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Prisoner 849 is the otherwise unnamed human heroine of Unreal. It is assumed that her first name is Gina due to the name of the character model representing her. In Return to Na Pali, the player is able to choose between a female character and a male character. It is unknown to what extent that game has been accepted into Unreal canon, however the male character's name may have been Carter.

Background

Prisoner 849
Race:	Human
Classification:	Prisoner
Appearances: Unreal Unreal:RTNP

It is never revealed why Prisoner 849 is under incarceration. The game's background story reveals her actions on board the ship before the actual events of Unreal, up to when she wakes up in her cell from the collision of the UMS Vortex Rikers on Na Pali. This is where the actual game starts.

After the events of Unreal, which lead up to Prisoner 849 killing the Skaarj Queen, she manages to escape and is picked up by the UMS Bodega Bay, and then re-sent down to the surface to attempt to recover Data Cores from the UMS Prometheus in Operation Talon Hunter. When she succeeds, she learns moments before being attacked that she is to be executed, an attempt which she narrowly avoids. When she attempts to escape several days later, the Bodega Bay fires on her craft, which dodges the missile, and it hits the Bodega Bay, causing its own self-destruction.

After the events of Return to Na Pali, Prisoner 849's location is unknown. It is presumed she is drifting in space. No further information has been heard of her or relating to her since.

In a cinematic in Unreal Championship 2, one of the Skaarj explains that they attacked Humans, starting the Human-Skaarj War, EDIT: out of a general drive to subjugate all inferior, or non-Skaarj, races in the galaxy. The interview explains that while the Skaarj have no particular grudge against humans, the killing of the Skaarj Queen at the end of the War maintains a healthy antagonism toward humans on the Skaarj's part.

Unreal takes place before the Tournaments begin, so it is unlikely that the Queen killed at the end of Unreal is the Queen mentioned in the interview. Many characters seem to have little, or only a cursory knowledge of the Skaarj, which suggests that Unreal is humanity's first, or among its first encounters with the Skaarj.

The effects of the Queen's death on Na Pali are never really made clear. The implication by way of Nali writings was that a Savior Princess would descend from the stars and defeat the Sky Demons, or Skaarj, that had taken over the planet. However, as of Unreal Championship 2, which takes place well into the Tournament time frame, the Nali appear to still be subjugated by the Skaarj.

Given the penchant Unreal games have of posessing, at best bitter-sweet endings, it is not entirely unlikely that the Nali were simply overly hopeful in regards to the effect that Prisoner 849's actions would have on the Skaarj occupation of their planet.