Rachel Parker

Rachel Parker
Biographical Information
Nationality	British
Status	Unknown
Birth	1922
Family	Unnamed father (deceased) Unnamed mother (deceased)
Affiliation	British Intelligence Corps British Army
Rank	Colonel; formerly Captain (Fall of Man)
Physical Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Appearances
Game(s)	Resistance: Fall of Man Resistance: Retribution Resistance 2 (mentioned) Resistance 3 (multiplayer skin)
Book(s)	Resistance
Other Information
Voice Actor	Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy

Rachel Parker is a British Colonel and British Intelligence Operator. She is a main character and the narrator of Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance: Retribution.

Biography

Rachel Parker was born the daughter of a three-star general of the British Army, and her father was re-stationed too often for Parker to ever know what a home was. The lifestyle was too much for her mother to bear; she left when Parker was six. Parker became inseparable from her father. Despite her desire to join him in the military, he steered her toward a university education. Her eagerness to impress him led her all the way to the theoretical physics department at Oxford. Before Parker could graduate, her father offered her the job she always wanted with British Army Intelligence. The Chimeran threat was just becoming known in British Intelligence circles, and he needed someone he could trust to be a liaison for the military.

Initially serving as an intelligence operator, Parker and her father worked closely together at Central Command in London, until the Chimera invaded Britain and attacked the base. Parker's father died helping her escape. With the deaths of the British Armed Forces' hierarchy; Parker, only a Captain at the time, became head of the British Intelligence Corps, and de-facto head of the British resistance. At her direction, the Corps, who were given tactical control of the Royal Marine Commandos; the de-facto unit leader then Lieutenant Stephen Cartwright, ordered the Commandos in a guerrilla campaign against the Chimera. Parker had since continued to serve on the front lines in the war against the Chimera; her brilliance at collecting and interpreting strategic intelligence is the only weapon that has not failed against them. Parker has long since become accustomed to losing everything she's ever cared for, but wants to believe the war against the Chimera can still be won, and found herself willing to support long shots.

Resistance: Fall of Man

Main article: Resistance: Fall of Man

Prior to July 11, 1951, Parker led the British in successfully capturing an Angel, a Chimera leader unit, and had it secured in a customized containment cell. Parker offered the Angel (which they classified as a "secret weapon") to an isolationist United States government in exchange for supplies and military support to liberate Britain.

However, the initial exchange failed as Rachel and her convoy team were ambushed by the Chimera in Manchester on the way to the exchange in York, where the American 1st Ranger Regiment and 3rd Ranger Regiment that were supposed to meet them was wiped out during Operation Deliverance. Rachel was captured and taken, uninfected, to a Chimeran conversion center in Grimsby. It was there she encountered Sergeant Nathan Hale, the sole remaining American survivor of Operation Deliverance, who saved her from being infected by Crawlers in a holding pen, moments after two British soldiers had been infected. With his help, she escaped and coordinated a retrieval mission for the Angel in Manchester.

After the Angel was recaptured and transferred to Northern Command, Parker later coordinated her forces with Major Stephen Cartwright in sealing a Chimeran tunnel network in Nottingham. Thereafter, Parker returned to Northern Command with Hale and only to discovered the base had been overrun by the Chimera who attempted to free the Angel. Parker was separated from Hale, who personally fought through Northern Command and slain the Angel.

Since her first encounter with Hale, Parker was aware of Hale's infection to the Chimeran virus due to his gold colored eyes. She was very curious of him as he was the first recorded person to have ever woken up after being infected, and tried to have him tested but Hale seemed to be avoiding her as if he knew her intentions. Although she knew he was infected, she trusted that Hale would remain human and be able to defeat the Chimera. Though in time she later discovered that Hale was only one of many infected soldiers who were part of the Sentinel Program.

Parker relocated to Southern Command, where the Chimera launched a massive attack on the base. She led her forces in holding off the Chimera and were almost overwhelmed until Hale and Cartwright arrived and turned the battle in their favor. Southern Command was ultimately lost with losing half of its troops, in which Parker evacuated the survivors to a makeshift camp in Cardiff. This would be the last time she saw Hale who refused to go with her and instead he followed the Chimeran power conduits leading to Chimera-occupied London.

At Cardiff, Parker regained contact with Hale who informed her that destroying the main Chimeran tower in London would somehow destroy the Chimera in Britain. Initially, Parker thought Hale was mad but conceded to his plan. After American military forces joined the British in Cardiff, Parker directed the remnants of the British Army, in collaboration with fresh American reinforcements, in a final desperate attack on the London tower.

During this final assault, she directed Anglo-American forces at the entrance to the tower and later rescued a wounded Cartwright. Hale not only made sure the assault succeeded, but personally destroyed the tower, which in turn destroyed the entire tower network and eradicating the Angels throughout Britain; without the Angels, the Chimera on British soil quickly died out. Before the hub tower was destroyed, Parker tried to evacuate Hale via VTOL but was forced to leave when the tower began to collapse.

While the Americans listed Hale as officially killed in action, Rachel was unconvinced and believed that Hale may have managed to survive as she believed that she had heard his voice radioing in afterwords. Indeed, her beliefs came true as Hale did survived his ordeal and was later recruited into the Sentinel Program.

