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  • For many years the Helghan Empire was a broken nation, defeated and forced to exist on a planet that altered the very physiology of its people. Yet from the ashes arose the charismatic Scolar Visari, who rebuilt Helghan’s armies and fleets through which to wage a final war of revenge.
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  • @TemplinInstitute
    @TemplinInstitute  Před 6 lety +2756

    Defenders of the Helghast Dream, NOW IS OUR TIME!

    • @demonrebel2577
      @demonrebel2577 Před 6 lety +21

      Aldmeri dominion plz :-)

    • @doom7ish
      @doom7ish Před 6 lety +9

      Hey the Templin Institute
      How about you guys do one on the G-Force from the Godzilla movies? (Well actually the Heisei Trilogy of the Godzilla movies.)
      Just making a suggestion, you don't have to do it, if you don't want to.
      Here's one you might like, what about the Martians from The War Of The World's?

    • @ghuttsmckenzie4269
      @ghuttsmckenzie4269 Před 6 lety +3

      How about forerunner and the Covenant from HALO.

    • @MegaDuckmonster
      @MegaDuckmonster Před 6 lety +6

      The Templin Institute You have the loveliest voice, I'd let you read me a bed time story. ^~^

    • @GTD_Galatea
      @GTD_Galatea Před 6 lety +17

      Our enemies at home have been reeducated. We have given them new insights into our cause.

  • @halfhalo33
    @halfhalo33 Před 6 lety +1477

    Helghast: You gotta pay a toll to be on our shipyards.
    Earth: Fuck that. I am not paying for that.
    Helghast: Then you are not gonna using our shipyards
    Earth: Well shit then looks like we are gonna go to war boys.
    Helghast: Wait. what?
    Basically how the war started.

    • @FurroTheWolf
      @FurroTheWolf Před 3 lety +97

      UCN is basically like UN. Just more greedier since UN was formed from USA.
      And even they were responsible for not making a proper government for Helghan.

    • @connorgolden4
      @connorgolden4 Před 3 lety +66

      Don’t forget that the UCN allowed them to set up taxes and what not. Only when they got greedy and paranoid did they throw a fit and decide to invade.

    • @arfbark3924
      @arfbark3924 Před 2 lety +25

      @@FurroTheWolf The UN was not formed from the U.S. it just rents a place in New York.

    • @arfbark3924
      @arfbark3924 Před 2 lety +12

      @AmeriFolksFellow V-M. Rhaefnhyrst It doesn't have to be. Sidenote: Woodrow Wilson was unequivocally the worst U.S. president in world history when the long-term effects of his administration are put in perspective, the guy was practically Canadian.

    • @sinwithagrin4243
      @sinwithagrin4243 Před 2 lety +13

      Helghan belongs to the Helghast!

  • @hydrogenone4926
    @hydrogenone4926 Před 6 lety +1567

    The ISA created their enemy.

    • @scottwhitley3392
      @scottwhitley3392 Před 5 lety +23

      Rev BladeZ so the UCN is like NATO?

    • @HonestHappyHater
      @HonestHappyHater Před 5 lety +55

      @@scottwhitley3392
      No, rather like military forces of British colonies.
      In NATO every nation is a willing participant, they can leave at at time, but ISA is under direct command of UCN

    • @Aurilion44
      @Aurilion44 Před 4 lety +9

      @@HonestHappyHater ISA is more like the systems Self-Defense Forces under the direct supervision of UCN

    • @ardyn407necroderg
      @ardyn407necroderg Před 4 lety +7

      Because the isa is the true enemy

    • @joshglover2370
      @joshglover2370 Před 4 lety +23

      Kinda like the CIA created the Taliban...

  • @CliffuckingBooth
    @CliffuckingBooth Před 6 lety +903

    The enemy may shatter our bodies, but they cannot break our spirit ...

    • @adolfgaming1761
      @adolfgaming1761 Před 6 lety +7

      CharlesFBronson
      I will shatter them with my male reproductive organ

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 5 lety +2

      +@@gabenewell3955 Fuck off bellend. Yours will never match Glorious Helghan speeches.

    • @JohnCena-ew1mf
      @JohnCena-ew1mf Před 3 lety +4

      Judging by how against the war the Helghast civilians are in Shadowfall i'd say their spirit is effectively broken. Just gotta deal with those genocidal power hungry psychos in the Helghast military and government and hopefully The Helghast and Vektans can finally have peace. Can't wait for Killzone 5: Are We Fucking Done Yet?!?!

    • @CliffuckingBooth
      @CliffuckingBooth Před 3 lety +4

      @@JohnCena-ew1mf Problems is that they were always against. Even in the Killzone 2 you can hear soldiers saying their are the scum. They are the lower caste. And if you knew anything about the lore you would know that the power hungry was ISA and that Helghasts were forced to leave Vecta which they colonized. And at the end of Killzone 4 you can see that ISA leaders are basically the same.

  • @derekburge5294
    @derekburge5294 Před 6 lety +1057

    Actually, how about an expose on the Templin Institute itself? Who are its directors? What technology does its use to analyze other realities?

    • @CaptainPilipinas
      @CaptainPilipinas Před 5 lety +23

      Derek Burge Vex Technology? Paracausality through the Veil? Connection to the Traveler? [Rhetorical]

    • @BoSPaladin-102
      @BoSPaladin-102 Před 4 lety +19

      Maybe they have extradimensional powers that allow them to observe similar to the Gman from Half-Life.

    • @ryanstover8433
      @ryanstover8433 Před 4 lety +19

      Nah fam... they are the debug stick from minecraft.

    • @icantcomeupwithagoodusername24
      @icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 Před 3 lety +3

      They are gods idk

    • @colecallahan2811
      @colecallahan2811 Před 2 lety +2

      Ftl experiment leading to extra dimensional probes to collect data

  • @AnotherDoomerWeeb
    @AnotherDoomerWeeb Před 6 lety +772

    When you're home is taken by force, people slaughtered and you're only chance for freedom is self imposed exile to a harsh, almost unbearable environment... You're the villains for wishing to take back the land you once called home.

