“ What do you say, Agent? You ready to see how far down the rabbit hole really goes? - Kelso speaks through the SHD Crate before zapping the agents trying to open the crate and see what's inside”
Alani Kelso, callsign Cassandra, is a Division agent who was assigned to Washington, D.C. to help retake. With the advent of several Division agents who came to the city, she played a major part in coordinating efforts and assisting agents in the field with restoring the SHD Network and retaking the Capitol.
Kelso was also involved in the events of Warlords of New York, where she helped the agents neutralize Aaron Keener and his cell in Lower Manhattan in addition to helping agents in the Manhunts against Rogue Cells. The revelation of Faye Lau, a fellow agent who went rogue after WONY's campaign, shook her heavily And as such, she disavowed Lau as a traitor and was involved in the Manhunt that led to her death.
However, recent events have put Kelso to a difficult position, where she learned that Lau and Schaeffer were helping the Division the whole time and trying to prove Lau's innocence to a lot of people. In Vanguard, she went missing when she followed the trail that led her to Keener and Theo Parnell.
After being shown the truth from both of them, Kelso joined with them and escaped New York via a van after Keener recovered a Mobile SHD Server, with their destination set for their Washington, D.C. to parley with the Division. Her partnership with them marked her as Rogue.
In First Rogue, Kelso was forced to separate from her team when they were ambushed by a Black Tusk's "welcoming party" after they arrived to the capitol. While the Division managed to locate and secure Keener and Parnell to the White House, Kelso was still in hiding.
In Burden of Truth, as Division agents followed the clues that Kelso scattered across Washington D.C, they uncovered more truth behind Faye Lau, the Cassandra mission, and Bardon Schaeffer.
Personality[]
Kelso is quiet and watchful. She always takes in her surroundings and assesses the situation with close scrutiny before she acts. When facing danger, her violent, ruthless side comes out. Her usual solution to problems is to blow them up.
Over time, she feels she doesn't belong in D.C. anymore, feeling more like a stranger to the friendly settlements than a Division agent that people can trust. Where in New York, she feels more at home with the people in Haven Settlement, including Roy Benitez and Paul Rhodes.
She also held a sense of loyalty to her fellow agent Faye Lau, almost looking up to her. Sadly, Lau going Rogue broke her spirit badly. After Lau's death and the revelation of why she went rogue came to light, Kelso felt a new sense of purpose and now she's driven to finish what Lau started, both for her memory and to see the end of Black Tusk, even if it means getting her hands dirty.
Biography[]
Alani Kelso was born and raised on Kauai, in the state of Hawaii. When she was a child, she lived through Hurricane Iniki, and was left without power for several months. She would later speak to Agent Brooks about how Hurricane Iniki would become the reason that she joined the Division.
She joined the Army out of high school and would later become one of the first women to complete U.S. Army Ranger School, where she demonstrated an aptitude for out-of-the-box solutions and foul play. This made her highly attractive to the Central Intelligence Agency, and for some years she performed covert operations as a paramilitary agent in the National Clandestine Service. There she acquired a mixed reputation, as some of her superiors found her methods questionable even though she always got the job done. She was eventually recruited by the Division, and she even worked as an instructor before taking on active agent status.
Along with Manny Ortega, she was one of the characters coordinating the Division's efforts to retake Washington, D.C., and sometimes assisted agents in the field, and is one of the only surviving Division agents originally assigned to D.C.
Events prior to Tom Clancy's The Division 2[]
Kelso has met with April Kelleher, whom told her about her experience in Ann Arbor, with Division agent Aurelio Diaz. Kelso believed her story about the rumored antivirals, since she knows Agent Diaz. Kelso then discussed the matter with Division Coordinator Manny Ortega, highlighting the importance of finding the antiviral for the Green Poison.
Kelso and her colleague, Division agent Odessa Sawyer, were ambushed in an alley, with Sawyer injured badly. Fortunately, they were able to fight off the attackers
After the SHD Network went dark, Agent Kelso talked with Agent Espinoza and he told her that he's going to check the SHD node hidden underneath the Jefferson Trade Center.
Kelso received intel on rogue Division agent Aaron Keener sent by Division agent Faye Lau in New York City. She called in Division agent Tegan Silver to crack Keener's encrypted ECHOs to learn more about him, his intentions and plans. Little did Kelso know Silver was a believer in Keener's cause. Tasking her to decrypt his ECHOs may or may not have pushed her closer to becoming one of Keener's rogue agents. Eventually, Silver became a rogue agent and worked for Keener.
