RED SUN
SOVIET PARAMILITARY TASK FORCE

Membership: Coojeechiscue/Nadehzda, Shivowtnoeh/Irina Mityushova, Sillatochca (Leonid Vishnevetsky);
    formerly Dehman Doosha/"Johnny Do"

Purpose: Acting as enforcers and field agents for the Soviet government

Aliases: Crashniye Solleetsi (see comments)

Affiliations: At least formerly served under the Siberian Project (Timor Besedin, Gregirova, Gennadi Shepalev, Petrov Szymanski, Serge Vladimiroff, Anya Zotov);
    briefly allied with the following against Rodstvow: Justice (John Tensen), Medusa Web (Babel/Thame Panagitis, Backfire, Dustoff, Gatto di Sangue/"Blood Cat," Imprint, Potiphar/Nungali Kashab, Relampago/"Lightning," Skybreaker/James Colin Anderson, Thunderhead/Donner Kopf/Gunther, Troublemaker), Psi-Force (Thomas Boyd, Dehman Doosha, Lindsey Falmon, Kathy Ling, Wayne Tucker)

Enemies: Afghan rebels, Rodstvow;
    formerly Thomas Boyd, Justice (John Tensen), Kathy Ling, Medusa Web (Babel/Thame Panagitis, Backfire, Dustoff, Gatto di Sangue/"Blood Cat," Imprint, Potiphar/Nungali Kashab, Relampago/"Lightning," Skybreaker/James Colin Anderson, Thunderhead/Donner Kopf/Gunther, Troublemaker)

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    formerly the Siberian Project for paranormal research, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, USSR;

Aliases: Crasniye Solleetsi (see comments)

First Appearance: Psi-Force#23 (September, 1988)

Powers/Abilities: See individual entries, but Coojeechiscue can from cubes of force; Shivowtnoeh is monstrous, savage and strong; Sillatochca can generate explosive forces within objects, at least.

History:
The members of Red Sun empowered by the White Event (a release of Star Brand energy that blanketed the Earth and granted two out of every million people paranormal powers), which occurred July 22, 1986, although her powers may have developed days, weeks, or months thereafter. 

(Psi-Force#28 (fb) - BTS) - <Sometime before October, 1986> - The Siberian Project began gathering Soviet paranormals.

(Psi-Force#23 (fb) - BTS) - Coojeechiscue was appointed field leader of the Siberian Project's Red Sun Paramilitary Task Force, based out of the Siberian Project, a Soviet scientific institute for paranormal research.

(Psi-Force#23 (fb) - BTS / Psi-Force#27 (fb) - BTS) - The paranormals of Red Sun assisted in Afghanistan. The Siberian Project considered this "Afghanistan affair" an abysmal performance (see comments).

(Psi-Force#23 (fb) - BTS) - The young autistic boy Dehman Doosha remained difficult to control. 

(Psi-Force#23) <4/2/1988> - When the KGB's Sergei Vladimiroff visited the Siberian Project to oversee the rehabilitation of the Crashniye Solleetsi following their "rather grueling assistance in the Afghan affair," Gennadi Shepalev assured him that his supervisors had nothing to worry about and that their operatives had been merely suffering from physical exhaustion. Gennadi further noted that "the boy" had proven rather difficult to control, but that their psychiatric department had assured him that they were taking the necessary steps to rectify his unstable nature. Gennadi then escorted Vladimiroff to the room where Anya Zotov showed him footage of Coojeechiscue, Shivowtnoeh, and Sillatochca training. 

    Zotov also showed Vladimiroff footage of Dehman contained in a padded cell and wearing a full body (presumably fire retardant) suit. She advised Sergei that he was the one who had given them an autistic paranormal child and that he should not blame them if they could not make him what they wanted.

(Psi-Force#27 (fb) - BTS) - After destroying the Psi-Hawk, Rodstvow teleported back to the Project grounds, bringing with him the four surviving teenagers whose parabilities had formed the Psi-Hawk mind gestalt: Thomas Boyd, Lindsey Falmon, Kathy Ling, and Wayne Tucker.

