Aaron Keener

Aaron Keener, call-sign Vanguard, is a First Wave Strategic Homeland Division agent who, after the Joint Task Force's disastrous surrender and retreat from the Dark Zone, disavowed The Division and went rogue. Recruiting a number of other First Wave agents to his cause and killing those who resisted, he developed his own ambitions for establishing order and a future for the country or possibly the world, even if he is accused of high treason and branded a traitor of the United States federal government to do it.
While Keener's identity was shrouded throughout Tom Clancy's The Division, his intentions were unraveled during the events of Warlords of New York, making him somewhat of an antagonist whose intentions were far worse than that of Gordon Amherst.
As of Year 6 Season 1: First Rogue, he survived his encounter with the Division at Liberty Island and is in D.C. to parley with them and build up an alliance against Black Tusk and the Hunters.
==Before the Outbreak==
Keener graduated from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, before serving in the Navy as a Coastal Riverine Squadron small boat operator and weapons expert. He served a tour of duty fighting the war on drugs in South America, and at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti and has a mild reputation as the sarcastic, yet charismatic individual. His military experience and education in military treatise and psychology made him an excellent candidate for the Division. Eventually, Keener and his army buddy Carter Leroux was contacted by Division recruiter Elija Le to join the Division. Keener and Leroux passed the psychological tests, they were then given Smart Watches and joined The Division.
Keener is noted to combine his military experience and decision-making skill to achieve extensive success in the private sector. Upon leaving the military, Keener took up a job as a futures trader on Wall Street. Keener is labelled to be adaptable and confident, where he always assumes that he is going to come out on top.
Keener is twice divorced. However, he maintains friendly relationships with both ex-wives. One of them has described Keener as too much work to keep up with.
Keener also has a privileged upbringing and has never faced real adversity. Despite this, he has been able to overcome any obstacle through a combination of willpower and intelligence. Keener also has a personable character, enabling him to get others to work together to achieve his goals.
Keener was thus noted to be a "potentially prototypical candidate" for joining the Division. This is probably due to his intellect as a person, as well as his military expertise from his time in military school as well as his time serving the military.
==Tom Clancy's The Division==
Keener was part of the First Wave of Division agents to be activated after the outbreak of Green Poison. One of his objectives given by The Division was to secure what would be known as the Dark Zone, constructed to contain the infected citizens. However, CERA and Joint Task Force lost control of the Dark Zone quickly after its establishment and ordered all forces to pull out at all costs, including Keener and his fellow First Wave agents, forcing them to leave behind expensive equipment and any hope of ever establishing order in the region.
During the JTF's retreat, Aaron was leading a group of civilians out of the Dark Zone when they were ambushed by a group of Rikers. Keener sheltered the civilians in an apartment building and fended off the overwhelming number of Rikers all by himself. He radioed the JTF for reinforcements but was denied despite explaining his situation. One of the Rikers then threw a Molotov cocktail into the building, killing everyone inside except for Keener who managed to escape and/or kill all the attackers. These incidents changed Keener's perspective of the federal government and left him disenchanted with his role as a Division agent, feeling a great deal of anger and betrayal. As such, he made the choice of turning rogue against the Division.
Sometime between Keener turning rogue and joining the Last Man Battalion, he and Leroux encountered a fireman and his family. The fireman was threatened by Rioters. Despite Keener having been rogue agent already, he helped the family. He then told the family that he can protect them and get them to safety. Keener pointed them towards New Jersey and told them to stay low, avoid going into crowds. Later, Leroux asked him why he helped the family, Keener replies that he admired the fireman stepping up to the rioters, while the logical solution was to run away.
His first actions after turning rogue were to gather as many First Wave agents as possible, intending to form a unit of rogue agents to work for him in future operations. Agents who chose not to ally with him were executed by Keener in cold blood, and eventually, the entirety of the First Wave went missing or was killed. This event had triggered The Division to deploy the Second Wave of agents to investigate what had happened to the First Wave, coupled with continuing the mission to restore order in New York.
Keener met Charles Bliss, the commanding officer of the Last Man Battalion. Keener wanted to make use of the Last Man Battalion to establish dominance over Manhattan, while Bliss wanted to take advantage of Keener's SHD technology to get an advantage over other factions controlling Manhattan. Together, Keener and the Last Man Battalion had launched many operations against belligerent factions, including the JTF.
