Richard B. Riddick

**Richard B. Riddick** is a Furyan, convict and former Starfleet Officer.

## History

### Early Life

Riddick was born on Furya and inherited the traits of an Alpha Furyan,  which gives him an advantage in strength and endurance over normal Furyan infants. days after Riddick's birth, a Romulan officer named Zhylaw attacked Furya in an attempt to Place Furya under the Romulan Empire, going so far as to personally strangle newborn infants with their umbilical cords, including Riddick himself. In doing so, Zhylaw believed that he given the Romulan Empire not only a Potential new slave and warrior class but stopped a potential future threat once the Furyan gained warp power. The Furyan Goverment Fell and the planet now was under the control of the Romulan Empire I It is unknown who collected the infant Riddick from where Zhylaw had left him for dead, or how he got off planet. As his official records read "Place of Birth: Unknown," it is clear whoever was responsible did not reveal Riddick's origins to any authorities.

Little is known about Riddick's childhood

While Riddick retained memories of massacre on Furya, these memories were repressed and forgotten, likely due to his extreme youth at the time. Instead, he believed his mother attempted to kill him at birth by strangling him with his umbilical cord and dumping him in a liquor store trash bin . This is likely the story contained in his records and just as likely told to him repeatedly by those with little care for the child Riddick's sense of self worth.

As Riddick grew older he began receiving periodic visions of a Furyan woman named Shirah; visions which he believed to be signs of mental instability. It would not be until his encounter with the Romulans that his repressed memories would finally escape their imprisonment and he would realize that he had a homeworld and a tragic past of which he had never been consciously aware .

### Starfleet Career(2260-2272)

Once Riddick turned 18 he joined Starfleet, Riddick joined The Security Division. It was here while in Starfleet that he learned how to pilot small ships.

He was eventually assigned to the Intelligence Division in 2266, where he worked in the Six Branch. **Six Branch** was a division of Starfleet Intelligence. Part of its duties involved monitoring alien pirate vessels and the ships attacked by them. In 2268 Riddick was recruited into Section 31 . During his time with Section 31, he learned how corrupt they were.

He was promoted to Lt Commander and given command of the prestigious Spear 31 Team. Riddick learned that life as a Spear 31 Team lead was basically the leader of a Murder Squad as the Spear team was only sent on mission to take out any "threat" to the Federation and Starfleet. Eventually Riddick tried to report Section 31 and end their existence but Instead, the Section 31 disposed of the evidence Riddick gathered and sent him to a prison.

### First Prison Sentence(2272-2274)

Riddick spent less than three years in Ribald S Correctional Institute. Before his third year was up, he overpowered a guard and took his uniform. Riddick shot two guards and a pilot before escaping on the prison planet's only space freighter.

### Criminal Life(2274-2279)

The Federation put a million-credit contract on Riddick and he became a wanted man and was pursued by nearly every bounty hunter, bushwhacker and Mercenary in the space lanes. Every time he killed one of them, their deaths were added to his list of serial killings.

Over several years, Riddick evaded all who wanted to kill him, though several times he was caught. He spent time in the Hubble Bay Penal Facility and Tangiers Penal Colony, among other places. in Psychological Restraint Station Q9, he took a psychological evaluation, by a Dr. Snyder, which stated that he was a violent sociopath and a murderer. He escaped each prison with relative ease.

During one escape, Riddick joined a mercenary outfit that augmented a company of Klingon soldiers fighting in one of their wars. Of the 500 men in that outfit, Riddick was supposedly the only man to leave the planet alive. Rumors suggested that Riddick killed most of his own platoon.

### Slam City(2279)

Once, Riddick was captured and brought to Ursa Luna Maximum Security Prison -- also known as Slam City -- by a pair of hired guards. He had been put into cryosleep during their journey to the prison. When the warden of the Slam City demanded that Riddick be woken up to prove that he was alive, Riddick woke with calculated violence, killing one merc and capturing the other. He briefly held a mercenary hostage and stole both their transfer fee and cigarettes before escaping into the dark, unlit bowels of the prison. There, he survived attempts on his life by the guards, Shiners (individuals with medically augmented night vision) and automated security weapons.

He escaped the prison area of Slam City, killed a medtech and stole his uniform. He then moved towards the hangar, but his cover was blown while doing so. He killed two guards, and escaped in a spaceship. Riddick only spent 11 hours and 22 minutes in Slam City.

