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- "This is just the beginning."
- ―Hale's final words[src]
Nathan Hale is the protagonist of Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2. A soldier in the United States Army, Nathan rose to prominence after being infected with the Chimeran virus and was responsible for liberating Britain from the Chimera. Strong, intelligent, extremely brave and yet withdrawn, Hale went on to become one of the original Sentinels. Hale was the commander of Sentinel Echo Team. After killing the Chimera's leader Daedalus, Nathan finally succumbed to the Chimeran virus and was executed by his subordinate, Joseph Capelli. After his death, he was named as one of the greatest heroes of the Chimeran War for his exploits and saving humanity from the Chimeran virus via his namesake vaccine.
Biography
Background
Hale was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on November 23, 1922. At the age of two, Nathan's parents succumbed to the lingering complications of the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1924. He subsequently went to live with his aunt Rachel. After his aunt died, he was fostered by Frank and Mary Farley, the former was a friend of Hale's father. He lived on their ranch in Draper and was treated by the Farleys as their own child. Their daughter Susan thought of Hale as the brother she never had. Hale also had a cousin, Becka Freedle, on his mother's side of the family.
Hale and Susan were taught marksmanship by Frank. In 1942, Hale entered the Young Ranchers of South Dakota's annual shooting contest in 1942 and remarkably won and scored a high accuracy percentile of 96.5%, which his score remained unbeaten.[3] As a result he was regarded by South Dakotans as a local legend.[4] In 1945, Hale enlisted in the Army.
Hale began basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas on April 15, 1945 and on June 27, he was transferred to Company C of the 1st Armored Division, 37th Armor Regiment.[1] In 1946, he was promoted to Private First Class and was cited for racing in tanks and going over the speed limit.[1] Two years later, Hale was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.[1] On October 13, 1948, Hale worked in a South Dakotan mineshaft and survived a tunnel collapse, and rescued three of his coworkers by digging his way through another shaft and leading them to safety.[5] In February 1949, he was transferred to a military camp in Achnacarry, Scotland where he was elected for the Inaugural Ranger Orientation Program which he passed in May 1949, scoring considerably higher than the other candidates and his instincts were remarkable.[1] Two months later, he was transferred to the 1st Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Georgia.[1]
Despite being a capable soldier, it was during a live-fire exercise that Hale led an unconventional gambit against a mock target that led to the deaths of most of his squad and several observers and leaving himself grievously injured.[1] The incident was attributed to faulty munitions. Hale was rehabilitated at the Army's Higgins Trauma Center in Montana.[1] After exhaustive therapy and many operations, Hale returned to active duty. His commanding officers consistently rewarded Hale with higher-risk missions due to his natural skill in battle. After action reports consistently described Hale as fearless in combat, an inventive tactician and an able squad leader. But psychologists expressed concern over what they perceived as his growing death wish.[6]
Project Abraham
In November 1950, before America's intervention in the Chimeran War, Hale volunteered in Project Abraham, a secret government project that was conducting research and experiments in finding a cure to the "European Influenza", According to his induction interview, Hale's reason for volunteering in the project was his belief that someone like him should volunteer, as he had no parents or family.[7] Hale was later put under investigation over a bullet from the YRSD shooting tournament that he kept for luck came from a military outpost. It had turned out that he was there long before the area was closed off by the military.[8]
During the events of Project Abraham, Hale motivate morale to the other test subjects and keeping their minds off of the project's often fatal selection process by keeping with basketball and arm-wrestling tournaments.[9] The clinical psychologist, Cassandra Aklin, was closely attracted to Hale, and nearly had some kind of a relationship due to their fear and overwhelming emotions at the time; though Hale resented her at first for being involved with who were chosen to be selected. As a result, Hale was given two military citations for fraternizing with Aklin.[2]
On December 1, Hale became the fifth test subject after the others before him had died, except for Joseph Capelli who was left in a coma from his injection and later survived, staying in a bed near Nathan's.[10] Instead of the usual serum, he was injected with Pure Chimeran DNA under Dr. Fyodor Malikov's orders.[11] He suffered from delusions, panic attacks, and strange visions. Though he was reluctant to let himself lose consciousness, he eventually fell into a brief coma. When he woke up, he made a deal to stop Lt. Kenneth Danby from getting injected; he would go to England in Operation Deliverance and fight there much to Cassie's reluctance.
