Kingpin Missions

Star Team ambushes a Soviet transport heading to the radar station.

**Kingpin** is a set of three small Star Team missions that occur right after the Crankbait mission. The team attempts to track down the alternate timeline version of Dr. Alexander Petrov after he goes insane trying to destroy the world with his interdimensional scientific discoveries.

## Synopsis

### Act I: USSR

After the events of the Crankbait mission, the Sub-Continuum Force now knows that Dr. Petrov was the biggest player in the damage being caused to this timeline. He set up his fellow researcher to be executed and became the sole authority at the Dark Sword Research Group (DSRG). Knowing far too well that the war would turn ugly, he was ready to build an ultimatum and his pièce de résistance: The Grail. The Star Team decided to follow this lead and bag Petrov before he could skew the timeline anymore than it already was and to collect intel that could lead them closer to finding the whereabouts of the STCTF. The DSRG is the only human organization known of that has developed such a depth of knowledge into The Orb's branch of quantum mechanics that they could be the only hope to finding out where the STCTF are located, and maybe how to stop the timeline from falling apart before The World Builder is dealt with.

To catch Dr. Petrov, The Orb attempted to send units back to the Maxim Radar Station in north-east USSR where we first encountered him (in the Deeper Truth mission). Somehow the timeline was changed in such a way that the radar base is no longer in use by the DSRG. This meant that Petrov moved his operations elsewhere and the team had no leads on where he might have gone. The Star Team moved back to the north-east region and try to look for intel that can track his whereabouts.

#### Intel Found

##### Logistics Report:

DSRG cargo reports sensitive and radioactive material transport. Faraday caged shipping containers ONLY! Containers will be airlifted to requested port and then transported by ship to designated delivery site: Petrov Oil Rig, Artic Sea.

##### VIP Designation File:

This facility will host Dr. Alexander Petrov and his team from the DSRG as they transfer all their scientific equipment to their offshore research site in the arctic circle. Until then, he will be hosted here and will be given officer rations as per the VIP designation. No base personnel is permitted to enter his quarters without prior clearance, as his work is highly classified.

##### Dr. Petrov's Notes:

Log entry February 1st, 1981 \\ I had a breakthrough with the serum process. Trial PA-81b was the first successful implementation of my theorized substance on a live human. The test was simple: fill the subject's blood with an antigen made of Epochium dust and warp them through the rift. Unlike those other mindless demons destroying everything in their path, these altered deer men arrived much more stable and MUCH stronger. They behaved more like predatorial hunters than wild beasts. When provoked, they exerted just enough of a strike to render the threat neutralized and even seem to be able to command other mindless deer men around them. If I can just figure out how to sever their connection with the unknown realm they become attached to during warp, I can find a way to command them myself and build the ultimate army of immortal beasts alive. The only issue I have faced is that the officer deer men are unwilling to remain locked up, and use their short-warp ability to escape on land facilities. I've already lost one to the wild out here.. That is why I am moving our operations to the offshore oil rig we purchased in my name. These old abandoned Soviet platforms will allow me to contain the deer men from short-warping out of the test area and into the wild--possibly leading the west into suspicion of our activities. The sea is far too violent for even those deer men to survive. All that is left to do now is get the total support of the state. That fool Kharov is out in the tropics chasing a fever dream. He is in my way and both of us cannot be receiving resources for this project. My method will change the world for good.

##### Petrov Oil Rig Plan:

Once we have perfected serum PA-81b and stabilized the officer deer men for communication, we will move them to a location far from the arctic circle--a place closer to one of the 15 natural continuity zones on this planet--so the final stage of this project can commence. Moving day should be at some point in december :)

### Act II: Arctic Oil Rig

Dr. Petrov's team with the DSRG purchased a series of abandoned Soviet offshore oil rigs in the arctic circle to continue their tests on human subjects and to understand the deermen more clearly. The idea was that if the subject went rogue onboard the oil rig, there would be nowhere to go since the violent oceans would likely drown them if they tried to short-warp off the platform. The team needed to locate and board this oil rig and find out anything they could about where Dr. Petrov and his team are located in the alternate timeline.

#### Intel Found

*December 15th, 1981 - Epucuen, Argentina*

### Act III: The Epucuen

Finally tracking Dr. Alexander Petrov to an eastern township in Argentina, the Star Team attempt to find and stop him before he orders the execution of Jozef Kharov, completes his research on the Fireborne (увольнять людей), and constructs The Grail. Due to the existence of modern record keeping in 1981, the team was able to predetermine the landscape and events in Epucuen at this time to plan their strike. December 15th, 1981 is the day that the Epucuen Gazette reported a large gala to be thrown in the town's grand plaza. The event supposedly involved high ranking officials in the Soviet Red Army who were going to receive news about the DSRG program's progress presumably from Dr. Petrov himself in order to acquire the state funding he needs to complete the project.

Star Team infiltrated the event dressed as Soviet officers and got close to the meeting without being discovered. Due to a new firmware update for the Mark 2 Space Warp Suit, linguistics control was included to allow wearers to speak with perfect tonation for all human languages. While the infiltration team conducted their reconnaissance, the overwatch team rigged a satellite tracker to one of the VIP transports that carried Petrov. Once Petrov made his presentation and left the venue, the team followed his transport back to where he was staying where the team would extract him from.

The team moved him to a secure location for interrogation where they learned he had been communicating with The World Builder. In that instant, he was warped away by a red glowing orb, where he became the first known Fireborne General. The team extracted to the Time Gate and warped out of the operation empty handed.

#### Intel Found

*The PA-81b Serum has been developed for injection into subjects who are about to be warped through the rift as a way to stimulate growth in their cells and to prevent damage to the core function of their body. The serum has been placed in a series of bombs labelled 0XHATIB for discrete transport. A mining facility in Ukraine currently has the latest high potency dose. We will be making the Fireborne General out of that when the dosage arrives.*

## Trivia

* Act II of the Kingpin missions was not played in ArmA 3, but rather in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on the Petrov Oil Rig map.