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"Violence, selfishness, as individuals it is our greatest strength, but as a species it is our greatest weakness."
―Fyodor Malikov[src]

Doctor Fyodor Malikov (Russian: Фёдор Мaликов) was a Russian scientist who worked for SRPA. He was originally responsible for creating the Cloven and later the Sentinels. He is a supporting main character in Resistance 2 and Resistance 3. He was also mentioned in some intel in documents Resistance: Retribution and the Project Abraham viral website.

Biography[]

Fyodor Malikov was born in 1896 and grew up becoming an accomplished scientist in the field of biology. By the time the Chimera made their first appearance and began their attack on Russia in 1927, Russia was slowly being conquered and the existence of the Chimera was still a mystery. Malikov secretly worked for the Russian government and soon discovered the existence of the Pure Chimera in the crater from the Tunguska Event. He was able to obtain a sample of Pure Chimeran DNA and used it to create an experimental vaccine which showed promise in creating a resistance to the Chimeran virus.

The Cloven[]

Malikov experimented with Pure Chimeran DNA and undertook several genetic experiments with several other Chimeran DNA. He created a serum called I-8 to be used on surviving Russian soldiers in order to make them immune to the Crawler infection and effectively turning them into super soldiers. On January 1, 1927, Malikov inoculated tens of thousands of soldiers. The soldiers placed their trust in Malikov that this would work. For several months, the injections worked perfectly, and they were resistant to the virus and were effective in combating the Chimera.

But by November, the soldiers began acting strangely and had been experiencing horrible nightmares and eventually succumbing to insanity.[1] Disturbingly, they began calling Malikov their "father" and considered themselves his "children", and further claiming that they had visions, and that their blood speaks to them. Around early 1928, their supposed leader, Andrei Vezenskiy, came to Malikov and explained what was happening to them. Extremely concerned, Malikov tried to make sense of what Andrei was saying. Andrei then began to threaten Malikov by showing what appeared to be telekinesis and announced that the "children" would go out into the world before he attacked Malikov.[2]

Somehow, Malikov survived the struggle and fled the oncoming Chimera and the insane soldiers on April 20, 1928.[1] In September 1930, it was then that over 90% of the soldiers became AWOL and called themselves the Cloven in which they become much of a threat as the Chimera. In response to these developments, Malikov worked desperately to improve his vaccine, but his efforts were hindered as he was forced to move to avoid the encroaching Chimera. It was during his travels that Malikov became an excellent marksman and managed to defend Karachev from the Chimera for sixteen years before being "liberated" by American SRPA agents to England in December 1941.[3] After Russia fell, Malikov worked for SRPA to again find a cure to the Chimeran virus and to make up for his mistakes with the Cloven. He worked with many scientists in Europe who knew about the Chimeran threat, such as Dr. Claude Bouchard.[4]

Project Abraham[]

In 1950, Malikov became the orchestrator of Project Abraham to create a serum that will develop super-soldiers dubbed "Sentinels". Malikov worked from Station Genesis and developed his serums and vaccines for the project's test subjects. The first subject, Joseph Capelli, was rendered comatose. Malikov had Capelli brought to Station Genesis to help with his current work.[5]

Malikov created several anti-virus tests using Pure Chimeran DNA. He made sure that he did not recreate the Cloven and had made a few adjustments to the Alpha series to create a Beta series serum. However, the results were not good, and the soldiers either died or were converted. He eventually created a Gamma series which successfully worked in contrast to its predecessors. 70% of the soldiers survived at least 72 hours beyond the point of infection, and less than 10% suffered from extreme forms of dementia and psychosis.[6]

Malikov eventually improved the Gamma series and ordered that two subjects, Jordan Shepherd and Nathan Hale, to be injected with the serums.[7] Shepard had an immunity deficiency and began suffering similar symptoms to the Cloven before eventually transforming into a being known as Daedalus. Hale also spoke of visions in his head and then slipped into a coma for a short period of time. It had appeared that the virus inside Hale was kept dormant. Hale recuperated from Malikov's serum, and his results were forwarded to Malikov.[8] Hale would later be shipped to Britain to participate in Operation Deliverance as part of a live trial by SRPA.

