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Sasha Petrovich grew up in the waning years of the Soviet Union in the city of Kursk, near the Ukranian border. He grew up with only his immediately family, which consisted of just his mother and father. Sasha's mother was a seamstress, and known around the neighborhood for her kind demeanor and musical laugh. His father was a firm, but fair man, who worked as a laborer on construction jobs. His diverse skills learned through experience rather than scholarly study, which was difficult to afford in the hard times many faced towards the end of ther Soviet Era. Sasha looks back on his youth fondly, as his parents both instilled in him strong senses of right and wrong, duty, and compassion.

When Sasha was twelve, his mother became gravely ill, contracting tuberculosis. The family did not have the funds necessary for the costly medical treatments that could have helped her, and the crumbling, failing Soviet social safety net was nowhere to be found that far from Moscow. Sasha and his father were forced to watch as she wasted away. Sasha's father, ever stoic, grieved quietly and carried on, and Sasha attempted to follow his example, burying the pain of the loss.

After completing high school Sasha joined his father at the construction firm he worked for as there was little to spare for things like college. The hard physical work suited the burly young man, and he flourished in the environment, learning many of the skills of the trade, from welding, to riveting, from framing to roofing. A few years passed, and Sasha had grown into a tall, broad-shouldered man. His father was quietly proud of his son, and showed it in small ways that only the two of them understood, such was the bond that had grown since the passing of Sasha's mother. ragedy struck again, however, as an on-site accident at work claimed the life of Sasha's father. Several heavy concrete pipes broke free of their moorings and rolled over the unsuspecting man. Sasha was there, and single handedly lifted several of the four to five hundred pound pipes off of his father, fear and adrenaline driving him beyond his normal limits. Sasha's father died there, before emergency units could arrive. Sasha held him to the end.

Sasha tried to follow the example of his father and carry on. He buried the pain of the loss of his family and simply kept working, not knowing anything else to do. He dove into the job, working long hours with overtime. His co-workers became a surrogate family of sorts, and made it a point to try and keep Sasha cheerful most of the time. They would often drag him from his home or after work to various night clubs, and despite his protests Sasha did enjoy the outings, as he genuinely did like to be around people. It was during one of these time he met his first love, a fiesty black-haired girl named Lena. Not long after they began dating, Lena moved in with Sasha and things were beginning to look up. Only Sasha did not know that someone was watching him from the shadows.

One night, after finishing off several rounds with his friends from work Sasha had opted to walk home that evening. While not overly intoxicated, he did fail to notice the figures lurking in the nearby alleyway before they were upon him. After a brief struggle, Sasha was knocked unconscious. When he awoke he was in totally unfamiliar surroundings. Sasha was strapped to some sort of large, cold, metal table. Computers blinked and beeped nearby. Bright lights shone down on him from above, nearly blinding him. Shadowy figures, their features obscured by the bright back lighting, loomed above him.

Only one of the figures ever spoke, and only briefly, to inform Sasha that he was to be the first of his new breed of soldiers, infused with the power of soviet industry and innovation. Machine arms, looking like something you would see on the assembly line of a car factory, then rolled into view and went to work. The following days were a scene out of a horror film. The mechanical arms tore Sasha's arms from his body. In their place were bolted massive metal prosthetics. The devices resembled construction equipment more than human arms and hands. His spine and legs were also surgically modified, being reinforced to support the power of the artificial arms, leaving huge gashes along his back and the length of his legs and thighs. Strange devices were wired into some of his vital organs through brutally torn open hole in his abdomen, namely his heart, liver, and kidneys. These seemed to provide some sort of support function for the mechanical limbs. The robotic surgeons used blood and drugs to keep Sasha alive during the procedures, but not any anesthetic. Sasha lapsed in and out of consciousness innumerable times from the pain. After an unknown period of time, the process was complete. The shadowy figure returned to observe his handiwork.

For the perfect soldier free will was absolutely out of the question, of course. The final step of the process would be the attachment of the control device, which appeared to be a large, full metal helmet intended to be bolted into his skull. After days of agony, what should have been a final, crippling blow to the man, Sasha summoned what remained of his willpower. His new limbs responded to his mental commands and snapped Sasha free from his bonds. Blinded by pain and fear, the bionically augmented Russian smashed his way free from the factory and into the night, much to the surprise of his former captor, whom Sasha never got a clear look at. How long Sasha ran he did not know. He was in unfamiliar territory in the Russian countryside. Nearly naked and freezing, he eventually collapsed

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