Otto Cruger

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## Otto Cruger

Cruger in Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavely Creatures

### Aliases

Colossus, Hanging Judge, Prisoner 6007586

## Appearances

### Appears in

*Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*

### Debut

*Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures* (2018)

**Otto Cruger** is one of three members that make up the criminal gang known as the Unheavenly Creatures under the code name "Colossus." He was sentenced to serve life in prison on the planet known as The Dark Sentencer and was outfitted with a Gutter. He held a grudge against Nostrand Crane, a fellow Unheavenly Creature, due to his actions causing them to be caught and incarcerated. The Warden of the prison planet gave him the opportunity to take out Crane and their third Unheavenly Partner, Nia Worn, but he was unsuccessful. It is assumed he perished in the implosion of the prison planet's death.

## History

### Early Life

Very little is known about Cruger's early life, but he would say he was born to loveless parents. It is known that when he was a boy, he lived with his father, but it is not known if he had any other relatives. He did not attend school and his father seemed to have an alcoholic and/or a drug and/or gambling addict. Cruger's father was a key component of a scarring incident when he was just nine years old. His father was obsessed with an intricate game called clarisy, which involved claw-headed scoop-like sticks and egg-sized balls that were to be passed back and forth with the sticks across a table. Cruger strived to make his father proud of him and as this game held all his attention, he strived to learn the ins and outs of the game. During one session, with a lot of money on the line, the older Cruger had jokingly asked the younger Cruger to help call a game. Not realizing the elder wanted him to blindly agree with him, Cruger determined that his father had cheated. In blind rage, the elder struck the boy with his stick and took off a huge portion of his lower face—a disfiguration that would never be fixed.

### The Unheavenly Creatures

Cruger became friends with Nostrand Crane over ten years before on his first job with a new "employer." He was probably already pulling small-scale heists before the pair met, but Cruger almost bombed the mission they were given. When their boss, Ribbi Aguni, chewed him out for his rash actions, Crane stepped in to defend him—something no one else had ever done for him. Cruger encouraged Crane to join him on these schemes, which isolated him from his parents. Eventually, Crane met Nia Worn who wasn't upset that Crane stole for a living, but was upset that he had kept it from her. In a strange, totally unlikely outcome, Worn demanded to join them.

This irked Cruger. He seemed to think that Crane had lost his loyalty to him and their missions in favor of Worn; perhaps scared to be on his own all over again. This eventually led to the incident at Potts International Bank. Crane was supposed to monitor the front and make sure no cops were coming or any hostages tried anything funny while Cruger cracked the vault and Worn followed after to help collect the money. After she joined him and began her tasks, that unexplained anger bubbled up in him and he grabbed her hand, growling, "If you want it all, my dear, go on and get it," before adding an amendment, "Actually, I think I'm all done with you taking it all." And then proceeded to shoot her in the head.

He staged a gun fight with a non-existent security guard as a cover, and coerced Crane into leaving the bank without going to check on Nia and the supposed guard(s) that were "sure" to be headed their way. Crane, still adamant that he couldn't leave Worn, even if she was dead, only left when Cruger threatened to kill the hostages instead. Of course, after the incident, Crane needed answers and a lot about the situation didn't add up to him so he sought answers and at great risk, which eventually landed the remaining Unheavenly Creatures in custody.

### Sentence on The Dark Sentencer

Sentenced to work on the prison planet known as The Dark Sentencer, Cruger did as instructed and reported to his supervising officer, was outfitted with a gutter, and assigned a "domicile"—a "see-through wall of human-sized lockers." The entirely see-through structure only contained a thin mattress on the floor and a compartment that could be pulled out of the wall removed waste. Cruger secretly enjoyed the routine of the prison planet, where he worked monotonously on Level Four to load the refined core energy into trucks.

One day, as he was visiting the brothel on Level Six known as Le Paddock, his session was interrupted by a HOSS officer. He escorted Cruger to the Warden, who had an image of both Crane and a very-much-alive Worn on his viewscreen. The Warden explained that he wanted to recruit Cruger for a mission in which he would hunt the pair down and eliminate them. In return, he would be allowed anywhere on the planet, be relieved of all his work duties forever, receive a stipend and be allowed choose from an armory of weapons (probably to keep).

### Death

Cruger was able to find the pair quickly, as he was quite familiar with their actions and motives. He found them at The Pavillion's airfield attempting to highjack a ship off planet. He used a bionic grenade thrower to blast a hole in the transport and though the blast threw Worn out of the ship, Cruger pulled Crane from the pilot's seat and threw him on the concrete of the airfield. Tossing the grenade launcher, he pulled out an SA41 blaster and taunted Crane with the knowledge that he'd used a blaster just like that one to shoot Worn in the head and assured him it wouldn't fail him this time. Crane taunted him right back by pointing out that he had to use weapons some authority figure gave him to take them out. This succeeded as Cruger dropped the gun with a shrug and their pair engaged in a fist fight, quickly overtaking Crane. When Crane was all but beaten to death, Cruger unstrapped a mace from his back and raised it about the other man.

At that point, Worn had regained consciousness and called out to him with her own taunt. He didn't deign to answer her, but she pulled out a device and entered something into it. This device activated Cruger's Gutter, burying itself deep in the giant's abdomen, spraying Crane with blood and guts. Cruger's face was shocked as his body simply fell to one side, freeing Crane.

## Trivia

* Cruger may not have bothered to take the Warden's deal if he'd known the planet was just days away from implosion.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 16-17. Evil Ink, 2018.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 29-30. Evil Ink, 2018.
3. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 47-63. Evil Ink, 2018.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 65-72. Evil Ink, 2018.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 8-14. Evil Ink, 2018.
6. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 45-47. Evil Ink, 2018.
7. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 42-45. Evil Ink, 2018.