Silencer (Crusader)

A Silencer is a fictional soldier from the computer game series Crusader.

The Silencer Corps is a branch of the World Economic Consortium's military forces. Silencers can be easily recognized by their full-body red armor. Silencers are trained extensively in the usage of firearms and hand-to-hand combat techniques and are regarded by the general public as human killing machines, capable of efficiently carrying on with their missions even when near the point of death. Rumors correctly suggest that Silencers are the product of a genetic breeding program, developed and executed by WEC scientist Dr. Hoffman. From this perspective a Silencer can be truly considered a natural born killer.

The games manual describes Silencers as: "definitely not conventional forces - a killing machine trained to be the ultimate soldier. Silencers are given complete freedom to choose their own weapons and equipment, but can always be recognized by their unique uniform of rigid plastic-armor plates.

The player controlled character in the game is a Silencer who is only known as Captain due to his military rank. The Captain abandoned the service of the WEC to join the Global Resistance after a failed attempt to kill him for not obeying orders. While a second breed of Silencers had been genetically created it is unknown if the Captain is a product of such experiments himself. In Crusader: No Remorse the mad scientist behind the creation of the Silencers salutes the Captain as the "prodigal son" and describes the new breed of Silencers as devoid of the moral constrictions of the first breed, thus implying the Captain is a genetic enhanced soldier of this previous batch of Silencers.