Xenia Mikhailevna Romanova (Genesys)
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Anggun "Angie" Tjandrakusuma Charlie Jennifer Moore Lily Chang Rudo Xenia Mikailevna Romanova | |
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Angel Mansion Dassault Falcon 10A General Assets | |
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History
Xesia Mikhailaevna loved her parents dearly. Their only child after years of hard life, they doted on her and loved her in the rare moments when all were together until the night of the fatal car accident that killed them. Little Xenechka was too young to know what her parents were involved in, but she was young enough to etch the accident into her memory, and the faces of the men who put bullets into her mother and father to finish off what the vehicle that slammed into them and the ice that they slid out on could not do. Why did the gunman who saw her twitch not shoot her too? Perhaps he also had a child or had some sympathy. He held a finger to his lips, the girl nodded, and he called out her status - no pulse. Xesia would keep her silence until her dear Uncle Pasha asked her to describe the men who came in detail. She would describe all but the one who put the finger to his lips, and both girl and gunman would thank fate to live a little longer in the cold Leningrad night.
The police, of course, found Xenia Mikhailaevna Romanova, who would only give her name and the name of her uncle, Pavel Leonidovich Romanov, and to him only would she speak further on the matters of what happened in the car. Pasha found his young niece cared for by junior policemen, all the tinier, but somehow looking brave, in her father’s large wool overcoat, fortunately, spared from debris or blood. Pasha would promise the girl vengeance, a funeral, and a time to mourn with him in Moscow. Later, when those approached their end, and not wanting to care for a child but have grown accustomed to little Xeniuska, he made the decision to send her away to school.
With the cunning of a chess master and the bedside manner of the best pediatrician with a sweet, the enterprising Pasha offered her the chance to go to a prestigious military school to grow up to be like her father. If Pasha was an uncaring man, he would have sent Xesia packing immediately to a boarding school to learn the state-sponsored education like every other Soviet. If he had no brotherly love, he might send her to one with no care of its quality or concern for the girl. Instead, Pasha learned that Xesia idolized her parents, and would do anything for them and possibly for him. Xesia accepted and took on what an unkind man might force. She disliked her former Kindergarten and hoped she could honor her parents and country in this one, with the promise of seeing Pasha in Moscow on the allowed holidays if available for mutual enjoyment, edification, and display of progress. This was deemed acceptable.
Xesia left her temporary kindergarten and was sent to “the Institute,” the boy’s boarding school designed to funnel into Military Unit 355576, secret designation the Soviet Army Academy, top-secret designation the Military-Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Army. At the Institute, the ideals of purity, military strength, and communism were taught through the glories of the rigorous and competitive Sovorov system to young boys starting at age six for a period of five to seven years to prepare for further training and eventual careers as officers in the KGB or GRU. Luckily for Xesia, they accepted daughters of those of sufficient rank, colonel-generals and the like, and she was admitted with relatively few pulled strings to the Institute (Some things never change).
Bright, loyal, and eager to both please and work competitively, Xenia saw each year of her life planned out: five to seven years of training in language, strategy, arms, history, sciences, and liberal arts at the Institute would gain her the rank of lieutenant and entry into the Academy, with it’s courses in strategic agent intelligence, operational agent intelligence and Spetsnaz (dealing with the armed forces of the enemies), strategic and operational trade-craft of the Soviet Army, yet more foreign language and studies, history of international relations and diplomatic practice, and Marxist-Leninist philosophy, eventually focusing in one.
As a girl, she looked forward to music, dance, and sewing. She was good at only one of those three. She neglected to take French at the Institute but discovered a knack for other Slavic languages and a love of reading. Xeniuska loved her school, even if she hated French and couldn’t dance, and especially if she and the other group of girls despised Mama, who insisted on “Matushka,” who called her Xenka, and her severity for the smallest of faults and filled the girls with nightmares, turning them cutthroat and bonding few fortunate souls together.
Like for many others, that life path all changed officially in 1991. The dissolution of the Soviet Union caught Xenia midway through her Institute career. The secret Institute, and the other hidden and open Sovorov schools, were faced with the imminent shutdown. Until that point, the students were mostly spared the political turmoil and changes, though large events like the Berlin Wall coming down were not hidden from them. If anything, they were used to strengthen their resolve rather than prepare them for coming changes. The Russian Federation, like the USSR before it, wanted to purge out it’s military schools and start afresh, keeping those it deemed safe, and tossing out the rest. This time, fewer youth would be sent to Gulag.
Xesia spent a long holiday with her Uncle Pasha in Moscow during the shakeup at school while the new Federation developed the new (throwback) Cadet Corps schools. She still kept hopes that she could carry out her plan of serving in an elite force and gave thanks when the message came that her secret school was reopened. When she returned for her final year, Matushka was still there. On the bright side, Xesia played piano during the dance classes rather than dancing, hit excellent marks, and learned that rather than study abroad with a personal cover in a friendly country or with another unit as in the Soviet days, Xenia could, in a spirit of internationalism, pursue academic credits at a Western university. In letters, Pasha would joke that it was like showing off the bright minds to the rest of the Western world in the days of the czars- a very rare opportunity that she ought to take.
Xenia took it. She moved through her Academy courses and special forces training all the quicker to study abroad at Oxford. It is unknown if she and Anggun Fatima Tjandrakusuma crossed paths before they officially met, however they found that they shared professors at different times. Xenia officially graduated Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2002 with a double major in Philology: Russian Language and Literature and in Military Preparation. She never walked in a ceremony and had only taken a few classes on campus, most courses taken through the Academy’s higher levels. They sent the diploma to Pavel Leonidovich. Oxford was her real college experience. She often wondered if Lomonosov Moscow State was as nice as it seemed.
