General Bardry Salaman was a Gear officer who was the head of the Coalition of Ordered Governments armed forces during the last days of the Pendulum Wars and during the first year of the Locust War. He played a key part in the Hammer of Dawn counterattack, but became depressed by the amount of civilian deaths it had caused. This caused Chairman Richard Prescott to relocate him and his wife to Azura, and report that he had committed suicide to the rest of the COG. At Azura, he was tasked with formulating long-term strategies to use against the Locust.