Aleksandr Nevets

## Strengths and Weaknesses

Skills: Alexander Nevets is skilled at getting in and out of guarded places, usually with help from a dedicated crew. He is also skilled in graffiti-based forms of vandalism and a decent acrobat and although he hasn’t killed anyone yet, a good shot who is also decent at martial arts. And of course, he also feels like he is decent at conning people - He has to be, after all.

Weaknesses: Alexander has a fervent, maybe even hobbling, belief that most authority figures cannot be trusted, and that the few who can be are destined to fall to the hands of their enemies. He severely distrusts authoritarian regimes, whether Human or Alien, and sees no difference between them.

## Background

Role on Ship: Thief/Infiltrator (Can be trained to use Alien Tech).

Faction Alignment: Technically Independent, but feels allegiance to Earth.

### Personality

Alexander Nevets is confident, perhaps even cocky, but the sharp pain of recent betrayals, as well as concern for the lives of his ‘crew’ of activist-thieves which remain loyal to him and his cause has moderated that somewhat. He is aware that he was sent to Beachead Station and the rest of Andromeda as a virtual death sentence plus sick joke from his home country, but wishes to make an impact among the Defiance Crew and Intergalactic Politics before meeting his inevitable end. If possible, he also wants to find a way to strike back against the various forms of tyranny which stalk the galaxy, but is willing to find time and help - Reliable help - before making his move to do so. After all, he’ll only have a few chances, chances which can only be counted on one hand.

He is also bisexual and this is relevant as that is the root of his’ finding discrimination distasteful.

## Backstory

Alexander Nevets was born in Petrograd, Russia, to a middle-class family who uniformly voted Opposition. He had a twin sister, Anna, and both of them discovered that they were ‘not normal’ early in life, Anna being a lesbian and Alexander being bisexual. Both of them suffered bullying due to this and their family’s participation in various Anti-Putin protests, and eventually, when Alexander was 17, Anna mysteriously disappeared, causing his parents to slide into suicidal depression. But for Alexander, it was the beginning of his private war.

In the next few months, Alexander trained himself to fight, to enter and exit condemned buildings, and used the ‘dark web’ to not just learn the tools of the trade, but also to gather a crew of what he thought were similarly alienated teenagers, each of whom had useful skills in strategy, hacking, and even connections to the rich and powerful. With their help, Alexander began vandalizing government property, then trespassing into government buildings, pulling off several high-profile thefts of embarrassing, scandalous records of government corruption and hypocritical behavior, which were then used by the Russian Opposition to organize additional protests.

Finally, Alexander handed over information to a foriegn journalist about how Russia had been spreading propaganda against a new vaccine for a certain respiratory disease while hoarding stores of said vaccine itself, and shortly after, he was caught after one of his crew betrayed him. His subsequent experiences in prison, as someone who had just approached his 19th birthday, are not something he’d wish to talk about - Let’s just say no one took pity on him despite his youth. Nevertheless, he was certain the rest of his team except for the traitor had escaped to another country.

This would have been his end, either as a dead body or laboring in a Siberian Prison, but a Federal Security Bureau (Russia’s Intelligence Agency) member was pondering what to do about the ‘Alien Menace’ and decided that sending them a ‘Phantom Thief’ would kill two birds with one stone - They got rid of a troublemaker, said troublemaker might make trouble among the Aliens, and if he died while doing so, the Aliens would not blame Russia too much. So they, with reluctance, gave Alexander a layer of extra training, and then packed him off to Beachhead Station in order to face a prolonged death sentence.