Following Project Abraham, Hale was one of the few subjects to survive. As such, Hale had grown semi-immune to the Chimeran virus, which would save his life in York several months later where the dormant Pure Chimeran genes would be reinvigorated. On December 25, he was released back into the Army (secretly for a live trial).[2]
Resistance: Fall of Man
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Operation Deliverance
Nathan being infected by the Crawlers.
On July 11, 1951, Hale was deployed with the First Ranger Regiment to York as part of Operation Deliverance. He was part of Arrow Two who were decimated by anti-air barrage. Hale regrouped with another squad which were then attacked by Chimeran Crawlers and infected with the Chimeran virus. Due to the partial immunity, he gained from Project Abraham, Hale survived the infection aside from biologically possessing gold-colored eyes as a result. He awoke to a U.S. medic and fought his way to an abandoned bus depot where Captain Winters was clearing a landing zone for allied airborne reinforcements. With the help of a commandeered Sabertooth tank, he helped clear out a rally point. Not long after, he was captured by the Chimera during a Spire attack after defending the depot with the remnants of his regiment and taken to a Chimeran conversion center in Grimsby. Hale soon escaped captivity and rescued Captain Rachel Parker from being infected in a holding cell in the process. With Parker's help, he managed to escape the facility while grimly learning about the Chimeran conversion process and proceeded to join and help the British Army. Parker became suspicious of Hale as she knew he was infected and tried to get him tested, but he joined the Manchester operation before she could say a word.
The British Resistance
Hale inside the Manchester Cathedral.
Hale was immediately taken to Manchester, where he assisted Captain Mitchell and British forces in procuring the "secret weapon" that was part of the Anglo-American military exchange. After having secured and retrieved the "weapon", Hale curiously approached the container containing the "weapon" and suddenly receives a psychic vision-connection with the "weapon", but quickly regaining his sanity. The "weapon" was later successfully delivered to Northern Command in Cheshire. Hale later participated in Operation Shear in order to seal a discovered Chimeran tunnel nexus in Nottingham. It was there that Hale met Lieutenant Steven Cartwright, who didn't think much of Hale at first until he lost a bet that Hale wouldn't survive a fight with a Titan. Cartwright possibly knew about Hale's infection at the time but did not say a word. At some point, Cartwright gave him a Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife, which Hale would keep and use it in the future.[12]
Hale later traveled with Parker to Northern Command for debriefing. When they arrive there, they discovered the base had been attacked by the Chimera. A cave-in separated Hale from the others, and he fought alone through the base. There he came upon documents pertaining to classified data on the Chimeran War, the Chimeran virus, and learning that the "secret weapon" is actually an Angel, a ranking Chimeran strain that was responsible for summoning the Chimera to Northern Command and was attempting to telepathically control Hale (due to him having the Chimeran Virus in his system). When Hale confronted the Angel, the creature attempted to control his mind. But Hale managed to resist the mind-meld and killed the creature by shooting it with his carbine. Hale then reunited with Parker, who noticed more effects of Hale's infection: the unnatural quickness of the Hybrids and their healing capabilities.
Continuing his war effort, Hale followed a team of Royal Commandos led by Cartwright to Cheddar Gorge where the Chimera that attacked Northern Command came from. He found Cartwright as the only survivor and who by now has discovered Hale's infection. Together, the two investigated the area and discovered that the Chimeran towers throughout Britain were in fact excavated instead of being built, which drastically changed everything that is known about the Chimera. Hale also noticed power conduits leaving the towers and going underground. They travel to Southern Command in Bristol to relay their discovery, but only to discover the base was being attacked by Chimeran forces. Hale helped evacuate the base before it was destroyed along with many British casualties.
The Battle of London
Instead of retreating with his allies to a camp in Cardiff, Hale decided to use an old map Cartwright had given him and followed the power conduits down to a tunnel despite Parker's objection. The tunnel led him to a Chimeran tower in Bracknell and then to London in which the conduits are connected to the hub tower in the city. Through his connection to the Chimera, Hale came to the conclusion that destroying the central hub tower in London will somehow result in the total defeat of the Chimera in British soil. He cleared out a landing zone in the outskirts of the city where a joint British and American military force mobilized their assault on the hub tower. As the human forces made a massive assault on the London tower, Goliaths approached from the the south of London and Hale was forced to prevent their advance by detonating Tower Bridge and Southwark Bridge, and was then reunited with Cartwright. They then commandeered a Stalker and destroyed the last Goliath. Cartwright was later wounded by a Widowmaker which forced Hale to infiltrate the tower alone.
