Maxis was saved by the intervention of CIA officer Grigori Weaver who was willing to go off the books to extract her out of the country. This marked the beginning of a strong friendship between the two spies. At one point, Weaver and Samantha were actively attempting to save a "boy". Samantha was waiting for a phone call from Weaver from 10 to 12 o'clock, until she heard about an explosion on TV, distressing her to the point of sleeplessness. At 3AM, Weaver arrived at Samantha's apartment, bloodied and wounded.

While crying, Weaver mumbled about covering his tracks after a hit, and how sorry he was. He told Samantha that the boy was supposed to be staying with his mother, but in reality was inside the house as it burned to the ground. In , Maxis noticed something was wrong within the BND with one of her colleagues, Dieter, warning her that the agency was pulling a list of all foreign nationals and defectors who worked for the BND in the five years prior.

Soon after, she received a message from her contact within the KGB, Tatyana, talking about something from World War II they dug up from their archives called "Endstation" with a ground operation taking place in Poland. She warned Weaver about the matter but feared their conversations were spied on. By early November , several Outbreak Zones started to appear around the world. Maxis contacted Weaver and urged him to watch the tape while explaining to him that Endstation was the cause of the outbreaks and that Omega Group was behind all of it.

This led to the creation of Requiem with Weaver being one of its leaders. While Weaver offered his help to protect Maxis, she refused; arguing she must stay in the field. Believing the BND was compromised by Omega Group, she was now operating without authorization or oversight. Weaver sent men to retrieve Maxis, but she managed to fend them off and left Germany to meet a new contact within Omega Group, Sergei Ravenov, who she believed could be turned.

After a stop in Romania, she traveled to Vietnam where an Omega base, Outpost 25, was located under the leadership of William Peck. With the information provided by Ravenov, Maxis realized the full extent of Omega Group's plans: controlling the bridges between their world and the Dark Aether to harness and weaponize Aetherium to win the Cold War. In June , Maxis was captured while infiltrating Outpost Interrogated by Peck, she was soon thrown in the Dark Aether after refusing to disclose information and withstanding torture, where she stayed trapped far longer than what it seemed from the real world as time flowed differently within the Dark Aether.

Maxis survived the shadowy hellscape long enough to reflect on herself and her path, scavenging weapons and gear to form a new outfit. Two days later, she was rescued by Requiem which, with the help of Ravenov, infiltrated the overrun facility and opened a portal for her to escape. After battling an Orda, she followed Requiem as they were leaving the area while Ravenov rejoined Omega Group as a large operation was taking place in the Ural Mountains.

Upon returning to Requiem HQ, Maxis was placed in a quarantine before being tested. While Requiem estimated she spent roughly 48 hours in the Dark Aether, physiological and metabolic data from the tests indicated she spent several months in the other dimension.

During the following months, Maxis was kept in a sterile room as she was questioned by Mackenzie Carver, Oskar Strauss, and Elizabeth Grey as well as Weaver, who visited her often. Alone, she started a diary, looking back at dreams and past experiences. She also used her radio to talk to the strike teams involved in Operation Threshold in the Ural Mountains. However, Requiem Senior staff decided to take away her radio as she was deemed too unstable following outbursts against medical staff.

To help with the loneliness, Weaver offered Maxis a rottweiler and was now permitted to walk around the grounds twice daily. Nevertheless, by October , Maxis went behind Weaver's back and, with the help of Ravenov and an uncertain Elizabeth Grey's personal frequency , established a covert communication line with the Requiem strike teams in the Ural Mountains.

She encouraged them to seek Ravenov and help him stopping Omega Group's Operatsiya Inversiya which involved Reality Inversion warheads built by Peck using Tempests and designed to create massive dimensional breaches and Outbreak Zones.

Realizing she was still corrupted by the Dark Aether, Monty takes her away for an unknown period of time, eventually bringing her back with her "innocence restored".

Eventually, she meets Eddie, an innocent version of Richtofen's soul that Primis Richtofen brought to the House from Dimension They both play together in the House with toys that Monty brings them. After some time staying in the House with Eddie, the souls of Dempsey, Takeo, and Nikolai arrive at the House as children. This idyllic life is soon interrupted however; the Shadowman , still within the Summoning Key , exploits Maxis' lack of a soul to take control of his body.

Using the Key's ability to bridge between dimensions, he unleashes the Apothicons from the Dark Aether, allowing them back into Agartha. To prevent their erasure from existence after their purpose is fulfilled, Richtofen has Primis drink blood from a dimension outside of Monty's control , unaware however that this is exactly what Monty wants, forcing Primis to have to be sent back to The Great War and the Cycle to continue.

