Banned
Finally!
“Soldier, police officer – those are professions. A fighter – it’s a feature of character. But a warrior – that’s a state of spirit and a way of life. To do my job properly means to be a warrior.”
Name
Kirill Gusakov
Operator Alias
Pravda
Age
32
Gender
Male
Nationality
Latvian
Date of birth
May 4, 1986
Birthplace
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR (now Republic of Latvia)
Special Forces Group
Latvian State Police
Counter-Terrorism UnitOMEGAOMEGA is Latvia's main counter-terrorism unit. It is the most secretive unit of the Ministry of the Interior and is the elite of Latvian Special Forces. Created in 1992 to protect aircrafts from hijacking, the unit quickly grew both in size and tasks under its commanders - seasoned veterans of OMON and KGB Spetsnaz. While originally the unit was under the control of the Security Police, in 2003 it was reorganised and went under the jurisdiction of the State Police (specifically Criminal Police). However, this didn’t change their focus as a counter-terrorism unit. Their usual objectives are releasing hostages, disarming of explosives, as well as detaining particularly dangerous criminals, killers, armed robbers, drug traffickers amongst other high-risk tasks. The unit is part of the EU’s ATLAS network.
Appearance
Kirill is a 1,80 meters tall Caucasian male of athletic build. He has gray eyes and brown hair. His body is well toned from constant training and has some body hair. Kirill has a tattoo of an auseklis symbol on his left shoulder.
In the field, Kirill wears the same weathered gear he used while serving in OMEGA: a black combat uniform, FAST helmet with a skull balaclava and MSA Sordin headset, black bulletproof vest with groin and deltoid protectors, Oakley Pilot gloves, a tactical load bearing belt, knee pads and black LOWA Zephyr boots without mentioning the countless pouches, patches and other gear.
Back at base, what Kirill wears depends on whether he is training or just relaxing. If it’s the former, then most of the time he will wear his worn-out combat uniform with either the regular combat shirt or a black T-shirt that has the word POLICIJA (Police) in bold yellow on the back and his LOWA boots. If it's the latter, then most of the time you will find him wearing shorts with different T-shirts or polo shirts and a pair of sandals or other casual clothes.
While Kirill has a slight Russian accent when speaking Latvian, it is much more noticeable when he is speaking English.
Psychological Report
Kirill has a simple, yet strong motivation - do a good deed. When faced with hardship, he clenches his teeth and pushes forward. He knows his job is an early ticket to grave and has no problem dying if it means saving innocent lives. Just like OMEGA, Kirill sees Team Rainbow as a family that he will spend a long time with. Therefore he wants to know and be able trust every member of Rainbow.
He has seen and felt the horrors of war and his fight with the Taliban and the Russian mafia has left him with deep psychological scars that keep haunting him. This can be seen with his thousand-yard stare and smiles, that although are frequent, disappear as quickly as they appear.
He spends a good part of his free time on the base training and keeping his body fit to make sure that there would be no hiccups in the field. The rest he spends either studying as much as he can about the White Masks or socializing and spending time with other members of the Rainbow Team. Kirill also often keeps in touch with his son, with whom he avoids talking about his job.
Relationships
This will be updated more in detail as the RP goes along.
Stance in Combat
Attacker > Defender
Operator Equipment
HK G36KV3 - Primary
A special variant of the famed G36 platform designed for usage by the Latvian Army. It can be distinguished from other G36K variants by the KV collapsible stock, unique top mounting rail, XM8 inspired controls and a longer barrel. Kirill uses the rifle with an Aimpoint CompM3 red dot sight.
HK MP5A5 - Primary
Standard issue weapon of OMEGA. The MP5 is one of the most famous and beloved submachine guns used by counterterrorism operators in the world. Kirill uses a heavily modified MP5A5 with an EOTech holographic sight, sound suppressor, flashlight and a laser sight.
SIG Sauer P226 – Secondary
Standard issue sidearm of OMEGA. A well-known pistol of German origin, the weapon is in use by many Special Forces like SAS and Navy SEALs. Kirill uses the original West German version with an added flashlight.
Flashbang - Primary Gadget
Breaching charge - Secondary Gadget
Operator Ability
Information Warfare
"What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease." - Sun TzuHaving experience with fighting terrorist and criminal cells, Kirill considers having the upper hand in information warfare and being able to outsmart his enemy very seriously.