One of the joint operations conducted in the bombing of an osprey helicopter carrying the Second Wave of Division agents into Manhattan, killing everyone aboard, including the Division Commander tasked with leading the Second Wave. The bombing also resulted in Faye Lau being critically injured, as well as knocking another agent unconscious.
While conducting the operations with the Last Man Battalion, Keener also investigated the outbreak on his own, eventually discovering that Gordon Amherst was responsible for the Outbreak. After Faye Lau discovered several bodies of the First Wave agents, clues pointing to Aaron Keener started to emerge, introducing Aaron Keener to the Player. After the Police Academy mission, the player first caught a glimpse of Keener through a recovered CCTV footage, which showed Keener convincing a fellow Rogue agents to defect after the JTF and Division’s disastrous and costly failure to hold the Dark Zone.
Later on, the player is tasked to save Dr. Vitaly Tchernenko from the Russian Consulate. Keener was contacted by Tegan Silver, a follower of Keener's cause, citing an assault on the consulate was imminent. Keener contacted Leroux and warned him about it. When the player waited for him to open the secret door to the panic room, Leroux break-in, taking Tchernenko to a chopper seen leaving by the player, the player injured Leroux. The chopper is presumed to be heading towards an LMB base for Keener, later revealed to be the U.N. Headquarters.
However, once the JTF and the Division storm the U.N. Headquarters to drive out the LMB and eliminate Bliss (with a secondary object to find Tchernenko and Keener), an ECHO reveals that Keener sees that the LMB are finished and instead takes Tchernenko with him while ordering two other rogue agents to stall the Second Wave agents and also jam the Division tracking hardware to prevent them following him, after which they would regroup at another location (the location of which at this time is unknown). This was to earn Bliss' anger at Keener for betraying the LMB.
After Bliss was killed and the U.N. Headquarters was secured by the JTF, an ECHO reveals that Keener had found Amherst's lab, as well as some virus samples, a 3D DNA printer, and also Amherst's notes and ideas. Following on from an earlier discussion he had with another First Wave agent, he stole as much as he could put into a duffel bag, then left a message (via his hacked SHD Tech) for any Second Wave agent who picked up the signal and then took off. At this point in time, thanks to Faye Lau and the Second Wave, the JTF and the U.S. government are now and well truly aware of Keener's activities and intentions, with him now wanted for high treason and the possibility of being registered as a terrorist now.
Keener found Lori Baker, a Rogue Division agent and a field surgeon. Keener asked Baker to join the team and told him that they are going to eradicate the weak. Baker accepted his proposition. Later, Keener went back to the Russian Consulate at some point, to retrieve the injured Leroux. Right after he took him to Baker. Leroux promised Keener he won't fail him again and Baker nursed him back to good health.
With the recent deployment of both The Division and the JTF to the West Side Pier to help secure the area, Second Wave agents have recovered numerous smartphone messages out in the field, with five of them being left behind by Keener himself. These messages revealed that he was also in the West Side Pier district earlier to hunt down a few things that he needed for his plans, given the fact that by now, according to him, that both Central and Eastern Manhattan had 'been picked clean' of anything useful to him. Keener then states that he decided to broadcast his location in West Side Piers in order to drag all the warring factions (all of them apparently having various feuds against Keener, the reasons of which are unknown, with the exception of the LMB) to the area to chase him, which in doing so, dragged the JTF and The Division to the area in order to keep them occupied and 'keep their eyes off the prize'. 
After revealing this, he then starts to taunt the agents about how no one will find him, no matter what before revealing that despite the Quarantine Lockdown on the island, with the U.S. Coast Guard/U.S. Navy's blockade on the Hudson and the JTF guarding all tunnels and bridges out of Manhattan, Keener was able to either slip past the patrols or, more likely, bribed someone in either organization (be either with a false promise of hope or by force) in order to let him through and off the island.
His last message states that he is now well and truly gone, and also reveals that he's got his eyes set on not just the United States but now the world. Once again, Keener attempts to try and convince the agents that working for groups like the JTF or the U.S. government is not worth the time and effort, and should they finally see his way and beliefs, then he might be able to allow them to work together. The final thing that Keener states is that should any Second Wave agent (once they start to follow his line of thinking) is able to finally get out of Manhattan, he said not to look for him but rather he would come to them when the time was right.
Thanks to the intel gathered by Manhattan's second wave, Keener's agent status has been electronically revoked and is now wanted for high treason with the strong possibility of being placed on both the U.S. government's and Interpol's Most Wanted list.
