Václav Koller

Václav Koller (pronounced [ˈvaːtslaf]) is an underground augmentation specialist based in Prague, Czech Republic. He owns a book shop named The Time Machine in Prague, and his clinic is in an underground area below the shop, accessed through a secret bookshelf door.

Koller acts as Adam Jensen's personal neuroplastic surgeon during his stay in Prague.

Biography
Koller is an eccentric engineer who has used his skills to augment himself extensively. Koller deals with both standard and controversial augmentations.

As a child, Koller was already augmented. At the age of 8, he was caught by his mother during the act of soldering the circuits from a toy gun to his mechanical arm.

Koller has associations with many of the factions in Prague, including organized crime. In particular, he is under the protection of one part of the Dvali crime family. Their leader, Radich Nikoladze, has a secret leg augment and relies on Koller to maintain the leg. In return, Nikoaladze gives protection to Koller. However, Otar Botkoveli, who is trying to usurp Nikoladze's position, is unaware of the reason behind this protection, so he tries to get to Koller as a way to get to Nikoladze.

When Jensen experiences problems with this augmentations after the bombing of Růžička Station, Jensen visits Koller to get the problems fixed. During the process, Koller discovers that Jensen has several experimental augmentations installed in him. Koller advises Jensen to obtain a neuroplasticity calibrator to allow full usage of the experimental augmentations.

At the time of Jensen's visit, Otar had sent his men to intimidate Koller by trashing Koller's bookstore. When Nikoladze learns of this, he forces Otar to call back his men. Nonetheless, Koller position remains precarious as he is caught in the middle of the power struggle between Otar and Nikoladze; even more so if Jensen chooses to meddle in Dvali affairs.

Koller does not agree with Talos Rucker's philosophy that Augs should take a peaceful approach to making things better, as Rucker was "making us [Augs] look like wimps" and is happy that he is now dead. When pressed about it, he will simply say that he felt Rucker was not the solution and they need a leader who will actually fight the discriminatory laws, like the Human Restoration Act.

Mission appearances

 * M3: Getting in Top Shape Again
 * SM04: The Calibrator
 * SM08: The Fix

Trivia

 * In the English-language version of the game, Jensen pronounces the c in Koller's first name as a [k] instead of the proper [ts]. Even Koller himself pronounces it this way about half way into the story, when he hails Jensen over to fully calibrate his system to be compatible with his experimental augmentations.  The Japanese version, while making many other mistakes in Czech, uses the correct [ts], spelling it ヴァツラフ vatsurafu.