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Classification: Data: Gender Male Species Human Sub-classification System Architect Nationality Russian Eye color Amber Hair color
Brown Occupations:
Lead Directorate Neural Research Division Engineer
Good Directorate Shareholder
Creator of Annet Known Aliases: Dr. Alexander Gromov
Engie
First Architect
Tools: Data: G-Dir goggles Orange goggles with dark frame, snowboarding style
Conceal Eyes
Project virtual reality Jacket Brown jacket with a fur hood G-bag with laptop A backwards compatible laptop Annie Provides absolute protection, unless locally shut down
Duplicate Soul: In: First Architect The Armorer
APPEARANCE:
Dr. Gromov is a pale skinned Russian man. His face is angular with well defined cheekbones and scruffy brown hair. His eyes are always obscured by his ever present amber goggles, while the rest of his face is covered by a gas mask with dual filters. His attire consists of a grey hooded jacket, with fur trim and dark blue skinny denim trousers. He also wears grey gloves and boots.
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BACKGROUND:
Alexander Gromov was the head of the research division controlling and maintaining AN.NET, the AI system which all humans could link to via neural interface. As a result, he developed a very close bond with the AI he created, and frequently referred to her as "my girl Annie".
He was also in charge of Project 7, an analysis aimed at finding the luckiest person in the world: "Subject Seven", who later became the Captain. After discovering that everyone in Cube 15 was dead thanks to the unconnectable terror attack breaking reality, he thought that Annet killed everyone and ran. Driven mad by grief and madness of what he saw, Gromov ordered a launch of the last desperate nuclear attack on Annet, hoping that taking out a small portion of Annet's system would cause the rest of it to fail. He then hid in a well stocked and fortified bunker, convinced that everybody else was dead and Annet destroyed.
PERSONALITY:
Alexander Gromov is a shrewd and logical thinker, aware of the limited time humanity had left to survive due to the pollution of the planet. He appears to have a thriving contempt for Captain, wrongly assuming that Captain's actions of spilling tea caused Annnet to go berserk and kill everyone in Cube 15.
Two more defining traits are laziness, and his lack of courage, as he demonstrated when he encountered the Biomatrix 117 upon leaving his bunker to repair an oxygen pump. While in the same situation, Captain stood completely unaffected, the Sniper was shooting at Cancer before being captured. and Pilot even attacked the monster head-on in true "ninja" fashion with a katana, all while Dr. Gromov curled up into a fetal position in his hiding place.
While he seems to be mentally stable, he also behaved like a mad scientist rushing his Annet, Dark Matter Engine and Subject Seven projects, ignoring all warnings pointing out the dangers, as they came from an unimportant person, clerk Charles Snippy.
He's a severe hypochondriac and never takes his jacket, gloves or masks off.
SKILLS:
As the head of Project 7, Dr. Gromov was a top boss in computers and programming before the apocalypse. He also showed enough skills to find and fortify a bunker to live in safety from the post-apocalyptic world. He has shown to let ignorance get in the way of his logical processes, as when he does, he tends to fall into assortments of traps without realizing it until after they have been set off.
Events of Note:
After exiting his bunker, Dr. Gromov came across the leviathan flesh-tree-spider form of Biomatrix 117. As he hid from it, he discovered a note from the Captain offering people a chance to join his "Army". He tore up the note in disgust as he remembered that it was Captain who started the apocalypse in the first place. Just then Annet's hunter drone burst down from the ceiling and claimed that "[their] long overdue search query of hide and seek" was over. However hearing the drone crash through the ceiling caused several Biomatrix controlled skeletons to swarm through the door, only to be blasted to bits by the drone. The drone then began to execute protocol 1-1-3, which turned out to be a blast from an orbital ion cannon, obliterating most of Biomatrix's body. After the blast, Dr. Gromov began to wonder how exactly he survived the strike, that was supposed to shut down any neural activity. He was then confronted by Captain sitting behind a desk offering him a position in the "organization". Dr. Gromov accepted as he thought that maybe Captain's luck could rub off on others, but was slightly put off when the Captain insisted that he'd fill out a 20 page application form and asked him for his phone number and whether he could dance salsa, among other things.
Dr. Gromov falls into numerous traps set for uninvited guests inside of the Captain's main base of operations.
After being forced to shut Annet down by Charles Snippy, Dr. Gromov dies and is reprinted on the Moon, where he meets his first duplicate and learns the truth about everything.