, in retreating into the cave, Stasevich was briefly separated from Kenobi and the pirates.

Using the sounds of collapsing tunnels and combat to find his way,, Stasevich was able to find Kenobi as he was fighting Maul and Savage. Stasevich drew his lightsaber and engaged Savage in a lightsaber duel, distracting him from Kenobi. After a duel lasting almost a minute, Stasevich managed to block Savage's strike, then, using one hand, drew pistol and fired it at point blank range in Savage' shoulder. Stasevich then immediately took advantage of Savage's pain to cut his arm off with his saber.

Maul, seeing his brother's pain, used the Force to push Kenobi and Stasevich away, then got Savage out of the fortress. Kenobi and Stasevich pursued them, but were unable to catch up to them before the two Zabraks made it back to their ship. However, one of Hondo's men shot the ship down, and Maul and Savage were supposedly killed in the crash.

After leaving Florrum, Stasevich returned to Coruscant, then was briefly sent back to Terra, causing him to miss an opportunity to finish what he started a few weeks later when Maul reappeared on Mandalore.

During his time back on Terra, Stasevich was tasked, along with Major Alexei Ivankov, Colonel Shaul Peretz, and Colonel Dennis Rommel, with training the brand new Zulu Force. Stasevich and the other two ASAT commandos trained them how to survive in a fight against someone with a lightsaber, as well as other new tactics they had learned while training under the Jedi.

#### Black Hawk Down

By February 1994, Stasevich had returned to the Andromeda Galaxy. He had just returned to Coruscant following a mission in the Outer Rim when a UH-60 Black Hawk carrying his teammate Colonel Cheng Han and a number of other men was shot down on Skako Minor. After persuasion from Senator Padme Amidala and Senator Bail Organa, the Senate voted to send a rescue team.

Captain Adams elected to join the rescue, and called in four other ASAT commandos to join him on the rescue, with Stasevich being one of them.

Upon arriving at Skako Minor, Stasevich and the other ASAT commandos made their way down to the planet on a gunship, and located the area where Han's team was pinned down by battle droids. Stasevich and the other ASAT commandos jumped down from the gunship and, along with Han, destroyed the remaining battle droids and two AAT droid tanks. Stasevich then helped get Han's team off the planet.

After the rescue task force retreated from Skako Minor, Stasevich returned to Coruscant.

#### Battle of Coruscant

Stasevich remained on Coruscant for the next several months without deploying. He was still on the planet when the Separatists launched a massive attack on Coruscant with the intention of capturing Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.

When the Separatists began landing droids on the surface of the planet, Stasevich took command of a regiment of British soldiers from the British 1st Division, and led them in a defense of the Jedi Temple. The British and Stasevich held off the droids for almost 8 hours before the droids pulled away from the Temple, and Stasevich led the British troops to help a nearby clone legion in fending off a droid attack, which continued until the droid forces were finally pulled off the planet.

#### Retreat to Terra

A little over a month after the battle ended, Stasevich received orders to deploy to Ossus, along with an Indian division to recapture the planet from Separatists forces

Stasevich and his men fought for several months to retake the planet before finally liberating it in late June. Stasevich remained on Ossus for almost a month following the battle before he received orders to return to Terra in case of a suspected Separatist attack on Terra.

Stasevich was still on Earth when the Republic betrayed the Jedi and the Alliance. Stasevich helped some of the surviving Jedi who came to Earth to get settled into their new lives. In August 1994, a month after the Alliance's retreat to Terra, Stasevich traveled to the Terran Jedi Temple construction site for the first meeting of the entire ASAT team since December 1991, where the team swore an oath to see the Empire and Sith destroyed.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*