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| “ | Chairwoman Coldwell, darling. Get it right.
— Susan Coldwell
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Susan Coldwell is the Chairwoman of Tediore and the main antagonist of New Tales from the Borderlands.
Background
Susan Coldwell didn’t become the Chairwoman of the Tediore weapons corp by being nice or playing fair. If you’re going to break the glass ceiling, you might as well cut a few throats with the pieces. That’s just smart, economic, Tediore-brand thinking. Now that she’s at the top, she’s investing in a business plan that will shake-up the weapons industry. Why sell weapons to the common man when you can weaponize the common man?
Involvement
Susan Coldwell sets the events of New Tales in motion by sending her corporate army to invade Promethea and the orbiting headquarters of Atlas, searching for a vault key held by Rhys Strongfork. She's able to obtain it, but the player characters loot the vault first and acquire its treasure: a green crystal that can heal from a distance and even raise the dead.
She eventually captures the team, and it's revealed that the green crystal is half of a larger alien relic she has the other piece of. Combined, they create a superweapon that can torture people and entire planets into submission by killing and resurrecting them endlessly.
Coldwell's plan is thwarted and she is killed, the exact details of both varying based on the choices made throughout the game.
Appearances
Development
Susan Coldwell was conceived as a character with qualities opposite those of Jakobs CEO Wainwright Jakobs, a ruthless corporate executive with no regard whatsoever for "common" people.[1]