Malikov frequently interrogated Daedalus to learn more about the Chimera before Daedalus was transferred to SRPA Station Igloo in Iceland after he was deemed too dangerous to be kept in Station Genesis.[9] On July 15, 1951, Malikov was present at Station Igloo when the Chimera launched an attack on the facility to liberate Daedalus. At the same time Major Richard Blake and Nathan Hale arrived at the besieged facility and attempted to input the kill code to destroy Daedalus. Malikov radioed Blake to warn him that he must deactivate Daedalus' prison in order to enter the code. Blake reluctantly ordered Malikov to shut down the shielding, but he was too late to kill Daedalus, who quickly broke free. Malikov escaped the base with Hale and Blake, and retreated to America.[10]

Malikov later ran multiple tests on Hale. By that time, Malikov had augmented the Gamma series vaccine that was made from Crawlers and inoculated several soldiers into becoming immune to the virus, creating the Sentinels.

The Chimeran War[]

Over the next two years, Malikov acted as Nathan Hale's supervising physician and constantly ran experiments to reverse engineer Chimeran technology and study the growth of the virus within the Sentinels. He developed inhibitor serums that temporarily to prevent the Sentinels from succumbing to the virus. Over time he began to notice that Hale's immunity to the virus was failing, and he feared what would happen. At that time America had slowly began losing large amounts of its territory to the Chimera, who under the command of Daedalus had devised a new strategy to reactivate all of the Chimeran towers and recover the newly discovered Gray Tech components.

Malikov later discovered the importance of the Gray Tech components and ordered the recovery of the technology as a top priority.[11] Studies of the Gray Tech components were conducted by Project Prometheus, which led Malikov to discover that the Chimeran towers were over 60 million years old, and the existence of another race that waged war with the Chimera at that time.[12] Due to these discoveries, Malikov supported Dr. Julia Cathcart's Prometheus Weapon theory and what could possibly be the cause for the Chimera's defeat millions of years ago. From his extensive research on the relationships between the Chimeran fleet, the Chimeran tower network, and the Gray Tech, Malikov believed that they were to create a "spatial distortion bubble" that could be used to transport large objects over a great distance, which was being used by the Chimera on a global scale (a theory later proven correct).[13] He was quickly dismissed for his theories by other SRPA scientists and often came to blows with Major Blake, but SRPA accepted Malikov's position that the confiscation of the Gray Tech was vital to prevent Daedalus from accomplishing his mysterious goal.[14]

Resistance 2[]

Main article: Resistance 2

Malikov was performing an inhibitor treatment on Hale in SRPA Station 3 in San Francisco when the Chimera began a full-scale invasion of America on May 15, 1953. Malikov believed that Hale might only have nineteen hours left to live and was reluctant when Hale had to go defend the base. Hale rescued Malikov when the base began to flood, and Malikov was evacuated to Station Genesis.

A few hours later, the Chimeran flagship breached the Liberty Defense Perimeter and attacked Station Genesis. Hale solely decided to try and rescue Malikov instead of getting his now overdue inhibitor treatment. Malikov helplessly watched as Daedalus activated the Bryce Canyon hub tower before Hale found Malikov and led him out of the base. Malikov explained to Hale the origins of Daedalus and Hale himself of being injected with the same Pure Chimeran DNA as Daedalus. He and Hale soon escaped Station Genesis while destroying The Swarm. Malikov informed Hale that stopping Daedalus from activating the tower network was imperative.

On the recommendations from Malikov, SRPA launched a full assault on Chimera-controlled Chicago to shutdown the city's Chimeran tower. Echo Team managed to clear an air corridor for Malikov to reach the tower and deactivate it. Unfortunately, as he deactivated the tower, it was remotely reactivated by Daedalus from Iceland. SRPA then led an assault on the Holar Tower, which ultimately fails, and Hale was put into a coma for six weeks, forcing Malikov to find another way to reverse the conversion process.

