Devesh Patanjali

Dr. Devesh Patanjal is a Guild scientist who was the chief acquisition officer.

He was first introduced in The Judas Strain when he made his way on to the ship ‘’Mistress of the Seas’’ after the Guild took it. He boarded the presidential suite and introduced himself to the assembled scientists. He forced the scientists to start working. When one of the scientists finished, he had that scientist killed due to the lack of use.

He had been very intend on causing pain.

When Lisa had tried to escape, he had Rakao come back and tie her up in a room. He left for an hour to deal with trouble. He returned, and heard people shooting. He ha d went out again to deal with it. Devesh managed to get to the docks and such before he had decided to go back to the theater to unleash the horrors within, to unleash one more painful fight, with the plan to retake the ship and kill all the attackers. The person died on the cruise. He and his own body guard had freed the cannibals and intended the ship to burn and suffer while he escaped. However, his hamstrings were cut by Surina, and fell to the ground. He was dragged to his death by the cannibals.

Characteristics
He had refined social skills and was very tact and polite when needed. This indicates that he had some sort of privileged background. This lead to a rather calming and disarming charisma that was defined by force and strength.