Captain Nick "Havoc" Parker is a highly trained GDI commando and the main protagonist of the 2002 video game Command & Conquer Renegade.
He was voiced by Wally Wingert.
Overview[]
Nick is a GDI commando with a characteristically bad attitude. He is the primary character in Renegade. Before joining GDI, Parker was a US Marine who excelled in the use of high explosives. He was recruited by the GDI and cycled through special forces training before being assigned to GDI's elite "Dead-6" commando unit. Eventually, Havoc quit the unit and began operating solo, using his special forces training to fight Nod his own way. He was part of a GDI operation that uncovered and destroyed Nod's Project ReGenesis.
Personality[]
Nick Parker had an extremely bloated ego and condescending attitude, partially caused by his weaponry skills, physical traits, and history of warfare. He also got at odds with authority, especially the military, which led to him being incarcerated by the GDI military police numerous times. Eventually, as he aged, these flaws became less pronounced, and he became an advocate for many GDI programs and officers.
Background[]
Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania (mother was a homemaker and a full-fledged PTA member; father an Allentown steelworker), young Parker earned his nickname Havoc early on. Branded as "troubled" by school counsellors and a "problem child" by neighbours who were worried about Parker's proficiency at building small explosive devices. Parker's youth in Pennsylvania was a gritty collage of fistfights, explosions, after-school detentions, and worrying one-liners as a way of coping with it all. Eventually, he joined the United States Marine Corps.
His gruff attitude and penchant for no-bull action seemed to work in his favour. Most publicly, he wound up heading a Special Forces unit in Operation Desert Storm as part of the USMC's recon team—though that did mean flirting with dishonorable discharge on several occasions. Indeed, Havoc's "unconventional" methods, while effective enough, often proved a public relations nightmare for the Marine Corps.
He was recruited by the GDI and cycled through special forces training before being assigned to GDI's elite Dead 6 commando unit. Eventually, Havoc, due to the drawn-out anti-Nod campaign in northern Egypt, was dismissed from the unit and began operating solo, using his special forces training to fight Nod his own way, although still nominally under GDI control.
Final tour of duty[]
The Scorpion Hunters[]
| “ | We're sending a Commando. | „ |
| ~ Locke introducing Havoc. |
His final tour of duty in the First Tiberium War under the command of Brigadier General Adam Locke began with assisting a reconnaissance team tasked with confirming reports on an uncharted Nod installation when satellite scans couldn't produce a conclusive result. The convoy came under heavy fire, and Captain Parker was called in to assist. Following a heavy firefight, he was authorized to commandeer the damaged M1 Abrams and continue with the mission. The base's existence was confirmed, and after heavy losses dealt to attacking aircraft by SAM sites, the base was obliterated by an ion cannon blast.
Rescue and Retribution[]
| “ | If he survives, we'll pin a medal on him...then, we'll have him shot. | „ |
| ~ General Locke after Havoc disobeys orders. |
His next 'assignment' was in a remote agricultural area in Mexico. The Black Hand, Nod's elite division, a cult within a cult, almost had religious 'conditioning' camps, and GDI had already failed to assault it once. As civilians were being herded inside, Havoc was eager to get in and stop Nod, but Locke ordered him to stand down until reinforcements arrived from General Sheppard. Havoc, in his typical methods, 'liberated' a GDI Hovercraft and made landfall, much to the irritation of Locke. Upon landing and reaching the GDI base that was near destruction, he assisted GDI forces, rescuing Captain Duncan and eventually, after leaving a Nod battalion dead with a little help from the GDI Air Force, succeeded in shutting down Nod internment facilities and the religious conditioning camp in the area, freeing both civilians and GDI POWs from being forced to watch Nod propaganda constantly. Following this mission, he was put into the brig for his direct disobeying of orders, and once released after 'cooling-off,' was informed of the capture of doctors Ignatio Mobius, Sydney Mobius and Elena Petrova, and dispatched to Peru to intercept them.
Armored Assault[]
| “ | Conflict of interest? Heh, I have interest in conflict! | „ |
| ~ Havoc, upon being told about Sakura's role. |
Havoc considerably aided the GDI assault in Peru, eliminating Nod officers and destroying Nod military ordnance. Eventually, after sabotaging a hydroelectric dam, he managed to reach a Brotherhood airbase through a large underground cave system, which included a Tiberium meteor impact site. However, he didn't save the doctors, who were just being placed on a jet plane and ferried away. He temporarily battled Nod's mercenary, Carlos Mendoza, before Mendoza decided that he had had enough and was airlifted out of the region.
