Zoya Pomchekova

(I make accurate game characters so you don't have to today Zoya Pomchekova aka Toxik) Early Life & Origins Zoya Pomchenkova was born in the outskirts of Novosibirsk, Russia, into a family of engineers and chemical-technologists. From a young age she showed an aptitude for both chemistry and computing — tinkering with lab kits and coding small programs for sensor analysis. Her father worked in a regional industrial facility, her mother in research; Zoya grew up watching them solve problems under pressure. By her late teens she enrolled in a technical institute majoring in chemical-engineering systems and data-analysis. Alongside this she pursued extracurricular cyber-security clubs, fascinated by how physical systems and information systems intertwined. --- Transition to High-Risk Work After graduation, Zoya accepted a contract position with a Russian private-sector firm specialising in industrial environmental mitigation. Her task: design inert “smart gas” dispersal systems and monitoring drones to detect harmful leaks, contamination, and sabotage in chemical/fuel plants. She earned recognition for designing a compact drone “swarm” that could map and contain dangerous gas clouds in large industrial zones. It was in this period she adopted the codename “Toxik” — not as a threat, but as a self-referential nod: the operator who neutralises toxins rather than deploys them. Her reputation grew: when small sabotage or contamination events occurred in remote plants, her rapid-response team would arrive, deploy equipment, and shut down leaks before civilians noticed. --- Encounter with GTI & Recruitment The trailer for Delta Force: Hawk Ops highlights covert operations, modern battlefields, and specialised operatives with unique roles. Viewing such global threats (industrial sabotage, chemical hazards within warfare zones) caught GTI’s attention. GTI analysts approached Zoya discreetly. They saw value in someone capable of environmental control.