Francis Davidson

"The greatest gift of my life was to meet her."

- At his wife's burial "Konzentrieren das Feuer auf das Macht-Tank!"

- Screaming a order to a German platoon "I have the painful privilege to posthumously awarding you the Colonial Cross,For your action in the evacuarion of Pohock, for the brilliant leadership that you have shows, for the courage you show in a desesperate fight and for the sacrifice of your life for this, i have the painfull privilige to award you the Colonial cross the highest honor a soldier in the United Earth Space corps can receive. Rest in Peace, my Mary Lee, Farewell my only one."

- During the burial seremony "I have defied god and demon, Burn entire world, i have come for you and this time none of you will be rest."

- Leading an assault over a Necros army right after the death of his wife. "We all gonna kill them."

- A promise made to his wife after her death. "The end of the Human-Covenant war should have bring us a age of peace...But this is'nt what they told us about...Even in this future i dont think we could win this war"

- During a late campaign

"So you want to know how I feel about this war? My scars remind me that the past is real"

- During an interview after the Necros war {{Quote|I may be the only veteran of Linna who doesn't have nightmares of that place. Because in my dreams, I always do it right. My nightmare is what I find when I wake up.|Talking about the first contact with the Necros.

Early life
}}Davidson was born in the UNSC base of Ramstein in Germany. His father was a sniper for the Marine Corps. Often seeing his father carrying heavy weapons like a 50mm sniper he decided to join the corps as soon as he would have the age. At the age of 5 his father was transfer to the Valcartier military base in the outskirts of Quebec City.

Meeting
Moving into the province of Quebec at the age of 5, Francis later entered in the collge of Ste-Foy studying in technic of radio-diagnostic. There he met the girl who would later become his wife Vice Admiral Mary Lee Davidson. They meet each other by pure coincidence in a gym class. Strangly, the first time they meet each other that was for school work, not for a date. About 9 mouth later they've got a children. At the age of 20 he entered in the UNSC marines corps and married his girlfriend.

Pre-war
After their wedding and entered immediatly entered in the UNSCDF were they assigned in 2 differnt space sector for 5 year. A few years prior of the necros assault. Later he was reassigned to the same ship of his wife,the UNSC Rememberance for 6 years. In 2601 he was pulled back on earth to serve in the earth garrison of the Home Fleet. In 2606 the UNSC Everest exited the UNSC factory,Reyes-McLees Shipyards. It stay assigned to the ship for a long time, Participing to the Battle of Kanna were he commanded the 25th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. There he retaked the distric of Aleph and the city of Gimmel. At this battle he gain the respect of the highcom recognizin his great tactical skill.

Battle of Kanna
During the batttle Davidson was lauch with the 25th Marine Expeditionary Brigade to retake the city of Gimmel he was also able to destroy a scarab and retake a large part of the district. he lead is troop in the fight. Member of the Royal 22e Régiment were trap in Gimmel forcing is troop to enter in the city much soon that he espected. Fighting in a guerria situation his men were relentless destroying every brute or Jakal in there way conquering Gimmel in least than 2 day crunch about 3 legion of brute. In fact he only loss 2 compagny on about 7,900 marines.

Prologue
By the time of the beginning of the war he was in charge of the 25th Marine Expeditionary Brigade composed of 12,123 men (About three regiments and one battalion.) He was dispatched onboard the ship of the Battlegroup Everest.During a large part of the war his unit stayed commisioned on the Battlegroup Everest. On May 21 2619 he was sent with is unit to retake a USR colony. His unit was sent to the surface to try to retake the planet but it was hopeless. They finaly manage to evacuate it. after the battle he receive the news of the loss of the Battlegroup Everest and the death of his wife. Then when he come back to earth for the burial he recieved the last transmition of his wife. He personally awarded her the Colonial Cross at the burial. During his time on earth he received from the UEG, the AUR and the USR orders to lead a large campaign to push the invader out of the galaxy. After the death of his wife he often said that he was feeling guilty of his wifes death claiming that he requested her to enter in the UNSC. Davidson never lost is will of destroying the Necros army.He was motivated by the death of her wife by their hands. During the late campaign he gained respect amount the other UNSC officers. He was also greatly appreciated by his men because he was one of the few General which was taking fight with them it also wearing the exactly same combat uniform of this mean showing that he wasnt caring about his grade and prefer being on the field than in a command center.

Mental Report Survivor guilt and Posttraumatic desorder
Davidson was met to be one of the most stable officer of the Marines Special operation corps. Being a veteran from the special operatiopn command, his mental mostly stable. Think changed on May 21th 2619 during the Devastating Battle of Prohok when 4517 soldier of his former brigades and is wife were killed during the final stand of the battle. After those horrible event ental report shoed some sign of Surviving guilt and Posttraumatic stress desorder. This is where is strick trainning from the special force helped him to past over those events. For one of the first time his men where heardind his familly. Of course everyone knew that Vice Admiral Mary Lee Davidson was his wife but this subject was kept to silence. Unlike other "normal" UNSC officer and because of his stronge and strict trainning Davidson was able to stay actif for the rest of the war. Much speculated it was because his anger against the Necros swam. After the war, he decided to share a friendly relationship with other Commanding officer from the former Battlegroup Everest and UNSC 8th Marines Expeditionary Force.