Resistance: Retribution

Main article: Resistance: Retribution

Following the liberation of Britain, Parker worked quickly, initiating restoration and rescue efforts throughout the country, restoring and re-deploying armed forces, beginning research efforts into the Chimera's mysterious history and reverse-engineering Chimeran technology alongside the Special Research Projects Administration. At this time, Parker was promoted to Colonel and made official head of the British Intelligence Corps and British Armed Forces.

Parker eventually restarted the conflict in Europe by launching Operation Overstrike, with the goal of destroying the Paris hub tower, and coordinated with the Maquis to succeed. During Overstrike, Parker commanded the Second Squadron into reinforcing Rotterdam, Holland after the remains of the First Squadron led by Major Stephen Cartwright succeeded in destroying the Chimeran gun towers providing safe passage for the Second Squadron. Parker later led British armed forces to the Maquis fortress base in Luxembourg, and find herself in fighting a massive Chimeran assault upon the stronghold. Parker escaped from the base with the help of Private James Grayson. Soon later she regrouped with Grayson and Cartwright, and they escaped to Reims, the last remaining Maquis stronghold.

In Reims, after Allied forces finalized their plan for their assault on the Paris hub tower, Parker and Cartwright freed Grayson, who was imprisoned by the Maquis for "insubordination", and personally provided him a sample of Dr. Claude Bouchard's serum in infecting the Chrysalis Lair in order to temporarily halting the Chimeran conversion process. After the destruction of the Paris hub tower and the mass eradication of the Chimera in Western Europe, Parker met with Grayson at a small memorial dedicated for fallen human soldiers, reminding him that he should not allow Raine Bouchard's death to destroy him as he had allowed the death of his brother to do so. Parker then offered Grayson a commission with the British Army with the position of Major, but Grayson immediately refuses the offer. Parker, however, convinced Grayson to keep his brother's jacket instead of placing it upon the makeshift memorial. She and Cartwright bid farewell to Grayson, who rejoined the Maquis.

Resistance 2

Main article: Resistance 2

Since Operation Overstrike, Parker had deployed the majority of her forces against the Chimera on continental Europe. On December 7, 1952 the Chimera launched an attack on Axbridge which Parker believed was calculated to make her recall soldiers from Europe. Instead she requests SRPA's assistance in containing the attack. In the course of the operation, Parker provided SRPA detailed plans of the nuclear reactors the Chimera used in powering the towers as well as "gray tech" components recovered from several towers on the continent by James Grayson.

Parker later requested SRPA's assistance again when the Chimera also attacked Bracknell on December 18, 1952 in an attempt to regain a foothold in the British Isles. During this time, her forces were engaged in attempting to destroy a Chimeran hub tower in Warsaw. In addition, she was directing anti-Chimera operations in southern Spain and northern France. Parker also relayed more reports of strange Cloven activities observed throughout Europe to SRPA teams and ordered extreme caution exercised when any of her forces engaged the Cloven. Following SRPA's success against the Chimera in Bracknell, Parker's forces managed to successfully destroy two hub towers in Europe.

By 1953, Parker continued to gather intelligence and coordinate the retaking of Europe, and predicted that her forces would reach the Russian Wall by June. She also learned about Hale's survival and that he served with SRPA's Sentinel Program, and so drafted a sealed letter to him.

Resistance 3

Main article: Resistance 3

Following the events of Operation Black Eden, it is unknown whether or not Parker is still alive and in command of the British forces, as Cartwright had been promoted to the rank of General and leading elements of the army in Wales.

Personality

Rachel Parker is an intelligent person and a very capable leader. She is loyal and cares a great deal about the soldiers under her command. She can still be a firm and strict commander. She is a strong person and having being used to losing every thing she cares about, carries a fortifying attitude which she needs to lead the British in these dark times. She is more of a tactician than a soldier and always leads a battle in the air on a VTOL. She is trusting and would support any nearly-suicidal mission if it meant victory. She feels hopeful around people like Hale and Grayson, who bring out a positive and optimistic side of her. She seems to have great respect for Cartwright and the two seem to have a sort of friendship as he is her second in command. Though she is a tough soldier, deep down she a caring person who has become sick of war and will do anything to bring a swift end to the Chimera. It is also possible that she had romantic feelings for Nathan Hale.

Description

Parker is a somewhat tall person with shining brown eyes and light brown hair that she always keeps tied up in a bow. She wears a brown jacket over a light greyish-brown uniform that signifies her position in the intelligence division and carries a radio on her back. She also usually wears leather gloves. She has a general English accent which makes it hard to tell which area of Britain she is from.

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Trivia

• It is possible that the name "Parker" is a reference to John Parker, a Captain of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at the Battle of Lexington.
• She is voiced by Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy.
• Lead Character Developer Damon Iannuzzi has admitted that Rachel Parker's image is based on Victoria Beckham aka Posh Spice.
• Rachel Parker appears as a multiplayer skin in Resistance 2 after downloading the Aftermath Map Pack.
• Rachel Parker also appears in Resistance 3 Competitive mode by means of the player's PlayStation Network account to Global Resistance.