On one occasion, Kelso argued with Division agent Ryan Chang on moving supplies out of Washington, D.C.. Chang argued that if the True Sons or the Hyenas come for the Division and JTF, they are going need them. However, Kelso reassured him that the supplies are just a surplus and transport has been arranged to pick them up.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2[]
After an agent arrived in Washington, D.C., Manny Ortega, the local Division Coordinator, sent the agent to the Theater Settlement to check in with Kelso, since she is the longest serving agent in city, she would know more about the situation. Meanwhile, knowing her former Division agent colleague, now the leader of the Theater Settlement - Odessa Sawyer, that her daughter, Eleanor Sawyer, has been kidnapped and held in the Grand Washington Hotel, she sneaked inside and rigged their explosives to create a massive distraction while the new agent fights the way through. Eventually, the agent met with Agent Kelso on the hotel's rooftop, they then killed all the Hyenas and rescued Eleanor. While the agent went to eliminate the backup Hyena forces, Kelso brought Eleanor back to her mother.
Afterwards, the Division agent met with Kelso and Sawyer at the Theater Settlement, with Kelso persuaded Sawyer to take action against the enemy factions in the district, Sawyer reluctantly agreed.
Kelso then sent the agent to the depths of Jefferson Trade Center to reactivate the SHD node and find Division agent Espinoza. After the agent reactivated the node, one of the Hyena leaders, Coyote, spoke with Agent Kelso in the SHD comms, informing her that she had Agent Espinosa captured, and tried to broker a deal that if the Division backed off from the building, she would release him alive but not well. Kelso ignored the deal and told the agent to push through and save Espinoza since she believed Coyote would keep him alive to negotiate. However, when the agent reached Espinoza, Coyote killed him in front of the agent. Kelso then told the agent to avenge him.
Sometime later, Kelso told the agent to check in with her at the Castle Settlement, only to find out the settlement has been demolished by the True Sons. Kelso found 7 survivors remaining, hidden in the bunker below the settlement. After the agent arrived, Kelso sent the agent to Jefferson Plaza, where the responsible True Sons were located, and told the agent to make them pay.
After the Division further expanded to the west, Kelso told the agent to meet with her at the Campus Settlement, and held a meeting with Henry Hayes, persuading him to take action against the enemy factions again. Henry Hayes then told Kelso he didn't have enough manpower to handle it and made a deal that if the Division can help with the Outcasts aggression in the area, he could offer his help.
After rescuing President Ellis from the Hyenas in the Bank Headquarters, Kelso, the agent, and Ortega met with the president to discuss the antivirals and formulate a plan to take back the Capitol Building from the True Sons.
To get valuable intel regarding the Outcasts, the Division organized a campaign to capture the Outcasts chief strategist, Harlan Lloyd, at the Potomac Event Center. Agent Kelso was sent to capture him while the agent cut off the Outcasts' transportation. During a firefight, Kelso broke her watch and temporarily disabled communications between her and the Base of Operations. However, Kelso managed to come out on top of them, and briefly regrouped with the agent before she captured Lloyd.
In the fight for the Capitol, Kelso was on a JTF helicopter, waiting for the agent to neutralize the True Sons defenses and then extract with the newly retrieved antivirals. Once all the ground-to-air missiles has been disabled, Kelso set down the helicopter, and the agent got the box on board. Before the True Sons could counter-strike them, Kelso extracted the antivirals.
After the Division's victory against the True Sons, Kelso, Ortega, and the settlement leaders get together at the White House to celebrate with fireworks all in the meanwhile the Black Tusk invaded the city.
After the Black Tusk invasion has failed, the Division received word on the whereabouts of the Outcasts leader Emeline Shaw. Kelso guided the agent to the Manning National Zoo on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. to hunt down and eliminate the threat.
Shortly after, Division Agent Sanders contacted The Division regarding the Black Tusk activity at The Pentagon. Kelso asked the agent to reach out to Sanders and investigate the activity. After Sanders and the agent found out the Black Tusk was looking for a Biofusion Reactor, they were confused. Kelso stepped in and explained to them what it was and why the Black Tusk wanted it. After the reactor was secured, Kelso congratulated the team on the success.
A United Ironworks employee called Zach Young contacted Kelso and the Division regarding the True Sons activity on the ironworks ground. Fearing that this could be a True Sons' resurrection in Washington, D.C., Kelso dispatched a team of Division agents to eliminate the threat and told Young to go radio silence and hide until the agents arrived. During the operation, Kelso was in close contact with the agents to see what was going on in there. After several threats were eliminated, Young attempted to step in and help the agents, but Kelso warned him that it was too dangerous. The True Sons' leader at the ironworks, Morozova, executed Young in front of the agents. After a moment of grieving, Kelso continued to guide the agents to the final area of the ironworks to stop Morozova from mobilizing the Iron Horse to D.C. The agents stood up Morozova and came out on top. Kelso thanked both the agents and Young for saving the White House.
