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Surveillance Level A1: Prof. Dr. Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov



Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov
Константин Степанович Неделуков
Константин Степанович Неделуков


Full Name:
Prof. Dr. Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov
Pre-Revolution Title:
His Highness, Prince (Knyaz) Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov

Birth date:
13 November 1965 (Age 55)

Place of birth:
Svarena, Imperial Zitravia, Kozavian Empire

Religion:
Eastern Orthodoxy

Spoken Languages:
Russian (native)
Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Latin, Church Slavonic (fluent)

Position(s):
Senior Programmer, mechatronics researcher and mathematician (2010 - present, under house arrest)
Formerly:
Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence Studies, University of Providenska (2003 - 2008)
Secret Service Programming and Mechatronics Researcher (2000 - 2003)
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Svarevna (1997 - 2003)
White Cross interpreter for deafblind patients (1995 - 2000)
Secret Service cryptographer and mathematician (1987 - 1995)

Marital status:
Divorced

Spouse:
Natalya Mikhailovna Kholmatzhonova
(Age 51, Married in 1996, divorced in 2004)

Children:
Vladimir (1998), Kolyarev (2000), Sasha (2003), Anna (2003)
(Recognized, non-biological)

>Former archenemy turned reluctant intellectual labor.
>Under house arrest, works in limited space.
>Technocrat, occultist, mystic, man of science.
>I bet that starts to confuse you.
>Sometimes deaf, sometimes blind, sometimes deafblind, sometimes fine.
>A shadow in Feodora Alexandrovna's past, quite literally.
>Photos are from Vyacheslav Tikhonov, whom I can confirm to be the most beautiful man in the Soviet Union.

Jump to Political Views and Works -- for people who only come here for a phantasmagoria of 'political views'. For his biography, please go to Biography, which will be divided into parts: Early Life, Imperialists' War, Post-War Period, Revolution, Civil War and the New Zitravia. For more trivial information: Appearance and Health, Education, Personality and Personal Life, and Pictures

"In this silence, in this darkness, the mother of thought resides. This mother of thought itself inspired me to move not only Zitravia but also humanity -- but I have forgotten that my handicap granted me an insight that normal people wouldn't understand. You wouldn't understand. Those who understand me at all are now repressed and oppressed." - Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov

Librarian of "The Tower"



- Librarian of The Tower is referred to a specialist who works (and might essentially live) in the Core of the Observation Tower of the Auestriker naukograd. The Tower serves as air traffic controller, digital archive and library. While the position is named "librarian", the actual duties of his are those of bookkeeper and programmer.

- Nedelykov himself is still classified as a researcher/mathematician/computer scientist in the payroll, albeit on penal wage rate (1/2 of minimum wage of his career).

- As a political prisoner, Nedelykov is allowed outside the Tower only at daytime and outside the Auestriker Naukograd only with authorization from the Kremlin itself. Visits to him are, however, rather common which lead to all visits being monitored closely.

- The least we discuss this, the better. Nedelykov is still one of the closest staffs to the regime he fought to destroy, working as one of its finest military intelligence officer, albeit closely watched and carefully monitored in case he decides to play a trick. The state has always had a hostage that can be used against him.


Biography (Back to the top)

Early Life (Back to the top)

Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov was born to an ancient Yaroslavian noble family in Svarevna, as the second eldest child out of seven children of Stepan Ivanovich Nedelykov and his first (legal) wife Anya Konstantinova Yermirova. He was named in his maternal grandfather's honor, although he never met the man himself. The circumstances of his family during the time were rather turbulent -- Stepan Ivanovich was a philanderer and involved in a bigamous marriage with Anya and Lana Yermirova, who were twin sisters. Despite being illegitimate, the children of Lana Konstantinova were recognized and raised in equal ground to the legitimate children, although some visible resentment remained a major issue in their lives. In the same month, Nikolai Yermirov was born in the same household and the two boys were often regarded as “twin brothers” due to their similar appearance and their relatively close birth dates. While Nikolai was a normal healthy child, Konstantin was much more unfortunate. The latter was born blind and deaf and affected by a heart defect and a weak immune system, perhaps owing to his family's history of marrying within the same circles of nobility over and over, which could have lasted over 800 years. Soon, it was clear that their father took a preference to Nikolai, who would make a promising soldier and continue the family's military fame regardless of being regarded as the illegitimate one.

Still, Konstantin's mother doted on the boy, seeing him as unfortunate but not hopeless. She hired a governess specialized in teaching disabled children to train him Braille and Tadoma, as well as hand signs and basic education for children in his age. Soon, he would develop an attachment to the governess and his mother. Konstantin would also develop the ability to identify and speak the words for some objects and ideas and people names once he learned all the in and out of vibration made by pronunciation and intonation. Still, his knowledge is limited to what his governess could interpret to him. While she could associate hand signs with objects and certain concepts for him, she couldn't relay much emotion to him as much as she would have wanted. In the meantime, he had a fair relationship with all of his siblings, especially Nadezhda (later known as Dame Kholmatzhonova). Not so ironically, he was also close to Nikolai. Understanding his status and feeling guilty of "stealing" their father's love from Konstantin, Nikolai stayed close to Konstantin and put up with all sorts of childlike abuse from him. In his mind at the time, Konstantin was not wrong -- he was a sickly, blind and deaf young boy deprived of father's love and normal life. However, Konstantin never thought of that. He never gave notice about his father nor the fact he was disabled. He never talked to his father via Tadoma or home sign. He was already aware of something -- his own genius and resilience would surpass his handicap. Apart from some basic education, he would learn to play chess by memorizing the board and the positions of all pieces and understand complex mathematic questions beyond simple arithmetics.


