The Remnants' leader, Charlie Tent, agrees to help them in return of acquiring a power core from a Chimeran dropship to power their VTOL aircraft. Malikov's wound is infected, no doubt from the environment, and is in need of medical aid. Capelli is led back to thier hideout and he finds Malikov was brought back in a bad state. Leaving Malikov in a safe place, Capelli eventually meets with a local resistance group called the " Remnants" who were defending their VTOL from a Chimeran patrol. After a lengthly chase, their boat is destroyed and Malikov is wounded, forcing them to seek shelter in St. After surviving that obstacle, they are attacked by patrolling Goliaths and acommpanying Chimera dropships escorts and Longlegs infantry.
That ended up being dangerous as the town was infested by feral Grims who attempted to board the boat and some of the waterways were block by ice forming on Chimeran conduits. Two days later, due to the thickening fog, they lose their way and cut through the flooded town of Wrightsburg, Missouri. Capelli, not willing to leave his family, reluctantly agrees.Ĭapelli and Malikov start their journey on a boat and pass through the Mississippi River. Capelli, as he was following behind is stopped by Susan urges him to go with Malikov. Despite losing several people in the rearguard action, they are successful in fending the Chimera off and they fall back as the Terraformer approaches right outside Haven. Capelli refuses to help him and he joins the few humans who were staying behind to hold off the Chimeran assualt while the rest of Haven's civilians escape. Malikov says that he is the only person who can shut down the tower and begs Capelli to accompany him to New York. Malikov explains that when Hale detonated the fission bomb aboard Daedelus's flagship, it acted as a catalyst that caused a wormhole to open on the Chimeran Tower in New York City and it has been slowly freezing the planet since (Chimera thrive in cold climates) and humanity will not survive the next winter. Capelli then realizes that the Chimera were following Doctor Malikov, who had spent the last few months trying to find the former Sentinel. They decide to evacuate the outpost, fighting their way back to Haven past chimera patrols, including a Goliath. Walking up to a ridge nearby, Capelli notices a Terraformer (a massive, satellite-like weapon that destroys everything on the ground by firing a energy wave from the sky) moving towards Haven.
Capelli finds him alive and learns the reason why he hadn't called in. Capelli was then sent to find one of the residents, Tommy Dean, who hasn't reported in. However, they were able to defeat the patrol consisting of Hybrids and a Stalker and quickly cleaned up to avoid any other Chimera patrol's attention. Capelli and a few residents were spectating the Chimera passing-by in the bowling alley when one of them is discovered and killed, and as everyone else rushed to his aid, attracted the entire patrol. Their hope to stay hidden from the Chimera is quickly crushed when a Chimeran Death Squad came patrolling the town.
Capelli is married to Susan Farley, Nathan Hale's foster sister, and they have a young son, Jack. In an underground outpost in Haven, Oklahoma where Capelli and a group of survivors are living in secrecy for two years. Those left had resorted to hiding under the ruins, trying to survive in a bleak world dominated by the Chimera, who are intent to wipe out the last remnants of the human race. At this phase in the war, the Chimera had essentially conquered the earth and roughly 90% of humanity had been killed or converted. Capelli was dishonourbly discharged from SRPA, and at this point decided to stop fighting the Chimera. Fyodor Malikov discovered a cure from Hale's blood, which he then isolated it and created a vaccine to the Chimera virus. Hale's corpse had been recovered by SRPA, which Dr. Joseph Capelli had killed Nathan Hale as he succumbed to the Chimeran virus. The story begins four years after the events of Resistance 2.