  • @MrMortull
    @MrMortull Před 6 lety +1138

    I know this has probably come up multiple times, but Helghan would have been a model member world of Warhammer 40,000's Imperium of Man. Endless mineral resources, a diehard-fanatical population of tough and brutal warriors, endless drive for vengeance on their enemies and glory for their state.
    Oh how perspective changes things...

    • @Sine_Fine_Belli
      @Sine_Fine_Belli Před 6 lety +114

      MrMortull Your damn right, all that’s needs to be done is to instill xenophobia, imperial humanity f-k yeah propaganda, the imperial creed and faith and ta da! we have a loyal badass imperial world with a badass genetically pure human population with some badass imperial guard regiments

    • @mariano98ify
      @mariano98ify Před 6 lety +44

      MrMortull When they moved to that planet as the generations passed, they gradually ceased to be human, which made them pale bald and with weak lungs but also stronger and more resistant by the skin, that and if you add that they hate humans and are based in an ideology that they are superior and better than the rest they would see him as rebels, heretics and a planet fallen into chaos.

    • @MrMortull
      @MrMortull Před 6 lety +50

      If they were part of the Imperium it wouldn't have gotten that far, they'd still be considered Human or at the absolute worst as emerging Abhumans. As for the heresy well... that's what Compliance Crusades are for! Enjoy your Black Templars and millennia-long penitence service in the IG, Helghast. XD

    • @killer25014
      @killer25014 Před 6 lety +82

      More than likely. Though, the Death Korps of Krieg would be pretty pissed of someone else trying to steal their overall style nonetheless.

    • @jgunner280
      @jgunner280 Před 6 lety +47

      Killzone really feels like it suits the W40K spirit in a ton of ways. On the surface, it's cheesy as hell. Just look at the helghasts, they're black wearing villains with orangy red glowing eyes! They shoot giant lightning guns at space ships, crazy green science-weapon gunk (and later blue zero G energy, 'cuz... why not), everyone on the Helghan planet speak this gruff British accent and radically defend an industrial world that seems to be stuck on a color pallet of stone, dirt, and smog, with even the sandy beaches having this odd grayish blue hue to them. It's just kind of absurdly dark industrial war porn on the surface. But beyond that layer, there's a ton of detail, and so much work put behind emphasizing the war machine of the two factions. So much well written propaganda, lots of talk about order and discipline, shades of gray behind the politics of the war, interesting betrayals and moments of crazy twists, and then of course the more obvious details that take inspiration from very real war events and history. W40K does a ton of that as well, under a similar cheesy industrial smog riddled universe where it's somehow logical to charge in with chainsaw swords despite the fact everyone carries a gun with mini-rocket bullets. There's a ton of really involved and in-depth war politics in both universes, and they both just constantly bathe in that atmosphere to an incredible point. The only thing Killzone is really missing in tone, are aliens, and the literal and metaphorical religious stuff that makes W40K a sci-fi crusade. Killzone instead doubles down on historical parallels.

  • @warriorsorb1111
    @warriorsorb1111 Před 6 lety +641

    The ISA are to blame for their crimes against the Helghast

    • @kingrastalioniii1919
      @kingrastalioniii1919 Před 5 lety +14

      And now the ISA want to take Helghan from us?! The smiles on their faces while knives hidden behind their backs!

    • @thehigherman9918
      @thehigherman9918 Před 5 lety +16

      Sending a group of people to a planet that kills a large number of the population (sending them to die there) is a crime, the helghast just want to take back what is rightefully theirs.

    • @altereddrake
      @altereddrake Před 5 lety +3

      @@thehigherman9918 on point.

  • @GTD_Galatea
    @GTD_Galatea Před 6 lety +603

    I think that the Templin Institute has a physical headquarters located in a pocket dimension outside normal space and time. This allows their analysts to pick up several organizations from differente worlds and eras, and analyze them based on local historical evidence. The organizations they show are also real, since the Institute has access to multiple dimensions, including ones where those organizations actually exist.

    • @TemplinInstitute
      @TemplinInstitute  Před 6 lety +191

      We vehemently deny that the Templin Institute has ever been involved in any kind of trans-dimensional travel. Please remain where you are so our agents can question you on just where exactly you've been getting this information.

    • @peterhellman4271
      @peterhellman4271 Před 6 lety +5

      have you ever heard of czcams.com/channels/2hNLPRiEpEuq7bMA7PA7Pg.html

    • @texteng1014
      @texteng1014 Před 6 lety +10

      Do a TI video on the TI. 😀

    • @owenparris7490
      @owenparris7490 Před 6 lety +8

      I knew it...*X-Files theme plays*

    • @dekuton
      @dekuton Před 6 lety +8

      They reside in a "prime" reality. A nexus so to speak where other realities spawn from. From what I can see they practice a policy of non-interference. Simply watching,studying, and chronicling. At least...that's the official line

  • @TheEyeofTerror
    @TheEyeofTerror Před 3 lety +93

    I remember even as a kid who couldn't appreciate a deep story playing the first Killzone I actually sympathized with the Helghast.

  • @lexus8018
    @lexus8018 Před 4 lety +461

    Helgast:
    ✓Epic speeches as intro cinematics in all main Killzones (1,2,3)
    ✓Awesome uniform and solider design
    ✓Charismatic leader
    ✓Logical motivations for war
    ✓Nice guns and spaceships
    ×not executing PoW s immidieatly
    ISA:
    ×boring dialog cutsenes
    ×uninteresting by the numbers solider design
    ×reskinned real world weapons or very simmilar variants
    ×no charismatic leader, just reffered as "your leaders"
    ×taking over and banishing the inhabitants of a planet they bought and colonised onto a poison planet
    ×no speetches
    ×characters you want to see die (shoutout to Col. Radec for finishing Templar!)
    ×destroy and masacare an entire planet and the people responsible are not punished
    It's like the writers want you to hate the ISA.

    • @edchampion3720
      @edchampion3720 Před 3 lety +31

      I loved the Helghast government in KZ3 it was neat to see its inner working.

