The Red Raptor
Legendary
The Red Raptor is a vigilante active in every major city on the planet at once, which no single individual could manage. The common theory is that several Engineered individuals operate under the name, coordinated by an unknown entity whose technology and funding no public organization has claimed. It is almost certain that none of them is natural-born and that none of them has ever killed anyone, and their operations run without interruption across every major population center on the planet.
The suit sits directly over the skin and conceals nothing about the operator's build. Only the face is hidden, behind a one-way black visor. The Red Raptor has been observed at well over eight feet tall and extremely muscular, consistent with a large Assault-Class male, and at just under seven feet with wide muscular hips, consistent with an Assault-Class female or a large hybrid. It has been heard speaking in a deep voice, in a woman's voice, and in a grizzled older voice, and wisecracking at criminals during active engagements. None of these profiles match. The body types alone rule out a single individual, and the suit makes the difference obvious. Whoever designed the program made no effort to hide that there are multiple operators. The name and the rules are shared, and the identity works as a uniform.
The suit has clawed hands and feet for scaling walls and other vertical surfaces, a smooth exterior with a heavily armored silver torso and red across the rest of the body, retractable wings along the arms for gliding, and a back-mounted propulsion system that carries jumps far beyond what even an Assault-Class body can manage naturally, though it does not allow sustained flight. Shield gauntlets on the forearms have been seen deflecting direct fire and firing non-lethal projectiles. Operators also carry various hooks and ropes for traversal. The equipment is military-grade hardware individually fitted to operators of different body types, and someone is building, maintaining, and upgrading it without ever being identified.
During daylight hours, an airship has been observed flying at speeds consistent with Solarn engineering while armored like Haavu military hardware. No other known vehicle has successfully combined the two design philosophies. Witnesses have reported the airship flying directly into water and submerging like a submersible. It was designed specifically for these operations by someone with access to both manufactories at the highest level, and that person or entity has never been identified either.
Witnesses have identified Red Raptor operators using every fighting art known on the planet, which should not be possible even for a single Assault-Class individual. The range of martial knowledge across sightings points either to one impossibly trained individual or to multiple operators, each carrying different combat specializations under the same name. There have been many opportunities to capture a Red Raptor operator, and in every documented case the operator chose not to allow it.
The Red Raptor has been wanted in Karesh and other major cities for disrupting manufactory operations, destroying civic infrastructure, destruction of property, possession of weapons of mass destruction, possession of unauthorized technologies, willful withholding of identity, refusal to answer government summons, harmful influence on youth, supply line disruption, impersonation of enforcement personnel, vigilantism, judgment of individuals before legal proceedings, refusal to submit to the state, use of unaccounted-for munitions, disruption of criminal investigations, destruction of illegal stockpiles without reporting them through appropriate channels, and possession and use of potentially experimental weapon and armor systems. It finds illegal stockpiles and destroys them instead of reporting them through legal channels, so every stockpile charge comes down to the same violation: doing the state's work without the state's permission. Red Raptor operators have single-handedly solved more kidnappings and dismantled more underground rings in major capitals than state enforcement could have managed on its own.
The Unbound despise the Red Raptor for disrupting their operations, and they also publicly celebrate it as the ultimate expression of what they preach. Their theology holds that He Who Allows permits everything, and the Red Raptor does whatever it wants without asking anyone's permission, which by their own doctrine makes it the purest form of allowance in action. The Raptor is also the one destroying their trafficking networks and underground operations, and they cannot condemn it without undermining the foundation of their own faith.
Some believe the Red Raptor is Ash Kota returned, but records confirm both are active at the same time at distances too great to cross. The Red Raptor has never spoken a personal word. All speech attributed to its operators appears deliberately basic, stripped of anything that could identify origin, education, accent, or individuality. The non-lethal commitment holds for every operator in every city, which points to a doctrine that someone set and trained every operator to follow. No one has established who organized the program, or why every operator agreed to the same rule.