Former Crawlers
Survivors of past seasons who return from Faction Wars armed, organized, and publicly mouthing off about war.
Story so far
The former crawlers are the resistance's backbone. York is one, having taken his deal at the end of the tenth floor decades ago; Colonel Boomer is another, coming home from Faction Wars visibly aged; Porthus and Rosetta direct them. They onboarded into the crawl, fought, and are now loading back aboard the Homecoming Queen with breaching suits and Cronus-class Power Armor to begin phase two.
Seen from outside, they read very differently. Watching the news at Squirties, Zander sums them up as a whole fringe former crawler group mouthing off, with probably more shooting soon. He has seen war before and knows what it means for a man who sells fuel: war fleets do not buy it, they take it. The galaxy's most disposable people have become an army with a declared objective - stop the crawl or else.
Role
The veteran survivors who have turned themselves into the armed core of the resistance.
Relationships
Sources — 12 recorded facts, by chapter
- Survivors of earlier seasons now serving in the crawler base, several present unnamed at the treatment.
- Survivors of earlier seasons serving among Team Retribution's forces, several in Donut's guard platoon.
- Veterans of past seasons serving the castle as support staff, struggling to keep their blood bars filled.
- Crawlers serving out indentureship on the twelfth floor, most of whom know how to hide when the games start.
- Survivors who took the deal and now serve out indentureships, distrusted by NPCs who expect to be sacrificed for them.
- Ex-crawler laborers who scaled and built the Nest tower at video-game speed.
- Survivors of past crawls who came back willingly aboard Homecoming Queen to make one last statement.
- Veterans Mordecai consults to reconstruct how Fang escaped War Crime, and who ride out the retreat with the team.
- Alongside dozens of soldiers, former crawlers labor at repairing Larracos's towers and clearing its streets.
- Over 50,000 survivors of past seasons who came back to fight alongside Carl; roughly 28,000 remain.
- The crawlers who took their deals and are already on their way back to orbit as the ninth floor burns.
- Survivors of past seasons who return from Faction Wars armed, organized, and publicly mouthing off about war.