Ellie Martinez is the leader of the Minutemen and a supporting character in Resistance: Burning Skies.
Biography[]
Ellie and her father John Martinez helped found the Minutemen after learning the existence of the Chimera.[1] After her father enlisted in the Army and died in England during Operation Deliverance, Ellie carried on her father's legacy by leading the Minutemen.
When the Chimera began their invasion in New York City on August 14, 1951, Ellie led members of the Minutemen in defending an evacuation zone on Staten Island. They were soon assisted by fireman Tom Riley. During the battle, Ellie and Riley discovered a cache of Grey Tech components that was being escorted by the U.S. military and realized their potential for upgrading their weapons. Thereafter, Ellie, Tom, and several Minutemen barely escaped from a Spire attack.
Ellie traveled with Tom to a naval base in Bayonne and meeting with Colonel Bill Amherst, who was a close friend of Ellie's father. She show Amherst the Grey Tech components and tries to convince them of their usefulness. However, Amherst was wary of the components, informing her they were dangerous under the hands of SRPA scientist Richard Gorrell, a man that he despised. Their discussion is immediately cut short as the base came under attack by the Chimera. Ellie and Riley helped defend the base and worked together in rearming the USS Puerto Rico's main battery gun. After Riley killed the Abomination and wiping out the Chimeran assault, Ellie was given a VTOL by Amherst to travel to a SRPA facility on Ellis Island, where they can obtain more Gray Tech components. Before leaving, Amherst warned Ellie to stay clear of Gorrell.
While en-route to Ellis Island, they fly over the George Washington Bridge where Chimeran reinforcements were crossing the bridge. Ellie called for an airstrike, but Riley drops onto the bridge to rescue a crashed VTOL's crew, and forcing Ellie to assist Riley. After rescuing the VTOL crew, Ellie and Riley quickly escape before F-86 Sabres dropped their payloads on the bridge.
She and Riley resumed their journey to Ellis Island by boat and discovered the island to have been overrun by the Chimera. They fought their way to the SRPA laboratories, and failed to find the Gray Tech as they were taken by Gorrell. Instead, they find a film reel pertaining to Gorrell's Project Phoenix, in which he plans on using Gray Tech modules to control an army of Chimera; Gorrell could only achieve this by capturing humans and implanting the Gray Tech into them while being converted into Chimera. To their horror, they learned that Gorrell planned on luring the Chimera to the Union City protection camp, where Riley's family were also located.
Ellie and Riley quickly traveled to the protection camp and were too late to stop the Chimera's attack, in which Riley saw his wife and daughter being taken away by Carriers. After repulsing the Chimera, Ellie puts Mac in charge of the Minutemen as she and Tom board a Carrier to follow Tom's family to the conversion tower. Once there, Ellie separates from Riley and manages to save some survivors, including Riley's daughter Rachel. After reuniting with Tom, Ellie is convinced by Riley to evacuate the survivors while he dealt with Gorrell.
After Tom destroyed the tower and killed Gorrell, Ellie is warned by Riley about the American government for helping Gorrell's project and urging her to dispose the Gray Tech they collected from being misuse. Ellie was convinced further when Amherst contacted her and informing that he planned on collecting the Gray Tech used by Gorrell despite his earlier objection to the devices. Ellie cut her ties with Amherst before parting ways with Tom and Rachel.
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Trivia[]
- Like Rachel Parker in Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance: Retribution, Ellie acts as the narrator of the events in Resistance: Burning Skies.
- Similar to Charlie Tent in Resistance 3, she is also the second supporting lead character of the Resistance franchise as a civilian and not part of the military.
- Ellie's Minutemen callsign is Roamer-Six.
- Ellie seems to have some romantic interest towards Tom but never acts on it due to his wife.
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