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| player = @Markus Magnum
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| caption = Commission By @timdoodles [Twitter]
| caption = Markus Magnum, [LOCATION CLASSIFIED]
| origin = Mutation
| origin = [[Image:Originicon_mutation.png{{!}}32px]]  '''''MUTATION'''''
| archetype = Blaster
| archetype = [[Image:Archetypeicon_blaster.png{{!}}32px]]  '''''BLASTER'''''
| level = 50
| alignment =
| realname = Aleksey Rumyantsev
| level = [[File: P_Level_50.png{{!}}32px]]
| alias = Gunslinger Ursa Major-117
| realname = Aleksey Nikolayev Rumyantsev
| age = Mid-30s [Estimate-Records Loss]
| alias =  
<br>
* Gunslinger Ursa Major-117
* Markus Magnum
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| age = [REDACTED]
| gender = Male
| gender = Male
| species = Augmented Human
| species = Augmented Human
| ethnicity = East Slavic
| ethnicity = East Slavic
| birthdate = [Uncertain-Records Loss]
| birthdate = [REDACTED]
| birthplace = Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation [Praetoria]
| birthplace = Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
| relatives =  
| relatives =  
 
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* Aleksandr [Father] [Deceased]
* Aleksandr [Father] [Deceased]
* Ludmilla [Mother] [Deceased]
* Ludmilla [Mother] [Deceased]
* Nikolai [Brother] [Deceased]
* Nikolai [Brother] [Deceased]
 
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| height = 7'
| height = 7'
| weight = 285 lbs
| weight = 295 lbs
| eyes = Slate Blue
| eyes = Slate Blue
| hair = Black
| hair = Black
| complexion = Tan
| complexion = Caucasian
| build = Heavily Muscular
| build = Athletic, Muscular
| features =  
| features =  
 
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* Maintains a closely-trimmed beard
* Trimmed beard
* Has a black armband tattoo on the bicep of both arms
* Black armband tattoos
* Twin rows of circular scars on his back
* Circular scars on his back
* Wears reinforced sunglasses with cobalt lenses
* Reinforced cobalt sunglasses
 
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| alignment = 4
| alignment = 4
| reputation = 7
| reputation = 7
| identity = Secret [Known only to a few]
| identity = Secret [Known only to a few]
| years_active = [REDACTED BY FBSA-GIFT/Vanguard HELM]
| years_active = [REDACTED]
| operations = Paragon City, RI
| operations = Paragon City, RI
| citizenship = United States [Provisional]
| citizenship = United States [Provisional]
| education = [REDACTED BY FBSA-GIFT/Vanguard HELM]
| education = Moscow Border Institute of the FSB
| occupation =  
| occupation(s) =  
 
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* Security Analyst
* Security Analyst
* Bodyguard
* Bodyguard
* Bouncer
* Bounty Hunter
* Bounty Hunter
 
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| marital = Partnered
| marital = Partnered
| powers =  
| Powers =  
 
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* Dual Pistols
* Dual Pistols
* Enhanced Martial Arts [Modified SYSTEMA]
* Enhanced Martial Arts
* Enhanced Sensory Perception and Target Acquisition
* '''[REDACTED]'''
 
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* Dual Marakov TKB-023 Match Compensator Heavy Pistols
* Dual Marakov TKB-023 Match Compensator Heavy Pistols
* RoboCV Surveillance Aerodrone
* RoboCV Power Aerodrone
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<blockquote>"''Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; And oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad."
==REPORT COMPILATION 17-ALPHA==
:::- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.''</blockquote>
:::- A VANGUARD: HELM REPORT COMPILATION
 
==HELM ANALYSIS: Abstract==
:::- Compilation Authorized by '''Dark Watcher'''
:::- Scientific Consultation by '''Steven Sheridan''', AKA 'Doctor Science'
This report details information found at the ruins of a safe house managed by The Malta Group discovered in the ruins of Galaxy City.  In particular, the following report describes one operative – a Gunslinger designated ‘Ursa Major 117’ in Malta documentation – and his extensive genetic modifications.
 
