The year is 1973.

The place is the Soviet Union.

The man is Prof. Yuri Andryshnikov. 

The first meeting had not gone well, he must succeed in this one. It was the only way to redeem his family’s position after his father’s betrayal so many years ago. That act, before he was even two years, had hung over his life and his career. That he had come this far was simply his iron will and his fervent belief in the ultimate triumph of the workers’ revolution. He had the key to insure its success, now he just needed to convince this vision-challenged, party hack to approve his experiment.

“I tell you it WILL work. Our glorious ideals are inborn, they are imprinted in our DNA.  We can have our perfect community of equals, free from the pollution of the West’s capitalism and morality. We need to send a group of apes and monkeys into space, away from the corruption, with nothing but Lenin’s writings, and of course enough food and water to survive. When the world sees the triumph of our technology and  the perfect communist society they create, people will abandon capitalism like rats leaving a sinking ship.”

Apes in space, what nonsense, thought the party hack, who was also the Chairman of the party. He granted this interview for his own amusement, to see what time had brought to pass. He had arrested Andryshnikov’s father so many years ago, and that act had set his career on the rise. He knew the plan would never work but its failure would bring him the final victory over the Andryshnikovs. So he approved it.

The tiny colony was in orbit eighteen months later, and within in a week, it was clear that a community of equals was not in the apes’ genes. To Andryshnikov’s horror and dismay, a male gorilla fought his way to dominance and imposed his will on the others. The ground crew saw the bloodshed, declared the experiment a failure, and pushed the “destroy” button. The explosion lit up the sky, and the station plummeted like a comet, prompting the Americans to go to DefCon 4. Frantic calls on the hotline prevented any further escalation, even the station crashed in the southern US. The party leader sent Andryshnikov to Siberia to research the social structure of arctic rabbits.

Years later, a group of mercenaries reported being ambushed and nearly destroyed by a group of well armed, ape like commandos. Nobody believed them until a news crew from Pulp City’s Channel 4 was captured by a group of intelligent apes and forced to record its leader reading his manifesto:

“Guerilla is FURY unchainded! The Ape Revolutionary Committee will see that Pulp City becomes a community of equals! Even if that means razing the city to the ground, and all will be equal in the ruins!”

Guerilla quickly became one of the most dangerous mercenaries in town, and his plan to make his manifesto manifest was to play both sides against the other.  Combining human intelligence with a powerful frame (and a deadly minigun!), Guerilla is not your typical hit man: when he hits, it is hard and loud and bloody.  Hitting only where it hurts the most, Guerilla pounds and pounds his target until the only thing left is a red spot on Pulp City’s sidewalks.