Following Riddick's escape, a uniformed, Starfleet Officer named William J. Johns arrived at the facility, having responded to Ursa Luna's report of an escaped convict. Though Johns agreed to hunt Riddick, the prison staff had developed such a fear of Riddick that they did not want him brought back to Slam City, and instructed that he be taken to Hubble Bay Penal Facility instead.

### Escape from Butcher Bay(2282-2295)

Some time after the events of Slam City, Johns managed to capture Riddick and bring him to the Butcher Bay Correctional Facility. Johns met with Warden Hoxie to negotiate his pay, while the head guard Abbott escorted Riddick to his cell in the "single-max" security area. Riddick familiarized himself with the facility, and soon instigated a riot after killing Rust, Abbott's puppet and leader of the Aquilan gang. During the confusion, he escaped into the prison's sewer system. Fighting through the sewers against mutant "dwellers", Riddick eventually met Pope Joe, who agreed to heal Riddick's arm in exchange for retrieving a lost radio. Following the surgery, Shirah told Riddick that he "[had] been blind too long", and granted him his trademark "eyeshine" night vision. Riddick then continued his escape, while using the eyeshine to his advantage. He confronted and nearly killed Abbott in the latter's apartment in order to use his eyes to bypass a retinal scanner, but was caught by Johns and Hoxie.

Riddick was then transferred to the "double-max" security area, where he planned to infiltrate its mining facility. After confronting and killing Abbott one last time, Riddick made his way down to the mines, where he met an inmate of great influence in the area named Jagger Valance, who wished to escape with him. Riddick agreed and retrieved a makeshift bomb to create a distraction, only to be discovered and caught by the guards. During his transfer to another section, the explosion from the bomb unleashed an outbreak of creatures called "Xeno", and Riddick fought his way to Valance during the chaos. Unfortunately, Johns caught up to him again, but Riddick, having no intention to stay, stabbed Johns in the side and very nearly killed him in a fight, only to be accidentally shot by Jagger, who was himself gunned down by the guards. Riddick was then placed in the "triple-max" area, where inmates are kept in cryonic sleep, awakened Monthly for Ten minutes of exercise. After some time, Riddick discovered a flaw in the system and made his escape. He then hijacked a Heavyguard and fought his way through Butcher Bay's corporate offices to reach Hoxie. Riddick confronted Hoxie in his office and killed his personal guard. Riddick to elude the guards, Riddick then steals a ship and escaped the prison.

### The Pursuit(2295-2300)

Johns tracked Riddick to a marketplace on Aquila Major, where he tried to hide in a crowd unsuccessfully. A few days later, Riddick encountered Rykengolls, pirates outside a shipping lane, and took their ship after killing them. Riddick then went to Outskirts, but Johns tracked him down and caught up with him near a brothel. On Lupus 5, Riddick killed a mercenary named Dresden, who was also hunting him. Riddick then went to the Conga System, where he was caught by Johns, who used children in peril to catch Riddick. Johns decided to travel on a ghost lane to avoid any more trouble.

### The Hunter Gratzner Crash(2300)

22 weeks after departure, while Riddick is in in cryo-sleep, the Hunter Gratzner passes through a comet's tail while on autopilot. Debris from the comet ruptures the hull and kills some of its crew, including the captain, Tom Mitchell. The remaining crew are killed except for pilot Carolyn Fry crash lands on the nearby planet, M6-117, despite nearly dumping the passenger compartment; although some survive, the ship is split in two. Riddick escapes and ambushes Johns following the crash, but he is quickly subdued and chained to the ship's hull. The survivors find the planet to be near desert, its orbit around three suns keeping the surface in perpetual daylight, along with an abandoned geological research settlement. Meanwhile, Riddick manages to break free of his restraints and flees from the crash site, keeping a safe distance. While hiding in a nearby boneyard, he eavesdrops on Johns and Fry discussing the events of the crash. Riddick prepares to kill Fry for nearly purging the ship's passengers, until she reveals that her crewmate Owens stopped her from doing so. Instead, he simply cuts off a lock of her hair. Later, one of the survivors, Zeke, kills another survivor thinking it was Riddick, who has been casually watching the event from Paris' chair. When Zeke is later attacked and dragged into a hole by an unknown creature, Johns finds Riddick at the scene and recaptures him. Fry and Shazza accuse him of the murder, but Riddick denies involvement and suggests investigating the hole further. Once they finally find something worse than him, Riddick agrees to help the other survivors in exchange for his freedom. On the way back to the settlement, he casually introduces himself to Paris and helps himself to more of his liquor.

