User:K4/SPARTAN-141

"There's only so many ways the Covenant can butcher humanity before they get bored and wipe us out in one sweep."

- 141 on the Inevitability of the Covenant finding Earth

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 "Arik" 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. 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.