User:K4/SPARTAN-141

"Humans used to look into the sky and ask 'What's out there?'. Well, we found that out. And they ain't little green men."

- SPARTAN-141

SPARTAN-141 is one of the seven surviving Spartans in the UNSC Marine Corps' secret project to have SPARTAN-IIs of their own. He is one of the most secretive and muted soldiers in the UNSC, but has no problem voicing his opinion when he needs to, even if the chain of command prevents him. Most of his and the other Marine Corps SPARTAN-IIs training was covered up and not much is known of his early life, save for he once knew SPARTAN-126 before they were drafted into the MC's "project".

History
SPARTAN-141's real name is unknown at this time, but it's rumored he was once called "Eric" by another SPARTAN-II. He was born and raised on Thermopylae Colony, one of the UNSC's most difficult colonies to teraform, due to the unpredictable Ion storms that raveged the planet. As a result, he ans the colony's other inhabitants learned to be able to fend for themselves or die. His father, George, was killed soon after he was born by a coworker, who mistakenly belived that George was having an affair with his wife. When several Marines came to their homestead's door to kidknap 141 for the Project in 2520, his mother wounded one of them with an M6 sidearm, but was detained after they successfuly took 141. She has not been seen since.

Project: MIST
141 and the 49 other SPARTAN-II canidates passed up by Dr. Cathrine Halsey were found and kidknappped by the Marine Corps for Project: MIST. After a rather snoopy Marine Intelligence officer uncovered the UNSC Navy's SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR projects and seeing early test results preform impressivly, they wanted some Spartans of their own. Rounding up the canidates Halsey didn't use, due to budget limitations, the UNSC MC began work on their spartans. Their training regimen was brutal, uncaring and broke down all of the canidates physically and emotionally. One of the reasosns 141 and the other Spartans aren't called by their names at all is because the drill instructors told them that they no longer had names, that they must earn their Spartan number. Because Halsey had 150 canidates, she couldn't take them all. The Marines didn't have that problem with only 50. However, they needed access to all the things Halsey's Spartans had, so several discreet "payments" and "mutual agreements" were made to get samples of the tech and supplies needed. Like Halsey's Spartans, many were killed or disfigured after the augmentation drugs were injected. Only 7 survived the process. Graduating in 2530, their first assignment as Spartans was to eliminate Tim Kennedy, a known Rebel who had evaded the UNSC for 11 years. Even with the Covenant begining to glass several of the Outer Colonies, Kennedy was a problem for the UNSC. After eliminating Kennedy, the Spartans were regulated to Black Ops, similar to Colonel Anderson. Successful in every mission they were sent into, they were eventually deployed to fight Covenant soldiers. Most of their orgininal contact with the Covenant was during the Jericho VII Theater, when they were deployed alongside Master Chief and his Spartans.

Human-Covenant War
141, along with the rest of the 7 Spartans he grew up with in Project: MIST were sent into missions in dire need of intervention. Somethimes they were deployed alongside the Navy's SPARTAN-IIs, but maintained a safe distance away, lest their existance be revealed. However, during a battle on Spectre Prime, they were forced to cooperate with the other SPARTAN-IIs to eliminate what would have been an invading force in the Alpha Centauri system. After eliminating the entire force, their, along with the other SPARTAN-IIs, existance and several missions were released in 2547.

Operation: JUSTICE
After SPARTAN-126 was appointed leader of the 7-person "Black Team" in 2549, the MIST Spartans were assigned to Reach, as test subjects for Project: MJOLNIR. When Reach was attacked by the Covenant, most of them were able to get away, but SPARTANs 126 and 141 were left behind. After meeting up with some marines, they escaped on a Longsword bomber. They soon learnt of an important diplomat coming to the Reach disater site, named the Minor Prophet of Justice. They decided to eliminate the Prophet and hopefuly weaken the Covenant caste system to the point of fracture. Most of the marines died when they boarded the Prophet's carrier, but the Spartan's successfuly killed the Prophet. However, this only delayed what Justice had been relaying to the fleet: The Covenant had discovered Earth's location. The Spartans then used a Prowler from a damaged UNSC vessel to return to Earth.

