Hayden Tenno

age: 25 	height: 6'1" 		weight:185 		nationality: American
skills: expert at all hand-to-hand martial combat skills; 
advanced weaponry and electronics training; 
abnormally enhanced immune factor



His background and upbringing remain a mystery, so Tenno's life, in essence, was Tabula Rasa until he began working for the Agency. And it was, literally, a role he was born to play. Even considering his relative youth, Tenno quickly became the Agency's top "cleaner," able to accomplish any assignment no matter the location, the risk or the operational FUBAR, which would inevitably take place due to the nature of his missions.

And what was the nature of his missions? Hayden Tenno was assigned to clean up after the operational messes left all over the globe. Whether an agent went down or failed an assignment, Tenno had to go in and tie up all the loose ends into a nice, pacified, quiet bow.

At some point before the Lasria mission, Tenno had an operational failure, which resulted in a demotion in status and reputation. Details of this assignment are classified, though it involved the slaughter of many people he feels did not need - or deserve - to die.

As Dark Sector begins, Tenno is offered redemption by his Assignment Director and sent into Lasria with the promise that this will be his last mission. Tenno is perfectly suited for this job, since his borderline superhuman tolerance for pain, his relationship with missing Agency operative Robert Mezner and his previous involvement with another rogue Nadia Sudek gives him a physical edge and an emotional stake in the Lasrian problem.

Upon arrival in Lasria - and his subsequent infection by a new strain of experimental nano-virus - Hayden realizes that in many ways, his entire tenure at the Agency has been a set-up for this particular assignment. The Technocyte virus begins to change Hayden, creating a metal carapace sheathe along his right arm. Soon after the initial infection, Hayden is able to manifest a specialized weapon from the organic metal, sprouting a curved metallic Glaive that erupts from his forearm and comes armed with varied, ever-growing lethal properties.

Using the very method of Lasria's destruction as a means to save the ravaged Russian city - and to redeem his own wounded soul, Hayden continues with his mission. They sent their fallen angel into a locale that would ensure either one of two results: his death, or worse -- a successful completion of the mission, which would, by its very nature, change Hayden into something more than man… but less than human…

Robert Mezner

age: 43 	height: 6'4" 		weight:190 		nationality: American 
skills: advanced degrees in biology, engineering, physics and geopolitics; 
military strategy, covert intelligence tactical planning; 
able to manipulate electronic transmissions which control Technocyte activity



A brilliant scientist and cunning expert on global politics, Dr. Robert Mezner had worked for the Agency for nearly two decades, working his way up from Lab Assistant to the Experimental Technologies Lab to a board member for the Agency's "Futurist Enclave," a select group of agency administrators and operatives who work towards determining how cutting edge technologies and geo-politics will affect the near and long-term future of the planet.

Mezner specialized in advanced, and very dangerous nanotechnology as applied to both bio-enhancement programs and exploitation, expansion or termination of natural resources within confined areas.

He was recently dispatched on a mission to Lasria, where an unknown virus had begun to affect the local population beyond the point to which the Russian military could handle. The Agency lost all communication with Mezner within a week of his arrival in Lasria.

Mezner's last known message drop contained a badly chopped audio transmission. The file was recovered to the point where the following could be made out: "[static]….. I have found [static] from the bowels of the Lasr…[static]. What is amazing about this discovery is their still alive! I [static] from the room and have felt power [static]." End transmission.

At that point, the tape suddenly got very clear and Mezner ended by saying, "Everything you know about Dark Sector is wrong." That was the end of the transmission.

Nadia Sudek

age: 23 	height: 5'5" 		weight:109 	     
nationality: American
skills: expert at varied hand-to-hand martial combat skills, 
advanced weaponry and electronics training



A military prodigy and the youngest Agency operative ever commissioned for fieldwork, Nadia Sudek left the Agency after Hayden's mysterious meltdown.

Nadia's motivations are conflicted, wanting to serve the cause of the Lasrian people, but also acknowledging her past with Hayden and Mezner. During the events of Dark Sector, the true source of Nadia's conflict are revealed

Yargo Menshik

age: 61      height: 5'4" 	     weight:220 	 nationality: Russian(Georgian)
skills: expert at electronics and counter-surveillance techniques



Yargo Menshik is a former GRU Colonel and Cold War operative who now serves as a sleeper-agent for the Agency within Lasria. Hiding in a secret observation post within the Lasrian Port Authority, Menshik is wired into the barely-functioning dilapidated security system that remains splayed throughout the rusted-out city.

His pipe perpetually perched and unsmoked in his mouth, Menshik has watched the city come apart in a matter of weeks. Thinking he is safe from the infection due to the booster packs which were drop-shipped to him at the start of the outbreak by the Assignment Director, Yargo awaits Hayden's arrival to provide back-up support.

During the course of Hayden's assignment, Yargo supplies him with booster injectors intended to stem the course of the Technocyte virus, information which leads Hayden to the still-thriving Black Market so that Hayden can restock his weapons supply.

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