User:Spartan-G117/Derek Marin

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L.Cpl Derek "Charge" Marin is an ODST who fought both during and after The Great War. He grew up on Sigma Octanus IV, and had left at age seventeen to basic, barely a week before the planet was glassed. He fought through the war with a high level of tenacity and ferocity that distanced him from his fellow marines.

Early Life
Derek was born to an ODST father and a Navy mother on Sigma Octanus IV, and grew up in the planet's capital city. As a child Derek liked watching Marines as they trained. He especially liked watching ODSTs going through the danger room. He met a girl named Jessica Dekeyser as he began high school. Jessica served as a consience to Derek, steering him away from dangerous exploits and guiding him through questionable ones. Derek nearly got mixed up in a gang war, which drove him to join the Corp. He had left just a week before the Covenant found and glassed the planet. Derek had tried to maintain that his family might be alive, but eventually got hold of a video that clearly showed his mother and father getting killed. Derek fought even harder and showed little compassion towards Covenant soldiers. This attitude changed when he nearly killed an Elite in combat before being subdued. The Elite had contemplated killing him, but eventually left him to be found by his comrades. This changed Derek's attitude towards Sangheili, but not other Covenant. After the op, he was approached by an ODST captain who offered him a position in the ODSTs. Derek joined without a secont thought.

ODST combat history
Due to Derek's participation in several ONI related Operations, most of his combat history is classified, but known operations include a mission to Sigma Octanus IV, a mission to quell resistance ops, and an operation to investigate the UNSC Heaven's Gate. All other details are are classified