Following those six weeks, the Chimera breached and devastated the Defense Perimeter and Daedalus managed to reactivate the tower network throughout Earth, and the Chimeran Fleet gathered above the Chicxulub crater to carry out their final plan. During those weeks, Malikov observed the fleet's presence over the Chicxulub crater, and knowing the full intentions of Daedalus' plans, created a plan in which he hopes to destroy the fleet, in which a fission bomb would be detonated in the middle of the crater, creating a chain reaction that would wipe out the fleet.[15] As preparations for Malikov's plan were committed by SRPA for Operation Black Eden, Malikov watched over Hale's comatose state in a field base in Cocodrie and apprehensively acknowledged in his notes that should either Hale or Daedalus triumph over the other, a terrible and unforeseen consequence would wait for humankind.[16]

Malikov began working on a Zeta series of inhibitors and believed that it would take two weeks for him to inoculate Hale. Blake however, claimed that he would need Hale for Black Eden, and Hale would need to be awaken for it, despite the risks.[17] After Hale was woken from his coma, Malikov sadly informed him that he has only three hours left to live. At this point, Malikov's guilt of indirectly creating the Cloven and Daedalus reaches its extremity, in which he considered committing suicide by injecting himself with four vials of morphine.[18] However, Malikov did not go through with it, as he then realized that he was possibly the only person in the world to possess the foremost knowledge about the Chimera, and had decided to instead dedicate his life to doing everything he can to stop the Chimera.

Resistance: A Hole in the Sky[]

Main article: Resistance: A Hole in the Sky

After informing Hale and seeing off Echo Team as they started Operation Black Eden, Malikov quickly headed Northwest to rendezvous with other surviving Sentinels, U.S. soldiers and Freedom First fighters in New York, to launch another operation, this time led by President Thomas Voss and Captain Marvin Kawecki on the central Chimeran Hub Tower, in an attempt to liberate New York. The assault ultimately became a failure in which Malikov was among the few survivors who escaped.

Resistance 3[]

Main article: Resistance 3

Following the events of Operation Black Eden and Hale's death, Malikov had studied Hale's corpse and came to the discovery of unique antigens found within his blood cells that are effectively immune to the Chimeran virus. This led to Malikov isolating the unique proteins in Hale's blood and successfully creating a cure to the Chimeran virus, known as the Hale vaccine. Malikov would later observe the aftermath of the Chimeran fleet's destruction and the effects of the fission bomb which had only sped up the Chimera's plans, by causing a chain reaction in the tower network which created a wormhole above a Chimeran tower in New York City, where he then learned that the tower in New York served in the Chimera's new goal in cooling the Earth and wiping out the remnants of humanity. Malikov was present to witness SRPA committing their forces in attempting to destroy the New York tower, but which only ended in failure. In the next four years, Malikov then realized that the only other individual who can help him in destroying the tower was Joseph Capelli.

On August 7, 1957, after four long months searching for Capelli he finally arrived in Haven, Oklahoma. Capelli was furious with Malikov's arrival, for he had inadvertently brought the Chimera to Haven, after being unwittingly followed by Chimeran drones. Malikov told him and his family about the Chimera's intentions in New York and also had mentioned that no one will survive through the winter. He then tells Capelli that he is the only one who knows how to stop the Chimera and that Capelli is the only Sentinel left, and the only person who can protect him. Initially, however, Capelli coldly rejected his offer. As Haven was about to be destroyed by a Terraformer, Malikov was leaving the town. Just as he left, Capelli was escaping with the townspeople and was confronted by his wife Susan, who convinced him in joining Malikov's journey.

The two traveled on riverboat through the Mississippi River for two days. They are attacked by Goliaths and their boat is destroyed. There, Malikov was injured and suffered bacterial infection, forcing them to seek shelter in St. Louis. They eventually meet the Remnants led by Charlie Tent, and Capelli helped them in capturing a Chimeran power core for their VTOL, in exchange for penicillin for Malikov's infection, and a ride to New York. After capturing the power core, Malikov and Capelli were given a lift on their VTOL. They travel over near Mount Pleasant where they were attacked by a Chimeran dropship, causing Capelli to fall out uninjured. Malikov was dropped off nearby to reunite with Capelli. They find a train station and meet with Jean Rose, a member of a religious community near a coal mine. After Capelli saved Jean's husband Jonathan, a train is repaired for Malikov and Capelli to continue their travel.

Their journey, however, is interrupted by the "Wardens". Although they managed to fight off the marauders from boarding, their train then collides with a stampede of Widowmakers, causing it to derail. While trying to help Capelli, who was stuck under the wreckage from the train, Malikov was brutally attacked by the Wardens' leader Mick Cutler. After being injured badly, Mick beheaded him with a machete. Capelli avenged Malikov by killing Mick and eventually finished their mission in shutting down the wormhole.

