Hunter-Warriors (Battle Angel Alita)

Hunter-Warriors are a title that features in Battle Angel Alita.

History

Hunter-Warriors was a profession established on Earth in the years after the events of The Fall.

The Factories were destroyed or shut down as a result of the self-destruction of Melchizedek and near collapse of Tiphares. Vector and Kaos join forces to bring order and peace out of the turmoil that ensues, but what effect this has had on the hunter-warrior system has not been elaborated on

Overview

There are no clear qualifications for someone to be a hunter-warrior, save for a desire to become one. A simple requirement was to go to the Factory and register to become one. This makes them eligible to pursue wanted criminals and collect the bounties on them. Because there is no formal criminal justice system or police force in the Scrapyard, hunter-warriors function as the primary means of enforcing Factory Law. However, they themselves are still subject to Factory Law, and can become wanted criminals when they step outside its boundaries. The inherently deadly nature of their work however, means that all hunter-warriors specialize in the use of a specific martial art, fighting technique, weapon (s), or otherwise have their own means of giving themselves an advantage over their quarry. The vast majority of hunter-warriors appear to be male and are largely or fully cyborg.

In order to register as a hunter-warrior, one visits any of the numbered factories located in the Scrapyard. Here, an assigned deckman registers the new hunter-warrior by burning a unique barcode onto their neuroglia. This is the only means the Factory has of identifying a hunter-warrior, as cyborgs lack natural cell patterns such as fingerprints, voice prints, or retina patterns. These patterns can be easily stolen and/or counterfeited with existing technology, and many cyborgs no longer have any at all. The process is painless and relatively quick, and the hunter-warrior is assigned a registration number.

When a crime has been committed and a criminal identified, netmen put the criminals on the bounty list. The chip value of a bounty is dispassionately calculated depending on the nature of the crime committed, regardless of who the perpetrator is. Public terminals are updated with the latest bounties, from which a report can be printed for a fee. Netmen also post these reports at the criminal’s place of residence if applicable. In order to collect on a bounty, a hunter-warrior must bring in the bounty’s head to a factory for identification and payment. The criminals’ brains are then either incinerated or recycled by the pharmaceutical industry. Becoming a bounty is thus tantamount to receiving a death sentence. If a criminal cannot be identified, the netmen do not put them on the bounty list unless they have committed a Class A crime. There was also an unofficial bounty list known as the “Black List” of criminals who have not been identified by the Factory that is put together by Scrapyard residents, mostly the victims’ families. The Informants Guild, of which Walrom is a member, is awarded for any information that leads to the arrest or capture of these criminals. It is inferred that the bounties on criminals who are on the Black List are funded by civilians. The netmen will on occasion assist hunter-warriors with tracking a particular criminal down, but only if they have committed a Class A offense.

Members

• Alita : Alita became a hunter-warrior after saving Ido from a mutant woman who had gone berserk and was targeting other women. She is considered the Scrapyard’s best hunter-warrior for killing Makaku, a notorious criminal who was on the bounty list for years. Because of her Panzer Kunst, no other hunter-warrior could match her in combat or skill. Alita stopped being a hunter-warrior after Hugo’s death. However, when she was charged by the Factory with the Class A offense of using a firearm in the Scrapyard to kill Zapan in the Berserker Body, she was identified by her hunter-warrior registration.
• Daisuke Ido :
• Zapan :
• Clive Lee :
• Murdock the Dog Master :

Notes

• Hunter-Warriors were created by Yukito Kishiro where they featured in the setting of Battle Angel Alita.

Appearances

• Battle Angel Alita:

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