Korobin

**Korobin Lechowicz** was a polish man with immense hatred for extraterrestrial life and the paranormal.

## **History**

### **1962**

**Korobin** was on his duty to investigate an abandoned castle on the border between Poland and Germany, as there have been multiple records of an unnatural laughter near the vicinity of a playground, which was built on top of an abandoned underground bunker built around the year 1053. He looked around the playground, both with and without infrared vision, and have identified that the paranormal entity as a free soul, that is unable to enter either of the Godverse and Demonverse, and furthermore is unable to find a new host body for itself. He was able to make the soul disintegrate via a mildly radioactive and liquid material, which then slowly evaporates into the atmosphere 32 seconds after hitting any soil, with around 0.5% of it evaporating before hitting the soil. Due to his shift ending, and the sun rising up, he went to a library, to study both the paranormal and extraterrestrial life. However his plans to read books have ended soon as he was called by his superior about his termination from his job, as his sluggish, but superb performance was not enough by state standards. However he was able to negotiate it down that he could keep his equipment provided to him. At night, he noticed a blinking light in the sky, a phenomenon he has been witnessing every 2 months ever since 1960, which since has been dubbed as the Red Year, due to the Sun and the Moon shifting to a red color. He was extremely unsure on what it was, other than the fact that he was unable to associate it with human activity, however he was not sure what kind of race were causing the issue. A few days later, he spent more time in the library, up until he decided to travel to Kaliningrad Oblast to seek a job as a paranormal investigator, officially, as he successfully dodged conscription legally. He was quickly accepted, and soon enough, the paranormal activities within Kaliningrad slowly started to decrease, as people like him in the area started to become paranormal investigators themselves. During one of his shifts, he met Arthur Hassel, a former military radio operator of german descent and staff sergeant, whom was honorably discharged from the military after losing a huge chunk of his right shoulder in a firearms accident. They became quick friends, mainly through their common hatred for the extraterrestrial and the paranormal, however, as **Korobin** at the time had the job to get rid of anything paranormal in the area he was assigned to investigate and dispatch, they were not able to talk too much at the time, but from time to time, they organized to meet with each other, and inspired by the conversations the two of them had, **Korobin** got extremely interested in the topics of radios.

### **1963**

**Korobin** was fired from his job officially for the reason that his work performance is at best underwhelming and that they wish him good luck in his future endeavors. Seeing as that there are around 4 months of rent that the local government allows themselves to pay for unemployed people that have been recently fired from their job, acting as a safe window to be able to find a job relatively without any major disturbances. To his luck, he saw an advertisement for an archaeological excavation job funded by his friend Arthur Hassel. The advertisement stated that traces of human occupation prior to modern civilizations have been found and seeing that it was a job that would be paying vaguely well and it requires little to no education. And as that, he visited his newfound friend Arthur, who was getting on his way to start this job by putting those who applied into a spaceship that would land on the Moon. After a few minutes of driving, they themselves too arrived at the spaceships, and as soon as everyone was deemed onboard, the spaceships launched. After about one and a half day of travelling in space, the spaceships finally landed and the excavations began soon after. **Korobin** wanted to be done with this rather quickly, he did not pay much attention to what others said, but to rather focusing on the excavating. However, after days of hard labor, no one was able to find any traces, presumably thanks to the amount of meteorite impacts the Moon had to suffer alongside with the fact that the sheer amount of dust have consumed structures whole, meaning that the excavations would have to run deep. But after a long 6 months of excavating, it was revealed that there was an entire city built by humans, but at the time no one knew which civilization it belonged to, and after consulting several historians back on Earth after sending back photographic data, it was determined that the city was built by the romans, and for a while it was unknown how the romans could get to the Moon, however the most possible explanation was that there was considerable amounts of divine intervention that have led to the creation of the city, which since then have been reduced to ruins, presumably because of the combination of decaying over time and bigger and smaller meteorite impacts, but as the ruins sank over time, a good portion of the city was preserved by the lunar dust. After everyone returned to Earth, **Korobin** approached Arthur regarding if there are any more jobs available to do, and in response he got the answer that a certain radio tower was in the works that is planned to be permanently getting rid of ghosts and other souls that are unable to find their inner peace. **Korobin** stated that he would be more than happy to help, but his plans were stopped in tracks as government approval was needed to even built the radio tower in the first place. Arthur additionally said that it would have to be built by hand, and as such would be quite expensive.

