Aleksander Vavilov

**Aleksander Vavilov** is a deuteragonist and later antagonist of the ***Ad Astra*** trilogy. He is the former love interest of Medea Atenas until his corruption and attempt to dismantle the Intersystem Alliance. He eventually dies at the hands of Medea when she mercy kills him on Vselennāpnik, rather then have him face trial for his actions.

## Powers and Abilities

Like many with exposure to Element NUL, Sacha has the power to shape and manipulate dark energy.

* **NUL Physiology:** Due to exposure in the womb from solar radiation, Medea has the physiology of anyone else who is exposed to element NUL.
	+ **Dark Energy Attacks:** Shaping and manipulating dark energy to do her intent, she can release and use dark energy to attack in various shapes and intensities.
		- **Dark Energy Emission:** Release concentrated beams of dark energy.
		- **Dark Energy Blast:** Produce dark energy over a specific targeted area.
		- **Dark Energy Bolt Projection:** Product and release projectiles of dark energy.
		- **Dark Energy Cut:** Slice through with a large cut of dark energy.
		- **Dark Energy Spikes:** Create dark energy spikes.
		- **Dark Energy Vortex:** Create a vortex/tornado of dark energy.
		- **Hand Blasts:** Release dark energy blasts from her hands.
		- **Shatter Shot:** Release dark energy blasts that split into multiple bouncing fragments.
		- **Dark Matter Waves:** Launch a massive wave of dark energy.
	+ **Dark Energy Constructs:** Only done through her talent as a Vspera, Medea can transform dark matter into solid constructs. Objects such as weapons can be formed from crafting dark energy, up to entire cities.
	+ **Gravity Manipulation:** Create, shape, move, interact, and manipulate gravity, the natural phenomenon which all things with mass or energy attract.
		- **Gravity Defiance:** Ignore the effects of gravity, achieving anti-gravitational effects.
		- **Gravity Attacks:** Single shots, concussive beams, gravity beam emission, gravity downforce and upforce.
		- **Gravity Shields:** Create shields to protect themself and others from attacks; similar to force-fields.
		- **Flight:** Changing the gravity around themself to enable them to fly.
		- **Gravity Imprisonment:** Imprison entities or objects by resting strong forces around them.
		- **Gyro-telekinesis:** Interact/move/manipulate matter/objects using gravity.
		- **Gravitational Adaption:** Adapt to the gravity and pressure of any location or planet.
		- **Gravitational Wave Manipulation:** Create ripples in the space-time continuum and slow objects/matter down while moving.
		- **Wormhole Creation:** Create wormholes by distorting space-time in two seperate locations, creating a tunnel to travel between them.

## Weaknesses

### Psychological

Medea suffers from severe childhood trauma which caused post-traumatic stress disorder in her adult life. This was not diagnosed until her adult years when it formed into complex-post traumatic stress disorder due to prolonged exposure to torture.

* **Depersonalization disorder:** From trauma, she experiences depersonalization and derealization, often having out of body experiences, having a sense that things aren't real, and blanking out long periods of time on accident.
* **Complex post-traumatic stress disorder:** An psychological response to extensive and repeated interpersonal trauma. It spawns from extensive childhood trauma and manifested worse when she was exposed to torture. Symptoms relating to her trauma include:
	+ Amnesia and repression of the events in her childhood.
	+ Self perception of feeling helpless and trapped, often also damaged and worthless.
	+ Feelings of emptiness and hopelessness, as well as a distrust of both the world and people. Difficulty making friends and keeping people close, often avoiding friendships and relationships.
	+ Often in a constant state of hyperarousal, feeling as if she is alert and jittery constantly. Insomnia is linked to this and often startled by loud and unexpected noises.
	+ Physical symptoms of headaches and dizziness, as well as extreme panic attacks.

## Relationships

Medea Atenas, *friend* (former), *object of obsession*: Aleksander and Medea met briefly as children when Medea was travelling with her father to Prime Helarius for work and Sacha was training there training to work for the guard. They meet again several years later in their twenties when Sacha is a *Sentinel* for the ISA and Medea is working for the Deep Space Archaeological Society. They form a friendship when stationed on Outpost 37 and Sacha expresses an interest in leaving the ISA, while Medea regrets not joining them. Sacha is assigned to protect the exploration vessel, the Alcyone and is excited to learn that Medea is hitching a ride to the planet, Aeternitas where she will depart on the shuttle, Pandora-54. Encountering a dark matter storm, their pilot is killed and with no other way, Medea signs on as the ships pilot.

## Trivia

* Medea is known to be completely fluent in both English and Romanian, having learned since birth. She is able to speak and understand but has poor written and reading abilities for both Hungarian and Ukrainian. Through the maternal passing of *the Khozhdskiy*, she can speak and understand the language of the Vspera.