Roman-071

"God, I love this gig!"

- Roman-071

Biography
Born Roman Miller, the young one was born on the colony world Cosmonaut, the sister world of. Roman was born to family of farmers and lived what was called a normal life. Within time, Roman's parents sent him to a local school where he was taught by. During recess, Halsey and Roman would form something resembling a mother-son type bond and the two had great respect for the other.

Like all candidates, Roman was abducted by and was sent to  for training. Roman began confused and scared but soon learned that his teacher was the head and quickly found her and almost never left her side. However, during training ops, Roman was paired with fellow spartans Cassie-119 and Nichole-077. The three formed a great friendship and soon became inseparable, even if Halsey tried her hardest. Soon, the three were assigned with Gary-009, Owen-022 and Jane-105. Though Roman was not team leader, he was still selected as the team's weapon specialist and was greatly respected for it, especially by Gary.

Human-Covenant War
"As the years, hours, and days go by. I still think of that day. The day where, where I lost kids I grew up with.  I just...I'm sorry, still is hard to talk about."

- Roman remembering the augmentation day.

Undercover Operation
During the Harvest Campaign,  discovered that the Covenant had found the planet Sentinel, a colony that was one of the largest producers of necessary ship parts and slip-space drives. Purple Team is sent to stop the Covenant in a small stealth ship dubbed the Interceptor. Using the Interceptor, Purple team would slip past Covenant forces and land on the planet. Once on the planet, the spartans began to move towards several Covenant staging areas and LZ’s.

Repeatedly beating down on Covenant sectors, Purple Team picked up a S.O.S from a near by UNSC outpost. At the time, Petty Officer Second Class Gary-009 made the decision to investigate and request was given by Senior Petty Officer Thomas Majors. Moving towards the outpost, Purple Team was ambushed by Covenant forces but quickly dealt with. Fearing the worse, Purple made a mad dash towards the outpost and they were correct. The outpost was under Covenant command and the entire crew was dead.

Retake of the Outpost
The team divided with Owen-022, Roman-071, and Cassie-119 taking a position on a ridge to provide covering fire and so that Roman would easily take out Covenant comms that were still under construction. The rest of the team moved through the outpost and struck at multiple Jackal nest and Elite barracks, filling them with smoke and snapping their necks. Once moving through the barracks, Purple-1 made their way to the control room whilst Roman was about to blow the AA’s and alert the Covenant to their presence.

After the control was cleared, Gary captured a Sangheili Ultra who had command of the outpost for interrogation. At the time, Roman detonated the explosives on the AA’s destroying them and retaking the outpost. During interrogation, the ultra revealed that a fleet of Covenant ships were already on the planet and had begun their assault. After returning to space, Purple Team witnessed the destruction of the planet and its glassing. Sentinel was now under command of the Covenant.