At the settlement, the survivors find a supply of water and a spaceship they can use to escape the planet, though lacking power cells needed to start it up. Riddick later questions Fry about the skiff's diagnosis, realizing she is aware of his piloting experience, and successfully turns her against Johns with the knowledge of his drug addiction. Investigating the area further, Riddick quickly deduces what happened to the original inhabitants, and these suspicions are confirmed when another survivor, a boy named Ali, is killed by a swarm of the same creatures. They come to learn that the planet has a native species of extremely deadly, bat-like Bioraptors that only hunt in darkness, staying in the planet's cave systems otherwise. the survivors realize that the suns will soon become eclipsed by the planetary alignment, plunging the surface into darkness for an unspecified length of time, to which Riddick playfully asks Fry if she's afraid of the dark. They quickly race back to the crashed ship to collect the power cells, other supplies and the other survivors before this occurs.

As they arrive at the crash, the eclipse begins and the creatures emerge from their underground caves and attack the survivors, ripping Shazza in half. Riddick encounters Hassan while hiding aboard the wreck, but is unable to save him from an attacking Bioraptor. As the survivors debate on what to do, Riddick defends Fry when Johns threatens her and compels him to stand down. Fry in turn reveals that Riddick has perfect night vision and trusts him to lead them to safety. After Paris is killed, Riddick realizes that Jack, a young runaway disguised as a boy, is female and on her menstrual cycle, and informs the others that the creatures are following them using her blood. When Johns suggests leaving Jack behind to lure the creatures away, Riddick instead wounds Johns in a duel and leaves him as the bait. Upon discovering the Bioraptors have a blind spot, Riddick debates with Imam Abu al-Walid on the former's belief in God, and openly admits his contempt for the deity. While running through a canyon, a Bioraptor attacks Jack, but Riddick singlehandedly fights and kills it. Soon, the group is whittled down to Riddick, Fry, Jack and the Imam; Riddick has the other three wait in a nearby cave with bioluminescent worms that will keep the creatures at bay while he hauls the power cells. Concerned, Fry follows Riddick and finds him ready to take the escape craft for himself, but manages to convince him to help rescue Jack and the Imam.

Returning to the cave, Riddick and the others proceed to the ship. Riddick is attacked by two of the creatures, but is saved by Fry's sacrifice. As they prepare to take off, Riddick waits for the last possible minute to kill as many of the creatures as possible with the ship's engine blast. As they are leaving the planet, Jack asks what they should do if they run into bounty hunters or other law enforcers asking where to find Riddick. Riddick advises her to "Tell 'em Riddick's dead. He died somewhere on that planet."

### Time on U.V. 6(2300-2305)

For the next 5 years, Riddick makes his home on the icy world of U.V.6, mapping out the terrain and hunting the local wildlife to survive. One day, Riddick takes shelter from a blizzard in a cave, killing a monstrous alien that had been stalking him. Riddick encounters 3 mercenaries that were sent by Toombs to hunt him and kills 2 of them. Later, Riddick manages to evade Toombs himself and his 4-man crew. After killing or disposing of his crew, Riddick confronts and interrogates Toombs, who reveals he is trying to collect a new 1.5 million bounty placed on Riddick's head. Leaving Toombs for dead, Riddick steals his ship and sets course off the planet.

Eventually Riddick tracked down his Former Superiors in Section 31 and with the help of another former section 31 Agent Elliot Reddington whom was now a Criminal mastermind whom controls a Criminal Syndicate he destroys Section 31 as it currently stood.

### Not Furya(2305-2311)

Riddick eventually pays for passage with a Ferengi transport to take him to his Homeplanet of Furya when Riddick arrives on a planet, he quickly finds it is Not-Furya, and the Ferengi quickly betray and try to kill him. Krone the Captain of the ship sends Riddick falling off a cliff, and the Ferengi believe him to be dead.

Riddick emerges from the fall with a broken leg, and narrowly avoids a pack of jackals native to the planet by hiding in a sulfur pool, sending away a straggler with a thrown piece of his armor. After building a makeshift brace for his leg, Riddick spends the next six years healing, adopting a jackal pup as his own and raising it. He and his pup become familiar with the planet as they discover dangers like the mud demons, which fully emerge when the ground is wet. After taking measures to immunize himself and his jackal, Riddick fights his way past some of the demons and travels across a savannah until he finds Mercenary Station P7. Knowing there is an approaching thunderstorm that will bring out the mud demons, Riddick scans himself inside, sending out a distress beacon to any merc ship near by.

