Roth's Decoy is an unnamed Cerberus operative who posed as a man named Roth, a major financier of Cerberus, while Roth himself went into hiding to avoid assassination. In 2161 CE, the decoy took up residence in Roth's living quarters aboard an asteroid-mining facility orbiting the gas giant Themis while Roth left the facility, ostensibly headed for Earth. The following day, a female assassin infiltrated the building and caught him off-guard. Assuming the decoy was Roth, she forced him at knifepoint to transfer a large sum of money to a banker named Barla Von. The decoy surmised that the woman was sent by the Shadow Broker and tricked her into inadvertently admitting that information. He then surprised the assassin by knocking her into a window, allowing him to break free and draw his own w