(Psi-Force#27) <9/4/1988> - Boyd encountered Dehman Doosha, stopping the guards from beating him after a flare-up of his fiery powers and learning of his autistic nature. Coojeechiscue and Sillatochca attended a Siberian Project meeting, where Szymanski suggested killing Dehman Doosha, and Coojeechiscue used a force cube to contain Sillatochca when he lashed out at Sergei Vladimiroff for refusing to allow him access to his family.

    Petrov Szymanski advised Coojeechiscue that things would be worse for them if her team did not begin performing to the Project's expectations. When she countered that they were not performers but rather paranormal soldiers, he instructed her that they were his soldiers, to do with as he commanded, and he advised her that she should not forget that. 

    Later, after Thomas Boyd had saved Dehman Doosha from a planned frontal lobotomy, he communicated with the Siberian Project members, informing them that if they interfered with him, he would delete all of their system's files. Boyd arranged for the young paranormal, whom he called Johnny, to be turned over into his care.

(Psi-Force#28) <10/3/1988> - Coojeechiscue, Sillatochca and Shivowtnoeh,participated in challenge against Kathy Ling in the Siberian Project's Combat Situation Room. Ling dominated the combat until crashing into Shivowtnoeh, and the monstrous creature's form prevented her from focusing her powers. At Coojeechiscue's order, Shivowtnoeh put Ling down, dropping her to the ground (although Ling apparently protected herself from the fall with a telekinetic field). Sympathizing with Ling, Sillatochca advised her not to fear Shivowtnoeh, as the creature was truly animal now and could smell her fear.

    Sillatochca subsequently encountered Lindsey Falmon, who allowed him to see visions of his family since his departure to know that they were alright. Sillatochca agreed to help the captive American paranormals in return for a promise that they would help him reunite with his family.

    After Ling had confronted and threatened Vladimiroff over various lies, Vladimiroff arranged a solo training session with her against Shivowtnoeh to teach her a lesson. However, aided by guidance from Tucker, overcame her fears and telekinetically battered Shivowtnoeh into unconsciousness. Ling that shattered Vladimiroff's fingers and larynx.

(Psi-Force#29) <October 5, 1988> - During a free-for-all training exercise amongst the three remaining members of Red Sun, Shivowtnoeh hurled objects at Coojeechiscue, who blocked it with an energy cube, and Sillatochca, who exploded it, only to be left open to an assault by Coojeechiscue, who sent another cube to knock his feet out from under him. Administrative director Petrov Szymanski instructed Coojeechiscue to meet him in the debriefing room and they would evaluate yet another pathetic performance.

    At that meeting, Szymanski told Nadehzda that if the Americans wished, they could escape and Red Sun could do nothing to stop them; Anya Zotov and Gennadi Shepalev voiced that they still had Rodstvow.

    Later, as Sillatochca aided Ling and Falmon's escape efforts, operatives of the Medusa Web (allied with Justice) assaulted the Project to break out the American paranormals, and Web agent Potiphar slew Sillatochca, neither knowing nor caring that he had been trying to help. Accepting that it was better for Sillatochca's family to believe he died a hero, Ling and Falmon joined Boyd, Tucker, "Johnny Do" in departing with the Web.

    Coojeechiscue and Shivowtnoeh joined Siberian Project security in rushing to the scene.After the Medusa Web's ship flew away with the escaped paranormals, Coojeechiscue stood by as Szymanski demanded they be hunted down and killed.

(Justice I#29 - BTS) - After the Soviets downed the Medusa Web's recon chopper, Soviet troops ambushed the Web operatives and Justice when they landed to rescue their associates.

(Justice I#29) - Another copter delivered Coojeechiscue and Shivowtnoeh (and more Soviet troops) to join the fight. Shivowtnoeh ambushed Justice, but Boyd kicked her away, drained her energy , and pummeled her relentlessly until Justice pulled Boyd away. Coojeechiscue used her energy cubes against Gatto di Sangue, but the agile cat-like paranormal dodged her assaults.

(Justice I#29 - BTS) - Minutes later, Rodstvow arrived, intending to destroy all of the gathered paranormals. 