Nedelykov as a young
nobleman

At the age of twelve, he had a cybernetic surgery which involved experimental bioelectric equipment. The equipment included a hearing aid and two cybernetic eyes, connected to neural and cardiac transplants -- all of these had relied and still are relying upon his physical consciousness, blood pressure and heartbeat. With this, he enrolled into a prestigious private school in Svarevna through his parents' connection. Since cybernetics has always been something targeted for military use, Konstantin's equipment was faulty in his body. If the boy ever got too tired or his blood pressure too low, he would stop hearing and seeing temporarily until he gained his strength. Soon enough, he knew that he should not move too much and after all he never had to do any physically difficult by himself. However, he was highly intellectually active. As long as a task did not include moving, he would be highly active and involved with it.

Of course, Konstantin Stepanovich never thought himself an ordinary child or even a child. He took himself and his academic performance seriously and took up several interests -- although those that persisted were mainly formal sciences and classical music. He would surpass his classmates and have to skip several academic years to match his capabilities (although some might contribute it partially to his neural implants as well as excellent tutoring on his mother's part). Still, his father pretended as if he never existed. Konstantin now registered this as a fact and pretended to be blind and deaf whenever they were in the same room (most notably every dinner). By the time Konstantin was nineteen, he graduated with a Master degree in Mathematics. Unfortunately, his mother committed suicide along with her twin sister due to clinical depression, but almost immediately after, Stepan Ivanovich married another woman. Konstantin was struck by sorrow and hopelessness as he experienced extreme emotions for the first time in his life.


Young Nedelykov in
his early twenties

In his nineteen, Nedelykov was already basking in the glory of his field, bestowed with several awards and honours and was almost independent of his family’s support. This came at the sacrifice of Nedelykov's common sense and perception of reality, which combined badly with the trauma from his mother's death. He frankly and blatantly acknowledged himself as a genius and that company of "average minds" was nothing to do with him. This lack of common sense led him to a friend by the name of Dr. Sergey Petrovich Pashkov, a Secret Service charmacist with dubious reputation with toxicology. Blatantly, he asked Pashkov for a poison to kill himself but was instead injected with cocaine. It was either a wake-up call or a road to living hell for Nedelykov, depending on how he looked back at it. He left for Providenska forever and eventually became estranged from the rest of his family as he became independent and fell into "a strange kind of crowd" -- formerly a pious and prudish man of science who maintained a line between material and spiritual planes, he developed drinking and smoking habits as well as a drug addiction which led to interesting insights and new perspectives of spiritualism and mysticism as well as outlandish mathematical theories that surpassed his former achievement. Although he quit heavy drinking and drugs within a few years (thanks to an event involving a blackout, heavy nosebleeding and going completely deafblind again for a month), he looked back fondly at such memories as his teenage age phase. Konstantin Stepanovich finished his doctorate in 1986, at the age of twenty-one, but he was barely a sane man after that. (Moreover, some sources made a claim that he was involved in an open relationship with Pashkov, who was fifteen years his senior -- something he ardently denies.)

Imperialists' War (Back to the top)

During this time, the fervor of militarism was rising along with the conflicts along the borders of the Kozavian Empire. Rumors of inevitable war on the Zitravian western borders caused the semi-autonomous government of Zitravia to increase its war-preparedness as early as 1980s. Known for his extensive research on mathematics and computer science, Nedelykov was invited to join the Institute of Military Technology as a researcher and a senior programmer and cryptographer in the Secret Service (which was a department in the Army, not to be confused by its cousin, the Secret Police) in 1982 . Considered indispensible, he had such a cushioned career and his superiors were more than willing to accommodate to his physical inactivity by allowing him to work online or paying for his transportation. However, Nedelykov worked as much as he was paid -- he created a secret code language known as the Isanovska. The secret behind Isanovska is that it was not designed to be read, but rather felt, and the number of the dots would in turn be calculated via a certain formula only known to some elite officers who had to be specially trained to write and read the codes by hand without any computing help. Despite the communication being intercepted many times during the war, the code was not broken by the Auestriker intelligence until the very end of 1994 when its use was in decline due to there being fewer people who understood it. Aside from this code, he had also worked to translate several of the enemies’ dispatches intercepted by the Secret Service and hacked into the Auestriker’s Airbase Tundra to interrupt their Air Traffic Control, as well as develop lifelike avian-shaped drones to infiltrate behind the enemy lines. Nonetheless, the operation exposed his whereabout and an assassin was sent to get rid of him in his Providenska hideout. In his escape, he managed to fend off the assassin but was injured to the point that his cybernetics broke and left him in his original deafblind state. Soon, an assistant was sent to aid his future operations – Oleg Anesovich Orlovshenko was an A.I. specialized in martial arts, languages and computer and AI techonologies, a good match for Nedelykov now working while hospitalized, targeted by assassins and communicating only in tactile signaling.


Nedelykov and Orlovshenko


Hyper-realistic avian drones
in shape of pigeons.
He absolutely adores them.

It might not have been Nedelykov's personal invention, but he has more or less perfected it thank to his fascination with birds as well as A.I. Avian drone is, as the name implies, a drone taking shape of an avian, usually in the form of sizeable birds of prey due to the space needed for its components, i.e. propeller, engine and metal frame. Usually used for military purposes, it has a camera installed on it and can be controlled from afar like drones, while more advanced models are capable of autopilot, automatic flying routes, or even simple attack to defend its owner. It is rarely available to civilian (unless some rather wealthy eccentrics) but those who own one might use it for recreational purposes like hunting or companionship. The use of avian drone as drone falls under individual nation’s law on drone and privacy. Of course, the sheer existence of avian drone has contributed to the conspiracy that birds are not real (or at least not anymore) in some skeptical groups of people.

