Heraklion

Heraklion is the pseudonym used by a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, political refugee, inventor, and jazz musician, who is a member of the First Playthrough Party.

Early life
Heraklion was born c. 1879 in the Caucasus region of western Russia. At a young age, he took an interest in invention, having a particular fascination with both explosives and flying machines.

In school, Heraklion was exposed to the writings of Bolshevik thinkers such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. Heraklion entertained the notion of communism, and traveled to Moscow to join like-minded thinkers.

Warrant for arrest and exile
In 1898, during a crackdown on revolutionaries, the Russian government issued a warrant for the arrest and execution of many named Bolshevik party members, who they considered dangerous revolutionaries. Heraklion was among those wanted, and he fled to Germany as a political refugee. In Germany, Heraklion became fascinated with Egyptology, which was becoming big at the time following the exhumation of several Egyptian graves by English archeologist and Egyptologist Flenders Petrie. He briefly worked on one such archeological dig, during which he apparently came up with the Pseudonym Heraklion, after the lost Egyptian city of Thonis-Heracleion.

After the Russian government tracked him to Egypt, he fled to America and emigrated under the name of "Leon Heraklion". He went explicitly by the pseudonym from there on out.

Heraklion was arrested following a shootout during which his newfound friend Cayde Sanchez opened fire on Lenford Kemp, who was open-carrying a firearm in a tavern in Austin, Texas in 1901. He was sentenced to serve with the 121st Volunteer Infantry in the ongoing dispute on the US-Mexico Border.

After two additional altercations involving gunfire, one of which resulted in the death of a Mexican Federale, Heraklion and the rest of his party was sent to Galveston to help with cleanup from the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. En route, the gang stopped in Houston for Independence Day festivities.

Independence Day Bombing
On 4 July 1901, Heraklion attended the Independence Day Parade in Houston, Texas. After the parade, he and other party members got in line for a chance to meet US President William McKinley, who was known for wanting to meet as many fans as possible. While in line, he revealed his plan to assassinate the president to another man, who made his plot known. Heraklion was arrested and carried away by officials, but detonated a homemade explosive vest near the festival entrance, killing forty-seven people and injuring hundreds more. Heraklion died nearly instantly. His last words were "I do this for the Bolsheviks!"