ADVENT Lieutenant

The ADVENT Lieutenants are highly-advanced and very dangerous units working for ADVENT. They all represent a certain "class" of ADVENT unit though not every unit has a Lieutenant. They all answer directly to ADVENT Commander Contrast Siege.

The origin of these Lieutenants varies per unit, though Pratal Mox has a unique story in that he was both the first ADVENT Lieutenant and he was not born, rather grown as a clone of a Midnight soldier to work for ADVENT. His skill was undeniable, though his loyalty was questionable thus ADVENT put a control chip in his head to ensure obedience.

Other Lieutenants are mostly ADVENT units that have worked their way up the chain of command and become the best at what they do; hence the reward of a unit to control and extra abilities. Due to this shared history, ADVENT Lieutenants are considered highly-dangerous units by all Resistance cells.

Whenever XCOM encounters an ADVENT Lieutenant in battle, the HoloGlobe will flicker red and the ship's computer will yell "ALERT: ADVENT LIEUTENANT DETECTED." XCOM would then focus all efforts on taking down the Lieutenant and depending on the personality of the foe, the fight may get harder. Some Lieutenants will attempt to flee if wounded or outnumbered, leaving them open to reappear during another mission healed and scarred, potentially with a grudge whomever wounded them last time. However some Lieutenants will stand their ground when wounded, making them harder to take down but they will not flee.

ADVENT Lieutenants are usually deployed solo, but may be deployed alongside one or maybe two other ADVENT Lieutenants. If this happens, this can actually work against them depending on their standing with other ADVENT Lieutenants. For example if two Lieutenants that hate each other are deployed in the field, they may actively but indirectly work against one-another for their own gain (avoiding injury, gaining promotion). However ADVENT Lieutenants that get along well are a more dangerous threat than those that are not, as they will most likely actively work together and support one-another.

ADVENT Lieutenants are NOT at the top of the food chain in the ADVENT Administration, as they all bow to the orders of ADVENT Commander Contrast Siege. They are also ordered to protect Avatars, but most of them do not know why.

If an ADVENT soldier shows prowess in their field for a class that does not currently have an ADVENT Lieutenant, they may be surgically enhanced and have a chip put in their head to ensure loyalty before their promotion. This procedure was mostly the same for Pratal Mox, though he managed to resist his chip during the Belenski Square Massacre and ripped it out of his own head before slaughtering two more ADVENT Lieutenants and fleeing, eventually forming the Skirmishers out of fellow ADVENT defectors.