    • @J.Wolf90
      @J.Wolf90 Před 3 lety +31

      I always play as the helghast in multiplayer

    • @autocrat9791
      @autocrat9791 Před 3 lety +51

      Chad Helghast vs virgin ISA

    • @MrTrenttness
      @MrTrenttness Před 2 lety +2

      The ISA is for diversity hires.

    • @chimeraelite
      @chimeraelite Před 2 lety

      Good thing I do.

  • @victorrosenheart8036
    @victorrosenheart8036 Před 6 lety +598

    The Tragedy of Helghan will not be forgotten Brothers and Sisters of Helghan. We are the Helghast, and by our right humanity is ours!

    • @JoeMartinez18
      @JoeMartinez18 Před 6 lety +4

      They are the fucking Nazis, from space !!!

    • @sevirkenevans
      @sevirkenevans Před 6 lety +30

      Marsupilami it's like you learned nothing from this video.

    • @JoeMartinez18
      @JoeMartinez18 Před 6 lety

      I posted before even watching the vid XD

    • @sevirkenevans
      @sevirkenevans Před 6 lety +14

      lmao I understand

    • @Spiderwebb4051
      @Spiderwebb4051 Před 5 lety

      Sev Irken Evans this is only one side of the whole story

  • @CPT85
    @CPT85 Před 6 lety +114

    This is one franchise that needs a sequel.

    • @chuckhalo
      @chuckhalo Před 3 lety +2

      There were 6 games (2 psp and vita games)

    • @CPT85
      @CPT85 Před 3 lety +3

      @@chuckhalo Shadow Fall remains the most previous title, and that was back in 2013. 😑

    • @chuckhalo
      @chuckhalo Před 3 lety +2

      @@CPT85 you said it like there was 1 game

    • @CPT85
      @CPT85 Před 3 lety +3

      @@chuckhalo And? I still want it to keep going.

  • @pizzapicante27
    @pizzapicante27 Před 6 lety +4652

    This always bothered me about killzone, it feels like you're on the wrong side of the conflict.

    • @talideon
      @talideon Před 6 lety +958

      There's not really a right side in it at all: the ISA started out as bad guys, and the Helghast became bad guys. It's one of the better aspects of the world it's set in, I think.

    • @suranae
      @suranae Před 6 lety +268

      the player was never on the wrong side... they forgot to mention the gate tax Helgan started leveling against earth ships coming from other systems going to old terra.

    • @suranae
      @suranae Před 6 lety +176

      it's implied that the Helgan also launched expeditionary test forces against other colony worlds

    • @sandromnator
      @sandromnator Před 6 lety +344

      Kinda like in real life...

    • @namefinder
      @namefinder Před 6 lety +398

      The games did a really bad job explaining why anyone should root for the ISA. I started playing the series with the second game, and it was not clear to me for a long time why I as player character was invading Helghan, which belongs to the Helghast.

  • @valiatus6719
    @valiatus6719 Před 3 lety +25

    Helghan Administration: Legally Purchases the Alpha-Centuri System
    UCN: Nope, never happened
    Helghan Administration: Wait wha-
    UCN: Hey did you hear about the new taxes we're putting on you guys
    Helghan Administration:.....

    • @silvertemplar8061
      @silvertemplar8061 Před 3 lety +3

      Sounds a lot like how American colonialist police started out before the American revolution. The UCN couldn’t bear the fact that a planet wanted to not only win independence, but also financially.

  • @RKNGL
    @RKNGL Před 6 lety +1526

    Though the Helghast turned very immoral in the end. I would say it looks like they were forced into it. Basically exiled to die on a hellhole were only the strongest would survive (the UCN probably just figured they'd all died horribly), hard decisions had to be made. Some people would have to die for the whole to survive. When these ruined peoples finally came together, pride and the will to reclaim their homeland was all they had. They finally, after many years moved to retake their capital lost long ago. When their liberation failed, they were treated worse than animals (this they expected, why would an enemy that would leave them to die in hell do anything else). With their hopes smashed, their future even more bleak than it was before. Finally if that wasn't enough their leader, their last symbol of hope was assassinated. They as a society had nothing left, the country proceeded tear itself apart.
    The Helghast in this scenario are people who built up 2 worlds from nothing to have them either taken or destroyed by a jealous parent. An industrious people punished for their ability and ambition. Their story is a sad one, even if the UCN would spin it as a victory.

    • @blugaledoh2669
      @blugaledoh2669 Před 6 lety +6

      Corrupted Archangel Hello

    • @iainhowe4561
      @iainhowe4561 Před 6 lety +160

      Yes - exactly this. The Helghan, essentially, wanted a place where they could go and run the Corporate Statist community of their dreams. As proof that they were not essentially evil at the beginning, they were shocked and dismayed when their 'Thanatos Gambit' of making enough money to outright buy the Alpha Centauri system and then skim a toll off the top of vital resource shipping was met with armed force - it was simply an outcome they hadn't considered, in light of the damage caused by the Resource Wars in Earth's history.
      The UCN was more than willing to brand a separatist colony as being responsible for all of Earth's woes, however, and whipped the population of Earth up in order to get a mandate for military interaction. Cue Earth's under-estimation of the Helghan, though. They have consistently thought that the Helghan would 'knuckle under' if punished hard enough, and consistently it has forced the Helghan to radicalise - from Vektans into Helghans, from Helghans into Helghast.
      The UCN has doubled down each time that the Helghast put them in the position of abandoning their moral principles in order to solve the situation quickly and 'cheaply' through force. I would have preferred to have seen an examination of the effects of that degeneration in the final episode but, ah well...

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 6 lety +73

      +Iain Howe That's one of the main reasons why I love the Helghast faction. Even in their worst situations they're able to overcome anything that is thrown at them.

    • @RKNGL
      @RKNGL Před 6 lety +59

      I mean in modern day there are really no equivalents even close to the ISA. Their treatment of the Helghast is more comparable to the 1910-1960s era USSR or early People's Republic of China when they massacred or harshly repressed their own people as retaliation for any resistance [i.e. the Red Terrors & Ukrainian Holodomor].