At this point in time, Aaron Keener's location is currently unknown but now confirmed that he is no longer in Manhattan, possibly in New York City altogether.
==Tom Clancy's The Division 2==
Six months later, dozens of audio logs left behind by Aaron Keener show up in Washington, D.C., indicating that Keener is still at large. One of the audio logs found in Washington, D.C. talks about the quarantine around New York City falling apart, indicating that he has returned to N.Y.C. within the time between Tom Clancy's The Division and Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
In Episode 3 of Tom Clancy's The Division 2, which takes place on Coney Island in Brooklyn, after the Russian Scientist Vitaly Tchernenko successfully engineered a more lethal chemical agent based on the Green Poison, he gave Vitaly Tchernenko to a battalion of Black Tusk, in exchange for unspecific support in his future projects, according to him. It is still uncertain what Keener wants from the Black Tusk, but one thing however certain is that Keener intended on double-crossing the Black Tusk all along. During or before his deal with the Black Tusk, he informed Vivian Conley, a Rogue Division agent and the current leader of the Cleaners, that the Black Tusk has Tchernenko all along, and Keener tells Conley to bring her Cleaners to kill all the Black Tusk on Coney Island and get to Tchernenko so she and the Cleaners can have their revenge since Tchernenko help create the Green Poison. However, in reality, Keener was the one who held Tchernenko as a prisoner in a secret location. After Conley sent her Cleaners on Coney Island to kill Tchernenko, and a squad of Division agents from Washington, D.C. raid the Island, Aaron fled during the chaos, once again one step ahead of everyone.
It is later on revealed that when he had Vitaly Tchernenko in his custody and with the possession of Dr. Amherst's notes of the Green Poison, he engineered his own deadly biological virus and along with his other fellow four rogue agents, he attacked the Division's Base of Operations in Manhattan killing top Division agents and analysts. He then went on to take control of four districts in Lower Manhattan and each of the four districts are given to his four rogue agents. He managed to secure an understanding between the Cleaners and the Rikers. The two factions now serve as allies to him and his band of rogue agents.
As of now, the Strategic Homeland Division has launched a Manhunt on him and his lieutenants.
==Pre-Warlords of New York==
Months after the Second Wave Division agents reclaimed the city, Keener met James Dragov, a fellow Rogue Division agent who was also the leader of the Rikers, right after Keener killed several of the Rikers to threaten Dragov. Keener then offered a partnership between them, with Dragov providing Keener with supplies, as well as help on certain occasions.
Keener then brought Dragov along to find Theo Parnell and recruit him. Keener met Parnell at the Arch in Lower Manhattan. Parnell pointed his gun at Keener at first sight, while Keener kept calm, and persuaded Parnell to join his cause. He persuaded him by confirming his suspicions on his father's death and telling him that the Division is corrupt from the people at the higher up. Little did Parnell know if he failed to turn rogue, Dragov will shoot him dead from behind.
Keener then met with Vivian Conley, a fellow Rogue Division agent and now the leader of the Cleaners. Conley was surprised to see Keener, assuming he had been killed in the Dark Zone retreat. Keener then thanked Conley for saving him with her turret and offered her partnership. Conley rejected at first, but Keener persuaded her in the end.
Keener then found Javier Kajika, a Rogue Division agent at the tunnels. Keener persuaded Kajika to join him, in return for the names of the people that betrayed Kajika and his squad during a previous mission.
Keener found his Division recruiter, Elija Le, and sought to recruit him for his cause. Keener introduced him to Tegan Silver, and have him the codename "Huntsman". Le eventually accepted his proposition.
Keener found Jason Barnes, a Rogue Division agent and an eco-terrorist, and manipulated him into joining his team of rogue agents. Barnes joined as his goal was to eradicate humanity. Although Keener had a different goal, but their methods of doing it are more or less the same, by committing mass murder.
Before attacking the Base of Operations in Lower Manhattan, Keener had orchestrated a plan to attack Washington, D.C. Unable to fulfill the plan himself, Keener found Molly Henderson, a Rogue Division agent. He tasked her to carry out his plan. To do so, Keener told Henderson to assemble a team of rogue Division agents, while Keener told Conley to give Henderson some Cleaners support.