The Second Global War was noted as the first war with the use of “mechanical soldiers” but those were no more sophisticated than clockwork soldiers running on diesel and blindly following radio signal. The Cold War would see a slight improvement and see some “robots” capable of carrying out the tasks for which they were specifically created or even carrying on a basic conversation and understanding basic spoken and written commands. But in both wars, they were still essentially cannon fodders. In the Imperialists’ War or the official Third Global War, the technology of artificial intelligence had leapt forward enough that some “Homo Mechanicus” are utmost humanlike, with physical and intellectual capabilities that might even be beyond humanity. However, the concept of “sentience” was still under hot debate, and most AIs at the time were made for specific work purposes; therefore, most of them appeared “contented” to be considered non-living objects or second-class citizens at the time. The prime example for first sentient A.I.s would be none other but Oleg A. Orlovshenko himself, who was engineered by Dr. Anes K. Orlovshenko to be as humanlike as his time allowed as well capable of learning, “independent thinking” and self-improvement. During the war, there was an obvious line between A.I.s considering themselves as A.I.s and A.I.s considering themselves “free-thinking person”, with the latter being a very small minority.

Orlovshenko was such colourful character that it took Nedelykov (a deafblind) some time (a few days) to realize that he was not a human. Apparently, this fact embarrassed Nedelykov, whose works also involved writing programs for AIs. Still, the two bonded in a way. Neither would call the other "friend" or "colleague", not even "superior and subordinate". Orlovshenko would later describe this relationship as symbiosis -- Nedelykov reviewed, corrected and improved Orlovshenko's programming while Orlovshenko guided Nedelykov everywhere and took care of his general need. The two would be practically inseparable up until the end of the war after which Nedelykov recovered and had his cybernetics reinstalled.

Post-War Period (Back to the top)

The new problem came to Nedelykov -- post-war hysteria. The nuclear holocaust happened without him actually seeing or hearing about it and he was left uninformed so his productivity was not hindered. Relying on drugs once again, he would remain bedridden for several more months and his habits would worsen but his mind ran clearer and sharper in a sense. Already a rather "interested" Orthodox, he sank deeper into mysticism, holding several rather obscure beliefs in contrast to his status as a man of science, and saw post-war Zitravia as a cursed land in need of a saviour. Formerly self-centred, Nedelykov would begin to take an interest in working for charities, especially those pertaining to those with sensory disabilities "like himself". He joined the Zitravian White Cross as soon as January 1996 and began to work as a mathematics teacher alongside his new line of an academic career in the University of Svarevna. As he matured, Nedelykov developed a superficially charming demeanour, paired with his elegant and aristocratic manner. He attracted quite "a few" admirers among the people he worked with, one of them was his pupils, Daliaka Mikhailovna Alfroskaya, who was training to be a sign language instructor.

Certainly, Nedelykov was quick to reject the teenage girl's crush on him -- he was twenty-eight, she was seventeen. But one more reason for his rejection was that he himself was getting married. As per tradition of the aristocracy, Nedelykov knew he would be arranged for a political marriage to any young noblewoman at one point, but he did not expect her to be Natalya Kholmatzhonova, the younger sister of Lavrientiy Kholmatzhonov, whom his sister Nadezhda would also marry. He had known Natalya since he was a child, and he knew for a fact that she was having an affair with his half-brother Nikolai. However, the Kholmatzhonov did not think of Nikolai as a legitimate son and insisted that Natalya marry Konstantin, waving her affair with Nikolai with: "They look so much alike, what is the difference?" After much wrangling, Konstantin offered Nikolai with a scheme -- he would marry Natalya only in name, while she would live with Nikolai in secrecy and leave him alone. Seeing no better alternative, Nikolai and Natalya agreed. At the wedding in June 1996, Konstantin left the Nedelykov estate in Nikolai's naval uniform under the pretence of sorrow, while the groom in black suit was in fact Nikolai. While no guest were aware of this, Lavrientiy Kholmatzhonov and Nadezhda Nedelykova were perfectly aware, but swore to keep the secret. The latter couple were married a few months later but rather out of love and mutual agreement.

"Natalya Kholmatzhonova is a shallow, naive and troublesome woman, or I must be prejudiced against her. When naivety is paired with moral conscience, one can only see the world in black and white. I only "saw" her [as in visually] for the first time when I was thirteen, but we had met several times in family reunions. She has always had the preference for the tall, imposing Nikolai over myself, a crippled deafblind, and I cannot blame her for that. But the thought of having that woman around just frustrates me -- she will trouble my shrouded mind and hinder my destiny if we are to be married. Some men believe a marriage of tight fidelity completes them, others believe that the more women they have, the happier they will be. But I, in my solemn oath for both God and science, believe that female companionship is a mere stepping stone and temporary emotional fulfilment. Still, I do believe in finding a muse -- a woman whose beauty and intellect surpasses petty little women I have met in my life... and one I will admire without conditions. Will I be able to find her one day?"


Dr. Nedelykov, circa 1998

Now free and untroubled by his family, one person constantly interrupted Konstantin Stepanovich -- Daliaka Mikhailovna. Even if he insisted that he was now married, she would still insist that she would be around him, due to her knowing the real circumstance of his marriage. She, too, was an aristocratic woman of considerably influential family and knew that his marriage was arranged. Soon, Nedelykov would discover that marriage and family were not his cup of tea, but it was not as if he was in an open relationship -- he was a man surrounded by admirers of both romantic and mystical kind, and he enjoyed not having to return the favor. He now found out that he loved being an object of admiration. Since he was a man (and one pretending to be married), his female admirers would not be so aggressive in pursuing him. He would continue working with the charities, but now he felt that his ego was akin to that of a mystic cult leader, something that he genuinely believed the new Zitravia might need to get back on her feet. Of course, he would have such following when he continued to act as a "savior" for the sick and the poor while his actions during the war served as a good source of myths.

However, he was not given much of a break by the Zitravian semi-autonomous government. He was assigned to lead the team of developers tasked with developing the new set of specialized softwares for Zitravian civil service, to replace the old programs considered obsolete. At first, Nedelykov couldn't see the importance of spending so much resource on new software but he would eventually suggest that all of them are linked together by the central administration program called Paradox Rex, just so that he could work more easily. His softwares would be known as Paradoxical Engine, and they serve to make the works of Zitravian civil service faster by linking all softwares to the database controlled by the administration program. He was allocated seven years for the project, which increased the workload into his routine. Still, Nedelykov would live in a fairly comfortable life and balance his errands well. When Natalya and Nikolai had their first child in the late of 1997, Nedelykov had to baptize the child in his name. In fact, all four children born to the couple would be baptized as Nedelykov's children to avoid them being treated as illegitimate, and Nedelykov himself later took charge of their legal issues and oversaw their education. (After Yermirov's death, the four children would consider him their "second father".) But this did not mean he attempted to have any meaningful relationship with them. It was more of an obligation on his part as they were using his name.)

