So uh fussing around with a modified version of this trying to get these guys' basic proportions and anatomy down and such and get as much of the TF2 out of my drawing style as possible and uh anyway
I'll just throw a "quick" backstory in for the hell of it:
The year is 2204. Terran Space, i.e. the little chunk of the galaxy immediately surrounding Earth, is chock full of "old terraforms", worlds populated with life taken from Earth at various points in the planet's history (by some bored aliens who have been puttering around the galaxy doing that sort of thing for quite a while now). As humans move out into space, many of these worlds (and a few "new terraforms" alongside them) have been colonized.
Most colonized worlds in Terran Space belong to one of two factions, the more conservative United Terran Federation (which includes old Earth) and the New Terran Alliance, whose residents enjoy much laxer laws on the use of controversial new technologies. New Terran space attracts both ruthless companies and all manner of eccentric scientist types.
One of the more remote worlds in United Terran space was New Geneva, a Swiss colony about five leaps out from the nearest inhabited planet. Its remoteness and lack of strict enforcement of United Terran laws attracted a number of experimental researchers who weren't quite ready to emigrate to the NTA, among them Doctor Neumann here. One of his first major projects was modifying the genome of a Major Mitchell's Cockatoo to bring its intellect up to a human level, rather blatantly thumbing his nose at the United Terran law against the genetic modification of sapient organisms. He named the result "Galileo" and decided to raise the bird as his son.
Unfortunately, New Geneva's remoteness attracted other shady types, including a cell of Neo-Nazis whose numbers grew to unmanageable proportions before the colony's government knew what was happening. Dr. Neumann managed to escape with a few starships full of lucky refugees before New Geneva was overthrown and renamed "Reinwelt" by what had become a Hitler-worshipping genocidal cult obsessed with their idea of human "purity".
The nearest planet to New Geneva, and the one where the refugees finally dock safely into orbit, is a world called Veles on the outskirts of New Terran space. Veles, terraformed during the late Triassic and currently going through an ice age, now supports a small colony founded by Russian scientists.
The Veletian government isn't quite sure what to do with the influx of a few thousand displaced people suddenly on their barely-populated world, nor with the threat of a violent invasion from the skies as soon as the Reinmensch manage to build up their offensive forces. They figure it's best, however, to employee as many refugees as possible in beefing up the planet's meager defenses.Â
Klaus, given his background in genetic engineering and experimental medicine, is called in to help investigate the lab notes of the late Dr. Gennadiy Sakharov, who'd been working on creating a new race of humans he called the "velikan", who he hoped would be exceptionally large, strong, and perfectly adapted to Veles' harsh climate. Before Dr. Sakharov's mysterious death 25 years prior, the Veletian government asked him to donate his research to their defense department, but he  declined, saying that he had never intended to create a race of soldiers.
Further complicating matters, Dr. Sakharov and his wife, Yelena, have already born two prototype children bearing the velikan trait: a daughter, Agrafena, who's since left to join the New Terran military, and a son, Mikhail, who still lives at home. Â
And that's pretty much all I've got so far.
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