First Battle of Earth
After returning to Earth, SPARTANs 126 and 141 were extensivly debriefed. John-117, Sgt. Johnson and several other SPARTAN-IIs arrived soon after in the Gettysburg. John and the rest of the Navy's SPARTAN-IIs were always concidered more like cousins to Black Team than brothers ans sisters. They also didn't like the amount of publicity that John-117 got, just for doing what the rest of them did, day in, and day out. however, they keept these feelings to themselves. They had just finished a friendly wrestling match with each other when John was called up to Cairo Station to recive his new MJOLNIR Mk. VI armor. Half an hour later, the Covenant found them. With their Mk. V armor in shops for matanince, the combined SPARTANs were forced to improvise with ODST Body Suits. They did, however, eventually get MJOLNIR Mk. VI armor to use. After loading up on In Amber Clad, they were sent down to the surface to hold back the invasion force. Unfortunatly, when John-117 followed Regret to Installation 05, a SPARTAN-II of Black Team was in New Mombassa when the Slipspace rupture destroyed the city. The rest of the Spartans had evacuated all civilians and were safely occupying Voi. However, several hours later they were recalled to Crow's Nest, an underground UNSC resistance base, when the Covenant began orbital bombardment of North America and occupying the planet.

Second Battle of Earth
SPARTANs 141, 126 and 013 were redeployed in what remained of North America, to quell the Covenant Loyalist forces looking for a "holy relic", which, after hearing conciderable chatter from the Covenant battlenet, they belivied was the Ark, some Forerunner device on Earth. The plan called for 126 and 013 to distract the majority of the Loyalists while 141 snuck on board their battleship and detonate a micro-nuke. However, 141 was captured before he could detonate the nuke and was brought before a Brute Chieftan, to be executed. Meanwhile, SPARTANs 013 and 126 had successfuly eliminated the forces on the ground, when they were told, by the Chieftan himself, that he would kill 141 if they attempted to resue him. 013, disobeying a direct order from the higher ranking officer, 126, rammed a Phantom dropship into the battleship and created enough commotion to allow 141 to slip away, but 013 herself was caught and, as both UNSC and Covenant combatants watched on an unprecidented all-COM channel feed, was decapatated by the Chieftan. SPARTAN-126, taking advantage of everyone's silent intent of their COM channels, immedatly detonated the micro-nuke and vaporised the warship. He and 141 got away safely. However, they were shot down over the Florida Keys and were stranded until a Pelican from Crow's Nest could retrive them. During that time, they fought off waves of Covenant soldiers in gureilla warfare, untill they were overwhelmed. Once again, 141 was captured by a Chieftan, but this time was intentional, to allow 126 to kill him whith his attention drawn elsewhere. However, 141 was brutally beaten by the Jiralhanae and stabbed with a Sangheili Energy Sword, and his left arm was nearly severed. 126 rescued his comrade and the finaly achived pickup by Kilo 23, just before she was called to retrive John-117 after his orbital insertion. 141 was sent into surgery and would not be able to fight for several weeks. 126 was the last SPARTAN of Black Team able to fight the Covenant until the end of the Human-Covenant War.

After the War
Shortly after the end of the Humam-Covenant War, 141 was deemed fit for duty once again, much to the surprise of 126. However, he had to wear a life support system built into his armor and a healing device for his still-severly wounded arm, but he hardly acknowleged their presence as more than a small inconvinence. He requested several weeks R&R and was granted permission to return to Thermopylae for his leave. However, other than a transmission that crypticly told UNSCDF headquarters that "They're gone...All of them...", nothing was heard for over 2 months. ONI acknowleged 126's close relationship with 141 and ordered him on a new mission, in colabaration with the UNSC Navy, to find 141, at any cost. 126 was puzzled by ONI's intrest with 141, but obliged. After no signs of his or anyone else's life signs on the planet, 126 and Lt. Cdr McLaie were attacked by Covenant forces and were forced to return to a UNSC ship in orbit and called for backup. 300 ships arrived, but over 1200 Covenant forces decended on the colony, and a hellish space battle ensued, duing which 126, McLaie, and a team of ODSTs fought thier way into a Forerunner structure and found 141 battling Sentnels. After rescuing 141, they raced back to the fleet in orbit and 141 pushed expressly on the notion of NOVA bombing Thermopylae. However, before they could launch the bomb, the planet changed, and its true nature was revaled; Thermopylae was actually a Forerunner Shield World similar to Onyx. After millinos of Sentinels vaporised the Covenant ships, they UNSC fleet was told to leave the system and never come back by some intlligence on the planet. On its way out, the ships laid warning buoies aroud the system, warning anyone who enters of "ancient forces at work".

