Samantha Maxis

""Formerly an agent in the West German BND, Samantha Maxis will go to any length and cross any line in her mission to uncover the truth about the Dark Aether and the two organizations she's caught between.""

- Official biography of Samantha Maxis in the Intel menu.

Samantha Maxis is an agent who plays a considerable role in Requiem's fight against the Omega Group.

Early Life
Not much is known about Samantha's early life before joining Requiem. So much so, that it even confound her superiors.

Joining the BND and the Islamic Revolution
Samantha Maxis joined the Federal Intelligence Service while growing up in Western Germany. In 1979, the Islamic Revolution broke out in Iran. To ensure the Shah's safe extraction to the United States, Maxis coordinated with the CIA. Despite the Shah's safe travel, Maxis and several other diplomats and civilians were left behind in the chaos. Maxis was saved when Grigori Weaver went off the books to extract her from Iran.

Losing Trust in the BND
In 1983, Dieter, a colleague of Maxis writes to her, warning her that the agency had instructed their agents to pull a list of all foreign nationals who acted as BND agents in the past five years. Shortly after, Maxis received intel about Projekt Endstation from a contact in the KGB named Tatyana. The intel she had received included a picture of a soviet war hero and the Red Army's first encounter with the Dark Aether in the cyclotron. She had also received a VHS tape of old war footage from her contact. Maxis then contacted Dieter, tasking him to bring the VHS tape to Weaver and Requiem.

She then contacted Weaver months later to urge him to watch the tape in the wake of the outbreak zones occurring around the world. She explained to him that the Endstation's reactivation was the cause of the outbreaks and that the Omega Group was behind all of it. Weaver then tells Maxis to turn herself in so that he could protect her from anyone who would harm her. She declined, arguing that she must stay in the field. Maxis ended the conversation and went her separate way.

Maxis then began to become paranoid about the BND itself. She believed that the Omega Group had already compromised the agency. This lead to her leaving the BND and becoming a rogue agent operating without oversight or authorization.

Meeting Sergei Ravenov
Weaver then sent men to West Germany with the intent to retrieve Maxis, but she managed to fend the men off and left Germany in order to meet with a contact within the Omega Group, who she believed could be turned. She then travelled to Vietnam to actually meet with Ravenov. She then learned the true extent of the Omega Group's plans to win the Cold War. She had learned that they were controlling bridges between the Dark Aether and their world in order to gather and weaponize Aetherium.

Infiltrating Outpost 25 and Tortured by Peck
Between May and June 1984, Maxis attempted to infiltrate Outpost 25, lead by Doctor William Peck, in order to gather more information for Requiem. Unfortunately, she was caught and captured. She was then interrogated and tortured by Peck. After refusing to disclose information to Peck, he then threw Maxis into the Dark Aether for an unknown amount of time.

In the Dark Aether
After Maxis had been forced into the Dark Aether by Peck, she then began to transmit using her radio, hoping that there would be someone to hear her pleas for help in order to escape the Dark Aether. It is greatly implied that Maxis was stuck in the Dark Aether for months, despite her not actually being in the Dark Aether nearly as long in the regular world. Maxis did whatever it took to survive in the Dark Aether, finding shelter and food while hiding from the monsters that inhabited the land. Maxis's mental state began to deteriorate more and more as she spent more time in the Dark Aether waiting for an escape, constantly reminding herself who she is and even questioning her own memories, which had been side effects that were obtained from being in the parallel dimension.

Saved by Requiem
With the help of Ravenov, Requiem operators were able to successfully extract Samantha from the Dark Aether. Maxis was not the same as she was before, with her most notably having purple eyes rather than her normal blue eyes, indicating that there had been some effect on her physical being. After defeating Orda, she followed Requiem as they were leaving while Ravenov rejoined Omega Group as a large operation had been occurring the Ural Mountains.

Family

 * Unnamed mother
 * Unnamed father

Allies

 * BND - Former Allies
 * Dieter
 * KGB
 * Tatyana †
 * Requiem
 * Grigori Weaver - Savior
 * Elizabeth Grey
 * Oskar Strauss
 * Mackenzie Carver
 * Raptor-1
 * Kwan Song
 * Jason Hunter
 * Frank Woods
 * Helen A. Park
 * Russell Adler
 * John Baker
 * Wyatt "Bulldozer" Jones
 * Zeyna Ossou
 * Terrell Wolf
 * Karla Rivas
 * Sebastian Vargas - Situational Ally
 * Jada Powers - Situational Ally
 * Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin - Situational Ally
 * Yirina Portnova - Situational Ally
 * Mendo Garcia - Situational Ally
 * Ingo Beck - Situational Ally
 * Harry Stone - Situational Ally
 * Kapana "Naga" Vang - Situational Ally
 * Omega Group - Temporary Allies
 * Sergei Ravenov - Situational Ally

Enemies

 * Omega Group
 * Lev Kravchenko
 * William Peck - Torturer
 * Aleksandra Valentina

Appearances

 * Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
 * Die Maschine
 * Firebase Z
 * Onslaught
 * Outbreak

Gallery

 * There are a collection of images and media of Samantha Maxis at Samantha Maxis/Gallery,