Changes: Elena Trotskaya

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"You did tell me what I wanted to hear, yes. That is why you only lost a nail. But I had to ask a second time, did I not? I do not like to repeat myself, Agent ... Rollins, is it? I ask honest questions. Is it too much to ask for honest answers?"

~ Trotskaya to IIA Agent Jonathon Rollins during the Caliphate Conflict.

Introduction

Elena Trotskaya is a General in the Mecharussian Armed Forces and the supreme commander of the Special Purpose Guard Brigade, the Secretariat of Internal Security and the Committee of State Security, posts she acquired before the Second Russo-European War. She is also known for being the Mechanocracy’s most powerful warrior, regularly single-handedly attaining kill-counts in the thousands whenever she is present in a battle. It is reported that only two individuals have ever bested her in a one-on-one match: OTAN itself and IIA Agent Hadrian Kelly (the latter with an EMP).

Background

Almost nothing is known of Trotskaya’s early life, but the memoirs of Victor Golovkin state that she was born and raised in Ufa, Bashkortostan Oblast, by her mother after her father disappeared under unknown circumstances.

In 2129, she was brutally gang-raped by her boyfriend and several other men. She managed to survive the attack, but she was badly mutilated and mentally-scarred, requiring urgent medical attention. Impregnated by the attack, she gave birth in secret to a son, Alexei. Turned into an ork at age five, he would return to his mother’s side after the Second Russo-European War.

Throughout her early adulthood, she became known for her ferocity and dogged determination and quickly made a name for herself as one of the MAF’s deadliest assets during the Salvagings. Among her many feats from this time were the takedown of the legendary raider overlord Pandemonium and his lieutenants Odradek and Hammerhead.

During the Second Russo-European War, she met Victor Golovkin – who she learned was the son of her mentor, Ivan. She saved his life during the Battle of Vienna, and after the war, he was assigned to be her second-in-command and leader of Alfa Group (Trotskaya herself taking the command of Vympel Group). She became close friends with the former skinhead: he needed a leader figure to give himself purpose, and she needed someone who she could trust with her life as well as to repay her lifelong debt to his father. For a long time, they insisted that their relationship be platonic for fear of compromising their ability to perform their duties adequately. However, during the Singaporean civil war, the pair declared their love for one another, Trotskaya with great difficulty (having been betrayed twice by men she thought she could trust).

Personality

In spite of her own humanity, Trotskaya despises human emotion and holds an especially strong enmity for liars and cowards, deriving intense personal pleasure from making them suffer - often expressed in the form of a mischievous grin. Described as having no moral compass whatsoever, she is an exceptionally skilled interrogator and torturer, meticulously elevating the practices to a borderline artistic level. Part of her duties as the Mecharussian spymaster is to instruct the finest torturers in the country (i.e. those who work with the SVB’s Thought Reassignment division) in the ‘art’ of inflicting pain. This is not to suggest that she is a sadist, however. The motivation behind her most deplorable actions is always the improvement of others. Her disgust for the ways of baseline humanity fuels every fibre of her being and gives her tremendous determination to better the world around her, through any means necessary - torture and notoriously-brutal instruction tactics for her underlings being just components of her methodology.

In terms of material ownership, Trotskaya is extremely modest, choosing to own a smaller house in Sunikagrad as opposed to the elaborate estates owned by many other senior figures in the Mechanocracy. She also prefers physical copies of information rather than digital. She claims that both of these traits are for security purposes: a smaller house is cheaper to outfit with defences and paper cannot be hacked into. She also owns a collection of polished human skulls belonging to notable individuals she has dispatched in her life. Among them are the heads of Pandemonium and Hammerhead as well as several Frenkish, European and Singaporean officer heads. She is also rumoured to keep the skull of previous Frenkish emperor Jonathan Stark, but this is unlikely as she was not personally responsible for his death. She has also exhibited an intense dislike for Grand Curator Prokhor Stahlrim, but is able to maintain a positive working relationship with him. Her other hobbies include weapon-collecting, metalworking and (often to the surprise of many a visitor) flower-arranging. Her personal suit of powered armour is heavily-customised, and her power sword was fashioned by her own two hands.

Trotskaya’s exact headcount is unknown, but it is certainly in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. The most conservative estimate given is 700,000, while the highest is 600 million – either figure would make her by far the most prolific killer in human history. In combat, she was personally responsible for the deaths of at least 5,000 raiders during the Salvagings, 10,000 European Federation soldiers during the Second Russo-European War, 250,000 in Kuala Lumpur and (possibly) 1.3 million in Zamboanga, both during the Singaporean Civil War. While on duty for the SVB and KGB, she has executed and tortured to death as many as 3,000 people.

Notable Quotes

"The most powerful weapon available to any army is not the gun, nor the tank, nor even the nuclear bomb, but fear. Anyone with a monopoly on terror can achieve any desired end, for one who can force the survival instinct to emerge can coat even the most stubborn mule in sheep's wool."

"What is this alien concept we call 'mercy'? This is a world where mercy is but a pipe dream. It's always been that way. Was Stalin merciful to the kulaks when they hoarded their lands from the people? Of course not. Were the Americans merciful to the Canadians when they rose in revolt? No. Does anybody ask questions about either nowadays? No. What, then, gives Kravchenko the right to complain when I exercise no mercy to the merciless?"