==HELM ANALYSIS: Compilation Overview==
During a Longbow sweep of the Galaxy City Exclusion Zone’s Nebula District, an abandoned Malta safehouse were found, the base of a Tactical Operations Group codenamed GARM.  HELM Analysis Division believe that this was an observation post, intended to safely monitor new 'Capes' as they were introduced to the various administrative organs of the FBSA, and away from more heavily trafficked areas like Peregrine Island and Atlas Park.  Along with other items, the following reports were discovered, stored in a secure and hardened hard drive.  These reports concern one of their newest operatives – a Gunslinger designated Ursa Major-117.
 
== Aleksey Nikolayev Rumyantsev: A Brief History ==
Subject was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in '''[DATE REDACTED]''' to Aleksandr and Ludmilla, who lived in Sosnovy Bor, an affluent suburb.  Upon reaching the age of 18, he was evaluated by Saint Petersburg conscription office. Since he was not immediately disqualified for being homosexual, HELM Analysis believes the Subject was not public with his sexual orientation at this time.  
 
===SPETSNAZ-FSB===
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Subject was recommended for the Russian Border Service. After further testing for 'potential', he was transferred to the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB.
 
Records from that point are sketchy, though it is believed that Subject graduated from the MBI's 5 year training regimen. It is interesting to note that MBI's training regimen was apparently altered for Subject to incorporate dual-wielding heavy pistols and SYSTEMA martial arts.


Makwa.  ''Makwa.''
Records then show him as transferred to the Special Operations Center in Kubinka-2, serving in the Special Operations Forces.  There are indications that he was involved in the Elbrus mountains SOF exercises in '''[DATE REDACTED]'''.  Subject then disappeared from all official records.


Hear us speak in the winds, Speaker-of-Many-Names.  One comes to you, to speak of the Unfinished Blade. He has questions. Hear us speak.
===FOLIANT II PROGRAM===
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''Pratorianskiye Lezviya!''  Hear us, Speaker-of-Many-Names, for our knowledge is great and terrible. He was born in the city of Saint Peter, astride the cold and deep waters, when the world was sane.  We watched as he grew, a proud son of Praetorian Russia, strong and innocent.  Yes, innocent… for a time, it was good.
HELM Analysis believes it was during this period that Subject was drafted into the FOLIANT II program.  Though Subject's whereabouts were unknown at this time, detailed analysis of the follow-up interviews conducted at the Zigursky Maximum Security Prison lead us to believe that FOLIANT II was based out of Bulgaria through a series of dummy corporations covertly funded by the FSB.  


With his dada and his mumma, they walked the broad avenues of the grand parks.  See him! A quiet boy, with raven hair and eyes the color of slate.  His mother’s eyes.  He recited the park names as a mantra, to remember the serenity and shade they offered; the Summer Garden of Peter the Great, Moskovsky Victory Park, and the murals of Saint Isaac’s Square.  Ah, the Square! See him, Speaker-of-Many-Names! Can you imagine our stoic, silent Blade as a laughing child, chasing birds through the square?  Do you see him?  Picture well that laughing, dancing boy with eyes of slate and hair of raven black.
HELM Analysis believes that these mutagenic compounds were created during the Soviet era's FOLIANT Program, and was further refined by the Russian Federation, which created the FOLIANT II Program.  It is further believed that noted KGB geneticist [[Dmitri Krylov]] was heavily involved in the original FOLIANT Program. It is unknown what involvement Krylov had with FOLIANT II.


For you will not see it again.
Once again, these interviews were quickly classified under OMEGA Protocols, though the Founders of the Bulgarian State Monument near the city of Shumen has been referenced multiple times and not redacted.


