In OTL the events below led to the Death of Nicolson from gunfire from a trigger happy guard rather than what is about to happen in this timeline!
Report taken from the USMLM secret archives October 1995
On March 24, 1985, with Sergeant Jesse G. Schatz, Arthur Nicholson undertook his final mission for the USMLM. The mission was to photograph a Soviet tank storage building near Ludwigslust, some 100 miles northwest of Berlin. After approaching the Soviet facility covertly but legitimately through an adjacent forest, Nicholson stepped out of the vehicle and approached the building to photograph it while Sergeant Schatz maintained a watch for Soviet personnel. Unseen by either man, Soviet Sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev emerged from the forest and instead of crying out offered to sell information to Nicholson. This amazing turn of events almost prompted our people to withdraw, before the soviet sergeant informed him that this was not a tank storage building but a complex of secret bio-war laboratories. To prove his story he removed a vial from his pocket marked with a soviet bio-hazard label and handed it over to Nicolson. This was removed to the vehicle by Schatz and then a small amount of currency changed hands with an arrangement to return to get more proof of this hitherto unknown Soviet installation from the Soviet Rybtsev.
Although the Soviets later claimed that they knew nothing of this installation the first locus of the plague was in Ludwigslust and the first western outbreak was in the Persons of Nicolson and Schatz. They were the patient Zero's their autopsies indicated that they had been infected by the leaking vial of bio-weapon and become carriers along with the vial itself all along the chain of command all the way back to America as it was not realized that this was the start of the first of the prion plagues.....
anyone interested????
Report taken from the USMLM secret archives October 1995
On March 24, 1985, with Sergeant Jesse G. Schatz, Arthur Nicholson undertook his final mission for the USMLM. The mission was to photograph a Soviet tank storage building near Ludwigslust, some 100 miles northwest of Berlin. After approaching the Soviet facility covertly but legitimately through an adjacent forest, Nicholson stepped out of the vehicle and approached the building to photograph it while Sergeant Schatz maintained a watch for Soviet personnel. Unseen by either man, Soviet Sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev emerged from the forest and instead of crying out offered to sell information to Nicholson. This amazing turn of events almost prompted our people to withdraw, before the soviet sergeant informed him that this was not a tank storage building but a complex of secret bio-war laboratories. To prove his story he removed a vial from his pocket marked with a soviet bio-hazard label and handed it over to Nicolson. This was removed to the vehicle by Schatz and then a small amount of currency changed hands with an arrangement to return to get more proof of this hitherto unknown Soviet installation from the Soviet Rybtsev.
Although the Soviets later claimed that they knew nothing of this installation the first locus of the plague was in Ludwigslust and the first western outbreak was in the Persons of Nicolson and Schatz. They were the patient Zero's their autopsies indicated that they had been infected by the leaking vial of bio-weapon and become carriers along with the vial itself all along the chain of command all the way back to America as it was not realized that this was the start of the first of the prion plagues.....
anyone interested????