Nathen Hale in the London Tower.
Fighting his way up the tower, Hale managed to reach the tower's central nuclear fission reactor which he was able to destroy, resulting in a massive explosion that demolished the hub tower. The reaction propagated along the Chimera conduit network, destroying all the Chimeran towers throughout Britain and killing every Angel inside these structures. With the Angels dead, the remaining Chimeran forces all over England were unable to survive with any cohesion and quickly died off within minutes. Allied officials presumed that Hale had been killed in the tower's explosion and officially listed him as killed in action on July 14, 1951. But in reality, Hale survived and wandered in the snowy outskirts of London, where he was then taken into custody by a Black Ops squad that had been following him. The Special Research Projects Administration learned about Hale's survival in Operation Deliverance and had feared that he would mutate in a similar condition to Jordan Shepherd, another Abraham candidate who was given a similar injection to Hale.[13]
The Sentinel Program
Upon his retrieval, Hale was sedated after a brief struggle before being introduced to Major Richard Blake, who informed Hale that he is being transported to SRPA Station Igloo in Iceland to indoctrinate him into the Sentinel Program. Upon their arrival, Igloo Base was under attack by the Chimera. Hale and Blake fought their way through the base to stop the Chimera from releasing SRPA's prisoner, Daedalus, an Angel-like Chimera and formerly known as Jordan Shepherd. However, Daedalus broke free and confronted Hale, whom he enigmatically speaks to him, "They are calling to us. Can you hear them? It is beautiful", before escaping the facility.
Hale escaped Igloo Base with Blake and remaining SRPA personnel including a crucial Russian scientist, Dr. Fyodor Malikov. On July 17, Hale was recruited into the Sentinel Program, a task force of super-soldiers who are infected with the Chimeran virus and possessing superhuman abilities like Hale.[2] The Sentinels have their infections kept in check with frequent inhibitor treatments. Hale was assigned to Echo Team under the leadership of Lieutenant Hank Leavitt on August 1.[2] At times Hale would lead a number of solo missions with other Sentinel teams.
Metastasis
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Sergeant Nathan Hale as he appears in Metastasis.
Sometime in August 1951, Hale was tasked to find Dr. Silbermann, a scientist who had created a new inhibitor designed to prolong the Sentinels' immunity, who was captured by the Chimera in Salinas, California. He convinced General Harold Patterson to provide him two normal United States Army soldiers: Lee Dashiel, a demolitionist whom he had worked with a couple of times before, and Jimmy Sanchez, a sniper.[14]
Hale, Dashiel and Sanchez infiltrated Chimeran-occupied Salinas and found Silbermann in a conversion center. Silbermann was infected and he gave a sample of his inhibitor to Hale. The team was soon attacked by Spinners in which Dashiel was left mortally wounded, and Sanchez infected. Hale reluctantly euthanized Sanchez at the latter's request before destroying the facility.
Resistance: The Gathering Storm
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By November 1951, the Chimera had made their advance on attacking the the outer territories of the United States. On November 16, Hale was sent on a mission to retrieve technology from a downed Chimeran shuttle in Bear Butte. Hale accompanied Captain Anton Nash, a SRPA scientist who led the mission. Hale's group succeeded in obtaining a database, but Nash was killed.
On November 19, Hale broke protocols and traveled to South Dakota with help from VTOL pilot Harley Purvis to save his foster family. Upon reaching the Farley's home, Hale discovered everyone except for Susan were killed, as his foster sister had left a note which informed him that she had fled to a Protection Camp. Hale also encountered two armed teenagers, Mark and his sister Tina, who had survived on their own for weeks. He escorted the survivors to Purvis' VTOL before he reluctantly sent them to a Protection Camp. Hale was later reprimanded by Major Blake and threated with a court martial over the disobedience of orders and the loss of equipment. However, Blake gave Hale a light punishment by docking him for the lost equipment and VTOL fuel.
Hale later participated in Operation Iron Fist, a joint operation between the 5th Ranger Battalion and Sentinels to capture Chimeran nuclear fuel rods near Hot Springs, South Dakota. Hale and his squad was accompanied by Dr. Linda Barrie, who was coincidentally Nash's fiancee. Hale and his men succeeded in capturing the fuel rods.