After the Cycle is broken , Samantha and Eddie are teleported away from the House by her father, Maxis, to Camp Edward to prevent Monty from killing the both of them. Within the teleporter, she watched her father be devoured by the ancient Keeper, and unleashed her powers when arriving at Camp Edward in a fit of rage. She accompanies Primis and Ultimis into a forest, where the adults of the group celebrate and pass out drunk, save for Ultimis Richtofen and Primis Nikolai.

She and Eddie are pulled away from the rest of the crew by Nikolai, who proceeds to ask her to kill the "one who perpetrated all of this" , with Eddie cowering behind her. When Victis gathered the Agarthan Device for Primis Nikolai, Samantha stood by as she saw the rest of Primis and Ultimis lying dead on the floor, poisoned by the alcohol they had previously consumed. After giving Ultimis Richtofen his final death, Nikolai hands Samantha a revolver, knowing he too must die in order for the Aether to be destroyed.

Before shooting Nikolai, Samantha asks Eddie to look away. After killing Nikolai, Samantha and Eddie find The Way Through , walking towards the light of a new universe, free from the Dark Aether's corruption, as all else is banished to the Dark Aether. After she arrived in the new universe with no memory of what occurred in the universe before, Samantha Maxis grew up in West Germany in an orphanage. In , she graduated from the Heidelberg University with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and a minor in linguistics.

As the CIA and Western intelligence agencies worked together to ensure the Shah's safe extraction to the United States, many diplomats and Western citizens were being left behind. Maxis was saved by the intervention of CIA officer Grigori Weaver who was willing to go off the books to extract her out of the country. This marked the beginning of a strong friendship between the two spies.

At one point, Weaver and Samantha were actively attempting to save a "boy". Samantha was waiting for a phone call from Weaver from 10 to 12 o'clock, until she heard about an explosion on TV, distressing her to the point of sleeplessness. At 3AM, Weaver arrived at Samantha's apartment, bloodied and wounded. While crying, Weaver mumbled about covering his tracks after a hit, and how sorry he was.

He told Samantha that the boy was supposed to be staying with his mother, but in reality was inside the house as it burned to the ground. In , Maxis noticed something was wrong within the BND with one of her colleagues, Dieter, warning her that the agency was pulling a list of all foreign nationals and defectors who worked for the BND in the five years prior. Soon after, she received a message from her contact within the KGB , Tatyana, talking about something from World War II they dug up from their archives called " Endstation " with a ground operation taking place in Poland.

She warned Weaver about the matter but feared their conversations were spied on. By early November , several Outbreak Zones started to appear around the world. Maxis contacted Weaver and urged him to watch the tape while explaining to him that Endstation was the cause of the outbreaks and that Omega Group was behind all of it.

This led to the creation of Requiem with Weaver being one of its leaders. While Weaver offered his help to protect Maxis, she refused; arguing she must stay in the field. Believing the BND was compromised by Omega Group, she was now operating without authorization or oversight.

Weaver sent men to retrieve Maxis, but she managed to fend them off and left Germany to meet a new contact within Omega Group, Sergei Ravenov , who she believed could be turned. After a stop in Romania, she traveled to Vietnam where an Omega base, Outpost 25, was located under the leadership of William Peck.

With the information provided by Ravenov, Maxis realized the full extent of Omega Group's plans: controlling the bridges between their world and the Dark Aether to harness and weaponize Aetherium to win the Cold War. In June , Maxis was captured while infiltrating Outpost Interrogated by Peck, she was soon thrown in the Dark Aether after refusing to disclose information and withstanding torture, where she stayed trapped far longer than what it seemed from the real world as time flowed differently within the Dark Aether.

Maxis survived the shadowy hellscape long enough to reflect on herself and her path, scavenging weapons and gear to form a new outfit. Two days later, she was rescued by Requiem which, with the help of Ravenov, infiltrated the overrun facility and opened a portal for her to escape.

After battling an Orda , she followed Requiem as they were leaving the area while Ravenov rejoined Omega Group as a large operation was taking place in the Ural Mountains. Upon returning to Requiem HQ, Maxis was placed in a quarantine before being tested.

While Requiem estimated she spent roughly 48 hours in the Dark Aether, physiological and metabolic data from the tests indicated she spent several months in the other dimension. During the following months, Maxis was kept in a sterile room as she was questioned by Mackenzie Carver , Oskar Strauss , and Elizabeth Grey as well as Weaver, who visited her often.

Alone, she started a diary, looking back at dreams and past experiences. She also used her radio to talk to the strike teams involved in Operation Threshold in the Ural Mountains. However, Requiem Senior staff decided to take away her radio as she was deemed too unstable following outbursts against medical staff. To help with the loneliness, Weaver offered Maxis a rottweiler and was now permitted to walk around the grounds twice daily. Nevertheless, by October , Maxis went behind Weaver's back and, with the help of Ravenov and an uncertain Elizabeth Grey's personal frequency , established a covert communication line with the Requiem strike teams in the Ural Mountains.

