“ And last but not least, Zachary "Stovepipe" Beattie. I hate this guy. He thinks he's untouchable. Used to be an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, pretty sure it was just an excuse to blow shit up, since all he ever does now is blow shit up. Frankly, I don't trust men that pretty, they always get away with too much shit. ”
Zachary "Stovepipe" Beattie was a high-ranking Black Tusk Operative and the Prime Target in the Reign of Fire season.
Stovepipe is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Specialist. Tasked to destroy explosives, Stovepipe began collecting schematics and prototypes for increasingly unstable Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). This caught the eye of the Black Tusk, who eventually recruited Stovepipe as one of their own. The Division was tasked to collect intel for Stovepipe’s whereabouts. To do that, they had to find and neutralize four targets (Charles “Chunks” Crawford, Lieutenant Bantam, Mort “Cursed” Kellogg and Beatrice “Auntie” Kaplan).
History[]
Zachary "Stovepipe" Beattie was trained as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Specialist. Sometimes you study the things you love. While he was tasked with destroying explosives, he started amassing a collection of schematics and prototypes for increasingly unstable IEDs. His collection caught the eye of his Commanding Officer and rather than leading to a court martial lead to an interview with the Black Tusk. "Stovepipe" loves watching the world burn.
In the wake of the alliance between True Sons and Black Tusk, Stovepipe was tasked with securing key locations with the use of mortar launchers, when he was asked by Natalya Sokolova about the use of dirty bombs in said launchers. Given recent rumours regarding an Outcast attack in St. Louis using dirty bombs, Stovepipe became suspicious of his boss' intentions with the mortars.
After the truth unfolded that the rumours were true, and that the dirty bombs used by the Outcasts and Rogue Agents were stolen from Black Tusk themselves, Beattie became enraged at Sokolova for lying to him, and requested to be extracted from Coney Island after finishing his work with the mortar launchers there. Simultaneously, Division agents were hunting him down by tracking his four lieutenants, which, after taking down former True Son-turned Black Tusk sniper, Beatrice "Auntie" Kaplan, the agents would successfully locate Stovepipe at the island.
The agents would infil to Coney Island Ballpark in order to attempt and recruit Beattie to their side, given how angry he sounded over comms at the fact Sokolova had lied to him. Unfortunely, when the agents finally arrived at his position, Stovepipe was already deceased, having been assassinated by Natalya using BTSU tech, which would then activate to try and kill the agents before they could exfil back to the White House, which was being attacked by other Black Tusk forces.
Abilities[]
In-game, Stovepipe never engages the player due to being killed prematurely by Natalya Sokolova off-screen. In the trailers and artworks, however, he is portrayed as a unique Black Tusk Assault armed with an F2000.
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Trivia[]
- Stovepipe is the third Manhunt Prime Target to never engage the agents in combat during his final mission, the first and second being Captain Lewis and General Anderson, respectively.
- While Lewis joins the agents during his mission and Anderson simply escapes them in his, Stovepipe, uniquely, is already dead by the start of his mission.
- Similarly to General Anderson, Stovepipe is marked as a boss fight in the mission log/description for Ballpark Manhunt: Stovepipe, despite already being dead prior to the start of the mission.