==Warlords of New York==
Main article: Warlords of New York
Aaron Keener, along with his four Rogue Division agents, launched biological attacks on multiple sites in New York City limits, mainly targeted Joint Task Force facilities and highly populated area, one of those include the New York City Hall.
Faye Lau, acting commander of the Division in New York, requested emergency help from Washington, D.C. Division Agent Alani Kelso and the player then travel to New York City to assist with the situation. Through a surveillance video in the City Hall, the player identifies the perpetrators of the attack as First Wave Rogue Division agents Vivan Conley, Theo Parnell, James Dragov, Javier Kaijika with the infamous rogue agent Aaron Keener leading them. The Division in New York then launched a manhunt for Keener and his rogue agents.
Having difficulty tracking the rogue agents with the limited data, the player starts tracking the rogue agents with intel from the Peacekeepers. In the meantime, Keener prepared his endgame for the world. With Dragov providing the supplies, and Parnell with his technological expertise, Keener was able to build Ground to Air missiles for spreading the virus, more lethal forms of SHD Techs and a Rogue Agent network.
After the player defeats Conley, Kajika, Parnell, and Dragov, the player was able to give their smartwatches for Faye Lau to pinpoint Keener's exact location, which she said, and tracked Keener to Liberty Island. Agent Kelso and the player then proceeded to the ferry terminal for transport to the Liberty Island to kill Keener. Faye Lau revealed to be working with the Black Tusk, told Bardon Schaeffer where Keener is located at, which led to Schaeffer sending Black Tusk forces on the ferry terminal to stop the agents from having Keener killed or captured while wanting to kill Keener himself.
After an unsuccessful interception for the Division agents at the ferry terminal, Schaeffer launched a missile attack on the Division agents' ferry, destroying the boat, but the agents survived. Keener watched the whole thing through cams, then he hacked into the SHD Network and teased the agents.
Schaeffer sent Black Tusk ground forces to kill Keener, while the player stops the overwhelming ground forces. Schaeffer then sent a Razorback drone platform to kill Keener, which the player stopped almost immediately. In a final attempt to kill Keener, Schaeffer sent his last Marauder Class Quadcopter to kill the player and Keener. Keener, having advanced SHD Tech, hacks the Quadcopter and uses it against the player. The player however prevailed in eliminating the quadcopter. After all the Black Tusk forces on the island are dead, Keener then asked the player to meet him inside. Using ECHO, he explained to the player his agenda and attacked the player with more advanced SHD Tech. The player again prevailed and chased Keener to outside the Statue of Liberty. Keener then attempted to launch his Ground to Air missile containing Tchnernenko's new Eclipse Virus. In the final seconds, the player stopped the machine. Keener pissed at his lifelong work being destroyed, went to kill the player. 
Although Keener fought hard with his skills and techs, Keener was fatally wounded by the player in the fight. Keener then attempted to escape to the pier, but his wounds prevented that from happening. Agent Kelso and the player then approached Keener. Keener, having one last trick up his sleeve, activated his Rogue Agents' network, then warned the Division agents, saying "you have no idea what is coming", as his last breath. The agent then grabbed Keener's smartwatch, while the Rogue Network revealed that Faye Lau had gone rogue to work with the Black Tusk, while Keener's watch broadcasted the live conversation between Lau and Schaeffer.
== The Prodigal Son returns ==
However, it would turn out that his supposed death in Liberty Island wasn't true after all as ISAC didn't identify the deceased agent, making it seem that the Keener who was killed was a body double. Throughout the comms collected in Y5S3: Vanguard, its also revealed that Theo Parnell survived through manipulating ISAC and using a Decoy as well as a copy of ANNA. This allowed the two to stay under the radar and work on deploying the Rogue Network nationally.
During the events of WONY, he secretly worked with Faye Lau so they could work together in taking down the Black Tusk and the Hunters once and for all which included a secret weapon found within a SHD Crate in a safehouse. That same crate also shocked and knocked out Agent Kelso due to lacking two-factor authentication when she attempted to open it. Despite Lau's death being a setback, Keener continued on his work and managed to recover Kelso while she was unconscious. Whatever their conversation was, he convinced her that the only way to stop Black Tusk and the Hunters is by working together. Seeing herself with no options and wanting to finish what Lau started, Kelso agreed to work with him.
When Division agents defeated the Black Tusk and True Sons forces in the area surrounding the Stranded Tanker, they enter the tanker only to find the same SHD Crate. They were shocked and left unconscious when they attempted to open it, allowing Keener the opportunity to clone the ANNA system to his watch, opening the crate and take the briefcase with him. Alongside Parnell and Kelso (now Rogue), he escaped New York City in a van, taking them possibly to Brooklyn.
