P-3

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Major **Sergey Alekseyevich Nechayev**, better known by his code name **"P-3"**, is the protagonist of *Atomic Heart*.

## Personality

An experienced soldier and a veteran of numerous battles, Major Nechaev is a rather pensive and gloomy individual, although this doesn’t stop him from constantly making caustic remarks. Some might call this arrogant behavior, while others might regard it as a defense mechanism against the world surrounding him. Both would be correct. He excels in handling complicated situations, sometimes violently. Nechaev dedicated his whole life to the service, and in return, all he’s got is deep loneliness and numerous wounds, both physical and mental. Professor Sechenov is the only human being who treats him with fatherly warmth, and agent Nechaev pays him back with loyalty and respect. He has carefully studied various types of weaponry and mastered both ranged and melee combat. He has always believed that machines should never be trusted. However, the major doesn’t know everything about what’s going on and is yet to find out the truth.

## Biography

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Major Nechaev is a special duty officer and a private agent of Dr. Dmitry Sechenov. He received his codename "P-3" after he was severely wounded in Sechenov's lab. Both of his hands were broken up to his elbows, his left leg was completely shattered, and he suffered a severe concussion. The professor restored his brain activity and personally augmented P-3's bones using modern PTA-4 alloys and equipping him with combat Polymer implants. Alas, P-3 still suffered a fractional memory loss: he never fully recovered the memories of his past. Agent P-3’s past wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies, and everything good that had happened to him was lost in the blink of an eye and soon forgotten.

P-3 sought to repay Sechenov by becoming his agent and participating in many black ops operations in Africa, Near East, and Asia. The Major remembers very little of his missions and suffers from PTSD, passionately believing that he is dangerous and unstable. Professor Sechenov does his best to keep his top agent in impeccable physical and emotional condition. A Polymer Glove, his last gift to P-3, is the cutting-edge technological invention that easily absorbs new polymers and provides experimental combat capabilities.

### Events of *Atomic Heart*

Nechaev is invited to assist in the rollout of Kollektiv 2.0 at Facility 3826, but he finds that robots massacred most human personnel. Sechenov explains that Viktor Petrov sabotaged the Kollektiv 1.0 node and asks P-3 to apprehend Petrov. With his AI partner CHAR-les (nicknamed "Charles") attached to his glove, P-3 must confront homicidal robots and failed biomechanical experiments while dealing with growing mental instability.

P-3 tracks down Petrov and finds out that he is working with Larisa Filatova. Petrov flees and is apparently killed by a robot. Meanwhile, the Politburo grows suspicious about what is happening. Yegor Molotov, the President of the Council of Ministers and a member of the Politburo threatens to shut down Sechenov's Atomic Heart Project. Charles explains to P-3 that Sechenov and the Politburo are in a struggle over who will control Kollektiv. Sechenov orders P-3 to intercept Molotov, but once P-3 makes contact, he blacks out and wakes up to find Molotov murdered.

As P-3 continues to pursue Petrov, who rants about how Sechenov plans to enslave the world. He tells P-3 that the rogue robots had a combat mode installed beforehand. Viktor then gives P-3 a pair of rings and commits suicide. When Sechenov asks about the rings, P-3 lies, and concludes that Sechenov and the Politburo's "Atomic Heart" project involves distributing combat robots disguised as civilian robots to seize nuclear power plants. P-3 takes Petrov's head to a lab to extract his memories, but Filatova destroys the machine and knocks P-3 out.

When P-3 regains consciousness, Filatova reveals to him that Kollektiv is a means to mind-control people. Shocked, P-3 works with Filatova to find out the truth from Sechenov. In the lab, P-3 discovers that Charles isn't an AI, but the mind of Chariton Zakharov, Sechenov's friend and a fellow researcher presumably murdered by Sechenov. Using Zakharov's security clearance, they uncover more of P-3's past. P-3 learns that in order to fix his brain injury, Sechenov installed a Polymer implant, erasing memories of his deceased wife Ekaterina Nechayeva, and giving Sechenov the ability to control him. Furious, P-3 decides to confront Sechenov.