In December 1951, Hale and Blake were tasked by Chief of Staff William Dentweiler to find and, if necessary, kill former Secretary of War Henry Walker for treason. Believing Walker had fled to a Freedom First cell in Chimera-occupied Chicago, Hale and a Sentinel team led by Captain Bo Richards were inserted into the city and confronted Freedom First, but only to learn Walker had never arrived. Hale continued his search for Walker by infiltrating a Freedom First recruitment center in Custer, Montana. There, Hale was surprised to be reunited with Susan, who had joined Freedom First. With his identity compromised by Susan, Hale was detained and interrogated. After informed his intentions, Hale was released. Hale learned from Susan of her intentions for joining Freedom First and she refused to leave with Hale.
On December 15, Hale was assigned to President Noah Grace's security detail during Grace's Victory Tour in Denver. He saved Grace's life from an assassination attempt when he spotted a sniper from a nearby hotel. The assassin was apprehended and revealed to be Susan. Hale visited her in a detention facility and learned that she was to receive a life sentence. He pleaded with her and tried to get her sentence reduced, but Susan refused and criticized Hale for saving a corrupt president. Shortly after his visit with Susan, Hale learned SRPA had located Walker's location after an escaped prisoner, Harley Burl, informed them that Walker was being held by the Chimera at a conversion center near Madison, Wisconsin.
Hale led a full strike force against the conversion center with Burl and Dentweiler accompanying him. After rescuing human prisoners, Burl revealed to Hale that Walker was planning to expose Grace's plot to negotiate with the Chimera to spare the United States at the expense of the world. Walker had a tape recorder to give to Freedom First in order to unravel Grace's plot. Hale ordered men to detain Dentweiler and provide immediate evacuation of the Madison survivors while he led his forces in fending off Chimeran reinforcements, including a Goliath. After having dealt with the Chimera, Hale discovered Walker had died but he obtained his tape recorder which he then listened to Grace's Project Omega.
On December 24, Hale traveled to Sheridan, Wyoming where Grace held the negotiation with a captured Daedalus. Hale learned from Blake that he was made head of security for the entire negotiation. When Grace delivered his offer to Daedalus, Hale instantly killed Grace by shooting him in the head. Upon Grace's death, Daedalus took the opportunity to escape and he retreated to a waiting battleship, which he ordered to destroy Sheridan in retaliation for his captivity before leaving the area. Following Daedalus' escape, Hale was exempted from killing Grace, whose death was covered-up along with Project Omega.
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The Invasion of America
Hale returning fire during an ambush near Orick, California.
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.[2] Hale was awarded the Silver Star during an operation for the successful retrieval of eighteen civilians stranded in Wisconsin on April 11.[2] 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 overload an auxiliary power reactor outside the factory, causing it to chain react and flush out the hostile command units inside the base.[15] 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.[16] By 1953, his cellular receptors were combating the inhibitor serum that was controlling the Chimeran virus, and the risk of him converting was high.
Hale aboard a Chimeran battleship.
On May 15, 1953 the Chimeran fleet launched a 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 helped evacuate Dr. Malikov from the base. After retrieving the inhibitor serums and killing a Kraken, Hale followed Echo Team along with a company of Black Ops to track down a Chimeran battleship that was damaged earlier in San Francisco. The convoy tracked the ship to Orick, where they were ambushed, and leaving all soldiers under Hale's command killed. Hale reached the town and reunited with Echo. Hale and his team hijacked a Chimeran shuttle to infiltrate the ship. On board, they split up to plant explosives on the vessel while Hale proceeded to the ship's bridge. There, he discovered that the Chimeran fleet planned to attack Twin Falls, Idaho, where they will breach the Liberty Defense Perimeter. After narrowly escaping the ship which prematurely detonated, Echo warned Major Blake and headed for Twin Falls.
