Lucas Kellan

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Lucas Kellan
Aliases	Shadow 1-8
Age	27
Born	2363
Died	July 7th, 2390
Status	Deceased
Race	Vektan
Planet	Vekta
Title	Shadow Marshal
Affiliation	ISA Alpha Centauri Vektan Security Agency
Family	Michael Kellan (father) Thomas Sinclair (adoptive father)
Appearances
Game(s)	Killzone Shadow Fall
Voice Actor	Gene Farber Aiden Kwasneki (young Lucas))

Lucas Kellan is the main protagonist and playable character of Killzone Shadow Fall. After witnessing his father's death at the hands of the Helghast as a child during the resettlement of the Helghast on Vekta, he was taken under the guidance of Thomas Sinclair, a Shadow Marshal who raised him and after several years, became a Shadow Marshal himself. As a Shadow Marshal, he is tasked by Sinclair in various missions to spy and gain intel on New Helghan as well as investigate a rising threat in the continuing war between Vekta and the Helghast. He holds some respect and is well known within the ISA, especially its government intelligence branch, the Vektan Security Agency.

Biography

During the resettlement of the Helghast following the Terracide of Helghan, the Helghast refugees were given half the planet of Vekta as their new home. Lucas and his father Michael Kellan lived in what would one day be New Helghan.

On December 27, 2370, the Vektans residing in New Helghan were being forcefully deported. Lucas and his father attempted to secretly reach the safety of the Vektan side of The Wall. During their escape, they encountered Thomas Sinclair, a Shadow Marshal, who helped them in their journey. When the group nearly reached the wall, Sinclair scouted ahead to ensure that the route was clear. However, Lucas and his father were spotted by a Helghast drone, and though they tried to escape, they were quickly found and held at gunpoint by Helghast soldiers in which Michael was wounded in the process. Though Michael pleaded for mercy, the soldiers killed him in front of Lucas. Lucas was then saved by Sinclair.

Lucas was then taken in by Sinclair, who would become his mentor and father figure. He would join the Shadow Marshals. At the age of 13, Lucas enrolled in Shadow Marshal Academy, and excelled in all areas to finish in the top 2% of his graduating year and working under Sinclair's command. Lucas had further operational and field training on an unspecified off-world colony. Upon his return to Vekta he began conducting highly classified missions deep inside New Helghan territory. To this very day, his hatred and resentment of the Helghast didn't overshadow his judgment, but he could never forgive them for murdering his father.

The Cassandra

Twenty years later, on June 7, 2390, Kellan allowed himself to be captured by the Helghast as part of an investigation. He was brought across The Wall as part of a prisoner exchange for a Helghast agent named Echo. During the release of the prisoners, however, a fire fight broke out. Kellan quickly killed his Helghast escort, but was then punched in the face by Echo, who seized his weapon and pinned him down with it. Fortunately for Kellan, Echo spared him and allowed him to retreat back to the Vektan side of the Wall. He soon reunites with Sinclair, who briefs him on recent Vektan sanctions that have brought the tensions of both the Vektans and Helghast to a boiling point.

Kellan later returned to the Helghan side of the Wall in order to retrieve classified data. Upon recovering the data, Kellan and Sinclair learned from the data that a VSA scientist, Dr. Hillary Massar, planned to defect to the Helghast with knowledge of a bio-tech weapon designed by the VSA to eradicate the Helghast. Sinclair dispatched Kellan to the ISC Cassandra, a black site research station where the bio-tech was being developed, and destroyed it by sending into a nearby sun from falling to the Helghast. During his infiltration of the ship, Kellan once again encountered Echo, who held him at gunpoint and angrily accused him and his people for being complicit in Massar's experiments. After a brief fight with Echo, Kellan was unable to stop her from escaping with Massar. Kellan then escaped the station.

The Black Hand

Upon returning to Vekta, Kellan was caught in an explosion that destroyed the VSA Headquarters and came under attack by the Helghast terrorist group, the Black Hand. Kellan helped the VSA in stopping the Black Hand from conducting further terrorist attacks and attempted to apprehend their leader, Vladko Tyran. However, following a hectic pursuit, Kellan failed to capture Tyran who made his escape to New Helghan. As a result of the Black Hand's terrorist attack, all Helghast citizens residing on the Vektan side were deported to New Helghan. Sinclair took this as an opportunity to find Tyran by sending Kellan under-cover with the rest of deported refugees. Kellan ventured into Containment City where he eventually discovered Tyran and learned that he is working for Jorhan Stahl, who survived the Terracide and planned to reignite war with Vekta with the use of Massar's bio-tech weapon that has been altered to target Vektans.

Kellan then engaged Tyran in combat until the latter was apparently killed by New Helghan authorities. Kellan then attempted to escape but only to be captured by Helghast Security. Once again in Helghast custody, Kellan was tortured and interrogated by Anton Saric. Kellan was soon visited by Echo, who wished him no harm and only wanted an end to hostilities between Vekta and New Helghan. He was then asked by Echo for information on Tyran's benefactor, in which he reveals about Tyran's alliance with Stahl and Massar's weapon. Before they can advance the conversation any further, they are interrupted by Echo's mother, Lady Hera Visari. Kellan then witnessed an argument ensued between Echo and Visari in which he learned that Echo is strongly against her mother's alliance with Stahl and his plans to destroy humanity. After Echo is taken away, Kellan and Visari then exchange a few words with each other before Kellan is once again tortured back into unconsciousness by Saric.

