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Adam-172
Adam-172, born Adam Topol, was a Class II commando of the. Born in 2531 on, Adam was singled out as a physically and mentally superior child by the. Kidnapped and taken to Reach, Adam was trained for eight more years, before he was deployed along with the rest of the Class IIs against the genocidal aliens known as the.

After the end of the war, Adam was deployed to the rebel controlled planet of to assist in recapturing the planet. Sent on missions to capture key Venezian leaders, Adam and his fellow SPARTANs were key to shortening the battle that took place on the planet. With Venezia retaken by the UNSC, Adam continued to fight both against Covenant remnants, and Insurrectionists.

Early Life
Adam Topol was born on in the  in 2531. As he grew, he showed an intellectual capacity far above that of his peers, absorbing not only what he learned in school, but also going out of his way to learn more, especially in the realm of military history. His physical capabilities, while certainly not as noticeable as his knowledge, were still above that of his peers.

In 2537, Topol was visited by a strange man, who, unbeknownst to him, was a member of the, looking for candidates for the 's second class. Approaching Adam, who was on his own reading a book on the Second World War, the man asked him to describe what he had learned about it so far. Describing it in a far more eloquent way than many children of his age, Adam impressed the man, who continued to monitor the boy for a few more days, observing his physical capabilities. Having met all of the criteria to be a candidate to be a SPARTAN, Adam was abducted from his family by ONI agents. However, the young boy put up a fight, biting and hitting the agents as they attempted to take him, forcing them to sedate him.

Training
Taken to to be trained to be a SPARTAN-II, Adam was assigned the tag 172. However, the young Adam initially refused to have any part in the program, either causing trouble, or completely ignoring orders by the trainees' instructors. Due to his rebellious streak, the instructors enforced heavy punishment, both physical and mental, every time he refused an order, eventually breaking his habit, and making him follow their orders with little to no trouble.

After he was broken of his rebellious streak, Adam proved to be an adequate trainee, with a penchant for armored vehicles. One exercise where his knowledge of armored vehicles proved in handy was when the SPARTANs had to capture the flag of the OPFOR company they were facing. Adam, slipping past the guards, made his way into the motorpool, took an armored fighting vehicle, and caused general havoc around the base as the rest of the trainees took the flag, after which he escaped with them.

Augmentation
In 2545, the trainees were subjected to the SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures. Adam came out of the procedures unscathed, which he described as:

"...extremely painful, even more pain than I've ever experienced, even in comparison to the physical punishments that I was subjected to in the beginning of my training from those instructors"

However, some of his fellow trainees did not survive, causing Adam to feel melancholy in the weeks afterward as he recovered from the side effects of the augmentations. As he and the rest of the SPARTANs began to adjust to their newfound bodies, they became far faster and stronger than they could have ever imagined. When they had completely adjusted, they were issued their MJOLNIR Mark IV PAA.

Actium
After he was issued his Mark IV MJOLNIR, Adam and Crimson Team were deployed to the planet of Actium on May 13th in order to soften up the Covenant forces in advance of the 53rd Armored Division's planned offensive to destroy the alien staging areas. Crimson Team, for four days before the attack, caused havoc amongst Covenant forces, trying to make the attack easier for the UNSC.

While on the mission, despite not having quite as many enemy kills as his comrades, Adam developed a route for the tanks that would allow them to move fast and not get bogged down in the colony's notoriously constantly wet and muddy ground, as well as cause the max amount of damage to the Covenant during their fatal attack, during which the entire division was wiped out after they detonated two HAVOK nuclear weapons to completely wipe out the aliens.

New Berlin
"Let's see how these Echo Tangos like it when we're rolling over them!"

- Adam-172 during the Battle of New Berlin

After their deployment to Actium, Crimson Team was sent to the colony of New Berlin to aid UNSC forces struggling to hold the Covenant forces back from taking the only thing preventing them from glassing the entire planet: A tiny Forerunner artifact that had been discovered.