See! Hear! The screams began in the parks, on that fateful day. The slate-eyed child first learned betrayal as the places he loved became the death traps, and he would never enter again.  See the thrashing of the trees as they rip themselves from their manicured prisons?  The screams and the blood-soaked branches? 
===MALTA GROUP===
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Hamidon! They cried in voices none could hear.  Hamidon! Hamidon!
He was not seen again until his family vehicle was destroyed while crossing Saint Petersburg's Krotlin Island in an apparent assassination attempt.  Unfortunately, his mother, father and brother were all instantly killed.  HELM Analysis believes (and corroborating evidence was discovered at the safe house) that Subject's mutagen-assisted Healing Factor kept him from being killed in the blast.   


The once-stately trees of Saint Petersburg’s parks tore themselves free, and the bedrock itself rose to strike down the humans, to feed upon their fluids and water the parched ground.  An almost ritual sacrifice to starving, ravenous gods. Then the great pine forests of Priozersk and Yuntolovsky, of Rzhevskij and Kovalovskiy poured themselves into the doomed city.  Saint Isaac’s Cathedral was overthrown.  The great Gates were torn down.  The memorial headstones of Piskariovskoye were ripped free and desecrated.
At this point, a Malta Group TacOps strike team breached Russian airspace, landed a VTOL flyer by the wreckage, and managed to save him in a lightning-fast operation.  The flyer escaped Russian airspace using highly-advanced stealth capabilities that allowed them to elude tracking by naval radar tracking stations at nearly Russian military bases.


Hamidon! Hamidon! Hamidon!
HELM Analysis Division still believes this attempt was in connection with FOLIANT II, though the Russian FSB continue to deny involvement in the crime, and even deny that Subject was ever assigned to a SPETSNAZ SOC unit.  Though some believe this to be an indicator that Subject was, in fact, an escapee from the secretive program, there are also factors which have cast doubt on this belief (detailed in separate reports).


Speaker-of-Many-Names, did you know that Leningrad endured over 900 days of siege, once?  Yet the once-proud defenders of Saint Petersburg were overrun in only weeks.  Their machines were smashed by walking stone.  Their barracks were crushed by grasping limbs. The city died, and so many died with it. Many were even… Devoured.
===ARACHNOS===
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Into this chaos and death, the raven-haired boy was thrown.  See him run, Speaker-of-Many-Names? See the tears on his cheeks, the blood of his parents spattered across his body?  He saw, first hand, what Hamidon thought of the humans that infested Praetorian Earth.  Right in front of him, for he was quick and fast, even then.  His parents, were not.
After this event, Subject again drops out of sight, until he was spotted boarding an Arachnos flyer in the Galaxy City ruins.  His activities in the Rogue Isles have been marked '''[CLASSIFIED]''', though his sudden surrender to Vanguard forces in the White Plains District's Rikti War Zone was a surprise.  What he discussed with Lady Grey is also marked '''[CLASSIFIED]''', but HELM Analysis received a treasure trove of confidential information concerning Arachnos, the Arachnos Advanced Science Division (AASD), Project FURY, the Family, a new supervillain team and the Malta Group not long afterward.  Subject was then released from Zigursky Prison to the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, where he received a new 'Cape name' of '''''MARKUS MAGNUM''''' and provisional American citizenship.


The hours became days. Days became weeks. Weeks became months. Months became years.  Can you imagine it?  We stand Outside, but we watch. The great city was overturned, from the Nevsky Prospekt to the great Cathedrals to the Winter Palace.  And the young ones ran from vanishing sanctuary to vanishing sanctuary.
It is noteworthy that the Subject seemed drawn to investigate Arachnos agents and projects that specialized in so-called 'super-soldier programs'; Krylov's Creations and Project FURY are just two examples of this investigation pattern.


Hamidon! Hamidon! Hamidon!
===FBSA===
Helm Analysis believes that the Subject negotiated a 'supervised release' with Vanguard, the FBSA, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.  After release from Zigursky Prison, the Subject was remanded to FBSA custody for analysis and testing.


The incantation, the summoning, echoed in the little ones’ ears.  Those who have ears, let them hear, as the saying goes.  We have no ears, yet we hear. We hear the quiet sobs. We remember.  
====FBSA Powers Origin Analysis Profiling====
As per standard FBSA doctrine, Subject was first exposed to a range of tests to determine both his powersets and the Origins of said powers.  His extensive genetic alterations were immediately noted, and, particularly after the Super molecule X particle was detected and studied, Subject's Origins were listed as Mutation.  


