Introducing The Imperial Russian Navy - Special Directorate
Created by the Russian Admiralty, the Special Directorate is a rapid response unit tasked with protecting Russian borders (even if they sometimes happen to be in Whitechapel, Mexico or Shanghai) and obtaining new technology and resources, or denying them to rivals.
The Directorate is led by The Admiral, a career officer with a hatred of the English and the Ottomans and his second in command, Vladimir, formally of the Okhrana and placed with the Directorate to curb The Admiral's more mercantile sensibilities.
The Directorate also recruited the woman known only as the 'Baba Yaga', a witch and her hawk familiar, the loyal Bosun Gogol, the emotionless swordswoman Valentina and Dr Zlo, a medic who hasn't heard of the Hippocratic oath.
The muscle of the Directorate is provided by Russian Marines
Transport is the Aeronef, "The Prince Igor" which is currently under construction.