User:Spartan Drew-A116/Spartan A116

Drew-A116 Lieutenant Commander Drew-A116 was a Spartan III commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, attached to Special Warfare Group Three. Drew was the leader of Team Steel, a Special-Operations group of Spartan IIIs who fought in several latter Human-Covenant conflicts.

Childhood and Early Career Drew was born in Nevada, Biko on May 10th, 2521. He was conscripted into the Spartan III Program’s Alpha Company in 2531. Drew was a slacker, lacking the motivation, not knowing his true meaning for being in the program. Upon learning his purpose for being in the program half-way through it’s’ process, he quickly shaped up because, like the others, wanted to exact revenge on the Covenant for killing his family on his home-world of Biko. His realization pushed him to be one of the top in his squad, which was Steel. At this point he was kept from the heavily-suicidal missions by his commanding officers Kurt-051 and SCPO Mendez, along with several others such as Carter-A259, for his exceptional performance. Preceding the demise of the other Spartan IIIs in Operation Prometheus, Drew was placed in another group of Spartan IIIs- whom of which were given special equipment, and later, MJOLNIR-Powered Assault Armour.

Soon after Drew was re-stationed and given command of a small group of Spartan IIIs, which he dubbed “Team Steel” in reference to the squad he worked with before.

Spartans under his command:

Matthew-B087 Ethan-B009

Later Career The Battle of Eriqua In March of 2551 Drew and Team Steel were stationed on the planet Eriqua in the Epsilon Eridani System, quelling small Covenant task-forces whom of which have been harassing the planet for a few months beforehand. After being jettisoned from the UNSC Marathon Cruiser Just Cause, the team’s Pelican was shot down by Covenant AAA Wraiths just above the mountain range of Duggut. Steel came out of the crash with hardly a scratch on their armour, but they had lost their pilot and co-pilot. The team managed to trek to where they had seen the Covenant force and strategically took out the large group of Covenant consisting of (according to the field-report) 3 Sangheili [Field Officer and 2 Majors], ~20 Kig-Yar, ~30 Unggoy, and 4 Mglekgolo pairs. Much to Steel’s surprise, these were all the Covenant on the planet- However, in the space above Eriqua, the Just Cause was in a firefight with the Covenant Destroyer Horizon of Destruction in which the Just Cause prevailed, but with massive structural damage. The Team managed to get extracted and return to Reach about 2 days later. The Just Cause was re-fit and Steel was debriefed on their 5th successful mission.

The group of Spartan IIIs went on to complete 4 other missions, all successfully, before becoming in-active in May of 2552. Drew remained on Reach and lived in the far outskirts of Aszod’s shipbreaking yard. He noted to his later Marine squad that it was “peaceful, isolated… Perfect for a biologically engineered monster such as myself.”

Fall of Reach On August 10th, 2552 Drew was re-fit into his MJOLNIR armour, approximately 30 minutes before the Covenant hit the Navy base he was brought to during the Covenant’s invasion of Reach. He managed to fend off many Covenant forces, and escaped on a M12G1 Light Anti-Armor Vehicle with an ONI officer; Field Officer Alexander DelCiampo. From their escape Drew and Alex made their way to a civilian evacuation center- the Aszod Spaceport. There, Drew and 3 squads of Marines defended several evacuation craft from hundreds of oncoming Covenant forces. The firefight lasted about 20 hours, with 14 UNSC casualties, ~20 Civilian casualities, and hundreds of Covenant fatalities. Drew’s injuries he sustained from the fight were bearable, but his armour was severely damaged and the MJOLNIR shielding became unequal on various parts of his body. This may have led to his demise.

Post Fall of Reach A few days after they escaped Reach, Drew and the remaining group on the evacuation ship touched down in New Manila, Mars. About 5 days later Drew split off from the civilian group and set up living quarters on a Marine base outside of New Manila. On October 14th, 2552, Drew was informed by an Unnamed ONI Officer that Earth was under immediate threat from the Covenant; Drew then donned his MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armour one last time 3 days later, and headed off-planet to Earth which was (as of October 20th) being invaded by Covenant forces.

Death Drew was the one of the only other Spartans in the African province of New Mombasa at the time of the Battle of Earth. He and several groups of Marines were pushing back Covenant forces made up of Jiralhanae, Kig-Yar, Unggoy, and Mglekgolo when the Covenant Battlecruiser Nearsighted Goal managed to break through the Orbital Defense Grid but, heavily damaged, could not sustain flight and crash landed roughly 20km away from where Drew and the Marines were fighting.

Drew led a small platoon of Marines to the crash site. There they were met with a surprising and overwhelming Covenant force; 3 Brute Field Chieftains, 6 Brute Majors, ~30 Grunt squads, and 20+ Kig-Yar sniper teams. The two forces had a short-lived firefight which ended in all the Marines dead or heavily injured and Drew hit directly in the stomach by a Jiralhanae’s Type-2 Energy Hammer. This, on impact, overloaded Drew’s already fragile shielding system, smashed his armour through the gel-layer, and broke to skin, which shattered all of his ribs.

Drew-A116 died on October 22nd, 2552 and filed under M.I.A. as of October 23rd, 2552.