We. Alone.  
====FBSA Powers Analysis Profiling====
Using FBSA Skillset Profiling, Subject has been designated a Blaster with a primary skillset of dual-wielding pistols, and a secondary skillset in Martial Arts [a modified version of the SYSTEMA martial arts system taught to SPETSNAZ-FSB and -GRU].


The adults sought the little ones as impenetrable night fell across the ruined frescos of Saint Isaac’s Square. Hopes flickered and died like the lights as the rage of Praetorian Earth destroyed power lines and generators alike.  At first, the adults lied to the little ones, saying that the Russian defenders would return, would rescue them and bear them away. Some believed. Some, like the raven-haired boy… did not. He knew better, even at the age of 6 years.
====FBSA Meyers-Briggs Modified Alignment Profiling====


Do you feel the biting cold of the Russian winter, Speaker? There was no power, and no warmth – save the small fires of survivors huddled against the howling night and the monsters, unshackled from the spaces beneath beds, which lumbered, seemingly impervious to the cold.


What was it, exactly? Was it the freezing cold? Was it the destruction of their monuments and desecration of their final resting places? Was it the vast numbers of dead lying among the cobbles which summoned them? Even we do not know. But above the ruined stones of memorial sites like Piskariovskoye, lights appeared. Above the ravaged Kresty Prison, the flickering lights appeared.  
He was assigned temporary housing with Praetorian refugees in Bricktown, though he has since moved into Kings Row. He has also become romantically involved, though the details of that romance are not, at present, germane to the current investigation.  


Cold, white lights. Hamidon’s minions investigated, but plant and stone and crystal were no match for the bitter whispers, the dread and the hunger of the lights.  They whispered of Leningrad, of political repression, of their hatred for any who dared invade these lands. The minions of Hamidon withdrew, but the Corpselights of Leningrad followed. Hungry. Filled with a hungry rage equal to the Praetorian Earth’s.
Subject has worked with the New Praetorians, and has been given high marks for marksmanship, ability and skill.  However, the Subject's so-called 'pragmatism' - which can be shockingly brutal - continues to count against him in Alignment Testing.


The adults saw the flickering lights, and perhaps some had some idea of the danger they represented. Ah, Speaker-of-Many-Names, we can hear the panicked arguments of the adults.  Too many had no more hope to offer, to keep the freezing cold, Hamidon and now the angry, hungry dead at bay. And in the flickering, dying light of cell phones, the final horrific decisions were made.
Longbow continues to agitate for Subject's arrest and prosecution for crimes he allegedly committed against their organization while in Arachnos' employ.  These specific charges have been labelled '''[CLASSIFIED]''' and has, thus far, been sealed from public scrutiny.


Do you see the raven-haired boy with slate eyes, Speaker-of-Many-Names? See how thin he is now? He no longer laughs. He no longer chases birds. See him and the other little ones quietly cut down their erstwhile protectors from the overhead beams. The hanging ropes were thick and heavy, and difficult to cut. But the knives they had found worked on the ropes.
==== ADDITIONAL NOTES ====
:::'''NOTE 1:''' The FOLIANT II program [supported by the Russian Federation's GosNIIOKhT Institute] and possible connections to Arachnos' Project FURY will be made available in a separate report.


And on their dead protectors.
:::'''NOTE 2:''' The possibility that the Subject was a 'sleeper agent' for '''[REDACTED]''', despite his 'official record' above, will be made available in separate reports '''[REQUIRING OMEGA-LEVEL CLEARANCE]'''.


And the hungry dead, the Corpselights of Leningrad, must have taken notice, for they drifted down to visit the little ones who had, in the name of survival, broken one of the greatest taboos; a taboo that had been broken before.  And they whispered in the ears of the little ones; words that were both new and old. Very old.
:::'''NOTE 3:''' The ConspiracyLinks/''Kholat Sakyl'' video dump analysis will be made available in separate reports.


