Harald-077

Chief Petty Officer Harald Skogen, mainly known as Harald or 77 and various other callsigns, is a Class I commando. Born on Paris IV to a Norwegian family, taken by the program after careful analysis. As a young commando Harald showed great bravery in the face of all of his challenges and obstacles, showing his excellence as a warrior and a leader.

Harald's life as a SPARTAN has taken him to the far reaches of the Galaxy, and put him through many trials and tribulations. He has fought against the and the against the  in the. Harald is privileged with being one of the surviving SPARTAN-II'S

Early Life on Paris IV
Harald was born to somewhat wealthy parents of Norwegian descent, they lived on a large ranch in a farming settlement on Paris IV. While he was a child he had many friends and they often went on childish adventures. Harald was a physically strong child with a very quick mind, on a level far above his childhood friends.

On an adventure with his friends Harald got into a argument with one of his friends over who would rule the world one day. During this argument his friend shoved him, and accidentally pushed Harald over into the crevice fifteen feet below. To which all of them scattered and told no one of what happened assuming Harald had died.

Miraculously Harald was only unconscious and had survived the fall with only bruises and a gash on his face. Faced with having to get out of the crevice while dazed and with no help coming, Harald immediately began searching for cracks in the side of the earth where he could plant his hand and his feet to make his way out. After several hours and several failed attempts, he was finally able to crawl his way out by way of cracks, rocks, and roots of the Oak tree that grew on the side of the crevice.

Severely damaged Harald tried to return home, but only made it to one of his fathers fields, where his father found him and returned him home, quickly nursing his wounds. Harald made a quick recovery to which he seemed to have been better than he ever was before. It wasn't long after this that officials from ONI abducted Harald, flash cloned, and indoctrinated into the SPARTAN-II program. It was reported that Harald's flash clone had died of a massive heart attack, something which Harald's parents assumed was result of the fall, all records of this were likely lost in the glassing of Paris IV.

SPARTAN-II Program
Harald Skogen's name was taken from him and replaced with HARALD-077 a tag which was on all of his apparel. During the early years of their training Harald achieved excellence in most tests physical and mental, beat only by the best of the best of the candidates that were also there. This however made Harald rather reclusive from socialization, while he had friends they were few and far between. In these early years Harald began to take a affectionate liking to his service tag 77.

The drills had built Harald into the best soldier possibly trainable, excelling in many specialties and tactics. However the SPARTAN-II Augmentation was a large task in itself to be done, and put Harald through a great deal of pain. This put a great deal of stress on Harald's mind but he was able to overcome it fairly well. When it was all said and done Harald was a massive man just shy of 7 feet 1 inches, trained and augmented to fight the Insurrection.