Stryker

**Stryker** was a Night City tech.

## Biography

### 2000s-2010s

Stryker was born in the Night City MedCenter. He was raised in a South Night City industrial zone, in particular one that was seated right on the border of the notorious South Night City combat zones. His family worked hard, but had to take extra precautions to remain safe and out of the violent eye of the boostergangs in the area. Unfortunately, in his teens, Stryker's family were among the victims of a boom of gang warfare around the construction of Megabuilding H2. Stryker took on whatever work he could get in his teen years to make due and stay alive, refusing to work with gangs and accepting work that put him up against gangs that were implicated in the death of his family.

### 2029

After nearly a decade of hard work, Stryker had built a reputation as a reliable tech and exceptionally skilled scrapper. During a job, a young punk ignored Stryker's warnings and ended up triggering a claymore mine. Stryker's left side was struck int he burst, leaving him near death. The other members of his crew were able to get him on an R.E.O. Meatwagon, and they took nearly all the eddies Stryker had to replace his leg, arm, and a bit of his face and chest with cyberware.

### 2031

After recovering, Stryker gets a job as a superintendent working in the new Militech conapt building in Watson. He meets Ana Vates, a young Militech exec living in the building. The two form a very passionate and sexual relationship, which slowly turns into a more plutonic and understanding friendship over the course of the year.

### 2036

Stryker's sister died during child birth, leaving her daughter Maria with no legal guardian. Stryker pulled strings with his connections to get some assistance in raising her, namely Ana Vates. Ana takes Maria on as her ward and provides for her a comfortable life and foots the bill for Maria's medical costs, as Maria was born with a very rare brain disorder that amounted to a number of complications that required treatment. Stryker starts getting back into the streets to take on high risk/high reward jobs to pay Ana back. This agreement continues on into the 2040s.

### 2040

While living in Megabuilding H2, Stryker becomes extremely annoyed with the Red Rings Gang, which begins to harass all residents on every floor. In response, Stryker sets up a number of defensive countermeasures that inhibit the gang from their normal activities in all of the floors above the 5th floor. Law enforcement causes them to relocate out of the building entirely by the end of the year, forcing them out onto the streets. He gains a bit of a reputation for this, being called the "Guardian of H2".

### 2045-2046

Stryker begins working with Anika Chowdhury, a fixer in Japantown. He works alongside her crew, namely Calvin Gibson, Carbon, Krystal, and Odette. A lot of their work was in and around South Night City. Ultimately, they came to start working with the fixer Zigzag, who had jobs that were more in line with the crew's specializations. Their biggest gig was working as security for the music group Trickshot. Stryker quickly identified vulnerabilities in their North Oak mansion's defenses and worked alongside the solo Pepper to shore up the security.

Zigzag was responsible for acquiring a biochip from an illegal Arasaka operation in Night City, which he had acquired for Ana Vates. It was a biochip that was capable of rewiring the neural functions of someone the chip was installed in. It was never revealed what the corporation crafted the chip for or what the purposes of rewiring a brain would be, but Ana used the biochip to correct Maria's disorder and it worked better than Ana and Stryker could have hoped.

Soon after, Maria moved in with Stryker to a new apartment in Japantown and the tech continued doing work for and with Zigzag.

### 2051

In the summer, Stryker contracted bird flu and was placed in the ICU shortly after his symptoms worsened. He died of respiratory complications in autumn of the same year. His cremated remains were placed in the North Oak Columbarium at Ana's expense. Maria moved back in with Ana to continue her education.

## Trivia

Stryker was imagined by Chris C for inclusion in the *Dark Skies* RED games, beginning in Series 3.