''Trupoyedstvo'', whispered from mangled lips in dark corners of the shattered remains of Nevsky Prospekt. What do the little ones see? Little ones should never see such things.
:::'''NOTE 4:''' Known and theorized connections between Subject and the superhero known as 'Blue Spectrum' will be made available in separate reports.
''Lyudoyedstvo'', whispered from shattered jaws as they drifted across the ruins of Saint Isaac’s Square. What do the little ones do? Little ones should never do such things.


Do you see him now, Speaker-of-Many-Names? His hunger is lessened, and he refuses to think on how and why that is. It just... is.
:::'''NOTE 5:''' '''[REDACTED]'''


The Corpselights of Leningrad filled the eyes of too many little ones. Too many. His too. Yes, his eyes of slate glowed with the horrible legacy of Leningrad. They didn’t have words for what happened there; Trupoyedstvo and Lyudoyedstvo were old and foul words of knowledge; too old for children. They were too young. Too tired. Too afraid.
==HELM ANALYSIS: Malta Group Interests==


Too ''hungry''. And he still remembers, you know. In his dreams, sometimes. Textures, flavors, sensations, smells. Or when he dares open those doors. In his mind’s eye, those doors stare back with stolen eyes. And when he remembers? Your horror cannot match his own.
It is important to note that Malta Group’s standard operational procedure relies on superior training and technology in its’ Operatives, rather than actual ‘superpowers’ – however, there are known ‘Supers’ who work for the organization, and Ursa Major-117 was apparently meant to be one of them.


For two years, humanity left the remains of the city abandoned and desolate before the Praetorian Guard finally fought their way to the ruins of Saint Isaac’s Cathedral. Two years. Can you imagine it, Speaker?
A heavily armed Malta TacOps team breaching Russian airspace to save one person from an assassination attempt raises more questions than this report is prepared to answer.  HELM Analysis believes that Malta was forewarned, but by whom? And for what purpose? And why this particular individual?  There is some indication from the gathered data that these reports were surreptitiously gathered by Tac Ops Commander '''[REDACTED]''' and sent to a secure online drop box based out of a rotating series of Eastern European virtual machines and ‘burner’ servers, in addition to the physical backup copies found at the Malta Safe House. But why was he keeping backup records?  These are valid questions, but answers are not yet clear.


He survived. And just what do you think the Praetorian Guard found in the ruins, eh? Thousands and thousands of little ones, who had regressed so far that they didn’t run in gangs so much as packs. And their reports back to the Emperor were full of such sanitized, clinical terms; Separation Anxiety Disorders. Feral Child Syndrome.
HELM Analysis believe that the Malta Group Directors had taken a keen interest in Ursa Major-117’s mutations, far more so than long-term Augmented operators like Moment and their shapeshifting abilities.


But where were the adults? The Praetorian Guard whispered what they suspected; after all, they had found the pits, and saw the memorials built by hands too young and small to make such things… but never put in reports. Such horrible, horrible things they discovered in the ruins, Speaker. ''Trupoyedstvo. Lyudoyedstvo.'' The little ones licked their lips. And smiled. Do you see him, Speaker? Oh, how he smiles when he sees the Imperial Guards! What does he see, we wonder. What is he thinking?
This heightened interest in Ursa Major-117’s genetic modifications, particularly the ‘Supermolecule X’ has led some in HELM Analysis to postulate a theory that the Malta Directors wished to reverse-engineer the artificial supercell, possibly speaking to a plan of creating a ‘super serum’ which could then be controlled by the Malta Group exclusively and given to its’ operatives to grant a temporary boost in abilities, though these adaptions would be temporary and not nearly as successful as exhibited by Gunslinger Ursa Major-117.  Long term goals might have included a version of this serum that would have created stable, permanent alterations to a subject’s genome, allowing for super-powered abilities to manifest permanently.