Similarly to Caveira, Kirill is able to "interrogate" downed enemies. To help him do this, Kirill is able to use his skills in sambo to take down enemies non-lethally. When interrogating an enemy, he has two choices:
Information gathering
When interrogating, Kirill can get intel about the correct amount of enemies present from his captive, but not their exact position. Also, if the whereabouts of the objective aren't known for some reason, then the interrogation will reveal its location. Depending on who he interrogates, Kirill can also learn extra information from the captive.
Disinformation
When interrogating, Kirill can force his captive to give false information to their team over the radio. With this, for example, he can make ambushers focus on incorrect points, leaving them open for flanking and can make roamers rush incorrect positions, leading them into an ambush or using it as a chance to slip past them undetected.
Naturally this process leaves him vulnerable for attacks, so he must be careful when he performs the interrogation. Also disinformation doesn't work if the enemy side knows that their ally is being interrogated by Kirill, this means that there cannot be any witnesses who have seen the downed enemy. Also, disinformation can't work if the enemies’ comms channels are jammed, however, jamming the comms after disinformation is in effect can actually boost its effectiveness, since the enemies won't able to receive correct status updates afterwards. Also, for reasons of logic... Kirill can’t interrogate bombers.
Unlike Caviera, Kirill doesn't kill the interrogated enemies, instead, he knocks them out and zip-ties them. However, when left unattended, the captured enemies can be freed by the defenders if found. Also, if the enemy was downed from gunfire, there is a chance that they can bleed out over time.
Biography
Born in 1986 and growing up in one of the poorest districts of Latvia's capital, Kirill was a witness to the rise in crime and lawlessness that struck the newly independent Baltic republic in the early 1990s. As a young child, this made him hope of one day becoming a police officer that would bring order to the chaos. As he matured, however, his dreams and interests changed, but his morality and ability to differentiate between right and wrong remained.
His life took a sharp turn when he turned 18, in the form of a knock on his door. Opening it, two men in army fatigues stood in front of Kirill and he found himself drafted into the Armed Forces. Latvia had joined NATO the same year, but the military conscription would still go on for two years. After finishing basic training, Kirill was stationed in Camp Ādaži for the next two years. Though he made for a passable soldier in the beginning, with the help of an officer who took a liking to him, Kirill eventually trained to become something of an example for his peers. It was also in Ādaži where Kirill befriended the woman who would eventually become his fiancée.
As his two year mandatory military service ended, he decided to continue working in the Armed Forces under a professional contract with paid higher education. It was also around this time that his son would be born, with his new family moving into a house in Kadaga.
Two years later, the 2008 financial crisis would hit and the fastest growing economy in the European Union would quickly become its poorest one. Unable to support his family with his current wage, Kirill would need to quickly find a way to earn more money. Instead of leaving the military like many of his colleagues and trying to find a better paying job in the unstable job market, Kirill went for a pay raise by joining the now thinned Special Forces - the Special Tasks Unit (SUV).
In April of 2010, Kirill went to Afghanistan for 8 months as part of a Latvian Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) for ISAF. His unit was stationed alongside troops from US army's 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan's infamous Kunar Province.
While most Latvian soldiers would talk about how they went to Afghanistan to help the civilian population against the Taliban (which really was what they were doing), in reality most of the soldiers that volunteered for the high-risk missions did it for the high pay raise for participating in such international missions. Not knowing this, most of Kirill's family, including his wife, supported his decision to go to Afghanistan, except for Kirill's father - a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War.
Back in Ādaži, they had simulated and played many possible scenarios that could occur in Afghanistan, both with the civilian population and the Taliban. However accurate and realistic these imitations were, they could never truly prepare a soldier for they would actually face in Afghanistan.
The Kunar Valleys location next to the Pakistani border, especially Khyber Pass, made it a popular Taliban smuggling route for weapons and fighters. Because of this, attacks on the base were a weekly and sometimes even a daily occurrence. This had forced Kirill to get used to a banal routine of being ambushed or attacked at any given time - be it while patrolling in the mountains, walking through a local village or sleeping in his underwear at the base.
