Entry One: Richtofen's Younger Years and 935
(Author's Note: Yes, this is a serious story. I know Richtofen's bio is wildly changed from COD Zombies, but considering this is an ambitious crossover story that I wanted to share, many, MANY liberties with many franchises had to be taken, apologies in advance.)
Did you know if you looked on the Milky Way via a map and found Earth, we're one of the smallest visible planets? Imagine that, being so tiny and insignificant in the grand scheme of the Universe, the people of Earth dumbfounded to even the slightest revelation of the awful truth of our existence in all manner. But I don't think nihilistic preaching makes for a good tale, so instead, let me woo you. A story of all out-war, friendship, love, morals, ethics, power, hatred, brotherhood, all aspects of our lives, woven into a singular package. It may sound stereotypical, like some mythological epic of a religion, but this is all true I tell you, true! Don't believe me? Well, it doesn't matter, in a few minutes I'll probably be dead anyway. But I'm transferring this signature, containing this message, for any denizen of any indifferent planetary body, to read this, and learn from what happened here…
1940, a tumultuous time in history, that even the most fringe of historian groups can agree. World War Two was in full swing, with German and Japanese forces cutting swaths of territory in all manner of horrid conquest. However, the war was also birth to a great many scientific innovations, and many seldom spoken about. In fact, the war was the first major entry of Edward Richtofen, an unhinged German scientist, and the least likely of protagonists. However, Edward's life, his crazy story with the Galactic Empire, Xenomorphs, Daedric Hordes, and other eldritch abominations, all began in the war.
Richtofen was born to a neglectful German family in Bavaria. Disinterested in the nationalist pro-German ideologies his father harbored, Edward took a great liking to his mother, and in the sciences overall. Deciding to become a prominent member of local Bavarian scientific community "Discovery", Richtofen automatically became a rising star in his youth.
During World War One, the Kaiser sought to enlist a 19 year old Richtofen, fresh from college, to develop the poison mustard gas the Prussians were using in increasing ferocity throughout the war. Richtofen agreed reluctantly, at the time still clinging to ideals of world peace, hope, and love, not knowing how demented and twisted his mind would become over time.
Working alongside colleagues from Discovery and a new friend in the form of Ludvig Maxis, Edward developed new forms of mustard gas that would be the precursor to Nova-6, a highly developed mustard gas sought after by the Soviets. Richtofen was at the time, unaware of how greatly the Kaiser was using his weaponry, believing Wilhelm only used it when battles were becoming unwinnable conventionally.
When Richtofen, via espionage from his friend Maxis, discovered the horrid, gravelly footage of soldier's faces melting off, their bones visible and green smoke overcoming their nasal cavities, he quickly ended service to the Kaiser. Enraged at Richtofen's disobedience, Wilhelm tried killing Richtofen in a bombing, only managing to incinerate Edward's parents and beginning the mad scientist's descent into darkness.
Wilhelm could not focus on such a minor issue as Edward, by early 1918, Germany's fronts were being pressured in all manner by Britain, France, Belgium, America, and so on. When the war ended with the Kaiser's abdication, the new government of the Weimar Republic welcomed Richtofen and his colleagues, wanting to use their discoveries to try and keep Communists and Fascists from taking power via a BOW string.
Group 935 was eventually formed with the remnants of Discovery and the remaining great scientific heads of Germany, the Weimar officials wanted to display the world Germany still had prowess in advancement. However, due to the Weimar Republic's terrible financial crisis with the Great Depression, Richtofen and co were left underfunded and unable to finish experiments.
Then, Hitler and his despicable Nazis came into power. The fascists greatly funded Edward for a similar purpose to Wilhelm, but now stuck in the Reichstag, Richtofen was intimidated into becoming Hitler's scientist. 935 began developing Nova-6, and in 1937 they would find several large cubes of blue energy. This substance was called Energon, but they did not know so.
The blue cubes were used in great abundance, as their properties quickened Nova-6's development and were an easy means of powering the German war machine. Thus, when Germany returned to imperialist aims, their blitzkriegs were wildly successful. The 935 group was rewarded with endless treasures.
Richtofen became more and more entranced by the Fuhrer, but soon a dark heart of ambition grew within him and Edward wanted the throne of Germany for himself. Via an anonymous contact, Edward leaked information of 935's findings to the Allies, whom sent in espionage teams and destroyed 935 facilities elsewhere. However, Edward had no idea of what the repercussions would be.
Hydra, the stark rival of 935, and the current losers of the internal science race within the Reich, were now the chief suppliers of German advancement after 935's collapse when their facilities were targeted. While Richtofen escaped Germany, Hydra confiscated 935's discoveries and made ones of their own. Hydra themselves later betrayed the Fuhrer, however.
When the War ended, Richtofen was left penniless, without a job. However, an old friend from 935, Steiner, invited Richtofen back to work as a scientist working for the USSR, one of the rival powers to America during the infamous period in history, the Cold War. As both sides heated up their arms stockpiles, the Soviets wanted a means of dismantling America from the inside. Steiner introduced Nova-6 as a means of indoctrinating and activating sleeper cell agents in America that would dismantle the government from within, psychologically enslaved to the Soviet cause.
Entranced by this idea, Nikita Dragovich, a vicious Soviet officer, located Edward to an upstart Soviet Black-Site. Here is where Edward's true life would begin, every major role he played in the coming cataclysmic wars of space empires, alien legions, and much, much, more, would be spawned from Site-Koloichov…