"I do not waste my time discriminating between different ethnicities. White people, black people, Asians, Jews, Latinos; they are all as arrogant and destructive to each other as each other."

"I only require a single word to confound every possible argument for liberal democracy that every possible liberal democrat can put forward: greed."

"I do not aspire to fame or wealth. Why would you want to become famous in the eyes of people whose opinions are meaningless to you? Likewise, why accumulate a vast fortune when inevitable death will only strip you of it?"

"The Westerners are still infatuated with the belief that Islam can be assimilated, in stark opposition to historical evidence to the contrary. Did they learn nothing from the birth of al-Qaeda from US funding for 'pro-democracy' mujahidin? Or from planting fertile soil for ISIS after overthrowing the Iraqi Baathist regime? Even after the world powers dismantled the Caliphate, the Frenkish are still preoccupied with assimilating Islamic ideology into their imperial melting-pot. The only reason that there has not been another major insurgency is due to our policy of waging genocide upon strongholds of Islam where they continue to exist in our territories, but even then it is only a matter of time before the West once again is faced with the consequences of their Einsteinian insanity. And when they are, we – yet again – will be required to come to their salvation."

"If you must know why I am permanently content with the status quo, it is because I am not interested in finding a higher purpose. I have already defined my purpose."

"Have I ever sung before? Well, I was asked in 2148 by the Minpro to sing the main part for Our Brotherhood's A Good Life. For some reason, they appear to be obsessed with using me for their material. Ostensibly it's because I'm the ideal Mecharussian woman, but between you and myself ... I happen to know that Minister Tatiana Liamova has, to put it euphemistically, certain 'inclinations'..."

"A leader's legacy is carved in stone when the unstoppable force hits the impassable wall."

"How many videos have you seen on the Hypernet of cats decapitating people for having opinions that differ to their religious beliefs? What about hamsters using gas to exterminate six million of their own because they have a particular eye and fur colour?"

"Human society, from our race's youth, has had three permanent aspects: death, stupidity and sex. For as long as humanity congregates into groups, those aspects will remain."

"Every system to have ever encountered a taste of power has fallen apart because of human nature. To create a successful system, you must alter the human at his most fundamental."

"The concept of defending the Motherland can change in definition with far greater speed than any human can fathom. Threats to the Motherland are adaptable, the weapons they use against us are adaptable, so too must be our means of protecting our way of life against the aforementioned threats."

Trivia

Much of the imagery used for Trotskaya consists of edited photographs of Maya 'Echo' Visari from Killzone: Shadow Fall.

The character is heavily inspired by Darth Vader from Star Wars, and the two have a surprising amount in common: both are cyborgs, their traumatic youths led them to the paths that they follow, their children were coerced by circumstance to become warriors, they are the chief enforcers of their respective empires, and they both use energy-based, sword-like weaponry. In addition, she is similar in both her worldview and fighting style to Wrath, from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

Trotskaya is just one of four main characters in the Mecharussian canon whose name was not derived from a random name generator (the other three are OTAN, Stahlrim and Nemezida).

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 In terms of material ownership, Trotskaya is extremely modest, choosing to own a smaller house in [[Sunikagrad]] as opposed to the elaborate estates owned by many other senior figures in the Mechanocracy. She also prefers physical copies of information rather than digital. She claims that both of these traits are for security purposes: a smaller house is cheaper to outfit with defences and paper cannot be hacked into. She also owns a collection of polished human skulls belonging to notable individuals she has dispatched in her life. Among them are the heads of Pandemonium and Hammerhead as well as several Frenkish, [[European Federation|European]] and Singaporean officer heads. She is also rumoured to keep the skull of previous Frenkish emperor [[Jonathan Stark]], but this is unlikely as she was not personally responsible for his death. She has also exhibited an intense dislike for [[Grand Curator]] [[Prokhor Stahlrim]], but is able to maintain a positive working relationship with him. Her other hobbies include weapon-collecting, metalworking and (often to the surprise of many a visitor) flower-arranging. Her [[6B41-S2 powered armour|personal suit of powered armour]] is heavily-customised, and [[6Kh52 fusion sword|her power sword]] was fashioned by her own two hands.
-Trotskaya’s exact headcount is unknown, but it is certainly in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. The most conservative estimate given is 700,000, while the highest is 600 million – either figure would make her by far the most prolific killer in human history. In combat, she was personally responsible for the deaths of at least 5,000 raiders during the Salvagings, 10,000 European Federation soldiers during the Second Russo-European War, 250,000 in [[Battle of Kuala Lumpur|Kuala Lumpur]] and (possibly) 200 million in [[Battle of Zamboanga|Zamboanga]], both during the Singaporean Civil War. While on duty for the SVB and KGB, she has executed and tortured to death as many as 3,000 people.
+Trotskaya’s exact headcount is unknown, but it is certainly in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. The most conservative estimate given is 700,000, while the highest is 600 million – either figure would make her by far the most prolific killer in human history. In combat, she was personally responsible for the deaths of at least 5,000 raiders during the Salvagings, 10,000 European Federation soldiers during the Second Russo-European War, 250,000 in [[Battle of Kuala Lumpur|Kuala Lumpur]] and (possibly) 1.3 million in [[Battle of Zamboanga|Zamboanga]], both during the Singaporean Civil War. While on duty for the SVB and KGB, she has executed and tortured to death as many as 3,000 people.
 ==Notable Quotes==