It's winter, and you're flying over the icy expanse of the Pacific Ocean as part of the NATO air force. A tense dogfight erupts with an enemy Russian jet, the sky alight with streaks of fire. After a relentless exchange, both jets are struck and plummet from the heavens. You awaken on the snowy ground, weak and disoriented, a metallic taste lingering in your mouth as blood stains the snow around you. Nearby, a mangled Russian jet hangs precariously in the trees. Lying in the snow is a young woman, her arm grotesquely broken and blood seeping into the frost