A Nightrider: Hero of the Dark

**A Nightrider: Hero of the Dark** is the documented biography regarding PROJECT NIGHTSTALKER, better known as PSYLOCKE-832. It takes place after her experience with the G/NEX and explores more of her crusade as the nightrider of the glooming night.

As expected from the Nightrider, she has singlehandedly made efforts against PROJECT with ease, owing to some help from COALESCENCE operatives when she demands additional backup in her operations,

## History

### A Deadly Party

The nightrider has returned after her intense encounter with the G/NEX, seeking all evil in the darkness as she roars in the streets with the DARK RUNNER or silently zooms across the Aryaine Kingdom to drive by and quickly kill her opponents. If that isn't enough, she dismounts and settles things her way, like a driven bounty hunter determined to execute his target. Lauren Van Damme provides her the opportunity to analyse Sylas Clement following an incident that has harmed their reputation. She is uninterested and instead redirects the goal to Amanda Gyllenhaal, believing that pursuing her targets is far more vital.

Back in Rutherland, she and a few COALESCENCE assassins are sent to infiltrate a gathering at a prominent nightclub; this is due to the confirmation of three PROJECT executives entering the premises with the intent of taking it and using it for their own purposes. As a result, Rachelle, Amanda, Xavier, and Yusef join the party without drawing notice by wearing lavish yet non-revealing clothing. Lesley, Eckhart, and Kruger have been recognised as the targets.

After a while, Rachelle diverts the attention of the partygoers after the three have been infiltrated by the executives, promptly requesting their own security team to take them out silently. She distracted attention by removing her overcoat and revealing her lingerie while she danced in a pole, knowing that exposing her own body would give her squad enough time to grab their Corpo-network smartphones, which all had important information about the megacorporation's plans. Due to this, she swiftly breaks the necks of those who attempted to kill her while posing as a prostitute, by the team's suggestion. Shortly, they all went outside the building after the three executives were poisoned to death by their own drinks, possibly by COALESCENCE, or an employee at the club that seems to be affiliated with the G/NEX.

According to observations, the nightclub's name was "Dome of Pleasure." Following the event there, which was covered by COALESCENCE, it was shut down. The megacorporation immediately sends SHADOW into Rutherland with no orders to kill, just as a reconnaissance mission. After that, he notices PSYLOCKE-832 staring at him with a cold expression before driving away. After parking at a skyscraper that looks to be a PROJECT research centre that no one knows much about, SHADOW throws a shuriken at her, which she quickly catches and reads a warning on it. Knowing the potential danger, she instructs her squad to split up as she prepares to explore the building in search of something noteworthy.

### Executive Circle: The Cursed number of Ten

One year later, she learned the megacorporation's secrets in the facility. PROJECT, is soon deploying ANNIHILATOR, a future mecha design, and she is the first to learn that he is, in reality, a living being that evolved from a virus, only needing to inhabit a mecha body to carry out his genocidal commands in the far future. Not to add that she spent several months in the facility gathering data without being noticed. Yusef states she just donned fancy apparel to fit in.

She uses infiltration and covert tactics as she blends in with ease across the building while wearing her distinctive suit. To maximise stealth, she only kills suspects inside the facility with knives and a silenced weapon. Security cameras occasionally indicate that she has a marksman rifle hidden in her "equipment" as she mows down distant opponents who approach the facility, most notably soldiers and four CEOs. Morcillo, Claude, Salvatore, and Irochi are the four.

Morcillo, it turns out, was the one who came up with the idea for ANNIHILATOR. Claude, on the other side, is recognised for supervising mecha manufacturing plants. Salvatore is a well-known former Command Line officer. Ezekiel, on the other side, is the masochistic mastermind behind the Corporate Draft, which explains the megacorporation's disproportionate number of female cyborg warriors. She then managed to disrupt an eight-executive meeting after COALESCENCE launched an assault in the same building.