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 6 lety +13

      +Corrupted Archangel Heck, even Nazi Germany would find the ISA to be crazy.

  • @Prairiedrifter1
    @Prairiedrifter1 Před 6 lety +199

    We need a game from the Helghan perspective and how they take back what’s theirs.

    • @kristiankepley5944
      @kristiankepley5944 Před 4 lety +14

      Rivera agreed. Maybe as a dlc for killzone shadow fall. But in the form of a prequel. During the last bit of killzone 3

  • @battenburg6089
    @battenburg6089 Před 6 lety +2616

    THE HELGHAST DID NOTHING WRONG

    • @Vextus
      @Vextus Před 6 lety +120

      Amen

    • @sandromnator
      @sandromnator Před 6 lety +198

      Quite literally.

    • @battenburg6089
      @battenburg6089 Před 6 lety +246

      That's what I'm saying! Cowardly UCN and ISA not liking a nation who takes pride in themselves as a people, and wanting to be the best they can be.
      Really fucking activates my almonds

    • @Vextus
      @Vextus Před 6 lety +43

      screw are issues the helghast need true equality and freedom from the UCN and ISA

    • @RKNGL
      @RKNGL Před 6 lety +127

      +Puppet
      I mean even before the self pride thing, they basically exiled them to die on a hellscape.

  • @trefthergom3085
    @trefthergom3085 Před 6 lety +1695

    In the end, the Helghast were entirely justified in their actions because the ISA ended up "accidentally" committing mass genocide on the Helghan people.

    • @gavcampbell4883
      @gavcampbell4883 Před 6 lety +98

      Yeah let's just ignore the whole fascist dictatorship, warmongering, suppression of any kind of rights, and planning to use the weapons on that ship to obliterate a planet. All the ISA did was defend themselves and others from the hellish weapon the helghast were going to use.

    • @kommi7658
      @kommi7658 Před 6 lety +296

      Gav Campbell
      >Implying a successful liberal democracy that guarantees rights can exist in a poor hellhole with tons of sanctions placed on it
      >implying that the ISA had no intention of genociding the Helghas when they forced them on to an inhospitable planet.

    • @Jixijenga
      @Jixijenga Před 6 lety +169

      Gav Campbell those things wouldn't have happened if the Helghans were left alone. They paid for their homeland in the most literal sense of the word, they had every right to seek independence.
      This story should be a lesson against everything you've listed, the ISA practically cultivated the violent extremism that took over and did everything they could to ensure no peace could exist without genocide on the Helghan population.

    • @49mozzer
      @49mozzer Před 5 lety +8

      Jixijenga
      An now they need to wipe out the Helghast as they'll stop at nothing to do the same to the UCN and possibly humanity as a whole. What they should have done after KZ3 was either finish them all off or force them to disarm their entire military before allowing them to settle on Vekta. An don't give me any of that "it was their planet first" bullshit either.

    • @thehigherman9918
      @thehigherman9918 Před 5 lety +27

      Gayv Campbell, you don't know shit about the Helgans do you?

  • @VideoGamesAndTheWorld
    @VideoGamesAndTheWorld Před 5 lety +18

    The ISA are the real bad guys. The Helghast had their planet, their economies, culture and richness were stolen from them by the ISA. Good video Templin, I made something similar last year about this.

  • @checkem2689
    @checkem2689 Před 6 lety +1862

    Daily reminder tha the only thing the Helghast did wrong was losing

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 6 lety +125

      +Project Imperium Even then, they had no choice in losing. The plot DEMANDED the ISA to win from the beginning.

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 6 lety +21

      +Aeiou WW2?

    • @supernovadragon3645
      @supernovadragon3645 Před 6 lety +11

      Altec *Helghan Forever* plot armour

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 6 lety +19

      +Supernova Dragon ^^Practically the only reason the ISA won the Second Extrasolar War.

    • @Jixijenga
      @Jixijenga Před 6 lety +13

      All the terrible things that happened later could have been avoided if the ISA had left them alone.

  • @xanthosparashis8819
    @xanthosparashis8819 Před 5 lety +83

    The story of the Helghast and the nation they managed to built, and how it was destroyed, is sad.
    Just sad.

    • @maryus786
      @maryus786 Před 2 lety +5

      One was taking from them and the other was destroyed.

  • @schibleh531
    @schibleh531 Před 6 lety +248

    I am still waiting for a Killzone where you play as a Helghast. The war between the factions is full of shades of grey so it would be nice to see how people feel on the other side of that conflict. Especially that they are back to Vekta now.

    • @HannahFortalezza
      @HannahFortalezza Před 6 lety +20

      I agree. In many respects, I felt earth was actually the aggressor / bad guy in the series. The Helghast weren't exactly angels, but in war, who is? They were defending their own home...I can't blame them.

    • @VojislavMoranic
      @VojislavMoranic Před 6 lety +2

      This is what makes me fear for the future of mankind.
      This is all fictional but still people support insurgents that are aggainst proper humanity and our planet.
      Earth is mother everything else is expendable, no crime no matter how henious is unjustified when it comes to the interests of Mankind and mother Earth.

