Hegner was the head of Xenobiology on Pandora until he lost his avatar to a slinth.
Biography[]
Project 880[]
| “ | There's a crazy guy bussing the table named HEGNER. Moving slow and vacant-eyed, he's obviously doped up on something prescribed by the base psychtech. Grace tells them that Hegner used to be head of Xenobiology until his avatar got killed... ripped apart by a SLINTH... The slinth eats it alive. Hegner felt himself die, and he hasn't been right since. Added to the trauma is the loss... the loss of his other life, the one lived in his avatar body. Like many of the controllers, he came to see it as his real life, with his human life taking on the feeling of a boring dream. |
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| “ | So what happened to Hegner? Grace tells him that Hegner's avatar was not just killed by a slinth. He let the slinth take him. Suicide. He was dying of a broken heart, and being in the avatar body without his loved one was just too painful. He managed to fall in love with a Na'vi girl, some say they were married... and she was killed. She was one of the five killed by the SECFOR troopers in the incident which caused the big rift between the two species. And Hegner went crazy. Her name was Li Na. There are many dangers on Pandora, Grace says, and one of the subtlest is that you may come to love it too much. |
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Trivia[]
- Hegner is a character that is exclusive to Project 880.
- Part of Hegner's role was reattributed to the characters Trudy Chacón and Max Patel in Avatar.
- Henger was the person who used a food cart to break Josh Sully, Grace Shipley, and Marcia De Los Santos out of the brig. Josh then told Hegner to stay behind. In Avatar, the scene was changed to instead be Trudy with the food cart followed by Max arriving to break out Jake Sully, Grace Augustine, and Norm Spellman from the holding cell, with Jake telling Max to stay behind.
References[]
- ↑ Hegner is last known to have barricaded the door to the link room during the ending conflict. It is unknown if Hegner (being a former controller) stayed on Pandora or alternatively went back to Earth, either voluntarily deciding to return or was told to leave.