Chronos

Doctor Samuel "Chronos" Mear is a mercenary researcher employed by Horizon Corporation, located within Site 83. Chronos will only spawn on Extreme Difficulty during the Site 83 mission in the Backrooms section. 
Throughout the mission, his "dead" body will appear in various locations throughout the Backrooms. If this body is hit, it will explode and disappear in a blue puff of smoke, beginning a short chain of events where more of Chronos's bodies will show up. If all bodies are hit, Chronos will finally make an appearance, alongside the other HVT "Blue Sky Officer" as part of their squad.
Uniquely, Chronos will appear with multiple "decoy" versions of himself. These decoys will have the High Value Target tag on them, as well as the real Chronos, causing disorientation on which to kill. When these decoys are killed, they explode and disappear in a similar manner to his "dead" bodies.
== Biography ==
Doctor Samuel Mear is a researcher hired by Horizon, likely to work and investigate Subject 83's anomalous properties. Task Force 27 appears to have had Mear on their hit list for some time, as he was (wrongly) reported dead in a previous TF27 assault. 
It is unknown how Mear appears in multiple places at once, nor how his "decoys" are real bodies. Given his expertise in theoretical physics, usage of body doubles, and location in Site 83, it may be possible that he somehow affected Subject 106 to hallucinate Mear, or his decoys are body doubles as well. Notably, all versions of Chronos, decoy or real, will have extremely distorted voices that are difficult to interpret. 
== Official Description ==
Dr. Samuel Mear is a theoretical physicist on a research contract at the Horizon Corporation. He was previously believed to have been neutralized in a TF27 raid. However, recent intercepted communications from Horizon suggest that he remains active and involved in a highly classified project. His suspected use of a body double, combined with his background in military psychological operations, leads us to believe he may be part of a larger deception operation. 
== Trivia ==
* " Wilson," one of Lead Devs of Trepang2, commented this on the video " CHRONOS - By Osborne Thaumiel " about the original plan for Chronos:
** "This is super cool! This is actually pretty close to the original idea for this dude, once you triggered his spawn, he'd keep randomly respawning in every level (the story was he was condemned to eternally grief the player basically) until you found the real one and killed him. We ended up scrapping that because it was rage inducing lol, but the code was kept for the "hunted" cheat. But you could say this is pretty much spot on lore accurate to what his backstory is supposed to be. "
* Chronos is the one of the few HVTs post-Bladekisser update to not have any voicelines added to him in combat.
** Unlike other HVTs that deploy alongside each other, the Blue Sky Officer does not acknowledge Chronos.
Category:High Value Targets