Auriel-009

"I wasn't the best there was but that was never the intention. I was there to win the battle or to die trying and I would for damn sure see it to its end."

- Auriel Parck

Early Life
Auriel Parck was born on the colony of Arcadia in the town of New Kestrel on October 25,2510. Born to a pair of Insurrectionists abandoned on Arcadia following an operation to flood the few that were there out, he and his family were constantly on the run from planetary forces and were eventually left with no choice but to head into the jungles. There they would stay for a few days, before one fateful night where bright lights shone through and his parents were nowhere to been seen seemingly gone forever. With nowhere else to go and vaguely remembering the trail he would try to leave the jungles, eventually being found passed out by game hunters and being brought back to the city of Aztlan. There he would be placed in an orphanage, having no family to return to with his parents gone and extended family out of reach. During his stay there he was seen as more aggressive than the other children, with a near indomitable will that he had in many of their games.

Following the he had soon caught the attention of ONI, having all of the required genetic markers sought by Halsey and the Spartan II Program. Soon two agents were dispatched to the orphanage, appearing as a couple looking to adopt and had the boy turned over to their "care" in August 2517. In reality he had been conscripted into the Spartan II Program, something that would change his life forever.

Training
Arriving on Reach soon after with the other candidates, Auriel would be told of the program that he would be taking part in and the new found importance he had. While some of the other Spartans had discomfort in the initial fact they'd be unable to go to their families once more, he'd remain strong as now this was the only thing that he had. He would be assigned to Green Team which would consist of himself, Musa-096 and Kurt-051. On the first few days he would butt heads with the others, but over the course of the next few years he'd be able to temper his aggression and would work well with his teammates. Because of Kurt's seemingly uncanny ability to predict traps and situations, he and the rest of Green Team would often find themselves winning even against Blue Team. He would continue to train with the other Spartans for the next eight years on Reach, until ONI decided it was time to take the final step.

Augmentation
Soon the fateful day came in 2525 where the Spartan IIs would face their toughest challenge yet, augmentation. Through this they would be transformed into a nigh unstoppable force, able to take on any foe and achieve victory. However for Auriel, this would not be the case. Experiencing horrible terrors during the augmentation process and managed to wake up during the procedures, as a result of his panic attempt to escape his right leg would be mangled and he would soon after went into shock and died. Placed into cryo immediately after and resuscitated it was revealed that his body had rejected the augmentations, though he would have most likely lost his entire lower torso had it not been for the fact that the procedure had to stop short due to his awakening. His leg was soon amputated and replaced with a cybernetic limb, being slated for a desk job with the Office of Naval Intelligence. However other plans were soon made for him

Human-Covenant War
Being too damaged to be a Spartan and too good a tactician to simply leave at a desk job with the war having recently started, he was instead made to become an officer in UNSC Navy. Undergoing plastic surgery to make his body look older and waiting three years, he would be brought into the UNSC Navy with the rank of Commander and command of a Halberd-Class destroyer known as the UNSC Herodotus. From this position beginning 2528 he would serve in the Navy under the command of Vice Admiral Preston Cole, taking part in his campaigns across the outer colonies against the Covenant. Here he would rank up many victories, eventually being awarded the rank of Captain and the command of the Vindication-class light battleship known as the UNSC Strikefast in 2541. In April 18 2543 he would be presumed dead following the battle of Psi Serpentis, where his ship was struck with a barrage plasma torpedos and seemingly destroyed. However before its destruction he had managed to secure himself in one of the ships safe rooms, placing himself within cryo-stasis waiting to be found by the UNSC. A month later he would be found by an ONI Prowler roaming the remains of the battle, being brought aboard and back to human space.

Reintegration into the program
Since 2525 serious improvements had been made to the augmentations procedures that had left him crippled in 2525, as a result of this and officially his death at Psi Serpentis he was given the offer of rejoining the program or facing an early retirement. Seeing no other option and wanting to return to the life he had been meant to live, he would accept the offer and would be taken back to Reach for the augmentation procedures. The procedures, now succeeding, would give him the abilities of every other Spartan II, but he was forced into nearly a month of recovery afterwards in order to adjust. During this time he would seek out Kurt, becoming somewhat disheartened after hearing about his disappearance in 2531 but would force himself to cope with the situation. Following the recovery period he would be given his suit of MJOLNIR, specially made in order to be compatible with his cybernetic leg. From this point onward in the war he would serve as a Spartan, often being deployed by himself rather than with a Spartan team due to him lacking one. In 2547 he would take part in the Battle of Skopje, saving several ODSTs during the battle while engaging the Covenant.

Fall of Reach and Death
In August 2552 he would be recalled to the planet of Reach for Operation: Red Flag, receiving the new MJOLNIR Mark V armor and being reacquainted with the other Spartans. The others would be shocked to see him there, with him having supposedly died twice this point, but wouldn't dare to tell him, only being content that he was there with the rest of them. Debriefed with the others on Operation: Red Flag he was soon taken to the Pillar of Autumn, preparing for his mission until the intervention of the Covenant at Reach forced him and the other Spartans to deploy to ground. He and 21 other Spartans would take Bravo 001 down back to Reach, but would be forced to jump out of the pelican following the death of the pilots in order to avoid dying in the ensuing crash. During the fall he would be separated from his other Spartans, sent way off course and into the forests nearby the facility they intended to fall into. With his comms destroyed and his armor heavily damaged by the crash he would be forced to recall his training, remembering the paths through the forest and eventually making it to the intended facility and regrouping with the rest of the Spartans. There he would be assigned to Beta-Red and would defend the orbital defense generators, eventually being moved to support Charlie Company and their retreat. Soon three Covenant cruisers would appear overhead and aerial support would call in the UNSC Majestic to destroy the ships, firing it's MAC gun destroying the cruisers and killing the Spartans of Beta-Red below who had remained to evacuate the marines.