Nathan Hale (Resistance)

Nathan Hale is a male videogame character that features in the Resistance games.

Biography

Fall of Man

Hale was born on November 23, 1922, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He joined the Army in 1945 where he started his training at Camp Wolters, Texas. In 1946, he was promoted to Private First Class, and was cited for lack of reasonable effort because he, according to a report, consistently drove tanks beyond speed limits. Two years later he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. In February 1949, he was transferred to a military camp in Achnacarry, Scotland where he went through the Ranger Orientation Program which he passed later in May 1949. Two months later he was transferred to the 1st Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Georgia and wounded in a live fire exercise.

In December 1949, the Chimera attacked Europe, but the United States government did not reveal the truth to the American citizens, covering it up by saying that an influenza epidemic was going on in Europe. A government project called Project Abraham starts, whose purpose is to find a cure for the Chimera virus. Hale heard of the project and volunteered for it on December 1, 1950. He said in an induction interview that he thought that something else is going on in Europe that the government isn't telling them. He also said that he thinks that someone like him should volunteer for the project. During his time at the project base in Alaska, he gets to know Doctor Cassandra "Cassie" Aklin. Aklin falls in love with Hale during the time he is there. Hale was injected with the anti-virus in December 6 the same year, and fell into a coma, but woke up from it a few days later.

As the Chimera began to spread across Europe to the point that they were ready to invade the United Kingdom from the English Channel, Nathan Hale was one out of 12,000 troops sent by the Americans to aid their allies. Once the troops landed, they went on foot to rendevous with British forces only for all of them to be killed by Chimeran Crawlers. The only survivor of the attack was Nathan Hale who made his way to the British forces to help them. Hale survives thanks to the injection he received at Project Abraham and does not turn into a Chimera. He does receive some of the traits of Chimera which include: increased metabolism and limited regeneration, and gold/yellow irises.

Hale continues on his mission, along the way meeting with and rescuing Captain Rachel Parker while escaping from a Chimeran conversion center in Grimsby. Parker assists Hale over the radio for the rest of his mission. Hale and the British forces eventually manage to deliver the secret weapon to one of the Resistance's headquarters, only for it to be attacked by Chimeran forces shortly afterward. It is revealed that the "secret weapon" is actually an "Angel", a Chimeran creature that British Intelligence was able to capture. The Angels are the most powerful form of Chimera creature, and British Intelligence theorizes that they control the rest of the Chimera forces through some form of telepathy. The Angel attempts to enter into Hale's mind, but he manages to resist the mind-meld and shoots the creature with his carbine.

Hale continues with the war effort, assisted by Lieutenant Stephen Cartwright, a British Royal Marines Commando. The two of them eventually discover that the Chimera have established a series of metallic Towers throughout Britain, all inter-connected by a series of underground power conduits. They also find out that the Towers were excavated, not constructed. Hale enters the underground Chimeran tunnels and discovers that the Chimera's main Tower in Britain is in London. Through his connection to the Chimera, Hale comes to the conclusion that destroying the central Tower will somehow result in the total defeat of the Chimera in Britain.

The British and American forces launch one final, desperate attack against the main Tower in London. Hale manages to reach the top of the Tower and destroy its central nuclear fission reactor, resulting in a massive explosion that demolishes the main Tower. The reaction propagates along the Chimera conduit network, destroying all the Towers in Britain and killing all of the Angels inside. With the Angels dead, the remaining Chimera forces quickly die off.

Hale is presumed to have been killed in the explosion of the main Tower, and the Army lists him as Killed in Action. Hale has survived however, as the final sequence depicts Hale walking through rubble and snow, armed with only a single grenade. He is captured by a squad of soldiers, a form of special forces. Hale briefly contemplates killing them as well as himself with the grenade, but ultimately decides against it. He drops the grenade and allows himself to be taken into custody by the soldiers.

Rise of Man

Upon entering the black op helicopter gunship, Hale was immediately apprehended by the black op team. Despite struggling, they manage to force him to the ground and inject him with a syringe. Hale, however, still attempted to fight off these unknown soldiers until one of them drew his pistol. By this point, the injection's contents were taking affect and Hale fell unconscious. He drowsily became aware of an officer present in the room who was part of SRPA and were taking him back to Iceland for immediate testing to determine the extent of the Chimeran infection in his body.

On their way, the SRPA forces came under attack from the Chimera who shot down Hale's helicopter. Being one of the survivors of the crash, Hale followed a Black op soldier to the SRPA base as the Chimera attack continued.

Upon boarding the VTOL, Hale is subdued and sedated, though resists until a pistol is used to "convince" him to relax. En route to the base, SRPA's Director of Advanced Tactical Operations; Major Richard Blake, reveals he has been extracted to aid in the mission of his team infiltrating SRPA Station Igloo in Iceland; currently under attack and poised to be overrun by Chimera, and killing "Daedalus", the Leader of the Chimera, who is somehow kept in containment. Hale agrees, though, while enduring many hardships (beginning when the VTOL is shot down as they arrive by a Goliath), "Daedalus" escapes. Hale evacuates with Blake and Doctor Fyodor Malikov. Hale then agrees to join "The Sentinels"; a top-secret mobile strategic reserve fighting task force designed and created by the SRPA, consisting of other soldiers resistant to the virus, for the purpose of resisting the Chimera during the inevitable invasion of the United States.

