Ryan Lee

Ryan Lee was a human Insurrectionist leader on the planet of Tyrene, who was assassinated by the UNSC in 2559 after the latter became fearful of his activities on the planet.

Childhood
Born in 2537 to two farmers, Ryan Lee had a fairly busy childhood, with farmwork and attending school consuming much of his time. However, in school, Lee proved to be an avaricious reader of all kinds of books. As he grew, Lee became a devout student of history. However, Lee was often teased for his lack of physical ability, and even sometimes beat up by his classmates.

As he became a teenager, Lee began to eventually engage more in sports, finding his niche as a sport rower at his highschool. As he continued to mature, Lee's parents told him about the "horrors" of what the UNSC did, covered up by alleged heavy censorship on everything. It was also around this time that Lee read George Orwell's book 1984, and became fearful of the UNSC becoming, or even possibly being the omnipotent all powerful government that was described in the work.

Colonist and Friendship
When Lee turned seventeen, he and his family left the colony that he had been born on, for a new one, known as Tyrene, which had been scouted by the UNSC Themistocles not long before. As part of the first few settlers, Lee and his family needed protection, which they bought in the form of the G-38 rifle. Lee eventually became an above average shot with the rifle, hunting animals on the planet for his family.

As time went on, Lee, having graduated highschool before leaving for Tyrene, and having no colleges that his family could afford for him to attend, continued to work in hunting and farming with his family, using his spare time to write or keep learning about history. In 2556, a group of Jiralhanae raiders attacked the Lee family's farm. After losing his G-38 to the raiders, Lee was about to be killed by one of the Brutes, a SPARTAN in burnished gold armor arrived, and shot the Brutes dead before they were able to kill the family.

The SPARTAN, identifying herself only as Sepia, became fast friends with Lee. After a conversation with him in which she revealed the true nature of the SPARTAN program, Lee became enraged with the UNSC, but felt sympathetic for Sepia, as she had lost her entire childhood to become a soldier. This revelation would be what eventually set Lee on the path to being an Insurrectionist.

Insurrectionist
In 2557, Lee, after mulling over the revelation Sepia had given him for a year, decided to join the Insurrection, the SPARTAN program's true nature being the last straw for him against the UNSC.

"Leading The Proletariats"
"Ladies, gentlemen who desire freedom, look around at the world which has been built up, as a prison to hold you! The UNSC and the Office of Naval Intelligence hold all their secrets within their own walls, and exercise their will outside of their realms, controlling all the words you hear, the songs you sing, and the pictures that give pleasure to your eyes. As the banners were unfurled in 2163, nations were called to 'Join the brotherhood of Man', as it was claimed that all would be taken care of, and people fell for their words, and became more and more willing to submit to their control, leading to what we have today, a fascistic state that controls everything we do, as was predicted centuries ago!  And, although we did not listen in 2163, we can awaken now from dreams of freedom, and, although we cannot have freedom for free, we shall have it eventually, and the works of gifted hands shall grace this galaxy with no interference from any man!"

- Ryan Lee, in one of his speeches

After joining the Insurrection on Tyrene, Lee, despite being relatively young compared to many other Insurrectionists, became quickly known for his ability to rouse people, the "proletariats" as he referred to them, against the UNSC, and support the Insurrection. Gaining much support for the Insurrection through his speeches, Lee and his fellow rebels organized riots, and continued to rile the people up, trying to orchestrate a full-on coup against the UNSC government to bring the planet under the control of the Insurrectionists. As his speeches and orchestrations of riots drew more and more followers under the command of the Insurrection, Lee became a high priority target for the UNSC.

Assassination
"Well, here we are again Sepia. Only one of us will live. If it's worth anything, I'm sorry."

- Lee, before attacking Sepia

In 2559, the UNSC sent Team Ion to assassinate Lee, and stop the riots and steady trickle of members to the Insurrectionists. As Dyne and Kodiak began to hold down the guards that protected Lee, Sepia was sent in to kill Lee himself. Moving in, Sepia found herself at a standoff with Lee. After a tense period of time during which Lee and Sepia simply stared each other down, the former lunged at the latter with his G-38 affixed with a bayonet. Knocking the rifle out of his hands, Sepia crushed the rebel leader's neck, killing him. This confrontation between the two old friends would eventually lead to Sepia's desertion from the UNSC.