By 1946, the people of the Soviet Union have found themselves in the grip of a phenomenon that Stalin and the Red Army are attempting to both understand and use to their advantage in the war against the Germans.  Dubbed by many as the ‘psi phenomenon’, Axis and Allied intelligence agencies are only now learning about the extent of this strange event as well as the lengths to which Soviet intelligence agencies will go to gain an edge in the increasingly long conflict in Eastern Europe.

            The 4^th Special Department of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) has, for nearly a decade, attempted to determine the cause of the supernatural abilities the Soviet people have begun to develop as well as finding military applications for these abilities.  Shrouded in secrecy, the 4^th Special Department, once an intelligence organization, now falls under military jurisdiction and citizens of Mother Russia that show such abilities are quickly rounded up and forced into military service.  The results of the 4^th Special Department’s research have begun to see expanded use on the field of battle and, though the NKVD still does not understand the full extent of these powers, the Red Army now has terrifying and strange new psi-technology at their disposal.