Marko Loginov

Marko Loginov, a human male, is a former member of Alpha Group of the Russian Spetsnaz and current member of the Anti-Sith Assault Team. Loginov joined the team in 2008, and gained a reputation for being one of the most ruthless members of the team.

Loginov was deployed to the Andomreda Galaxy for the first time during the construction of Echo Base on the planet of Hoth. He remained on Hoth to oversee the Terran forces on the planet, and ended up fighting in the Battle of Hoth. Following the action on Hoth, Loginov participated in many battles of the war, including the Battle of Jakku, and leading Russian forces during the Battle of Coruscant, where he gained an even greater reputation as a ruthless killer.

## Biography

### Early Life

Marko Loginov was born on February 2, 1982 to Josef Loginov and Natalia Loginov. He was his parent's only child.

Loginov's father, Josef, was a high ranking member of the local Communist Party. Because of that, Loginov enjoyed a rather lavish lifestyle compared to many of his friends in Novosibirsk. However, his father was very involved in politics, and Loginov felt largely neglected by his father for most of his childhood.

When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, following the Separatist attacks on Earth, his father spiraled into a depression at the loss of power, and took out his anger on Loginov and his mother. Because of this, Loginov's mother left his father when Loginov was 11, and the two moved to his mother's hometown of Volgograd. However, after this move, Loginov and his mother lived in a life of poverty, barely managing to keep food on the table.

During his last year of high school, his mother passed away because of a brain tumor. A family friend, who was a former Spetsnaz member, took Loginov in to allow him to finish high school without having to become homeless. The man taught Loginov to fight and shoot, and taught him many Spetsnaz techniques.

### Russian Military Service

Immediately after graduating high school, Loginov enlisted in the Russian Army. During basic training, he gained a reputation for his skills at hand to hand combat, and for his ruthlessness and determination to win at costs that many of his fellow trainees would pause at. He routinely let his anger out from his bad childhood and used it to fuel him.

Loginov graduated from basic training and was assigned to the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division. However, after just 2 years with the division, in early 2002, he was selected to join Russia's special forces. During his training, he was recognized for his skill and temperament, and in late 2003, was assigned to FSB's Alpha Group, the elite Spetsnaz unit of Russia. He was highly regarded by his teammates for his skill and will to get the job done, though some considered him a loose cannon with not enough control over his anger.

In 2004, Loginov participated in the assault during the Beslan school siege. He fought with other Spetsnaz and some Zulu Force commandos. During the operation, he slaughtered a number of terrorists with nothing but a knife, but risked his life multiple times to protect children. Some of the Zulus were slightly disturbed at his ruthlessness, considering him a cold blooded killer.

Over the next few years, Loginov continued serving with Alpha Group. However, unlike many of his teammates, he didn't bond very well with the others. He was often considered the black sheep of the group, the outsider. His anger from his childhood got in the way of many friendships.

In early 2007, while at a bar with some of his teammates, Loginov met a young bartender, Tatiana Kovalyov. While Loginov was at first not interested, Tatiana found him attractive, and his teammates promised to leave her a hefty tip if she would flirt with Loginov.

Over several weeks, Tatiana would flirt with Loginov regularly when he came into the bar. After several weeks, Loginov developed a slight interest in her, and finally asked her out.

After several months, Loginov and Tatiana officially became a couple. Throughout the rest of the year, they grew closer, and Loginov began to open up and grow more cheerful and easy-going.

Loginov proposed to Tatiana in January of 2008, and they were married in July of that year. Everyone who knew Loginov would later say that they had never seen Loginov happier in his life.

### Anti-Sith Assault Team

#### Early Service and Fatherhood

Less than a month after his marriage to Tatiana, Loginov was approached by the commander of the Terran Alliance Special Operations Command, Lt. General Stanley McChrystal. Samuel Adams, the leader of the ASAT team, was retiring, leaving a vacancy on the team. After considering candidates, both Adams and McChrystal had decided to ask Loginov. Loginov quickly accepted.

Loginov was commissioned as an officer and given the rank of Major. Finally, in late September, he officially inducted into the ASAT team.

The relationship between Loginov and his teammates on the ASAT team was somewhat strained for some time. Although his marriage to Tatiana had helped with his anger issues, he still had many problems with it.

However, in December, Tatiana informed Loginov that she was expecting their first child. This seemed to unlock a little more of Loginov's happy self, and he began to develop a closer relationship with the other members of the team who were fathers, trying to gather advice for how to prepare for fatherhood.

On August 3, 2009, Tatiana gave birth to their daughter, Alexandra Loginov. Tatiana and her mother, who was in the delivery room, later told others that Loginov seemed to transform into an entirely different person the moment he saw Alexandra. Immediately, he began showing more affection to Alexandra than he and ever shown to anyone, even Tatiana.

The birth of his daughter seemed to unlock a whole new side of Loginov. Later, he attributed it to him finally feeling the love of a father, and a determination to not let his daughter have the same childhood he did.

In the months after Alexandra's birth, Loginov became a much more open person, and more happy and outgoing than ever. While he was still rather emotionless and cold with people he didn't know, with some people describing as "cold as a Russian winter", people who he knew and was close with said that Loginov could be one of the kindest and most caring people they knew when he wanted to be.

Loginov spent a lot of time after Alexandra was born trying to build up his relationships with his ASAT teammates. Within just a few months, he was the best of friends with all of his teammates, finally achieving the brotherly relationship that the others had been hoping for from him. Loginov also began working heavily in support of charity and humanitarian groups dedicated to helping orphans and children in poor family environments.

In early 2012, Loginov led a mission by Russian Spetsnaz and Pakistani special forces to chase down a lead on the location of new al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The mission lasted several weeks, and resulted in the capture and deaths of several high ranking al-Qaeda members, but failed to locate Zawahiri.

#### Galactic Civil War

When the Galactic Civil War broke out in 2013, Loginov was kept on Earth, especially since he was one of the few members of the team with young children.

In 2014, the Rebellion built the base that would become Echo Base on the planet Hoth. Loginov, by now a Lieutenant Colonel, was deployed to Hoth to serve as the commander of the small Terran force deployed to the base.

Loginov remained at Echo Base for over a year. During that time, he became acquainted with Luke Skywalker and Kelly Adams, and developed a close relationship with them.

In October 2015, the Empire attacked Echo Base, beginning the Battle of Hoth. Loginov helped to coordinate the evacuation, and helped defend the base by fending off advance squads of snowtroopers. After the rest of the forces at Echo Base retreated, Loginov left Hoth himself in his Su-36 Flanker. He fought his way through the blockade, shooting down four TIE fighters on the way out, and traveled to a rendezvous point in the Outer Rim with the battlecruiser *Lutzow*.

## Appearances

* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back (first appearance)*