Faye Lau

Faye Lau was a former Strategic Homeland Division agent activated after Black Friday as part of the Second Wave of agents tasked with saving what remains of New York City. When she was wounded in action after the explosion of the helicopter that killed the original Senior Second Wave commander, Louis Chang, she had to assume Chang's role by assisting the player in the Base of Operations. 
In Warlords of New York, she initiated a shocking turn of events when she disavowed The Division by talking to Bardon Schaeffer after Aaron Keener activated the Rogue Network. Eventually, the agents located her at Camp White Oak and ended her life for her allegiance to Black Tusk.
In Hidden Alliance, after Faye's death, it was revealed she had a series of encrypted comms as insurance policy where it revealed she was working undercover and was working to aid the Division against Black Tusk the whole time and was trying to warn them about the Hunters. In Vanguard, more was unraveled about Faye as it is revealed she was working secretly with Aaron Keener under the codename Cassandra in her mission to undermine the Black Tusk and the Hunters.
== Biography ==
While enrolled at City College, Lau joined the school's ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps). She used her service as a springboard to a series of appointments in military intelligence and eventually the NSA (National Security Agency), where she worked on the support staff of the Director of National Intelligence. Soon after Presidential Directive 51 was signed, Lau moved laterally into the newly formed Strategic Homeland Division as a senior field officer reporting directly to the northeast section Division Commander, Louis Chang.
After the First Wave of Division agents disappeared during the Green Poison bioweapon contagion, President Waller activated a Second Wave of agents into New York City, ordering Commander Chang to personally lead the team's insertion and operations. Agent Lau was activated to serve as Chang's second in command and senior field officer. When their helicopter was destroyed, Commander Chang was killed and Lau seriously wounded.
Barred from field work due to her injuries, Agent Lau has served as acting Division Commander for the region, working from the N.Y.C. Base of Operations located inside the James Farley Post Office in Pennsylvania Plaza. Her current role is primary contact and "handler" for all Division agents active in the New York City area. (NOTE: This has changed since she went rogue) 
== Tom Clancy's The Division ==
Faye Lau was activated as part of the Second Wave of Division agents in Brooklyn along with the player, with whom she was to partner up with.
After regaining control of Brooklyn, she and the player were awaiting a VTOL carrying other Second Wave Division Agents and Senior Second Wave Commander Louis Chang. Unfortunately, the VTOL was destroyed in an explosion (later revealed to be caused by an LMB surface-to-air missile) just as it landed, killing everyone on board and critically injuring Faye, whereas the player suffered minor injuries and was knocked unconscious.
After the explosion, a Joint Task Force helicopter came to their aid and transported the two agents to Camp Hudson.
After the player gains control of the N.Y.C. Base of Operations, Faye takes the role of acting commander of The Division in New York. She then continues to provide strategical support to the player and other remaining Second Wave Division agents in New York.
== Tom Clancy's The Division 2 ==
Faye is once more seen in a cutscene for Tom Clancy's The Division 2, killing an Incinerator boss type after the reactivation of the SHD Network, implying that she fully recovered from the injuries in her ongoing quest to take back New York City seven months after the Green Poison, as well as being indirectly mentioned in an audio recording found in Washington, D.C. detailing Roy Benitez's reaction at hearing that two Division agents have been brought in.
== Warlords of New York ==
In Warlords of New York, she is the acting commander of The Division in the city, as well as leading the hunt for Aaron Keener, but the New York Division branch has been crippled after a devastating hurricane rocked Lower Manhattan, as well as new leadership in the forms of Rogue Agents leading returning factions such as the Cleaners and the Rikers.
With help from Alani Kelso and other Division agents from Washington, D.C., she continues the hunt for Keener. In a shocking turn of events, Lau disavowed The Division by siding with Black Tusk as her conversation between herself and Bardon Schaeffer was intercepted as the rogue agent network was activated.
The most probable reason for her going rogue was caused by her sister’s death following the attack on the Hell's Kitchen settlement. Another probable reason for her to go rogue was after close interrogation with rogue agent Alicia Coswald, who said she's on the side of The Division by going rogue. According to her, she was marked rogue when she disobeyed a direct order or directive, but however her aim was the same; to restore order. Therefore, it can be concluded that Faye went rogue because she chose to disobey the directives of The Division, and now she wants to bring the organization down in order to restore order and control by siding with the Black Tusk, who work for Natalya Sokolova. She recruited several rogue agents into Black Tusk, including Shade, Dusk and Belfry.
However, as revealed in Y5S3: Vanguard, Lau was working secretly with Keener to undermine the Black Tusk and the Hunters during the events of this story. Her sister's death due to "budget cuts" was enough to motivate her to join the PMC so she could get closer to their infrastructure and hit them where it truly hurts. 
In fact, Faye was trying to aid the Division the whole time, but the methods were not up to ISAC's standards, which marked her Rogue.
== End of Watch ==
During Season 4 - End of Watch, Faye Lau's four rogue lieutenants were hunted down and killed. The intel gathered from them leads to a confrontation with Lau in Camp White Oak. While she is here, Lau kills President Ellis and frames The Division for it. She attempts to flee in a helicopter, but it is disabled before she can make an escape. Forced to fight the very agents she turned her back on, she is killed. After her death, several audio logs are discovered. The logs tell a story of Lau going rogue solely to work her way up in the B.T.S.U. ranks in order to assassinate the president. Her main aim was to eliminate the corruption that prevents order being restored.
Roy Benitez had asked Kelso what she planned to do with Lau's body, she wanted to give Lau's body to the crows who were flying above her, but Paul Rhodes immediately decided against it. Eventually, Roy convinced Kelso completely, therefore, Lau's body was placed into a CERA body bag and flown to New York City for a proper burial at Haven. 
