Wolves

The Wolves refer to a syndicate of former Ghosts and former special forces personnel led by former Ghost Recon operator Cole Denholm Walker and based initially in the United States of America, but later relocated to Auroa, having taken over the archipelago as part of Cole Walker's crusade against the United States government. 
== History ==
=== Origins ===
The origins of the Wolves can be traced back to around 2022-2023. Angered at the apparent indifferent attitude by the military hierarchy over the deaths of his team in Bolivia, Ghost Recon operator Cole D. Walker was convinced that the United States military was being used as a political machine by the United States government and had become apathetic to the needs of the American people. 
Cole Walker was not alone in this sentiment: his wife Grace and daughters Harper and Adelaide shared this bitterness. 
Expressing his frustration with several of his colleagues, many agreed with his view as discontent quietly brewed, including fellow Ghost Recon operator Josiah Hill. Sometime in 2022, Walker was deployed to Afghanistan alongside fellow Ghosts Nomad and Josiah Hill, operating under the command of Vaughan. 
Throughout the tour, Walker grew irritated as Vaughan's incompetence that often hampered the unit's efforts to combat insurgents. Walker's frustration finally came to a head when Vaughan accidentally Vaughan accidentally shot a civilian from a friendly village. Upon being confronted by Walker and fellow Ghost Recon operator, Dominic "Nomad" Rubio, Vaughan attempted to kill Walker in a bid to make him take the fall for what happened. An enraged Walker retaliated by executing Vaughan. Subsequently, Walker was court-martialed and medically discharged from the armed forces. 
This moment was described by many, including Nomad himself, as Walker's "breaking point"; Walker suffered a mental breakdown, believing that he had suffered an injustice, with his suspicions over the apparent politicization of the military now fully cemented. In response, Walker returned to his base and executed his commander. Following this, Walker began recruiting like-minded Ghosts, both active and former into his new organization. Thus, the Wolves were born.
=== Takeover of Auroa ===
Walker traveled to Auroa where he took great interest in Skell Tech's military technology and Jace Skell made him as Skell Tech's military adviser. However, once Skell discovered what Walker and Stone truly planned to do with his drone creations, Skell attempted to stop Walker and Stone. In retaliation, Walker's Wolves collaborated with Sentinel to execute a takeover of Auroa, codenamed Operation Citadel.
With most of Sentinel occupying Auroa, Walker deployed his Wolves to occupy the outlying islands. Amongst the islands occupied included Golem Island, where most of Skell Tech's advanced weapons technology was developed at. Seizing the island, the Wolves eliminated every single researcher stationed there, utilizing the factory to churn out deadly unmanned drones for future use.
Sometime after the takeover, Walker began carrying out his plans, killing a political candidate using a mini UCAV. 
Skell wasn't the only one to try and stop Walker: four Wolves, Dennis Roper, Noreen Jacobson, Earnestine Sullivan, and Jack Holloway, also discovered the full extent of what Walker planned to do with Skell's drone technology and sought to expose him for who he truly was: a bloodthirsty dictator and mentally unstable maniac. To that end, they tried to escape the archipelago. Unfortunately, they timed their escape badly and their attempted exodus was ultimately thwarted thanks to Operation Citadel. 
Skell, desperate to provoke a military intervention, collaborated with the four Wolf deserters after they reached out to him for help. Working together with Skell, they sank a US Navy vessel transporting a shipment of Sentinel's military drones, attracting the attention of the United States government. 
Walker also learned of the four's betrayal and ordered a manhunt, giving his men direct orders to shoot the traitors on sight. 
=== Operation Greenstone ===
Thanks to a traitor within the United States government, Walker and his Wolves, as well as Trey Stone and Sentinel, were alerted to the United States' deployment of Ghost Recon, led by Anthony "Nomad" Perryman, Theodore "Azure" Stone and Dominic "Pitbull" Rubio. Walker led an assault on the Ghosts in tandem with Sentinel, destroying the Ghosts' helicopters, as well as the four Wolf deserters' transports, effectively thwarting their attempts to leave Auroa. Following this, Walker and his men systematically began executing any survivors they came across, including Ghost Recon operator Weaver.
Weaver's death was accidentally witnessed by Ghost Recon operator codenamed Fixit, who promptly fled before he himself could be targeted, and Nomad himself, who expressed his outrage and vowed to exact retribution on the traitorous ex-Ghost. 
At some point during the operation, Cole Walker himself was killed, either by Ghost Recon operators or a small team of civilian investigators led by Trey Stone's nephews, Ernie and Seymour Stone. With Walker's death, Trey Stone became the new commanding officer of the Wolves, with Anthony "Sphinx" Barkley as the new second-in-command. 
=== Red Patriot Conspiracy ===
Seeking to avenge Cole Walker's death, Trey Stone collaborated with Russian Ultranationalists under the command of Pyotr Bukharov and Katya Maksimova to unleash a chemical drone strike on the United States government. After the Ghosts and Trey's nephews captured or exterminated every single Bodark and Wolf lieutenant on the island, Trey attempted to use the chemical weapons he would have used on the United States government against the entire population of Auroa. However, this plot also failed when Trey Stone was killed by his own nephews with help from the Ghosts and the Outcasts. 
With Stone and Walker both dead, the Wolves descended into anarchy and in-fighting. 
The surviving remnants of the Wolves eventually reformed under the leadership of Cole Walker's daughter Harper Walker. Disgusted with what her father had become, Harper took command of the remaining Wolves on Auroa and, with backing from the Outcasts, and the Stone brothers, reorganized them into a new organization: the Predators. 
== Rank and hierarchy ==
While Walker is the main leader and founder of the Wolves, he also had several lieutenants as Elite Wolves (Rosebud, Silverback, Flycatcher, Harpy, Sphinx, Karel Sekulic and Yellowleg) joining the fight. Each Wolf lieutenant has a unique, deadly skill set that will present a considerable challenge to even the toughest Ghost. Most of them are ex-Ghosts with the exception of Silverback who was recruited by Walker on Stone's recommendation and Karel Sekulic, who was formerly a Russian soldier loyal to Raven's Rock. Main ranks are based on the U.S. Army as originated.
== Arsenal ==
Being former US special forces, the Wolves are considered heavily armed, highly trained and extremely dangerous. Their choice of weapons consists of modern weapons, such as the TAR-21s, 805 Bren A2s, M-32 MGLs, MK14s, L115A3s, P320, SIG SGs, Kel-Tec KSGs, RAT-4 rocket launchers, etc.
== Known members ==
=== Leadership ===
* Cole D. Walker - Lieutenant Colonel (Leader & Founder), killed either by Ghost Recon or the Stone brothers.
* Anthony "Sphinx" Barkley: Walker's second-in-command, killed by either Ghost Recon or the Stone brothers.
=== Notable members ===
* Lucile "Rosebud" Keller (Sniper) - Unique Wolf Sniper armed with a Zastava M93 Sniper rifle and a P320 handgun. Killed either by the Ghosts or the Stone brothers.
* Hank "Flycatcher" Hua (Drone Engineer) - Unique Drone Operator armed with a TAR-21 Assault rifle and 2 customized WASP Drones, killed by either Ghost Recon, the Stone brothers, or the Wolf deserters led by Dennis Roper.
* Aisha "Yellowleg" Kubar (Military Assassinations & Direct Action Operations) - Wolf Rifleman armed with a TAR-21 Assault rifle, guarded by a helicopter.
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