Alyph Niner

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**Alyph Niner** (or simply **A9**) is a **Shetani** demon serving as a customizable protagonist of IronClaw's **Just Cause X2: Defy Extinction**.

## Background information and Appearance

- *Despite it being possible to create either male or female Alyph, for the sake of convenience the protagonists will be referred as "he"* -

Character creation in JCX2 consists of facial feature modelling, build and clothing selection. While the face and body type is not very customizable (Alyph could only range from "slightly athletic" to "bodybuilder" physique), there's a few hundred wardrobe items with the ability to pick their color, camo pattern and appearance. For example, a baseball cap could be worn normally, backwards or with an angle. There's also a variety of tattoos, scarring and body paint options.

Most of the clothing is not available from the start of the game; it's unlocked during missions, free roam or finding collectibles. Still, most clothing is barely for aesthetics; body armor and/or helmets do not have effect on anything.

There's a variety of useful equipment as well - see "Equipment" section below

## History prior to 2020

Alyph was created between the events of **Just Cause 3** and **Just Cause X: Global Exchange** in secret laboratories of the **Black Hand**-controlled Sri Lanka. After a five year training program, the demon was transferred to South African front lines, where he fought against forces of Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe with great success, killing hundreds of human grunts and **Bilolo** traditionalist shamans.

## Events of **Just Cause X2: Defy Extinction**

As the crisis on **Askabjǫð** archipelago unfolds, Alyph is sent to help the struggling **Endron Security Forces** against the **Libertatia** rebels and their European allies in **The Connection**. His real mission, however, is to find the ancient ruins of *Gwarch Ó Duibhir*, a remnant of the command post of long-dead Mesolithic super-civilization. Despite formally acting under command of *Major-General Alexei Yakov*, Alyph is completely independent in his investigation, answering only to the Black Hand's *Board of Technomages*, a secretive ruling body of the Pact.

Pushing front lines to the North, the demon faces a full-on military intervention from European nations as the rebels could not hold on their own. **UNPROFOR** quickly regains control of several key regions, forcing the Black Hand to act. **Task Force Firecat** is deployed to keep European armies at bay, and it's up to Alyph to push them over to the ocean.

When finally reaching **Heitrheimr**, the Shetani faces the Bilolo warriors and their summoned spirits again, fighting his way through hellish landscapes of the red sand canyons. He's contacted by a mysterious figure known as *"Handsome Sloth"*, telling that there's a fleet of **Agency** white submarines heading to the island, and that they are about to unleash several dozen Trident-II SLBMs to the canyon, destroying the ancient ruins and everyone fighting for it in a blaze of nuclear fire. He proposes Alyph to destroy the outpost, just as Rico once destroyed Panau refineries on Panau. If nobody gets the ancient tech, the Third World War could be avoided.

In the end of JCX2 storyline, Alyph faces **Emerson Miller**, Agency's super-soldier and Technoshaman upgraded with nanite infusions and ancient talismans that grant him powers to control the time itself, reverting it when needed, but only at a short term, roughly for a minute. The fight ensues, and Alyph kills the agent with his enchanted knife, another space-time breaking artifact of the Mesolothic era. It is up for Shetani now to decide the fate of the **Askabjǫð** and, perhaps, the entire world. He could destroy the ruins just as "Handsome Sloth" asks, complete his mission and take the ancient technological knowledge to his masters in Black Hand, or simply leave, letting the Agency and Firecat operatives fight over it conventionally.

## Powers and Arcana

Alyph is an ancient demon, resurrected by the TechnoMages of the **Black Hand** using mystical rituals and cutting edge technologies such as nanomachines, magnetorheological fluids and Bavarium hyper-conductors. He can quickly regenerate pretty much any wound imaginable as long as his body is not completely torn apart or disintegrated. He's inhumanly strong and fast; albeit in a normal gameplay he moves just a bit faster then normal, in cutscenes Alyph is able to outrun a fast-moving SUV.

Being a demon however, he's vulnerable to specialized weaponry, such as enchanted/blessed bullets and other magical items that some enemies will use against the Shetani.

While nowhere near as powerful as any true Mage, Alyph is able to use powers of Arcana against his enemies.

*See **Powers and Abilities Tree (JCX2)** for more info*

## Equipment

A9 uses a variety of grapplers, tethers and wingsuits; see ***Equipment in JCX2***.

## Personality

As described by MBTI test, JCX2 protagonist is an ENTP-T.

He's an easy-going, cheery and open-minded, albeit often short-tempered and impulsive. He enjoys combat even when facing particularly strong opponents, believing that "What does not kill you makes you stronger". To many, Alyph is brash and obnoxious, as he has little empathy to anyone, including close friends. Sometimes his personality is borderline sociopathic, but unlike many sociopaths, he's not a narcissist; Alyph sees himself merely as a tool of the **Black Hand**, and believes that violence could be justified for greater achievements. He easily laughs off anything that targets his ego, definitely not lacking the self-irony.

He often jokes (and many jokes are very offensive) about what's going on around him no matter how grim the situation is; many characters that dwell on high discipline, such as Major-General Yakova and Commander Lem could not stand this "cheery, childish idiot" kind of behavior.

## Trivia

* Alyph shares many personality traits of JCX Series Author.
* "Alyph" is another spelling of "Alpha"; hence his "name" is derived from A9 operational code.
* Without any upgrades, Alyph could take one direct hit from 125-mm tank cannon or 2-3 proximity ones.

## Gallery

A promotional art.Female Alyph at Character Creation screen.