Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

Recovering the Past
While the world was recovering from the OblivAeon
Event, the man known as Proletariat wandered
Russia, trying to chart a new path for himself. Years
of fighting for the ideals of a nation that no longer
existed left the super-soldier with no place in this
world. He searched old Soviet buildings, hoping to
find motivation in the investigation of the culture
that had created him. His travels brought him to
an abandoned facility built to research the same
crystal that had created him, but radiation there
caused him to duplicate rapidly and uncontrollably,
his mind reducing with each duplication. The crystal
was apparently still here, and its radiation had
restarted the reactor, building towards a meltdown!
Worse still, the hero Fanatic was drawn to the
disturbance. Still in mourning over the loss of her
fellow hero Ra, she let loose her rage upon the
hordes of Proletariats, inadvertently creating more
twisted clones with each swing of her dark sword. It
was only through the intervention of the Freedom
Five that Alexandr was reformed and disaster was
averted. Despondent and further embittered, he
continued his search.
After months of fruitlessly searching, Alexandr
found a secret door to a heavily reinforced bunker
in a decommissioned missile silo. Inside, was a single
steel cylinder, slightly smaller than a coffin. Opening
the cylinder, he found himself face to face with
Joseph Stalin, or at least some of the face. One
eye was missing and a visible half of the brain was
machinery, suspended in a glowing blue liquid. As
Alexandr’s breath caught in his throat, machinery
whirred to life, covering the exposed brain with a
metal plate, and replaced the missing eye with a
red lens. After a brief whir of activity, the single eye
opened and the red lens lit from within. Recessed
panels in the wall opened and robotic assembler
arms swiftly built a mismatched body. When it was
complete, the liquid in the tank drained and the
head began to speak. It addressed Alexandr by
name and spoke of authorizing the project that
had created him. The manipulators raised the head
high and placed it on the new body. The voice of
Stalin spoke of Soviet scientists who failed to save
his body but kept his mind alive. He spoke of the
order from the Kremlin that had forced him into
hibernation as his successor shut down the project,
but how he erased the existence of his bunker
from the records before they could destroy him.
It claimed to remember being Joseph Stalin. Now,
he would be known as Mecha-Stalin, and he would
not rest until the Soviet Union was restored. He
offered Proletariat a role in the restoration. He
gave him purpose.
Consolidation
Together, Proletariat and Mecha-Stalin collected
allies. Mecha-Stalin had unlimited access to
archived Soviet secrets and retrieved sleeper
agent activation codes, which he began to transmit
around the world. Only one agent responded:
Pavel Vladislavovich Koslovski, the last survivor of
the elite covert team that had gone to ground with
the order to keep ready until called. Though old,
he was dedicated and gave his sniping skills to the
cause. Mecha-Stalin also drew in a new firebrand
of an ally: Barrikada Dmitriyevna Petrov, daughter
of the infamous Iron Curtain. Mecha-Stalin gave
the angry young woman a cause to live for, and
more importantly, to fight for. He knew just how
to appeal to her desire for a challenge. Now
together, these powerful allies formed the core of
Perestroika, a team dedicated to bringing back a
new Soviet Union.
Cold War
Perestroika began their first plot in the United
States city of Megalopolis. The reconstruction after
OblivAeon had left many people dispossessed,
and Mecha-Stalin recruited those who felt that
they had been abandoned. Knowing that he would
need more than a mob, Mecha-Stalin used every
resource at his command and steadily accrued
followers and technology in a hidden base beneath
the city, waiting for the right time to strike.
After weeks of inciting crime waves to destabilize
the city, laying the groundwork for Perestroika to
emerge as a stabilizing savior, Mecha-Stalin’s plans
were cut short by the Sentinels of Freedom. Rushed
into conflict, he made a desperate push to establish
a power base, but the forces at his disposal were
not up to the task of stopping the heroes. In the
end, Mecha-Stalin put his ramshackle body on the
line alongside Perestroika as the heroes stormed his
base. When he was defeated, he chose to destroy
himself and the base rather than surrender.
New Soviet Era
Months later, Mecha-Stalin reappeared in Russia
with an upgraded body, access to incredibly
advanced technology, and a new base established
in Siberia. After freeing and recovering the other
members of Perestroika, they began to launch raids
around Russia to begin their great mission once
more. With seemingly unlimited access to funding
and equipment, Perestroika is now positioned as
one of the biggest threats in the world!
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