The Plot Erupts[]
| “ | Yup, she's pissed! . . . . Really pissed! | „ |
| ~ Havoc after Sakura blows him a kiss and shoots him down. |
Captain Parker immediately gave pursuit in a hijacked C-130 Hercules after a brief encounter with Carlos Mendoza, kicking Nod mercenary Sakura Obata out of the cargo hold. The mercenary gave chase in her personalRAH-66 Comanche and shot down the cargo plane, forcing Captain Parker to parachute down onto a volcanic island. The commando quickly gathered his supplies and assisted the GDI assault on the island, saving Captain Soanso and his gunboat from the island defences, eventually infiltrating the base and securing information on the plane's flight path carrying the scientist. He was once again intercepted by Sakura Obata in her RAH-66 Comanche but managed to shoot her out of the sky. Her subsequent crash into the island's geothermal reactor caused the volcano to erupt.
Stowaway[]
Captain Parker managed to escape the island, stowing away on a Nod submarine, arriving at a Nod freighter, commanded by Captain Stuving. The freighter was a mobile military base, acting as a staging area for AH-64 Apache gunships and other Nod military. Parker went on a rampage throughout the ship, killing most of its crew, sabotaging ordnance and equipment, killing Captain Stuvin and First Mate Gilligan and liberating three GDI POWs. Eventually, he sank the freighter and escaped with the POW's on the stolen Nod submarine, reuniting them with command.
Deadly Reunion[]
With the help of the data he retrieved from the island, GDI was able to pinpoint the captured scientists' location, tracking the jet to Europe.
General Locke dispatched the Dead-6 to locate and rescue them. However, their transport helicopter was shot down over the nearby village, forcing them to hide within the city. Captain Parker was dispatched to aid them and rescue the captured science staff. Upon his arrival at the village, he witnessed the execution of several resistance fighters by a Nod flame tank. He decided to engage the Nod soldiers with his Vervack R-59 from the transport helicopter. The helicopter was promptly shot down by an Attack bike.
Captain Parker then engaged Nod in the city, aiding members of the Dead-6 along the road and saving them from Nod forces. Eventually arriving at the town's cathedral, Parker managed to kill Nod's elite Obelisk construction team as well as saving Lola Merkova, the local resistance leader from Nod interrogators. Upon repelling the Nod assault on the cathedral, he went alone to the mansion.
The Grip of the Black Hand[]
Within the mansion, he slaughtered numerous Nod minigunners and [Black Hand operatives. During his "infiltration", he gathered intel on Nod's Scorpion railguns, overhearing a conversation in the mess hall and managed to procure a laser rifle from Raveshaw's private cache. Eventually, he managed to locate the scientists in an underground research facility. There, he was ambushed by Sakura Obata and Carlos Mendoza, who acted as bodyguard to General Raveshaw. The latter ordered Sakura and Parker executed.
Mendoza's flamethrower destroyed much of the laboratory and separated Captain Parker and Doctor Sydney Mobius from the rest of the people present. General Raveshaw took this as an opportunity and ordered Doctor Ignatio Mobius and Elena Petrova to be taken to the helipad and evacuated immediately. Captain Parker and Doctor Mobius arrived at the helipad but only to witness the CH-46 taking off with Petrova, Mobius and Raveshaw on board. Mendoza stayed behind to engage Parker. However, he overestimated his abilities and was defeated by Captain Parker, who shot him long enough for the napalm tanks on his back to leak and explode.
Obelisk of Oppression[]
Doctor Sydney Mobius and Captain Parker escaped the crumbling Black Hand fortress in a cargo truck and returned to the town's cathedral to regroup with the Dead-6. However, their respite was short-lived, as Nod launched another assault on the cathedral with a nuclear ballistic missile. Parker led the group and fought through the streets to reach a safe distance from the blast. When they reached the evacuation LZ, Parker stayed behind to aid the Resistance by destroying Nod's SSM Launchers and the Obelisk of Light that remained in the city. Eventually, he used a stolen "Retribution" Nuclear missile beacon to target another ballistic missile on the Obelisk.
Regrouping at General Locke's helicopter carrier, Parker was selected as Sydney Mobius' bodyguard during her assignment to pinpoint her father's location using the Mobius suit's sensors. However, Captain Parker and Doctor Mobius were captured by a large detachment of Black Hand Chameleons and Stealth tanks as they arrived. The commando was placed in a Nod prison camp, while Mobius was relocated to a ReGenesis research facility.
Evolution of Evil[]
The prospect of execution was invalidated as Sakura Obata, a double agent on GDI's side, opened his cell and gave him a Vervack Commando Elite. Captain Parker, as usual, went on a rampage and eliminated most of the prison camp's staff, liberating several POWs and eventually escaping the camp, hounded by Nod reinforcements and the Black Hand. While en route to the research facility where both Mobius doctors were located, he discovered an ancient tomb where Nod performed excavations to ascertain their origins. The tomb was ripe with Nod symbolism and insignia and dated back at least 1800 BC, as Nod claimed.