Warlords of New York[]
Kelso and the agent were called in to support the Division in New York City after multiple biological attacks happened. They assaulted the New York City Hall upon arrival. After they eliminated most of the Rikers presence at the building, Kelso told the agent to move ahead while she took care of the wounded.
Kelso and the agent were then called by acting commander of the Division in the Northeast sector, agent Faye Lau, to get to Haven, a civilian settlement in the middle of Lower Manhattan. Kelso and the agent got there, but the civilians refused to open the gates of Haven to the agents. After a while of negotiation made by Faye Lau with the settlement leader, Paul Rhodes, the civilians finally opened the gates and let the agents in.
Kelso was then informed that the perpetrators of the attack were Rogue Division agents Aaron Keener, Vivian Conley, Javier Kajika, James Dragov and Theo Parnell. Kelso provided logistics support for the agent during the hunt for Keener's four lieutenants. Eventually the agent defeated Keener's lieutenants and Faye Lau were able to use their Smartwatches to locate Keener at Liberty Island.
After Keener's location was revealed, Kelso moved to the ferry terminal to secure transportation but was met by the Black Tusk forces who attempted to destroy the ferries. The agent then arrived and with Kelso, they prevented the detonation of the last remaining ferry and secured the ferry terminal. They then set off to Liberty Island. However, during the journey, Black Tusk Commander Bardon Schaeffer ordered the attack on the ferry using the missiles in his hovercraft. The ferry was destroyed but the agents made it to the shore of Liberty Island. Kelso told the agent to go ahead and find Keener while she took her time to get back up to her feet. Kelso attempted to provide logistics support for the agent but their comms were hacked by Keener, who then teased them in their comms. Kelso then ordered a radio silence to prevent Keener from listening in.
Eventually, the agent took out the Black Tusk presence on the island who attempted to kill Keener, as well wounding Keener in a fight. Agent Kelso arrived at the docks and cornered Keener. Keener, fatally wounded, used his final breath to activate the Rogue Network. Kelso saw that Keener was messing with his smartwatch, and she then tried to hold Keener's wound and asked him what he did, but Keener refused to answer, simply stating "you have no idea what's coming," and died. Kelso then shot up a signal flare to request transport off the island. Keener's smartwatch suddenly activated, then started broadcasting the live conversation between Schaeffer and Faye Lau, who revealed that she is now a rogue agent.
Kelso got back to Haven and reported to JTF captain Roy Benitez and Paul Rhodes that Lau had gone rogue and was working with the Black Tusk. Kelso then told the agent that a pilot will always be ready for the agent should the agent wishes to travel to New York City or Washington, D.C., and she would travel with the agent to provide logistics support.
Sometime after, Kelso told the agent that The Summit, a skyscraper in New York City was being occupied by a large enemy presence, and asked the agent to "clean it up".
Manhunt on Rogue Division Agent Cells[]
After Keener has been taken down, it was revealed to The Division that he arranged an attack in Washington, D.C. and tasked Rogue Division Agent Molly "Jupiter" Henderson to do it. Kelso briefed the agent on the newly discovered rogue agents cell. The agent hunted Henderson across Washington, D.C. and New York City. It was finally revealed that Henderson is in Roosevelt Island, the former Outcasts stronghold. Kelso guided the agent to the island to take down Henderson, which the agent successfully done so and prevented Henderson from distributing her EMP devices to rogue agents across the country.
Kelso received words regarding the recent rogue agents' activities to recruit the Outcasts, led by Carter "Hornet" Leroux and his team of Rogue Division Agents. Kelso tasked the agent to track down the rogues and prevent them from getting away with their Outcasts recruits. The agent hunted down all the rogue agents, which led to the location of Leroux in Tidal Basin. During the assault on the base, Kelso hacked into a decommissioned Warhound that Black Tusk left behind. The agent installed the newly discovered healing trap on it and it helped the agent to withstand the toxicity of the Eclipse virus long enough to get through the toxic gas. The agent reached Leroux and finished him off for good this time.
