Alex Grey was an ISA Admiral who captained the ISA Solar Wind and led the defense of Diortem during the initial outbreak of the Second Extrasolar War. She was also the head of Project Eschaton, a bioweapon program, which she advocated as a deterrent to Helghast aggression. She is the secondary antagonist in Killzone: Mercenary.
Biography[]
Born on Vekta into a military family, Alex Grey strove to prove herself to her father and brothers. She graduated top of the class in the Navy Academy and eventually made a name for herself after a display of cool and courageous behavior during the Orbital Blockade skirmish above Vekta.[1] She was appointed First Lieutenant of the Cruiser Solar Wind, and was eventually promoted to Admiral in 2349. In 2340, she became the youngest ever Captain in an ISA fleet.[1]
Grey then distinguished herself in several colonial campaigns, including Delta Pavonis, Omicron Eridani and GB-34.[1] Grey also helped negotiate an end to the Arcturus Insurrection, displaying considerable diplomatic skills. Sometime afterwards, Grey was appointed Chair of the Altair Conference on the future of unaligned colonies.[1]
She was promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 2349, where she argued the risks of a second extrasolar conflict and lobbied for diplomatic approaches to Helghan through the Vektan ambassador Sepp Harkin, a family friend.[1] The failure of these negotiations led Alex to be frustrated and disillusioned, which led to tensions between her and Harkin.[1]
In 2355, she was seconded to the Defence Initiatives Board and given jurisdiction over the Experimental Weapons Programme in Diortem, Project Eschaton. She developed a proactive interest in its development, advocating it as a deterrent to a possible Helghast aggression in the near future. However, she was met with opposition from some members of the ISA High Command.[1]
Diortem[]
Following the Helghast invasion of Southern Vekta, Alex was appointed regional commander by General Dwight Stratson, tasked with the defence of Diortem.[1] As the Helghast surprise attack left the ISA short of manpower, Grey secured approval rights to contract the Phantom Talon Corp.
Diortem fell under heavy fighting in which Grey was captured by Colonel Vyktor Kratek and taken to the Halls of Justice to be interrogated on Project Eschaton. At the request of the ISA, PTC commander Anders Benoit launched an extraction mission at the Halls of Justice in an effort to save Grey. Grey firmly refused to give information to Kratek, even being forced to watch ISA prisoners being gassed, before being shot as two PTC mercenaries, Arran Danner and Damian Ivanov, came to rescue the admiral. Grey survived from her injuries and was safely escorted by the mercenaries from the Halls of Justice.
Following the end of the invasion, Grey had come to realize that any sort of peace with the Helghast was impossible.[2] Furthermore, Grey learned that Kratek had stolen research on Project Eschaton and feared the Helghast will forge their own bioweapon to wipe out Vekta.
Operation Archangel[]
Two years later, Grey participated in Operation Archangel. She privately commissioned the Phantom Talon Corp into her services once again. Grey requested Anders's mercenary Arran Danner to rescue Sepp Harkin and his family, and a defecting Helghast scientist, Dr. Mandor Savic, whom Grey agreed to grant him amnesty in return for valuable intel on Kratek, specifically on Kratek's bioweapon program. However, Harkin and his wife were killed, and Danner only managed to save the ambassador's son, Justus, and Savic. After securing Justus and Savic, Grey commended Danner before sending him in disabling the last Helghast Arc cannons that was preventing her forces from seizing control of Kratek's section of Pyrrhus. After Danner disabled the cannons' power source at the Pyrrhus refinery, a paranoid Grey chose to abandon Danner after being falsely mislead by Benoit into believing that Danner would betray her by handing Savic over to the Helghast, and along with deeming him a liability for learning about the origins of Kratek's bioweapon program from Savic.[3] But Kratek rescued Danner and forcefully employed him into his services.
Death[]
Grey later tortured and interrogated Savic into revealing Kratek's bioweapon was made far more lethal than Project Eschaton and its location at Facility X01, and the virus' plasmid trigger that was injected into Justus Harkin. Grey and her men traveled to the facility with the intention of utilizing the bioweapon to completely wipe out the Helghast in order to bring a swift end to the war. Knowing that she will commit genocide, Grey had concluded that killing countless millions was a greater price to end a conflict that would embroil a generation.[2] Furthermore, Grey carried out her operation on her authority alone in order to exempt the ISA of blame while also making it appear as though the Helghast launched the bioweapon attack.[2]
Despite locating the virus, Savic did not told Grey about the access codes required to open the viral vault containing the virus. Upon arriving at the facility, Grey reached the vault but only to find that Danner has already retrieved the bioweapon. Grey and her men attempted to kill Danner but only to die in battle with the mercenary.
Quotes[]
- "We can end the Helghast threat for good. Save a whole generation from war."
- "My virus will secure peace!"
- "Danner, don't do this! I'm the only one who can end this war!"
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Trivia[]
- As of the release of Killzone: Mercenary, Admiral Grey is the only female enemy character fought in the series, as well as the only female character the player can choose to kill.
- Grey has two possible death scenes: she can be downed in combat, then executed with a special quick-time event, or Danner can skip the fight with her entirely and lock her in the virus containment chamber; she will bang on the door and curse Danner until the bombs in the chamber detonate and incinerate her.
- Her last word's should Danner interrogate her are: "So Kratek - wins -?"
- Grey is the only ISA antagonist that did not betray the ISA.
- Grey, as an admiral who would be in control of Navy vessels, is shown to be in command of ground forces during the invasion of Helghan. She has the unusual discrepancy in common with Admiral Orlock. This is noted by her superiors that she is acting outside her jurisdiction.[4] Her actions is explained by her personal pursuit to recover the Eschaton virus.