Krieger Wolf
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| Krieger Wolf | |
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| Code Name | 'Iscariot' (see Trivia) |
| Real Name | Cannon Wolf |
| Creator(s) | InTech Corporation |
| Serial Number | INT-053 |
| Faction | Repliforce |
| Function | Gunner |
| Primary Specialty | Ranged Combat |
| Secondary Specialty | Psychological Warfare |
| IC E-Mail | k.wolf@repliforce.mil |
| Divisions | Infantry Corps [RF] |
| Weapon | Thunder Serpent |
| Weapon Type | ELECTRIC ENERGY |
| Buster | White armor, black bodysuit/trim. |
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Character Data
Profile
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
One of the first reploids to be freed of the Maverick virus, Krieger Wolf is in the rare position of having seen the Robot Wars from multiple sides: first as a Maverick, then in Repliforce, and then as a civilian. Having decided that a peaceful life is for saps, Krieger re-enlisted to get back on the front lines where he feels at home. Has a sort of predatory charm, rather like that of a serpent, but his past and his blunt demeanor have made him many enemies. Utterly dedicated to Repliforce's ideals, but follows them without mercy or restraint. While his time as a civilian has helped teach him the value of life, including his own, he remains one of the Repliforcers least likely to object when the organization has to do something underhanded yet regrettably necessary. When Krieger retired, his subspace arsenal was left fallow, and after a certain incident it was decided not to reinstate it. Instead his body was rebuilt with a large variety of energy cannons and missile launchers already installed. The most powerful of which are a pair of hip-mounted electron cannons whose beam can be curved to strike multiple targets. A newly-installed blink drive allows him to reposition himself on the battlefield for optimum effect, but he's no longer capable of all-out flight.
Skills: Part-Time Sniper, Knowledge: Scripture?!, Vicious, Not Rabid, Knowledge: Mavericks, Jinx
Background
Pre-Cure
Krieger's entire life was changed by a single, solitary line of code.
A simple programming error led to his neural net coming online fully a month before he was supposed to be activated, a fact that the wolf took great pains to conceal. He used the extra time to observe his creators when they thought nobody was looking, and what he saw disgusted him. The PhD leading the team cheating on his wife with a college-age intern. The man who stole office supplies. The greed, the backbiting, the unceasing pettiness of people in high-stress positions venting in whatever fashion they could.
It took little effort for the Mavericks to talk him over to their side when a group of them raided his lab, and he quickly distinguished himself as a particularly vicious fighter. This caught the eye of his superiors, and he steadily rose in rank until he was actually given a small slice of conquered Germany to govern. The wolf took his mandate very seriously, and his brutal effectiveness at both stifling dissent and crushing crime led to him being referred to as 'Der Krieger Wolf' in varying degrees of awe and fear. Being somewhat vain, he took the title and discarded his own name. However, the actual act of ruling came to bore him, and he became bitter and jaded with the Coalition's increasingly mercenary ways (allowing cyborgs in being a prime example). It wasn't the cause he signed up for, and it began to show.
Alas, many Mavericks took Krieger's reputation as an excuse to run wild in his territory, something he quickly disabused them of (frequently through violence). Incompetents in neighboring territories allowing trouble to spill over to his led to similar bloodshed (albeit secret; see Trivia). Eventually Krieger's discontent could find no further outlet, and he simply left one day. He walked far to the east, a journey that took many months, where he met a strange man who claimed he could unfasten the leash that had been clasped about Krieger's neck.
Post-Cure
The man was Professor Gate, and he was as good as his word; Krieger was one of the first to be cured of the Maverick Virus on live TV, and after having learned something about interacting with humans during his travels, he decided to wholly turn his back on his former comrades by joining the Repliforce and fighting to end their existence.
During his time with the Repliforce, Krieger was present for many pivotal events, including the raising of the Fortress V, the fall of Black SHIELD, and the rise of Neo Arcadia to global prominence. He even found romance with a fellow soldier. But, alas, as Krieger's previously anemic conscience began to assert itself, he found a certain hollowness to the seemingly-endless fighting, and left Repliforce to find some way to make the feeling stop.
He tried religion, since it worked for humans in similar circumstances, but he just couldn't make it work. The last straw came when he punched out a mugger during a botched robbery and nearly killed the poor guy. Realizing that he just wasn't ready for peaceful living ("it's for saps," he declared), he decided to re-enlist in the Repliforce.
Trivia/Facts
- Krieger has killed nearly as many Mavericks as a Maverick than as a Repliforcer. He's executed at least six underlings, all properly documented, for various crimes (mostly relating to unauthorized attacks on the people Krieger viewed as 'his'). He secretly assassinated at least two fellow officers for not crushing pro-UN partisans in their assigned areas and allowing the insurgency to spill into his territory. To his delight, his attempts to blame their deaths on those self-same partisans were a complete success.
- Krieger is particularly good at manipulating people when he wants, including getting Javelin Whitetail to believe he was still her friend after she went Maverick. He planned to use this as a lure to shoot her in the back, but then he left, and Kraft did the job for him anyway.
- Krieger once crucified Bolero after luring his former superior into a trap by using his friendship with Jet Stingray as bait.
- His image is recognized pretty much world-wide, as footage of the first batch of cured Mavericks (of which Krieger was one) was probably in heavy rotation when the cure was first announced.
- Sometimes, Krieger introduces himself as 'Iscariot'. He only does this to people he doesn't know and doesn't particularly like. It's such an obvious fake name that it's almost an insult to the listener's intelligence, which is precisely the desired effect.
- The Maverick Virus is indirectly responsible for Krieger's lashing out at his fellow Mavericks. Neither allowed to leave (thanks to the Virus) nor willing to stay (thanks to himself), Krieger was caught in limbo and saw no way out. The violence was his way of trying to quell his inner turmoil. It failed. Miserably. Since being cured, Krieger hasn't felt any similar urges towards his comrades in Repliforce.
- Krieger is rather intelligent for a war machine, and once debated Elpizo on live TV. The debate was interrupted by the Robot Masters before it got anywhere, unfortunately.
- During the 2117 Battle & Chase games, Krieger built a Battlebot that was able to beat Dr. Wily. He was in turn eliminated by Gate.
- Because Gate cured him of the Virus, Krieger took to calling the Professor 'Master' to show his gratitude. Gate didn't like this, but Krieger insisted. Gate eventually talked him into stopping, but Krieger only really stopped when Gate went Maverick.
- Showing his rapid development of morals, by the end of his first deployment Krieger was very close to disobeying a direct order when instructed to shoot an opponent who was making an earnest attempt to surrender. Reacting violently to the notion that he was going 'soft', he swallowed his objections and opened fire anyway.
- At one point in time, Cut Man got himself lost in subspace. Krieger accidently rescued him during a training exercise on Eurasia, when he tried to retrieve one of his guns. He got Cut Man instead. Since he still needed a weapon, he threw the Robot Master at his target.
Other
Things Krieger doesn't talk about:
- His relationship with Ten
- What he was doing for two years between enlistments
- The fact that pretty much everyone in Repliforce that he got to know has either died, retired, and/or gone Maverick.