Commandeering a group of four M811 Heavy Tanks, Adam led the rest of his team in a raid into Covenant lines, while a group of the garrison launched a diversionary attack to draw enemy forces away. Cutting a several mile swath into alien lines, Crimson allowed UNSC forces to flood the hole in the enemy lines. Launching a full on offensive, the UNSC redeployed Crimson to keep the Covenant forces in chaos.

During the latter part of the operation, Adam was responsible for the deaths of multiple Sangheili field commanders, on top of many Covenant infantry. Thanks to the efforts of Crimson, the UNSC were able to continue attacking and forcing back the Covenant until friendly reinforcements could arrive and completely drive back the alien fleet. New Berlin had survived, but at a heavy cost.

Hellas
Soon after New Berlin, Crimson Team was again redeployed, this time to the planet of Hellas, after reports of rebel troops armed with black market plasma weaponry were discovered on the planet. Dropped onto the frontier of the planet via HEV, Crimson Team was given orders to seek out and destroy any rebel bases, and retrieve any Covenant or Covenant style weaponry for the UNSC.

During a patrol, Crimson came under attack by rebels using what they had never encountered before, specifically, the drug known as a "Rumbledrug". As they began to approach a rebel base they suspected of having Covenant weapons, multiple squads of rebels began charging at the SPARTANs. Despite unloading round after round from his MA5B into one of the rebels, Adam was decked by one of them, who proceeded to try to kill him. Adam, having lost his rifle, picked up the rebel by his throat, and in his words, said he: "...squeezed the life out of that drug crazed psycho."

After killing the remainder of the rebels who had attacked them, Crimson moved onto the base itself, and, after dispatching the few guards who had not helped in the ambush, found that, sure enough, the rebels had a stockpile of black market Covenant weaponry. For their actions on Hellas, all of Crimson Team was awarded the Legion of Honor.

New Istanbul
After Crimson Team's extreme effectiveness on Hellas against Insurrectionists, they became a full time anti terrorist unit, roaming the galaxy against rebels. Crimson Team's first mission in this capacity was against a cell on the planet of New Istanbul, which was responsible for orchestrating multiple terrorist attacks on the planet.

Approaching the rebel camp, Adam spotted a captured AFV in the rebel camp. Sneaking on base, the SPARTANs easily eliminated the insurgents, before capturing their commander, a former UNSC Army captain, throwing him in the AFV, and escaping that way, with Adam using the vehicle to nearly destroy the base.

Cherbourg
With the destruction of the cell on New Istanbul, Crimson Team was deployed to the colony of Cherbourg to investigate a rebel unit sabotaging or raiding many of the ships, civilian or military, that stopped at the colony for resupply. Devising a plan, Crimson set up a trap, with a stockpile of weapons and vehicles aboard a supply ship. Staking out the area, they waited for the rebels to board the ship, before ambushing them, taking two of the men alive.

Interrogating one, Crimson discovered the location of the rebels' main base on the planet. Handing the two survivors over to UNSC authorities for further questioning, the team commandeered the two M808s, and prepared for an assault on the main base. Setting up his tank on a vantage point overlooking the base, Adam used it to rain shells down on the base, as the other tank, carrying the rest of the team moved in, decimating the rebel troops, before making their way back to UNSC lines.

Reach
After a few more minor anti insurgent operations, Crimson was quickly recalled to Reach in 2552, due to the sudden Covenant attack on the planet with the Fleet of Particular Justice. Deployed to protect one of the Orbital Defense Generators, Crimson Team engaged in fierce fighting with advancing Covenant forces. During the battle, teammember Timothy-253 was hit by a Jackal sniper, who the rest of Crimson Team immediately neutralized.

As it became apparent Reach was going to fall, Crimson Team was pulled off the planet, and taken to the heavy frigate, UNSC Yankee Doodle, for immediate transfer back to the Sol System. After arriving in the Sol System, the surviving members of Crimson were issued the Mark V variant of the MJOLNIR.

Earth
Soon after the Fall of Reach, the Covenant arrived at Earth. Deployed quickly from the Yankee Doodle to the city of Boston, Crimson Team was forced to take part in a slow and agonizing street to street battle against the Covenant forces that had landed there. While riding along with a convoy through the city, Crimson and the rest of the UNSC were ambushed by a large Covenant force. Taking cover in a nearby building, Crimson, along with about three squads of the surviving Soldiers and Marines, held off the Covenant.

