Family history of Feldwebel Nikolai Sovok

[Sturmwind]

The farmlands and the artisan house they built were certainly a break from what their ancestors had to live through on Crete. The family's life was again crowned with prosperity and welfare. It could be easily stated that the decades following their settlement were starting to become as pleasant as what Sasha Kuznetsov back on Sol enjoyed following his retirement. A line of idyllic circumstances earned in blood.

Needless to say, their peace was eventually disturbed. The Red Hessian movement gaining power in Rheinland spread to the decks of Freistadt aswell, where the people who contributed to the station's construction had their names engraved. A Hessian raid party which assisted a group of IMG vessels in their defense was invited on Freistadt for a few drinks in order to celebrate a victory over superior odds. During that event did they noticed the eerie names "Juan Kuznetsov," "Miguel Kuznetsov" and "Helena Kuznetsov" on the station's wall of honor. As they couldn't help voicing the unusual combination of Hispanic and Slavic names, the Hessian leadership, that already had smaller ties within the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army (the descendants of the Coalition spies that left the Kuznetsovs on the Hispania) passed the information on to their contacts.

One day, a man in a torn business suit appeared in front of the Kuznetsov farm on Cambridge, claiming to be a government official. He asked of the family name's origins and eventually their affiliation with the Coalition in the past. Needless to say, the family neglected to tell the truth, most of which the visitor already knew. He recorded the encounter and left, but returned the following day with four heavily armed Bretonian Royal Marines. They introduced an arrest warrant, but they spoke English with a terribly heavy accent, which betrayed the fact that they were most probably contracted by someone else. The Kuznetsov family members pretended cooperation, but their house servant called the Bretonian Police Authority, which arrived on the scene. A shootout erupted between the pretense-marines and the policemen, but the Police failed to prevent the soldiers from escaping into their landing craft with two of the Kuznetsovs, one severely injured in the firefight.