Anyone who frequently visits the Rote Adler pub on New Berlin is familiar with the beardy, slightly overweight Rheinwehr Feldwebel in his forties, sipping high-volume alcoholic beverages not only in his off-duty time, but occasionally in full Military flight uniform aswell. Following a few rounds of vodka (which is a hidden treasure of the Rote Adler) or a brawl, he might introduce himself as Markus Meckel, regardless of the fact that the displayed name tag on his uniform says a quite eerie-sounding name, Nikolai Sovok. An observant (or not that drunk) individual might note the difference between his statement and the truth, which leads to either another brawl, or him explaining a made up family background of how his predecessors moved to Rheinland even before the sleeper ships were launched, which is what his commanders believe aswell.
His father is the only other person who knows of the Feldwebel's true origins and affiliation. He currently works as an operator of cleaning droids back on Kreuzberg depot, the place where Nikolai himself was born. The old man is called Imran Kuznetsov, "Sovok" was the nickname he was given following his sudden appearance on the Junker Station, as he refused to tell his true name for years. Around the age of 20, he was found in an escape pod drifting near the Stuttgart-New Berlin gate, where he is believed to have been for days. The busy life the corporate shipping agents led never allowed a glimpse at the drifting wrecks of a Dromedary freighter, with a human still alive in space. A Junker CSF collected the pod, as well as several crates of firearms entirely unknown to Rheinland databases.
The first person ever to have heard the conscious and full story of the Kuznetsovs, or the Sovoks as they are called now was a Bretonian junker called Diana Fisher, the mother of Feldwebel Nikolai Sovok, the late wife of Imran Kuznetsov.
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