Salomon Martin

Achilles Ponton was a Navy Officer working for ONI Section Three. He held a personal hatred towards Dr. Catherine Halsey.

Early History
Ponton was from a French family, but grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. At his twentieth birthday he joined the Luna OCS Academy. After two years of studying, he graduated from the academy in 2522 with full grades.

Employment into ONI
After the Mars Terrorist accident, which involved the death of a total of 102 civilians and 15 UNSC soldiers, Ponton was rewarded a Purple Heart for being injured during the incident.

Two months later, he was among the crew members that would test a new vessel. When a rebel jet attacked the craft which resulted in the death of the ship captain, Ponton took over the small vessel, and through some daring but brilliant maneuvers, he managed to destroy the rebel jets.

He was promoted to Lieutenant for these actions. After three more years of service, he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. ONI took this opportunitive to hire him into ONI Section Three. He was put in charge of an ONI facility on Mars.

After two more years of hard study and service, he was promoted to Commander. He became a more noticed officer in Section 3, and developed a hatred towards Dr. Catherine Halsey.

Program Proposes
Ponton was eager to produce supersoldiers for the UNSC, and proposed ideas for projects that ONI would approve. In early 2525, he proposed a program codenamed BRAVO. He didn't receive the funds he needed though, so that program was cancelled.

Later in 2525, he proposed a second generation of Spartan-Is, which he named Spartan I Class II. This time, ONI wanted to approve it, as long as Ponton paid half of what it would cost. By borrowing money from his billionaire Uncle, he was able to do so, and the program was put into motion. In 2529, they were finally trained, augmented and equipped with their Shock Trooper Assault Armors. Their operations were highly sucessfull, and Ponton immediately planned more Programs.

In 2530, he proposed the ORION-II Project, which used a lesser amount of soldiers than his first program had produced. This time, he paid for all the costs (due to a great reduce of funds from Section 3) by borrowing money from his uncle again.

He also proposed the SPARTAN Group Delta Project. It was finished in 2541.

Human-Covenant War
After SPARTAN Group Delta, he requested to return to frontline service, which Section 3 approved. He fought in five enngagements against the Covenant, and received the Colonial Cross.

During the Second Battle of Earth, his ship was almost entirely destroyed, and h wagravely injured. He was put into Cryosleep so that he could heal. After the Human-Covenant War ended, he requested to go into permanent cryo-sleep until he was needed. He was permitted to do so, and so he was put into sleep until 2564.

In 2564, he was revived so that he could join the Third Fleet before it went to the Second Ark. He's there right now.