Whispers of the corpse-lights of Leningrad filled their ears. But there were also new old words, whispered by a precious few Guards who knew their histories before Imperial victors rewrote them; the Lithuanian ''Vokietukai''. Or the German ''Wolfskinder''. Or the Soviet ''Besprizornye''.  
However, Malta Group has prided itself on its' independence of 'chemical solutions', and failures such as Superadyne which require repeated exposure with significant and detrimental side-effects are cautionary tales in and of themselves. Both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles are littered with the shattered remnants similar programs; the aforementioned Superadyne addicted Trolls, the Infected, the Lost, Freakshow, and so on. However, there have been recent successes in the field of augmented biosciences, as recent testing with the Freedom Corps series of Superpower-granting Serums have shown. This theory is not as outlandish as one might believe, though there are issues that have hampered reverse-engineering efforts (as detailed below).


Children only in physical age. Only in stature. Their eyes spoke of knowledge far older, and fouler.
==REPORT COMPILATIONS==
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* REPORT 1: [[Markus_Magnum/EXTRACTION|Extraction Video Log]]
* REPORT 2: [[Markus_Magnum/PYRAMIDEN|Pyramiden Medical Report #4]]
* REPORT 3: '''[REDACTED]'''
* REPORT 4: '''[REDACTED]'''
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Feral. Monstrous.
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Markus Magnum
Player: @Markus Magnum
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Markus Magnum, [LOCATION CLASSIFIED]
Character Build
Origin: Originicon mutation.png MUTATION
Archetype: Archetypeicon blaster.png BLASTER
Security Level: P Level 50.png
Biographical Data
Real Name: Aleksey Nikolayev Rumyantsev
Known Aliases:
  • Gunslinger Ursa Major-117
  • Markus Magnum


Age: [REDACTED]
Gender: Male
Species: Augmented Human
Ethnicity: East Slavic
Birthdate: [REDACTED]
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Relatives:
  • Aleksandr [Father] [Deceased]
  • Ludmilla [Mother] [Deceased]
  • Nikolai [Brother] [Deceased]


Characteristics
Height: 7'
Weight: 295 lbs
Eyes: Slate Blue
Hair: Black
Complexion: Caucasian
Physical Build: Athletic, Muscular
Physical Features:
  • Trimmed beard
  • Black armband tattoos
  • Circular scars on his back
  • Reinforced cobalt sunglasses


Status
Alignment:
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Chaotic Neutral

Reputation:
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Imposing

Identity: Secret [Known only to a few]
Years Active: [REDACTED]
Base of Operations: Paragon City, RI
Citizenship: United States [Provisional]
Education: Moscow Border Institute of the FSB
Occupation: Confidential
Marital Status: Partnered
Known Powers and Abilities
Confidential
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Confidential
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REPORT COMPILATION 17-ALPHA

- A VANGUARD: HELM REPORT COMPILATION

HELM ANALYSIS: Abstract

- Compilation Authorized by Dark Watcher
- Scientific Consultation by Steven Sheridan, AKA 'Doctor Science'

This report details information found at the ruins of a safe house managed by The Malta Group discovered in the ruins of Galaxy City. In particular, the following report describes one operative – a Gunslinger designated ‘Ursa Major 117’ in Malta documentation – and his extensive genetic modifications.

HELM ANALYSIS: Compilation Overview

During a Longbow sweep of the Galaxy City Exclusion Zone’s Nebula District, an abandoned Malta safehouse were found, the base of a Tactical Operations Group codenamed GARM. HELM Analysis Division believe that this was an observation post, intended to safely monitor new 'Capes' as they were introduced to the various administrative organs of the FBSA, and away from more heavily trafficked areas like Peregrine Island and Atlas Park. Along with other items, the following reports were discovered, stored in a secure and hardened hard drive. These reports concern one of their newest operatives – a Gunslinger designated Ursa Major-117.

Aleksey Nikolayev Rumyantsev: A Brief History

Subject was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in [DATE REDACTED] to Aleksandr and Ludmilla, who lived in Sosnovy Bor, an affluent suburb. Upon reaching the age of 18, he was evaluated by Saint Petersburg conscription office. Since he was not immediately disqualified for being homosexual, HELM Analysis believes the Subject was not public with his sexual orientation at this time.

