Jack was a Liberian-American mercenary and former special forces soldier. Previously a child soldier under Solidus Snake, Raiden was later selected by the Patriots to test the S3 Plan at the Big Shell, as a new recruit to the reformed FOXHOUND unit. He later worked alongside the Paradise Lost Army in their anti-Patriot activities, but was captured and forced to undergo heavy cybernetic experimentation. After successfully escaping, Raiden went on to assist Solid Snake during the Guns of the Patriots Incident. In 2018, Raiden became a member of Maverick Security Consulting, Inc., doing multiple tasks while raising money for his family. They were attacked by Desperado Enforcement LLC., who kill Raiden's protectee, N'mani, and leave Raiden near to death. He is saved by the elder scientist Wilhelm Voight and works with them to fight Desperado. Raiden's vengeful obsession with Desperado becomes personal when he discovers during a mission to Mexico that Desperado and World Marshal Inc. have kidnapped several children, surgically removed their brains to place into cybernetic bodies, and were planning to subject them to VR training modeled on his own. Raiden resigns from Maverick to pursue and retrieve the children's brain cases from World Marshal in Colorado. In this game, he is assigned to rescue some hostages but runs into his former ally, Solid Snake, who was also assigned to do the same mission. Once rescuing said hostages, Raiden later finds out what the adversaries are up to, knowing that this is just part of the game The Agents of Darkness are playing, after attempting to bring the fight directly to them, he realizes that his new foes are extremely powerful, intelligent, and deadly! Seems he can't solo this one! Fortunately, he's got backup, plenty of it!