Also, she can reverse engineer and discover the basic principles behind captured alien weaponry and devices (electronics and engineering). Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She is in charge of both alien autopsies (xeno-biology) and interrogations (psychology).Shen, though she does insist on personally overseeing any interrogation attempts. Mad Scientist: Downplayed: she's definitely a lot more gung-ho about SCIENCE! than Dr.Just Think of the Potential!: Vahlen is about as transhumanist as you can get, whereas Shen is less gung-ho about the prospect.But it's quite telling that even twenty years later, Vahlen's fearsome reputation has persisted. Ultimately, it's less about torture and more about invasive brain scanning: shoving special devices into cranial cavities and applying electrical currents until the desired information is found.
and they also never survive the questioning. Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Aliens always give up information when Vahlen interrogates them.Iconic Item: Vahlen is constantly prodding at the tablet tucked under her arm.Left Hanging: As per Jake Solomon's own words, Vahlen's fate is unknown even to him.
While she keeps it very professional when it comes to her choice of clothes, she has a conspicuously attractive face and voice. Her occasional use of RP English and French, coupled with her decidedly non-German first name, ultimately leaves her country of birth ambiguous.
While she does physically modify XCOM soldiers her geme mods are well thought out and removable, EXALT meanwhile has permanently disfigured their soldiers. In Enemy Within, she's appalled at how badly mutated the EXALT Elites are.That said, she'll also thank soldiers for the risks they take in recovering live specimens, acknowledge that their survival can come before retrieving research materials and is disgusted by the aliens' callousness and their misuse of their advanced technology, which could have been used to do so much good. She's also the inventor of the alien " interrogation" device and personally oversees each interrogation. She's always eager and interested in what she's researching, no matter how morally questionable, and will be annoyed if soldiers use explosives (which destroys valuable research material). I can only assume there's a colorful back story for such a designation.
This is the most physically aggressive specimen we've encountered so far, which the troops 'fondly' refer to as the "Muton". And if you fail said mission, the ending cutscene shows XCOM's command center in ruins, and Bradford's body and pistol lying next to a dead Sectoid that seems to have been shot at close range.
Both are quite smart and speak with a certain level of seriousness during missions, while Bradford is quite ignorant and likes to crack the occasional joke. and learns that Delta is going to take the brunt of the attack.
Serving as the middleman between the Commander and the rest of XCOM, Bradford communicates your orders to everyone else and performs the administrative work, leaving you free to focus on defending Earth. Voiced by: David Hoffman (English) Konstantin Karasik (Russian)