Laurence Barnes

Laurence Barnes, also known as Major Laurence Barnes and Prophet, is one of the main characters from the Crysis series.
== Charactah Account ==
Laurence is the leader of the U.S. Army Delta Force's Raptor Team.
Laurence is a seasoned veteran of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom during the War on Terror, he spent years in schooling before joining the US Army. At some point, he took part in a CIA-backed drug raid in which civilians were killed. Angered by the deaths of innocents, he hospitalized his CIA supervisors by beating them to a bloody mess. When he was reprimanded by his superiors, he lashed out at them too. Since he was to be put in Leavenworth federal prison, he figured he should "really earn it" and proceeded to beat up everyone in the room. At the maximum-security prison, he received some documents sent by Jacob Hargreave. Barnes was set free, but in return he had to do a favor for Hargreave; he was the first soldier to try on the Nanosuit 1.0, where he met Nathan Gould.
Later at Lingshan, after Laurence was temporarily MIA, Nomad, being the second-in-command, temporarily took Prophet's role as squad leader. However, because of Nomad's rank, Strickland assumed complete mission control.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Crysis
=== Video Games ===
* Crysis
* Crysis 2
* Crysis 3
== Trivia ==
* In a deleted training level in Crysis, Prophet is supposed to accompany Nomad and help him fight in a mock tutorial village.
* In one of the unlockable flashbacks in Crysis 2, it was revealed that Prophet, like Nomad, visited the alien structure on Lingshan, where he learned of the Ceph locations via a map similar to the one in the ending clip and was contacted by Gould while inside.
* In Crysis: Legion it is revealed that after the Lingshan incident, Prophet deserted from Delta Force and severed all ties with Hargreave, only contacting Nathan Gould, his ex-handler, occasionally. It is also revealed that he may have visited several other alien structures between the events of the two games, and that shortly prior to Crysis 2 he contacted Gould, wanting to deliver something very important to him (in all likelihood he was referring to the Nanosuit).
* Prophet is voiced by James Vincent Meredith.
* The callname Prophet becomes finally appropriate in Crysis 3, for various reasons.
* Prophet is the only human who is able to use Ceph weaponry.
* Prophet, Psycho, & Nomad are the only surviving members of Raptor Team.
* In the end of Crysis 3, Prophet merged with the Nanosuit, existing as a single super-human being with all the powers of the Nanosuit.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Prophet at Crysis Wiki
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