== Hidden Alliance ==
Prior to her death, Lau left a series of comms as insurance policy that was found by Kelso. Those comms were encrypted and had to be decrypted over time. After the Division dealt with the resurgent True Sons and reluctantly allied with Captain Lewis to stop Black Tusk in Jefferson Trade Center, all the comms were eventually decrypted. 
In those comms, it was revealed that the Hunters were working for Homeland Security. And that Faye Lau and Bardon Schaeffer worked together to aid the Division by having the latter act himself as bait in Coney Island, prompting the agents to capture him. They betted their plan that Schaeffer would share the truth and who's the threat towards the Division. It's possible that she secretly told him that a number of the Hunters are embedded in the Division as agents. 
However, due to Schaeffer being in a coma after sustaining heavy injuries in Coney Island, it is unknown if he'll wake up. And given the Division learned that one of their own is a Hunter during their hunt against The Recruiter, its unclear how much Schaeffer could offer to the table. 
== Vanguard ==
In her hunt for truth in New York, Kelso learned from a reconstructed ECHO that Faye Lau was secretly working with Keener to undermine the Black Tusk and the Hunters with her secret codename being Cassandra (named after the Trojan Priestess from Greek Mythology) with the key being a Mobile SHD Server inside a SHD Crate that could only open by a secret two-factor authentication. Comms revealed that Lau was close to ending the alliance when Keener attacked City Hall with his Eclipse Virus to root out Hunters embedded as Division agents, but she stayed knowing there was no other way. 
Because of these revelations, Kelso joined Keener and Parnell to work with them to stop Natalya Sokolova and the Black Tusk, taking the Mobile SHD Server with them. Kelso's reasoning was that Lau was close to putting an end to all the insanity and wanting to finish what she started.
== Personality ==
A second generation Chinese-American, Lau’s parents were killed in a car crash when she was a seventeen, leaving her to raise her younger sister Heather Lau. Owed, in part, to the loss of her parents, Lau has kept a distance from intimacy for much of her life, having regarded it as a potential disruption to her education and career. Now that the Green Poison has hit, however, Lau has realized that she may be more attached to the surrounding people than she previously believed. A light in this is the attachment to her sister and worry that something bad may have happened to her when she goes missing from Camp Hudson.
Lau later joined Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at City College, after which she excelled through the upper echelons of government intelligence and national security. After a field accident left her left leg and right eye severely injured, Lau now serves as a "handler", responsible for the base’s maintenance and collecting and giving intel to the player.
Competitive, driven, and full of grit, there is no question in Lau’s status as a devoted patriot or her belief in the system. Though her peers typically regard her as a strong, serious woman, she has a caustic sense of humor, a knack for knitting, and a secret love of romantic movies.
By the Warlords of New York campaign, she is much harsher than before, and more aggressive. This may be attributed to Heather Lau, her younger sister, having been killed during a Riker attack on a settlement in Hell's Kitchen, which caused her to start drinking. Over the course of the campaign against Keener and his rogue agents, Faye is shown to drop hints of doubt in The Division's ability to truly defeat Keener.
However, as revealed by Hidden Alliance and Vanguard, Faye was shown to be the driven Division agent and was aiding her fellow agents secretly. The fact that she was working for Black Tusk as a cover to undermine the organization hurt her emotionally, considering it put a rift to her loved ones. While she was only mentioned in comms in Vanguard and First Rogue, its clear that her alliance with Keener was out of convenience and desperation knowing that the rogue agent has the key to put a stop to Black Tusk.
== Equipment==
In-game, Faye Lau is a Rogue Agent armed with a Lightweight M4, Tactical UMP-45, Striker Drone, EMP Sticky Bomb and Fragmentation Grenades.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia ==
*Curiously, in the ECHO that shows Lau assassinating Ellis, both characters are represent by the logo of Outcasts faction instead of the respective factions' logos. The cause of this is still unknown, though most likely a mistake.
*Faye Lau's codename, Cassandra, that was given by Aaron Keener and revealed in Year 5 Season 3: Vanguard is named after the trojan priestess from Greek Mythology. In the mythology, Cassandra was known to utter true prophecies that would never be belived. This makes sense as Lau was trying to warn her former allies about the danger that Black Tusk and the Hunters represent, but wouldn't be believed until after her death and her insurance policy was discovered.
*Despite never being seen effectively using these in-game, Faye could be seen holding a Vector SBR .45 ACP in her in-game character artwork, a Maxim 9 pistol in her promotional artwork and a Military P416 in the in-game briefing video. 
**Additionally, despite never using it in combat against the player, Faye is also often depicted as using a P320 XCompact (which can be seen holstered in her chest rig), such as when she assassinates Ellis.
==Missions==
===Tom Clancy's The Division 2: Warlords of New York=== 
*Stranded Tanker (voice only)
*Pathway Park (voice only)
*Wall Street (voice only)
*The Tombs (voice only)
*Liberty Island (cutscene only)
*Camp White Oak Manhunt: Faye Lau
== Other Media==
===Tom Clancy's Elite Squad===
Faye Lau was featured in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad as part of The Division faction. She is a Hero character with the abilities Sticky Bomb and Explosive Rounds, and Squad Perks Emergency and Enduring.
*Rogue Faye Lau was featured in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad as part of the Rogue Agents faction. She is a Villain character with the abilities Bombardier and Pulse, and Squad Perks Betrayal and Composed.
==Appearances==
*Tom Clancy's The Division
*Tom Clancy's The Division 2
*Tom Clancy's The Division 2: Warlords of New York
*Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis
*Tom Clancy's Elite Squad
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