(Psi-Force#30) - Surveying the crowd, Rodstvow considered that his fellow Russians knew him for what he was and feared him. Recognizing and fearing Rodstvow's power and threat, Coojeechiscue realized that Red Sun would lose whether they defeated Rodstvow or not, but she considered it better to face human punishment than Rodstvow's. She was subsequently mentally linked up with all of the others present in an assault plan coordinated by Wayne Tucker. Alongside Shivowtnoeh and the Medusa Web's Gatto di Sangue and Thunderhead, Coojeechiscue was instructed to back up the initial attacks and follow up on ground.

    After Rodstvow was brought to the ground by Ling and Justice, Shivowtnoeh's left arm was badly burnt by the surrounding energy while trying to slash Rodstvow's armored casing, and she dropped into the snow, yiping in pain. Coojeechiscue used an energy cube to protect the injured Thomas Boyd and the non-combat-powered Lindsey Falmon. She subsequently protected Skybreaker from a blast from Rodstvow via an energy cube. 

    After Rodstvow's casing had been destroyed, Wayne Tucker -- in order to induce the autistic Johnny Do to use his pyrokinetic abilities against Rodstvow -- had Coojeechiscue form an energy cube around the unconscious Boyd and lift it up toward Rodstvow. As Rodstvow blasted the cube, Coojeechiscue struggled to hold it together, but eventually the assault began to overwhelm her. She kept the cube intact as it fell back to the ground, and Justice slowed its descent, after which she collapsed. However, the ploy was effective and Johnny engulfed Rodstvow's bones, finally destroying him. 

    After recovering, Coojeechiscue noted that all those injured could be brought to the Project, and she gave her word that they would all be treated properly.

    Coojeechiscue and Shivowtnoeh's subsequent fates are unrevealed.

Comments: Created by Fabian Nicieza, Graham Nolan, and Mike Witherby.

    See the New Universe primer.

    I'm not sure if the "Afghanistan affair" that Coojeechiscue and Red Sun were involved in is related to the one in which Rodstvow virtually singlehandedly delivered victory to Soviets. 
    I'm also not sure if Rodstvow was ever directly associated with Red Sun.

    "Crasniye" means "red", but the "solleetsi" word doesn't exist. It seems to be a misspelling of "solntsa" - "suns".--Mike Castle

Me again...in Psi-Force I#27 and subsequent issues, the group name is confirmed to be Red Sun, although the above Russian spelling is repeated. 

    I would really love it if the likes of Kurt Busiek, Mark Waid, Fabian Nicieza, or Saladin Ahmed would do a story that stayed true to continuity and followed the New Universe forward in real time over the last 30+ years.

    This profile was completed 03/27/2023, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Red Sun has no known connections to

• other "Red" or "Sun" Characters, groups, items, events, races, or places...
  

images: (without ads)
Psi-Force#23, pg. 7, panel 1-4 (Coo, Sill, & Shiv training; Dehman in cell);
    #28, pg. 2-3, panel 1 (training against Ling);
    #29, pg. 5, panel 1 (self-training);
    #30, pg. 2, panel 1 (Coo & Shiv, calves up);
       pg. 2, panel 2 (faces)
Justice#29, pg. 14, panel 4 (Coo & Shiv exiting ship)

Appearances:
Psi-Force#23 (September, 1988) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Graham Nolan (penciler), Mike Witherby (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Psi-Force#27 (January, 1989) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Alan Kupperberg (penciler), Chris Ivy (inker), David Wohl (assistant editor), Howard Mackie (editor)
Psi-Force#28-29 (February-March, 1989) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Alan Kupperberg (penciler), Chris Ivy (inker), David Wohl (assistant editor), Howard Mackie (editor)
Justice#29 (March, 1989) - Peter David (writer), Lee Weeks (art), David Wohl (assistant editor), Howard Mackie (editor)
Psi-Force#30 (April, 1989) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Rodney Ramos (penciler), Chris Ivy (inker), David Wohl (assistant editor), Howard Mackie (editor)

First posted: 09/12/2026
Last updated: 12/23/2023

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