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Ivana Baiul
Real Name: Ivana Baiul
First Appearance: Gen 13 Vol 1 #1
Affiliation: International Operations
Former Affiliation: KGB

Vital Stats
Species: Cyborg
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Date of Birth: unknown
Birthplace: Russia (conjecture, never confirmed in print)
Known Family: none


 Powers/Abilities:
Ivana is a cyborg who has replaced much, if not all of her body with synthetic parts. The extent and degree of her cybernetic modification is unknown. Her cybernetic parts give her superhuman strength, speed, and stamina. In Stormwatch: Team Achilles, it was revealed that she no longer stores her brain or consciousness in her head, and cannot be killed by a shot which penetrates her skull.

Aside from these abilities, Ivana's body appears to perfectly mimic a human body in every way. She has no trouble passing for human, and has maintained sexual affairs with some of her subordinates.


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Bio:
Ivana was a top KGB agent that defected to the CIA by the end of the Cold War. Her ruthlessness and ambition led her to Craven's I.O. rapidly. Building a network of informants, accumulating favors and digging dust, she quickly made her way to the top of I.O., through blackmail, seduction, assassination... Until she was appointed Director of Sci-Tech (Science and Technology) Division, where she was in charge of the Project: Genesis.

 Her own personal agenda was to form an unstoppable force of teenage SPBs, powerful enough to defeat I.O. and young enough to be manipulated. This teenagers were the offsprings of the survivors of Team 7 (including Lynch). With the help of her boy toy, Threshold, she almost succeeded. The problem was that Caitlin Fairchild was far from stupid and felt the sucker play behind Calahan's ways. Lynch, feeling that Ivana was up to something wrong, interfered in her plan. Fairchild blasted her way in the compound, while the other Gen 13 were blasting their way out past Threshold. After a final confrontation with Lynch, Ivana went rogue from I.O., keeping with her the other 6 Gen 13 still cryonized.

It is, indeed, not clear if she went rogue at this time, as she took refuge in Caballito Island and could still use I.O.'s human resources. Anyway, she trained her own Gen 13 team, the Deviants, to fulfill her private agenda. This agenda was going through the elimination of Lynch and his Gen 13. Indeed, she pursued the Project: Genesis on her own, testing various combinations of booster drugs, nanotechnology ... on her guinea pigs, the DV8, and particularly her "lover" Threshold, nearly driving him mad.

Thanks to the suicide missions of DV8, she managed to gain enough leverage within the US institutions (Senate, Government...) to finally reach her goal, the Directorship of I.O.. As she could never achieve popularity, she ruled the place with an iron fist, enforced by her personal praetorian guard, DV8. She remained in that position until the combination of fallout from the Divine Right incident and DV8's rebellion forced her out of her position. The Dv8 series ended when some I.O. executives, headed by Ben Santini, are blackmailing her with a video footage of an assault of DV8 in a CIA building.

Two years later, she would turn up in charge of Civil Defense Administration, an organization created as a de-facto replacement of I.O. Following the Authority's takeover of United States, she wound up in the Project Entry universe.

After Worldstorm, Ivana was working for the US government in some capacity once again. In light of the apparent reboot of Gen¹³, her current status, as well the precise details of her history have become uncertain.


 Appearances:
  • Black Ops #2
  • Deathblow Vol 1 #27
  • Deathblow Vol 2 WorldStorm #1, #2, #4,#5, #6, #8, #9
  • Divine Right #8, #9
  • Divine Intervention: Gen 13 #1, Wildcats #1
  • Dv8 #0, #1, #2, #4, #7, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #20, #23, #24, #25, #26, #28, #30, #31, #32, Annual #1
  • Dv8 vs. Black Ops #1, #2, #3
  • Fire From Heaven #1
  • Gen 12 #3
  • Gen 13 Vol 1 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
  • Gen 13 Vol 2 #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #25, #34, #36, #38, #41, #56, #67
  • Gen 13 Bootleg #3
  • Savant Garde #7
  • Sigma #2
  • StormWatch Vol 1 #0, #8
  • StormWatch: Team Achilles #10, #11, #12
  • Wetworks Vol 1 #41
  • Wetworks Vol 2 WorldStorm #12, #13
  • WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Dark Age
  • Wild Times: Dv8 #1

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