- "There's no hiding. Not for you, not for me. Try not to disappoint me, soldier."
— Deimos
Gerald Morris, also known by his alias "Deimos", is an Attacking Operator featured in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, introduced in the Operation Deadly Omen expansion. A former Rainbow operator turned international terrorist, he is revealed to be the mastermind behind the assassination of Masayuki Yahata and the one who orchestrated the conflict between Rainbow and Nighthaven. On February 17th, 2023, Deimos set up a trap for Ghosteyes and Redhammer, in which he would then kill Rainbow Director Harry "Six" Pandey.
Biography
- "Rainbow operators were harder to kill in my day."
— Deimos
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.
Joining Team Rainbow
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.
Going rogue
Gerald in 2012
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.
War against Rainbow
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.
Raid on 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.
Overview
“I was there when rainbow began. I’ll be there when it ends.” - Deimos
Meet Gerald Morris, aka DEIMOS, hailing from Birmingham Alabama, USA. He is a force to be reckoned with. DEIMOS is an attack Operator who was there when Rainbow began and wishes to see its downfall.
Committed and austere, this Operator runs by the book and is a true soldier at heart. His main mission in life is simple: to create the greatest soldiers the world has ever seen. DEIMOS is making his debut in the new season Operation DEADLY OMEN because a match against him is just that.
DEIMOS is a tracking Operator who uses his DeathMARK, to reveal his opponents' locations while also revealing his own. The DeathMARK makes both players aware of each other's position until time runs out or one player has met their demise. DeathMARK and DEIMOS are a match made in heaven or hell depending on where you stand, both unrelenting as they force confrontation. His 44 Vendetta is his only weapon compatible to use concurrently with DeathMARK and is great for when he needs to get the job done.
DeathMARK isn't his only tool of termination, he can take out opponents with his AK-74M or M590A1. With 2 HEALTH and 2 SPEED DEIMOS is for players who love to strategize and want to outsmart their prey. His collection of weapons also makes him a great choice for Front-Line players, with confidence and the gun skills to back it up. If you're playing against DEIMOS, you must rise to the challenge or be eliminated.
A considerable opponent and soldier to his core DEIMOS will force Defenders to play by his rules. If you have what it takes to counter him; TUBARÃO or VIGIL will make for an interesting match. TUBARÃO's ZOTO CANNISTER can deactivate the DeathMARK temporarily; however, in doing so they will limit utility and movement. VIGIL, on the other hand, is better equipped to counter DEIMOS as he can use the ERC-7 to counteract the DeathMARK. No matter who you may choose to go against this aggressive Operator, DEIMOS and his DeathMARK are here to prove that you can run, but you certainly can't hide.
"Bring DEIMOS on an operation? No way in hell." -- Captain Jordan "Thermite" Trace, Redhammer Squad Leader.
Psychology Report
Morris’ arrival has had a toxic effect on Specialist morale. Tensions are high.
I believe that his capture offers us a unique opportunity. On a personal level, to define who we are, who Rainbow is. And, more pressingly, access to intel that will identify those who supported him. Nothing can be more important than that. The clock is ticking.
I am concerned about Jordan. He has burdened himself with the responsibility for Rainbow’s failures. Speaking frankly as his friend, it is not his cross to bear. As operators in the field, there is little we could have done differently given the circumstances we faced.
This is the Deimos effect. Our trust in each other 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 we became aware of his terrible actions, Morris was an aspirational figure, a legend. It is difficult to come to terms with.
I cannot shake what he said at Emerald Plains, “Rainbow is already dead.”
I’ve seen enough this past year to know it isn’t an empty threat. We have little to act on as he spends most of our interrogations in silence and this deadlock has led some to suggest what I consider 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 our first instance of actionable intel.
Could what we need be obtained with him in the field? An impossible choice that has split Rainbow down the middle. Now, more than ever, we need the leadership of a Six.
We may not have a clear path forward, but I remain hopeful. Because the strength of Rainbow, the strength that has always defined us, comes from our shared purpose: to do whatever it takes to protect those who need protecting.
-- Captain Yumiko “Hibana” Imagawa, Viperstrike Squad Leader
Personality
During his time in Rainbow, Morris was a team player who liked his operations to run strictly by the book. His primary specialty is forensics, but he is also an expert at the setting and disarming of all types of explosive devices. Although he knew a fair amount about conducting counter-terrorist assaults from his years working with the 868 Unit, in hostage situations he preferred an indirect approach. Morris liked to spend his off-duty hours with his family. In his spare time he collected antique blues recordings and memorabilia.
Gameplay Description
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Deimos' unique gadget is the "DeathMARK", a small helicopter-shaped drone that is able to track any identified defender. Deimos can choose from any identified defender, and have a DeathMARK track their exact location, with the drawback of also revealing his location to whomever he is tracking. This location tracking gives Deimos a constant 3D ping and a constant readout of what room his target is in. The operator getting tracked also gets a 3D ping (albeit delayed), but does not get a readout of what room Deimos is in. Along with revealing his location, Deimos is not able to use his primary weapon while a DeathMARK is deployed. If you have either of his primary weapons out while you choose a target, you will automatically holster your primary weapon and pull out Deimos' unique .44 Vendetta secondary. When an operator is selected to be tracked by a DeathMARK, ALL players receive a notification at the top of the screen (in a similar position to Lion's drone scan icon), displaying the text "*OPERATOR* has been targeted by Deimos". It should be noted that only Deimos and his target get their respective pings. No other players are able to see them.