After the events at the tanker, Keener sent a message to Division agents in Haven, hoping to build a bridge and sway them to his side. He believes that the Division as an organization is a lost cause and that more innocent and good people will die as long as Natalya Sokolova and Calvin McManus remain in the picture. He tells them that a safe haven is awaiting them on the other side and hopes to see them soon.
== The First Rogue ==
Keener makes his way to D.C. As an invitation, he sent a message to a terminal in the White House's server room meant for Division agents. Despite Kelso vouching for them, he's not willing to recruit them easily given their past confrontation. As such, he puts them to a series of four trials to prove their worth and hoping by the time they get to meet him personally, they truly understand the real threat to the Division.
As expected, the agents would survive their first trial; Echo. Keener gives his compliment and asks them for patience for their second trial, Hercules. Not long aftter that, the agents completes the Hercules trial, impressing Keener. He congratulates them, hoping that the agents starts to appreciate the extent of his Rogue Network and what they could offer to the table. And with Leto trial coming up, he hopes they're up for the challenge.
The comms intercepted by the agents during the first two trials reveals Keener's correspondence with Bridgette Douglas and Melanie Hoskins. With Douglas, they talk about their personal histories, keeping watch on President Ellis, and trying to make sure that "Cassandra" fulfills her part. With Hoskins, he tried to convince her to his cause by sharing an audio recording of Calvin McManus' neglect over Gordon Amherst as well as checking up on her after she visited her family in the stables farm.
During the agents' venture to Leto trial, they learn from Keener regarding Manny's mindset about Kelso and awareness of the former's actions in D.C. In addition to the intercepted comms, he also leaves some notes for the agents, where he expresses his philosophy and the sacrifices he's making waiting for said agents to complete their trials.
Eventually, the agents managed to complete the final trial, Nyx. As a gesture of good will, Keener has proof about Cal's Hunters roster and a base they set up and implores the agents to meet him at the Federal Emergency Bunker. However, Black Tusk intercepted comms between Manny and Keener from earlier.
In a race against time, the agents rushed to the Bunker and faced off against Black Tusk personnel. They eventually get to meet Keener, but were confronted by an experimental Warhound codenamed Chimera. Working together, Division agents focused on the striker drones while Keener focused on disabling Chimera's shields. By the third time Keener disabled the shields, Chimera couldn't sustain any more damage from the agents, leading it to its destruction. After this ordeal, Keener took a case filled with ANNA gear for new recruits and goes to meet Manny in person, bidding farewell to the agents and looking forward to working with them.
When the agents get to the White House, Keener is found in a cell in the Panic Room in the White House's basement. As established from comms correspondence between Keener and Manny, Keener agreed to the latter's terms by allowing himself to be taken into custody by the Division and will stay there until Agent Kelso reveals herself and vets him. In the meantime, Keener's work with the agents will continue under a few conditions for now.
== Shades of Red ==
As part of their first mission together, Division agents meet up with Aaron Keener in his cell at the White House where he reveals that he was separated from Theo Parnell and Alani Kelso when they came to Washington, D.C thanks to a Black Tusk's "welcoming party" and were supposed to meet up at an RV point before Keener surrendered himself to custody. As such, the agents must follow Theo's trail across the Capitol to find him
During their trail, the agents uncover comms that details more of Keener's activities over the last several months. Thanks to Vivian Conley's former association with DARPA engineer-turned Black Tusk Operative Mathias "Trig" Schneider, he and Parnell learn about the Combat simulation program and its technology. They visited Washington D.C to procure a copy of the simulation program and dozens of Mobile SHD Servers. Keener was involved with Parnell tweaking the simulation's tech, which allowed them to deceive ISAC and the Division during the events of WONY.
In addition, more comms related to Keener were uncovered from the NSA Databases while the Division kept playing in the simulation. Those comms first involve his conversations with Bridgette Douglas. One conversation involved him mourning for the loss of the Morretti's patriarch and daugjter, with the matriarch as the only survivor. But for the most part, the conversations involve Keener doing his recruiting drive with Douglas where he looked into recruiting smembers of the Castle Settlement for his settlement. Those conversations concluded with Douglas convincing Keener to not go forward with recruiting them as those members' mindsets and ideologies could be incompatible with what he has in mind for his settlement
One comm in particular has Keener conversing with Parnell about the events that transpired in Meret Estate. While Keener was glad the Division managed to repel the Cleaner assault and saved Mackenzie Meret and the rest of the survivors from certain death, he was concerned when the Cleaner couple The Lovebirds used Rogue SHD Tech, suggesting to take a look at their inventory to find out where it came from.