However, P-3 blacks out again and wakes up in the care of his mother-in-law, Zinaida Muravyova. She reveals that P-3 had killed Filatova while blacked out. At this point, P-3 can either choose to leave Facility 3826 or confront Sechenov, resulting in different endings.

### Endings

After learning of his past P3 returns to Granny Zina, who he finds out is his mother-in-law from his marriage. This implies that Granny Zina is at Facility 3826 because she knows that her daughter's mind was stolen and placed in the two robot ballerinas, but her goal there is never explored. When P3 meets with her, she gives him the choice of how to move forward, which determines the ending shown at the close of the game.

#### Short Ending

If the player chooses to leave Facility 3826 behind to try and live his life after rejecting Sechenov's designs and his role within them they are given the good ending. This sees him destroying CHAR-les and walking away. A cutscene plays saying that P3 was last seen walking through farm fields moving away from the research facility. The cutscene also references a strange chunk of polymer that was seen at the facility, but that goes unexplained unless the player chooses the option to get the canonical bad ending. It also implies that Sechenov and the Soviet Union successfully took over the world and robbed everyone of free will.

#### Long Ending

If the player instead chooses to have P3 accept Granny Zina's help to go and face Sechenov once and for all they are given the bad ending. P3 is then taken to an armory of Granny Zina's where he is able to grab equipment and gear to prepare for the final showdown. Before reaching Sechenov, P3 has to face off against one of ballerina twins (Left). After defeating Left, P-3 doesn't destroy the robot after figuring out that his wife could still be within. A gasp could be heard by Left before she escaped through the ceiling to the top floor.

P3 then approaches Sechenov, Which leads to the player being put through a challenging boss fight where the player has to fight both of the ballerina twins. P-3 successfully defeats both of the twins which leads to both of the robots being completely destroyed, freeing the consciousness of P3's wife from its imprisonment. Sechenov aims a gun at P-3 in a last resort effort but is disarmed and shot by P-3. From there, it is revealed by Sechenov that he was not the one that sent P-3 to limbo which caused him to go on a rampage and kill everyone in sight but was Charles. P-3, outraged to figure out that Charles was responsible this whole time attempts to rip out Charles from his glove but is subdued by Charles with electrocution.

After which, a small pile of goo emerges out of the P-3's glove where Charles then transports his own consciousness into Red Polymer, which gives him a human form. Charles then explains that he believes polymer and its creations are the next dominant species of the world and that with Kollective 2.0 he will be able to enslave humanity to shape his vision for the future.

From there, he approaches Sechenov who is currently bleeding out on the floor and snaps his neck. From there, P3 is then sent to Limbo where he is joined by one of the robot ballerinas which is assumed to be his wife's and the game ends.

### DLC

P-3 returned as the protagonist in the *Annihilation Instinct* DLC.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* P-3's codename stands for **P**lutonium
* Sometimes P-3 will utter the phrase "Crispy Critters" within his vocabulary, this phrase was made when he survived an explosion in Bulgaria and went into a coma, while at rehab one of the medics called him the exact phase which made him have a panic attack and hit his head unconscious.
* Originally, P-3 was modeled without a beard and had different outfits.
	+ P-3 was also originally going to be equipped with binoculars as seen in a pre-alpha demo trailer.
* When P-3 enters Limbo, he turns into a creature called a "Pushistov", a faceless humanoid completely covered in white fur, teasers have also shown that it has a 'apple' lodged into its head and caused it to bleed (implying that is how they are created).
	+ Since development, the Pushistov was nicknamed "Newton", presumably after Sir Isaac Newton who discovered gravity after he allegedly got hit by an apple while sitting under a tree.
* Model, motion capture and voice аctor (in Russian) - Russian actor Alexander Lomov.