During their last stand at the building, another of Crimson's members, Ashley-153, was critically wounded by Covenant forces, leaving only two SPARTANs in the fight while the Marine corpsman attended to her. Adam, taking up a vantage position, called in artillery and sniped cloaked Sangheili and other aliens who were attempting to breach the building, was able to play a pivotal role in holding back the Covenant until reinforcements were able to arrive, after two days of constant battle.

With the news of the end of the Human-Covenant War in early 2553, Adam experienced the first peace in his entire life. With the end of the war, the Insurrection once again came up as a problem, humanity fighting humanity once again. Having seen enough death, Adam privately expressed his views about the war, stating that he felt if colonies wanted to stay independent from the UNSC, they should be able to, as there was not a need for more bloodshed after the war.

Venezia
Despite his reservations about fighting rebels post war, Adam complied with orders when he, along with the surviving members of Crimson were sent to Venezia to help retake the planet. Operating behind Venezian lines, the SPARTANs took part in sabotage and assassination of rebel leaders to make the war faster.

However, as the end of the campaign neared, Crimson was ordered into the city of New Tyne to capture a group of key rebel leaders, including the infamous, and many others, who were meeting to discuss strategy.

Crimson Team was sent into the city along with a UNSC force numbering multiple divisions to break the Venezians' defenses, and capture the leaders. While the main forces moved into the city, Crimson moved through the sewers towards the meeting bunker. However, while the SPARTANs were still in the city, the rebels detonated a HAVOK nuke that had been acquired for them by a mysterious mercenary only known as Caesar. Adam and his team, unprotected from the blast, were immediately vaporized, along with thousands of UNSC troops.

Nicholas Miller
"Men, I say this to you, the UNSC can destroy us, they can kill and round up and persecute anyone who supports us and our cause, but they cannot kill an ideal. They can kill us, and we shall be branded as traitors to a government, but centuries later, when our ideal has taken hold, our ideal of self government, we shall be remembered as martyrs and patriots, men who died for what was righteous. I implore you to remember that when we fight, we fight not for ourselves, we fight for our children, not by blood, but the next generation, that they may not suffer tyranny like humanity has for centuries!"

- Nicholas Miller

Lieutenant Nicholas Miller was an officer of the. Born in 2520 on, Miller was only five years old when the colony came under the control of the Insurrection. When he turned eighteen, Miller joined the Venezian People's Navy, and was commissioned as an officer, commanding a platoon of marines aboard the captured UNSC destroyer URF John Paul Jones, after he passed the tests to be shunted to officer status during basic training.

In 2555, after basic training, the UNSC assaulted Venezia, and Miller, along with the destroyer, and its escort, were forced to evacuate to, in order to get shelter from the UNSC. After being on Eayn for three years, the called for the rebels to hold up their end of the bargain by helping the aliens.

The Jackals, during the rebels' stay on Eayn, had brokered a deal with the, to aid the other aliens in any endeavors they had, as long as the Sangheili turned a blind eye to the Kig-Yar's smuggling and harboring of enemies of the UNSC. In turn, the Kig-Yar intended to use the rebels to help them, as long as they kept harboring them.

Despite Miller not trusting the Jackals or the Sangheili, he went along with his superiors' orders, and they went to Earth, in order to aid the beleaguered UNSC. By the time they arrived, Earth's defense was in shambles, and the Didact was in New York. After the Forerunner warrior escaped through a slipspace rupture, the rebels, as well as many other UNSC and Federation forces, followed him through. For nearly a month, they traveled through slipspace, and, after a battle and yet another slipspace jump at Zeta Halo, they arrived at the Greater Ark.

When they arrived, the force found that the Federation had come under attack by the UNSC, including the, and all her escorts.