Upon reaching Twin Falls, their shuttle was shot down by Stalkers. Hale and his team were separated from each other during landfall. They quickly discovered the entire town was attacked and infected by Spinners on the previous night. Hale rescued Warner from a pack of Grims before they regrouped with Hawthorne and Capelli. Hale also learned from Warner that his family lived in Twin Falls and he gave his sympathies to Warner by assuring him that his family possibly escaped and made it to the Baton Rouge protection camp. Echo later splits up to reactivate the defense towers stop the approaching airships, in which Hale and Capelli went to the north tower. Upon reaching the top of the tower, Capelli was attacked and abducted by a Mother Spinner but survived miraculously. Hale killed the Mother Spinner and reactivated the tower. With the towers activated, Echo Team prevented the Chimeran ships from breaching the LDP. Thereafter, Echo is then ordered to get to the nearest inhibitor station due to being long overdue for treatment. Hale, however, disregarded the order. Having heard 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, Hale takes a Black Ops squad to extract Malikov.
A Race Against Time
When Hale and his squad arrive at Bryce Canyon, they faced a heavy concentration of Chimeran forces and all of Hale's men were massacred by The Swarm. Hale located Malikov along with Daedalus, who activated the Bryce Canyon tower. Before Daedalus left he told Hale and Malikov that Earth belongs to the Chimera. Malikov explained to Hale that Daedalus plans to activate the entire Chimeran tower network and as well revealing Daedalus' origins as Jordan Shepherd, a similar candidate of Project Abraham who underwent the same experiment with Pure Chimeran DNA that was injected into Hale. After defeating the Swarm, Hale and Malikov escaped Station Genesis and extracted by Echo Team. Hale was then belligerently confronted by Capelli, who threatened Hale for missing his inhibitor treatment by promising that as soon as Hale succumbs to the virus, he will kill him. Hale responded by strangling Capelli by the throat while coolly accepting his offer.
Hale and Echo traveled to Chicago to shut down the hub tower in order to foil Daedalus' plan. He and his team 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 by Daedalus. SRPA and Echo Team later launched an assault on the Holar Tower, where Daedalus controls the network. Unfortunately, they fell into a trap in which they suffered heavy casualties, forcing them to call off the assault. Hale and Echo disobeyed Blake's orders to retreat and attempted to find Daedalus. Warner and Hawthorne were killed by Daedalus, who then inflicted a near-fatal wound to Hale's chest. Hale was then rescued by Capelli, who then took themselves to escape from Iceland.
For six weeks, Hale fell into a coma while being closely monitored by Malikov. During this time, Hale's body slowly succumbed to the Chimeran virus due to his long overdue inhibitor treatment despite Malikov's efforts to reverse his mutation. While Hale remained in stasis, the Chimeran fleet breached the Liberty Defense Perimeter, killing over 80 million people and forcing the remaining survivors to flee to America's last stronghold in Baton Rouge. Hale was relocated to Cocodrie.
Operation Black Eden
Hale's condition has worsened.
In June, Malikov had been close to completing a Zeta series of inhibitors and believed that it would take two weeks for him to inoculate Hale. However, Hale was instead needed for Operation Black Eden, an attempt to destroy Chimeran fleet, which was currently hovering above the Chicxulub crater and channeling arcs of energies from the Chimeran tower network into the crater, by implanting and detonating a nuclear fission bomb inside the Chimeran flagship.[17] Without the inhibitors, Hale can survive approximately three hours once awaken before the virus fully consumes him. Despite the risks, Blake had ordered that Hale join the operation whether or not the Zeta series inhibitors are ready.[17]
Hale and Joseph Capelli.
On the deadline for Operation Black Eden on June 26, Hale finally awoke and learned of the war's dire situation and his current condition. Capelli advised his commanding officer on using whatever time he has left, which Hale accepted to use this time to take part in the operation. He proceeded to search for Major Blake, who was separated from the fission bomb while the convoy that was transporting weapon was attacked by the Chimera. Hale and Capelli were able to recover the bomb and reunite with Blake. They and X-Ray Squad hijacked a Chimeran shuttle to infiltrate and transport the bomb to the flagship.
Hale and Cappeli went to the flagship's control room to shut down the reactor's cooling shields and allow Blake's team to place the bomb. However, Blake and X-Ray Squad were then killed in an ambush, and the bomb was captured by the Chimera which they brought to Daedalus. Hale made his own way to stop Daedalus from disposing the bomb and subsequently engaged him in combat. After a fierce battle, Hale succeeded in killing Daedalus. While examining Daedalus' corpse, an overwhelming surge of energy flowed from Daedalus and unto Hale, who inherited all of Daedalus' psychokinetic powers. Within four minutes after activating the bomb, Hale used his new-found powers to fight his way back to Capelli and they escape on a shuttle. The resulting explosion annihilated the fleet while Hale and Capelli's vessel was affected the bomb's electromagnetic blast, causing the shuttle to crash land.