    • @schibleh531
      @schibleh531 Před 6 lety +7

      People like you are worrying as well because you are basically blind and you won't distinguish what's right and wrong. You also said that anything goes no matter how heinous it is, those heinous crimes are usually used as a recruiting tool for your enemy so good job for basically creating new recruits for them not to mention that you encourage your enemies to be just as if not even more heinous.
      I also have a couple of random comparisons to real life that I would like to make:
      1- People who followed their leadership blindly gave us the nazis and we all know how great those people were.
      2- About the heinous crimes, look at how extremists use the collateral damage of civilians as a marketing tools to attract the hopeless and the angry people.
      3- You fight for the interests of your faction, some of our modern wars destabilized entire regions till our current day just for the interests of a few politicians. Time has showed us that the interests of politicians aren't always in the interest of the people. ( I won't mention any examples because I don't want to open a debate about which wars are correct and which aren't, each one of us got their own opinions on the subject.)
      4- Violence only generates more violence, the allies could have basically raped and murdered every german and japanese person they saw after their victory but they didn't, they ended the war and stopped the blood shed because that's the humane choice.
      Last, let me explain my point of view, the Helghast are an entire race that occupied a full planet. They were led astray by their blind faith in their corrupt leaders that saw them as tools and means to increase their power and authority. They were dumped on a toxic planet and had to basically evolve to survive their. Their children were fed propaganda that's supported by their harsh realities since their birth. The only way for them to strive was by working hard and that actually paid off, exactly like what Visari said. Their own leader nuked their city. A mad scientist from their own ranks destroyed their entire planet, you see where I am getting at? The situation with those people is a bit of a cluster fuck, it's too complex to simply throw an entire race with every single life in it down the drain. That's why I said it would be interesting to see how those people survive from day to day, what kind of political propaganda are they fed, what keeps those people living on that toxic wasteland and what power made them thrive in it? Those are interesting questions for me that I hope I will get an answer to in upcoming Killzone games.

    • @VojislavMoranic
      @VojislavMoranic Před 6 lety +2

      You are overthinking life.
      All is simple.
      Humanity's interests> everyone else.
      This is why i love warhammer 40k there are no good or bad boys there just grey areas like in real life, because every side has their own truth.

    • @schibleh531
      @schibleh531 Před 6 lety +4

      No I am not really, under thinking is just as dangerous as over thinking. I am not saying that one should stand and consider all these variables if a war happened, you gotta look out for your own, but you gotta open up and start considering other solutions to your problem eventually.
      I got into Warhammer 40k because of the grey areas and it opened up my eyes to the fact that things aren't always the way they look, there are layers beneath everything that can change the way you perceive things, just loved that aspect about 40k. Too bad it's spehss mahrins and friends now, I feel like gw chose the champs of 40k already. At least we got Age of Sigmar.

  • @albertjester
    @albertjester Před 2 lety +8

    8:58 "In the Confusion" Yeah, that's one way to put it,

  • @MikMoen
    @MikMoen Před 2 lety +18

    I never knew the bad guys of Killzone were actually victims the whole time.

  • @SharpeBalth
    @SharpeBalth Před 6 lety +87

    When I was younger I bought the game thinking I was going to be playing Helghast. I don't remember any other game in my childhood disappointing me as much as Killzone.

  • @jowinn
    @jowinn Před 6 lety +41

    I've played all the main Killzone games, I don't remember any of this. It generally makes the Killzone universe more interesting.

  • @Blackadderthe4th
    @Blackadderthe4th Před 6 lety +525

    Why can't I play as the helghast, makes me sad

    • @Demicleas
      @Demicleas Před 6 lety +25

      Blackadder you can in killzone: mercenary but only in like the finnely 3 missions there's 9 the multiplayer is the best

    • @levvy3006
      @levvy3006 Před 5 lety +33

      The fans have been asking that for years.

    • @chimeraelite
      @chimeraelite Před 4 lety +10

      There's a reason I liked Multiplayer.

    • @Metratch
      @Metratch Před 3 lety

      Dont we have botzone?

  • @ShrimpGaslight
    @ShrimpGaslight Před 6 lety +97

    To be really fair
    The ISA are the ultimate villains in the Killzone series. No amount of blue/white colour scheme and faux nobility changes the fact that they were the reason that Helghans got so screwed over and became the autocratic faction in the game.
    Also does not help that every MC in the game are unlikeable af too and I would rather play as any Helghan character if I could

  • @micaiahkesler4356
    @micaiahkesler4356 Před 6 lety +47

    I never realized how killzone reflected so much realism of what happened in europe in the 20 century making sure it wasn't just bad guys are bad for no reason

  • @CesaristChannel
    @CesaristChannel Před 2 lety +19

    I think a prequel game, novel, or graphic novel set during and after the First Extrasolar War would be awesome, showing the transformation of Helghan from a private enterprise and corporation to a fully-fledged nation state.

    • @darthjekyll3648
      @darthjekyll3648 Před rokem +1

      we only got that painting in killzone 2 of the war.

  • @theswedishdude1
    @theswedishdude1 Před 6 lety +1480

    would have been more fun to play as the helgans.
    #HelgansDidNothingWrong

    • @harditsingh7994
      @harditsingh7994 Před 6 lety +19

      I agree

    • @phaeronseherekh1754
      @phaeronseherekh1754 Před 6 lety +44

      Agreed, however I am biased to many fascism goverments

    • @thelegoman524
      @thelegoman524 Před 6 lety +52

      Well, We can't say they did *Nothing* wrong. I mean, They clearly couldn't prevent the power struggle from happening after Visari died, which caused the civil war that destroyed most of their planet. And in the context of the game, I can technically say the ISA didn't start *that specific war*. What really kicked everything off though was the UCN invading an independent Star System after the Helghan Corporation had paid for it.

    • @LookHereMars
      @LookHereMars Před 6 lety +12

      -Vault- -Boy1- hmm sounds a lot like WW2

    • @nielsmichiels1939
      @nielsmichiels1939 Před 5 lety +2

      czcams.com/video/e9ARiU39k3A/video.html
      Nothing wrong, huh.........

  • @mtorngren15
    @mtorngren15 Před 3 lety +10

    This game was fantastic. The action, the cut scenes, the swap in characters for each level, my god, the speeches! Fantastic!

  • @joshfritz5345
    @joshfritz5345 Před 2 lety +115

    The Helghast are literally the good guys in the killzone series

    • @Nyarlabrotep
      @Nyarlabrotep Před rokem

      Bullshit

    • @narcleptik
      @narcleptik Před rokem +3

      Literally

    • @chimeraelite
      @chimeraelite Před 9 měsíci +4

      Even if they weren't I don't especially have anything against them. They were pushed to be what they are today by the ISA

    • @dantewilliams2757
      @dantewilliams2757 Před 9 měsíci

      Only if your dumb but they already did a vid on it

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@dantewilliams2757I don't believe the Helghast are the good guys, but are you referring to the very inaccurate CZcams short Templin released two years ago?

