Vigil-057

Quotes:
 * "I've been used but I still follow"


 * "I followed and we payed for it"


 * "My choices decides my future"

SPARTAN-057, commonly nicknamed "Justinian" by his fellow SPARTANs, is a SPARTAN-II supersoldier who has fought during the Human-Covenant War. After that terrible conflict, Justin has participated in many campaigns and often left on exploring expeditions.

Background:
"I remember it just like yesterday. I was at school playing with my friends when my teacher and Grandma came. They were both crying, especally Grandma. They told me to come and when I was there, my teacher hugged me and said, I'm so sorry Justin. Then Grandma looked at me straight in the eyes and said, "Justin, your mom and dad died." When I heared that I didn't believe it."

"No, no! You're lying! Mommy can't be gone! She can't! She cant!"

"Then Dr. Hasley came up to me as I was crying. She knelt down next to me and said that I was going to be alright. She said that they would take me away for a better life if I accepted. I said yes"

Beginning
SPARTAN-057, or Justin, was born in Romulon in the Emperial Systen, to a Police Sergeant and a stay-at-home wife. While his father was out on duty, his mother taught Justin how to read and write. With this, he and his mother grew extremely close. They always went out on trips and hikes. But on a faithful day, as his parents were driving to visit relations, a drunk driver swirved in front of them and they collided, which in turn caused a massive pile-up. Justin, who was staying at his Grandparent's home was given the news a day later while he was at school. When Justin heared those fateful words, he screamed and ran out of the school, with tears in his eyes. Dr. Hasley witnessed this taking place and as he was grieving, she came to him and comforted him. She told him that he would have a better life if she went to him. Wanting to leave this place he accepted. During the night, Justin was expecting them and when they came, he had his things packed already. To make sure nothing was amiss, he was replaced with a flash clone, that would die later as its death would be deemed by severe depression.

Training
"When I was first brought, I was merely ready for anything but I was wrong."

''"I earned the name "Justinian" because when we were playing a strategy game on conquering each other. I expanded my territories and I  was able to hold them the longest. And since the King did the same, I was given that name." ''

On the first day, Justin was ready anything or so he thought. He was introduced to all of the Spartans and to one of his later heroes-Mendez. On his first excercise, he was placed on a team with SPARTAN-02 (Emmalyn) and SPARTAN-113 (Jasper) and was told to go on the giant "Playground" and ring the bell. The team of three performed extremely on the first run, placing third on completing it. After other excercises, him and the other became the best of friends. This trio would later be formed into Silver Team. During the training, Justin was brought into the world of history. He was simply fascinated with the cultures and battles that Deja was teaching them. Later on, Deja would tell Justin that his name is another version of Justinian. Curious, Justin asked Deja who he was and she told that he was a great king who expanded his lands and kept it in order his death.

Augumentations
After 7 years passed, Justin became a well defined soldier. But during those years, he developed some traits that his fellow comrades enjoyed and admired. He wrote poetry but most preferably about nature and romance. After he was done writing he should show and read it to all of his friends. Then it was time for augumentations. They were all brought in one by one and were treated. After the treatement, he was one of the few to recover quickly but it wasn't the same for his comrades. One his teammates Emmalyn-02 died from the augumentations, it deeply hurt him but Justin was able to put himself back into shape. A side effect of the augumentation had caused his hair to turn white.

OPERATION SNAKE
This was their "official" graduation mission. After the death of Emmalyn, Justin and Jasper was paired with Zack-022 to go with the mission. The objective of the mission was infiltrate a rebel base and download all information of the whereabouts of the rebels and sympathizers. After the download was completed they were to destroy the base. The infilration of the base was fairly easy but when they were in the control of the base, a passing patrol caught sight of them. The team immediately dispatched them as they continued all the computers contents into their pad.Just as the download was completed, an unseen alarm was tripped and the whole base was alerted. The team knew they had little time and they quickly set the explosives. As they made their way into the hangar bay, the team had small firefights. Silver team was able to highjack a freighter and leave. Before they went into Slipspace Justin detonated the explosives and saw the explosions ripple across the base.

Human/Covenant War
"The UNSC never saw how bad this war would have gotten. No one really knew."

"When I was on my home planet, I did everything I could to save it. But I was too late."

"I lost many friends during that war. No, I lost family."

- SPARTAN-057 telling his story

'Battle For Romulon'
It was a few years after the War had started. Around the year 2528, SPARTAN-057's home planet, Romulon, was attacked. Even after abandoning his home, Justin still felt a kinship with the planet. Upon of hearing the attack, he voluntered his team to go groundside and help with the evacuations and provide fire support. The captain of Star's Treasure agreed and gave them a Pelican to fly. As the Pelican landed on the planet's surface, Justin saw that the marines were fighting a desparate battle to evacuate the civillians. Justin-057 and Zack-022 went out with the Marines to provide fire whille Jasper-113 went to help with evacuations. Wave after wave, the grunts came at them but they were able to push them back. But then, the Elites showed up. Along with the added firepower of them, the Marines and the two Spartans couldn't hold them for long. Not long after, they broke through and soon everyone was running for cover. But the ones that were too slow were massacred. Justin and Zack were forced to run away but before they fell back, he saw Jasper fall. Justin yelled in anger and angusih when he witnessd what he was seeing. Jasper was protecting the evacuation transports as they were leaving. Jasper was able to hold them off until he came face to face with 2 Elites. Jasper only had two pistols left and a combat knife. They came upon him and Jasper jumped from side to side, firing. He took one of them out but the other Elite got hold of him. Another Elite showed up and with it was a shining blade. He impaled Jasper with it and with his last dying breath, he looked at the shocked Justin and said through the comm, "Its been fun. Now go!!" But Justin didn't listen to him and instead he and Zack went to Jasper's body, killing the Elites in the process. They picked him up and they went into the Pelican where he recieved a transmission from command saying that the Covenant are about to glass the Planet. He reved up the engines and went up into space only to discover that 1/3 of the fleet still remained and they were about to retreat, having picked up the the evacuees and survivors. The SPARTANS docked with the nearest ship and the fleet retreated into Slipspace.