Two merc crews arrive: Santana's, who are hell bent on decapitating Riddick for the bounty, and Boss Johns', who only want the truth about William J. Johns death. Both merc crews feud with each other, and Riddick begins picking them off one by one, stealing and hiding both of their ship's power nodes, leaving them unable to take off. Riddick then tries making a deal with the Captains, but the plan is ruined when Santana tries to kill Riddick from behind, only for Riddick's pet jackal to attack Santana in kind. Riddick tries to kill Santana but Dahl shoots him with several tranquilizers to bring him down. A helpless Riddick can only watch as Santana kills his Jackal before being knocked out by Boss Johns.

Riddick is captured and chained up as Boss Johns demands to know about the death of his son in the M-344/G System, but Riddick gives little answers. The storm hits the base and the mud demons emerge, killing two of the mercs. In anger, Santana tries to behead Riddick, but Riddick disarms him and kicks his machete through his head, slicing it in half. The mercs free Riddick and they ride off on their Jet Hogs to the location where Riddick buried the power nodes. While Riddick digs for the nodes, he tells Boss Johns about his son and confirms that he did not kill him (at least not directly), but that Johns was a junkie perfectly willing to kill a kid to save his own neck. As Boss Johns refuses to believe otherwise, Diaz tries to kill them both, but Riddick kills him before he gets the chance.

With their jet hogs destroyed, Riddick and Boss Johns make their way with a node each across the storm-swept plain fighting mud demons. Riddick gets bit and a tooth gets broken off in his chest, so Boss Johns takes Riddick's node and leaves him to fight for his life. Riddick makes it up to a steep cliff where he uses a hot rock to cauterize his wound and fights a hoard of mud demons with only his fists and razor. Fortunately, Boss Johns' craft arrives to blast the remaining mud demons as Dahl brings him on board.

Boss Johns gives Riddick Santana's Ship, and they agree to settle their differences another day, with both ships parting ways.

### Cryo-Sleep Accident(2311-2372)

Riddick needed to activate his small ships Emergency Cryo-Sleep Pod due to engine malfunction, He set the timer to wake him up in just 6 weeks when he would reach the nearest planet, His ship ended up malfunctioning and setting a course for a nearby asteroid field that damaged the ship even more, which caused the Pod to malfunction and Riddick spent the next 60 years sleep in the damaged vessel.

## Personality

Riddick has often been described as a sociopath. He has never shown any remorse for the murders he commits nor does he show much empathy for those around him. However, Riddick may more accurately be called an animal, as his crimes originate from his ruthless will to survive rather than for the sake of killing. He has even referred to himself as an animal at times. Due to feeling the rage of his kind for as long as he can remember, Riddick's mental state has been regularly pushed to its limits.

Despite this however Riddick's personality most reflects a true survivor. He will do whatever he must to survive and will kill anyone who tries to end him or his freedom. At the same time, he is not without some form of morality, refusing to kill those he does not view as a threat to himself. Likewise, if someone gets close enough to him they become part of the "Kill All Who Threaten" mindset, willing to defend them. Noticeably, Riddick also has a sympathy for children, as he was willing to risk his life to help Kyra and Lynn.

Riddick has a low opinion of himself, despite valuing his continued existence. This conflicts with his destiny to avenge his race. When Fry died trying to save him, Riddick could only scream "Not for me!" believing his life was unworthy of her sacrifice. He also expresses deep regret and sadness when Kyra sacrifices herself for him.

In *The Chronicles of Riddick*, he considered it an insult when he discovered the bounty placed on him was around a million of the currency for most planets, as well as when Toombs has a small crew to capture him (it was originally four crew members, then later five).

Additionally, he seems to have an intolerance for cannibalism, as seen in *Riddick* where, after disemboweling a Mud Demon, he displayed visible disgust at seeing it eating its own innards.

## Eyeshine

Due to Eyeshine, Riddick's eyes developed a night vision-like quality, allowing him to see and detect things in pitch darkness. A draw back to these eyes is his high sensitivity towards light, unable to properly see through too much of it.

