Tony Rector

Vice Admiral Tony Rector is a US military officer who served as the head of Sigma Force. By the time of the book Sandstorm, he had been the head of DARPA for some time. As he had been there since Painter Crowe was there.

Biography
He previously served as head of the Office of Information Awareness, the intellegence gathering wing of DARPA. His intelligence, expertise, and evenhanded management had own him directorship of DARPA.

Rector someday developed the habit of smoking tobacco as Crowe, in their first ever meeting, smelled vaguely of tobacco.

Career
Rector was important.

In Sandstorm, he had to call the director of the National Security Agency about the explosion at the British Museum because it was something to be interested in.

He had called Painter Crower back to DARPA headquarters after the ultimately unsuccessful mission to capture Zhang and retrieve stolen data.

He later sent Painter on a mission to the lost city of Ubar.

Tony Rector was later revealed to be the head of the mysterious Guild. Painter had survived Cassandra's attempts to kill them and brought back information from Oman. Rather than face the consequences, he committed suicide.

Description
He once was well muscled, but plentiful of office work softened the muscle. He was in his sixties when he became head of DARPA.