User:TheLostJedi/Gold Team (TheLostJedi)

Gold Team was a United Nations Space Command SPARTAN-II military infantry element.

Roster

 * Graham-005
 * Jai-006 (transferred to Grey Team)
 * Matthew-013
 * Callum-026
 * Robert-028 (transferred from Red Team)
 * Kurt-051 (transferred to Green Team)
 * James-077
 * Neoklis-128 (transferred from Blue Team)

Dossier
Originally in 2517 when the unit was created, Graham-005, Jai-006, Matthew-013, Callum-026, Kurt-051 and James-077 were conscripted to Gold Team. Although Kurt was later transferred to lead Green Team and Jai-006 was reassigned to Grey Team instead. To replenish the ranks, Robert-028 and Neoklis-128 were subsequently transferred to Gold Team. Following plentiful engagements in the Human-Covenant War, eventually Gold Team disbanded after the Spartan super-soldiers slowly became either missing or killed in action.

Conception and Training
By 2517, Dr. Catherine Halsey of Section Three, ONI received sufficient funding to induct 75 out of the 150 identified SPARTAN-II Program candidates. On the 24th September, the candidates were abducted and taken to the Spartan training facility on Reach, where they were grouped in to teams fit for various training exercises. As such, the Spartan children, Graham-005, Jai-006, Matthew-023, Callum-026, Kurt-051 and James-077 were selected to form Gold Team. While Graham was drafted to command the team, Kurt began to show similar and often conflicting leadership traits. As the format of the Spartan units required teamwork to function, Kurt was transferred to Green Team, where he would be able to take control of the unit. Meanwhile another transfer was being considered; over their first year of training, a minority of Spartans including Jai-006 had repeatedly attempted to escape their training facilities on Reach. In 2518 he was removed from Gold Team via the suggestion of Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez to form a new team with the other resisting Spartans.

In order to even out the numbers in the other units, two Spartans, Robert-028 and Neoklis-128, from Red Team and Blue Team respectively, were reassigned to Gold. However both Spartans were already fond and respectful of their previous teams; these traits would remain years later when both would request specially tinted armours. Although in the meantime, Officer Mendez's intended to use scheduled training sessions at the Chiron Test Station on Mars as a way to bond the current members together. Prior to this, Robert and Neoklis had faced each other in a battle practice between Red Team and Blue Team, which aided the situation due to their overall appreciation of the each other's combat effectiveness. At Chiron, Gold Team learned how to use specialist micro-gravity equipment and martial arts in the training facilities, skills which Callum-026 and Matthew-013 became keenly interested in developing.

On return to Reach, the team continued their training and interaction with the other Spartan units. It was at this time that Robert's natural talent for reconnaissance became apparent and invaluable during field exercises, often providing Gold Team with a knowledgeable upper hand. Whilst the rest of the team's assault strength had grown from their Mars experiences, Neoklis soon became known for his use of diversion tactics and outwitting the enemy. During one particular training skirmish on Reach's surface, Neoklis and Robert were paired by Graham and sent to scout for the opposition's base. They were ambushed but Neoklis by using stealth, was able to avoid capture and followed Robert with Green Team. At their outpost Robert was able to feed intelligence back to Neoklis, so that Graham could plan Gold Team's strike, picking up on a drainage line running under the base. Gold Team had cracked Green Team's unbeatable reputation with their victory in late July 2520. Upon physical augmentation on 9th March 2525, the entire team succeeded with little side affects from the process, with the exception of Spartan-028, who remained out of service for a period of seven months.

Early Career
12th September 2525, shortly after their physical augmentation, Gold Team were assigned with their first mission, along with the rest of the Spartans to capture Colonel Robert Watts of the Eridanus Rebels. Concurrent with (blank) Gold Team were sent on their first assignment...

(To be continued...)