"I came to think of this when I saw Nikolai and Natalya's child for the first time. 'Is family life suitable for someone like me?' And I would answer myself: 'Absolutely not.' When a man builds his family, so often he ignores or forgets his ambitions for a while. If I am to chase my destiny, I will have to be alone."

In the year 2000, he was sent forth to the POW camp known as the Auestriker Naukograd. Finally, he finally got to see the "Airbase Tundra" against whose occupants he once fought, expecting that he would be treated with scorn and hatred by his nation's former enemies. But the reality was the contrary -- Nedelykov found the Auestriker intellectualism more attractive than Kozavian-Zitravian one he had always criticized (but perhaps it was also due to the fact that most of the Naukograd's scientists and technicians were as outlandish as he was). There, he discovered that his old friend Orlovshenko had worked there as an interpreter between Auestriker and Zitravian staffs and would be Nedelykov's assistant once more. But this time, Nedelykov was fascinated by the unusual character of Dr. Alexander Theodore de Marmesont, the aerospace engineer infamous for several wartime innovations. Marmesont was a mirror for him -- both men were born frail and unhealthy and were from well-off families with long traditions and dubious morality, both would pursue a career in the sciences and work for the military and both were such determined characters with a lot of attitudes. But the two men had some differences as well. Marmesont was an agnostic skeptical of what was beyond his sense, a good family man who disliked pomp and circumstance, a loving husband and a father of three brilliant children.


Nedelykov wearing an
Auestriker technician
uniform, a controversial
move from him

As he worked and got closer to the Marmesont family, he would take a particular interest in their daughter, Rosaline, who was fourteen at the time. Certainly, Nedelykov denied that it was a romantic interest due to her age. He named it an intellectual connection, as the girl appeared to be highly intelligent and learning from university-level mathematics. Still, Nedelykov's memoirs would be ridden with descriptions of the girl's "angelic beauty". It was the first time that he admired anyone with the same kind of admiration that he regularly received. He would help her and her twin brother Etienne to enter the University of Svarevna through his connection later that year. And since Rosaline would take mathematics as her major, she would fall under his responsibility for much of her years in the University. At this same time, his old pupil Daliaka Alfroskaya entered the same university for a degree in education and he was expected to take care of his youngest sister Elena, who entered music school nearby (she would be around Rosaline's age). His life would gradually revolve around these three young women (if not a few more), far more so than his legal wife.

Auestriker Empire was an archnemesis of the Kozavian Empire during the Imperialists' War, and its defeat meant that the furious and embittered Kozavian Empire was free to trample over it. In 1995, 1,500 Auestriker prisoners of war were handpicked for their expertise in military-related engineering and extradited to a Naukograd (science city) in Svarevna for the purpose of weapon research. According to their sentences, most members were to be put under labor for at least 20 years. One of the high-ranking members in the Auestriker POWS was Prof. Dr. Alexander Theodore de Marmesont, a 36-year-old aerospace engineer. After gaining permission from the Kozavian authority, his wife and children joined him in the Naukograd.

The Naukograd was essentially a city, with its own hospital, school, housing, emergency service, and utilities. For most parts, the "prisoners" had to take care of their own living condition, while living and working under the strict eye of Zitravian Gendarmerie. If anything broke, they had to fix it themselves while the Gendarmerie's only job was to watch them work and report on it and to prevent them from stepping out of the city without permission. This, however, also meant that their living standard certainly was above normal prisons and that they retained a sense of community. As a result, they kept their own culture and even refused to speak Russian or Ukrainian to their "jailors" and even demanded respect for their high-ranked officers and scientists.

"Today, I met the Marmesont's daughter, Rosaline. A child of fourteen, somewhat too small for her age, well-educated, highly intelligent, very docile but nonetheless quite foxy. I inquired further and found that the family has "Konstruiertermenschen" roots. Not so often would I encounter direct results of eugenics program, and what a perfect being she was! Never have I see a girl so beautiful and pure, like what one would imagine an Alpine shepherdess -- golden hair, bright blue eyes and clear porcelain-like skin -- more like a doll than an actual girl. She was not startled by the company of older people, as there was no children of her age apart from her brothers." - Nedelykov's diary entry on meeting Rosaline Deschanel de Marmesont (now Feodora Alexandrovna Miroslavskaya)

"Women have always been something that drive the gears of Nedelykov's personal life, but he is also one of the least sexual man you would meet. He could afford to be worshipped like a living saint, what would mere physical gratification mean to a man such as him? He never pursues any of his liaison nor has he consummated any relationship, or refer to any liaison as a relationship at all. That alone differentiates the mystically pure Nedelykov from any womanizers. But still, his enemies named him the Semiramis of the North thanks to that mental promiscuity." - Unknown collaborator

Nedelykov's actual political conscience would only manifest in the start of 2000s and he was far from a radical when he started. In fact, the new assistant professor in political science who just came back from his study in the "liberal western world" looked more radical than him with all the "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" publications. Adam Yanovich Dresvyanin was a man from the less developed Eastern region of Zitravia, and one from a lower-middle class family at that. To barge in with liberal ideas with such status would be rather daring in comparison to Nedelykov's more conservative stance with religious undertone -- or what effectively was the status quo of the day. But both men aligned on the same belief that Zitravia needed a reform in its administration system, rather than trying to enforce its old system with increasingly heavier hand. Nedelykov and Drevyanin knew each other through Prof. Dr. Vsevolod Stepanovich Gulyazov, yet another of Nedelykov's half brother and Dresvyanin's colleague. The two were on a somewhat familiar term, with the start of their relationship being religious beliefs but later developing into personal friendship. When Dresvyanin became a member of the Security Council and started working in the Kremlin, Gulyazov who was already one of its members kept a close watch on him.

