In 2650, Dimitri Volstov served as a general in the Stellar Consortium's Vanguard military organization. Sivadian by birth, Volstov spent most of his time on the military starbase Citadel. But in 2651, he became involved in the Bright Horizons project. This genetic engineering project, ostensibly created by the Consortium government to fight diseases, turned out to be a military cloning effort bent on making perfect soldiers to defend against the Nall. When the Thul got finished with Volstov, he was a vaguely man-shaped slug creature that referred to itself as Voshtov.