'Companion's Funeral/Before Reach'
Justin put himself into cryosleep to until they arrived back at Reach. Only he and Zack were there to see Jasper's funeral. All the other SPARTANs knew because he had broadcasted what had happened to them. During the mourning, Justin went to Zack to speak in private. He told him that he had Zack transferred into another unit whereas Justin had decided to go on his own. He transferred himself to a fleet that fought in the front lines. Justin had isolated himself from the SPARTANs because he wanted to have time to mourn the loss of his home planet and to think about the passing of Jasper and the others. During his time in the frontlines, Justin witnessed countless planets glassed, entire populations or squads massacred, and loyal comrades die. With this, he gained a stronger resolve to fight and preserve life. Every chance he got, SPARTAN-057 tried to save as many lives as possible. When he knew that they were about to be overrun, he told his unit and everyone else to fall back. With his directive, this cost a reduce in casulaties.

'Reach'
It would be many years later befoe Justin was recalled to go to Reach. He initally arrived a week before the Battle of Reach. While he was there, Justin took the time to look around the planet. When the SPARTANs started to arrive, he was one of the first people to greet them. Even though it was their reunion, the SPARTANs eventually learned that they were brought together to go on a misssion to capture a Covenant ship, find their homeworld and capture one of their leaders and use him to create a truce. However, Justin was not able to attend the meeting. He was called up by the higher ups to go on a a scouting mission to look for suitable planets to colonize in case if Eath fell. Before he left, Justin was given the MJOLNIR Mark V armor. Then the higher ups manipulated the computers saying that SPARTAN-057 was with the others whereas he was sent to go on another mission. It would be later that Justin would discover that after he left, a battle ensued on Reach, leaving many of his comrades dead or missing.

'Wandering Spartan'
SPARTAN-057 was put on a classified mission to go out into space and look for unknown systems for the UNSC to fall back into just in case Earth fell. He was given command of a Laden-class freighter along with a small crew and enough supplies to last in space for a year. During the exploration, he took the time to write poetry about his history and the battles. Many of the crew reported that they saw Justin staring off into space and writing into a beat up notebook. So far all they discovered was several nebualas, and some asteroids that could be mined or be formed into a base. Everyone on board thought they wouldn't find anything but they eventually did. Roughly after 2 months, they had made a discovery. They caculated a random slipspace jump and they arrived in a system. The outskirts of this system was a ring of asteroids. Justin determined that they could establish several bases in this ring. He went further down the system and discovered 5 planets. He did a further analysis and foudn that 3 of th planets could be habital and 1 could be terraformed. They had just found their fallback system. They reported their discoveries to the UNSC and the UNSC was excited about it because back home, Earth was under attack. They told him to return immediately for debriefing and support. Everyone on the ship was happy that they were going back home. They went to cryo while the ships AI made a course for Earth. Mission complete.

'Battle for Earth/New Mombasa'
When SPARTAN-057 arrived at Earth, he saw that everything was at turmoil. Everywhere, he saw fights taking place between the numerous ships of the UNSC and the Covenant. Justin knew that if they didn't move, their small frieghter would be destroyed. He and the AI took evasive action and they flew down to the surface where he and the crew immediately reported their discovery. The UNSC took note of their findings and told Justin to go to New Mombassa and provide support.

When the Prophet of Regret left Earth and destroyed most of the City, Justin was out in the outskirts, trying to find a way in. Luckily, he was not hurt in the destruction. After that, Justin led the initial charge into New Mombassa to retake the city but they met heavy resistance. They made their base in an heavily demolished hotel. Only the first two floors were in good condition; the rest of the hotel was gone. Their first attack met heavy casualties. The Covenant had placed Jackal Snipers throughout the city and they were able to take out the attackers one by one until Justin called for a retreat. Justin found a way to eliminate the snipers. He simply used himself as a decoy and when they shot at him, Justin immediately returned fire, taking them out. After that, he led another foray into the city, meeting greater success then the first one. He and the ones under his command were able to take the city back block by block but during the last engagement, Justin was severely wounded when several plasma bolts struck him in the back as he was trying to drag 3 wounded marines to cover. The troops under his command noticed his fall and they did everything they could to recover him. Several of the marines propped him against the wall while the medic readioed for immediate pickup. All Justin could remember was that he fell down and that he was being picked up and put on a Pelican, after that, he blacked out. SPARTAN-057 would later awaken, unarmored, in the medical bay of landed Frigate Midsummers Dance. The doctors had performed surgery on him, along with large amounts of biofoam to keep him alive. He would remain out of commission for a some weeks while he recuperiates. During this time, he was awarded the Purple Heart for his actions in the Battle of New Mombasa. He later learned that when he fell, the Marines under his commanded protected him while they called for medical support. They had retaken the city but had lost half of their forces during the engagements.