In the year 2000, Dr. Konstantin Stepanovich Nedelykov duly arrived at the Auestriker Naukograd for a secret project. He was ordered to create a software that would revolutionize bureaucracy, now known as Paradoxical XII Ludus Latruncularius. It was the twelve extension of Nedelykov’s own Paradoxical Engine and it would become a seed of the man’s destiny. With its modified version still in use today, Paradoxical Engine is a software written for bureaucratic works, specifically to fit the Zitravian bureaucratic system in the 2000s. Each of its extension is for a specific branch of works – ranging from accountancy and state audit, to hospital records, to civil and military engineering, to citizens’ records, to law enforcement’s surveillance system, to the immigration bureau's records and Biometric software, etc. Despite being checked by other programmers, Nedelykov still managed to hack back into his own program and take control of Zitravian bureaucratic system again in 2007, thus starting the Zitravian Revolution.

Digital horrors are Nedelykov's specialty. Knowing that warfare might be moved onto information superhighway in the near future, he created Information Phantasmagoria to gain a step above all. It has a special effect that allows the user to move and manipulate an AI capable of processing it. Considered "instant hacking virus", the program has a certain set of codes that draws attention of semi-sentient to sentient artificial intelligence beings. The main functions of the program are to create an illusion of mind control. Within nine seconds of operation, the program will manage to overload an AI's calculation capabilities and shut down all its sensory hubs with "psychedelic" graphic and audio. Once exposed, an AI's mind might be left blank for the program to manipulate with repetitive information akin to brainwashing, or false information paired with sensory manipulation akin to gaslighting. Most notably, Nedelykov's cybernetic eyes (he was blind in his childhood) work well as a medium to force his way into an AI's mind via eye-to-eye connection he could operate. This would also work with another human wearing a cybernetic eye, although they might not be controlled entirely. In fact, some particularly free-thinking AIs might even deny the process.

"To put it bluntly, I thought, and still think, that Nedelykov is a strange man. He gave an illusion of openness by revealing useless factoids about him, while hiding the more important things behind the smokescreen of ‘insignificance’. He is an enigmatic figure, an elegant one at that. He manipulates expectations and contradictions. A man of science who prays daily and genuinely believes in seance and spirits. A prudish asexual involved with countless of women. A sound and rational mind running on coffee, cigarettes and legal high. An aristocrat who embraces the poor and the sick with his own arms, but also an intellectual who tramples upon his own peers. It is easy to forget one side of his personality while thinking about another. It is easier to digest the whole image of him rather than overanalyzing him and falling into his trap. At that time, I followed along and almost believed him -- I wouldn't say he was a fascist or anything of the ultranationalist type, he was more like a man running a church-based charity, or a cult if you will." - Dresvyanin's comment on Nedelykov

Despite working for the government, he believed wholeheartedly that Zitravians were never autonomous, whether partially or fully – their ‘semi-autonomous’ administration was in the end mere slaves to the Kozavian policies. But Nedelykov was not the type of a leader who would shout his speeches from a podium nor march to the death in a revolt – he was a man utilizing his fragile imagery for sympathy and his intellect for approval, preferring to hide behind the curtains. He would visit the Naukograd, the University of Svarevna and the Yeruslan Sect of Providenska from time to time to ensure that he had his friends on his side if anything happened. In the meantime, he also worked as Grand Prince Viktor’s tutor in utter secrecy, knowing that his head would be severed if the Kozavian-run Kremlin found out. One of the potential allies he wished to secure was Adam Yanovich Dresvyanin, but he also had heard of his half-brothers' plan to stir the sentiment of revolution in the Navy and to find the weakest point in the Kremlin's heart. Since the two had not been in touch for a while, this came as a surprise for him. With his cousin Lavrientiy Kholmatzhonov becoming the new Mayor of Providenska in 2004, Nedelykov was pushed into the inner circle of the Kremlin, especially when the Paradoxical Engine would be installed from the Center which was in the basement of the Kremlin. The Security Council both admired him and distrusted him – perhaps owing to him having too unique a personality. They were not wrong, he was plotting something – everyone was plotting something at that time. Nedelykov's "plots" are unlike anything any partisan movement had. In fact, Professor Nedelykov and Vice-Admiral Yermirov were planning something more unique than gathering more people for their political movement.

In the meantime, Nedelykov gained some order into his personal life. He divorced his legal wife in 2004 but swore to become a godfather to her children with Nikolai Stepanovich. Moreover, the relationship between the three half-brothers, Nedelykov, Gulyazov and Yermirov, seemed to become much less estranged. In Nedelykov's own words, his personal life became almost uninteresting as he became an unmarriagable bachelor with crippling sickness and disabilities, relying on prayers and drugs (and whatever experiences that came out of that combination) as his consolation. In reality, Nedelykov was doing rather well professionally, although his achievements were getting less exciting. He had come to concentrate his energy more on education career and future political conspiracies. When he met Rosaline again in the autumn of 2004, he was obviously upset at her being engaged, especially without his knowledge and around the same time to his divorce. Perhaps it was this moment that he realized he had long been in love with her but denied his feeling thanks to their age difference. Ironically, Nedelykov himself believed that he did not grow apart from her, but rather closer. Reasonably, it earned him the ire of Rosaline's fiancé, Kazimir Ivanovich Miroslavsky. It would have been an ordinary triangle, had it not been for Miroslavsky's heavy involvements in political partisanship of their time. They delved into each other's secrets through Rosaline, who was torn between them.

