Petras Iljinas
Official Title: Colonel (Lithuanian: Pulkininkas).
Sobriquet: If your smart, you don't try to give your military commander a pet-name, not unless you enjoy digging latrines in the rain.
Appearance: Petras looks every inch a military commander, from his imposing stance to his steel-grey crew cut and craggy face.
Behavior: He treats ignorance patiently, ensuring that it does not persist. When dealing with incompetence, Petras' lungs are the envy of any drill sergeant, and his punishments are legendary. Petras takes a less active role than his predecessors, preferring to break the group up into teams, each lead by a Lieutenant, while he focuses on overall management and training. He trusts his Lithuanian compatriots much more strongly than he does the "Companions." Thus, he has kept them together and closest to Brian. He does his best to mix the ethnicity and skills of his other teams, the better to ensure that one failure (or even traitor) won't cause a disaster.
History: Petras is the eldest of the new recruits, having served in the Soviet special forces before being cashiered upon the breakup of the Soviet Union. He then spent a decade training Lithuanian recruits, only to see his efforts sabotaged by bureaucrats who were either incompetent or being paid to ensure that Lithuania could never protect itself. He quit in disgust when Lithuania joined NATO, seeing it as final proof that Lithuania would never stand on its own.
Recent Events: Petras is for him, in a state of agitation over the recent attack on vampiric lord Brian O'Reilly. British Military Intelligence or not, MI7 has to be contained and to his mind eliminated to guarantee the safety of his lord. While he has tightened security around Brian, he has also put out feelers among his old military associates in hopes of gathering a group of former Eastern European soldiers together to form a hit-squad. To his mind this isn't disobeying orders, for no orders have yet been given MI7, rather its taking initiative. He intends to strike first and thus strike last, that such a hit-squad will likely injure or kill innocent bystanders in its shadow-war with MI7 is simple collateral damage. After all, the English are a weak and diffident breed, those that know their place are not his problem, but those that threaten the established order have to be dealt with in the same way one would put down a rabid dog.
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