Hale has fully succumbed to the Chimeran virus.
Hale later awakened from the crash, but ultimately succumbed to the virus. He fell under the influence of the Chimeran hive mind before he was then founded by Capelli while staring into the sky, which revealed that SRPA's operation inadvertently created a wormhole to the Chimera's home world. Hale then turned to face Capelli and quoted the same words that Daedalus had spoken to him from their first encounter: "Can you hear them? They are calling to us. It's beautiful." Hale then ominously stated to Capelli that "this is just the beginning." Contrary to his earlier hostility, Capelli gave his respects to Hale and reluctantly executed him with a gunshot to the head.
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Hale's dead body after being shot by Joseph Capelli.
Following Hale's death, his body was recovered by SRPA and was then examined by Dr. Malikov, who then discovered unique antigens in Hale's blood. Malikov used the antigens as the basis for a new vaccine that became the cure for the Chimeran virus, dubbed as the Hale Vaccine. In a way, Hale's legend lives on by saving humanity through the vaccine, inoculating all surviving humans. Malikov would later investigate on Hale's enigmatic words to Capelli that were previously uttered by Daedalus, which would later be discovered as Hale was referring to the "Pure Chimera" that were telepathically speaking through him and implying of their imminent arrival to Earth through the wormhole created from Operation Black Eden.[18]
Sometime after humanity was able to recover from the war, a national cemetery would be named in honor of Hale.
Personality
In Resistance: Fall of Man, 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. Furthermore, most of the game's cutscenes are told from a third-person narration from Rachel Parker, and thereby Hale received very little screen time.
In Resistance 2 Hale speaks a lot more as he is given more screen time and he is in a more commanding position. He is also shown to become aggressive at times, as seen when being extracted by SRPA near London and when confronting Capelli in Bryce Canyon. This can be due to his infection.
The Project Abraham ARG shows more of Hale's character prior to his infection. He was described by Cassandra Aklin to be taciturn and distrustful of authority.[6] He also gave the impression of being a bit cocky.[6] During his stay at Project Abraham, Hale demonstrated himself as a leader, showing compassion to the other fellow test subjects and helping them to cope with their anxieties.[9] Due to the incident at the live-fire exercise, Hale strongly refused to give any order that would endanger a person's life.[7] As the others died from the experiments, Hale was deeply saddened by their demise and felt responsible for their deaths.[19]
Hale developed a near romantic relationship with Cassie Aklin, who was drawn in by his bravery and how he constantly supported the other subjects by keeping their minds away from the experiments, and even helped Aklin through the rigors of Project Abraham.[10] Later the two meet each other again in The Gathering Storm and become lovers for a short time. He seems to care more about her and could only think about seeing her during his missions.
Military psychologists have said that Hale has some sort of growing death wish and is preoccupied with death as he always goes on the highest risking missions, though this is also a sign of courage as he always thinks about the mission first. When he was succumbing to the virus, he kept trying to stop Daedalus instead of getting his inhibitor treatment and pushed himself until he sacrificed his life for the human race without hesitation.
Description
Hale is 6 foot 2' and has a shaved head with five o'clock shadow. He is nearly 29 at the time of Resistance Fall of Man and nearly 31 at the time of Resistance 2. At the beginning of Resistance: Fall of Man, he does not have five o'clock shadow, but it grows over time. He has a somewhat pale face and a small scar on his mouth. His eyes are hazel at first but after becoming infected, they turn gold. A good deal of intelligence is seen upon him. He wears a green standard army Rangers uniform with a combat knife in his right for arm grip, which he wears, though he tossed his helmet off while attempting to stop Crawlers, up until after his battle Iceland in Resistance 2. After which he wears a black Sentinel uniform but keeps the combat knife holstered in his right forearm. When the virus has nearly taken over his body, his eyes have a glowing red outline, and his skin turns pale with some veins sticking out.
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Trivia
General
- Nathan Hale's name is taken from the real life Nathan Hale, who was an American soldier during the American Revolution and was hanged for spying on the British. His famous last words were: "My only regret is that I have only one life to give for my country".
- Nathan is voiced by celebrity voice-actor David Kaye, who also voiced Clank from Ratchet & Clank, another series that was also developed by Insomniac Games.