Early Life
Nicholas Miller was born to two former Venezian People's Army personnel turned entrepreneurs in in 2530. As he grew up, Miller was shown to have a superior intellect to many of his classmates in school, enough so that he would have been marked as a SPARTAN-II candidate, had the planet still been in UNSC hands. However, his physical capabilities, in comparison to his academic strength and peers, were average.

As he continued to age, an unspoken expectance of Miller to join the Venezian People's Army, like his parents, came down on him. Although his enthusiasm about it was lackluster at first, he came to want to join the military, and, aiming even higher, to become an officer. These expectations, both by his parents and himself, were the impetus for Miller to join the VPA.

Basic Training
Miller joined the Venezian People's Army in March of 2538, and was sent to basic training at Fort Watts. Through the brutal training, Miller was an unremarkable recruit, his abilities, especially in physical training, surpassed greatly by many of the other recruits, who had come from heavy labor on farms, while Miller had come from the city, and had not done much physical labor, with the most being lifting things for his parents or the mandatory exercise required by his school.

However, halfway through training, Miller became well known by many of the recruits, after he, and only one other recruit out of the two hundred and fifty man class, did well enough on their officer candidate tests to be bumped up to advanced training to become officers in the VPA. For two more years, Miller and forty nine other officer candidates trained at a different section of Fort Watts. In 2550, Miller and thirty other candidates, nineteen having dropped out, graduated, and were commissioned as Lieutenants in the VPA.

Deployment to the VPN Abankin
After earning his commission, Miller was deployed to the captured UNSC destroyer VPN Abankin, to command a platoon of the ship's complement of VPA troops. With no war to fight, Miller kept his unit sharp with regular drills and training sessions, knowing full well the UNSC could return at any time, and they would need to fight them off to the best of their ability. For five more years, Miller continued to train and train his men, paranoid every day that he might see a slipspace jump in system, with hundreds of either UNSC or Covenant ships.

Fall of Venezia
On November 23rd, 2555, Miller's fears were realized when a force of UNSC ships jumped in-system, headed straight for Venezia. When general quarters was sounded, Miller and his platoon, having trained for the past five years for such a situation, were the first unit of troops ready to repel boarders on the ship. From his position, Miller watched in horror as the vanguard of rebel ships was easily destroyed by the UNSC.

For the next half hour, which Miller described as the longest of his life, the Venezian People's Navy and the UNSC Navy engaged in a bloody melee. But by the end, despite their best efforts, most of the VPN was nothing more than a group of burned out hulks of ships. Knowing they could not fight any more, the captain ordered the ship to jump to, hoping to broker a deal with the.

Pirating
When the Abankin jumped out of slipspace near Eayn, they broadcast a signal stating they needed asylum, and were willing to trade with the aliens and make a deal for it. In response to the rebels' transmission, the Skirmisher, Slin, who had been on Venezia, spoke back to them, stating he was sending an envoy to the ship. Miller, along with three other soldiers, were sent with the captain to negotiate the deal with Slin's envoy.

Despite his reservations about negotiating with aliens, Miller held his tongue, and simply looked on as the maneuvering and bartering talk went back and forth between the two. Although the envoy's guards had not shown any signs of hostility, Miller still distrusted them, and kept his weapon's safety off, waiting for a firefight to break out. However, the two conducted the deal peacefully, and the two species brokered a deal, for the rebels to aid Slin, in return that he would give them asylum.

For three more years, the rebels waited for Slin to ask them to do something, but, to the shock of the entire crew, he did not until February of 2558, when he told the rebels they were to aid he and his fleet in a deal that they had brokered, this time with, to aid the beleaguered UNSC on Earth.

Despite the crew, including Miller's, objections to helping the UNSC, they were all reminded they had a bargain to hold up. With this, Miller, now in command of the entire boarding complement aboard the Abankin, ordered his troops to prepare for heavy combat against a foe they had heard was being called "The Pact".

Earth
By the time the Abankin, as well as the Kig-Yar and Sangheili fleets arrived at Earth, the battle was coming to a close, just as The Pact and the Draconian Empire's fleet jumped into slipspace. In a split second decision, the Arbiter and UNSC forces followed through the portal, just before it closed.