Much to the entirety of COALESCENCE's surprise, Rachelle Palmer herself, aka the nightrider PSYLOCKE-832 has killed the ten executives of the megacorporation, with a variation for Irochi herself, who was stabbed by her in euthanasia. Muldoon Lundgren is alarmed at the quick assassinations of ten executives. Much to his curiosity, the nightrider stayed off the radar against PROJECT as she drives around Rutherland again, the presence of the nightrider, felt again. Ruthian citizens confirm that her daily rounds in the country in the year have been met with positive feedback, even if she proves to be edgy in her methods.

As a result of the enormous setback, PROJECT has formed a new Executive circle board with new members who are all incredibly skilled and knowledgeable in the business. They also claimed that items should be arranged by the number five rather than ten. They believe that COALESCENCE's action has prompted them to regard "10" as a negative omen.

### Supreme Eight

SHADOW has been ordered to scout her position without killing a few months after the successful COALESCENCE operation. Sylas Clement has been liberated and is currently working on a few missions that involve liberating prison camps through hostage rescue operations and the use of clandestine ops. However, Sylas is noticeably utilising cruel means to complete the operations, which has led to his being assigned to Rachelle's previous team to watch his thirst for killing or earning money and keep him from going insane. As a result, Amanda is highly *dissatisfied* with the change, but Lauren Van Damme tells her that Palmer will get rid of him shortly, to which she laughs, knowing that the latter is virtually unrivalled in most types of combat.

Rachelle decides to operate in a low profile as she performs contracts assigned by the COALESCENCE, wishing the team a good luck as they have Sylas in their operation to liberate prison camps, including an entire ship that has been used by PROJECT as a camp somewhere at the sea of Rutherland. She is able to gain access from the local police department to use an office for an advantage, briefly posing as a Ruthian Police Force officer occasionally, but she uses the office as her sniping nest as the altitude of the building is considerably high, allowing her to shoot targets past a kilometre with ease through her sniper rifle. Afterwards, she crashed a military operation by purposefully disabling SCOUT Walker and HUNTER Walker mechas as she saves young rebels, whom are actually sided with the G/NEX.

COALESCENCE, displeased that there is a PROJECT headquarters on Rutherland, orders a full-man assault on the building with all of their armed mercenaries and assassins at their disposal. They stormed the structure using sophisticated methods akin to Delta HAWKs or Navy EMEC special operations forces. They are able to see eight executive members while slaughtering the stationed staff inside the facility. Rachelle Palmer, who appeared without PROJECT technology in her suit and gear, insists that the eight of them be her kills. They had no objections and carried on. As a result, Palmer killed Faye, Matthies, Irochi, Arashi, Daimo, Leo, Peter, and Glenda, allowing them to obtain any information in the site while sparing the innocent members of the building.

Palmer puts on full-on tactical gear over her suit as PROJECT has sent the counter espionage unit against them. It was a long and gruelling close combat scenario, which they even sent Gray Wolf to assassinate Palmer, to no avail, as she simply killed him with a shot to his eye from a long ranged assault rifle, which the bullet was fired at a distance of 736 meters. She is slightly wounded after the building has collapsed, suffering no fractures and injuries, but rather internal bleeding in her midsection after a stunt she pulled when dodging debris. As a result, she puts a break on her nightriding crusade as emphasise the use of darkness to kill her opponents, again. INTERCEPTOR-409 was able to witness his quick death, and demanded a revive.

### An Evil, Gloomy Night.

Rachelle Palmer prepares for her final voyage as the nightrider PSYLOCKE-832 in the dark. She now thrives on embodying her former codename "NIGHTSTALKER" more than ever before. She had spent the entire year (up until the incident at 3005) as the nightrider fighting her way through the streets of Rutherland. The DARK RUNNER bike was used in numerous operations. She sometimes rides the bike to save hordes of innocent people and prove that she is approachable, as younger people are afraid of her frightening features and a cruel, infamous personality, which has caused her to become feared by the megacorporation's forces.

