Operator trivia: Leto

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• Her codename means "summer" in Russian.
  • Curiously, her hairstyle has some similarities with Zima's, and her codename is a direct weather counterpart (summer to winter, Leto to Zima). However, the two girls are not related to each other apart from belonging to the same group.
• Leto's full name is unusual in Russian naming conventions, as she uses a matronymic instead of patronymic.
• The name "G Cuvier" on her jacket refers to Georges Cuvier, a French naturalist who proposed the binomial name of the Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), from which Leto's traits could be based on, along with said name being directly printed on her jacket. Nevertheless, the two manifestations of bears in her Elite 2 artwork are more identical to grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis).
• Leto's choice of weapons is based on that of the streltsy (стрельцы), medieval Russian infantry units who wielded both bardiches and firearms.
• The banner hung on the right of her coat's lining has an engraved word in Cyrillic "значения (značenija)," the inflection of "значение (značenije)" which is the Russian word for "meaning, sense, significance."
• Beehunter calls Leto "God-Empress Leto" or "Leto the Great," which is meant to be a reference to God-Emperor Leto Atreides II in the Dune franchise.
• Leto is the last member of the Ursus Student Self-Governing Group who become an Operator, first appearing in Children of Ursus and introduced in The Rides to Lake Silberneherze, over 4 years apart. She is also the first Operator who came with other language dialogues (Russian, in Leto's case) upon release.
• Of all Ursus Operators with English dialogues, Leto is the only one whose English CV (Christina Sherman) is an ethnic Russian.