Sven Christiansen

*"You don't need to know who i work for."*
― Sven to Maria Ferrerio during a phone conversation
Sven Christiansen is an ex Nordennavik RAF Pilot and short term mercenery who served under the Nameless squadron during the first Verusean war. Since the ending of the war he went into hiding, the events preceding this still shrouded in secrecy and uncertainty.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born to a working class family in the small farming town of Ansall; some miles south off the Norden captial Fensalir, his family consisted of himself, his mother, father and older sister Sara.

Their family was far from well off and for the most part lived off the land for sustenance, often selling what livestock they could for a profit and Sven became involved in the family business from a young age, often lending a helping hand around the farm or accompanying his father to the capital to sell their produce.

Sven was one of a few lucky children in the village to receive an education at a new school that had opened up in the area, the school was situated close to an active air force base as was his family farm, the Ansall AFB was home to several major fighter and interceptor squadrons from the Nordennavic Royal Air Force. The headteacher of the school happened to be an ex-pilot who would often tell stories to the children about his years in the air force which was the first seeds of inspiration for what Sven aimed to achieve.

By aged 17 the family farm was dwindling and work was being outsourced to the major cities, Sven still lived with his parents but attended a flight cadet academy a two hour bicycle journey from his house. Noted to be an extremely apt student, he was ranked one of the top cadets in the country at various intellectual and physical examinations and was commended by both his peers and officers at the school, eventually being shortlisted for a proper Flight Academy shortly after finishing his mandatory education.

With a small budget, Sven moved to the city to attend courses at both university and flight school, gaining his civilian piloting licence at just aged 19. Later on he would go on to earn a Bachelors degree in theoretical physics and applied mathematics.

### Air Force Training

The stringent criteria set by the air force was of little concern to Sven who had aced all previous aptitude tests multiple times over. He passed the physical and mental with flying colors and became quickly familiar with the controls of the jet powered trainers, working his way towards the seat of a Saab 35 Draken which would become his aircraft of choice transitioning into the military proper. He was assigned to the 32nd Air Wing at Vattjom airbase.

### Arctic Incident

5 years in the airforce, Sven had seen hundreds of hours in the seat of his Saab 35 Draken on various interception missions and patrols, the first offensive action was seen in the north of the Razgriz Straits. The flight had been dispatched to investigate abnormal aerial activity in the region. Longbow Squadron, Sven's squadron arrived on the scene at roughly midnight when a fighter squadron of unknown origin intercepted the flight of Saab's and quickly eliminated half the Norden force, leaving Sven and two others to fight off superior opponents piloting a mixture of Yuktobanian and Osean aircraft.

At first thought to be a simply mis-identification, after multiple failed attempts to contact the attacking aircraft they had no choice but to fight back in the hopes they could defeat or at least hold off the attackers. Sven however in the carnage had panicked and abandoned the squadron in the hopes of surviving, he managed to reach friendly soil on low fuel.

Upon reporting what happened, the incident was rapidly covered up as a training exercise gone wrong and Sven was told to not to disclose anything he saw under the threat of imprisonment or worse. In his attempts to uncover what happened, the Air Force reprimanded him, stripped him of his rank and ordered his immediate arrest. Sven managed to steal another Saab Draken and fly it to the Levant where an arms dealer purchased the plane and sold it back to him for a lower price in the promise that he would fly to South Soatoa to meet up with a mercenary squadron under the callsign 'Nameless'. Hoping to somehow redeem himself, he joined up with the mercenaries as war erupted on the Verusean continent.

### Nameless Squadron

Sven quickly melded in with Nameless Squadron and participated in multiple offensives including the initial defense of Amirabad where his Draken took critical damage from anti aircraft fire and was promptly rendered unusable. Using funds from the scrapped aircraft he purchased an ex Nordennavic RAF, Northrop F-5 Tiger and continued to fly sorties against the enemy. At some point he participated in the battle to destroy the 'Leviathan' Submarine.

### Ziz Incident

Nameless, having been tasked to destroy the airborne superweapon known as 'Ziz' a flying fortress of a bomber that utilizes a nuclear reactor as a defensive countermeasure. Sven, still piloting the F-5 which has by now become a rather unstable aircraft due to repeated strain, was involved with the initial combat as the fighter escort protecting Ziz attempts to drive off Nameless. He was successful in eliminating several aircraft but during the final moments of the battle was struck by a stray cannon round from one of Ziz's turrets and was unable to control his flight path, thus straying too close to the bomber and promptly received a dear lethal dose of nuclear radiation as well as the round shattering his left femur and projecting shrapnel deep into his thigh. Despite this he managed to eject into the sea and was promptly recovered by a Vedian Naval cruiser and given medical attention.

The injuries Sven sustained put him out of active combat indefinitely, though it wasn't until several days after the incident that he learned of his deadly exposure. After several tests it was concluded that the exposure to the Ziz reactor had inflicted irreversible damage, including sterility and acute bone marrow cancer, what they failed to detect was the forming of brain tumor which only started to develop several weeks after the incident.

In the meanwhile, Sven returned to Nameless to purely serve in a supporting role and quickly became the squadrons intel officer who collected intelligence from the various coalition sources and fed it to Nameless to assist the war effort. He quickly built a network of contacts from various sources both in the coalition and from external sources such as Yuktobania and Osea.

At the end of the war, with the destruction of the Behemoth Superweapon, a giant stationary railgun, Sven does not consider his work done. The Behemoth, though now in pieces was still generating interest in nations from Osea to Estovakia and with help of various sources managed to replicate several schematics from the weapon of which he sold to various nations including Osea, Estovakia and Belka as well as various recovered parts, their governments paying large dumps of cash for such technology to develop their own experimental systems.

With this cash he traveled to the Levant, setting up a front company called 'Viking Armaments' as a facade, whilst on the side he began arms trading with rebel factions in the Levant and further afield.

### Post Verusean War

Contacts embedded in Vedia after the war managed to secure the sale of the Jorgmandur submarine to Yuktobania who paid a large single sum of cash for the machine. Most of it found its way to the Vedian government although a considerable portion was siphoned away into various holdings, that of which was transferred back to Viking Armements. The money was more than a sufficient amount to increase the range and amount of weapons and equipment being sold over the globe, but it also found its way into the pockets of various politicians and influential individuals in a whole plethora of countries. Viking Armements soon found itself not only trading in bullets and bombs, but in information.