Operation Olympia

**Operation Olympia** is the name given to a top-secret black ops program created by a network of corrupt military soldiers and scientists known as the Collective, aimed at transforming ordinary people into super-human-assassin-soldiers. It was the brainchild of Russian scientist Yuri Lebedev and his compatriot Dimitri Azzacov, with Yuri in particular becoming infamous for using his own son Konstantin as a lab rat.

## History

### Conception and overview

During the last years of the Soviet Union, the Soviets searched for one last push to win the Cold War against the West. The Russians were able to recruit ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Sterner, a former Nazi scientist, to help them advance their intelligence warfare by training a new type of spy and assassin.

With the help of Sterner, Russian scientists Yuri Lebedev and his compatriot Dimitri Azzacov created super-human soldiers by modifying two of their chromosomes, giving them better recovery from physical injuries, increased physical performance, pain suppression, enhanced intelligence, and even superhuman strength. This was done to permanently transform these killers into super-human death machines. They were also given hypnotic drugs designed to wipe away any memory of their former selves. Following this, they would be taught a variety of languages, martial arts, marksmanship, and a plethora of other useful combat and field agent skills.

### Konstantin

One of the first test subjects was Konstantin Lebedev, Yuri's own son; Yuri used emotional manipulation and gaslighting to force Konstantin to participate in the experiment, under the guise of "making his life better and creating a safer world." From the age of three until the age of ten, Konstantin was subjected to months of mental abuse, during which he was trained to become the ultimate "human weapon". However, Konstantin was unique; unbeknownst to Yuri, Konstantin had hyperthymnesia, which made him more resistant to the mind-wiping drugs; they would suppress his memories for a time but he would recover them a lot faster than most test subjects.

### Escapes from the program

Unfortunately for Yuri, his activities were discovered by his wife Dasha. Horrified and infuriated at her husband's actions, Dasha stole Konstantin away when he was eleven years old and fled to the United States of America, much to Yuri's fury. He immediately went to work training another subject to replace him, intending to use her as a weapon to bring Konstantin back, a young German girl named Juliane Bar. Unfortunately, this also failed when Juliane, severely traumatized by the physical and mental conditioning, also escaped the program, killing hundreds of scientists before escaping to Mexico, where she crossed over into the United States with the help of coyotes.

### War on Olympia

Dasha struggled to raise the young Konstantin alone and was eventually forced to place the child for adoption. Afterwards, Dasha connected with family and friends living in the United States and launched a crusade against Operation Olympia, intending to shut it down for good. During this, Yuri launched a relentless manhunt to find Konstantin and recover him for reconditioning. In early 2021, he located Dasha and attempted to coerce her into divulging Konstantin's location.

When Dasha refused, an infuriated Yuri attempted to murder her, but Dasha killed him in self-defense with the help of her sister Anastasiya.

The death of Yuri brought about the beginning of the end of the Olympia program.

## Known test subjects

* Konstantin Lebedev/Arctic Wolf (Escaped)
* **Tatiana Makarova**/Raven (Escaped)
* **Demetra Stanelli**/Cuttlefish (Escaped)
* Leonid Voroshilov/Firefly (Escaped)
* Ilya Makarov/Drab Leopard (Escaped)
* Nikolai Kalinin/Azure Shark (Escaped)
* Kristen Sadler/Green Urchin (Escaped)
* Dimitri Petrenko/Jackrabbit (Escaped)
* Juliane Bar/Black Lioness (Escaped)
* Natalya Fashkova/White Bride (Escaped)
* Joan E. Hudson/Red Dolphin (Escaped)
* Jade Fox/Iron Jackal (escaped)
* Allyson N. Eisenberg/Allyminium/Assassin X (Escaped)
* **Tatiana Makarova**/Raven (Escaped)