Eventually, he reached the research facility and fought his way in, shutting down Nod's research programs concerning Tiberium and astronomy as well as their holding cells. Infiltrating the levels beneath the structure, he entered a large network of caves and tunnels, eventually reaching one of the primary ReGenesis research facilities. Upon entering the main processing chamber, he witnessed Sydney Mobius being injected with a sedative by doctor Elena Petrova, now collaborating with Nod, as well as the captured Ignatio Mobius and Sakura Obata in holding cells. Doctor Petrova ordered Raveshaw, now transformed into a towering cybernetic giant by the Tiberium infusion, to kill Captain Parker as she left the base.
Parker managed to defeat Raveshaw with difficulties. While he managed to save Doctor Ignatio Mobius, he lost Sydney Mobius and the damage caused to the room by the fight triggered a devastating uprising from the mutants present in the facility, who proceeded to kill and maim all non-mutant beings. Sakura Obata escaped custody, a fact Captain Parker boasted about.
All Brains, No Brawn[]
| “ | As I suspected, the radio isn't functional this far down. | „ |
| ~ Mobius after recovery of the suit and attempted use of it's radio. |
He escorted Doctor Mobius to the Mobius suit, which Nod captured but left behind, and later to the surface, where they managed to contact GDI for evacuation after shooting their way through the large numbers of enraged Tiberium mutants such as Initiates or Acolytes, in addition to the surviving Nod soldiers attempting to contain the release of mutants and Mobius's escape.
Tomorrow's Technology Today[]
Regrouping on board General Locke's carrier and learning the nature of the ReGenesis project, Captain Parker was deployed to aid the final assault on the Temple of Nod in Cairo. He contributed a great deal to the assault, knocking out all of Nod's buildings in the area, from a Hand of Nod all the way to their Construction Yard, even knocking out an Obelisk of Light single-handedly; a feat even Commandos have difficulty doing. Havoc also managed to infiltrate a heavily guarded crashed alien UFO on site. Eventually, he managed to gain access to the Temple itself and placed an Ion Beacon, leaving the Temple of Nod open to being struck by the GDI Ion Cannon.
Stomping on Holy Ground[]
As the smoke cleared from the Ion Strike, Sakura informed Havoc that Sydney Mobius was held inside the Temple of Nod, within the lowest levels. Havoc, despite Locke's worries about the lack of radio contact once he enters, enters the still-burning ruins and descends into the Temple. Inside, he made his way down into the depths of the Temple, shadowed by Kane through the security system and his EVA unit, all while Nod's best soldiers, from Black Hand to Templars, attempted to stop him, only to be slain by the commando. In the Temple, he confirmed numerous intelligence reports about what lay inside the Temples and fought the main Templar legion stationed within the main ReGenesis lab. One of the more curious discoveries was Abel's tomb, a place referred to by Kane as the site of the original Temple of Nod. Oddly, despite its revenant value to Nod, the tomb was left in a deep hole in the ground infested with seemingly rabid Initiates and Acolytes. However, this may actually have been more of a tribute since the Initiates and Acolytes are considered holy by God due to their links with Tiberium, and the tomb is only in a hole because it was originally at a very deep level.
Regardless, Captain Parker managed to reach the core of the Temple, where the altered Elena Petrova was performing forced Tiberium augmentation on Sydney Mobius. Rejecting her offer to join the Black Hand as a next generation human, Parker managed to defeat her in a long duel, interrupted regularly by Black Hand soldiers, and liberated doctor Mobius.
In retaliation, Kane ordered a nuclear missile launched from the Temple's silo against GDI command. This threat was alleviated by Sydney Mobius, who narrowly managed to engage the locking clamps on the missile and close the silo doors, despite being under fire from Black Hand soldiers. Their job was done, and Havoc and Doctor Mobius managed to escape the Temple before detonation.
Battle of Cairo Aftermath[]
As the sun rose on the nighttime battlefield, Havoc and Sydney made their way to the ruined Nod airstrip, where General Locke arrived with Ignatio Mobius, who ran out to embrace his daughter.
Later Life[]
After the First Tiberium War, Captain Parker was promoted to Colonel for his heroic accomplishments during the war and memorialized with a statue in Washington DC. He was also of the firm belief that Kane did, in fact, live and that the Mammoth MKII was a lynchpin in the defence against Nod. However, by 2039 and the end of the Second Tiberium War, he had largely left public life only to comment on current events. By the year 2069, he was noted to be pleased with the development of the AW-12 Mastodon.