Post by Catsmate on Jun 25, 2024 21:49:59 GMT
A character designed as an NPC and possible recurring antagonist.
She was be be encountered, along with other time displaced groups and individuals, in Bronze Age India.
Katarina Heitz.
Even before the second great war began Katarina Heitz was a rising star within the Aryan Research Institute, loosely attached to the Special Services division of the SS, associated with the Ahnenerbe.
A graduate from the University of Würzburg, where she first encountered Angelika Neumann, later infamous for her efforts on behalf of the Nazi regime's esoteric technologies programme1. Heitz followed Neumann into the Ahnenerbe in 1937 and became involved in the Aryan Research Institute through the compromised German section of LONGBOW and various other groups.
Drawn by the older woman’s focus and conviction, while not sharing her near-fanatical belief in Nazi doctrines, Heitz began to experiment with secret knowledge and 'occult' science, combining these new ideas with her already extensive scientific training and intellect. Encouraged and mentored by Neumann, Heitz was inducted into and rose through the Institute's ranks quickly; she was noted for her ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice anything and anyone in pursuit of scientific breakthroughs. This determination continued after the disaster at Drachensberg and the elimination of the Black Coven faction.
Heitz was part of the group examining recovered alien technology and other matters, including research into psychic phenomena, all intended to support the Nazi war effort. When the 1938 Schwabenland expedition to Antarctica brought back alien artefacts and photographs of more, the regime sent a secret expedition on the raider KMS Odin to explore further and return as much technology as possible.
During the war the ARI was engaged in various projects but towards the end, when the defeat of the Nazi regime became obvious, Heitz and others made their plans to avoid the consequences of their support of the Nazi regime, and the deaths that they caused.
One of the devices that the Institute had recovered was some short of small aerospace craft, about four-and-a-half metres long, shaped like a blunt, rounded, arrowhead and a featureless bright silver colour, and seemingly indestructible6.
A few months before the end of the Institute Heitz found out the truth; the silver mirror finish was actually a time stasis effect surrounding a small time-craft! Working frantically, and in secret, she managed to use some recovered devices to deactivate the stasis effect and open the vessel.
She carefully planned her escape and began caching supplies.
A few nights later, her sleep was ended by explosions, gunfire and other sounds of battle. Leaving the SS troops, the experimental robots and other monstrosities to fight the raiders she dressed, grabbed her bags, and ran to her lab. Locking down the laboratory she dragged the supplies inside the small craft and activated the systems she and the technicians under her command had jury-rigged. Long before the Torchwood, LONGBOW and Z57 force blasted their way in, she and the ship had gone....
Stuffed into the craft are:
Appearance and personality.
Physically Katarina is a superb specimen of Aryan womanhood; tall, blonde, pale skinned with blue-indigo eyes.
While not particularly committed to the Nazi beliefs8 she is completely ruthless, power-hungry, ambitious and utterly convinced of her own superiority.
Stats may follow when I get around to screenshoting them.
1. And formerly of LONGBOW.
2. As discussed in The Ghostship Pirates.
3. The conflict between Axis and Allied agencies to capture, destroy, understand and nullify alien technologies.
4. A rather crude laser created as an airborne intercept weapon for use against fighters from a range beyond conventional weapons. The multi-tonne device (lasing apparatus, cooling system, capacitor banks, charging system and aiming system) was fitted into to the bomb-bay of a twin-engine light/medium bomber (usually H-4 variants of the Heinkel He111 but some used the Junkers Ju 88, and in one notable case the apparatus was fitted to a captured Boeing B-17, operated by KG 2005). Most did not survive the war
5. Luftwaffe special operations squadron.
6. Well it stood up to tank fire and 1,000kg bombs without any detectable effect.
7. International Allied counter-espionage and special operations unit, lead by Dr. Stanislaus Palfrey.
8. Her objection to the Final Solution was based around the waste of resources during wartime.
She was be be encountered, along with other time displaced groups and individuals, in Bronze Age India.
Katarina Heitz.
Even before the second great war began Katarina Heitz was a rising star within the Aryan Research Institute, loosely attached to the Special Services division of the SS, associated with the Ahnenerbe.
- No Nazi organisation chart is straightforward.
A graduate from the University of Würzburg, where she first encountered Angelika Neumann, later infamous for her efforts on behalf of the Nazi regime's esoteric technologies programme1. Heitz followed Neumann into the Ahnenerbe in 1937 and became involved in the Aryan Research Institute through the compromised German section of LONGBOW and various other groups.
Drawn by the older woman’s focus and conviction, while not sharing her near-fanatical belief in Nazi doctrines, Heitz began to experiment with secret knowledge and 'occult' science, combining these new ideas with her already extensive scientific training and intellect. Encouraged and mentored by Neumann, Heitz was inducted into and rose through the Institute's ranks quickly; she was noted for her ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice anything and anyone in pursuit of scientific breakthroughs. This determination continued after the disaster at Drachensberg and the elimination of the Black Coven faction.