2 years later, Hale is now a Lieutenant and head of Sentinel Team Echo. The Chimeran invasion finally begins, and Hale is able to get Fyodor and his viral inhibitors out of SRPA-Defensive Station III, the base he has resided in since his departure from Britain, before it is overrun and ultimately collapses. Hale was promoted to First Lieutenant on January 5, 1952 and fought alongside Echo Team (consisted of Benjamin Warner, Aaron Hawthorne, and former subject of Project Abraham Joseph Capelli) under the command of Lt. Hank Leavitt. Hale was awarded the Silver Star during an operation for the successful retrieval of eighteen civilians stranded in Wisconsin on April 11. He aided in Operation Kodiak on November 8, which Echo infiltrated and destroyed a factory that had been creating enemy fighter aircraft. Hale showed exceptional tactical ingenuity in leading his team to an auxiliary power reactor outside the factory that his team to overload the reactor, causing it to chain react and flush out the hostile command units inside the base. Hale also planned and executed Operation Frozen Fortress on November 11. On December 21, Echo Team attempted to destroy a Stalker production facility in Raleigh, North Carolina where Leavitt was killed and Hale was made leader of Echo Team. By 1953, his cellular receptors were combating the serum that was controlling the Chimeran virus within him and the risk of him converting was high. On May 15, 1953 the Chimeran fleet began its full-scale invasion of America from the nation's coastlines. At the same time Hale was present along with his team at SRPA Station 3 in San Francisco where the city was under siege. Hale, having just undergone surgery to slow down his infection, sealed the moon pool from Furies and helps evacuate Dr. Malikov from the base. After retrieving the inhibitor serums and killing a Kraken, Hale followed the rest of his team along with a company of Black Ops to track a Chimeran warship that was damaged earlier in San Francisco. The convoy tracked the ship to Orick, where were ambushed and leaving all soldiers under Hale's command killed. Hale reached the town and reunited with Echo. Seeing that the battleship is too strong to take down though conventional anti-aircraft artillery, Echo hijacked a Chimeran shuttle and infiltrate the ship. They split up to plant explosives on several key parts of the ship to destroy the vessel as Hale searches for the bridge. When he arrives there, he discovered that the Chimeran fleet's target is Twin Falls, Idaho, where they will breach the Liberty Defense Perimeter. After escaping the ship which detonates a little too early, Echo warned Major Blake and heads for Twin Falls.

As they arrive, they are shot down by Stalkers and separated from each other during landfall. They soon discover that the entire town has been infected by Spinners the previous night. Hale rescued Warner from a pack of Grims and regroup with Hawthorne and Capelli. Hale learns from Warner that his family lives in the town and gave him his sympathies by assuring him that his family possibly escaped and made it to the Baton Rouge protection camp. Echo later splits up in reactivating the town's defense towers to stop the approaching airships in which Hale goes with Capelli to one of the towers. Upon reaching the top of the tower, Capelli is pulled down by a Mother Spinner but survived miraculously. Hale killed the Mother Spinner and activated the tower. With the towers activated, Echo Team destroys a Chimeran subfleet. Thereafter, Echo is then ordered to get to the nearest inhibitor station immediately as they were long overdue for treatment. Hale, upon hearing that Station Genesis in Bryce Canyon is attacked by the Chimeran flagship which breached the Perimeter before the gun towers were activated and where Dr. Malikov is stationed, instead disregarded the order and takes a Black Ops squad to extract Malikov.

When Hale and his squad arrive at Bryce Canyon, they faced a heavy concentration of Chimeran forces and all of Hale's men are massacred by The Swarm. Hale located Malikov and witnessed that Daedalus is also present with the doctor and has activated the Bryce Canyon hub tower. Malikov explained to Hale that Daedalus is trying to activate all of the Chimeran tower network for an unknown reason. After Daedalus departed, Malikov implored Hale to go to Chicago to deactivate the hub tower there as it will foil Daedalus's plans. Malikov also revealed Hale that Daedalus was once Jordan Shepherd, a human soldier, who also participated in Project Abraham and was experimented with the same Pure Chimeran DNA that was injected into Hale. The experiment unprecedentedly transformed him into what he is, as well in obtaining innate knowledge of the Chimera's origins and goals. After defeating The Swarm, they escaped Station Genesis and are extracted by the rest of Echo Team. Hale was then belligerently confronted by Capelli, who threatened Hale for having refused to get an inhibitor treatment, by promising that as soon as Hale succumbs to the virus, he will kill him. Hale and Echo traveled to Chicago, where they cleared out an air corridor to the tower after overcoming hordes of Chimeran forces, including a Leviathan. Malikov was able to deactivate the Chicago Tower, but only for the tower to be shortly reactivated remotely from Iceland and realizing the only way to shut down the tower network is to travel to Iceland. The Sentinels and SRPA forces launched an assault on the Holar Tower, where Daedalus is controlling the tower network. But the strike force later finds it to be a trap that led to many human casualties. Hale and Echo Team were able to enter the tower and only to find Daedalus waiting for them. Warner and Hawthorne are killed, and Hale is near-fatally stabbed in the stomach by Daedalus and passed out. Hale was then rescued by Capelli, taking themselves to escaping Iceland. For six weeks Hale had been in a coma while being closely monitored by Dr. Malikov. During the tenure, Hale's condition became slowly succumbing to the Chimeran virus due to the fact he went long overdue without his inhibitor treatment while at the same time the Chimeran fleet had broken through the Liberty Defense Perimeter, killing over 80 million people, and forcing the remaining survivors to America's last stronghold in Baton Rouge; in which Hale was also brought there.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Hale is depicted to be withdrawn and he only has a few lines in the whole game. Cartwright even remarks that he is kind of quiet. Although this could be due to the fact that being infected by the Crawlers may have taken away some of his social traits.

Powers and abilities

One of the notable traits of Nathan Hale was an accelerated healing factor which was given to him by the Chimera infection that spread through his body.

Notes

• Nathan Hale was voiced by actor David Kaye and featured in the setting of the Resistance universe.

Appearances

• Resistance: Fall of Man:
• Resistance 2:
• Resistance 3:

External Link

• Resistance Fall of Man Wiki Entry

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