Editing Glen Stryker

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'''Glen Stryker''' was a member of the [[Blackhearts]] mercenary unit in the latter half of the [[thirty-first century]].<ref name="JHS:Tp45">''Jihad Hot Spots: Terra'', p. 45: "Zion Freed"</ref>

==History==
===Military Career===
Stryker was an officer within the Blackhearts, and by the beginning of the [[Jihad]] had reached the rank of [[Major]] and was serving as the regimental Executive Officer (XO). When the Commanding Officer of the Blackhearts, [[Colonel]] [[Marcus Johnson]] was killed on [[Wasat]] in November [[3068]] Stryker took command of the Blackhearts, having been tipped off by Johnson as to the true events occurring in the lead-up to Johnson's death. Stryker led the Blackhearts into the wilderness, striking at the mercenaries the [[Word of Blake]] had hired to pursue them, Raymond's ACR and the HeavyHell Raisers. Under Stryker's command the Blackhearts destroyed Raymond's ACR and inflicted enough casualties on the HeavyHell Raisers to force them to withdraw, leading to the Word deploying elements of the [[Third Division (Word of Blake)|Third Militia Division]] against them.<ref name="MSUp34">''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'', p. 34: "Blackhearts"</ref>

The Blackhearts lacked the numbers and resources to take on the Blakist Division directly and instead fought a two-year guerrilla war, but when presented with two choices - surrender, or see Wasat Prime, the capital city of Wasat, subjected to nuclear bombardment - Stryker elected to lead the Blackhearts through the wilderness to their hidden DropShips and retreat from Wasat. Stymied, the Precentor commanding the Third Militia Division destroyed Wasat Prime anyway.<ref name="MSUp34"/>

Unbeknownst to anyone, including the Word of Blake intelligence services, Stryker led the Blackhearts to [[Zion]]. Serving as a Colonel, Stryker led the Blackhearts in an organized campaign to rebuild in secret while simultaneously training an insurgency and resistance movement on Zion. The Blackhearts also worked to actively infiltrate the government and other strategically important organizations and facilities across the planet. As [[Operation SCOUR]] began in early [[3077]], Stryker had the insurgency go on the offensive, and it worked so effectively that within two months of the first blows the government had been replaced, and the Word of Blake forces and their sympathizers had been forced to retreat.<ref name="JHS:Tp45">''Jihad Hot Spots: Terra'', p. 45: "Zion Freed"</ref>

Stryker subsequently announced that he considered the Blackhearts to still be in the employ of the Free Worlds League, and that he planned to bring the Blackhearts into the Free Worlds League front SCOUR forces commanded by Duchess [[Alys Rousset-Marik]].<ref name="JHS:Tp45"/>

===Personal Life===
A Word of Blake special operations officer identified only as the [[Demi-Precentor]]-level [[Manei Domini#Manei Domini Ranking .26 Classes|Poltergeist-Delta]] [[Leslie]] produced a report for the ''Terra Domini'' figure known only as [[Precentor]] [[Damien Lucille|Lucifer]] follwing the reappearance of the Blackhearts on Zion. In it, Leslie suggested having Colonel Stryker and an individual she described as a "lifelong friend" that Stryker calls "Grevista da Tempestrade" assassinated.<ref name="JHS:Tp45"/> ("Grevista da Tempestrade" is Portuguese for "[[Tempest Stryker]]")

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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Jihad Hot Spots: Terra]]''
* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental Update]]''


[[Category: Mercenary Characters|Stryker, Glen]]