Decent
141, in his debrifing, deatiled his entire story after sending the cryptic message. He has arrived at Thermopylae Colony and found there were no life signs. he found the makeshift hospital in the Mall and also found the Forerunner structure. Compleled by an inate curiosity, he decended below the planet's crust in the structure and found an entire Forerunner city inside, perfectly intact. After exploring for several weeks, he found a Sentinel and attempted to communicate with it. However, similar to the SPARTAN-IIIs on Onyx, he was classified as a threat and was therefore hunted, but he, with his better training over the SPARTAN-IIIs, was able to evade the Sentinels better. However, he was nearing the end of his resources and limits when 126 and his team showed up. He also saw what appered to be plans for something called "Omega 7". The captain of the U.N.S.C. Troy said they recived a transmission with Omega 7 in it. 141 barely recalls the plans and said they also referenced some intelligence hidden away since before the Halos were fired. However, here was no clear information.

Retrival
After the Thermopylae incident, 141 dissapeared from all known history and didn't resurface untill 2558, when he and 126 reported to ONI AR&DB-E for Armor upgrades.

Personality
141's personality could be summed up in one word: Complex. He rarely opens up to anyone, even his SPARTAN brothers and sisters and maintains that "it's just not important". He prefers to think of himself as average, noting that he only does something amazing or heroic when no one is looking. Indeed, most of his most triumphant moments were during solo missions. He tends to have a resentment towards the NavSpecwar SPARTAN-IIs, due to the enourmous amount of publicity they recive. He feels that "Black Team earned as much, maybe more, than John-117 or the rest of the NSW SPARTANs, but he's publisised more, just because he happened to have destroyed a giant ring."

Combat
His style of combat is a mix betrween CQB, Marksman and hand-to-hand conflicts. He prefers mid-range weapons, such as the BR55HB-SR and the XMR-5, but when push comes to shove, he exells with automatic weapons like the MA5C ICWS. His personal choice is the BR55HB-AR hand made for him by Phade Technology Industry. He has commented regularly on his low marks in long-range weapons, and tends to stay away from sniper-type weapons, usually letting SPARTAN-013, Black Team's resident sniper, deal with the kilometer-away enemies.

Weapons
141 has a multitude of weapons and firearms he uses. He collects many weapons, both Human and Covenant weapons and modifies them when not on assignment or training. Most Used Firearms
 * BR55HB-AR
 * BR55HB-SR
 * MA5C ICWS
 * MA5B ICWS
 * BR50
 * AR-21/A2
 * M90A CAWS
 * SRS98/E-1
 * SRS99B
 * SRS99D-S2AM
 * JUS-T1
 * Helflen G-13 KKFR
 * Custom-built BR55/A2
 * TCR-1
 * Custom-built MA5K
 * FG-192 AGL
 * M19 STA/ATA-SPML

Most Used Hand-held Weapons
 * Kali G9 Bowie
 * BLACKHAWK ITI 3 Hs-CQB-A
 * Fantum Blades CQB/LD-TK 8-TA
 * JRSS-1 FReeDoM Blade

Colonial Cross

 * Awarded: September 2552
 * Why: Success of Operation: JUSTICE

Defense Distinguished Service Medal

 * Awarded: April 2547
 * Why: Selflessness during the Battle of Spectre Prime

Silver Star (2)

 * Awarded: November 2552
 * Why: Actions becoming that of an officer of the UNSC MC during the First Battle of Earth
 * Awarded: October 2545
 * Why: Bravery in the face of implacable enemies during the First Battle of Thermopylae Colony

Defense Superior Service Medal

 * Awarded: October 2545
 * Why: Bravery in the face of implacable enemies during the First Battle of Thermopylae Colony

Bronze Star

 * Awarded: December 2552
 * Why: Acts of heriosm during the Battle of North America and the Second Battle of Earth overall

Purple Heart (5)

 * Awarded: Feburary 2535
 * Why: Wounded during the Battle of Jericho VII
 * Awarded: November 2552
 * Why: Wounded during the Battle of North America
 * Awarded: May 2553
 * Why: Wounded during the Second Battle of Thermopylae Colony
 * Awarded: March 2540
 * Why: Wounded during the Battle of Kala
 * Awarded: September 2552
 * Why: Wounded during Operation: JUSTICE

Combat Action Ribbon

 * Awarded: November 2552
 * Why: Extensive ground combat with Covenant forces during the First and Second Battles of Earth

Joint Meritorious Unit Award

 * Awarded: April 2547
 * Why: Joint assault with Navy Special Warfare SPARTAN-IIs during the Battle of Spectre Prime

Covenant Campaign Service Medal

 * Awarded: March 2553
 * Why: Participated heavily in Human-Covenant War (2525-2553)