SPETSNAZ-FSB

AO Superior Assassin's Mark.png★V badge Spetsnaz.png★AO Superior Stalker's Guile.png

Subject was recommended for the Russian Border Service. After further testing for 'potential', he was transferred to the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB.

Records from that point are sketchy, though it is believed that Subject graduated from the MBI's 5 year training regimen. It is interesting to note that MBI's training regimen was apparently altered for Subject to incorporate dual-wielding heavy pistols and SYSTEMA martial arts.

Records then show him as transferred to the Special Operations Center in Kubinka-2, serving in the Special Operations Forces. There are indications that he was involved in the Elbrus mountains SOF exercises in [DATE REDACTED]. Subject then disappeared from all official records.

FOLIANT II PROGRAM

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HELM Analysis believes it was during this period that Subject was drafted into the FOLIANT II program. Though Subject's whereabouts were unknown at this time, detailed analysis of the follow-up interviews conducted at the Zigursky Maximum Security Prison lead us to believe that FOLIANT II was based out of Bulgaria through a series of dummy corporations covertly funded by the FSB.

HELM Analysis believes that these mutagenic compounds were created during the Soviet era's FOLIANT Program, and was further refined by the Russian Federation, which created the FOLIANT II Program. It is further believed that noted KGB geneticist Dmitri Krylov was heavily involved in the original FOLIANT Program. It is unknown what involvement Krylov had with FOLIANT II.

Once again, these interviews were quickly classified under OMEGA Protocols, though the Founders of the Bulgarian State Monument near the city of Shumen has been referenced multiple times and not redacted.

MALTA GROUP

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He was not seen again until his family vehicle was destroyed while crossing Saint Petersburg's Krotlin Island in an apparent assassination attempt. Unfortunately, his mother, father and brother were all instantly killed. HELM Analysis believes (and corroborating evidence was discovered at the safe house) that Subject's mutagen-assisted Healing Factor kept him from being killed in the blast.

At this point, a Malta Group TacOps strike team breached Russian airspace, landed a VTOL flyer by the wreckage, and managed to save him in a lightning-fast operation. The flyer escaped Russian airspace using highly-advanced stealth capabilities that allowed them to elude tracking by naval radar tracking stations at nearly Russian military bases.

HELM Analysis Division still believes this attempt was in connection with FOLIANT II, though the Russian FSB continue to deny involvement in the crime, and even deny that Subject was ever assigned to a SPETSNAZ SOC unit. Though some believe this to be an indicator that Subject was, in fact, an escapee from the secretive program, there are also factors which have cast doubt on this belief (detailed in separate reports).

ARACHNOS

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After this event, Subject again drops out of sight, until he was spotted boarding an Arachnos flyer in the Galaxy City ruins. His activities in the Rogue Isles have been marked [CLASSIFIED], though his sudden surrender to Vanguard forces in the White Plains District's Rikti War Zone was a surprise. What he discussed with Lady Grey is also marked [CLASSIFIED], but HELM Analysis received a treasure trove of confidential information concerning Arachnos, the Arachnos Advanced Science Division (AASD), Project FURY, the Family, a new supervillain team and the Malta Group not long afterward. Subject was then released from Zigursky Prison to the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, where he received a new 'Cape name' of MARKUS MAGNUM and provisional American citizenship.

It is noteworthy that the Subject seemed drawn to investigate Arachnos agents and projects that specialized in so-called 'super-soldier programs'; Krylov's Creations and Project FURY are just two examples of this investigation pattern.

FBSA

Helm Analysis believes that the Subject negotiated a 'supervised release' with Vanguard, the FBSA, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. After release from Zigursky Prison, the Subject was remanded to FBSA custody for analysis and testing.

FBSA Powers Origin Analysis Profiling

As per standard FBSA doctrine, Subject was first exposed to a range of tests to determine both his powersets and the Origins of said powers. His extensive genetic alterations were immediately noted, and, particularly after the Super molecule X particle was detected and studied, Subject's Origins were listed as Mutation.