Revolution, Civil War and the New Zitravia (Back to the top)

Dr. Nedelykov is a man of complex operations -- even more so than Miroslavsky. In 1996, he started writing a calculator program named Paradox, which soon grew into a more complex software with several extensions (Equinox Paradox for date and time calculator, Avaritia Paradox for accounting, etc., etc.) But its final extension was "Licentia Paradoxical" which was a brute force hacking program that slowly ate into the Zitravian Regional GovSys (Government's System) and into all public systems while erasing its own footprints. If Nedelykov's interrogation is reliable at all, 12 October 2006 was not the day he was ready, but rather a month before. But before then, he left his 132 GB RAM desktop computer running a 5 TB heavy software on the high-speed connection from 2001 to 2006, just to get hijacked on the day of operation.

The sabotage lasted almost 13 days, during which electricity, telephone lines and internet were not working (except some places that had their own generators -- a minor detail for Nedelykov anyway.) His targets were the bureaucracy and the law enforcement who, as he wanted, failed flat to preserve order in the capital city and other strategic locations. It is one of the largest and best-known cyberterrorist acts up to date.


Nedelykov as he waited
to unleash an anarchy
(as alleged by the
photographer)

Knowing that he would be unsafe in the capital, Nedelykov asked the secret service to be transferred into Kasgalamov's army base temporarily, claiming that his health was deterioting and that he had been repeatedly harassed by the gendarmerie. He did not name the Gendarmerie Major-General Kazimir Miroslavsky as his harrasser but did imply it heavily in his written request. It was a bizarre request, considering that Nedelykov had been working in universities too long to go back to military works. Nonetheless, his request was approved. He left for an aerospace base in Kasgalamov in 2007. From Kasgalamov, he would conduct his sabotage. Once the sabotage arrived on 12 August 2007, he abandoned his post in Kasgalamov into a hideout as chaos ensued.

"My beloved Konstantin would be as useful to me in combat as a broken sword. He is as fragile as a leaf in autumn, even with his inhuman intelligence. The sabotage, the Naukograd and the secret code Isanovska are already enough. He will be useful again after the war as the puppeteer of the Grand Prince. For now, I am his knight and I shall fight for our intertwined destinities." - Vice-Admiral Yermirov on Nedelykov's minimal involvement during the Revolution and the Civil War

Nedelykov took no visible role in the Provisional Government although he appeared with Yermirov, presumably working with each other. Nedelykov himself had no actual political power in the said government either, but Kholmatzhonov was also his cousin and he was promising to be a rather influential figure among the technocrats and a figure who could bargain with the Eastern Orthodox Church at all. But he had no real official power at the time. In fact, the priority was his safety -- Yermirov knew he was the target of his enemies' anger. He was inactive during the military conflicts between Zitravian Provisional Government and Kozavian Empire and the faction war that followed it, only doing whatever was required of him as an operator and technician.

Once he learned about Yermirov's death, which effectively meant the defeat of the fascist and their allies, Nedelykov knew that Miroslavsky's agents would be hunting him down. He put on a disguise as his half-brother Gulyazov and escaped to the southern borders but was soon arrested by the border police loyal to the Workers' Party. He was immediately put on trials. Nedelykov's trials were rather complicated -- they were extralegal in nature and the main focus was Nedelykov's political faction rather than his 'crimes', one of those being his sabotage plans and another being 'misleading the public'. But in reality, Miroslavsky's technocratic government needed Nedelykov or at least did not have a heart to execute him, believing him to be a priceless asset. As a result, Nedelykov was soon put under house arrest in the Auestriker Naukograd and put to work in the so-called 'intellectual grind' of the Naukograd.

“I will not die even if I could. I will live until the Premier's patience runs out. But we both know at heart that he prefers to benefit from my existence.” - Nedelykov on his current situation

One would suspect that Nedelykov's influence could seep into the Naukograd and he might make plans against the new regime again -- and that was what Miroslavsky thought and wanted people to think. He put Nedelykov under the highest level surveillance and monitored all contacts that the man had, including allocated phone calls and visits. Despite making no public move, he continued to publish memoirs to justify his and his brothers' reputation and actions and would tell everyone he could that he was being severely mistreated and misunderstood. However, the public would have forgotten him if he was not involved in Technocrat’s Schism in 2015, in which he was suspected to be the culprit behind the hacking of Sephiramia Supercomputer in Kasgalamov. While he was not involved directly, he had also hidden the fact that the Kozavian agents in Zitravgrad tried to recruit his help. True to his dignity and pure spite, Nedelykov did not deny nor admit when he was interrogated, knowing that his life could not get better or worse -- only to confess his minimal involvements when he heard the news of the First Lady's suicide attempts. Both Nedelykov and Miroslavsky knew the weakest point of each other's heart: they had always loved the same woman. This fact only serves to cast a shadow on the three's personal lives and to be used as manipulation tool against one another. To present day, he is still in confinement and under tight surveillance, albeit living in relative comfort and receiving proper medical care. When Nedelykov heard the news of the recognition of Grand Prince Viktor in 2016, he allegedly claimed that his soul could rest slightly more but it is still far from salvation and he later made similar comments on his old friend Dresvyanin's rise to the position of Prime Minister. Still, it is known that high-ranking Kremlin personnel are usually forbidden to meet him face to face unless he is taken into the Kremlin itself tied up to a wheelchair.


Appearance and Health (Back to the top)

Appearance-wise, Nedelykov is a man of moderate stature, sporting greying brunette hair, iridescent blue-grey eyes and has fair, if slightly wrinkled skin. One could even call Nedelykov "handsome" and it is agreed that he has a rather solemn, yet sneering expression painted on his face. Nedelykov is considered by others to be "passively masculine". He is elegant and imposing, yet slow, sluggish and not very strong in his demeanor. This is defined by his rather frail health and his physical inactivity stemmed from the need to maintain his sensory cybernetics, those being a defibrilator, a pair of eyes and a hearing aid. His eyes are not his original ones, they are glass eyes with light blue-grey tint representing the monitor of his processor (hence the iridescent look). Nedelykov does not see with normal vision. He has camera-like vision that can zoom in and out, as well as analyze what he sees. Hence, Nedelykov experiences the world as though he is always wearing a pair of smartglasses. His hearing is amplified by the hearing aid, but he occasionally experiences distortion in pitch and tone if his nerves are ever malfunctioning at all. This means Nedelykov can be considered a modified human. Nedelykov's sicknesses tend to be seem petty but they would vex him to an extent from time to time, ranging from mundane low blood pressure and migraine to a cardiac arrest. There are occasions of 'overloading' which renders him deafblind temporarily, usually for hours or days.