Despite her endless number of rivals, Rachelle's principles often gave her the instinct to kill them and promptly finish them all, however on PROJECT GRANDIOSE, she isn't like that, instead they have grown to become competitive. Many of her foes tend to flee from her until they are shot from away, or she gave chase in order to swiftly end them. Her foes include the monstrous APEX-363, Gray Wolf, the INTERCEPTOR-409, and Sylas Clement. PROJECT GRANDIOSE would ultimately be her worst adversary. Despite the fact that she once managed to kill him and ultimately sending his corpse for a whole revival, he would shortly become active again.

A mining site of the megacorporation was sighted in the country, allowing the NIGHTSTALKER stalks hundreds of Command Line soldiers towards a vast mining site of the same country for her final crusade as the nightrider. After deliberately causing their security to be notified, she maximises the use of the darkness and swiftly eliminates the unsuspecting solders using her bike, albeit with the bike set to a silent mode to remain hidden.

She was narrowly detected after racking up a body count, forcing her to brutally kill most of them through her own glaive, stabbing them with precision, avoiding any attention from her kills; forcing the entire miners to evacuate inside the mines, and the soldiers are ordered to capture and kill her. COALESCENCE agents called her if she needed backup, but she only shrugged, stating that they should clean the place, when is she is done. PROJECT SHADOW was able to find her in the darkness, but he later departed after she simply forced him, knowing that he isn't close to her potential, yet.

As she slaughters the remaining soldiers, she turned attention to herself and lets the guards aim their weapons at her. PROJECT has a live feed of this, so PSYLOCKE-832 used her wrist computer to deliver something in their servers. It was a specialised EMP weapon that effectively shut downed any of their electronic gadgets, allowing COALESCENCE forces to rally up behind her, and she drives away, even performing a headshot with a sniper rifle at the enemy a thousand yards away, whilst riding at high speeds. The Chairman and the COO has congratulated them for a completely successful operation. Sylas Clement takes note of this, and questions the true potential of her abilities, which she simply silenced him with her words: "It is, and always won't fit your style."

Overall, the nightrider was all about finesse, fully utilising her enormously formidable skills of stealth and deception, barely appearing at all, as evidenced by her catching Sylas Clement and tying him up from a tall building, and breaking Bokeem Culzac's legs, forcing the latter to permanently rely on his executive position over everything else. Indeed, PSYLOCKE-832 was so adept in her deception that even after her seemingly endless years of guarding Domino and the other Ruthian cities, there was little reliable proof to indicate that she is a terrible killer who stalks her prey at night.

However, as she concludes her notable crusade as the nightrider, she realises that a more violent, combative approach to battling evil is more appropriate for the coming years. As a result, she trades her propensity for stealth and the dark in order to channel a more soldier-like spirit in later operations, operating akin to special force operator or, more specifically, a contract killing bounty hunter.

## Cast

A Nightrider: Hero of the Dark features only two major characters: PSYLOCKE-832 and PROJECT SHADOW. The rest are side characters with lesser but notable roles, particularly the security operatives. This thoroughly explains more of COALESCENCE's operatives in combat against the megacorporation.

Moreover, they had shown their capabilities aside from being a formidable security firm. They'd become pseudo-soldiers now.

### COALESCENCE

* Darren Van Damme
* Lauren Van Damme
* Sylas Clement (Deceased)
* Yusef Xanthosa
* Xavier Fishburne
* Amanda Gyllenhaal

### PROJECT

* PROJECT SHADOW
* Gray Wolf
* **𝔼𝕃𝕀𝕋𝔼 𝔽𝕀𝔽𝕋𝔼𝔼ℕ**
	+ **Lesley**: She is a wealthy business titan that has 10% of PROJECT's total investments in the entirety of their history. Notably, she purchases a lot of property that allowed the megacorporation to enhance their investments in the following years.