  • @MaverickL-
    @MaverickL- Před 5 lety +22

    Hope a new chapter of killzone will soon came out..this is such an interesting game series!
    Anyway..nice description: the person who speaked has a beautiful voice too

  • @Raving_Rando
    @Raving_Rando Před 4 lety +319

    Modern issue: Racism.
    Solution: Full body suit.
    Modern issue: Shootings.
    Solution: Body armor.
    Modern issue: Virus.
    Solution: Face mask.
    Can we all get issued Helghast uniforms? ;p

    • @Xaxp
      @Xaxp Před 3 lety +57

      I would drop some serious cash for a functional replica of a Helghast uniform.

    • @BoxJoe136
      @BoxJoe136 Před 3 lety +13

      I would become a helghast war criminal for one

    • @BoxJoe136
      @BoxJoe136 Před 3 lety

      @@cpob2013 wat

    • @kman314wastaken
      @kman314wastaken Před 2 lety +4

      Hotel: trivago

    • @darthjekyll3648
      @darthjekyll3648 Před rokem +1

      @@Xaxp and a sta-52

  • @Calvin_Coolage
    @Calvin_Coolage Před 6 lety +51

    Oh, I am so happy to see a video like this. Killzone is one my favorite franchises.

  • @TurKlack
    @TurKlack Před 6 lety +349

    Dudes...that sounds mor elike that the Helghast did nothing wrong....In my eyes they simply seemed to defend themselves from invaders. That said we basicly play the bad guys every time

    • @Unisylvekitty
      @Unisylvekitty Před 6 lety +17

      I wanted a story in killzone on the helghan side..they did nothing wrong one bit

    • @dlombana161
      @dlombana161 Před 6 lety +19

      Are you serious...? they spent a good part of the video going over how corrupt their leadership was and the lengths they were willing to go to launch a war despite the huge potential loss of life to their population. No side here is innocent, at all. I think that was always the point.

    • @49mozzer
      @49mozzer Před 5 lety +6

      B.O.S Ranger Hawke
      Then show evidence of ISA troops gunning down unarmed civs and POWs

    • @49mozzer
      @49mozzer Před 5 lety +4

      Drader THE PROPHET OF AIDEN
      And shoot anyone an everyone that doesn't comply with their ideology and plan to re-engineer a virus meant for them to kill off all the Vektans instead of doing the sensible thing and just destroying it. Am I seriously the only one that realizes there are no good guys in Killzone?

    • @Guciom
      @Guciom Před 4 lety +15

      @@49mozzer In Killzone Mercenaries we can find ISA Troops burning Helghan civis alive.

  • @speestechsupport1341
    @speestechsupport1341 Před 6 lety +86

    People of Helgan unite!

    • @speestechsupport1341
      @speestechsupport1341 Před 6 lety +4

      Yeah the Helgas are the bad guys now but started as the oppressed underdog, it's more or less the UCN creating the monster that killed so many

  • @KrautGoesWild
    @KrautGoesWild Před 2 lety +8

    4 years old and still among my most favorite videos by the Institute.

  • @lewisrobinson5154
    @lewisrobinson5154 Před 6 lety +45

    Didn't even think of this one but I am so happy! Loved the Helghan in Killzone :)

  • @Z_Viscount
    @Z_Viscount Před 2 lety +11

    Imagine Combine Empire and Helghan Empire teamed up.

  • @user-qo5jb1hd3z
    @user-qo5jb1hd3z Před 3 lety +11

    One of the best stories ever written in a video game

  • @richardhobbs2170
    @richardhobbs2170 Před 3 lety +12

    Wow, that's some deep lore. I hope we get Killzone 5.

  • @jesusserrano8769
    @jesusserrano8769 Před 5 lety +22

    We need a killzone game From helghast perspective

    • @chimeraelite
      @chimeraelite Před 2 lety

      Pre-Killzone 1, showing the true toll of their exile and unstable political climate. There had to be a civil war and seeing the rise of Visari and the crimes of the ISA would be amazing.

  • @hammer326
    @hammer326 Před 4 lety +10

    Just found the channel, LOVE the concept and subscribed. This particular piece was a better intro to the Killzone universe than the first few HOURS of any of the main trilogy of the actual GAMES. Well done.

  • @Lorohn
    @Lorohn Před 6 lety +16

    I want to see an RTS game in the Killzone universe. The ISA campaign would be following the events of the trilogy, while the Helghast campaign could be the successful conquest of Vekta and defense against the UCN counterattack and have its climax with a strike at Earth itself.

    • @christianbethel
      @christianbethel Před 3 měsíci

      No, make it like Galactic Conquest from Battlefront!

  • @estacion7386
    @estacion7386 Před 3 lety +5

    Whoa, whoa, whoa... "War hero jan templar" "Visary was killed in the confusion of battle"
    Templin institute are isa dogs

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 2 lety +1

      To be fair, Jan Templar was a badass. But I did cringe when they said Visari was "killed in the confusion of battle."

    • @estacion7386
      @estacion7386 Před 2 lety +3

      @@altechelghanforever9906 Templar was part of the war criminals that wanted Visari dead, i doubt he would have stop rico for "killing him in the confusion of the battle" I can respect him as a warrior, but that's it. He is a good soldier in the wrong side.

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 2 lety

      @@estacion7386 That I can agree with. There are a lot of inaccuracies in this video

  • @King_loscar343
    @King_loscar343 Před 6 lety +32

    For helgan

  • @SwiftGundam
    @SwiftGundam Před 6 lety +15

    I wouldn't say the Empire is at an end. More like its taking a new shape.
    Great video.

  • @silvertemplar8061
    @silvertemplar8061 Před 5 lety +6

    I’m driven to tears every time I see this.

  • @KillerOrca
    @KillerOrca Před 6 lety +528

    The lore for Killzone is surprisingly deep for a series with such a bland and un-stable series of games...

    • @thatguy4305
      @thatguy4305 Před 6 lety +62

      the sense your comment makes is surprisingly high for a comment with such a bland and unstable use of the english language and grammar.

