Slava Rossii

Slava Rossii, also known officially as Group Omega ( Spetsgruppa Омега) is a secret superhuman task force developed by by the Russian Government in conjunction with technology developed by Theodore Lind and Russian scientist Nestor Kuznetsov using Dedov Chemlabs. Together they created several alts by experimenting on a mixture of best-of-the-best Spetznaz soldiers, KGB Agents and at least two homeless people who had specific skillsets the Kremlin were interested in. The force also included one neohuman and even a dog.

### **History**

The force actually began life as a sub-division of the Russian Academy of Military Science in the 1980's, a non-government organisation that was researching into biotechnology under Theodore Lind not long after the early founding of Argent Scientific in 1994, who first began developing the theories behind altering normal human DNA with neones from neohumans, but first began experimenting on animals, and created many animalts, most of which were deemed failures.

Seeing the potential the Russian Government hijacked the division after the dissolution of the Soviet Union with the help of Dr Nestor Kuznetov, who himself studied at the academy, and began plans on annexing the division as part of Spetznaz's own military science branch, despite Theo's insistence that the technology was not ready for human testing.

In 1999 the Kremlin attained the Dedov Chemlabs as a government acquisition , allowing Theo and Nestor access to all of it's facilities.

The Kremlin backed Kuznetov's plans, nonetheless but offered a substantial fundage for Argent Scientific should Theo join them; under duress Theo and Nestor worked tirelessly to create human alts by experimenting on various patients, even hiring a neohuman, Artyom Chernyshevsky, aka Bora so that his DNA could be used as a base for their experiments.

By 2007 the team had been successfully organised, however by that time Theo left the organisation to expand and develop Argent Scientific, although he and Kuznetov sometimes exchange information on their work.

Slava Rossii were deemed an extension of the FSB RF in 2009 and involved in retaking Russian assets in Crimea in 2014 where the Ukraine government claimed to have been testing 'enhanced combatant systems' while the Ukraine may have been attempting to steal secret biological data from during the earlier formation of the group via moles and spies.

In 2022 the organisation were sent on a secret mission into the Ukraine to worm out several superhuman assets who were aiding the Ukrainians fight against the Russian invasion in April.

### **Structure and Organisation**

Slava Rossii acted as both a biological research department and a highly specialised section of the National Guard within Russia. Unlike the Russian National Guard the team was often sent to different nations to fight for strategic territory, military assets or extract Russian forces from enemy territory, but usually focused around the expansive borders between Russia and the Ukraine.

Originally to be led by Bora, who saw himself as the de-facto leader of the group since he freely let Dr Kuznetov take genetic samples from him, the Kremlin instead placed Sergei Grekov aka Voin as Rossii's leader.

As such the Kremlin have direct control on the organisation of Slava Rossii.

### **Members**

Members were an unusual mix of best-of-the-best Spetznaz and seemingly a group of nobodies who simply wanted an opportunity to better themselves and even a dog; these individuals were chosen, however, for their unique skillsets with their powers merely being a side-effect. With the exception of Bora and Ursa most of the team were alts especially created for the program:

**Bora** - Ex-member, neohuman who could create and control arctic weather, fought with the team and their decisions often, the Kremlin got so tired of him disobeying, despite his useful powers he actually had limited combat skills and was not tactical, he became a distraction on a spying mission to the US. Now in Tartarus but the Kremlin ordered him a pardon and release in as long as he followed Slava Rossii's orders.

**Biven** - A genetically-engineered bear-boar hybrid with increased intelligence, 'rescued' from a secret Crimean facility along with Norca during the Federation's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

**Lush** - A homeless alcoholic Dr Kuznetsov and Theo Lind encountered during a business drink, in her words she was "a natural and brilliant actress whose life was a joke to those more beautiful", and chosen by the group for her use of these skills in subterfuge and seduction. She developed the ability to manipulate alcohol in any form.

**Norca** - A Crimean second-generation Cybrid with mink and sable genes who was 'rescued' from a facility shortly after the annexing of Crimea in 2014 along with Biven.

**Sila** - An 'animalt', Sila was a East Siberian Laika who was modified to possess cybernetically enhanced bones, impact-absorbing joints, jaw strength, metal teeth, reflexes and intelligence.

**Tishina** - An alt who was a down-and-out waitress, chosen for her lockpicking, thieving, hacking and hotwiring skills, she was never caught by the police. After her alt procedures she developed the ability to make people tired or fall asleep utterly by whispering to them in a certain way.

**Ursa** - Cybrid with bear genes, he was a first-generation cybrid who managed to hide his mutations and spent years as a cadet in the Russian Army until he was nearly killed by a group of suspicious soldiers. He was studied and a splicer programme may be on the way for the group.

**Voin** - Previous leader of the group, he was a top-tier spetsnaz special forces agent described as "The Kremlin's Poster Boy", his training and enhancement was extreme and it made him a peak-model for human perfection, enhancing all of his physical and mental skills to superhuman levels, in particular his reflexes, healing and calculation speed. Many years later Voin's healing ability began to 'malfunction' and leave scars, these scars, however were bulletproof and after the later temporary hiatus of the team, became the mercenary known as Shram (Scar).

**Zhelch -** Another high-ranking Spetznaz agent, described as narcissistic and egotistical. Zhelch developed the ability to energise his saliva, turning it into a liquid plasma that he can spit at high velocity. He currently leads Slava Rossii after Voin went AWOL.

### **Enemies**

As the group were essentially a superpowered extension of the KGB , they were known to be somewhat invasive and made a lot of powerful enemies in the process.

**Redwatch:** A militant and highly mobilised division of Ehrenwache Zentral that operated in Russia and the surrounding nations with an alarming efficacy.

**Shchyty Ukrayiny** A group of special-tactics fighters from Ukraine who were formed shortly after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, particularly against Russian rebels in the Donbas region, however when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 Shchyty Ukrayiny fought against Slava Rossii multiple times, and were highly effective at stopping them and the Russian forces advancing.

**Starforce:** Though usually a US-Based operation, the group clashed with Starforce during several rescue missions in the Near Islands whilst dealing with Russian pirates invading a military base; and again when Rossii claimed that they had proof that the US had an unmarked nuclear bunker there where a secret weapon was being constructed against Russia. No proof of the weapon was found after an initial battle, and Slava Rossii left; this may have been a ruse to retake the Island under the Kremlin's orders.

**VALER:** Early VALER group consisting of Volt, Cerice, Leo, Elliot and Clay acted as a peacekeeping force during Crimea's Annexing in 2014; these were especially important to VALER as Clayton possessed a large mine smelting facility there and a contract with the Crimean Republic that was essential in helping build VALER's later infrastructure, and facing Russian invasion would push his facility into Russian hands. While ordered to pull out when politics got in the way and the US refused to send in their own army for Clay, the group were left to defend the facility during Russia's push into the peninsula, and Slava Rossii were sent to remove VALER from what was fast becoming their territory. While Clay managed to move a degree of the remaining material (including a deposit of Kinzium) and expensive equipment, a lot was left and rather it fall into Russian hands, Clay and VALER destroyed the facility before pulling out, marking the mission was a technical failure.