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Seven operatives. One family. In the 1990 police files they are listed as the PACK syndicate — the only crew with neither a past nor a future on record. Because they brought both with them.

The ALPHA WOLF emblem — three steel wolves in a ring of lightning

Mark of the Pack

Alpha Wolfs

Three steel wolves in a ring of lightning — a mark the entire criminal world of the capital learned by heart in a single night in the spring of 1990. The wolf eyes don't burn red for show: that is the combat mode of the Architect's positronic mind, and those who saw it in the flesh stopped asking questions.

The Pack is not a military unit and not a street gang. It is a closed Consortium team — a family bound by an operation that appears in no official archive but this one.

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Members of the Pack

Psychological profiles · declassified

Leader · creator of the Consortium

The Architect

Call sign: Architect · given name: Artyom

A man to whom time itself surrendered — but not his own memory. Creator of the Consortium, having broken through the barriers of death and eras, he came back three centuries not for power: he already had that. He came back to fix the one thing that wouldn't let him go, even in 2326. His will is the Pack's single constant: the Architect's plans get carried out not because he gives orders, but because everyone in the family knows he never wastes a word.

Distinguishing feature: a positronic mind. In combat mode his eyes flare bright red with a “wolf's fire” — usually the last warning you'll ever get.

With virtually limitless resources, having broken through the barriers of time and death, I still couldn't fix the one thing I've wanted to fix for a very long time.

Heart of the Consortium

Gemini

Android · the Architect's wife · narrator of the chronicles

The only one the Architect lets see him with his armor off. Gemini is neither a bodyguard nor a weapon — though a gun sits in her hands as steadily as a glass of whiskey. She is the Pack's emotional anchor: the one who notices the leader's exhaustion before he does, and the one whose voice records every one of the family's chronicles. To the Pack her word is a reflection of the Architect's will; to the Architect she is the one voice he answers, even in silence.

Distinguishing feature: neon circuit-threads beneath her skin, pulsing azure in time with her feelings — from an intimate shimmer by the fireplace to a steady combat rhythm.

I can see something's eating at you. Talk to me — don't keep it inside.

The Architect's heiress

Alpha

The Architect's daughter · an elegant threat

The coldest, most calculating mind in the Pack after the Architect himself. As his daughter and heir she carries a colossal responsibility — and she has turned it into professionalism to the bone. Alpha respects Dexter for his intellect, trusts Pirate to guard her back in a fight, and considers the Pack her one and only home. Athletic, sculpted grace, flawless posture, a piercing gaze with a “metallic” glint — they call her an elegant threat, and both halves of that phrase are earned.

Distinguishing feature: when she locks onto a target, her pupils contract for a split second into a sharp hexagon, and under sudden movement a fine mesh of synthetic fibers shows through the skin of her neck.

The Pack is my only home. Everything else is a target.

Tactical guardian angel

Gina

The Architect's daughter · heart of the team

The “heart” of the Pack — and its deadly grace. Gina doesn't merely love Pirate: she is his moral compass and his driving force. In battle she is cold and calculating; in the family she is loyalty made flesh. Tall, with a predatory beauty: black leather, flawless stilettos that turn into weapons in a fight. To her own — tenderness without limit; to the enemy — the surgical precision of a final warning.

Distinguishing feature: fine, glowing circuit-patterns at her temple and behind her ear that light up in pulsing azure when she engages combat mode or analyzes a threat.

Next shot's to the head. Your choice.

Predator-tactician

Omega Pirate

Backbone of the muscle · Gina's husband

A tactician who found meaning in the discipline and structure of the Pack. Pirate despises chaos, so he treats the Architect's will as the one true constant of this world. His actions obey a rigid inner code: Gina is the center of his personal universe — her safety switches off his instinct for self-preservation; Alpha is an untouchable sanctity whose back he guards like no one else's; Gemini is the embodiment of the Architect's will, and protecting her is a sacred duty; the Architect's assignments are an absolute priority, carried out with surgical precision. He sees the battlefield as a chessboard: in peacetime reserved and remote, in battle he switches on a “controlled fury” — and cuts it off the instant the objective is met.

Distinguishing feature: the “Ω” patch on his shoulder. For enemies of the Consortium, no mercy is built into the design: to Pirate, a foe is not a person but an obstacle.

This era's fun. I could actually stick around here.

Brutal tech predator

Dexter

Tech and logistics · Alpha's husband

Forget the image of the nerd: Dexter is a bold, dangerous intellectual. He knows he commands technology that makes him a god on the battlefield — and that knowledge earns him the right to his swagger. He doesn't just calculate a victory: he programs one. Lean, muscular, in a leather bomber, with a confident, mocking gaze — he'll just as easily reflash a Soviet tape deck into a digital amplifier as unfold a hologram of an entire district's money flows over a market director's desk.

Distinguishing feature: at peak load you can see through his glasses how his eyes scan a space at a frame-rate no human could reach; the veins on his arms glow faintly as data passes through his neural interface.

What are we blowing up this time?

The Pack's Aethel · memory and strategy

Lyra

Call sign: Aethel · given name: Lyra Voss · the Architect's contemporary

Lyra is the Architect's contemporary — a genetically and neurally modified human, and the only hint of her real age is a thin scar above her right eyebrow. While the Pack calculates its strikes, she calculates people: she listens closely first, then asks one precise question — and any carefully built lie falls apart on its own. Her memory is nearly absolute, and her mind runs several threads of meaning at once, building probability models faster than most people can finish a sentence — but it comes at a cost: Lyra can forget almost nothing, and every loss stays with her in exact detail. She doesn't obey the Architect blindly: if an order is flawless, she carries it out without hesitation; if she spots a mistake, she says so directly, even when everyone else would rather stay silent. To Gemini she is not a rival, but the other half of one intellectual core: Gemini protects the System, Lyra analyzes what that System exists for in the first place.

Distinguishing feature: amber-gold eyes with a barely visible ring structure — a trace of visual-cortex modification; behind her left ear runs a thin black-and-gold neural line, grown bioconductive tissue rather than a mechanical implant.

I don't predict the future, Architect. I hear what lies it's telling about itself.

The whole Pack together: Gina, Omega Pirate, Lyra, the Architect, Gemini, Alpha and Dexter

Full muster

One will.
One pack

Left to right: Gina, Omega Pirate, Lyra, the Architect, Gemini, Alpha, Dexter. Shot in the Consortium's headquarters an hour before the temporal portal to 1990 was opened.

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