Deimos

Real name: Gerald Morris.

Affiliations: ATF, Keres Legion, Rainbow (formerly).

Position: Attacker (formerly).

Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Birthdate: 12/14/1972.

Height: 1.86m (6'1).

Weight: 206lb (94kg).

Loadout: .44 Vendetta (Revolver), AK-74 (Kalashnikov rifle).

Typical old school guy that just wants rainbow to return to it's 'team of hardened apex predators' roots.

Appearance: Black bulletproof mask, black scarf, black shirt, camo gloves, black pants, black kevlar vest, black pants, black pouches, black kneeguards, black shoes, BLACK EVERYTHING, NOT EVEN A SINGLE OUNCE OF SKIN IS SHOWING.

Gerald was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. His father is a retired furniture salesman, while his mother is a homemaker. He had two younger sisters that both still lived in Birmingham. He was the valedictorian of his high school class, along with being recognized as a National Merit Scholar in 1982. He attended Rice University in Houston, Texas from 1983 to 1987, where he graduated with a BS in Material Science and a BA in Russian Literature.

Morris joined the American Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (commonly known as just "ATF") in 1988 as an agent in their Explosives Division. He earned an MS in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of New Orleans during a leave of absence from the ATF from 1992-1994. His thesis, Applications of Micro-stress Analysis in Accelerant Identification, was considered to be a landmark in the forensic analysis of bomb debris.

Upon return to active duty in 1995, he was asigned to the ATF's International Response Team (IRT). Since 1998, he has been on extended assignment in South Korea with the Korean counter-terrorism task force, the National Police 868 Unit, training them in techniques of bomb detection, bomb disposal, and post-bombing investigation. At this time, his wife and two daughters lived in Seoul, South Korea.

In 1999, Gerald was recruited by John Clark to join Rainbow as a demolitions specialist. Under the command of Ding Chavez and alongside his fellow teammates, Gerald participated in Operation Mystic Tiger on October 1, 2000. At 0600 hours, he and the rest of his team stormed the Horizon Ark and helped arrest John Brightling, the leader of Phoenix Group, an ecoterrorist cell with anarchist leanings.

During the Rogue Spear operations, he joined Rainbow and Ding on Operation Zero Gambit, helping shutdown the Cherkasy Nuclear Power Plant and killing Maxim Kutkin. In 2007, he once again assisted Ding and Rainbow during Operation Steel Rose, helping to defuse the bombs planted by Nikola Gospić and his men.

It is currently unknown if he participated in Operation Patriots.

In 2012, Gerald Morris and Daniel Bogart were sent to an Eastern European breakaway state. Gerald and Daniel proceeded to clear the building and at the bottom of the building, there was a locked door with a bomb set to blow up the entire area. Daniel detained the bomb maker while Gerald was told to defuse the bomb. However, Gerald had grown disillusioned over the years and realized the bomb maker was responsible for other attacks around the world. Unwilling to be a pawn for governments no longer, he executed the bomb maker and killed Daniel as the latter prepared to arrest him. Morris then escaped in a helicopter and faked his death by allowing the bomb to go off leading to the facility's explosion. One of his fellow operatives, Kure Galanos was affected by the blast, but later survives. He subsequently went underground while Rainbow was disbanded soon after until it was reactivated in 2015.

Sometime between 2012 and 2022, Gerald started his own mercenary unit, the Keres Legion, and adopted the moniker Deimos. In early 2022, after NIGHTHAVEN's defection from Rainbow, Deimos and his organization orchestrated a plan to destroy Rainbow from the inside, by stealing NIGHTHAVEN QCR equipment and assassinating the CEO of Yahata Security, Masayuki Yahata, in front of his bodyguard Kana "Azami" Fujiwara using the stolen gear. Azami, now a member of Rainbow, alongside Yumiko "Hibana" Imagawa, Mike "Thatcher" Baker and Ryad "Jackal" Al-Hassar went to investigate the crime scene and followed the blood trail of one of the surviving assassins. Upon interrogation, the man revealed that he received an encrypted message from an unknown source (secretly Deimos) ordering Yahata's death, along with crates full of money and QCR weaponry. Before the assassin could reveal more, an attack chopper sent by Deimos killed the man and almost took out the squad of operators, had it not been for Azami's Kiba Barriers.