Kelso was alerted on the rogue network that a new rogue division agents cell led by the notorious BTSU leader Bardon Schaeffer was surfaced. Kelso asked the agent to take down the rogue cell and located Schaeffer. After Schaeffer's rogue division agents are being taken down, and his location is revealed, Kelso guides the agent to Coney Island, Brooklyn to kill Schaeffer. During the hunt, a Hunter surfaced and brutally killed many Rikers. Since the very same Hunter had appeared and aided on the agent's hunt for Schaeffer's rogue agents, Kelso suspected that the Hunter was also after Schaeffer. To her surprise, the Hunter was actually working for Schaeffer. After the Hunter was taken out, Kelso heard a conversation between Schaeffer and a woman named Natalya Sokolova, and was curious about her identity. The agent eventually defeated Schaeffer, who was critically wounded from the fight but still alive. Kelso ordered for Schaeffer to be retrieved, aiming to get whatever intelligence they can from him and have him stand trial for crimes against the Division.
Shortly after the battle for the White House, Kelso, Sanders and their fellow agents discovered Captain Lewis's corpse and activated a nearby ECHO, discovering that Lewis had sacrificed himself to buy time for Manny to hide with the unconscious Schaffer. Upon locating Manny's location, Kelso and Sanders assisted him in recovering Schaffer as Kelso decided to return to Benitez in New York, having grown concerned over further instability owing to the crippling of the SHD Network by Black Tusk forces.
Following a Trail[]
While agents in D.C. focused their efforts in rescuing civilians kidnapped by the Black Tusk, Kelso returned to Haven, hoping to keep things stable in the settlement. During her stay, she picked up a trail that the ANNA AI left her through Faye's watch calling for "Cassandra" and to claim her "prize". Not wasting time, she decided to follow the trail, leading her to go missing.
Fear and suspicion would arise among the personnel in the White House/Castle settlements due to the revelation that one of the Division agents, Brian Johnson, turned out to be the Recruiter from the Hunter program, forcing Division agents to face the reality that Hunters are among them. After Johnson's defeat, questions were raised whether Kelso could be trusted. Under Manny's orders, Division agents were sent to investigate Kelso's whereabouts.
During their investigation, they learned about a few things. But more importantly, they discovered a camera footage of Agent Kelso in a safehouse with an ECHO left by Aaron Keener. The ECHO reveals that "Cassandra" is Faye Lau's secret identity and was secretly working with the rogue agent regarding their Hunter problem. And the solution to that problem could be found inside an SHD crate in that was nearby. However, due to lacking two-factor authentication, Kelso was shocked and was knocked out.
Additionally, she left a series of notes addressed to the agents attempting to find her out of concern that their comms being intercepted by Black Tusk and the Hunters. Kelso's status was unknown at the time, but it was clear that she's been working on finding an edge against the Black Tusk/Hunters and their technological prowess.
Going Rogue[]
After combing through the four areas of Lower Manhattan, Division agents would find Kelso's location pinged on the Stranded Tanker. While they were intercepting her location, they fought and eliminated waves of Black Tusk and True Sons forces, including a Hunter sent by Natalya Sokolova, who were under orders to capture "Cassandra".
Entering the tanker and hoping to find Kelso, they instead intercept a SHD crate (the same crate that Kelso found in the safehouse). Similar to what happened to Kelso, their attempt to open it shocks them and knocks them out. Using this opportunity, Keener lied in wait to clone the ANNA system to his watch; stepping over the unconscious agent and opening the crate before taking the enclosed briefcase with with him. Alongside Theo Parnell and Kelso, they escaped New York City through a van.
As indicated in later seasons, that after Kelso was knocked out by the SHD Crate from that footage, she was intercepted by Keener who managed to convince her to work with him and Parnell in order to take the fight against the Black Tusk and the Hunters after showing her the truth. In any case, after the events at the tanker, she sent a fifth and final note to the agents, apologizing for not telling them what's in the crate, as well as explaining that Manny wouldn't understand and try to stop her from finishing what Faye Lau started.
Trials from The First Rogue[]
Not long after the events of Vanguard, Kelso alongside Aaron Keener and Theo Parnell would make their way to D.C to parley with the Division and their allies. She vouched for the agents to Keener, though the latter decided to put them to a series of four trials. And once they succeed and get to meet with him, they'd understand the real threat to the Division. Not keen on compromisng herself and her allies as "Cassandra", Kelso went radio dark
While the agents were going through the Leto trial, they intercepted comms between Manny Ortega and Mari Singh. Obviously, Manny was upset over Kelso joining Keener and the fact they're making their way to D.C. But he'd quickly realize that Kelso and her new team are after DIAMOND since Faye's mission while infiltrating Black Tusk was intercepting the AI.
After Division agents met with Keener in Federal Emergency Bunker and helped him in disposing Black Tusk hostiles, Keener was allowed entry to the White House to the panic room's detention cell. Comms correspondence between Keener and Manny reveals that those are the terms the latter have given to the rogue agent, and Keener will remain in his cell until he could bring Agent Kelso and have her vet him.