Riddick gets the eyeshine to avoid disadvantage following an encounter with humanoids called "shiners" (who refer to Riddick as darkeye) who already have the same operation to see in the dark bowels of the Ursa Luna prison where the guards do not tend to go. The eyeshine surgical procedure seems to be performed by a bovine veterinarian on board a prison facility at which Riddick arrived only a few hours before and from which he is already in the process of escaping. Riddick elects to have no anesthetic despite the procedure involving cutting the cornea and drilling through the eye to inject a reflective substance behind the retina. The cost quoted to Riddick is 1000 creds. Having no cash, Riddick offers down payment of a pack of Kool cigarettes which he earlier took from a guard. He also takes welders goggles from the facility.

## Physical abilities

Aside from his more supernatural skills, Riddick is in superlative physical condition and is an exceptional fighter with or without the use of his eyes. Whether as a result of his Furyan heritage or simply training, Riddick is stronger, faster, more agile, tougher, more resistant to damage and injury (a very noteworthy testament to his durability is shown in *Riddick* where, upon confronting a Mud Demon, it used its tail to knock him headfirst into a nearby rock, and he walked away with no visible injuries, nor signs of a concussion [though he did briefly growl in annoyance]), possesses more acute senses, immense stamina, and superior healing when compared to most humans; he is shown on more than one occasion dislocating his limbs for brief moments with only slight signs of discomfort, although he was in more obvious pain when his leg was broken in a fall, and had to use a heated rock to cauterize a wound when he was impaled in the chest by a creature's sharpened tooth. In general, Riddick possesses an abnormally high threshold of pain and psychologically channels what pain he does feel into anger. His ability to cope with toxins is also heightened; when a merc team was attempting to take him out with horse tranquilizers, it took four darts just to make Riddick stop running, and he still remained conscious until he was hit in the head.

Riddick's abilities at hand-to-hand combat is a mix of krav maga, hapkido, eskrima, and ninjutsu; he uses his formidable fighting skills while confronting one of the night-creatures with only his bare hands and a shiv he had made, killing it with relative ease.

A very tactical and methodical man, Riddick is shown able to quickly adept to seemingly any situation or environment, able to forge tools from his surroundings, perform minor medical care to himself including usage of hot rocks to cauterize serious injuries, forage for food, and ultimately even survive alone and isolated on a barren planet.

## Intelligence

Despite his harsh upbringing and violent attitude, Riddick has been shown to have a certain knack for deductive reasoning, rapidly deducing what had happened to the original inhabitants of the mining base where he and the other crash survivors had been staying, as well as finding the creature's blind spot and swiftly deducing what had caused the firefight between the Warden's and Toombs' men. He has also been described as having "a knack for escape".

In one case, Riddick concluded that the prized dagger of a Klingon was "a half gram too heavy on the back end" after an inspection lasting all of a couple of seconds, although the tone of voice in which he delivered this appraisal suggested pre-fight bravado rather than abstract fact. His only weakness (other than light sensitivity, leaving him in pain when in daylight without his goggles), is his soft spot for children and anyone who really grows on him (those people become his friends), which resulted in his capture by the bounty hunter Johns.

In addition to raw analytical skill power, Riddick is generally an astute judge of character, especially in the dark side of human nature. A killer himself and resident of several maximum security facilities, he is often able to predict an individual's negative impulses before they act on them. He has been known to be surprised on occasion, such as when Carolyn Fry altruistically gave up a fast escape to save Jack and Imam from the alien creatures. Riddick was also surprised when he underestimated Jack's (Kyra's) affection toward himonly learning of it after she had become a mercenary and resident of a maximum security prison in order to see him once again.

Otherwise, he correctly predicted which of the group would turn on each other (in particular that Johns would try to double-cross Fry), and that the mercs and guards on Crematoria would turn on each other prior to his escape attempt. He appeared pleasantly surprised to learn that Johns' father was a better man than his son, complimenting Johns' nerve when he came back to help Riddick when he didn't have to.

## Willpower

One major characteristic of Riddick is his indomitable will. Despite finding himself in situations where the odds of survival and/or escape would seem insurmountable, Riddick always pushes forward and never gives up. Faced with several creatures far more powerful than himself, or any human for that matter, he has shown himself to be capable of evading, killing, or even taming them. He has escaped out of prisons when most prisoners would resign themselves to captivity.

## Weapons

Riddick is a very well-trained hunter and combatant. He is shown to be highly proficient if not deadly with any tool at his disposal, from firearms and melee-weapons to simple tea cups. His weapon of choice, to which he has shown undeniable precision, are knives. Likewise, Riddick is proven to be a fearsome hand-to-hand combatant, showing impressive and methodical attack patterns. However, Riddick's most famous weapons are a pair of Ulak blades