Installation 07
On April 8th, 2558, the Alliance Federation forces arrived at Installation 07, and commenced a battle on the ring's surface. Miller, deployed to the surface with twenty handpicked men, began working as part of Strike Force Alpha. The first part of the mission on the ring was to secure a landing zone, before assaulting the Installation's cartographer.

After he and his unit deployed from their dropships, Miller engaged in heavy combat with multiple lances of Covenant Remnants, as well as two Promethean Knights. Taking cover behind a cluster of rocks, he drew the fire of a stationary turret, while a unit of seven rebel troops moved up, and, after killing the crew, turned it on the rest of the forces, killing all but one Promethean Knight, who disappeared. However, while Miller was moving up with the rest of his troops, the Knight teleported behind him and knocked the Lieutenant to the ground. Aiming his HMG-38, he emptied an entire magazine of rounds into the Forerunner warrior, before transitioning to his, and finishing it off.

With the end of his part of the initial operation, Miller surveyed his casualties, which were three dead, four heavily wounded. The dead were brought up to the Abankin, via dropship carrying those who had been killed, from all member states of the Federation. However, while he was surveying the area, Miller ran into the vaunted SPARTAN-IIs who were part of REGAL-TF: 313. Miller, distrustful of the SPARTANs, made a comment to his troops, telling them not to trust them. However, Frederic-104 overheard some of Miller's troops talking about his comment, and confronted the Lieutenant. As the argument grew more heated, Miller nearly drew his M6D, but before he was able to do so, Jonathan-117 pulled the Lieutenant away, and Calliope-087 and Melinda-058 restrained Fred.

Despite Miller's distrust and anger, he had little time to let it brew, as they were again called up, this time to attack the Cartographer. Boarding a squadron of UNSC Navy Pelican gunships, the rebels laid down heavy fire from the dropships on the Pact forces below them. On one of the gunships, Miller took control of the weapons systems after the UNSC officer controlling it was killed, gunning down hundreds of enemy infantry. However, their attack would be short lived, as the, arrived in a Cerberus walker, forcing them to retreat. Returning to the Abankin, the rebels followed the Federation forces again, this time to Installation 00

Installation 00
On August 13th, the Federation ships arrived at Installation 00. Only an hour and a half after their arrival, the, accompanied by its escorts, came out of slipspace, and began opening fire on the Federation ships, including the Abankin. After the initial salvo, which killed the captain of the ship, Miller was put in charge, as the ship's real XO was unable to do anything due to medical treatment. Not trusting the UNSC, Miller ordered the ship to fire at will on any and all ships escorting the Infinity. Many of the rebels, still enraged at the UNSC for Venezia, wanted to move in and go on a rampage, one that would most likely destroy it. Miller, knowing the ships were still dangerous, ordered the crews to snipe them from a distance with the destroyer's MAC guns.

Despite his best efforts to keep the ship out of harm's way, Miller was unable to stop some UNSC Marines from boarding the destroyer. With many of the troops dying, Miller ordered them to retreat from their positions, and, once they were out, he vented the atmosphere in the sections the UNSC had taken, stopping them dead, quite literally, in their tracks. Once he deemed it safe enough to attack again, Miller ordered the destroyer to attack the entire formation, where they wreaked havoc with the remaining weapons on their ship, before moving to a safe distance, away from the UNSC's guns. The engagement took place only in a matter of about thirty to forty minutes, before the UNSC turned and jumped out system.

For the next few months, until November, the crew was mainly focused on repairing the damage from their previous engagement, taking pieces from many of the Federation's destroyed ships, and welding them onto the holes on the Abankin. They also did the same with weapons, although they were less successful in this aspect. Miller also was reassigned back to his original duty, as the XO had finished his treatment, and took control of the ship.

Raid on the Infinity
In February of 2559, Miller was contacted by Master Chief once again, this time to take part in a raid on the UNSC Infinity. Taking thirty other VPA soldiers with him, he and the rest of his troops boarded the prowler UNSC Pegasus. As they came up on the massive flagship, Miller and his troops agreed to go with Master Chief. As they boarded the Infinity, Miller and his fireteam led the way. It was here that Miller's true calculating coldness was shown as he mercilessly mowed down UNSC soldiers, no matter if they were surrendering or not.