### **1976**

**Korobin**, now working alone for approximately 5 years, after countless attempts of getting government approval, now no longer having to hide the radio tower he has been working on, he finally got the approval of the government, with Alexander Bolstonoysky seeing that the tower could be used to be yet another communications channel for the military, for reasons that he is unable to tell at the moment. And as such, **Korobin** was able to finish the radio tower at high speeds, and upon the activation of it, the Soviet Army have received yet another channel for communications at a high radio frequency, alongside with the module that Arthur invented, capable of disintegrating souls that have no body, throughout in a 12000 kilometer radius. Upon the activation of this tower, many paranormal investigators throughout Earth were left without a job, with most leaving to enlist into the various branches of the military. **Korobin** have predicted that the tower, which was now known as the UVB-76, would remain functional for 19 years, in case humans were to die out in what he assumed as a theoretical war between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. He furthermore received an adequate amount of money as compensation for those who have died directly as a result of the construction of UVB-76. A few weeks later, **Korobin** was notified through a highly classified radio frequency transmitter that he was given access to as a result of him extensively looking for government approval alongside with keeping in touch with several military personnel that also helped out in secret before the approval was given, that as his ability of being able to supply such a project, alongside with managing it mostly by himself, he has been offered a job as a military logistician, a job that at first he refused, but then realized that seeing that as that the UVB-76 is what he considered is the project that he would not be able to surpass within his lifetime, and seeing that it has been complete, he accepted the job, not knowing that at the time the government was already in the process of doing a massive project which was only nicknamed as "The Great Rearmament", as the Premier, Mansi at the time was very unpopular due to the huge civilian unrest across the Earth mainly concerning the ever increasing secretive and the decreasing transparency of the government, the military had to be equipped in case a civil war would broke out, alongside with the fact that both radars and sonars both on Earth and Mars have picked up signals from what has been witnessed as a massive fleet of spacecrafts, belonging to a civilization that mankind is not aware of and have not encountered in the past. **Korobin** was assigned to ensure the readiness of the supply lines of an upcoming invasion against several planets and moons across the Solar System, that is to be conducted on a technology that is currently being experimented on and is not done yet.

### **1977**

**Korobin** was enjoying outstanding success regarding the establishment of the supply lines, and just in time for the invasions to begin, with the first being against Venus, which then turned out to be a peaceful takeover, as Venus for many millennia have been inhabited by the native venusians and beings from the Demonverse, with both groups accepting soviet rule for the time being. A few days later, the Soviet Army hit a mild roadblock when it came to Mercury, as the planet was equipped with a planetary defense system that has been continuously worked on for hundreds of thousands of years, much before the arrival of the current dominant human species. However, after several trials and errors and thanks to the military ingenuity of Mansi, the planetary defense system was overcame and the Soviet Army began assaulting the planet, which was then soon occupied as well. After this following series of victories, **Korobin**, among several other high ranking military officers and government members have noticed that there was a steady increase in popularity of Mansi, as the people began having hope in him after nearly a decade full of bad luck for a reason that he is potentially not even responsible for. Throughout the next few months, **Korobin** had excessive ease supplying the various branches of the military, which then had the result of several protests on Earth being put down, alongside with local government coup attempts, but more notably, the successful invasions of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto and Jupiter, however the jovians have demanded a higher degree of autonomy in exchange for better technology, a deal that was quickly struck. In the meantime, the fleet that has been observed for a year now by radars and sonars, have finally reached it's destination, the Solar System, and began quickly circling around the planet of Jupiter, and not long after that, beginning to attack it. In response, the government have officially announced the existence of the BOTR-77, a multi-functional spaceship, capable of a variety of uses, but seeing as at the time there was a huge battle happening, it is planned for military usage. The reveal of the BOTR-77, have caused a major spike in terms of not only the Premier's popularity but also the government's and the military's popularity, with have resulted in a massive increase of people who have voluntarily joined the various branches of the military, even in the recently occupied parts of the Soviet Union, with most joining the newly found Soviet Deep Space Exploration Forces, the SDSEF. The alien invaders have been officially named as the "Kracatoans", whom at the time were giving the SDSEF a hard time in Jupiter and it's area, which months later have led to the creation of the BOTR-77A, a more simplified and compact version of the BOTR-77, which is exclusively used by the SDSEF, as the multi-functional purpose have been dropped only for military usage, reducing the cost of manufacture while greatly increasing the speed of it, however despite that, there was simply not enough time for the Soviet Union to be able to secure a victory and as such, as **Korobin** realized it himself, the SDSEF slowly began retreating from Jupiter.

