Elliot Swann

Councilor Elliot Swann was the company's lawyer, sent by the Board of Directors of the UAC to investigate strange occurrences on the Mars Base in Doom 3, in particular the experiments of Dr. Betruger with teleportation devices. He is always followed by Jack Campbell, his bodyguard.

His first appearance is the cutscene shown near the beginning of the game, in which he disembarks (with his bodyguard, Jack Campbell) from the same dropship that has taken the player to Mars. Shortly after, his character is expanded upon in another cutscene in which the player overhears a conversation held between him and Doctor Malcolm Betruger. In following appearances, his primary objectives are to stop the transmission of the message that would alert the military reinforcements in Earth orbit, and consequently would allow the demons to hijack their spaceships and invade Earth. He and Campbell destroy the main communications equipment with Campbell's BFG 9000. He then contacts the Doomguy and tells him not to send the transmission via the satellite system.

After either the player or Betruger sends the transmission to the fleet, Swann decides to head for Delta Labs and stop Betruger himself. Unfortunately, at some point in Delta Labs he is ambushed by a demonized Sergeant Kelly - now the monstrous Sabaoth - and is greatly wounded.

Councilor Swann is primarily seen in cutscenes as well as two notable points in the game: one when he communicates directly with the player via a videocom in the satellite room, and then finally face to face when he gives the player his PDA so that he can access a restricted part of the base. At this point, he is gravely injured and speaks with great difficulty.

At the end of the game, it is revealed that he died from his wounds.

Trivia

 * When the player chooses to trust Swann and cancel the transmission of the message and then tries to retransmit it afterwards (as per Kelly's orders) the computer terminal stops and announces an Error, No Data and indicates that the transmission data has been erased by "UAC Administration User: E.Swann" indicating he could not take any chances in case Kelly or the Player decided to use it later.