Agent Rainer

Rainer is a former Strategic Homeland Division agent, who was secretly a rogue agent using the alias of "Asher". He only appeared in-game as part of the Operation ISAC missions and is the main villain of their storyline.
==Biography==
Rainer was a Division agent who unbeknownst to them, was helping out the various criminal factions of New York City and working against the SHD under the alias of "Asher" for his own personal gains.
The ISAC node caretaker Simon Keyes first finds out about "Asher" after he abducts Agent St. Clair and leads an ambush on her Joint Task Force team. Simon tries to find out about him, but he hacks into the ISAC node to track it. Simon is able to lock him out, and he later offers bounties on Division agents.
He contacts Simon while running an operational status on the node, claiming he was assigned to check in after detection of software modifications to the node, which were installed in order to evade revelation of the node's location after his hack.
He assures Simon, he'll help him out against the factions plaguing New York City and protect the node. Secretly, he was trying to take over the ISAC node. Simon assigns other agents to help him in fighting through the N.Y.C. Dark Zone.
Simon contacts Esmay, a black-market dealer, to help him hunt down Asher but is unsuccessful. Asher hacks the Division's communication lines again, calling on other agents to defect and as a reward gain control of New York together. He is locked out with the lines being re-secured.
Rainer gains Simon's trust and pretends to assist him in "taking out" Asher and takes out a transmitter being used by Asher to hack into the Division's communication lines though he claims Asher escaped. He agrees to a deal for the Division agents to clear out an informant's neighborhood of the Last Man Battalion (LMB) in exchange for information on Asher.
The informant however is killed by "Asher", and he informs Simon that he hasn't arrived yet. Esmay informs them of the informant's death, not knowing of his true identity. He tasks the agents with clearing out the neighborhood, so he can find anything useful in the informant's apartment. He later puts out a bounty on Esmay and informs them that "Asher" did it.
While pretending to track him, he claims he found out "Asher" was previously an assassin named Webb, and he's always been spotted in the same part of the Dark Zone. He puts out a bounty on himself under his alias "Asher" and is ambushed but rescued by Division agents.
He then goes into hiding to avoid the heat and gives them a false location he claims is the place where Asher is hiding. He keeps pretending to track down Asher and eventually finds out Alex is hiding in the Underground tunnels which the various factions are trying to take over. He is able to rescue her after an intense firefight.
However, Rainer baits Esmay who wants to get out from the city along with Alex with the help of the JTF and kidnaps both of them. He admits to Simon that he was "Asher" after he realizes that he removed their names from the JTF evacuation list. He forces Esmay to take him to the location of the ISAC node whilst distracting Division agents by sending out the LMB to kill civilians.
He tries to force Simon into giving him access to the node who however keeps stalling him which he discovers and threatens to kill Esmay. Simon however fights back and gets wounded. Esmay flees and Rainer goes after her but unbeknownst to him, she was hiding in the base. He is later killed after Simon assigns other Division agents to take him out.
== Abilities ==
Asher is a rogue agent armed with a Custom P416, Base Seeker-Mines and Sticky Bombs.
==Triva==
* Rainer is portrayed by American actor Regan Burns in the Operation ISAC video series on YouTube.
* He only appeared in-game for a limited time as part of the final Operation ISAC mission.
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