- In the Naughty Dog game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, players can play as Nathan Hale from the "PlayStation Heroes" DLC pack, on the heroes' team.
- In the Project Abraham viral videos, he was played by Travis Willingham, who also voice a Black Ops Soldier in Resistance 2.
- Nathan Hale was the only main human protagonist to be killed off in the Resistance franchise.
- His serial number is 849324LF according to Project Abraham, but in Resistance 2, it is mentioned without the 'LF'.
- In Resistance: Retribution, while playing infected mode, Parker's dialogue changes after the player helps her escape. She mentions Hale, saying that James Grayson greatly reminds her of him.
- Nathan's main weapon of choice in Resistance: Fall of Man is the M5A2 Folsom Carbine. In Resistance 2 it appears to be the Bullseye, which symbolize Nathan's status as a Sentinel and eventually his mutation into a Chimera.
- Hale is shown carrying a combat knife during the series but never uses it during Fall of Man. In Resistance 2 it is used as a melee attack.
Resistance: Fall of Man
- In the opening cutscene for the London mission, Ice and Iron, Hale's voice is noticeably different when he says "I'm outside. Where are you?"
- His multiplayer skin is unlocked when the player reaches the rank of Supreme Commander at level 60 (3 PIPS) in multiplayer.
- In Resistance: Fall of Man he is recognized by a British soldier for being quiet. Even during the Battle of London when a VTOL recon team, Delta Four, were scanning the area upon spotting Hale on the ground they said, "Wait I'm seeing someone shaved head, kinda quiet."
- He only has six lines of dialogue in Resistance: Fall of Man (aside from an extra cutscene "Stranger than Fission"), in Grimsby, Cheshire, Somerset, London Outskirts, and Thames.
- Chimera voice dialogues refer Hale as the "half-breed".
Resistance 2
- In the teaser trailer of Resistance 2, it says that Hale only has "nineteen hours left to live", which is mentioned in the campaign, but he actually survives roughly two days before the virus takes over. In the campaign, when it mentions how long he has to live, it also says that, if he doesn't die, he could end up like Daedalus.
- His multiplayer skins, both normal and converted versions, are unlocked in Online Competitive mode when the player reaches level 19 and level 24, respectively.
- Hale's behavior in Resistance 2 appears to revolve around the belief that he is the only person in the US military who can be expected to actually succeed at a given objective; several times he forsakes treatment on the basis something is happening elsewhere, without ever attempting to see if anyone else is available to deal with it.
- In the Resistance 2 main menu, Nathan Hale is shown as he was before the Chimeran Virus had any effects on him, when playing on the first levels of the Campaign. He also wields a Carbine. Nevertheless, as the player progresses in the Campaign, he becomes gradually more infected. After finishing Twin Falls, Hale's appearance remains the same except his eyes turn gold. After finishing Chicago, he loses much of his facial hair. After Holar Tower and for the rest of the game, Hale's skin becomes paler, his eyes become more reptilian and turn completely gold. His Carbine is also replaced by a Bullseye Mk. I.
- Strangely, Nathan Hale has a beard and mustache in London, SRPA Igloo, SRPA 6, Orick, the battleship, Twin Falls, the Badlands, and Chicago. Any level at Holar Tower and up, he doesn't. This may mean that they didn't immediately go to Holar and Hale shaved sometime between. It can also be so due to the virus.
Resistance: The Gathering Storm
- Hale's favorite weapon appears to be the Rossmore 236 Combat Shotgun, although he does use the XR-13 Bellock a lot as well.
- At the beginning of The Gathering Storm Hale calls himself "Bravo Six" whilst trying to contact a VTOL, but later and throughout the rest of the book he calls himself Echo Six. This is most likely an error by the author. Also, "Six" in a codename refers to the team's leader; Hale shouldn't had that codename because during the time of The Gathering Storm, Hank Leavitt was Echo Team's leader.
- This is a possible reference to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, where the character John Price is referred to as "Bravo Six". Coincidentally, both characters share the rank of captain.
Resistance 3
- Within the first minute of the E3 2011 Resistance 3 trailer, while Joseph Capelli walks through a destroyed town, there is a burial cross with the word "HALE" written on it, debunking theories that he is still alive. It also illustrates the importance of Hale in the Chimeran War.
