Joker

 

Joker
Biographical information
Physical description
Gender	Male
Additional information
Affiliation	Terran Coalition of Man
Notable	Destroyed Strogg Moon Base, returned home alive
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Joker is a human Marine and the main protagonist of The Reckoning.

He was a part of an elite squad, whose mission was to locate and neutralize the Strogg counter-fleet. During the descent to the planet surface, his drop pod took a glancing hit from rocky debris and he was separated from the rest of his team. This ultimately saved his life because his team was pinned down and slaughtered by the Strogg.

On his own, Joker discovered the location of the Strogg fleet, destroyed their fuel production plant, hijacked a Strogg freighter, and successfully destroyed the Strogg Moon Base. In the process of shutting down the Moon Base's reactor, he confronted and defeated a Strogg warlord apparently identical to the Makron that was defeated by Bitterman in the original Quake II single-player campaign. However, the original Quake II manual asserts "the Strogg civilisation is governed through a system of Warlords. Each is given strategic locations to command and control. A single leader, called the Makron, is chosen from the Warlords", which could imply that the commander of the moon base in The Reckoning is one such warlord, not the same individual Strogg as the Makron but rather a different warlord using the same class of battlesuit. Nevertheless, from a story perspective, this particular detail is unknown for certain.