When the team discovered their package, Captain Lasky, and Osman stated that she would unleash the Infinity's complement of SPARTAN on them, Miller ordered his troops to load armor piercing rounds into all their weapons. Following the Chief. down to the hangar bay, Miller and his team were ambushed by a group of SPARTAN-IVs as 117 began fighting. Hefting a .30 Caliber Machine Gun loaded with AP rounds, Miller unleashed a murderous hail of bullets on the SPARTAN-IVs, aiming for the chinks in the armor plates, and if that didn't stop them, his men's sheer amount of fire downed them.

After being rescued, Miller stated he would not be following the rest of REGAL, and that he would see them at the Ark, as his men needed medical treatment. However, this was just a ruse so the Abankin could return to Venezia. However, before they left on a subprowler Doctor Halsey had supplied them with, the rebels captured three HAVOK nuclear weapons from the missiles in the Infinity's hangar. After the rebels returned to the destroyer above the Ark, the survivors were awarded the Order of Valiance for their actions, after which the ship began its jump to Venezia.

New Beginnings
After nearly a year of slipspace travel, the destroyer arrived at Venezia. The captain, wanting to know what had happened on the planet, deployed a team of three troopers to report on the planet's situation. Their analysis was grim. Dissidents on the planet were being rounded up and shot, and even law abiding citizens were being herded into internment camps. When this was reported, Miller became enraged, and asked for a meeting of the ship's officers. As he spoke at the meeting, Miller demanded to begin a campaign of complete and total warfare against the UNSC.

His proposal was accepted by the officers, and Miller was placed in charge of any and all combat that would occur from the Abankin. For the next few years, Miller led a campaign of guerilla combat against the UNSC, including using the three HAVOK nukes to destroy a UNSC shipyard in orbit above Mars. His combat actions were not limited to just from the Abankin, as Miller also worked as a rebel leader on multiple planets, eventually becoming the youngest General in the URF in 2561, at thirty one years old. He also became an arms smuggler, cutting deals with dealers that in return for him smuggling their weapons, they would give him supplies or weaponry.

For many more years, Miller led the Abankin and its crew on multiple successful operations. These actions led the UNSC to place a bounty of 1.6 million Credits on just his head alone, and an extra 50,000 for each of his accomplices.

Appearance
Miller's physical appearance was very much average looking, with no real distinguishing figures. However the time of the end of the raid on the UNSC Infinity, Miller had multiple scars from the continuous combat he had been in, both from shrapnel and burns from plasma. He almost always kept his hair in military regulations, something he carried over from being an officer in the VPA, when it was still a standing army.

Personality
Miller's personality was the polar opposite of his outer appearance, with his thoughts and actions being unforgettable. He was a firm believer in "ends justify the means", something that was shown on the Infinity and after the raid, when he had no qualms about killing other humans if that was what it took to lead to his goal. Jonathan-117, who disliked fighting other humans, theorized his coldness in combat was a result of the fact he had become jaded, especially after Venezia was lost to the UNSC, and he was forced to retreat rather than stand and fight. He was also extremely irritable, although this usually manifested around SPARTANs, who he had little love for.

He also was a vehement believer in anti centralization and pro colonial autonomy sentiment, something that was again, a product of his Insurrectionist upbringing, as well as a distrust, if not outright hatred of, SPARTANs, who had been designed to fight the Insurrection. He also saw the UNSC, and, even the Master Chief and the rest of the SPARTANs he worked with as hypocrites, as during the Human-Covenant War, when they claimed to be protecting humanity, when yet they still killed other humans in the form of Insurrectionists.

Juxtaposed with his bitter relationship with the UNSC and SPARTANs, Miller was doggedly loyal to his men. This was manifested during the securing of a landing zone on Installation 07, when he drew the fire of a Shade turret, so the rest of his men could move up safely and take. Even when he told his men not to trust the SPARTANs, he thought he was keeping them safe from betrayal by them.