Predator's History
The "City Hunter", also known as "Ghost", was a Yautja from the Lost Tribe that conducted a Hunt in the city during the heatwave and gang war of 1997. He eventually came into conflict with both a government taskforce (The OWLF) attempting to capture him and veteran LAPD Detective Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
In 1997, the newly Blooded City Hunter joined the Lost Tribe for his first off-world hunt on Earth. When they arrived other members scattered across the globe to hunt, Elder Greyback decided to leave the final hunt on the planet to test his skills in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles, thinking that the ongoing drug war would provide him challenging targets. Under the watch of the Elder and his seniors, the eager to prove himself young Yautja, was ready to stalk and kill the multitude of armed citizens the city had to offer, starting with a large group of thugs from the Colombian Scorpions cartel while taking interest in a certain individual who skillfully fought multitudes of criminals, before bursting into their stronghold as they retreated from the LAPD and slaughtering them all single-handedly. Deeming his prey unworthy, the City Hunter left the bodies strewn across the room, although at least one victim was left hanging from the building's rafters and later collected as a trophy. On the building's roof, the City Hunter first encountered Detective Lieutenant Harrigan, but he did not attempt to attack him.
That night, the Predator later struck the Scorpions' rivals, the Jamaican Voodoo Posse, when several of the posse's members ritualistically murdered Colombian leader Ramon Vega in his luxurious downtown apartment. Again the Predator easily overcame the large group of opponents, massacring the Jamaicans using his Plasmacaster, Netgun, Speargun, Combistick and Wristblades, although he spared Vega's mistress, who was unarmed. When Harrigan and his team discovered the scene, now littered with skinned bodies hanging from the apartment's ceiling, Detective Danny Archuleta noticed a spear tip, which had been missed by the OWLF personnel, lodged in a vent in the ceiling; when he later returned to recover the item, the City Hunter was waiting for him. Upon killing him, he boned the corpse like a fish. The Predator's actions, apparent preference for criminal victims and mysterious nature led to him being christened the "psycho vigilante" by journalists such as Tony Pope.
The City Hunter developed a great respect for Harrigan, whom he considered to be a great "warrior", and decided to hunt the detective out. The Predator began following him, studying his behavior and customs. After Harrigan met with Jamaican Voodoo Posse leader King Willie to discuss the brutal killings in the city, the City Hunter struck again, decapitating Willie despite his attempts to fight the creature off with a rapier. The Predator took his skull back to the hunting party's ship to be a trophy on the wall, believing him to be a worthy opponent.
After stalking Harrigan to the cemetery where Archuleta had been buried and leaving Archuleta's necklace there for Harrigan to find, the creature decided that killing Harrigan's colleagues would infuriate the detective and make the final hunt more challenging and exciting. Consequently, he attacked Detectives Jerry Lambert and Leona Cantrell as they attempted to break up an armed confrontation on the city's subway. While Leona was spared when the Predator discovered she was pregnant, several armed civilians were killed, as was Jerry, who, considered as worthy as well, had his skull and spine torn from his body. Harrigan soon arrived at the scene and gave chase to the Predator, finally losing him when Keyes' goons intercepted him as he neared the city's slaughterhouse district. The City Hunter climbed the nearby Eastern Columbia Building and presented Jerry's skull as a trophy to the world, attracting a bolt of lightning with his Combistick.
When the City Hunter subsequently returned to a slaughterhouse that he had been using as a source of food during his time in the city, he was ambushed by Peter Keyes and his OWLF team, who sought to capture the creature alive for study. Despite the advanced equipment being used by Keyes' team to shield their body heat from the Predator's sight, the City Hunter quickly adapted, using his alternative vision modes to expose the light coming from the team's ultraviolet torches. He quickly decimated the team with his Combistick, Plasmacaster, and Wristblades, before finally dueling a heavily armed Harrigan, who had also arrived on the scene. Despite its Plasmacaster being destroyed, taking several shotgun blasts to the abdomen, chest, and leg, and being temporarily incapacitated, the City Hunter destroyed Harrigan's shotgun, before slicing Keyes in two with his Smart Disc, and then continued the fight with the police officer on the building's roof.
When he found himself hanging perilously over the end of the building, the Predator attempted to activate his Self-Destruct Device, but Harrigan used the Predator's own Smart Disc to slice his wrist gauntlet in half, disabling the device and cutting his arm off below the elbow. The Predator fell into Ruth Albright's nearby apartment and administered emergency medical aid using his Medicomp to cauterize his wounds before the chase continued down into the underground tunnels.
Harrigan eventually followed the creature to his Mother Ship and confronted him in a final hand-to-hand showdown, ultimately slicing open his stomach with his own Smart Disc. The other members of the Lost Tribe collected the fallen Predator's body, and having witnessed his confrontation and judging his death honorable, Greyback honored Harrigan with an antique flintlock pistol before letting him go and leaving the planet to their homeworld.
