Benjamin Kraft

Sergeant Benjamin Kraft is a character in BlastGen. He quickly becomes the tritagonist of the story after the mission Hit Job, and becomes second in command of Kilo Force One, a role previously fulfilled by Emerson.

Biography
Kraft was born on March 17, 2003 in Munich, Germany. When he turned 7, Kraft and his parents moved to the United Kingdom for an unspecified reason. At the age of 19, he enrolled at the Royal Military Academy. He was so skillful in various attack strategies and sniping that his instructor recommended him to join the SAS. He later graduated and joined the SAS at 21. Kraft was handpicked into a unit lead by Lieutenant Oscar Thomas. The two became close friends, and on 2023, the two would later deploy in America to execute several unspecified operations.

Desert Recon
Kraft was the other British soldier who took part in this mission. He tried to get a shot on Tomas Svoboda when he got a visual, though this was quickly interrupted when Thomas noticed a barracks nearby with militiamen inside. Kraft then focused on the barracks. Thomas also saw a lookout on patrol in a tower, and orders Kraft to fire on the tower with a Stinger missile, however he was shot by the same lookout with a sniper rifle, to then Thomas orders Michael Hicks to pick up his Stinger launcher and fire at the tower. He succeeds in doing so, and the tower collapses, causing the lookout to fall off, and is impaled by a piece of debris. After Kraft is wounded, he doesn't appear until the end of the mission, where he shoots the supposedly dead lookout with his sniper rifle. He is present in the evac helicopter after Hicks was shot.

Final Fight
He is a playable character in the mission Final Fight. In a collaboration effort with the SAS and the UKSF, the team must find and kill Svoboda at his compound in Czechia. The joint team was met with heavy resistance, including armored targets and machine gunners, though they managed to fight off all of the militia fighters until they were able to locate Svoboda in his office. Once they found him, Thomas ordered Svododa to stand down. He does initially, but quickly picks up a pistol and tries to shoot the group but was shot by Kraft before he could fire it. Thomas photographed Svodboda's corpse for kill confirmation, McCoy congratulates him for the achievement, but was bewildered that he went rogue.

BlastGen II
He reappears in BlastGen II as a character in the SAS missions in the Campaign. Now promoted to Lieutenant, he is second in command of a team of SAS soldiers including the playable character, and directly combat terrorist threats as well as Russian forces.

Quotes
"Got a visual on Svoboda, zeroing him in." Kraft before he is interrupted by Thomas, and also his first words in the Campaign.

"Damn it, we would've had him by his neck!" Kraft to Thomas after his shot was disrupted.

"Alright, I have a visual, firing -- AARGH! Bloody hell!" Kraft being shot by the lookout.

"I'll be fine, just get moving!" Kraft after being offered medical attention.

"Gotcha, du kleine Ratte." Kraft after shooting the supposedly dead lookout.

"Damn right it was a success." Kraft to Thomas when entering the evac helicopter.

Trivia

 * Despite Kraft being British, he has the German flag on his uniform. This was changed in BlastGen II.
 * He will occasionally say something German when he is in combat, such as 'Da drüben!', which is 'Over there' in German.
 * If the player looks close enough at his patches, they can notice that one of Kraft's patches reads 'Aufreißer'. This is German for 'ripper'.
 * Kraft has shotgun shells and HE grenades on his vest, despite not using shotguns or grenade launchers.