Hunters (Tom Clancy's The Division)

Evil Organization
Full Name	Hunters
Alias	None
Origin	Tom Clancy's The Division
Foundation	Unknown, possibly the time of the Dollar Flu Outbreak
Headquarters	Unknown
Commanders	Calvin McManus
Agents	Brian Johnson Davis Straton Taylor Nicholls Bear Jiang Ziya Deceit Jack Bonney Recruiter Various other agents
Powers / Skills	Genius-level intelligence Excellent conditioning Peak physical attributes High pain tolerance Ruthless determination Extreme brutality Intimidation Incredible combat skills SHD technology Hacking expertise Brilliant coordination Expert trackers
Goals	Serve their master, Calvin McManus Hunt down and kill Division and Rogue agents.
Crimes	Murder Abuse of power Conspiracy
Type of Villains	Grey-Zone Assassins

The Hunters are supporting antagonists in the Ubisoft videogame Tom Clancy's The Division, and majors antagonists in its 2019 sequel.

They are a secret military program, called "Hunter Program" lead by Calvin McManus as a countermeasure to The Division agents, they most dangerous threat found in the Dark Zone.

History

Tom Chancy's The Division

The Second Wave receives intelligence that there is possibly a cure for the Dollar Flu somewhere in the Dark Zone. Despite an oncoming winter storm and the low probability that there actually is a cure, Second Wave leader Faye Lau decides it is a risk worth taking and sends in agents to find the suspected cure.

This proves to be a fatal decision, as the helicopter transporting the agents inside crash lands and leaves the agents stranded inside the dark zone during a blinding snowstorm. Scrambling out of the wreckage, the player is left at the mercy of the elements, and must scavenge what they need to make it through the night.

Through the course of the night the agents encounter several enemy forces, though by the time they reach extraction they come face to face with a previously unknown enemy force known only as "Hunters". Equipped with Division-quality gear and capable of fighting on the same level as the agents they hunt, they are distinguished by their absolute silence, their distinctive ballistic armor, and most disturbingly their "trophies; the seized SHD watches taken from dead Division agents.

While not part of any of the previous factions, the fact that Hunters have not only hunted down previous agents but have not been encountered before means that there are several pieces of information that have slipped through the net in the chaos since the outbreak of the Dollar Flu. Who the Hunters are, who leads them, and their final goals are as of now unknown.

Hunters are encountered in the Underground, Survival and Resistance.

Tom Clancy's The Divison 2

The Hunters reappear in Tom Clancy's The Divison 2 as the "Unknown". One hunter even baits a Division agent(s) by killing a Division Agent named Edwards and sending out a distress call to draw more Division agents. When the division agents arrive to the scene, they are surprised that it was a trap set up by a Hunter, after a lenglty battle, the Hunter tazers the Division agent(s), glares at them and disappears.

Hunter's Abilities

• Superior Conditioning: The Hunters have shown to have the exact levels of physical strength, mobility, reaction time, stamina and recovery rate just like the Division Agents, if not superior. They can move as fast, if not faster, than Division agents and can even knock down a battle hardened Division agent with one physical strike. They display incredible reflexes and an extremely high pain threshold, being able to take a lot of punishment from division agents without slowing down or loosing morale.
• Intimidation Tactics: The Hunters most prominent ability is their mysterious, yet silent and deadly nature. This combined with their ruthlessness and abilities makes them extremely feared even by the most experienced and skilled soldiers, survivalists, Division agents and Rogue agents. They even put up the collected SHD watches on their armour as a means of psychologically demoralizing their targets into believing that they too will not survive this encounter like the other agents they have tracked down and brutally massacred.
• Tactical Combatants: The Hunters are masterful combatants, particularly in tactical combat. They have habit of sneaking up on Division Agents and planting bait to lure Division Agents into a trap. They are also proficient with fire arms, fighting and marksmanship.
• Tracking Capabilities: The Hunters are proficient trackers, who prefer to stalk the Division Agents and patiently wait for an opportunity to strike.
• SHD Technologies: The Hunters have SHD Technology, which gives them, first aid equipment, armour kits, deployable turrets, seeker mines, support stations or sticky bombs. They even use tazer-like technology, pulse genertaors and smoke bombs.
• SHD Tech Hacking: They also have technology which allows them to hack the SHD Technology of their targets. This ability also serves as means of demoralizing their targets into being hesitant form using their SHD tech as support in battle against Hunters.

Gallery

Hunter's Faith badge

Theories about the Hunters

There is currently no detailed information on where the Hunters came from, their personal identities, or whom they are affiliated with. Nonetheless, there are several theories about their origins and purpose;

• They are or were Rogue First Wave Division Agents who may have acquired their high-end gear from the Dark Zone. Since Arron Keener started killing First wave agents who refused his offers to join him, these agents could've hid in the Dark Zone and gone radio silent to avoid being tracked down. This would explain why the Hunters are highly determined to take down Division Agents, and possibly believing that these Agents are Aaron Keener's soldiers who were sent to hunt them down.
• They may be a part of one of the various LMB splinter groups that formed after their defeat at the U.N. building and the death of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bliss. They now wander the Dark Zone, seeking to personally eliminate the Division Agents.
• They could be Third Wave Division agents deployed by the Strategic Homeland Division into Manhattan in order to hunt down and kill all of the First Wave and Second Wave Division agents because the federal government believes they all of the First Wave and Second Wave Divison agents have gone rogue, therefore making these rogues a threat to national security.
• They could be conspiracy theorists and survivalists who are obsessed with the Division, believing that the Division has been sent to kill them for bearing witness to their activities. By taking up gadgetry from deceased Division agents, studying and replicating them, they stalk the Dark Zone hoping to take down the Division agents before the Division agents take them out.
• They could be a collective or rogue agents and (or) LMB personnel who are loyal to Aaron Keener, even after Aaron Keener left the LMB.
• They could be a branch of Black Tusk who specialize in killing Division agents.
• They are the ultimate and perfected variant of Division agents, who have been trained to hunt down division agents and are psychologically conditioned to be fully obedient to their masters, making them incapable of going rogue.