Ray Wierzbowski

Zack's boss prior to the events of the story. It is later discovered that he's an undercover EDA operative. Ray worked in the store Starbase Ace when he was watching Zack, and he appeared to be a good player of Terra Firma as he was one of The Thirty Dozens (360 best players at Terra Firma). Ray appeared to "subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old video games", according to Zack. He nicknamed Zack "Zack Attack" as a joke and put it on his name card, without knowing that was also Zack's nickname that his schoolmates gave him after The Incident. His rank at EDA (Sergeant) was lower than Zack, but they were still friends for life.

His real name is Raymond Habashaw (Zack once pointed out that in his fake name, the word "Wierzbowski" is from one of the Colonial Marines, and it means "aliens". Ray denied it and said that it was coincidence, but it is actually a lie.)

Like Zack, Ray likes to listen to old 80s songs when playing video games. His favorite Terra Firma battle soundtrack song appears to be 'Vital Signs" by Rush, and he claimed that each of Rush 's song of the album Moving Pictures was perfect for battling a different Sobrukai drone in the game. (Zack assumed that is just an excuse for playing the same album every day)

He took Zack to the Crystal Palace (Earth Defense Alliance Strategic Command Post Number Fourteen) after he recruited Zack from his school, and explained all about EDA to him.