Are you scared yet? PROLOGUE 8:55am -GMT January 1, 1999 Super Seekrit Russian Base @ Poulostrov Kanin , Northern Arctic Circle Colonel Yuri Petrovich is sad. He's stuck stuck guarding some hunk of metal. It's cold and he hardly sees the sun. Plus, there's the annoyingly perky 20 year-old Nikolai Militov , inviting him to the launch center for a drink. Yuri pretends to be horrified that Nik would suggest abandoning his post and then agrees to the drink. Nik and Yuri head to the launch center and Yuri comments that it's 11 am and aren't they supposed to raise their glasses at midnight? Nik replies that it's midnight SOMEWHERE. Yuri opens the super seekrit door with the super seekrit fifteen-digit code and doesn't bother closing it behind him because...it would take too much effort? WORST SECURITY GUARD EVAR ! They get to the launch center and the party's already started. Someone calls Yuri "comrade" and he gets all sad faced and emo o
