Ensign Actual

Born in Leningrad, Russia in 1957, Ensign Actual’s real name has been lost to time. From a young age, the Ensign was trained in the Soviet military with the intention of making him a sleeper agent. His training consisted of firearms, hand to hand combat, close quarters shooting, long distance marksmanship, and automatic firearms training. This was coupled with leadership, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and electrical engineering. At the tender age of 16, Ensign Actual was sent to Cuba in order to direct their training routines.

While in Cuba, Ensign developed the habit of only trusting those who showed true loyalty to the USSR, and those who only feigned loyalty, as he deemed it, were mercilessly killed in front of all of those so they understood the consequences. After two years, Ensign Actual was sent back to Russia, where he officially enlisted in the Soviet military.

Due to his previous training, it only took five years for the Ensign to reach the rank of a general who was loved by all those that were loyal comrades to the USSR. It was at this time that Joseph Stalin became wary of the Ensign’s growing support, as he seemed to inspire loyalty instead of demanding it.

The Ensign could feel Stalin’s lack of trust, and started to wonder if the steel man himself was loyal to the USSR, or only to himself. But Stalin was too big an enemy to be taken out publicly, so he would have to use tact in order to do so. This is when he started developing his skills of deceit and subtlety, something he never needed before.

But before he could carry out his plan, Stalin turned on him instead using the Ensign’s own popularity against him. The Ensign was forced to partake in a cryogenic experiment to preserve the USSR, and Stalin locked the cryopod in the deepest warehouse he had.

Decades passed with the Ensign in Cryogenics, forgotten by the world, only to be rediscovered by a Russian president during the second space race, the president came up with the idea to clone the Ensign still in cryogenics, and then to use the clones to test experimental rockets meant for deep space.

Many of the Ensign’s were successful in this endeavor, and many were cryogenically frozen again until they could be retrieved. The number of clones that made it to Europa by accident was not small, and in fact it is said that if not for the few sensors meant to transmit back to earth, Europan colonization would never have been pitched.

Ensign Actual clones are employed on nearly every Coalition Outpost and Submarine on Europa. Recently, some instances have been exhibiting concerning behavior, such as questionable factional allegiances.