Heitz was part of the group examining recovered alien technology and other matters, including research into psychic phenomena, all intended to support the Nazi war effort. When the 1938 Schwabenland expedition to Antarctica brought back alien artefacts and photographs of more, the regime sent a secret expedition on the raider KMS Odin to explore further and return as much technology as possible.
- The Odin itself was fitted was being used as a floating base and mobile laboratory by the Institute, as well as a testbed for experimental technology, including a ‘stealth’ system developed from alien technology recovered by Nazi operatives in South America. The device, codenamed ‘Baldur’ (or ‘Das Gerät’), could render the ship invisible.
- The salvage was from a starship that disintegrated in Earth orbit in December 1934, much of it was destroyed by the effects of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Part of which caused the huge explosion near the Marudi mountain in the Rupununi region of British Guiana a year later, a blast more powerful than the Tunguska event.
- Several subsidiary craft evacuated the doomed ship, or were ejected during its disintegration. Debris and residue from the ship’s destruction led to the various curious events of that year, including the freak weather seen all around the world that year.
- These effects included frost and hail in Britain in late June, a heat wave there in January and snow in May. India saw freak cold in January (reaching -20°C in Calcutta) as did Australia and the United States. Much of Europe suffered a heatwave in July with hundreds dying from heatstroke, while China, the USA, Australia, Canada, Europe and Africa all suffered droughts.
- The Germans were not the only group attempting to salvage the ship’s fragments, an attempt by the US Navy to recover a lifecraft off the California coast led to the crash of the airship carrier USS Macon. Odd gravitational effects from a section of the ship’s impulse drive in an irregular orbit caused the strange outbreak of powerful earthquakes that year, more than twenty magnitude 7 or greater quakes, including the terrible Quetta earthquake that killed fifty thousand people.
- Of course the later adventures of the KMS Odin, both before and its disappearance, were stranger still2....
- Though the Institute did create a number of useful devices, most of which were used in the Shadow War3, one of the few to see service was the Leichtewaffe4 platform deployed by the Luftwaffe.
During the war the ARI was engaged in various projects but towards the end, when the defeat of the Nazi regime became obvious, Heitz and others made their plans to avoid the consequences of their support of the Nazi regime, and the deaths that they caused.
One of the devices that the Institute had recovered was some short of small aerospace craft, about four-and-a-half metres long, shaped like a blunt, rounded, arrowhead and a featureless bright silver colour, and seemingly indestructible6.
A few months before the end of the Institute Heitz found out the truth; the silver mirror finish was actually a time stasis effect surrounding a small time-craft! Working frantically, and in secret, she managed to use some recovered devices to deactivate the stasis effect and open the vessel.
She carefully planned her escape and began caching supplies.
A few nights later, her sleep was ended by explosions, gunfire and other sounds of battle. Leaving the SS troops, the experimental robots and other monstrosities to fight the raiders she dressed, grabbed her bags, and ran to her lab. Locking down the laboratory she dragged the supplies inside the small craft and activated the systems she and the technicians under her command had jury-rigged. Long before the Torchwood, LONGBOW and Z57 force blasted their way in, she and the ship had gone....
Stuffed into the craft are:
- Lots of weapons, mainly German small arms.
- Camping supplies and survival supplies, including a portable generator, jerrycans of water and fuel, Pervitin tablets and Scho-Ka-Kola.
- Diamonds, gold ingots and looted valuables (mainly small items)
- A number of alien artefacts, including canisters loaded with the alien biochemical agent 'Grüner Tod'.
- A couple of boxes of clothes and personal effects.
- Her BMW R75 motorcycle.
Appearance and personality.
Physically Katarina is a superb specimen of Aryan womanhood; tall, blonde, pale skinned with blue-indigo eyes.
While not particularly committed to the Nazi beliefs8 she is completely ruthless, power-hungry, ambitious and utterly convinced of her own superiority.
Stats may follow when I get around to screenshoting them.
1. And formerly of LONGBOW.
2. As discussed in The Ghostship Pirates.
3. The conflict between Axis and Allied agencies to capture, destroy, understand and nullify alien technologies.
4. A rather crude laser created as an airborne intercept weapon for use against fighters from a range beyond conventional weapons. The multi-tonne device (lasing apparatus, cooling system, capacitor banks, charging system and aiming system) was fitted into to the bomb-bay of a twin-engine light/medium bomber (usually H-4 variants of the Heinkel He111 but some used the Junkers Ju 88, and in one notable case the apparatus was fitted to a captured Boeing B-17, operated by KG 2005). Most did not survive the war
5. Luftwaffe special operations squadron.
6. Well it stood up to tank fire and 1,000kg bombs without any detectable effect.
7. International Allied counter-espionage and special operations unit, lead by Dr. Stanislaus Palfrey.
8. Her objection to the Final Solution was based around the waste of resources during wartime.