WIP (Will add more as we get more comms in Y6S2 Manhunt)
== Personality ==
Aaron Keener's personality before (and during) the outbreak is that of high intelligence but also one that shows that he sure of himself and right all the time, regardless of whether he's right or wrong. Keener also possesses a very strong determination and perseverance to ensure he achieves his goals. As his profile states, due to his personable character, he is capable to have other help him either achieve one of his goals or a common objective. Despite this, he still felt a sense of duty to protect the weak and innocent as he escorted a group of civilians out of the Dark Zone and fended off a group of Rikers attacking them. After being denied help and the civilians being killed by the Rikers, Aaron felt a great deal of anger and betrayal from the government as he believed he could've saved the civilians and the First Wave could've saved the Dark Zone all together had the government been more competent and allow the First Wave (as he puts it) "to do their fucking job". It is then he begins to lose faith in the government and any hope of restoring order in New York City.
Following his decision to go rogue and when the Second Wave starts to investigate him, Keener's personality has changed somewhat. While he still has his determination and perseverance, his attitude towards the JTF and the U.S. government has changed dramatically. He now believes that rule and law no longer exist and now the only way to survive is by obtaining power. While Keener is still a personable character, he now uses others to help achieve his own goals - regardless of either their lives or the cost to others.
With the release of Update 1.8., Keener's personality has now changed considerably. Judging by his voice and also what his intentions are, it is possible that now he has developed a lust for power and also now possess a sadistic trait due to his views on the government, the JTF and why The Division is wasting their time helping people "who aren't worth it" and should be left behind. It is possible that he may also be starting to go insane.
The audio logs that Keener left behind through Washington, D.C. as dead drops indicate that he has a superiority complex and a massive ego, showing contempt and derision towards anyone who doesn't share his ideologies and ambitions.
With the help of the new biological weapons he has engineered, he wanted to create chaos and his lust for power has led him to control four districts in Lower Manhattan and he wanted to expand his control more. But as revealed in the comms from Year 5 Season 3 - Vanguard, it was a tool to root out Hunters secretely embedded as Division agents.
Keener is also prone to paranoia, as during the fight in ANNA's control room, he taunts the agent by hacking into their system, asking them who can they trust.
In spite of his cruelty and ambitions, he does show moments of compassion on a few occasions. One of them was helping a family escape Downtown Manhattan, to the chagrin from one of his fellow Rogue Agents. He also showed kindness to Tchernenko during a failed experiment developing the Eclipse Virus, as well as reassuring Hornet after coming back from the dead due to his failure from stopping the Division in the Russian Consulate. In addition, as revealed in the comms from Y5S3: Vanguard, he also helped rescuing civilians alongside his Rogues and sent them to a safe haven (Possibly in Brooklyn).
What's more important to Keener is leaving a legacy when he dies. Seeing the tyranny in the post-Green Poison U.S., he sees anarchy as the only solution to end it. It is why he dedicated to make the Eclipse Virus and use it to wipe the slate clean and had Parnell develop the Rogue Network as a way for all rogue agents to enact their operations and continue his work if need be.
While his intentions to stop Black Tusk and the Hunters may seem noble, his methods are anything but. In fact, when he attacked City Hall using the Eclipse Virus to eliminate any Division agents who were secretely embedded as Hunters, he killed a number of civillians, which almost risked losing his alliance with "Cassandra", which also would've lost him a chance to take down Natalya Sokolova. He also vehemently believes that the Division as an organization is a lost cause as he tried to convince Division agents through a message (after the Stranded Tanker manhunt) he sent to them to join him as Rogues as he believes they'll see the light and work with him to put down Calvin McManus and Natalya Sokolova for good.
It must also be considered that while his focus right now is on Black Tusk and the Hunters, there's the crimes he committed. And if Black Tusk and the Hunters go out of the picture, he would still remain a theat due to the Rogue Network he helped establish and whether he intends to carve his own territory.
