Nadia Sklenova

Nadia L. Sklenova
Gender	Female
Age	33 (as of 24 October 2007)
Rank/Position	Lieutenant General, Kahanistan Republic Guard
Height	165 cm (5'5")
Weight	52 kg (115 lbs.)
Blood type	A-
Frame	Slim / slender, 86C-60-81 (34C-24-32)
Hair/Eyes	Blonde / Gray
I.Q.	109
Economic Left/Right	(-7.51)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian	(-5.53)
Religion	Agnostic
Education	B.A. in philosophy, Kahanistan Military Academy, 1995 M.A. in political science, University of Kahanistan, expected 2008
Hobbies / Interests	Dancing, flying, philosophy
Languages spoken	Amestrian, Arabic (competent), English, Russian (fluent)
Weapon	Beretta M9, M16A4, MiG-35, F-1 Masada
Affiliation	Communist Party of Kahanistan, Kahanistan Republic Guard
Service	Battle of Xigrat, Intervention in St. Fedski, Infiltration of Kraven

Nadezhda Lionelovna Sklenova (Russian: Надежда Лионъловна Склэнова), usually known as Nadia (Надя), born 5 August 1974, in Al-Bahr, Kahanistan, is a Republic Guard officer, leftist political speaker, and cover girl for Communist Monthly. She is best known for her participation in the Battle of Xigrat, in which she was wounded, but was known in Communist circles long before that.

Early life

Sklenova was born in Al-Bahr, Kahanistan, the only daughter of Lionel Andreievich Sklenov (1932 - 2007?), a Russian Jewish immigrant, and Katriana Vasilievna Naslieva (born 1936), a Communist activist, and is herself an agnostic. She was raised in a middle-class, secular family, and grew up admiring the brave pilots who returned home from the various wars Kahanistan got itself embroiled in. In 1987, she enrolled in military training in the Republic Guard, with the blessing of her father, a former Republic Guard officer himself, and her mother, an engineer for Civil Defense. She graduated ninth in her class in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a concentration in Marxist-Leninist thought.

Military career

Second Lieutenant Sklenova destroyed a terrorist camp two months after her commissioning, earning a controversial Hero of the Republic medal and a promotion to First Lieutenant in an air raid of which she was the sole survivor. Before the end of 1996 she had made Captain. Such advancement is common in the Imperial Marines, who are killed fairly often, as the Republic Guard provides their logistics so almost all are combat troops, but it is nearly unheard of in the Republic Guard.

In 1997, she met a headstrong Imperial Marine officer, Major Rachel Levitt, who had nearly been killed in a covert mission. Levitt believed that her superiors had deliberately tried to get her killed by sending her to blow up a Fascian weapons depot. The Fascians killed her comrade and the bomb turned out to be faulty. An airstrike destroyed the depot right after Levitt escaped, with a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. The furious officer wanted to go after her superiors personally, but her new friend helped her work within the system and they won a conviction against the general who ordered the attack. The two women became fast friends, and aided each other's careers immensely.

In 2001, then-Major Sklenova was made a test pilot for the experimental MH-181, a fighter she would use four years later at the Battle of Xigrat. This plane was experimental and very heavy. A standard MiG-29 would be stripped down and mounted with thick energy weapons. While the plane was airproofed for space combat, Kahanistan had few enemies in space and the project was belatedly scrapped after Xigrat.

In September 2005 she earned a Distinguished Service Cross and promotion to Lieutenant Colonel for taking a missile aimed at President al-Za'if's plane. She ejected from her plane less than a second before the missile hit, and was made a wing commander for her quick thinking and abilities.

After a mission in late 2006 in Kraven, Sklenova was promoted doubly from Lieutenant Colonel directly to Brigadier General. During this mission, she is credited with the destruction of Father, the computer that controlled the Kraven High Command. After a hostage situation involving suspected Canadsteiner terrorists, the details of which are still not known, she was infected with a deadly virus and is kept alive on life support to allow her to resist and return to health. She was promoted to Lieutenant General shortly after the end of the hostage crisis.

Sklenova has a reputation for being a stickler for the rules, especially relating to warfare. She is said to come down very hard on rogues in her command.

Political life

Sklenova has always been an ardent communist. While she believes firmly in human rights and is hostile to many nations that call themselves communist that are hostile to human rights, she does believe in the economic ideals these nations advocate. She has appeared in thirty issues of Kahanistanian Communist Monthly magazines since age sixteen, when she was a cadet in training.

Beginning in 1999, Sklenova appeared publicly, speaking to Communist youth demonstrators and college students at several Kahanistanian universities. She was made a low-ranking official in the local Communist party in Al-Bahr, her native city, which had no effect on her military career as the Party is not a major time commitment (in fact, most low and medium ranking officials in the Party work other jobs, as the Party does not pay) but when military activity after Xigrat became more intense, her time with the Party has been strained, as she has had less time to devote.

As a Communist, Sklenova is a staunch advocate of Shooban rights, and has kept a Shooban as a pet. She has harshly criticized nations that allow hunting, enslavement, and other forms of abuse of Shoobans, though she stops short of the party line that they qualify as human beings.

After Operation Silva and the extradition of many communist politicians to the Imperium Doomanum, Sklenova was promoted to the position of vice general secretary of the Communist Party. Despite her age, she is considered a viable presidential candidate on the Communist ticket.

Due to her political visibility, General Iosif Malakov enlisted her assistance in his planned military coup d'etat. The Nationalist hoped that a Communist ally would mask the political motivations behind his actions.

Personal life

Sklenova is single and has one half-Kraven child. She is also socially withdrawn, not having lost her virginity until age 27. When she does get into relationships, they tend to fizzle out rapidly. While she has liberal views on sexuality, being accepting of others' differences, she is slow to get into relationships.

At Project Alpha, she met an Amestrian delegate, Sara Liscel. The two women grew to like each other very rapidly, despite apparently unrequited physical attraction on Liscel's part to her. They were seen in public on a commissioned civilian ship returning to Amestria and then to Kahanistan from the weapons demonstration in St. Fedski. While little is widely known, rumors of intimate relations are completely unsubstantiated at this time.

Sklenova is very sensitive and emotional, often breaking down in tears upon hearing upon the latest war atrocity. Her emotional state has made some wonder why she is a military officer at all. It has also interfered with her relationships, as has her military career.

Lately, she has been seen with a Velkyan officer named Sion Davenport, but little is known at this point.

Sklenova gave birth to a half-Kraven male child on 2 August 2007. Few details are known.

Quotes

"Trust me, it never gets easier, losing someone under your command."

"You say I'm obsessed with the Kraven. Maybe I am... The Kraven are murderous filth. They kill whole families in camps because one member disagrees with some Civil Doctrine. I'm normally not a hateful person, but the Kraven... I was given a briefing video once and couldn't even watch. I've seen gore in battle, I'm no stranger to blood and guts, but what really gets to you is the babies. Babies ripped from the arms of their mothers and taken to become mindfucked into Capitol Police..."

"Because of capitalism... the Kraven Corporation only cares about productivity, to the point where they murder those who are too old or sick to work. They send those... things, the Capitol Police... to take more land and resources and enslave the people... to use them and when resources become scarce they do it again. Because of capitalist greed... and anyone who realizes that is branded a thought criminal and killed, to stop the spread of freedom... of ideology that is bad for capitalism." - to Reichmarshal Helghan on the cause of Kraven aggression.

References

Battle of Xigrat
Intervention in St. Fedski
Project Alpha
Personal life
Into Darkness: Kraven
A patriotic crusade...?
Monstrosity!