Elemental Shard

"You are now free to take the Elemental Shard. On behalf of the President of the United States, the Broken Arrow Program and a grateful nation, please accept this shard as a symbol of our appreciation for your honorable and faithful service."

- Rushmore "We are here for one reason -- to find Elemental Shard. It is artifact that will be essential on next phase of journey."

- Primis Nikolai Belinski in Alpha Omega "But the Elemental Shard, it's different. The levels of concentrated energy it contains, well, simply put, out team has been unable to measure it. It's unlike any Element 115 sample we've studied before. Whenever we drain energy from it, that, that energy is replaced. As if it's recharging itself. This ability... I think it's what Maxis was looking for all those years ago. I think it's the Genesis code."

- Doctor Hale "Hey, I don't suppose you've seen an elemental shard lying around anywhere, have you? A large piece of rock that looks like glass and gives you a headache when you look at it? No? Haven't seen anything like that? Ehh, probably nothin'. I always wondered if Pernell kept a piece for himself."

- Russman to George Barkley "The second dream I had was here at Camp Edward. I was inside the APD, in the middle of an Interrogation. There was a system malfunction, and the electricty of the elemental shard ricocheted around me inside the pyramid. The electricity shot into the base of my spine, before spreading throughout my body. It shot through my arms and out of my hands, through my legs and out of my feet, up my spine and out of my mouth."

- Cornelius Pernell "It's the Element. This stuff is what's responsible for the Bios. When you powered this place back up, you caused it to become active. Caused them to become active."

- Russman about the second half of the Elemental Shard. "Broken Arrow was experimenting with something they took off the Japanese. Something Division 9 had. Some kind of miracle. It was going to help us win the Cold War. The first live test, with animals, with the biological units, the Bios... It went wrong... very wrong."

- Russman about the containment breach after the use of the second half of the Elemental Shard.

The Element Shard is a special piece of Element 115 featured in the Aether story of Treyarch's Zombies mode. The shard first appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

History
The Elemental Shard was found by Division 9 and was acquired by the U.S. Army in 1946. The shard was stored with other Division 9 materials at Groom Lake under the authority of C.I.A. Station Chief Cornelius Pernell. Groom Lake was also used to store Element 115 mined in the area.

By 1961, the shard was removed from its storage by Pernell for personal use. When Broken Arrow was established, the shard was used to power up A.D.A.M. Units. The use of the shard instead of regular Element 115 made the A.D.A.M. Units more "alive". By 1964, with the construction of the American Pyramid Device completed, Doctor Hale discovered that A.D.A.M. Units powered by the shard can be used to charge the APD.

Suspecting it was nothing like they have seen before, Cornelius Pernell and Doctor Hale used the Elemental Shard on June 1st, 1964 and resurrected Peter McCain. After years of exposure to Element 115 and after learning about the Aether, Pernell became increasingly obsessed with reaching Agartha. Over the coming weeks, the forced Pernell to give up the Elemental Shard but managed to break the shard in two, keeping one half for himself.

By 1966, he started having recurrent dreams, one of them showing him becoming Avogadro inside the A.P.D. while using the Elemental Shard. The next year, on August 1967, with the help of Doctor Hale, he started experimenting on himself by placing himself inside the A.P.D. and pulling an electrical current from the Elemental Shard to flood the A.P.D.

On March 15th, 1968, George Sawyer and his men arrived at Camp Edward to arrest Cornelius Pernell after Peter McCain filed a report against him. This caused the facility to lose power during one of the experiments transforming Cornelius Pernell into Avogadro. avogadro was finally contained inside the A.P.D. after Nova 6 gas was released throughout the facility. This resulted in the full lockdown and abandonment of Camp Edward, and the shutdown of Rushmore. The Elemental Shard would remain inside the A.P.D. for the next 60 years.

Not knowing about the first half of the Elemental Shard at Camp Edward, the Department of Defense gave the second half of shard back to Broken Arrow in 1973. Ten years later, in 1983, Broken Arrow began experimenting on live animals using the shard, creating the Bios. On June 24th, 1986, a containment breach involving the Bios occured at the Broken Arrow facility located in Province 22, China. Russman was one of the few to escape alive and shut down the facility. He then reported to Broken Arrow that the shard was lost and the facility was abandoned and its projects transferred to other locations.

Victis' Journey
Exactly 10 years later, on June 24th, 1996, Victis (Samuel J. Stuhlinger, Marlton Johnson, Abigail "Misty" Briarton and Russman) arrived through a portal in the abandoned Province 22 facility and retrieved the second half of the Elemental Shard before departing through another rift.

Victis arrived at Zero Base and used the Elemental Shard to power up a device that collected their blood and allowed them to access the Empty Earth.

Nikolai's Grand Scheme
After Primis (Nikolai Belinski, Edward Richtofen, "Tank" Dempsey and Takeo Masaki) freed their Ultimis selves from Groom Lake in 1963, they all traveled to Camp Edward in 2025 as part of Nikolai's plan to retrieve the first half of the Elemental Shard.

They turned the power back on in the facility and restarted Rushmore which helped them recovering the shard. After a fight against Avogadro which led to its transfer to the Hanford Site, Primis and Ultimis recovered the Elemental Shard.