==Abilities==
=== Warlords of New York ===
During his encounter on Liberty Island, Keener was a Rogue Agent armed with a Police M4, CMMG Banshee, Concussion, Flashbang, Shock, Incendiary and Riot Foam Grenades and nearly every SHD Skill in the game.
These include:
* Drone (Defender, Striker, Fixer and Bombardier)
* Turret (Assault, Incinerator, Sniper and Artillery)
* Seeker-Mine (Explosive, Air-burst and Mender)
* Chem-Launcher (Riot Foam, Firestarter, Oxidizer and Reinforcer)
* Firefly (Blinder)
* Hive (Stinger and Restorer)
* Trap (Shock; Hacked from the Player)
* Decoy (Holographic Distraction; Hacked from the Player)
* Pulse (Jammer and "Hacker")
Keener has also shown the ability to hack Black Tusk tech, having hacked a Marauder-Class Quadcopter and many Warhounds, turning them against the Division and the Black Tusk.
=== Year 6 Season 1 - First Rogue ===
During the fight against Chimera, Keener is a friendly Rogue Agent armed with a G36 Enhanced and MP5-N. He also displays a heavy use of SHD Hologram Decoys, SHD Shock and unique Laser Traps throughout the mission.
==Known Criminal/Treason Charges==
*Execution of civilians
*Failure to prevent JTF deaths
*Convincing many members of the First Wave and Second Wave to go rogue
*Execution of loyal First Wave Division agents and assigned Division Commander
*Working alongside the Last Man Battalion
*Massacring members of the Second Wave of Division agents and assigned Division Commander, save for Faye Lau and the Player (with LMB support)
*Hindering Joint Task Force and the Division operations
*Massacring people, diplomats, and VIPs in the Russian Consulate in New York City
*Kidnapping Russian virologist Vitaly Tchernenko
* Theft of Gordon Amherst's notes, laptop, virus samples, and 3D biological printing unit
*In tandem with the kidnapping and thievery charges, Keener made Tchernenko unwillingly create a new virus and vaccine, construed as handling illegal biological weapons and assets
*Working with Black Tusk
*Attacking the Division's Manhattan Base of Operations with his illegal bioweapon, killing numerous top Division agents, Manhattan JTF operators, civilians, and other JTF/Division analysts
*Working with Cleaners and Rikers with four like-minded rogue agents, also charged for high treason.
*Working with Hunters to hunt down First Wave and Second Wave agent
*Working with Hyenas, Outcasts and True Sons who other rogue agents working with them including his army buddy Carter "Hornet" Leroux who working with Outcasts
== Trivia ==
*Aaron Keener's last name is a reference to ISAC's voice actor who is named Brandon Keener.
*Aaron Keener bares a lot of similarities with Lucas Grey from HITMAN (2016), HITMAN 2 and HITMAN III. Both are voiced by the same actor, and both characters were shrouded in mystery until It's second game was released.
*Keener is twice divorced, but maintains friendly relations with both ex-wives. One joked that Keener is "too much work to keep up with."
*During his encounter on Liberty Island, Keener's only SHD Skill that does not have the "Hacked" icon is the Defender Drone, suggesting all his other skills (with the exception of the Chem Launcher) are simply summoned from the SHD Tech Crates that are nearby, despite Keener actually having animations for deploying them.
== Missions ==
===Tom Clancy's The Division===
*Police Academy (ECHO)
*General Assembly (ECHO)
===Tom Clancy's The Division 2===
*Wall Street (ECHO)
*The Tombs (Voice)
*Liberty Island
*Unknown ping (Voice)
*The Rabbit Hole (Voice)
*Federal Emergency Bunker: Aaron Keener
==Gallery ==
Tom-garden-tom-garden-the-division-keener.jpg|Aaron Keener character model art
Aaron Keener's Letter .JPG|Aaron's letter to Division agents
Screenshot 20200211-205141 YouTube.jpg|Aaron Keener in the "Warlords of New York" Cinematic Trailer
IMG 20200225 104752.jpg|Aaron Keener as he looks in the animated Warlords of New York Trailer
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==Other Media==
===Tom Clancy's Elite Squad===
*Aaron Keener was featured in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad as part of the Rogue Agents faction. He is a Villain character with the abilities Red Poison Canisters and Red Poison Infection, and Squad Perks Betrayal and Composed.
==Appearances==
*Tom Clancy's The Division
*Tom Clancy's The Division 2
*Tom Clancy's Elite Squad
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