" I want my word back too. "

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Underneath their clothes they've got brown skin... therefore they're not entitled to the same rights as the white man.

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I've been told by one Mr. Abraham Lincoln that they're british space-nazis.

Because all villainous governments in sci-fi have british accents. Obscured faces on the solders and glowy eyes are optional, but add to the effect.   
 
Just realized how odd it is that a colony of people with British accents are fighting the American-accented colonizers for independence...

Yeah, I don't get it.  I've never played killzone but I've always thought that Helgast was just like, the other side of the war.  And I thought they where just trying to get their world back.  But then there is the opening of killzone 3, where the targets at the firing range have pictures of people surrendering.  So, like... the entire race is pure evil?  Ok....  
 
Makes me hark back to the good ol' days of the Principality of Zeon.
 
And just so I can beat everyone else to it, I know what you're thinking:
 

Basically the British were really upset with how nongreen everything was so they were like 'omg we want green planet' and so they went to another planet with only men once they found out how to reproduce asexually after that they gave birth to red-eyed things that were very upset with how green everything was. Result? Dust. Lots of it.

I always thought the arrows pointed to the ISA being the "bad-guys"...The Helghans where the first settlers of Vekta before getting pushed off by the ISA. The first game was about them fighting to get back what was originally theirs. That and the way the ISA leaders are portrayed in 2 as being  cowards sending their soldiers to be slaughtered, as well as the conversation with Viscari at the end, further cemented ths idea. That is probably why Kz3's story is quite disappointing in the fact that it didn't capitalize on this in any way,  it would have been cool to have an awesome turn-around towards the end of the game fighting from the other side. Man, Guerilla really need to hire some new writers.

I'm not from here!
I have different customs than you!!
Look at my CRAZY passport!!!

In real wars, both sides are bad, depending on your point of view.

" In real wars, both sides are bad, depending on your point of view. "

It's supposed to be morally ambiguous. That's kind of the point.
 
 http://www.killzone.com//kz/storyline.psml
 
The above link is a very interesting read of the events leading up to Killzone.

" British accents. "

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" What i mean is why are they seen as an evil threat when they want their word back? Vekta was a Helgast colony before the ISA kicked them onto the shit heap that is Helghan, so really their just grabbing whats rightfuly theirs "

Because in target practice, the targets they are supposed to shoot are hostages. That's some evil shit.

" @tallTuck94 said:

" What i mean is why are they seen as an evil threat when they want their word back? Vekta was a Helgast colony before the ISA kicked them onto the shit heap that is Helghan, so really their just grabbing whats rightfuly theirs "

They invaded the ISA homeworld in Killzone 1. They pearl harbored the ISA first.  "

" @tallTuck94 said:

" What i mean is why are they seen as an evil threat when they want their word back? Vekta was a Helgast colony before the ISA kicked them onto the shit heap that is Helghan, so really their just grabbing whats rightfuly theirs "

They invaded the ISA homeworld in Killzone 1. They pearl harbored the ISA first.  "

Because they're enough like americans to be relateable but different enough to be hated by them.
 
Wait i'm sorry you said helghast? though you meant the British.

Because you're on the other side.
 
That's how war works. Neither side is technically bad, neither side is technically good.
 
If you were a Helghast, the ISA would be the evil people.

They have English accent's, more specifically London accents, saying they have British accent's includes 4 countries all with drastically different accents. Im not having a go and it's a little hypocritical for me to narrow down someone's nationality given that I have 'UK' in my name (im Scottish but ChillySCO7 just doesn't sound as good as ChillyUK7, I may change it one day:)

I don't think they are, which is why I reckon they are visually designed to look like some sort of evil race. It would create quite a bit of controversy releasing a game where you play on the side of a mask-wearing army and go round killing humans, right? Especially Americans.
Would be nice to see a prequel showing the Helghast side, even showing them as humans before they were forced to Helghan.
   

When it comes down to it, the Helghast are my preferred race as they are the true icon of the franchise..oh, and they choose to swear rather then scream like little bitches. [Any hint of bias is simply coincidental and has nothing to do with the fact that I am English.]