FBSA Powers Analysis Profiling

Using FBSA Skillset Profiling, Subject has been designated a Blaster with a primary skillset of dual-wielding pistols, and a secondary skillset in Martial Arts [a modified version of the SYSTEMA martial arts system taught to SPETSNAZ-FSB and -GRU].

FBSA Meyers-Briggs Modified Alignment Profiling

He was assigned temporary housing with Praetorian refugees in Bricktown, though he has since moved into Kings Row. He has also become romantically involved, though the details of that romance are not, at present, germane to the current investigation.

Subject has worked with the New Praetorians, and has been given high marks for marksmanship, ability and skill. However, the Subject's so-called 'pragmatism' - which can be shockingly brutal - continues to count against him in Alignment Testing.

Longbow continues to agitate for Subject's arrest and prosecution for crimes he allegedly committed against their organization while in Arachnos' employ. These specific charges have been labelled [CLASSIFIED] and has, thus far, been sealed from public scrutiny.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

NOTE 1: The FOLIANT II program [supported by the Russian Federation's GosNIIOKhT Institute] and possible connections to Arachnos' Project FURY will be made available in a separate report.
NOTE 2: The possibility that the Subject was a 'sleeper agent' for [REDACTED], despite his 'official record' above, will be made available in separate reports [REQUIRING OMEGA-LEVEL CLEARANCE].
NOTE 3: The ConspiracyLinks/Kholat Sakyl video dump analysis will be made available in separate reports.
NOTE 4: Known and theorized connections between Subject and the superhero known as 'Blue Spectrum' will be made available in separate reports.
NOTE 5: [REDACTED]

HELM ANALYSIS: Malta Group Interests

It is important to note that Malta Group’s standard operational procedure relies on superior training and technology in its’ Operatives, rather than actual ‘superpowers’ – however, there are known ‘Supers’ who work for the organization, and Ursa Major-117 was apparently meant to be one of them.

A heavily armed Malta TacOps team breaching Russian airspace to save one person from an assassination attempt raises more questions than this report is prepared to answer. HELM Analysis believes that Malta was forewarned, but by whom? And for what purpose? And why this particular individual? There is some indication from the gathered data that these reports were surreptitiously gathered by Tac Ops Commander [REDACTED] and sent to a secure online drop box based out of a rotating series of Eastern European virtual machines and ‘burner’ servers, in addition to the physical backup copies found at the Malta Safe House. But why was he keeping backup records? These are valid questions, but answers are not yet clear.

HELM Analysis believe that the Malta Group Directors had taken a keen interest in Ursa Major-117’s mutations, far more so than long-term Augmented operators like Moment and their shapeshifting abilities.

This heightened interest in Ursa Major-117’s genetic modifications, particularly the ‘Supermolecule X’ has led some in HELM Analysis to postulate a theory that the Malta Directors wished to reverse-engineer the artificial supercell, possibly speaking to a plan of creating a ‘super serum’ which could then be controlled by the Malta Group exclusively and given to its’ operatives to grant a temporary boost in abilities, though these adaptions would be temporary and not nearly as successful as exhibited by Gunslinger Ursa Major-117. Long term goals might have included a version of this serum that would have created stable, permanent alterations to a subject’s genome, allowing for super-powered abilities to manifest permanently.

However, Malta Group has prided itself on its' independence of 'chemical solutions', and failures such as Superadyne which require repeated exposure with significant and detrimental side-effects are cautionary tales in and of themselves. Both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles are littered with the shattered remnants similar programs; the aforementioned Superadyne addicted Trolls, the Infected, the Lost, Freakshow, and so on. However, there have been recent successes in the field of augmented biosciences, as recent testing with the Freedom Corps series of Superpower-granting Serums have shown. This theory is not as outlandish as one might believe, though there are issues that have hampered reverse-engineering efforts (as detailed below).

REPORT COMPILATIONS


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