Killer Instinct – Story So Far…

It’s the media event of the year: the no-holds-barred combat tournament held by the sinister Ultratech corporation, who take great pains to ensure that the brutal fates met by many of the combatants are never witnessed by the outside world.
To Ultratech the contest serves a dual purpose – to enhance their already soaring public popularity and to field test their array of ghoulish creations on anyone foolish enough to come forward. Only the strongest are invited, and even then very few decide that they’ve got what it takes to compete.

The previous year’s tournament was won by Spinal, a triumph in cell regeneration that awed and thrilled the public. He brought down Black Eagle in the final clash which, like every other fight, was carefully edited on video before being handed over to the media for screening. This year, though, Ultratech’s ingenious but unstable Director has broken more moulds than ever before, and a whole host of fearsome warriors join Spinal to stand in the way of any potential champion.

There’s Fulgore, the first baleful product of the revolutionary cybersoldier programme;
Riptor, a savage human-reptilian hybrid and a breakthrough in DNA manipulation;
Glacius, a being from a distant world taken captive following his crashlanding;
Cinder, the unexpected by-product of a fatally flawed chemical weapons test;
And Eyedol, an ancient Warlord torn from Limbo to stand as the final bastion of Ultratech’s hopes at tournament’s end.

But of course there are also challengers, the cream of the international fighting crop whose aim is to battle through the preliminary rounds and earn the right to face Ultratech’s deadly defenders.

Jago, the warrior-monk, is sent to fulfil his destiny in the company’s destruction;
Orchid, a world-class secret agent, risks all for proof of their treachery;
Sabrewulf, his life destroyed by lycanthropy, comes now to fight for a cure;
Combo, boxing career in ruins, seizes the opportunity to regain his wealth;
And Thunder, Chief of an Indian tribe, seeks the grim truth behind his brother Eagle’s disappearance.

Only one, of course, can emerge victorious. And whether Ultratech will once more rule the roost or suffer their first defeat since the tournament began, only time has the power to tell.