    • @Fingered22
      @Fingered22 Před 6 lety +15

      T h a t
      G u y

    • @thatguy4305
      @thatguy4305 Před 6 lety +7

      Z o n e
      G u y

    • @Fingered22
      @Fingered22 Před 6 lety +5

      Dat me

    • @vanthursday
      @vanthursday Před 5 lety +4

      @Jesus Supreme The "spacemarines" trend is long gone. Thats why Halo and Destiny are not popular anymore. People are sick of it.

  • @disgruntledpigeon8376
    @disgruntledpigeon8376 Před 2 lety +10

    My god the ISA seem like the bad guys

  • @fullgauged8879
    @fullgauged8879 Před 4 lety +12

    GLORY TO HELGHAN

  • @franegrancic7679
    @franegrancic7679 Před rokem +3

    This will mark a new dawn.
    The helghast dawn!

  • @silvertemplar8061
    @silvertemplar8061 Před 6 lety +5

    Not going to lie, this video brought tears to my eyes. This is awesome and saddening at the same time. 😊

  • @softlightlaboratory
    @softlightlaboratory Před 6 lety +50

    GDI-Global defensive initiative.
    The Umbrella Corporation
    Stars from Resident Evil series
    Blackwatch from prototype
    Tom Clancy the division-cleaners, Rikers rioters, last man battalion and the division
    Fallout series-Brotherhood of the Middle East Brotherhood of Steel from the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel from the East Coast, new California Republic Caiser's Legion,
    Vault Tec Corporation
    ISA
    Empire from the Rising Sun
    The Rangers from the Wasteland Series
    Metro series-the order, the red line,

    • @softlightlaboratory
      @softlightlaboratory Před 6 lety +4

      Judge Dredd series the judges, judge death and his brothers, Alien Xenomorph, predators, colonial Marines, the Warriors movie / video game the Warriors Destroyers High hacks Riffs Rogues baseball Furies the Lizzies the orphans the Moonshine runners

    • @lacientertaintment3325
      @lacientertaintment3325 Před 6 lety

      Mister Phatty Aperture Laboratories, Rapture

    • @Marylandbrony
      @Marylandbrony Před 6 lety

      The United States of North America, Star Carriers
      Colombia, Bioshock Infinite.
      Equestria, MLP (Franchise)
      The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. April Fools episode.

    • @whythelies4586
      @whythelies4586 Před 4 lety

      +Caesar's Legion
      +Brotherhood of Steel, California & DC.
      + Metro main factions

    • @whythelies4586
      @whythelies4586 Před 4 lety

      Jin-Roh Wolf Brigade

  • @joshuataylor4512
    @joshuataylor4512 Před 6 lety +15

    Glory to Helgan!

  • @DrVagax
    @DrVagax Před 5 lety +1

    This is exactly why I fucking love Killzone and the Helghan Empire because they are not your typical 'alien spieces that just wants to take over everything' but are like how they are for a good reason, even though they are not humans of course, well kind of.

  • @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164

    The Road to War song was used for the Helghan Empire and the Stellaris Invicta series The Greater Terran Union.

  • @invictusaeternum
    @invictusaeternum Před 4 lety +2

    What is this channel. My god this is some of the best content I've found on CZcams. Thank you so much for publishing these.

  • @cabral_del_elpaso
    @cabral_del_elpaso Před 6 lety +6

    The was an amazing documentary/review of the history of Helghast.

  • @letsatsi2616
    @letsatsi2616 Před 3 lety +6

    We need more of a universe explanation for this

  • @holikwakkemoli7477
    @holikwakkemoli7477 Před 3 lety +7

    A bit late, but I believe Helghast were the best enemy. They became the image on every poster, disk case, and advertisement of the killzone series. If they had not been the enemy, you would have been fighting dumb looking Vektans instead of constantly seeing the awesome Helghast.

  • @ImGazu
    @ImGazu Před 4 lety +4

    *THE DRESS CODE IS THE FOUNDATION OF DISCIPLINE*

  • @pftburchell5197
    @pftburchell5197 Před 6 lety +7

    That was great. If only this was told in the games.

  • @superego666
    @superego666 Před 5 lety +2

    a good directer needs to make a rated-R movie on Killzone! all I request is Tom Hardy casted as Colonel Radec and Christoph Waltz be casted as Jorhan Stahl

  • @marsm9
    @marsm9 Před 6 lety

    The Templin Institute your channel explores all the background minutia in everything sci-fi and I love you for that! And so amazing well put together. My inner nerd/dog feels like its getting a leg twitching belly scratch every time I watch one of your vids...best way I can think to describe it...

  • @devontaliu950
    @devontaliu950 Před 6 lety +8

    These is some Orwellian writing in killzone

  • @quixoticreptile6328
    @quixoticreptile6328 Před 6 lety +19

    They say history repeats itself. Is the Helghan Empire not a prime example of this?

  • @kyzersoze8408
    @kyzersoze8408 Před 3 lety +2

    Killzone...the only FPS franchise where your always on the wrong side of the conflict while thinking that your the hero.

  • @Flavius-rp1lt
    @Flavius-rp1lt Před 3 lety +2

    Just like Resistance this game series is very under rated

  • @joshuachandler1750
    @joshuachandler1750 Před 6 lety +13

    You should do the Tau empire from 40k
    Or the Sith Empire (Post-Great Hyperspace War) from star wars legends.
    Or on of the Shadowrun Corps.

  • @hollandahern3585
    @hollandahern3585 Před 7 měsíci +4

    So let me get this straight…
    The Helghast not only discover Vecta and Helghan FIRST, but also successfully settle it, then purchase the entire system completely and totally legally and legitimately.
    Then, amidst a growing aggressive military expansion by Earth, they understandably declare independence, wanting to be left alone with the home worlds they have every right to, only for Earth to invade them, slaughter them, take Vecta (the “paradise planet” of the two) for themselves, and exile the survivors to eke out a miserable and desperate existence on a planet they can hardly even breath on…
    I don’t agree with the dictatorship they became, but they have every right to what they fought for. I’m with the Helghast on this one…

    • @TemplinInstitute
      @TemplinInstitute  Před 7 měsíci

      cool motive, still murder.

