Hera Visari is the daughter of Scolar Visari and current Chancellor of New Helghan. She is the mother of Maya Visari. She is a cameo character in Killzone 3 and a major character in Killzone Shadow Fall.
Biography[]
Shortly prior to Operation Archangel, Hera was present with her father and stood by him as he made his speech to the Helghast people to prepare for the ISA's invasion. Thereafter she was sent to the planet Gyre for her own safety, and remained there for the duration of the Second Extrasolar War. Hera was in her early twenties when the Terracide took place.[1]
Chancellor of New Helghan[]
Following the Terracide, Hera went into hiding on Gyre and later giving birth to her daughter upon her return to Vekta.[1] Some thirty years after the destruction of Helghan and the relocation of the Helghast race, in 2380 Hera became Chancellor of the New Helghan government and rules the Helghast Sector of Vekta City.[2] However, due to the dominance of the military sector in the government and her desire for peace, Hera was reduced to somewhat a governmental figurehead.[1]
Sometime before 2390, Visari came into contact with Jorhan Stahl, who survived the Terracide and believed dead by the public, and plotted with him in secretly rebuilding Helghan's military might and restarting their war against the Vektans.[3] Visari and her government later learned about a bio-tech weapon created by the Vektan Security Agency that was designed to genetically eliminate the Helghast from Vektan defector Dr. Hillary Massar, the creator of the weapon. Hera dispatched her daughter to recover Massar from the ISC Cassandra.[4] After Massar was brought into custody, Visari sent her to Stahl to create her weapon that is repurposed to target Vektans.
After the Black Hand committed a terrorist attack on Vekta City, Visari condemned the Black Hand and denied of her government's role in the attacks, and made statements of offering support to the Vektan government in stopping the Black Hand.[5] However, the Vektans did not believed Visari and ramped up their military forces along The Wall.[6]
When the Shadow Marshal Lucas Kellan was captured, Visari found Echo talking with Kellan in which he divulged her daughter about Stahl's plans with Massar. She and Echo get into a heated argument over her alliance with Stahl. Visari defended her handling with Massar by claiming that she and Stahl wanted for was the survival of their people despite knowing that Massar's weapon would not only exterminate normal humans but half-breeds as well. Echo disagreed with her mother in which she brought up her half-breed heritage and even pleading to reconsider her plans. Visari refused to listen to her daughter's pleas and slapped her across the face for calling her "mother". After wordlessly regretting for her actions, Hera ordered her guards to send Echo away to somewhere "safe" despite her protests.[3] She then exchanged a few words with Kellan, remarking how that the Vektans and Helghast were once considered the same race, and now they are now enemies. Before leaving Kellan, she ordered Anton Saric to keep the Shadow Marshal alive.[3]
Visari's plans with Stahl never came to fruition as Stahl was killed at the hands of VSA Director Thomas Sinclair, who also obtained Massar's weapon. Thereafter, the Vektan government accused New Helghan of restarting hostilities and refusing Vektan military forces to stand down. After negotiations to avert potential war broke down, Visari publicly vowed to defend New Helghan from Vektan aggression.[7]
Conversations[]
Chapter 5: The Helghast[]
Show: Interrogation Room |
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Echo: "We haven't got much time. I'm not going to harm you. The attack on Vekta had nothing to do with us. I want to end this. Not start another war. Now tell me who is Tyran working with?" |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- She is voiced by and modeled after Lisa Banes.
- In Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer, there is a player icon of her, entitling her "The Helghast".
- She is probably named after Hera, the goddess of women and marriage in Greek mythology.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dossier: Hera Visari
- ↑ Visari Tribute Triumphant!
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Killzone Shadow Fall, campaign level The Agent
- ↑ Killzone Shadow Fall, campaign level The Doctor
- ↑ Vekta: Day of Death!
- ↑ Helghast Daily News, "Vekta Continues to Threaten New Helghan"
- ↑ Helghast Daily News, "Prepare for War!"