John Jordan

John "XxJojoxX" Jordan was an early American player of Gun Gale Online, and leader of a PVP squadron named "The Stampede". While he started out as a mere bandit leader, raiding groups of PVE players carrying valuable materials back to the capital of SBC Glocken, John changed the entire game by approaching a PVE squadron known as Hanzo Imports and partnering with them. With The Stampede protecting them from other raiders, more of Hanzo Imports' hunting expeditions were able to reach SBC Glocken safely with stock for their player-run stores, the profits of which made both squadrons some of the wealthiest and most well-equipped in the game. The partnership led to the first "safe" trade route into SBC Glocken through the outlying territories patrolled by PVP raiders, changing GGO's entire economy by starving the raider groups and giving SBC Glocken an influx of new, cheaper goods, which players in turn could buy to more easily access better gear.

The Stampede/Hanzo Imports partnership soured, however, when Hanzo Imports' leader, Nobunaga Iwo, was contacted by a GGO administrator interested in how their company had become so profitable, and failed to bring John into the discussions, claiming sole responsibility for the company's success. Bitter his hard work had been pushed aside, John challenged Iwo to a duel in the PVP zones just outside the city, and though John won the duel, it had accomplished nothing as Iwo had brought little but his personal equipment to the duel. He and many members of the Stampede left SBC Glocken afterwards, becoming nothing more than raiders again, if very well-equipped and high-level raiders, while Hanzo Imports became one of the most powerful factions in SBC Glocken and Gun Gale Online.

Notes and References

 * John's name and in-game moniker are a reference to the long-running manga and anime series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the protagonist of each series having a "Jo" syllable in their first and last names and being nicknamed "Jojo".
 * The name of John's raider faction is a reference to Vash the Stampeded, protagonist of manga and anime Trigun.