- During the initial development of Resistance 3, the Insomniac team was short on ideas, and they even thought about resurrecting Nathan Hale, but ultimately the idea was turned down, and his absence was taken over by Joseph Capelli.[citation needed]
- One of the photos seen in the credits sequence depicts Capelli, Susan and Jack leaving "Nathan Hale Memorial Cemetery".
Resistance: Burning Skies
- Nathan Hale was mentioned by Ellie Martinez while she and Tom Riley infiltrate SRPA Station Kali that Richard Gorrell mistakenly believed that Hale had died in Project Abraham.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Nathan Hale's Record of Service
- ^ a b c d e f g h Intel 4
- ^ Young Ranchers of South Dakota
- ^ Susan's letter
- ^ SRPA file CP55792A1
- ^ a b c Psych Report
- ^ a b Induction film of N. Hale
- ^ WD894846BL
- ^ a b Psych Report 2
- ^ a b Psych Report 5
- ^ Memo from Colonel Thompson to Dr. Aklin
- ^ Resistance: The Gathering Storm
- ^ Intel 2
- ^ CE156622TP
- ^ SRPA Intelligence Memorandum 6
- ^ SRPA Intelligence Memorandum 8
- ^ a b SRPA Intelligence Memorandum 26
- ^ They Are Coming
- ^ Psych Report 3
| Characters in Resistance: Fall of Man | |
|---|---|
| 1st Ranger Regiment | Nathan Hale · Winters · Froski · Toppazzini · Lightner · Stokes · Barker · Kimble · Gibson · Winkler · Payton · Swain · Blair · Nicholson |
| British Army | Rachel Parker · Stephen Cartwright · Mitchell · Buckler · Everly · Childress · Saunders · Fassbender · Doring · Braddock · Bowling · Willet · Hamish Robson · Sean Wickham · Thomas Yearling · Jacobs · Kelly · Hamlin · McIntyre · Drake · Elliot · Bunsen · Stenner · Brierley · Hastings · Larson · Lewis · Jensen · Dexter · Calavan · Peterson · Canning · Ian Coxen · Seaver |
| Black Ops | X-Ray Three · X-Ray Four · X-Ray Five · X-Ray Six |
| Characters in Resistance | |
|---|---|
| Sentinels | Joseph Capelli · Benjamin Warner · Murphy · Campbell · Waldron · Hank Leavitt · Nathan Hale |
| SRPA | Welles · J. Robert Oppenheimer · Wallace · Cassandra Aklin · Martin Ortiz · Bravo One · McAlister · Dunbar |
| British Army | Johnny Grayson · James Grayson · Stephen Cartwright · Rachel Parker · Diggle · Pete · Ryan · Derek · Morgan |
| Graterford Prison | Herbert Sawicki · Mick Cutler · Dick · Darryl · Ned |
| Others | Roland Mallery · Jordan Shepherd · Hannah Shepherd · Hetterwood · Marcus · Blakely · Luke |
| Characters in Metastasis | |
|---|---|
| Sentinels | Nathan Hale |
| U.S. Army | Jimmy Sanchez · Lee Dashiel |
| SRPA | Silbermann |
| Characters in Resistance 2 | |
|---|---|
| Echo Team | Nathan Hale · Benjamin Warner · Joseph Capelli · Aaron Hawthorne |
| SRPA | Richard Blake · Fyodor Malikov · Lyle K. Parsons · Henry Carter · George Hopper · Anna Keegan · Martin Ortiz · Ross Schneider · Oscar Villamizar · Frederick Jean · Percy Kabeck · Willard Libby · Howard Nash · Richard P. Feynman · Julia Cathcart · J. Robert Oppenheimer · Assistant Doctor · Murray · Archibald Solomon · Cassandra Aklin |
| Black Ops | Com One · Com Two · Foxtrot One-Twelve · India Eight-Two · Keystone Six · Victor One · Victor Two · Victor Three · Victor Four · Victor Nine · Victor Thirteen · Victor Twenty · X-Ray One · X-Ray Twelve · India Six Delta · Omaha Nine Alpha · Blue Three Foxtrot · Osborne · Phillips |
| Others | Daedalus · Henry Stillman · Beverly Stillman · Ronald Murray · Laura Warner · Jacob Warner · Arthur Lee Henkley · Charles Emmerson · Noah Grace · Harvey McCullen · Steven Vanshyke · Hannah Shepherd · Douglas MacArthur |