Friedrich Steiner

Friedrich Steiner was a German scientist who was in 1943 recruited into the German efforts to create weapons capable of turning the tide of the war against the Allies. Steiner created a highly deadly nerve gas, Nova Six, capable of killing a human in seconds. The Nazis planned to fire the weapon in V-2 missiles at the capitals of the Allied Nations for a cargo ship, but the ship was crippled by British bombers and trapped in arctic ice. Steiner defected to the Soviets in 1945 and was picked by a unit of Russian troops, including Viktor Reznov. After his defection, Steiner and Nikita Dragovich betrayed Reznov and used the Nova Six gas to kill Dimitri Petrenko and a few more of Reznov's soldiers, and tried to kill Reznov as well, but Reznov escaped in the midst of the chaos of British Commando raid on the shipwreck, destroying the vessel as he escaped. Steiner, however, survived the raid and went on to produce an improved version of the Nova Six toxin which Dragovitch was determined to use against the United States. Steiner is finally confronted by a deranged Alex Mason at a Soviet chemical weapons facility on Rebirth Island in the Aral Sea, and is killed by Mason, though Mason at the time believed he was simply observing Reznov kill Steiner.