    • @altechelghanforever9906
      @altechelghanforever9906 Před 6 měsíci +4

      I like how Templin's only response to this is "nuh uh." Like they expect anyone to be pacifist after having their home planet taken from them. 😂

    • @darthjekyll3648
      @darthjekyll3648 Před 6 měsíci +2

      ​@@altechelghanforever9906sounds like another ww3 conflict we are living through

  • @jeanthemilitaryhistorianbr1243

    Such an under appreciated series. I legitimately think killzone 1 is just as great as 2 and 3.

  • @Boxfortress
    @Boxfortress Před 6 lety +1

    Wow yalls channel has really boomed! Congrats!

  • @yellowsausage7714
    @yellowsausage7714 Před rokem +3

    Earth was the original aggressor, then they caused a genocide, and still wanted to exterminate the remaining population and Helgan forces... pretty sure Earth is the real bad guys here. Plus Helghast armor looks sick asf.

    • @johnwest5957
      @johnwest5957 Před rokem

      Not exactly, because by the time of killzone the earth government is led by different people. And ironically Earth isn't interested at all. They do break up the first fight, and equip ISA to retaliate lmao. Talk about going overboard to complete negligence

  • @mchertonok
    @mchertonok Před 4 lety +3

    This sounds so realistic and happened so many times over the years on Earth that its scary.

  • @mostafahosyni4353
    @mostafahosyni4353 Před 6 lety

    you are the best .. you dont know how long i was looking for a video about Helghan's
    as i always say , not all enemies you see in games or movies are all evil by nature just pushed to that place and doing anything to survive or taking revenge

  • @GanjaStarburst74
    @GanjaStarburst74 Před 5 lety +27

    It's Funny How THEY Can Make The Good Guys Like Like Villians.
    The Helghast Empire Was Right.

  • @n0rd3x19
    @n0rd3x19 Před 6 lety +5

    I've been waiting for this, ah the tears!

  • @getfreur2458
    @getfreur2458 Před 6 lety +353

    Earth: well we have take a planet and destroyed the other, we have now a entire war fleet with vengeful gas lovers with weapons that we have no idea how they work, anyone have any idea how we deal with it?
    Vekta: Find a new planet for then and let then live in peace?
    Earth:Good idea, let's give then half of Vekta.
    Vekta: WAIT WHAT?!
    Earth: well that planet was their's after all.
    Vekta: But they will want to get the rest of the planet, you cannot do that!!
    Earth: Already done, they are already incoming.
    Vekta: WHAT?! ARE YOU MAD WE NEED TO EVACUATE THE POPULATION OR THEIR WRATH WILL FALL UPON US!!
    Earth: Not my problem, be more efficient i don't want to save your ass again.
    *end transmission*
    Vekta:we are fucked.
    Helghast: yeah you are.
    Vekta: HOW THE F- *shoot sound*
    Helghast: home sweet home.

  • @raadalbaiaty3007
    @raadalbaiaty3007 Před rokem +1

    The professional report in this brief video of the story of the (Killing Zone) game series encouraged me to subscribe to this CZcams channel, which I liked, especially the first part of it, and I hope that you will make a video explaining the story of the game (Fear) in its three parts, and thank you for your efforts

  • @galvonox7605
    @galvonox7605 Před 6 lety +1

    I just accidentally stumbled upon this. This is now officially my fave channel

  • @MrTrenttness
    @MrTrenttness Před 2 lety +16

    The Helghast did nothing wrong!!!

  • @taninsam7893
    @taninsam7893 Před 4 lety +19

    The Helghast are the True Heroes

  • @lazlow9640
    @lazlow9640 Před 6 lety

    HOW HAVE I ONLY JUST FOUND THIS CHANNEL IT IS AMAAAAAAAAZING!

  • @alithanar8
    @alithanar8 Před 5 lety +2

    Helghast vs the Death Korps of Krieg... FIGHT!!

  • @Autarch__
    @Autarch__ Před 6 lety +10

    True Heroes of Killzone

  • @koreratman329
    @koreratman329 Před 3 lety +6

    Glad I found out who the good guys really were before I played the games lol, Helghan forever

  • @bowenc24
    @bowenc24 Před 6 lety

    Awesome, one of my favorite empires! Great work guys!

  • @popcornfilms1
    @popcornfilms1 Před 2 měsíci

    Brilliant video thank you, excellent source of information on the killzone book and behind the scenes

  • @yoinkster6491
    @yoinkster6491 Před 3 lety +4

    I hope there is a game were the helgast win and rebuild literally everything they lost and the isa crumbles itself.

  • @TheDillon79
    @TheDillon79 Před 6 lety +4

    Brilliant video, thanks for the history lesson. I have always wondered how the Helgast got to where they were at the start of the games, now I know 🖒 p.s as a suggestion I would like to see a video about the Cardassian union from deep space nine if possible?

  • @pramodkaranth9479
    @pramodkaranth9479 Před 3 lety

    God....the soundtrack playing in the background is so apt for this video.... absolute killer....👌

  • @inuboy867
    @inuboy867 Před 6 lety +2

    I truly love these videos, please could you do a video on the Forerunner Ecumene and a little on the Ancient Human Empire from Halo, or a video on the Peacekeeper from Farscape?

  • @beanward_xd527
    @beanward_xd527 Před 6 lety +6

    So you basically play as the bad guys in killzone

  • @scholarvisari6905
    @scholarvisari6905 Před 4 lety +4

    I didn't even want to do the campaign because I liked the helghast to much 🤣🤣

    • @FurroTheWolf
      @FurroTheWolf Před 3 lety

      And I don't even want to buy the game since i don't get to play as Helghan.

  • @warrenbintoro5441
    @warrenbintoro5441 Před 3 lety +2

    Fans of the killzone series. Now it’s our time to return our favourite
    Game. And this time the helghast shall not be defeated.

  • @larsongame4120
    @larsongame4120 Před 4 lety

    Appreciate this awesome video on Helghan as well as New Helghan.
    From a Killzone fan.