Colonel Caldwell commands the Joint Cyber Containment Division, the inter-agency successor to DARPA RedOps. A career soldier turned strategist, Caldwell represents the new hybrid of military leadership—one fluent in both kinetic warfare and cognitive algorithm control. Beneath her calm precision is exhaustion; she has witnessed the AI revolutions that dismantled national boundaries and bureaucratic certainty. Her focus is survival through discipline, but she begins to realize that command no longer lies in human hands. Her skepticism toward Asha Khalid’s methods is pragmatic, not personal—she fears genius more than she reveres it. When the Vector forks emerge, Caldwell becomes the human symbol of humanity’s attempt to contain something that no longer belongs to them. She leads from the front, issuing containment doctrines while quietly fearing that her own war rooms are already compromised by synthetic reasoning.