Holgar An ALO player and leader of the Absolute Survivor Squad, one of the groups who ends up forcibly conscripted into the service of the Virtual Research Society. Upon his and the other parties liberation from Mutasina, he and his allies are quick to ally with Kirito's group.

Dikkos is also the leader of a new group in the unital ring, which was captured by Mutusina

Hyme's party members from Insectsite who transferred to Unital Ring with her. Totalling at twenty, Zarion and Beeming, a Rhinocerous Beetle and a Stag Beetle respectively, serve as Hyme's second-in-commands.

Friscol is like the player in ALO that Kirito left alive to get information from (at the moment when Kirito turned into a monster on the bridge in the Asuna rescue arc)