She encouraged them to seek Ravenov and help him stopping Omega Group's Operatsiya Inversiya which involved Reality Inversion warheads built by Peck using Tempests and designed to create massive dimensional breaches and Outbreak Zones. Inside a missile battery , Ravenov, with the help of a Requiem strike team, managed to change the designated target from the US East coast to the Pacific Ocean. After battling Legion and destroying the massive Aetherium crystals that blocked the missile silos, the three warheads launched towards the Pacific.

Despite her good intentions, however, the hijacking of a Requiem strike team caused major fallout for Requiem's higher echelon. The strike team barely avoided court martial, only saved on behalf of the Director, and Weaver decided to take the heat for Elizabeth handing Samantha her comm line.

Enraged and upset at Samantha commandeering his troops without telling him, Weaver stormed into Samantha's room and berated her for her actions. While Samantha tried to defend herself, claiming it was the right thing to do, Weaver retorted that she was told to simply care for the rottweiler. Samantha was then banned from her walks and once again confined to her quarters, Weaver claiming someone else would walk the dog.

Unbeknownst to her, however, Samantha was being more directly scrutinized by the Director. During further observation from Grey, it was discovered that Samantha was reacting differently to Aetherium contamination than any other test subject.

To that end, the Director green-lit further tests for Samantha. On December 1st, Samantha was dragged screaming from her quarters for testing, while a despondent Weaver claimed he would take care of the rottweiler.

Two days later, Samantha was brought to the BLOCK 8 Testing Facility where she immediately attempted to escape, before being detained and put in isolation. On December 5th, she met with the Director of Requiem, who personally oversaw the tests regarding her telekinetic abilities. This first meeting, while officially reported as an "orientation" to "establish boundaries" that went well for both parties, the Director actually interrogated and electrocuted Samantha, asking her various questions about her life which he seemed to already know.

The next day, Samantha attempted to escape from her cell block using an improvised lockpick made from a plastic fork. December 7th, Samantha underwent another session with the Director, where he asked Samantha to use her powers - to no avail.

Fifteen days after her arrival, the Director had yet another session with Maxis. This time, however, he purposefully played with her emotions in an attempt to provoke her into using her powers - specifically by threatening to make Weaver "disappeared" for his viewed failures, as well as calling Samantha a "pathetic, sad, little lost girl", which caused Samantha to shatter the glass protecting the Director with her powers in anger.

Samantha remained in Block 8, but on February 2nd, , with Weaver by her side, she was able to rescue a captured Strike Team, along with Raptor One , from their death by Lev Kravchenko piloting an Omega helicopter, by opening a Dark Aether portal within Berlin , allowing them to escape to the same cell that Maxis and Weaver are in. As she used her powers, her entire eyes were glowing purple. As the Director reviewed the footage, he noted that, as her powers were growing, Maxis presented a problem that needed to be dealt with.

On May 28th, the Director met with Grey and Weaver and made the decision to approve Samantha for "Operation First Domino", with the intent of using her powers to assist Requiem. He noted, though, that she would not be approved to be able to directly re-join Requiem. Before saying what would be her goodbyes to Weaver and Grey the latter who she would reveal she viewed as "more than just a friend" , Samantha manifested in Test Site Anna during the Forsaken's escape from the Dark Aether.

She would hold him back with her powers as the Requiem strike-team crafted an Aetherium Neutralizer, using it to travel to Main Street where Samantha and the Forsaken battled.

There, she assisted the strike-team in taking down the Forsaken for good by charging up two energy cannons nearby. Operating in secret as part of the Illuminati, Dr.

Edward Richtofen joined Group to begin working on the teleportation devices possible through element Alongside this, Richtofen was also working on the development of the Wunderwaffer and successfully managed to teleport a walnut. Maxist, unimpressed by this achievement collaborated with the German government for funding, with promises to allow them to use element in the future, to which Richtofen was hugely displeased with.

With his experiments becoming more successful, Richtofen volunteered for his own test to teleport humans, and as a result of this, he was teleported to the moon, despite intending to be transported to the Die Reise mainframe.

Here he encountered the Aether Pyramid placed there by the Apothicons thousands of years prior. From the moon he teleported back to earth, landing in Shangri La. Upon learning the effects of the Focusing Stone, Richtofen was able to regain his own mind, and left Shangri La to return to Der Reise, where, he and further German scientists decided to build Griffin Station on the moon to study the Aether Pyramid.

Due to the funding deal stricken between Maxist and the Reichstag, further research facilities were built, including Kino der Toten an adapted theatre , and Verruckt an old mental asylum , alongside the acquirement of Shi No Numa from the Japanese.

Furthermore, they created a research facility in Siberia scene of Call of the Dead where element was found and a facility at Der Eisendrache castle.