Long before the Doctrine, before Mars, before even the Hyperboreans—there was Siberya.
A land cloaked in ice, myth, and forgotten resonance.
Buried deep beneath the permafrost of the Siberian Plateau, hidden beneath collapsed tsarist ruins and nuclear shadow-zones, lay a sealed chamber…
And within it—a man.
Not fossil. Not clone.
A survivor.
Preserved in cryogenic stasis by a forgotten technology—a synthesis of Hyperborean glyphs and tsarist obsession.
His name: Miroslav Romanov.
"Blood of Tsars. Voice of the Old Crown."
Awakened by the seismic harmonics caused by Leviathan's cosmic pulse, Miroslav did not understand the world he returned to.
He was the last of an imperial lineage wiped out by revolution, ice, and time.
But Doctrine agents found him.
And Mikhail came in person.
"You carry the blood of a throne long fallen," Mikhail said.
"But I carry the future. Will you curse it… or guide it?"
Miroslav laughed.
"I see your iron crown. I feel its weight."
For a time, the two tsars—ancient and ascendant—walked Siberia's frozen plains together.
They debated monarchy and republic.
Faith and synthesis.
Lineage and legacy.
But Miroslav bore more than memory.
He bore a relic—a key embedded in his ribcage, forged by Tsar Alexander IV, one that matched no modern alloy or encryption.
When inserted into the Arctic Sublime Core, it unlocked a hidden layer:
[Siberyan Sub-Protocol: Enabled]
[Dormant System Detected: Project URALIS]
A deep-earth orbital launch network built in the 19th century using reverse-engineered Hyperborean schematics—abandoned, never activated.
Until now.
Project URALIS offered the Concord what it lacked: instant interplanetary mass transit via subterranean mass-acceleration tubes.
Mars in hours. Luna in minutes. Even Neptune… in days.
Doctrine ascended again.
Mikhail offered Miroslav a seat.
Not of rule.
But of remembrance.
"You are the shadow beneath my banner," Mikhail said.
"So long as the Iron Crown shines, the past shall never be erased."
The Last Siberian bowed.
And rose as Warden of the Frozen Archives.