It was in Kunar where Kirill realised what war really was - a separate world where all of his morals and everything that he once learned in peacetime would be put to a reality check. Of course, everything was true, but there were nuances. And it was these nuances that were the most valuable things that Kirill gained. Now he knew what was what and had his own opinion about how things should look like and how much they would all cost.
Kirill returned to Afghanistan a few months later, now against the wishes of his wife who noticed that something in him had begun to change. This time he found himself in Zabul Province, serving under the command of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force's elite unit Aitvaras as part of an agreement between Latvia and Lithuania. In Kunar, Kirill's unit’s main objective was to help the Afghan Army defend a critical road for the NATO, but here the Lithuanians were on the offensive by hunting down any Taliban forces they could find. This perfectly suited Kirill who wanted payback for all the innocent civilians and his American friends that the Taliban killed in Kunar. They famously used dirt-bikes to cross the rocky mountains and perform hit and run attacks on known Taliban positions during night-time. This earned them fear from the Taliban and the nickname "Hells Angels" by the Americans (that and all the infractions they earned for dangerous driving inside the base).
Overall, he spent two tours with the LITHSOF in Afghanistan that caused a heavy falling out with his wife. He soon left the Armed Forces, hoping that he could mend the relationship with his spouse, but it was all in vain and soon his wife filed for divorce. Kirill knew from the very beginning that it was clearly his fault for how he mistreated his family with long absence in Afghanistan. His little "war on terror" had resulted in nothing more than piles of countless corpses in Afghanistan and him losing the one he cared the most for.
He spent the next year in rebound, working at a shipyard in Riga and eventually began dating his former childhood sweetheart, but they broke two years later.
In June, Kirill signed up as a candidate for a position at OMEGA, Latvia's premiere counter-terrorism unit. The selection lasted for three days and was open to anyone up to the challenge. However it was extremely tough to everyone who came: civvies cracked under the pressure, the police officers didn't have the necessary physical ability while the soldiers usually failed the psychological tests. There were 18 candidates and just 7 free spots. Despite this, only 4 men passed the selection, Kirill was one of them. However, to get into OMEGA was one thing, but to survive there was a whole other ordeal. It took 2 years of retraining and specialisation before Kirill would be put into a team and taken to operations. It took months of hard work just to earn his teammate's trust and respect. With that came his final test: a mock simulation of a terrorist attack on the Riga HES. Eliminating the terrorists and stopping the attack, Kirill passed the test with flying colours. This earned him the coveted Green Beret and a permanent position on OMEGA's roster.
Although OMEGA was a counter-terrorism unit first and foremost, the lack of terrorist acts on Latvian territory (3 in the last 20 years) made the unit focus on other high-risk situations: apprehension and elimination of highly dangerous threats, hostage rescue, execution of high-risk raids, searches, arrests, protection of VIPs, etc. OMEGA's "clientele" usually included armed psychopaths, serial killers, bank robbers, small gangs and, most prominently, the Russian Mafia. The Mob had its hands in everything from document forgery and protection rackets to drug, arms and human trafficking. Worst of all, many times their men were veterans from Afghan, Chechen, Yugoslav, Georgian and even Ukrainian conflicts, some of them being former members of the Spetsnaz, which made them a much more dangerous threat than what Kirill had previously faced.
If the Taliban had showed Kirill how horrible and destructive mankind could be for a belief, then the Bratva had showed him that they even less humane for money which motivated him on a much more personal crusade against the organisation. Unlike Afghanistan where there were bad bad guys and "our" bad guys, here Kirill clearly knew who the good and the bad guys were, who was in the wrong and who was in the right - there was no gray zone in the middle and Kirill knew that he was doing the right thing.
The appearance of White Masks whose motivation was unknown and did not discriminate who their victims were was the primary cause of why Kirill accepted the invitation to Team Rainbow after the Bellagio Hotel incident - to make sure that they could not live long enough to perform an attack on Latvian soil.
Training and Experience
Training:
2nd Infantry Battalion
NBS SUV
Counter-Terrorism Unit OMEGA
Relevant Experience:
War in Afghanistan
Summer Shield X
Flaming Sword 2012
ATHOS 2016
Family
Father - Vladimir Gusakov (Deceased)
Mother - Oksana Gusakova (Alive)
Brother - Alexander Gusakov (Alive)
Son - Eduard Gusakov (Alive)
Theme Song
Very good, I really like this CS. Get it in the hole of characters.