Rainbow assumed the attack to have been carried out by Nighthaven themselves but lacked the evidence to prove it. Wolfguard squad members Néon "Sens" Mutombo, Olivier "Lion" Flament and Gilles "Montagne" Touré proceeded to rescue The Architect that helped in the construction of Nighthaven's HQ and, later, with his help, Ghosteyes operative Nøkk infiltrated the PMC's base and hacked into their servers, taking information from their QCR Shipment Records before facing off against Agent Charlie "Grim" Keng Boon, who failed to apprehend her.

Rainbow soon learned that Nighthaven wasn't responsible for Yahata's death, but rather that their gear fell into the wrong hands. While Ghosteyes Captain Tainá "Caveira" Pereira and Redhammer Captain Jordan "Thermite" Trace (along with a team of operators from both squads) assaulted an abandoned hangar full of mercenaries armed with the stolen gear, Deimos infiltrated the home of Harry "Six" Pandey. Deimos explained to Harry that Rainbow's assault on his hired mercs was merely a trap he used to lure them to their deaths, while giving Harry a phone with Thermite's hacked body camera so the Director could watch the entire situation unfold with his very own eyes. The weapon crates, rigged with explosives, blew up and severely injured Thermite, Sledge, Zofia and Caveira as well as putting Ash in a coma. Deimos explained that as a former member of Rainbow himself, he was disgusted and disappointed in the unit's current state under Harry's leadership, claiming he had disgraced his unit and turned it into "a fucking Ice Capades". Harry, in his last words, claimed his job was never to lead Rainbow, but rather to help them lead themselves. Harry then proceeded to tell Deimos how he found him "exceedingly fucking boring" before the ex-operator shot him in the heart with a revolver, killing him instantly. Deimos got up from his chair and stated that he would tell his operators how he went out swinging, before leaving.

Hibana, Capitão and Brava of the Viperstrike squad later infiltrated an aircraft carrying Deimos, his men and their money. Brava used her Kludge drone to hack an automated turret and distract the mercenaries while Hibana took them out and used her X-Kairos to destroy a nearby wall Deimos was taking cover behind. Before they could promptly kill him, Deimos opened the plane's cargo hatch, sending his own men flying off the plane, along with the money, almost killing Capitão in the process. Brava was forced to let Deimos escape as she saved her cousin.

Using intel they found inside the plane, Viperstrike carried out an operation in Ouro Preto, Brazil, where Deimos had a hidden facility. As the operators engaged the guards, the building was blown up by a mysterious figure who was observing from a nearby forest. Rainbow soon cornered the man and were informed that he was the one who planted the intel inside Deimos' plane that was used to bring them there. He then revealed that Deimos had planned to blow up the building himself to kill had he not intervened. The man states that he was the real intel Rainbow was looking for, revealing himself as Emil "Fenrir" Svensson, a former Swedish SOF operative who used to work for Deimos as a scientist. Deimos had approached Svensson with the opportunity of funding his research on a soluble fear toxin, which they used to create the initial prototype of the F-NATT Dread Mine. After Deimos tested an unstable variant on Fenrir's colleagues, which lead to their horrific deaths, Fenrir destroyed Deimos' lab and escaped, taking his research with him.

In August 2023, Deimos had his men took a group of civilians hostage inside a pier in Costa Brava, Spain. A team of Redhammer operators, comprised of Fenrir, Buck, Amaru, Goyo, Oryx and Kaid were deployed to rescue the hostages and their families. One of the hostages was an accountant for Yahata Security, responsible for relaying information from agencies with potential candidates to become Rainbow recruits. The man had revealed to the Keres soldiers where the next training session would take place: the Tower in Seoul, South-Korea.

On the 13th, Deimos sent an attack helicopter to the Tower, where a training session under supervision from Specialist Chul-Kyung "Vigil" Hwa was taking place. There, many operatives of the South Korean 35th Commando Battalion, otherwise known as the "Tarantula" Unit, were practicing a rappel exercise when the Keres Legion's helicopter arrived, gunning down many of the recruits. This included Specialist Cheon "Angel" Sa-Ya, who was close friends with Specialist Bo-Ram "Ram" Choi. Angered by her friend's death, Choi used her BU-GI Auto-Breacher to carve a way into the Tower's armory and, using an LMG-E found inside, gunned down the chopper.