Despite being self-conscious of his condition and following a healthy-looking and minimalistic diet, Nedelykov is (perhaps a trend in Zitravian intellectual elites) a chain smoker, occasional drinker and caffeine addict, with dubious history with drugs. This attributes to him having a "low, deep and hypnotic voice", albeit it is not his intention. Nedelykov is also fashionable, even if conservative in his attire, wearing an array of well-tailored suits with flowing overcoats in dark colors. Mentally, it would be difficult to tell if Nedelykov is a sociopath or if he is "just himself", as it is hard to determine certain traits in his character, although his rivals are content with calling him psychopath.

Personal Health Evaluation

What is it about?

Gender

Male

Age

53

Orientation

Heterosexual(?)

Sub-Species

Modified Human (Cybernics):
Born humans, but receive enough cybernetic transplant(s) to replace 25% (or more) of original organs

Height

185 cm (Above Average)

Weight

71 kg (In Range for Healthy Weight)

Hair Color

Dark Brown - Greying

Eye Color

Iridescent Light Grey - Cybernetics

Blood Type

HST (Donate only to HTS)

Hand Dexterity

Left-Handed

Physical Health Quotient (PHQ-I)

Zeta (Extremely Poor Physique and Immunity)

Intellectual Intuition Quotient (IIQ)

Alpha (Extremely High Learning and Memory Capacity)

Psychological Health Quotient (PHQ-II)

Epsilon (Below Average Psychological Health)


Education (Back to the top)

“Coffee and cigarettes remain gods for a poor, unfortunate soul such as myself who has no better career than writing up mathematical theorems. One might say ‘I think, therefore I am’, but I am here mostly to think.” - Nedelykov on his own habit, notice how he does not mention cocaine

Nedelykov's education is focused on mathematics and computer science, as demonstrated by his degrees in both fields. However, he has demonstrated to be a man of all arts, well-read and utterly sophisticated beyond his expertise. He has a deep, profound interests in philosophy, history, political science and art and has been known to sing baritone and play piano and violin proficiently. He also speaks French and English in addition to his native Russian, and appears to have some knowledge in Latin. He also has a fair knowledge in literature as well as some theology. All this, however, detaches Nedelykov from reality and what ‘ordinary people’ could be thinking. In fact, it could be said that Nedelykov refuses to acknowledge that social sciences are not as stable as other sciences, and that humans and society change too quickly for theories to be formed. Even if he can manipulate quite a number of people, the masse is still beyond his understanding.

He possesses high-level analyzing and deduction skills which he normally uses to 'cold-read' people. As mentioned, Nedelykov understands individuals more than crowd. He has in his mental arsenal the means of deception and manipulation based on psychology theories. However, as his sanity degrades, he reads deep and wide into the literature of occultism and mysticism. He is also an avid fan of fortune telling, seance and astrology, although he does not explicitly insert it into his conversations with people.


Personality and Personal Life (Back to the top)

“Apart from his intellect and elegance, there is not much else one would think when they mention his name. Not even now, not even after he has been so severely disgraced. He was such a beautiful, enigmatic enemy. People might recall even the slightest of Khomatzhonov’s haughtiness or Yermirov’s brutality, but they never said ‘Ah! Nedelykov? I knew what evils that man had done.’ All they ever said was ‘What enigma he was. I knew him, but I also didn’t know him!’” - An unnamed collaborator from the Workers' Party

While his personality is too complex for a few words, ego, enigma and manipulation define him. It should be possible to see since from the first glance how highly he beholds himself, especially as a man of great intelligence and determination. He might call himself ‘an unfortunate man’ at times, but he never thinks himself truly unfortunate. Even before he was given sight and hearing at the age of twelve, he managed to master speech and writing – and one of the first things he was able to write was his own name, signed in beautiful cursive. Nedelykov is sly, charismatic, and self-conscious. He is aware of how fervently some people might admire him or some might loathe him and he is capable and prepared to use it as a tool. And when it comes to "tool", Nedelykov has little regard for the person he is manipulating for his own gain, even his own half-brother whom he occasionally treated as a manservant since childhood. It has to be noted that Nedelykov is not beyond using his physical condition to make himself look pitiful and harmless. Even as a child, he did not mind being bullied because of it, but rather would also use any harm done to him to draw sympathy from other people.

Nedelykov is often seen catching female attention and while he seems to appreciate it and play along with it, he never initiates an actual relationship. Nonetheless, he is a gentleman and a romantic -- well-mannered, soft-spoken and verbose. He himself has expressed that he is in favor for ‘intelligent women’ and more or less still openly speaks about his affection for his "little goddess Rosaline". Otherwise, one might be able to sense a rather morbid and sarcastic sense of humor from him. Socially, he is neither a loner nor a center of attention, although he could choose to be either at any given time. His prime state is the state of veiled publicity, in which he is in the crowd but allocating his attention only to a small group of people whom he thinks are worth his time. While he makes friends easily with people of his social circles (i.e. aristocracy, intelligentsia, fellow churchgoers), he could also easily fish the ire and the envy of people outside such groups who might suspect (mostly correctly) of his more malicious intentions. Born into a tumultuous family, Nedelykov does not entirely believe in the usual family life and only prefers to be close to the siblings who are of some use to him. He might seem to adore children due to his charitable spirit but it is, in his own words, easy to appreciate other people's children when one is not ridden with the responsibility of raising them. He prefers to be independent, knowing that his lifestyle is not accommodating for a stable relationship. Nonetheless, it was also from his family that he inherited a fairly luxurious taste. Still, he relied heavily on public transport and never owned a car, having been barred from owning a license. His current lifestyle is under control, which obviously earns his complaints from time to time, although he appreciates the help to get around whenever his senses shut down on him.


