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Parker is a member of the Red Faction, The primary revolutionary during the First Martian Revolution and the main protagonist of Red Faction.
Biography
The First Martian Revolution
Parker's parents, "Dr. and Dr. Parker, if you please", had him enrolled in the best private schools, hired the best tutors, and expected nothing less than perfection from him, for all of his life. While they may have thought this was best, to him, it felt like he was "running their little maze". When he was accepted into Harvard, his parents didn't react in the slightest, which was the last straw. He tore up the letter, and headed straight to the nearest Ultor Corporation office and left for Mars to join a mining colony.[1]
Parker is drawn to Ultor specifically because of his fascination with Mars, and the promises of "high pay, high risk, (and) high adventure". Unfortunately, the mining operation is cruel and relentless. After roughly 6 months of working in Mine M-4, he decides to take up arms when a guard kills a miner for seemingly no reason other than for his amusement. Ultor, in an attempt to contain the sudden uprising, attempts to seal off the mine, then kill all of the miners within it. After escaping M-4, Parker finds himself thrust into joining the Red Faction and fighting back against Ultor.[1] On exiting the main mine, Hendrix, an Ultor security technician who sympathizes with the Red Faction's efforts, guides Parker through the complex.
Hendrix attempts to help Parker meet up with a group of miners who are stealing a supply shuttle to escape the complex, but Parker arrives too late. When the shuttle takes off, however, it's destroyed by missiles moments after exiting the docking bay. "Maybe being slow isn't such a bad thing" (Hendrix, upon seeing the explosion).
As Parker traverses further through the Ultor complex, he is contacted by Eos, who gives him the task of eliminating Geothermal Plant #4, which is, through unknown means, connected to the Red Faction's every move being tracked. After Parker has shut down and destroyed a majority of the plant, he is given the task of kidnapping Ultor's deputy administrator, Gryphon, for Eos, who is sending a team to fetch him. After sneaking Gryphon out of the Admin building, stealing an Aesir Fighter, and destroying an Ultor Personnel Suppression Combot, Orion and his team retrieve and deliver Gryphon to Eos. She learns from Gryphon about Dr. Capek, who created "The Plague".
After sneaking into the Medical Labs, through the very shaft Parker uses to incinerate the Combot, Parker blasts through the Security Checkpoint, finds Capek waiting for him. He tells Parker that he has been experimenting with nanotechnology, and the Plague is a side-effect of injections at the miners' annual medical checkup, at which point Parker disobeys orders and attempts to kill him. This doesn't work, however, and Capek tells him that "he is the first to see his new Nanotech shield in action".
After chasing Capek through an underground series of caverns, Hendrix directs Parker to Capek's secret underground laboratory, where he and Eos meet up and take down Capek. As he dies, he tells Eos there is a cure for the Plague, and that you stop it from spreading by turning off "the replicators", but refuses to tell her how to make said antidote. When Parker says to kill him, Eos tells Parker that "the antidote is their only hope", at which point, Capek says "Hope? Who has hope; if you have hope, you just don't understand yet. I hope you all die".
With Capek dead the lab's self-destruction sequence initiates, Eos stays behind to find the files on the cure, and Parker has orders to find the Communications Tower. On his way there, he finds that Ultor has brought in it's reserve of mercenaries, led by Colonel Masako. After sending a distress call to the Earth Defense Force, Parker escapes the tower. He makes his way to a subway system, entering through the tunnel itself. He steals one of the tram carts, and continues down through the subway system, eventually finding and destroying the ground-based missile defence system. This is only one of two defence systems, however. The other was the laser defence grid aboard Ultor's space station, which was currently in Martian orbit. To get up there, he would have to find and stow away on the shuttle that was bound for the space station. After sneaking aboard, he begins shutting down the station's various systems. While in the process of sabotaging the defence grid, Parker (and Hendrix) receive a transmission from Eos, saying that the Mercenaries are killing every Miner upon sight before the transmission cuts out.
After destroying the space station, Parker lands back on Mars via an escape pod. Hendrix tells Parker that the mercenaries have orders to destroy the mining complex, covering up any proof of Ultor's wrongdoing. Hendrix comes out of hiding to join Parker and help him get through the Mercenary base (as it wasn't part of Ultor's main security system); he is killed soon after this by the mercenaries, at which point Masako contacts Parker directly. He sneaks into the ventilation, and ends up in an Aesir Fighter docking bay. After detaching one of the fighters from it's magnetic seal, Parker finds and confronts Masako.
After Parker reigns victorious, he goes down the elevator that Masako used to confront him, to find Eos tied up on the floor, next to the bomb the mercs were going to use to vaporise the complex. After deactivating it, Parker and Eos look out the window to find an Aesir fighter that was primed to fire. Suddenly, missiles appear from nowhere, destroying the fighter; the Earth Defence Force has arrived. Eos tells Parker that the EDF will clear out any mercs that are left, and that an antidote for the Plague has been made and is being given to any sick miners. She also tells him she is leaving Mars, and that Parker should enjoy his new status as a hero.
Later life
Parker, at age 75.
By 75 years of age, Parker has moved to a small shack near the Mohole in the Badlands region of Tharsis, where he lives alone and constantly thinking about his past time in the Red Faction. He would sometimes receive visits from his friend and fellow revolutionary, Alec Mason and he would tell him about his past.[2]
Quotes
Trivia
- The older Parker seems bitter, and claims that he got nothing for all his heroics. In reality, an entire sector of Mars had been named in his honor, signifying that he is still remembered fondly to this day.
- In Red Faction: Guerrilla, Parker is invincible and cannot be killed by normal means (gunfire, explosions, melee etc.) Also he has some singularity bombs in his house, which are always useful for destruction.
- Depending on how far you have progressed through Red Faction: Guerrilla, Parker will say different things, he sometimes gives you some of the back story of the Plague.
- Hugo Davis mistakenly (or possibly intentionally) reported that Parker had passed away before the events of Red Faction: Guerilla. This may indicate that Parker fell out of favor with the Red Faction, possibly due to his preference for violence and inability to adapt to life after the Revolution.
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