Using data recovered by Ram and Vigil from the chopper's black box, Rainbow discovered the helicopter came from a cargo ship near the coast of Portugal called "Heartbreaker". They deployed a Wolfguard team, which was already on-site due to the recent recruitment of Specialist Isaac "Tubarão" Nunes Oliveira. After following the tracks of Deimos' Keres troops from the Heartbreaker Ship, Tubarão, alongside fellow Wolguard Specialist, Mina "Thunderbird" Sky, had finally located the headquarters of the Keres Legion, hidden inside a massive cave complex. Inside the ominous base, Tubarão located a group of hostages being executed. Despite eliminating all the soldiers who were holding them, Tubarão was too late and the hostages were all killed. However, he did find intel on Deimos' next plan: Attack Rainbow's top black-site where the Security Committee where having a meeting, an old Irish country club known as Emerald Plains.

On Feburary 23rd, 2024, Deimos initiated a raid on the Rainbow black site on Emerald Plains during a Security Committee meeting. However, things didn't go as planned, as Rainbow operatives Doc, Mira, Rook and Zero were already on site preparing to capture Deimos for interrogation. Deimos managed to overpower all 4, shooting Doc, Mira and Rook before being ambushed by Zero. Deimos recognized Fisher and got the upper hand, almost killing him before being shot in the mask by Rook who he along with Mira and Doc survived by wearing Rook's newly upgraded body armor. Deimos would be captured and brought to the Rainbow HQ for interrogation.

Sometime into his incarceration, Deimos would be interrogated by Rainbow operators before Ash, who recently woke up from her coma, attempted to do the interrogation by herself. With Deimos shortly after she entered, began riling her up with insults before attempting to strike a deal with the rest of Rainbow: He would be allowed to rejoin the Rainbow program as an active opeator and in exchange he would give them critical information about Keres legion, this offer was obviously denied.

Then in mid-2024, Morris is brought out of his cell to have a talk with her former ally, Kure Galanos whom he left crippled due to the explosion when he went rogue, with Galanos giving Morris a piece of her mind and letting out part of her frustration on Deimos.

Psychology Report:

Morris’ arrival has had a toxic effect on Specialist morale. Tensions are high.

His capture offers us a unique opportunity. On a personal level, to help Rainbow operators define who they are. And, more pressingly, access to intel that will identify those who supported him. Nothing can be more important than that.

This is the Deimos effect. The trust in between operators is being tested. Adding to the turmoil is an unspoken acknowledgement between operators that the man in that cell is one of the best soldiers the Rainbow program ever produced. His skill is apparent in how he moves, how he speaks, and how he thinks. Before most became aware of his terrible actions, Morris was an aspirational figure, a legend. It is difficult to come to terms with.

With him saying in emerald plains shortly before capture: “Rainbow is already dead.”

And the folk at Rainbow know it isn't an empty threat. They have little to act on as he spends most interrogations in silence and this deadlock has led some to suggest a reckless gambit: involve Deimos in the mission against his backers. Who in their right mind would green light that initiative? And yet, suggesting this to him has produced the first instance of actionable intel.

Rainbow has since been split into the idea of accepting him back into the ranks in exchange for valuable intel, or to figure the rest our themselves.

Alas, no matter the choice the ends up being made, Rainbow will protect those you cannot protect themselves, no matter what it takes.

Device Evaluation:

Device: DeathMARK Tracker.

Operator: Former Specialist, Gerald "Deimos" Morris.

Evaluation Lead: Dr. Elena "Mira" Álvarez, Director of R&D

A probe was recovered from Emerald Plains that analysts at rainbow were able to tie to Deimos. It is called the DeathMARK Tracker. Not a typical reconnaissance device, it seems to be based on the Black Hornet Nano UAV. it tags an individual allowing for pinpoint awareness of their location.

The DeathMARK Tracker shows promise in countering an enemy executing a flanking manoeuvre, especially if combined with Lion's EE-ONE-D or Jackal's Eyenox Model III. A curious mechanism of the probe is to offer the enemy intel on its deployer's whereabouts. There are a few ways to justify the feature, the foremost being misinformation; having enemies focus on a target creates windows of opportunity elsewhere.

Tests verify that Vigil's ERC-7 and Mute's Signal Disruptors are effective in disabling the signal emitted by a tagged Specialist, but this disruption isn't permanent. Deactivating the ERC-7 or moving out of the jammer's influence will make the target visible again.