### **1978**

Despite the slow withdrawal of the SDSEF from Jupiter, the planet was still able to put up a considerable fight against the kracatoans, but no matter how much fight the kracatoans are put up against, they are able to advance, although at a sluggish rate. At the same time, **Korobin** reaches the conclusion that there is very little to do in terms of contributing to this whole ordeal anymore, as he is clearly able to see that this will be a war that the Soviet Union was unable to win, and as such, he in secrecy had attempts to negotiate with the kracatoans to grant him refuge in exchange of political support, but as none of them spoke any of the languages spoken on Earth, it turned out to be impossible to achieve. Luckily for him, these actions of his were never leaked to anyone, but have revealed a major weakness of the Soviet Union to the kracatoans, as from their perspective, many high ranking officials were beginning to lose hope as the war dragged on and conditions back on Earth started to deteriorate more and more due to the extensive military spending. **Korobin**, alongside many military personnel, both ordinary soldiers and generals, had an attempt at deserting to Mars and hide in shelters that they would later construct near the vicinity of rough terrain, but their plot was caught on rather quickly by a marshal of croatian descent, Leonid Kaztazinać, who then quickly called out for the yet to be deserters to be court-martialed for their betrayal of their homeland and their disgusting cowardice, which then soon took place on May 12th, where approximately 87823 military personnel and 86 generals were put on trial for attempted desertion, with the judge being Paavo Levandi, an aging former war criminal, whom since then officially repented for his actions. The trial have lasted for approximately until August 9th, where it was deducted that 85234 out of the 87909 are to be executed by shooting squads, where as the rest are to be thrown into forced labor camps, formerly referred to as gulags. **Korobin** got to be the luckier individuals, as he was not executed, but to his demise, he was sent to Vorkuta, one of the least pleasant forced labor camps throughout the Soviet Union. Even there, he was recognized by few people, from both his contributions to the construction of the UVB-76 and from his very short past as a military logistician, however when he revealed that the reason he got sent here was because of attempted desertion, many people's image of him shattered and have resulted in him getting shunned at mass, where as a small minority of people happened to agree with him on many points, mainly on his belief that the war the Soviet Union is at the moment waging, is a war that it is unable to win. A few months later, many of the inmates began to note that he also was quickly losing his mind, mainly thanks to the, from a human perspective, horrible conditions that he has been put into, alongside with the never resting cold.

### **1985**

**Korobin**, now residing in the captivity of the kracatoans, near the closing minutes of the invasion, he met Heinrich Lachmann, a former police officer, whom have shown severe distrust to what was once the soviet government, mostly due to the still largely censored events of the Red Year, and that it is rumored that both the majority of the both ancient and modern martian populace with alongside Mansi were aware of the existence of the kracatoans prior to their first entrance to the Solar System, then he commented that 1960, as his former history teacher have put it, became a turning point in the history of mankind, and unfortunately for it, for the worse. **Korobin** had an attempt to argue that the government did what they were able to do in their power, with the sole notable mistake that Mansi was aware of the existence of the kracatoans and being unable to prepare the Soviet Union for their arrival, that is if the rumors of it are true. He furthermore noted that those whom have been denied entrance to both the Demonverse and the Godverse will be suffering through a lengthy period of time, which is including a good portion of mankind that is currently alive or have recently died, and as to why he is assured of this is because of that he was one of the two people who are responsible for the creation of UVB-76. He also stated that for any prisoners that reside in the military base they are in at the moment, is unable to obtain even the slightest chance to escape their fate, for as neither the SDSEF, the Soviet Army, Air Forces or Navy have shown any mercy to the kracatoans either. Approximately 6 minutes later, a good portion of the military base remained empty, with now there being only 60 thousand soldiers on site, guarding 3000 captives, whom are scheduled to be executed, with the notable exceptions of collaborationists and people whom display the physical characteristics of blue eyes, blonde hair, being over 1.73 meters or 5 feet and 8 inches in height, and being above average in physical fitness, preferably all characteristics at the same time. **Korobin** have met his ultimate demise on the 30th of May on a vaguely stormy night, when the order of execution was finally handed out for the kracatoan soldiers, whom have did as they have been asked to, executing 1789 captives, with **Korobin** being one of them, with those who weren't executed were either set free, or were taken to another military base for research purposes. After all personnel have left the base, a platoon of kracatoan soldiers who were patrolling near the area, led by Vortel Sarted, came across the military base, presuming that it has been abandoned by their fellow men for the reason that there were no humans left in the area, and as such, they entered the base and saw the executed captives, and as seeing that the base was located in what was once a strategic position for them, he ordered his men to give the deceased captives a proper kracatoan burial next to the base, despite the fact that who they were burying were their enemies, while furthermore arguing that they don't want another "Biological Horrors of Tolevarger" incident, leaving **Korobin** resting at peace next to a kracatoan military base in the northern part of Denmark.