Additionally, the comms correspondence reveals that once Keener showed her everything, Kelso willingly joined him. And despite not trusting the rogue agent, Manny desperately wants to trust Kelso. And as it would turn out, Kelso also took Cassandra codename that Faye Lau previously held. While the motivation is not explicitly known, it can be gleaned that Kelso wants to honor Faye and vowing herself to finish the mission that she started.
However, Division agents were informed by Keener while starting their first mission with him that he, Parnell, and Kelso went separate ways after they were ambushed by a Black Tusk "welcoming party" when they arrived to Washington, D.C., forcing the agents to reunite his team.
While the Division eventually located Parnell and extracted him to the White House, Kelso's exact whereabouts are unknown with the only lead being that she's still in Washington, D.C and is in hiding.
Burden of Truth[]
After Aaron Keener and Theo Parnell were secured and sent to the White House, Kelso was still at large in Washington, D.C. Aware that she won't just enter the Base of Operations, Manny Ortega coordinated with Division agents to follow Kelso's trail across Washington, D.C., with express orders not to kill her as she was still owed some explanations. Kelso left clues in many areas, with the intel revealing more truth about Faye Lau, the Cassandra mission, and Bardon Schaeffer
While the agents were busy recovering the clues across the city, Kelso infiltrated the White House at some point to take Faye Lau's laptop from the basement. With that laptop, President Ellis's smart watch and the Mobile SHD Server in her custody, she concealed them on Roosevelt Island, hoping the agents would learn the truth after they recover those items. After recovering 11 clues, the agents assaulted the island to recover the mobile server which they managed to do after eliminating True Sons forces in the area. As they recovered the three clues, they play an ECHO where they'd learn a shocking revelation; President Ellis willingly helped Faye Lau by transferring his security clearance for The Ark Protocol to her smart-watch and wiped it on his end, as he didn't want to give the access to Natalya Sokolova. And Kelso has Lau's smart-watch with her.
Around the same time, Kelso infiltrated her way to the White House's Sick Bay where she lured Doctor Summers (who was a mole for Natalya Sokolova) and killed him, as well as injecting a stim on Schaeffer to wake him up. However, she got intercepted by Manny Ortega, and was gonna be questioned for killing the doctor, which was ignored as Schaeffer woke up from his coma and got helped up by both Kelso and Manny.
With Kelso secured at the White House and more truth uncovered, the Division have an opportunity to hit Black Tusk where it hurts.
Off the Grid[]
With Bardon Schaeffer awake and being debriefed by Manny Ortega, Kelso decided to leave the White House and keep a low profile. Given that she has Faye's watch with her, which has the Presidential clearance that Lau was given from Ellis, staying in the White House or any nearby settlements would put her friends and loved ones in danger. She also explained to Manny what the Cassandra mission was, keeping it on the down-low with no comms, wi-fi killers, and EMPs to keep recordings away. (Manhunt: Crossroads - Comm#5 - The Plan)
With that in mind, Kelso was in hiding, while Division agents followed their mission to extract "The Manager".
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Equipment[]
Kelso is a Rogue Division agent armed with a Custom P416 G3, Marine Super 90 , SHD Airburst Seeker-Mines, SHD Striker Drones and Flashbang Grenades.
Trivia[]
- Kelso was originally armed with a G36 Enhanced as her primary.
- Kelso has a cat at her apartment whose status is unknown.
- As of Year 5 Season 3: Vanguard, Kelso had her design changed from what she was depicted before, sporting a ponytail hairstyle, a black jacket with an orange-black shirt underneath.
- Later, in Year 6 Season 3: Burden of Truth, Kelso now sports a hooded cloak on top of this design.
- During the release Year 7, Season 1: Crossroads, there was an issue where after logging in to the game, Manny Ortega repeats a voice line telling players that he's debriefing with Schaeffer, and saying that "Kelso had to go. Said it'd be much safer if she's not here". That issue persisted for weeks, to the point that voice line became a meme within the community.
- Manhunt: Crossroads, Comm#5, The Plan, explains why "Kelso had to go". She has Faye Lau's watch with her, as it has Presidential Clearance for the Ark Protocol, which was revealed in the final ECHO in Year 6 Season 3's Climax Mission, Roosevelt Island: Alani Kelso.
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Tom Clancy's Elite Squad[]
Alani Kelso was featured in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad as part of the Division faction. She is a Hero character with the abilities Burster Firefly and Oxidizer Chem Launcher, and Squad Perks Emergency and Dutiful.