The DeathMARK lasts a set period of time (around 20-30 seconds), but can be manually cancelled by Deimos if he so chooses. Deimos begins with a DeathMARK at the start of a round, and slowly gets more as the round goes on, similar to Lesion's Gu Mines. From the time that Deimos chooses his target and the notification is sent out, there is a short pause (about 3 to 4 seconds) while the DeathMARK flies to your location, and then it begins tracking you. DeathMARKs also cannot be destroyed by any operator.
Being a Medium Health operator, Deimos favors a methodical yet fast playstyle, and is able to directly go toe-to-toe with most roaming defenders, along with being able to directly counter most flanks (not counting Vigil). Deimos works exceptionally well with other recon operators, such as Jackal and Lion, and is a must-pick for any player who is good at communicating.
Synergies
- If an operator is in an area where a DeathMARK cannot access the selected operator (such as standing near one of Mute's Signal Disruptors), Twitch's Shock Drone can be used to destroy said Disruptor, cancelling that counter. Zero's ARGUS camera's lasers can also destroy said counters.
- Dokkaebi and Brava's abilities to hack defenders' cameras can also represent a great source of intel-gathering to scan and identify more targets for Deimos to hunt down.
- If there are no identified defenders by the time you begin a round, Jackal's Eyenox can assist in giving Deimos some ground to use his DeathMARK. Lion can also get a similar effect, as his EE-ONE-D is able to automatically identify anyone pinged by it.
- If the person on your team using Deimos is a good communicator, they can keep your team updated on exactly where their target is, giving you an added layer of intel, and allowing for potential team ambushes on his target.
Counters
- If you're standing over one of Mute's Signal Disruptors before Deimos begins tracking you with a DeathMARK, he won't be able to track you while you're in the radius of the Disruptor. If you're already being tracked, and you enter the perimeter of a Disruptor, the DeathMARK will be unable to track you, and the duration of that specific DeathMARK will be paused. However, as soon as you exit the perimeter of the Disruptor (provided Deimos hasn't cancelled it), the DeathMARK will immediately resume tracking you. This same effect applies to Tubarão's Zoto Canisters as well.
- If you have not been scanned by a drone of any type, and haven't been identified by any means, Deimos cannot target you with his DeathMARKs.
- Vigil's ERC-7 Video Disruptor outright nullifies the effect of Deimos' DeathMARKs. If the ERC-7 is active when a DeathMARK is about to be deployed, Deimos will be unable to begin tracking Vigil.
- EMPs from Bulletproof Cameras used on Deimos are able to disrupt the tracking of any active DeathMARKs.
- If one of these above counters is activated while the DeathMARK is still finding your location and hasn't begun to track you yet, the tracking will be cancelled, and that DeathMARK will be refunded to Deimos.
- Just like if the person playing Deimos is a good communicator, if Deimos' target is a good communicator, they can update your team on where he is in relation to them, also allowing for potential team ambushes to catch Deimos when he's not paying attention.
- When using this ability, Deimos can only use a secondary weapon. If the secondary weapon runs out of ammo, the operator can only use a melee attack while using the ability.
Device Description
Device Evaluation
Device: DeathMARK Tracker
Operator: Former Specialist, Gerald "Deimos" Morris
Evaluation Lead: Dr. Elena "Mira" Álvarez, Director of R&D
I began this report at Hereford Military Hospital and have since relocated to my lab, which my Viperstrike squadmates have kindly upgraded into a more hospitable space. Jäger has been especially attentive. To be honest, I'm not at my best... I lost. I should be dead.
We recovered a probe from Emerald Plains that out analysts were able to tie to Deimos. It is called the DeathMARK Tracker. Not a typical reconnaissance device, it tags an individual allowing for pinpoint awareness of their location. Having experienced what Deimos can do firsthand, I understand the choice of name.
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.
My 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.
These experiments confirm that I am lucky to have survived Emerald Plains. Had Deimos maintained superiority in numbers, his advantage would have been insurmountable. I won't waste my luck. I will be ready for the DeathMARK Tracker next time I enter the field.
— Dr. Elena "Mira" Álvarez, Director of R&D
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Trivia
- "Deimos" shares his name with the Greek god of dread and terror.[1]
- It can noted by his office in the map Lair that Deimos has some kind of obsession with masks, as shown by his display. He also, seemingly, has a particular taste in Russian literature, judging by the many books on the shelves behind his office desk.
- Deimos keeps Harry's recorder (which he stole after killing him) inside a drawer in his desk. It can be speculated that he used the device to acquire more information on Rainbow's operators, as it contained Harry's psych evaluations in it.
- Deimos loves listening and collecting Blues recordings. This is further proof shown at the Vinyl Classic charm description:
- His identification number as a Rainbow Operator was RCT0047-A0781.
- He is the only character from a previous Rainbow Six game to return in Siege.
- This is no longer true with the release of Skopós.
- His bio in Siege mentions an Operation Red Storm. This is a reference to Red Storm Entertainment, the original developers of the first three Rainbow Six games of which Morris appears in.
- In addition, his bio mentions Operation Mystic Tiger, Operation Zero Gambit, and Operation Steel Rose, the final missions to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield respectively.
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