Sometime after the Chimera were finally defeated, Malikov's body was recovered, most likely by Capelli, and was buried in the Nathan Hale Cemetery, a final tribute to his lifelong service and dedication in saving humanity from the Chimera.

Personality[]

Malikov seemed to be a kind, caring man, and as well one of the world's foremost experts on the Chimeran virus. He tried to help mankind and was horrified at the deaths he had caused and the monsters he had created, such as the Cloven and Daedalus. He was described by some as a very strange and eccentric man and was almost instantly likable.

He cared a lot about his patients and was even concerned more about Hale, as he feared of what Hale might become. However, he was not above sacrificing people for the greater good. He was never seen angry, but he had had disagreements with Blake in the past. He was trusting and very intelligent. Although he has made mistakes in the past, it was his efforts that created the Sentinels and led to many great discoveries such as Gray Tech. Malikov's only real goal was to bring an end to the Chimera and the Cloven.

Description[]

Malikov is of average height, with brown eyes and is roughly in his 60's. He is balding and has gray hair and a gray beard. He wears circular, shaded glasses and wears a khaki SRPA scientist uniform. In battle he usually carries a Rossmore 238 Combat Shotgun. Although, he later uses the Rossmore 239 Combat Shotgun instead.

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Trivia[]

  • In Resistance: Retribution, an Intel says that some Cloven were found with a picture of Malikov in their mouths. There is a very similar report with the picture of an unknown "leader" in the mouths of some dead Cloven in Resistance: Fall of Man.[19]
  • Malikov can be unlocked as a multiplayer skin if players pre-ordered a copy of Resistance 2 from Amazon.com or downloaded for free from the Playstation Store.
  • By the start of Resistance 3 (August 9, 1957), Malikov is 61 years old.
  • Malikov's skin can be acquired for use in Resistance 3 multiplayer by being in the winners' side in Global Resistance.
  • Like Hale, Malikov appeared in two Resistance games and was killed in the latter.

References[]

Characters of Resistance 2
Echo Team Nathan Hale · Benjamin Warner · Joseph Capelli · Aaron Hawthorne
SRPA Richard Blake · Fyodor Malikov · Lyle K. Parsons · Henry Carter · George Hopper · Anna Keegan · Martin Ortiz · Ross Schneider · Oscar Villamizar · Frederick Jean · Percy Kabeck · Willard Libby · Howard Nash · Richard P. Feynman · Julia Cathcart · J. Robert Oppenheimer · Assistant Doctor · Murray · Archibald Solomon · Cassandra Aklin
Black Ops Com One · Com Two · Foxtrot One-Twelve · India Eight-Two · Keystone Six · Victor One · Victor Two · Victor Three · Victor Four · Victor Nine · Victor Thirteen · Victor Twenty · X-Ray One · X-Ray Twelve · India Six Delta · Omaha Nine Alpha · Blue Three Foxtrot · Osborne · Phillips
Others Daedalus · Henry Stillman · Beverly Stillman · Ronald Murray · Laura Warner · Jacob Warner · Arthur Lee Henkley · Charles Emmerson · Noah Grace · Harvey McCullen · Steven Vanshyke · Hannah Shepherd · Douglas MacArthur


Characters of Resistance 3
Haven Joseph Capelli · Susan Farley · Jack Capelli · John Harper · Tommy Dean · Lester · Dale · Nate · Bobby · Billy · Dixie · Paul Tressel · Francis · Winston · Myrna · Vernon · Tony · Stanley · Theresa · Anson · Ray
Remnants Charlie Tent · Ellis Turner · Glenda · Martin · Alex · Ernie
Mt. Pleasant Jean Rose · Jonathan Rose · Arthur · Pierson Fagan · Stephen Waybauch · Udall
Graterford Prison Herbert Sawicki · Mick Cutler · Dick · Darryl · Ned
Others Fyodor Malikov · Freddie Valmore · Gary · William Kendrick · Rex Eastley · Jorge Abella · Anais Roubier · Andreas Filzmozer · Mathison · Irma Lindeman · Molly Lindeman · Roger Sandor · James Hickey · Amelia
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