Andrei Wynn

Andrei Wynn is a Russian scientist previously from Germany, brought to Vietnam to build a particle collider. After being betrayed by General Grigory Borodin, he would join General Amadeus Jericho and become a member of Stalker Force.

## Biography

### Early Life

Andrei Wynn was raised by his father Marlow Kurtz in Germany under the secret society of Ordo Ouroboros, and was given a luxurious education through his father's wealth. By the time he was a teen, the two would create the original blueprints for what would become particle colliders, devices meant to create non-radioactive nuclear bombs. At the end of World War ll, Marlow, a Nazi scientist, would be taken by the United States of America while Andrei would be taken by Russia, who would make him continue his blueprints.

### The First Collider

Many years later during the Vietnam War, construction of the colliders were in their final stages, and production was moved to a valley in Vietnam. Andrei would construct a particle collider. During its test firing, Ordo Ouroboros would contact Andrei and convince him to sabotage it, leading to an outbreak of prehistoric animals within the valley. Angered by the failure, Borodin would send Andrei and his team to research the dinosaurs in research stations. At some point, the team discovered a virus within the dromeosaur populations of the valley, and a research station was dedicated to researching and weaponizing it. Before this could come to fruitation, Borodin had the entire research team slaughtered, Andrei only surviving because he was studying a Triceratops away from the station. Left in exile within the valley, would survive a year among the prehistoric animals, including naming a *Utahraptor* that accidentally saved his life Sobek, and would use leftover morphine to cope with the stress, developing an addiction.

### Arrival of Vulture Squad

After a year of being out in the wilderness, Andrei would find Ryan Baker and Leon Vernes of Vulture Squad escaping a *Tyrannosaurus*after the three had fallen into a river. Andrei would help Ryan drag an unconscious Leon into some mangrove roots, where they lost the *Tyrannosaurus* while Mother T. rex and chicks looked over the cliff they had fallen from to check on him. Andrei would lead the two back to Research Station 4 and explain how he had brought the dinosaurs over, showing them his morphine addiction and allowing Ryan to use his radio to call for an evac from General Amadeus Jericho. When Ryan and Leon had recovered enough, the group headed out to search for the rest of the squad, eventually finding them as a pack of *Deinonychus* were dragging off Gerald Keyes. The group tracked down Gerald, finding the end of his trail but being unable to locate him until a *Utahraptor* holding an eviscerated Gerald leapt up in pain. Logan Stovall jumped on the fleeing predator, wrestling a knife into its eye and forcing it to drop Gerald. Andrei, realizing the danger posed by *Utahraptors*, suggested leaving Gerald for the raptors, only for Eli Taylor to knock him out because of it, forcing Eli to carry him.

Once the team got back to the base, Andrei feigned unconsciousness in order to steal morphine from Xavier Wise as he was working on Gerald, injecting himself and continuing to lie on the floor as the *Utahraptors* returned and started attacking the building. Andrei finally "woke up" when Ryan estimated there to only be two raptors, correcting him that there were four as two more raptors appeared on the glass pyramid of the station. Ryan quickly formed a plan when he heard the two raptors on the ground barging at the door, swinging it open so Leon could blast them with his rocket launcher, although only managing to knock them off their feet, as the other two fell through the glass of the roof and became disoriented. Leaving research station, the group heard their helicopter, The Father Vulture, fly overhead, and launched a flare so it could locate them and land nearby. The moment's pause allowed the *Utahraptors*to catch back up, eviscerating Leon and nearly tearing Gerald in half when Logan performed a mercy kill on him and let the raptors have Gerald's corpse. The remaining group made it back to the Father Vulture, the Father T. rex attacked, grabbing the landing gear before letting go under heavy gunfire. Just as the helicopter made it into the air, a group of Viet Cong shot a missile at the vehicle, hitting the cockpit and causing the pilot Ricardo Alvarex to lose control for a few seconds and sending Charlie Miller and copilot Ngueyen out of the still open side door.

Once the team reached Jericho's Base, Andrei was handed over to Jericho and some of his Black Ops in order to be interrogated, being compliant but beaten due to his interrogators assuming he was lying when he started with the dinosaurs. Ryan, who had come in to talk to Jericho, saved Andrei from the rest of the beating by getting him started on the collider. Andrei told the men of how the collider was likely to create a black hole and suck in all of the Earth rather than implode like his own did, and that the dinosaurs were just a metaphor. Jericho would send the Black Ops and Vulture Squad to stop the firing of the collider and pick up Miller, but Ryan insisted to take Andrei with them to navigate the jungles. The groups headed north by boat, where Ryan sat and talked to Andrei, who revealed how he too had once been addicted to morphine and how it had cost the lives of many young men under him. In return, Andrei told Ryan about how the dinosaurs were perfect for transforming ecosystems, able to outcompete most modern animals with little trouble and spread like a virus uncontrolled throughout habitats they were fit too.

## Personality

Andrei is a competent yet cowardly man, being able to design complex machines such as particle colliders and study dinosaurs even when abandoned to live with them for a year, but quickly contemplating suicide when one of the animals is near him. He is unable to defend himself in most situations, and preferred to cower on the floor in a morphine high to attempting escape his death many times. This cowardliness would lead him to trying morphine to escape his pain whilst abandoned in the valley, quickly developing an addiction leading to him becoming even less helpful in dangerous situations. Andrei was also quite arrogant and disconnected to feelings over practicality, telling Ryan that he was never wrong and suggesting leaving a heavily wounded Gerald behind for a pack of *Utahraptors* when he could be saved if taken to a proper medical facility. Ryan, relating with the scientist's morphine addiction and helping him fight through it and showing allowing Andrei's failure's to break his arrogance. Once Andrei joined Stalker Force and became close to Xavier and other members of its team, he began becoming more affable and willing to help injured soldiers when they had similar wounds to Gerald and being one of the few people to quip back at Eli's jokes.