Fortunately, the recruitment process from the Sovorov system survived as well and it didn’t take long for Xenia to be recruited. As an orphan with no direct connections- the rules were mostly about parental favoritism and rank- she wondered who would prefer her skill set. To her pride, Xenia was approached by an agent of the FSB. Her faith, loyalty, and training would be tested domestically and internationally. To her surprise, Xenia was placed in the elite Spetsgruppa “B,” Vympel and sent along with Spetsgruppa Alpha for training specialized for their needs as one of Russia’s paragon counter-terror units. Her first year plunged her into the Chechen War and recalled her only for the Moscow theatre hostage crisis. She will not forget the screaming of the hundreds as the gas was pumped into the theatre, the sounds of the raid that followed, or the figures swimming through the haze.
Vympel Groups’ devotion to counter-terrorism was a bitter taste when applied to internal affairs, especially working with Vityaz or other MVD groups. Policing one’s own in the heart of Russia and putting down civil unrest as an elite unit is never pleasant; it never felt like what they were meant for. Catastrophes and mismanagement would find a way to show up from time to time as well, like with the massacre in the school in Beslan in 2004, hearkening back to the theatre crisis only with hundreds of school children. Slowly, over time, as terror leveled off in the region, their own actions would weigh on Xesia’s mind as much as the actions of those they were fighting. It was becoming hard to keep it in balance compared to the good she felt they were achieving. In the Sovorov system, one was not meant to question, to be a “free-thinker.” A man who questions would be given exams and pointless honors. But Xenia was growing disenchanted. Perhaps it was just the realization that she had been enchanted in the first place.
After a particularly hard incident, Xesia asked for leave to visit Pasha in Moscow. Pasha blamed the dissolution of the USSR and its effect on youth. Xesia was in a crisis. Although she did a little work for him, she would not find her solace there, nor back in her family for the greater part of a decade, Spetsgruppa Vympel. With a heavy heart, she resigned her commission. With a curious heart, she picked up a business card left on her writing desk. It had a BlackEagle contact on it and Xesia dialed the number.
Family
Xenia's only family is her Uncle Pasha, Pavel Leonidovich Romanov. Although an Uncle, Pasha Leonidovich is no blood relation and was taken into the family and adopted as a young child. Pasha has a soft spot for Xesia and what started as treating her as kin through shared experience and mutual love for the same family grew into mutual care, fondness, and respect. It is… ambiguous as to what Pasha does for a living, however he does it well. He has no children of his own. Xesia believed he kept a mistress once or twice, but no children ever came of it.
Operations
While much of Vympel’s operations remain highly classified, certain operations co-performed with Alpha and other Spetsnaz groups are known to the public. Xenia has admitted to the “Angels” BlackEagle team that she was in Chechnya and working internally on police actions, which are a matter of public record. In addition, she alluded to other operations around the Black Sea (Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey), helping the Americans, and doing more than studying at Oxford.
Vitals
| Name: Xenia Mikailevna Romanova Alias(es): Captain Romanova |
Place of Birth: Somewhere, Russia Height: 171cm (5'7 1/2") |
Statistics
| Desire: Safety Fear: Isolation |
Strength: Adaptable Flaw: Intolerance |
Attributes
| Brawn | Agility | Willpower | Intellect | Cunning | Presence |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Soak | Wounds | Strain | Defense (Melee) |
Defense (Ranged) |
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| 0+ | 10 | 10 | 0+ | 0+ |
Skills
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Ranged (Heavy) |
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Charm |
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Coersion |
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Deception |
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Leadership |
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Negotiation |
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| Skullduggery |
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| Stealth |
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Know: General |
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| Streetwise |
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Know: Academic |
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| Survival |
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Know: Technical |
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Know: Scientific |
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Talents
- Talent: Discription
Equipment
Weapons
AKS74U (Ranged: Heavy)
| Dam | Crit | Range | Encum | Special | Attach |
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| 8 | 3 | Medium | 3 | Autofire | Folding Stock |
Folding Stock: May reduce the weapons encuberance by 1, but gainst the inaccurate(1) quality.
Draganov (Ranged: Heavy)
| Dam | Crit | Range | Encum | Special | Attach |
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| 9 | 3 | Long | 4 | Accurate 1 | Telescopic Sight, Suppressor |
Non-core weapon
Red Dot 3x Magnification Scope: Reduce the difficulty of ranged combat checks made with theis weapon a long range.
Flash Supressor: Add a 
to Vigilance or Perciption checks to identifiy the location of the user.
M-92FS (Ranged: Light)
| Dam | Crit | Range | Encum | Special | Attach |
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| 5 | 3 | Short | 1 | None | Supressor (Removable) |
"Silencer": Add a to Vigilance or Perciption checks to identifiy the location of the user, but increase the weapons encumberatnce by 1.
Armor
Undercover Armor
| Def | Soak | Encum |
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| 0 | 1 | 2 |
Undercover Armor II
| Def | Soak | Encum |
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| 1 | 1 | 3 |
Plate Inserts: +1 encumbrance, +1 Defense
Combat Armor III-A
| Def | Soak | Encum |
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| 1 | 2 | 4 |
Plate Inserts: +1 encumbrance, +1 Defense
Gear
- Gear - Effect
Other Items
- Item - Discription