Gillian Seed (ギリアン・シード Girian Shīdo?) is the main protagonist of Konami's 1988 cyberpunk adventure video game, Snatcher. He is a member of the "JUNKER" task force (Judgement Uninfected Naked Kind & Execute Ranger in the Japanese version; Japanese Undercover Neuro Kinetic Elimination Ranger in the English version), where he is designated as a "Runner" - a unit of JUNKER that specializes in field operations investigating recent crimes regarding a new menace of bioroids known as "Snatchers" who have been eliminating certain important targets within society and replacing them with units from their own.
In 1991, Gillian is a CIA agent sent undercover as a scientist to sabotage the Snatcher project that was being developed in Moscow. In an attempt to destroy the project, Gillian allegedly sets off an explosion at Chernoton Institute, causing the bioweapon "Lucifer Alpha" to be released into the atmosphere, destroying the country and the project. While his son Harry and others were being evacuated by the CIA, Gillian and his wife Jamie were left behind and entered a cryogenic sleep. Their plan was to sleep long enough until the effects of the bacterial weapon were passed.
48 years later, Gillian and Jamie are discovered by the 17th Siberia Survey Team and taken into protective custody. Both now suffering from amnesia and severe memory loss, they split up two years ago and went their separate ways. Because it vaguely reminds her of her past, Jamie now works at the Neo Kobe Institute of Drug Research and later, Neo Kobe Pharmaceuticals. Gillian undergoes some extensive military training and afterward is ordered to report to Neo Kobe City as a "Junker", because the name "Snatcher" is the one constant thing that reminds him and Jamie of their past.
While working at JUNKER, Gillian is provided a small support robot known as a "navigator", which is assigned to every runner. His specific navigator is a "Metal Gear mk-II" and it accompanies him to help solve cases with various functions. Among these functions are: analyzing hair and tissue samples, DNA tests, facial reconstruction, motion sensor, and built-in videophone.
History[]
You can help out the Konami Wiki by inserting content here.
Appearances[]
- Snatcher (1988 - PC-8801, MSX2, other systems)
- SD Snatcher (1990 - MSX2)
Gallery[]
