Bardon Schaeffer

*"Rogue or not, all you SHD scum are going down. I'll see to it."*

Leader of the BTSU, Bardon Schaeffer is one the Resistance's most wanted targets. Schaeffer believes he is a patriot and is doing the right thing for the country.

## Biography

The leader of the Black Tusk Specialist Unit, Bardon Schaeffer is a dangerous and cunning man. Schaeffer comes from a military family with a long and proud tradition of municipal and federal service. At age 19, he dropped out of college and enlisted in the United States Army, where he quickly showed proficiency and rose to the top of his platoon. He served multiple tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. Highly tactical with a proven ability to eliminate targets with extreme efficiency. Respected among his comrades and a natural choice for the role of Specialist Unit Leader.

He was assigned to a special forces unit where he was active in several "dark ops" before being recruited by Black Tusk. Black Tusk have have been working to destabilize the Resistance and SHD’s efforts almost since the beginning of the outbreak.

He managed to get two American Secret Service agents to assassinate President Mendez and guise the murder as a suicide, promising them safe passage out of the city. However, with the help of fellow BTSU member, Petrus Brenner, Schaeffer had the Secret Service agents killed.

With members from his BTSU, they also discussed the various factions in D.C. Elijah Sumner, a member of the BTSU, the Hyenas seemed to be the best option to give the most trouble to both The SHD and the other factions in D.C. Schaeffer liked Sumner's recommendation and passed it onto to his supervisor. He also attempted to hire Alani Kelso into the BTSU, but she turned down the offer.

Before the Resistance could make their assault on the Capitol Building, he made contact with President Ellis, (secretly a spy for Black Tusk) regarding the antivirals as the facility holding them can't be accessed without the briefcase held at the WLF stronghold. Shortly after the Resistance secured the Capitol Building, he met with Ellis along with the briefcase in tow. Ellis passed Schaeffer the antivirals, in which he ordered Mila "Wyvern" Radek to store the antivirals at Tidal Basin, the Black Tusk's main base in D.C.

When Project Vanguard attacked the stronghold, Schaeffer attempted to get Wyvern to make a foot extraction with the antivirals, since a Resistance helicopter destroyed a turbine, leaving Black Tusk with little to no options. Wyvern ignored Black Tusk's tactical disadvantage by attempting to commence a missile attack against The White House, in which Schaeffer was extremely against. Project Vanguard gunned down Wyvern, stopped the missile launch and secured the antivirals shortly after.

During Black Tusk's occupation of The Pentagon, Schaeffer emphasized to Brenner about the importance of keeping the place in check and keep Project Vanguard from taking the Perfusion Bioreactor. In spite of Brenner's attempts to stop them, they still managed to get the reactor. Additionally, his attempt to rebuild his Specialist Unit came to a grinding halt when Vanguard stormed Camp White Oak and stopped Black Tusk from extracting any data and information from there. Out of frustration due to the insubordinate actions of Harper 'Heads' and Tegan 'Tails' Price, the lead BTSU operatives tasked to lead the mission, he called his employer, telling him to stop sending him clowns.

Sometime before the events of Pandemic, Schaeffer made contact with Faye Lau regarding the exchange of a rogue agent, Alicia Coswald, who aligned herself with Black Tusk. During the events of Outbreak, he led the assault on Liberty Island in hopes to eliminate Aaron Keener. However, due to intervention from Project Vanguard, causing the DDP-52 Razorback to be disabled and a XB-31 "Marauder" Quadcopter and a number of Warhounds hacked by Keener, Schaeffer ordered a retreat.

After Keener's death, his conversation with Lau was intercepted regarding the activation of the Rogue Agent Network. While he wasn't keen on having to deal with more rogue agents, Lau reassured him that it will bring The Resistance to its knees, and they will be able to end them once and for all.

Sometime after Keener's death, Schaeffer tried to persuade Darren 'Songbird' Reynolds to join Black Tusk as part of a recruiting drive. Unfortunately, Hornet rebuked his offer, telling Schaeffer that Keener ''lives on in more ways he can think of'', and he made himself clear that Keener is his *only boss*.

Prior to the events of Death Toll, with rogue agents under his command, he shared his doubts with Natalya Sokolova, the Black Tusk Founder, though Natalya believed that it's a chance to keep her business partners happy and an opportunity for Faye Lau and her fellow rogue agents to prove themselves they are worthy. Despite his apprehension over Faye's capabilities, Natalya sternly ordered Bardon to handle responsibility and failures from Faye as he did bring her into Black Tusk and warned him that she does not tolerate failure.

During the events of Red Rings, Schaeffer got requests from his rogue agents for resources and supplies, which he satisfied their requests. Schaeffer contacted Faye Lau in regard to this, informing her that this operation is getting expensive, and questioned her how well she knew these rogue agents and if they were to be trusted since Linette Edwards requested for a meeting with him for no apparent reason.

During Death Toll, Schaeffer contacts Faye Lau to set up a meeting in Coney Island to discuss the current operation and how it's going. He would take his full reinforcements (4 Elite BTSU bodyguards and a Hunter) to the island, suggesting the "meeting" is only a setup to kill Faye. Unfortunately, Vanguard crashes the party by invading Coney Island and taking down the resident Rikers and confronting the Hunter.

After the Hunter was taken down, Schaeffer receives a call from Natalya Sokolova, who asks him if the Hunter is still in play, to which he replies "negative on the Hunter". Schaeffer then engaged in a firefight with Vanguard and got severely wounded, which led to Agent Alani Kelso sending a team to retrieve and apprehend him.

He is currently in custody with the Resistance in their Manhattan base.