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In a grim Orlovoskian laboratory during the 1940s, Subject 042- an unbreakable, enhanced American soldier- is captured and subjected to brutal experimentation. Injected with a mysterious crimson compound known only as HM-OR3, he earns the chilling nickname Bessmertnik ("The Immortal One") for surviving what should have killed him. He is more than a man- he is the new age proof of concept. And Project Oglevoy has found its candidate.
Decades later in modern-day Berlin, acclaimed investigative journalist Elise receives an anonymous envelope containing a classified Soviet-era file. The contents- though partially redacted and hand-translated- reference Project Oglevoy, enhanced operatives, and a photo of a bloodied prisoner Elise doesn’t yet recognise.
With her editor distracted, Elise begins digging, taking the leap of faith down the rabbit hole. The official trail is cold- but a forgotten keyword leads her to a decades-old propaganda campaign: The Soviet Sweethearts, a campaign, glamorising the hidden operatives thought lost to history. A name keeps surfacing: a single journalist from the era that hinted at the deeper conspiracy: Alexander Kirov.
Tracked, followed, and spooked, Elise races to contact Kirov. What she finds is a recluse surrounded by evidence of the past- a man who once worked inside Oglevoy itself and barely escaped with his life. Suspicious at first, Kirov relents when he sees Elise’s file- the one he thought destroyed years ago.
As the issue closes, Kirov begins to speak, unraveling the origins of Project Oglevoy, the dark legacy of Redback, and the truth about Subject 042. Elise records it all, unaware that in chasing the abhorrent truth, she may have already become part of the experiment.