Commander in the Genii military, commissioned by Chief Cowen to train an elite group of soldiers whose specialty was to perform in reconnaissance missions off-world. Kolya's team was prematurely thrust into a strike on the city of Atlantis when most of the population had evacuated to avoid a massive hurricane. Kolya used his people's ties with the Manarians to acquire a drunken Athosian's G.D.O. and access codes. Then he lead more than half a dozen men into Atlantis, killed two guards, and staked the Genii flag in the command tower. When Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Dr. Rodney McKay returned to the Gate Room to investigate the incoming "injured" Kolya captured them and tortured McKay until he explained the reason why several scientists remained behind (with the hope that they would devise a plan to save the city). While Major John Sheppard played cat and mouse with his strike force and the power grid, Kolya forced McKay and Weir to manually reroute power to Grounding Station Three, which contained the only grounding rod that had not been severed, allowing lightning to charge the Atlantis shield. It was during this time that a large number of Genii reinforcements were prevented from arriving and enhancing the established forces by Sheppard's activation of the Stargate shield. Kolya lost his friend Athor's son, Idos, among these reinforcements. When McKay admitted that his attempts to save the city were not going to work, and that a massive tsunami was going to destroy the city, Kolya and Ladon successfully evacuated through the Stargate. The Commander attempted to take Dr. Weir as a single trophy from the event, but Sheppard used his P90 to fire a single shot into his shoulder. The jolt thrust Kolya back through the event horizon, leaving Dr. Weir on Atlantis and unharmed. McKay's admission that his plan was not going to work was not nearly as bad as it sounded, and channeling lightning through the city was successful at powering the shield. PLAYED BY - Robert Davi FIRST APPEARED - The Storm
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