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| Born: ] 4731 | |||
| Age: 36 years old | |||
| A commander in the ] Marine Corps, and second in command of the battle | |||
| cruiser ]. | |||
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| '''Andrew Cherenkov''' was born during the Zohar Incident in ] 4731 as a "Super Soldier". | |||
| Super Soldiers were born to be the ultimate killing machines, and it was their primary | |||
| instinct to murder. When the war ended, however, no provisions were made for them and they were simply dumped back into society. Cherenkov tried to build himself a "normal" life, but he eventually killed someone out of anger and instinct. While on trial, his lawyer (who happened to be his wife) defended him, and he was sentenced to undergo Level 7 Personality Reconditioning. Soon after, Cherenkov discovered that his wife had married him simply so she could obtain a licence to have a child by cloning herself, rather than out of actual love. In a fit of anger and desperation, Cherenkov killed her, and was made to undergo Level 8 Personality Reconditioning in an attempt to prevent him from killing again. | |||
| Cherenkov, for a period, returned to normal. However, whilst walking one day, he encountered a girl that looked familiar. It was the clone of his wife. As he looked at the girl, she turned to him and uttered one word: "garbage". In a frenzy once more, he wrung her neck, and was made a test subject for the new Level 9 Personality Reconditioning procedure. Nevertheless, it couldn't control his instincts, and he murdered everyone in the testing facility. ] found out about Cherenkov and took him | |||
| under his wing into the ], finally giving Cherenkov a place in a world that had thrown him aside. One of his first missions was to steal ], an android being developed by Vector. Being only partially complete, she malfunctioned when Cherenkov activated her and murdered nearly all of the people in the room at time, including ]'s then boyfriend ]. | |||
| Years later, Cherenkov was involved in an experiment on ] (his home planet) called the ] Link Experiment. The project ended in a catastrophic failure and the planet vanished, killing one-and-a-half billion people in the process. | |||
| The Federation Government, keen to retrieve the Zohar, sent the battleship ] to retrieve it. In order to secure the Zohar for themselves, the U-TIC Organization installed Cherenkov and a few others on the Woglinde masquerading as Federation Marines to secure it and send it back to them. Unfortunately for U-TIC the ] attacked the battleship and took the Zohar with them, but not before KOS-MOS identified it as merely being a ]. | |||
| By clinging on to the side of Shion Uzuki and ]'s escape pod, he was able to survive the destruction of the Woglinde and was rescued along with Shion and Allen by the ]. Shortly after their arrival onboard, a remaining Gnosis attacked the Elsa and almost killed Cherenkov before it was neutralised by ]. Soon afterwards, he began to suffer strange bouts of intense pain. Eventually, at the giant Gnosis mothership "Cathedral | |||
| Ship", Cherenkov suffered the fate of all those almost killed by a Gnosis - he was transformed into one himself. Reluctantly, Shion and the others had to fight and eventually kill him. Shortly before he died, Shion "visited" Cherenkov one final time in his consciousness, where he was sitting on a strange monochrome beach - the Beach of Nothingness. Cherenkov told Shion about a terrible incident in his life: his role in the ]. Cherenkov also told Shion that he liked it there, and that she would be there soon as well. This is possibly a reference to the fact that Shion was almost killed by a Gnosis when she was onboard the Woglinde, and therefore should suffer the same fate as Cherenkov. As of the end of ''EPISODE II'', however, Shion has not exhibited any signs of the trauma Cherenkov suffered before he met his end. | |||
| ===Cherenkov's Role in ''Xenosaga: The Animation''=== | |||
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| Although ''Xenosaga: The Animation'' is a retelling of ''Xenosaga EPISODE I'', it completely omits Cherenkov's story (most likely due to the limited running-time of the animated series). In ''The Animation'' he dies on the Woglinde, and is never mentioned again. | |||
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