Abraham Linden

Linden presenting "The Revitalization of Detroit"

> There's really no need t-
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> — Linden's final words

## Personal Life

Abraham Linden was born on December 7, 1968 to a wealthy family in New York City. After his father's death in 2000, he inherited his company and rebranded it as Ultor Unlimited. He became a shrewd business man, utilizing shady business practices in order to maximizes his wealth and power. In early 2008, Linden decided to move Ultor to Detroit in order to take advantage of the recent economic collapse.

## Saints Row Takeover

With gang violence in Detroit increasing, Linden began to see it as a potential opportunity for Ultor, and thus devised a simple, but twisted plan: allow the gangs of Detroit to run loose upon the city and cripple each other with their consistent fighting for territory and power. The gang violence would drastically reduce property values throughout the area, giving Ultor the ability to buy up large plots of land for next to nothing. Once they owned the land, Ultor could develop and transform it into prime real-estate for more high-class people, thus yielding greater profits for the company.

Linden's plan also included a solution to the gang violence itself. Once the gangs had been torn apart almost to the point of utter helplessness, Ultor would step in and "donate" obscene amounts of money to the Detroit Police Department to increase police presence in the city. The Detroit PD would then crackdown on the already weakened gangs and eliminate them. Once confident in its success, Linden unveiled his plan to the rest of his colleagues at Ultor during a corporate party, and gained almost unanimous approval to proceed.

### War On The Saints

When the 3rd Street Saints became the only standing gang in Detroit, Ultor dispatched both the Detroit PD and the Masako to eliminate its leadership. The move failed after Sarbajet S. Treamsam and Murdok T. Orwell managed to escape. Despite this setback, Linden still had confidence in his plan, now codenamed "force majeure"; even when the conflict between Ultor and the Saints started heating up, and the Board of Directors complained to him about the unchecked gang violence. Rather than trying to negotiate with them, or listen to reason, he retorted by stating, "there is no problem".

In retaliation for the previous events, the Saints killed several Ultor executives at the Twelve Oaks Mall, and sabotaged Ultor's secret R&D facility, The Pyramid. This angered the Board of Directors, who finally turned on Linden, stating that they've "had enough of his ego." Linden brushed off this comment by claiming that his ego is what got them all where they are in the first place. The board remained unconvinced, and they ordered Linden to finish off the Saints by any means necessary or risk losing his job, which they assured would be "the least of his worries."

Angry but not swayed, Linden decided that the board had become a problem, and that he would be much better off having them out of the way. To accomplish this feat, he secretly manipulated the Saints into massacring every member of the board during an annual corporate party aboard one of their private yachts. After learning about their deaths, Linden celebrated by calling a press conference to outline his ambitions for "The Revitalization of Detroit".

During this conference, the Saints made a move to assassinate Linden while Johnny Gat covered them with a sniper rifle on a nearby rooftop. An Ultor security guard saw Gat going up to the roof, and ended up foiling the assassination by assaulting Johnny before he could get his first shot off. In the ensuing fight, Gat accidentally discharged the sniper rifle before knocking the guard to the streets below. By then it was too late, as everyone in the crowd began scrambling for cover. Having no choice but to improvise, Murdok and Sarbajet took this small window of opportunity to try and shoot Linden before he could escape. Their efforts were in vain as all of the Ultor security guards present at the conference opened fire, distracting the Saints long enough for Linden to get away in his Ultor-branded helicopter.

## Death

An unscathed and cowardly Linden managed to escape back to the safety of the Ultor Executive Building before placing it under lockdown. It proved to be nowhere near secure enough as Murdok and Sarbajet hijacked an attack helicopter and used it to disable the building's security systems before gaining entry into Linden's office. In anger and desperation, Linden drew a pistol and attacked them with a team of Masako units, but they were defeated.

Backed into a corner with no place left to run, Linden tried pleading with Murdok, claiming to be the Saints' "number one fan". Mudok was unfazed, shooting him in the mouth mid-speech, sending him crashing through one of his top story office windows. Linden fell several stories down the entire height of the Ultor Executive Building, gruesomely smashing off of other structures in the vicinity before getting crushed against the pavement. Linden's death decisively ended his reign as the head of Ultor, leaving the Saints to dominate Detroit once again.

In the aftermath, Yung Flame purchased Ultor and absorbed it into his own company, Yung Flame Industries.