Post by Jo on Aug 10, 2006 2:20:32 GMT -5
Background
A mercenary who is a Sergeant in the B-Team of the U.B.C.S. Delta Platoon. Originally from Moscow, Russia. A former member of Spetsnaz prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, he's been involved in various classified missions and special operations.
Unlike the other U.B.C.S. members, who are mostly third-world mercenaries or convicted war criminals hired as footsoldiers by Umbrella, Nicholai is a career Umbrella secret agent. Unbeknownst to his U.B.C.S. comrades, Nicholai is one of the "Supervisors" assigned to operation "Bravo 16". Supervisors are Umbrella agents stationed throughout the city assigned to monitor the T-virus outbreak, as well as to gather combat data on the various monsters as the U.B.C.S. soldiers encounter and fight them. However, Umbrella's monsters proved to be even more effective than the company anticipated and the U.B.C.S. teams were utterly wiped out, stranding Nicholai and the other Supervisors within the city limits.
An exceptionally ruthless and crafty individual, not caring about anyone but himself, Nicholai realizes that if all the other Supervisors were to die, he would have a monopoly on the combat data, giving him the ability to bargain for a higher price from Umbrella. Nicholai spends much of his time covertly hunting down the other Supervisors and executing them, but unfortunately for Nicholai, Carlos learns that he is eliminating the rest of the U.B.C.S. and informs Jill that Nicholai is dangerous and will try to eliminate them. Jill Valentine, in her explorations of Raccoon City, often unknowingly encounters his handiwork. Nicholai also plotted to kill Jill in order to collect a bounty Umbrella placed on her life.
Jill eventually confronts Nicholai. Nicholai might have tried to eliminate Jill at that moment if there hadn´t been an intervention by a B.O.W. known as Gravedigger. Unlike Albert Wesker, who had previously also deceived and betrayed Jill, Nicholai does not gloat about his deception. Rather than bearing his enemies and victims any malice, Nicholai seems to take a detached, business-like attitude towards dispatching them through booby traps, which allows us to understand that he is only interested in his career and doesn´t care about the methods he has to use to achieve his goals.