Luka Golubkin

Luka Golubkin is an escaped volunteer and murderer aboard Talos I. His volunteer ID is V-010655-37 and his Volunteer code sign is Volunteer 37.

Background
Golubkin is a convicted Russian murderer. Like many other "Volunteers" on Talos I, he volunteered to be a test subject for Morgan Yu's research in lieu of life in prison.

Golubkin is a violent and unstable man. He bit off the fingers of Dr. Mitsuko Tokaji, a researcher on Talos I, and ground them up so that they could not be reattached. At one point, Golubkin was exposed to a Typhon telepath. The telepath refused to colonize Golubkin's mind and in fact developed an aversion to him.

Golubkin was very proficient at smuggling contraband into the station's prison system. This included some rather dangerous materials such as recycler charges.

Through neuromods, Golubkin was given the culinary skills of Will Mitchell, the chef of Talos I. When the player first encounters Golubkin, he will ask the player to retrieve a cooking award from Will Mitchell's quarters. Golubkin probably inherited Mitchell's emotional attachment to this award.

The neuromods also gave Golubkin a psychic awareness of the looming Typhon threat. Like Morgan Yu, he sensed that in deep space there was some malevolent and ravenous organism, and that Yu's experiments were drawing it to Earth. The staff in the Volunteer Quarters observed that he spent hours silently rocking in his chair, haunted by his disturbing visions.

Prey (2017)
Golubkin is first encountered in the Crew Quarters, where he masquerades as the station's chef, Will Mitchell. Golubkin will try to trap the player in the kitchen freezer as retribution for the experiments he suffered. Upon escaping the freezer Luka has seemingly left the Crew Quarters. Danielle Sho is the first person to made the request for the player to kill Golubkin for murdering her girlfriend, Abigail Foy. The player can thereafter find Golubkin in an escape pod on the Bridge level. He will try to lure the player into the pod and kill them both with a recycler charge. Even if the player spots and disarms the charge, Golubkin will commit suicide anyway by poison. However it is possible to render him unconscious with a disruptor gun and unlike other NPCs he will remain unconscious for the rest of the game.