Anton Gersh


 * For the black hole bomb, see Gersch Device.

Gersch is a Russian scientist and was the leader of the projects at the Ascension base.

Story
Gersch oversaw the Thundergun project and worked with Yuri Kravcheski on the Gersch Device (a.k.a. Project Mercury) until he transferred Yuri to rocket research. During Yuri's mental breakdown, Gersch noted Yuri's increased aggression to the other scientists, as well as the fact he was muttering to himself. He then confronted Yuri when he found him working on the Gersch Device, and threatened to have him permanently removed. Yuri tricked Gersh into activating the Device, which sucked him into the black hole and might have even released the Zombies onto the Cosmodrome. He was originally thought dead, but he was in fact trapped by the Kassimir Mechanism. When repaired, the mechanism releases Gersch, but he may not be entirely human. He could potentially be trapped as a spirit, as some believe Samantha is.