Aleksandr Pasternak

Aleksandr Vasilyov Pasternak was the pyromaniac of the Red Room’s Cobra Team. As the leader of Cobra Team, Pasternak lead his team on ventures far and wide and conducted covert espionage operations near the end of the Cold War.

In 1991, Pasternak and many other of his colleagues were sought after for their reputation. He was recruited by Cipher to form Outer Heaven, a PMC conglomerate bent on building private paramilitaries. Pasternak took the offer and began building paramilitary empires such as Albion, Merryweather, Blackwood, Sentinel, The Black Tusk, and The Black Hand.

In 2012, at the height of these organizations, Pasternak formed the Raven’s Rock ultranationalist group. In 2013 he began working more closely with Merryweather as the organization deteriorated and later dissolved due to its reputation. During this time, Pasternak and his company acquired CICADA as an alternative.

Throughout the years years, Pasternak was the coordinator  of various operations that saw his merger of Skell Technology and Sentinel following their takeover of the Aurora peninsula. Pasternak’s organization throughout the years would increase their presence throughout the world as the Black Hand, eventually controlling dictatorships such as Medici, Solis, San Esperito and Panau.

Pasternak would manipulate Hoyt Volker into invading the Rook Islands so after Volkers and Vaas death, he could invade the island for its oil value. Pasternak would become influential in Pagan Min’s takeover of Kyrat until Pagan Mins assassination in 2015, where he took over the region. Pasternak would also take control of Bolivia after the Cartel’s dissolution. Pasternak’s power grew when he built Anton Castillo’s military in exchange for power in the dictatorship of Yara. After Castillo’s coup, Pasternak controlled Yara with Castillo.

In 2016, Pasternak along with Cipher agents Dusan Nemec and Damien Brenks built the CTos Apparatus and brought the Blume Corporation and Tidis Corporations to their heights and later controlled all information in the world. In 2024, Pasternak, Cole D. Walker, Trey Stone, and Pytor Bhukarov took over Skell Technology and the Auroran Peninsula, and later build military technologies. In 2026, Pasternak orchestrated a coup of England through Albion and Zero Day that saw him control its entire government.

In 2027, Pasternak and the Black Tusk orchestrated a terrorist attack and fake civil war in the United States of America so Cipher and the Black Tusks could control the US.