CHARACTERS

-MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY-

MAD INGRAM
Age: 32
Nationality: Chinese
Occupation: Special Agent of the Ministry of Public Security of the PRC
Real name: Feng Yien-Geleimu



LANA ZAVICH
Age: 26
Nationality: German
Occupation: MPS Operator for Agent Mad Ingram

ALDUS VAN DER LEUN
Age: 47
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: MPS Quartermaster

SUPERVISOR
Age: ?
Nationality: Chinese
Occupation: MPS Supervisor

-BLACK WIDOW-

ANTHONY STAFFORD
Age: 56
Nationality: British
Occupation: CEO of the S/P Enterprises (Stafford/Powell Enterprises), leader of the Black Widow

ARMIN POWELL
Age: 62
Nationality: Canadian
Occupation: CFO of the S/P Enterprises (Stafford/Powell Enterprises)

LARRY FAY
Age: 50
Nationality: American
Occupation: Former major stockholder of Trifolium Corporation

One of the top-ranking Black Widow members, he was assigned by Stafford to oversee the Black Widow's infiltration of one of MJ12's puppets, Trifolium Corporation. After he acquired over 38% of the company's stocks, thus gaining a high position in the company, he was able to directly report about MJ12's activities when they launched Operation Trifolium to spread their influence to Russia, as well as keep a closer eye on XVA Communications. However, a plunder that revealed Fay's ties to the Black Widow got MJ12 to act quickly, and not long after the U.S government declared him a NSF agent and a dangerous terrorist. Without Fay's charisma, Russian shareholders lost interest in the company and it was soon financially unprofitable for MJ12 to continue maintaining Operation Trifolium and it was terminated before they even finished building an Universal Constructor there. Having anticipated this, the Black Widow let out their Larry Fay doppleganger who was captured at Alaska, but the real Larry Fay was ambushed by XVA-Com's militia and taken into custody. Even though the Black Widow was led to believe that Fay was shot in Chile, surveillance has brought up some interesting evidence about his current whereabouts...

WESLEY CUTTER
Age: 34
Nationality: American
Occupation: Former UNATCO Agent

-XVA COMMUNICATIONS-

ALEXIA NOVIKOV
Age: 52
Nationality: Swiss-Russian
Occupation: #1 Versalife Stock Owner, BWO Associate
Real name: Alexia Novikova



DAVID YOON
Age: 51
Nationality: Philipino (?)
Occupation: Owner of the Forichi club in Hong Kong, former Black Widow associate

While 'Yoon' seems to be his and his son's assumed surname, it will be a funky Nihilum-quirk that his actual surname will never be mentioned. Or maybe I'll make up something better later.

A decade ago, David Yoon was just an employee at S/P Enterprises, but had impressed his supervisors and eventually became a very important friend of Stafford's. He was accepted into S/PE's Board of Directors with Stafford and Armin Powell. However, a definite turning point in his relations with S/PE was when Stafford revealed the existence of the Black Widow to him. At that point, the BWS had faced major setbacks as its assets were continuously discovered by Bob Page and MJ12, and Stafford needed new recruits in this behind the scenes cause. David soon found out that his only child, Ethan, was one of the new recruits and not only he had joined one of the paramilitary organizations controlled by the Black Widow, he also participated in their highly experimental nano-augmentation program.

In the beginning it seemed like Ethan had become the Black Widow's trump card against MJ12, but during an NSF operation in Michigan, Ethan fell into a coma and Yoon confronted Stafford about Ethan's constantly worsening situation. Yoon confessed that there had been a major setback in the nano-aug program and his scientists were unable to control the effect that corrupted nanites had caused him. David felt like he had been betrayed when Stafford announced that despite Ethan's loss, they had to move on with the nano-augmentation program and continued experimenting with new subjects.

David Yoon's departure from the Black Widow began as he discovered that Stafford had initially been interested in Ethan since the beginning, and had orchestrated David's promotion and subsequent rise in the ranks of SP/E as well as the Black Widow in order to get Ethan into his nano-augmentation program. Yoon became disoriented with the Black Widow and wanted to get out of the dirty business, which is when he got into contact with one of his fellow BWO associates, Alexia Novikov. She also expressed her concern over the direction the Black Widow was heading to under Stafford's command, also noting that Stafford's inability to help Ethan was also intentional from him. Using the power of her XVA Communications, Novikov orchestrated both Yoons' disappearance and their relocation elsewhere. She assigned David to Hong Kong, which was one of the Black Widow's main bases of operations. After plastic surgery, the former BWO associate was turned into David Yoon.

