Richard Gorrell

Richard Gorrell
Biographical Information
Nationality	American
Status	Deceased
Death	August 15th, 1951
Affiliation	SRPA
Physical Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair color	Brown, turning Grey
Eye color	Brown
Appearances
Game(s)	Resistance: Burning Skies

"We must realize that if we are to defeat the Chimera, no sacrifice is too great."

―Richard Gorrell

Richard Gorrell was a SRPA scientist and the main antagonist in Resistance: Burning Skies. He was the head researcher of Project Phoenix.

Biography

Richard Gorrell was the head researcher of SRPA Station Kali on Ellis Island. There, Gorrell researched Gray Tech artifacts and discovered their ability to control the Chimera; in which he then realized the potential it could be use in the Chimeran War by having a tamed army of Chimera fighting against its own species. However, some members of the military establishment such as Colonel George Amherst viewed Gorrell's project as, according to one researcher, "ethically reprehensible" and too costly to be spent on. Furthermore, many of the experiments with the Gray Tech components used to control captured Chimera only worked temporarily before exploding and frying the subject. Eventually, Gorrell saw the only means to overcome this is by surgically inserting the Gray Tech devices into the Chimera while they are being made from converted humans.

When the Chimera began their attack on America, Gorrell saw an opportunity to use a "human source" needed for Project Phoenix. Using a captured Spire Beacon at a protection camp in Union City, Gorrell lured the Chimera there to abduct a large number of humans to a conversion tower, where he infiltrated and controlled the Chimera inside to construct a Leviathan.

Gorrell's reprehensible plans was discovered by Tom Riley and Ellie Martinez, in which they managed to rescue some of the human survivors. Riley personally confronted Gorrell while he was overseeing the unfinished Leviathan. Gorrell tries to justify his actions to Riley, stating that Project Phoenix was humanity's "only chance" to turn the war against the Chimera, and that it gained the approval of President Noah Grace. Gorrell then tries to prove this by using the Gray Tech modules to move the Leviathan until it broke free from his control and went on a rampage. Gorrell then fled the scene.

After Riley killed the Leviathan and set the tower's power core to explode, Gorrell ambushed Riley and berated him for ruining his work before trying to strangle him. However, Riley punched Gorrell off of him before, in an act of self-defense, fatally planting his fire axe into Gorrell's neck before he could fire his pistol at Riley.

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Trivia

• Richard Gorrell is the third human antagonist alongside Roland Mallery and Mick Cutler in Resistance: Retribution and Resistance 3 respectively.
• Killing Gorrell unlocks the "G-Man" Trophy.