Smoking because he
is not dying fast enough

While religious and even superstitious, Nedelykov is by no means blind in his faith nor humble. He is more than ready to use any illusion of his virtues and charities as well as religious rhetorics to further his propaganda. He only regards his religious beliefs as “something filling the gaps where science has not filled”. Thus, this might also explain his fascination with mythologies, occult and astrology, all of which he takes very seriously. If there is anything he truly respects, it is the written and unwritten practices of the academia. Even if his fields of study barely involve any lifeform, he takes the scientific ethics seriously. Although the debate whether AIs have “souls” is still going on, the man himself has an immense trust for machinekind and treats them as he would treat any human (which can be rather dubious anyway). Moreover, Nedelykov respects fellow academics regardless of fields, opinions and beliefs – something he believes to be a good basis for a technocracy. Still, he has been regarded as somewhat detached from reality due to this.

But above all, Nedelykov is determined and decisive. His lack for empathy towards others means he can easily disregard emotional obstacles in his plans. Once set upon a goal, he is ruthless and calculating. Nonetheless, he also is aware of his limits. If something poses a danger to him, he will likely back away and lay low until he feels secure enough to operate again, but he rarely acknowledges defeat or surrenders. Currently in captivity, Nedelykov takes his fate with dignity, knowing that he only loses when he laments. He still maintains much of his arrogance and manipulativeness. Still, it could be said that he has also spiraled down into a rather turbulent state of the mind and even deeper into his mysticism. He might be considered ‘strange’ by some, but rarely seen as ‘eccentric’ due to his reserved and calm manners.

Trivia

    - Nedelykov can measure height and length accurately with his computer eyes, and with basic mathematical skills he could also estimate volume and mass. Moreover, he has tried and succeeded (to some extent) in using his eyes to initiate eye-to-eye communication with AIs – through this he can also apply a lite version of ‘Information Phantasmagoria’ and take complete control of any particularly weak-willed robots.

    - Considered a disabled citizen, Nedelykov usually carries a white cane with him, but refuses assistance if his eyes and ears are still working. He never drives a car except once when he was trying to escape to the borders. The easiest way to tell if his senses are working is to see if his eyes still maintain strong focus. But he is also known for pretending not to hear when he can hear for whatever reason, so that might not be too reliable.

    - Too weak to protect himself, he used to carry small weapons like taser or handgun, but he can give a fair beating with the cane. Nedelykov has never considered a guide dog; in fact, he hates dogs with quite a passion and prefers birds or cats as companion. He currently has a cat named Rosie. He is very affectionate towards Rosie and regards her as more intelligent and reliable than many human beings he knows or has known and couldn't give a flying darn if she wants to sleep on his keyboard or knock his coffee mug off the table. Some people note that it is an eerie reminiscence of his relationship with Rosaline.

    - Nedelykov actively writes in his diary, some of which are typed, some are recorded via speech-to-text engine. In fact, many of his quotes presented in this dispatches are authentic. Nedelykov also usually has no issue typing blind on familiar keyboard layout. His memoirs mostly serve to justify his own actions and to relive his memories but older entries seem to be a distorted record of his mind on drugs.


Political Views and Works

The records usually have it that Nedelykov’s faction is ‘Ýeruslavian Fascist’, but there is an argument against Nedelykov himself being too ardent a fascist – he has low regard for militarism and does not entirely believe in the same brand of Zitravian nationalism as his infamous brother Yermirov did. In fact, Nedelykov has a noticeable theocratic leaning, but it is also a rather shallow kind of theocracy, veiling his grander scheme of an oligarchy run by likeminded technocrats. Like Yermirov, Nedelykov is disillusioned by the western democracy, but he also sees that the military dictatorship of Kozavia was what ruined Zitravia since the latter half of the twentieth century. What he looked for was neither an absolutely free nor absolutely controlled regime, but rather one that freed the common people from the false illusion of choices. With the major decisions made by the technocratic elites, the burdens of choosing wouldn’t have to fall to the hands of the masse, which might be misinformed or uninformed by the misled partisan movements. He regards free will and morality as debatable, but regards individuality to be as important as the collective, if not even more. If there had to be any form of limitation of freedom and liberty, Nedelykov would have preferred it to be rather cryptic rather than blatant oppression. He has no real issue with civil liberties and freedom of expression, although he believes that they only make it clearer who to trust or avoid in the society -- a free-for-all model in which all sides fight by all means to take power. He is by no means old-fashioned (or completely sane) in his outlook for the post-modern world, but still reserved and clear. Moreover, he does not want to concern himself whether modern technology brings people away from God and his teachings, citing that it is not the decision to be made in the material plane of existence and in the end, vices and virtues depend on individuals.

“If a person feels himself free enough at home, he will feel free enough in a society. If we ought to limit a man’s rights, we better draw a line thin enough for him to notice, but not to vex him outright. A mind that knows itself to be oppressed will either stop thinking or start opposing – we do not wish for a nonproductive or counterproductive mind.”

Perhaps, Nedelykov only needed the thin veil of theocracy to legitimatize his supposed rise to power, and he only wanted the Yaroslav dynasty to cover him as a puppet while he ruled from behind the curtains. Despite supposedly being ‘tolerant and interested’ of other beliefs, Nedelykov has always avoided people of other established religions, whether they be Islam, Judaism or paganism – it appears that he is only accepting of agnostics and atheists because they are more 'negotiable', whatever that means for him. One more notable thing from him is the concept of ‘charity’, which he believes to be an obligation of the more fortunate people, not only to help the less fortunate but also to survive from repercussion in case of class struggle. It is obvious that Nedelykov was not willing to face a change of status and was ardently against anything that threatened caste system in Zitravia, which put him among the ranks of both Kozavian loyalists and Yaroslavian royalists. Also, Nedelykov still has a rather conservative outlook, even if his interpretations of traditional morality might differ from other conservatives or already gone out of the window.




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