User:K4/SPARTAN-041

SPARTAN-041 is one of the seven surviving Spartans in the UNSC Marine Corps' secret project to have SPARTAN-IIs of their own.

Project: MIST
041 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 reasons 041 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
041, 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. SPARTANs -141 and -041 were ordered to take down a Covenant production facility hanging in orbit of the recently glassed Kala Colony. they were inserted via a captured Covenant Banshee, and they swiftly cut down the security forces, which most of were helping to put down any resistance in the neighboring planets, and accessed the plant's reactor. However, they were ambushed at the reactor room, and it was revealed from translated and stolen data from the plant's memory core that someone in the UNSC Admirality was leaking information to the Covenant, in an attempt to "make peace" with them. Unfortunatly, that treachery cost SPARTAN-041 her life when the attackers learnt that the Covenant had a way to lock their armor and render them immobile. When they did, they swiftly cut 041 to ashes, but 141 managed to overpower the locking mechanism and escape, but not before he suffered major plasma burns. He managed to delete the production facility's entire memory core, and the backup, then left before the plant's reactor became unstable. 141 immediatly commedered the U.N.S.C. Einstien and, ignoring the Cole Protocol, rushed striaght to Earth and confronted the man resposible for their almost-failed mission; Rear Admiral Gary Hefend. ONI agents almost killed 141 in the resulting struggle, but they deemed the admiral's treachery punishable by death, and 141 avenged SPARTAN-041's unessacary death by "liquidating" Hefend.

SPARTAN-041 was laid to rest(no body was recovered, but they preformed a closed-casket ceremony) on her homeplanet Mars, with full military honors and was postumously awarded the Red Leigon of Honor.

"memores acti prudentes futuri"

- Epitaph on SPARTAN-041's tombstone, translated as "mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be".