Disobeying Sinclair

Soon afterwards, Kellan regained consciousness and was freed by Echo, who helped him to escape to the Vektan side while he witnessed the poor living conditions endured by the Helghast people in which Echo implored Kellan to tell the VSA to cease their hostility to New Helghan. Kellan informed Sinclair of Chancellor Visari's alliance with Stahl and their plans with Massar's bio-weapon. However, he was unable to convince Sinclair to have the VSA to stand down, in which Sinclair only expressed his bigoted contempt towards the Helghast, claiming the entire race only sought to destroy the Vektans and refused to see them as "innocent people." Furthermore, Sinclair revealed to Kellan his intentions to use Massar's weapon against the Helghast in order to "finally take our home back." Instead, Sinclair reveals to Lucas the VSA have tracked Massar to a mining spire in orbit over planet Helghan, and dispatches him to recover the doctor and the weapon.

By the time Kellan finds Massar, he learns that she has finally completed the weapon and it is being ready for its final test. Kellan soon reunites with Echo, who came to kill Massar to prevent her research from being misused by both Vektans and Helghast. Kellan engaged in an armed standoff with Echo while Sinclair fervently ordered Kellan to kill Echo. But Kellan instead tried to order the VSA trooper holding Massar to stand down. But the trooper refuses to do so and Echo quickly kills both the trooper and Massar while Kellan does nothing to stop her. Kellan's act of disobedience caused Sinclair to view Kellan as a traitor. After being told by Sinclair that if he sides with Echo, he couldn't guarantee his safety, Kellan is questioned by Echo if he knows what he's getting into. Kellan responds that since Sinclair made his choice, it's time to make his. He then proceeds to team up with Echo to stop Jorhan Stahl from deploying Massar's weapon.

Stopping Stahl

Using orbital divers, Kellan and Echo followed a dropship that led them to Stahl's base on Helghan. After the dropship crash lands, Kellan and Echo travel and fight their way through the ruins of Pyrrhus until they reach the crash site, where they discover that Vladko Tyran survived his previous encounter with Kellan. The pair followed Tyran in the hopes that he would lead them to the weapon.

They followed Tyran to Stahl's base, where they confronted and defeated Tyran, in which Echo later executes him after he refused to divulge information on how to deactivate the weapon. ISA forces sent by Sinclair soon arrived and were preparing to lay siege on Stahl's base. Kellan tried to warn Sinclair one last time to abort the assault as they are falling into a trap in which Stahl plans to deploy the weapon against them. But Sinclair ignored his warning, only telling him that he lost his way due to Echo's influence. After failing to convince Sinclair, Kellan and Echo used Tyran's dropship to find and stop Stahl as their only chance to stop the bloodshed. As they attempted to reach Stahl's mining spire, they witnessed Stahl's decimation of the ISA fleet by Massar's weapon. During the chaos, Kellan was separated from Echo and was caught in the gravity well of the mining spire in which he floats his way up to the base to confront Stahl by himself.

Death

Lucas is executed by Sinclair.

After fighting through waves of Helghast soldiers, Lucas finally confronted Stahl in his sanctum. Stahl then claims to Kellan that the Terracide happened because the weak had to be destroyed, and that Vekta would suffer the same fate in return. Then to Kellan's shock, Stahl was suddenly shot dead by Sinclair, who then shot Lucas and left him mortally wounded on the floor. Sinclair then expresses his disappointment to Lucas for betraying him while also revealing his intentions to restart the war against the Helghast in which he will end the Helghast race with Massar's weapon that is currently in Vektan hands. As Kellan bleeds out, Sinclair apologizes to his adoptive son that he couldn't be the person to protect him before executing him with a gunshot to the head.

Kellan's death is later avenged by Echo, who assassinates Sinclair one month later, and prevents Sinclair's plans from happening.

Gallery

Concept Art

Early concept Lucas with OWL

Echo and Lucas Kellan.

Killzone Shadow Fall

Gene Farber as Lucas Kellan in The Oath trailer.

Lucas graduating the Shadow Marshal program in The Oath trailer.

Unmasked Lucas Kellan in credits

Lucas unmasked and pass through VSA security

Lucas Kellan with his OWL.

Lucas attacking a Helghast soldier

Kellan's dossier file

Misc.

Lucas Kellan cover art

Lucas Kellan and the two cities

Trivia

• He is voiced and portrayed by Gene Farber, who also portrays Lucas in the live action Shadow Fall commercial.
• If Lucas is spotted during the first chapter, "The Father", then he will be killed. This is notable since Lucas in said chapter is only a child, therefore making Lucas the only child to be killed on-screen throughout the entire Killzone series. 
• Lucas is the youngest cadet to ever make it into the Shadow Marshal Academy.
• He is in the top five of the graduating class.
• He is the first playable protagonist to die in the Killzone series, excluding Jan Templar, who was not a playable character at the game of his death.
• He is the second main protagonist to be killed by a main antagonist in the Killzone series, the first being Jan Templar by Mael Radec in Killzone 2.
• He is the second playable character to be a Shadow Marshal, the first was Luger in Killzone.