* + **Eckhart**: He is said to be a jester, and a serial killer who became an executive, after showing potential that he goes out of their way to contravene every war crimes convention, protocol and idea of nevian killing. His design of weaponry are designed to burn, chemically disrupt and shred flesh and he does not make no apologies for it.

* + **Kruger**: A distinguished experienced Command Line soldier. Now in charge of military investments and enforcing corporate objectives in order to achieve them efficiently. Notably, he is a legendary murderer and rapist, according to governments all around the planet. He apparently has a lengthy criminal history of murder and rape.

* + **Morcillo**: The person who came with the idea of PROJECT ANNIHILATOR. As a result, he became one of the most hated people on the planet, for a very good reason.

* + **Claude**: In charge of mecha manufacturing plants. He is a perfectionist and a master engineer of various fields. Some say he designs mecha components by himself, with minimal supervision from the actual designers.

* + **Salvatore**: A former Command Line officer, now working as an executive. the reason for this is due to his negative experience with the soldier known as Gray Wolf.

* + **Ezekiel**: A notorious kidnapper and a business titan. He is perhaps notable for being the mastermind of the dreaded, unforgivable Corporate Draft. Known for being a womaniser as well, which explains the disproportionate amount of female cybernetic warriors in the megacorporation itself.

* + **Faye**: A seemingly timid but cruel executive. Known to brutally murder some clients by "kissing" them to death. She is also noted for being a serial killer way back in 2996, according to COALESCENCE archives itself, through the use of DATA.

* + **Matthies**: Born from the Voriani family and tribal clan, he is a cousin of LILIAN-395 herself. As expected, he is courageous and determined, regardless of the circumstances. Some suggests that he is responsible for a "Winter Adaptive Course" training program, built to train Command Line personnel for arctic conditions. Gray Wolf reportedly loved this addition, knowing that it creates better, cold blooded recruits.

* + **Irochi**: A Rojinese business titan known to supplement money for all crime syndicates in the country, with no restraints. His distribution of an endless sum of credits has been a vital addition to the executive boards.

* + **Arashi**: Arashi Watanabe is a brainwashed executive member. In return, he is extremely logical and dedicated. Emotion is a weakness to his own perspective. He's willing to ignore petty squabbles and jabs at him, and will only do what he finds logical. The Executives are pleased by his dedication and his competence stemming from it, starkly contrasting with the egotistical and gloating Muldoon Lundgren. His passive nature to goings-on around him may paint him as apathetic, but whoever believes that is writing their death warrant.

* + **Daimo**: A lucky executive member. He was mostly responsible for keeping everyone in the megacorporation well fed through his investments regarding food and beverages.

* + **Leo**: Born Carlos Leonard Varenberg. He is known to be a filmmaker and a former actor, which allowed him to use such skills to generate propaganda for the megacorporation. As a result, he serves as the chief promoter of the entire megacorporation, as well as his skills in art allowed him to illustrate various designs with relative ease.

* + **Peter**: Corrupt business man from the Panamoan Republic. Said to be a visionary, and suggests that PROJECT should introduce a darwinistic vision for the entire planet. His concept was taken into consideration, and his vision is widely emphasised throughout the megacorporation's history.

* + **Glenda**: A brainwashed woman from a lesser known country. Idealistic and optimistic at best.

## Trivia

### General

* The DARK RUNNER superbike plays a pivotal role in her crusade.
* Rachelle has exposed several mining sites in Rutherland, owned PROJECT.
* The nightrider has killed fifteen PROJECT executives in total.
* Sylas Clement is COALESCENCE's finest non-enhanced or super powered operative.
* It has been archived by COALESCENCE themselves.
* PROJECT SHADOW has managed to establish himself as her "noted adversary".
* She is able to discover ANNIHILATOR before everyone else, not even SCYLLA-028 came close.