summary with a dash of backstory

sorry for the massive inactivity lately, things got kinda crazy with moving, work and life in general.

no pictures this time, but i do have an update for you guys.
since i've never actually given a real explanation of the story, and i'm sure you're all like 'what is this madness', now's as good a time as any to try and give a decent summary.
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The story takes place on earth, following a slightly alternate timeline of history to allow for the necessary technology.

‘Aesir’ was begun as a Cold War era project with Soldat. The aim of the project was to create highly specialized/ super soldiers. Soldat was conceived and funded by the Soviet government.

It was eventually decided that Soldat wasn’t providing satisfactory results- too many variables with subjects, high mortality rate, etc., the project was replaced with Aesir. Aesir was meant to be a replacement/ version 2.0 of the original aim of Soldat. By this time the Cold War had ended, the project was continued without Soviet involvement and funded privately.

The initial Aesir experiments were a fusion of human and animal DNA to try to create superior reflexes/ senses, etc. later experiments also returned to the genetically engineered human roots of Soldat.

e were two phases to Aesir- the original experiments (first through fourth generations) at the first lab which were eventually scrapped as prototypes, and the fifth generation which yielded more satisfactory results and effectiveness.

The labs where Soldat/Aesir take place are in Germany (no specific location yet, but probably somewhere in the area that was East Germany). Currently have the lab/company going by Schützen (been renamed about as often as some of the characters, but schützen seems to be sticking for now lol)

current character roster (if only to get it down in one coherent list instead of all over the blog) :
Soldat: Maverick, Sin, Mishka, Andrei
Aesir generation 1-4: Vidar, Skoll, Vili, Hel, Loki
Aesir generation 5: Skade, Huginn, Muninn
and as was mentioned in a previous post, there are various other background/ KIA before the story characters that haven't really popped into existence yet
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hopefully this explained some things (and made sense while doing it)
questions about anything that wasn't explained here? feel free to drop a question here or the fanpage about it

twins and tangents

what's this, more new faces? they would be Huginn (left) and Muninn (right).

now for a small explanation tangent;
the Aesir experiments- Vidar, Skoll, Hel, Loki, and Skade- previously had the designations of units 01-05 to indicate which prototype/experiment they were (these designations haven't been used on the blog). this has recently been changed slightly to account for there probably being more prototypes/experiments interspersed in there.

Generation 01- first round of prototypes: where Vidar fits in, along with others that most likely won't survive to the main point of the story (once they're eventually spawned). eventually discontinued due to a lack of satisfactory results.
Generation 02: Skoll, and eventually others. also discontinued.
- the first two generations attempted to mix human and animal genes. discontinued when the resulting experiments couldn't successfully pass as human/desired traits or abilities weren't achieved.
Generation 03: Hel, Vili (no design for him yet). this generation used more human subjects but tried to artificially produce psychokinetic abilities. ended because successful results were too hit-or-miss.
Generation 04: Loki, and probably others. final prototype round and a mixture of the forst three generations, eventually discontinued when results plateau.
Generation 05: Skade, Huginn & Muninn. first final/non-prototype round.

hopefully that either made a little bit of where the madness is going, or atleast placed some of the characters in relation to each other.


and a colored version of half of Mishka's comparison sketch from a while ago.
posting it now because it's been siting on my files for a while and i'm not sure when i'll get around to finishing the set.