Traitor General



The Traitor General (real name unknown) is the main antagonist of the 2000 AD's military science fiction comic series Rogue Trooper.

Story
He was a Souther military commander who believed that the Southers should stop their galaxy-wide war of attrition with the Norts so that all of humanity could band together and fight alien species, whom he saw as the real threat, under strong Nort leadership. His superiors responded by demoting him, putting him in charge of the war on a single planet, Nu Earth, which had been so badly damaged by chemical weapons that no normal human could survive there without protective clothing and gas masks.

In retaliation, the Traitor General gave the Norts information about the Southers' groundbreaking Genetic Infantryman programme, which had elite blue-skinned artificial super-soldiers who could survive in the toxic air of Nu Earth without wearing chem-suits. This lead to almost all of the Genetic Infantryman, or GIs, being massacred by Norts at the Quartz Zone. The only surviving GI was the protagonist Rogue, who slotted the biochips containing the personalities of three of his dead comrades — Helm, Gunnar and Bagman — into his equipment. He then embarked on a long and arduous quest to find the Traitor General and bring him to justice.

The Traitor General was well aware of Rogue's quest, and that he had earned the enmity of both sides in the war, who each wanted him dead for their own reasons. At one point, he made a deal with the alien criminal cartel known as the Xianta, offering to trade them Rogue in return for giving him a new face (his original one having been burned away and deformed when a pod he was in came down in flames), a new identity and a fortune on which to retire in luxury. This plan fell through when Rogue escaped the Traitor's trap — partly because the Norts, who were disgusted by the Traitor's double-dealing even though it had benefited them, had sent a squad of soldiers after him. Most of the Norts survived just long enough to mess up the Traitor General's cunning plan before, as is the tradition for Norts on Nu Earth, dying noisily. The Traitor General was eventually killed by Rogue.