Family history of Feldwebel Nikolai Sovok

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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.

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The landing craft made its escape to Cambridge orbit, where a large, yet unidentified freighter vessel was already waiting. The Bretonian Armed Forces were notified of the case, but reinforcements failed to get there in time and the local police unit was not equipped well enough to stop a ship of that magnitude. The freighter cruised off towards an ice field and vanished from the authorities forever.

As the vessel hid itself among the shards, it did not move any further. The purpose of the ship was to "test" the Kuznetsovs they abducted if they could still be of use to the Coalition. Their agents were well aware of the family's ties, and since they have been living amongst the Sirians, potential information they have obtained could have been most valuable. Since originally, the communists couldn't spark cooperation from either of their captives, they had to resort to more radical methods. During the process of abduction and the firefight that followed, one of the Kuznetsovs, Irina was injured. Michael, who was captured unharmed, was forced to cooperate by the Coalitionists further deepening Irina's wounds, eventually taking her to a fatal level. The agents never realized that the spy descendants held no vital information as all their affiliations with the Coalition were ended hundreds of years ago.

To save her sister, Michael made up lies to convince the agents regarding vital information about Corsair and IMG military installations, that didn't actually exist. With mistrust preceding his statements at first, the Coalitionists eventually became convinced about the existence of the bases, the location of which Michael never specifically told. The lie held out for long enough for Irina to heal, and the freighter to continue towards Omega-5, where the hostages were loaded off in an asteroid base belonging to the Red Hessian movement, named Ronneburg by its inhabitants. The agents promised they would return, so the Kuznetsovs were not allowed to leave the station under any circumstances.

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The hospitality of the Hessians on Ronneburg was remarkable, due to the fact that they knew that the Coalitionists entrusted hostages of utmost importance to their watch. As the years passed, the two Kuznetsovs became to be treated as Hessians themselves by their keepers, Michael even maintained a relationship with a higher ranking female Hessian officer, who became attracted to him due to the interesting family background he possessed. This relationship is rumored to have caused the birth of Imran Kuznetsov and a twenty years long delay of the Coalition agents' return after finding out that the installations named by Michael did not exist.

However, the family's guardian, the Hessian officer died to a fight in the Omega-5 frontlines, so they were no longer backed against the Coalition agents demanding their captives back. A few days following the Hessian officer's death, a gunboat with the Coalition insignias on its side landed on Ronneburg. A diplomatic committee boarded the base, but they asked for the Kuznetsov family's members whereabouts aswell. Their arrival however, was noticed beforehand by the elderly Michael, who tried evacuating his son, Imran with the assistance of a Hessian pilot and friend of the family, Hans Berger.

Berger and Imran Kuznetsov escaped to the Ronneburg hangars, from which they commandeered a Dromedary freighter loaded with Hessian-manufactured sidearms. The freighter managed to get to a jumphole leading to Omega-11, a heavily radioactive system monitored only by Daumann miners. As the Dromedary was not equipped with any codes pointing to Hessian affiliations, the plan of Berger was to load Imran off at Stuttgart or Baden Baden. However, Berger was hinted by a Hessian comrade of his that the Coalitionists know of his departure and they already captured Michael and Irina, so their plans were changed, their new destination became Planet New Berlin, the heart of Rheinland.

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Evidently, their plan failed. Their vector was caught by their Coalition pursuers, who as they couldn't catch up, contacted the Rheinland Federal Police anonymously reporting the approach of a Hessian-affiliated smuggler. Even though the freighter Berger used to escape was not equipped with anything pointing to Hessian origins, the unregistered personnel weaponry in its hold was still present.

The dispatched RFP patrol wing caught the freighter entering New Berlin via the gate. Their scanners proved the report to be valid, so they approached the vessel with weapons charged. Berger thought they were going to open fire at once, so he began to flee towards the nearby asteroid field. The police vessels issued him several warnings to stop, but as he didn't respond, the dromedary was shot at. The cargo hold was penetrated by a tachyon salvo and most of the weapon containers caught fire, tearing the ship up in an explosion in mere seconds.

Imran however, made it to space with an escape pod, unlike the pilot who perished among the flames and the sudden explosion. It is unknown why the policemen didn't pick up either the weapons or the pod, but they hastened to Stuttgart as soon as the freighter was destroyed. Imran spent entire days in his escape pod, drifting among the smoking ruins of his freighter and the corpse of his savior, abandoning everything and everyone he ever held dear. It is believed to have been a shock enough for the young Imran to make him remain silent for months even as he was rescued by the Junkers, never telling his real name to anyone again either.