Nikolai Pereshenko

"Spartans never die... they just go to hell and regroup."- Nikolai Pereshenko upon hearing of 12th battalions  annihilation.

For the user equivalent, see Nikolai the rebel.

Nikolai Pereshenko was a SPARTAN-IV known as a hyper lethal vector. He has had to deal with a troubled past and is likely to have an even more troubling future.

Early life
2526: Nikolai Pereshenko was born on the planet of New Helsinki to a drug lord. There Nikolai was given the best money could buy, until he went to his first day in school.

The Insurrectionists entered the school with hidden SMGs and quickly took control of the situation. Before the NHPD could respond however, the rebels had flown in a helicopter and airlifted a classroom of students, including Nikolai, out to their base and into the Dark Zone. Nikolai had started to cry in the helicopter and a young man named Marcus smacked Nikoli in the face with the butt of his rifle, which knocked him out. When Nikolai woke up, he was at the rebel base of Bastille.

When the hostage negotiations broke down and the drug lord vowed revenge, the rebels put in plans to execute the children. However, no matter how hard they tried, the rebels could not bring themselves to kill the six-year old kids. Their solution was to turn the children into soldiers.

Nikolai was also educated at Bastille. He learned about Algebra, basic science, history (albiet convoluted), and many other things. However, if young Nikolai wanted school supplies or books he had to kill for them. Nikolai became an effective killing machine and would be promoted to commander after years of experience.

Raid on rebel base Bastille
During 2543 the UNSC would stage an assault on Nikolai's new home. During Nikolai's time as an inexperienced commander, he made several mistakes that would ultimately lead the UNSC to the rebel base of Bastille. The UNSC surrounded the mountain side and had ODST troopers at the ready to deploy to any escaping rebels. In the chaos Nikoli goes down with his base and lead the surrender delegation. This however, buys time for Nikolai's company to escape via the old titanium mines. Nikolai is apprehended by the UNSC and put on death row.

Raid on space prison 158.
His company had come to break him out of prison ten months latter, but Nikolai was now disgusted with the rebellion. On the way out of prison, Nikolai put on a dead guard's uniform and proceeded to kill his former company members. Nikolai then took the guards name and blew up the entire prison with a fail safe in the control room. He leaves on a cargo freighter to join the UNSC Army.

2544: At age 18, he was visited by Colonel Ackerson to be recruited for the ODSTs.

2546: With his training over, his allegiance to the UNSC solid and with his new found hatred for the rebels and the Covenant, he proceeds to tell Ackerson everything he knows about the rebels and personally leads raids to destroy rebel terror cells in the Inner colonies.

2553: Now ridden with PTSD and the guilt about his childhood in the insurrection, Nikolai is one of the first ODSTs to sign up for the SPARTAN-IV Program.

2555: Nikolai finishes his SPARTAN-IV augmentations process and training. He is then assigned to the carrier UNSC Back with a Vengeance as the leader of the 12th SPARTAN Battalion. The 12th was deployed to the Ancillian system on the jagged edges of Covenant Remnant colonized space to quell the local Remnant insurrection.

Battle on the Ancillian system
2557: During an engagement with the Remnant, Nikolai left the 12th battalion along with Savior team to destroy a Remnant artillery position. Savior Team arrived late and the entire 12th battalion was destroyed by the the plasma battery. Nikolai, along with Savior Team, escaped the planet via pelican and soon rendezvoused with the 2nd Combined Fleet, of which the Back with a Vengeance was a part.

That night Nikolai had nightmares about leaving behind his family, his rebel company, and leaving behind his battalion to die. Soon the past and the present were no longer distinguishable and since then, Nikolai often wakes up wondering whether he should kill the Marine in the bunk next to him or introduce himself. It was at this point that Nikolai finally admitted to himself that he was a broken man and that the only way that he was going to survive is to take this Savior team and make sure that nothing ever happened to them.

2558: The UNSC Back with a Vengence is transported into the THDF universe during the Slipspace Rift Incident.

Battle of Beta Maximus 35b
Nikolai lead Savior Team into an ill fated initial assault on the planet with only Savior team surviving. The team was then picked up by a UD77-Pelican to their next objective.

There Nikoli had a psychotic break down and had to be tranquilized. They also discovered a possible location for the prison, but the coordinates were in Mandalorian. The coordinates were then sent to DMR to deciphered.

(More to come)