For 3 years, David Yoon had established his new image as a Philipino businessman in charge of the highly popular Forichi club, whereas behind the scenes he was responsible for tracking down the Black Widow's movements and occasionally interfering with them. Even though he was content with his new life, he still felt sad about Ethan, until the day Mad Ingram arrived to Hong Kong, investigating a recent terrorist attack at Shenzhen. Novikov met with David, telling him that he if he helped her in capturing agent Ingram, they would crack open the secrets of his nano-augmentation and use that knowledge in curing Ethan. David accepted this offer, even though he felt bad betraying agent Ingram by luring him into Hong Kong. 

-MAJESTIC 12 AFFILIATES-

LIEN TAKARA
Age: 26
Nationality: Sino-Japanese-Canadian
Occupation: Inspector of Police in the Hong Kong Police Force

Lien Takara has started to gather herself a formidable reputation as a no-nonsense professional on the streets of Kowloon.

-ROGUES-

YAKEDO
Age: 59
Nationality: Japanese-Canadian
Occupation: Mechanic, entrepreneur
Real name: Nathan Takara

Child of Japanese immigrants to Canada, Nathan Takara was trained in economics and he was already a respected young stockbroker in the late 2020s when he was approached by a man calling himself Terrence Koontz. He promised to give Takara 15 million dollars in exchange for his participation in an embezzlement conspiracy against a company Takara was working for. While the plan originally worked, Yakedo made smart and calculating moves and embezzled 50 million dollars from his clients before staging his own disappearance by framing it on some of his former clients. First, Takara stopped at Singapore where he underwent plastic surgery before moving on to Hong Kong where he assumed the name Yakedo.

Throughout the 2030s and 2040s, Yakedo used his past experience and skills into becoming one of the most prominent businessmen in Hong Kong. His entities consist of many larger companies owning smaller businesses, and through complex paths all of those companies ultimately made money for him. Only a handful of people in the laarger companies know his true identity and the smaller ones have virtually no idea of his influence. Albeit having a vast underground empire, the only three properties legally registered to Yakedo include the helipad on top of a hotel in Kowloon, his workshop in Kowloon near the canals that lead to his smallest unit in Wan Chai that is mostly used by his associates.

Yakedo's relationships with the major factions are ambiguous, yet he is considered an enemy of the Black Widow due to the S/P Enterprises' involvement in the 2020s embezzlement conspiracy. He agrees to help Mad Ingram who is (unbeknowns to him) working for MJ12, but also leads him to David Yoon who on the other hand uses Mad Ingram to serve XVA-Com's cause. He is friends with David Yoon and pleads Ingram to find evidence of Yoon's innocence before attacking him by the orders of MJ12. 

ETHAN YOON
Age: 26
Nationality: Philipino
Occupation: Former Black Widow Agent

The son of David Yoon, Ethan was 16 years old when David was accepted into S/PE's Board of Directors. Not soon after, his father encouraged him to join one of Black Widow's paramilitary organizations. For the first year Ethan felt forced, but he got into good contacts with Anthony Stafford and soon became one of their top agents. In 2047, 5 years after he began his combat training, he joined the Black Widow's experimental nano-augmentation program which initially seemed to work properly. However, Stafford started to notice that Ethan was a bit reckless and overconfident with his new skills, especially because he was their first test subject. Before participating in an NSF operation against UNATCO troops at Michigan, Ethan reported to the medical staff that he had a migraine, but proceeded with the mission nevertheless. However, during the mission he collapsed and fell into a coma. As it seemed like the corrupted nanites in his body were incurable, Stafford decided not to investigate thoroughly what had gone wrong and moved on to new experiments, enfuriating David Yoon. A few months later, in 2049, with the help of Alexia Novikov, Ethan Yoon was relocated to one of XVA-Com's bases, waiting for the day he would wake up again...