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"Mankind will never fall so long as I'm still breathing."

- Benjamin-B312

(Lieutenant) Benjamin-B312 (born Benjamin Samuel Watson, Jr., later renamed Benjamin Alexander Brisbane), most notably known as Ben-B312 or Noble Six, is a SPARTAN-III Commando and a member of the UNSC Marine Corps and UNSC Naval Corps, as well as a former member of the SPARTAN-III contingent Beta Company and the Spartan team NOBLE.

Early life
"It's cool, Dad's job, isn't it?"

- Leon Watson

"He's defending and protecting entire colonies, Leon. That's, like, more than a billion people. That's one of the coolest things anyone can do."

- Ben Watson, Jr.

Benjamin Samuel Watson, Jr. was born on February 1st, 2524 in The Commonwealth of Texoma in the Great Plains Territory of North America, the son of Ben Watson, Sr., then the commander of , and Dr. Anne Watson, who was a prominent member of both the UNSC Medical Corps and ONI Section 1. Ben was born during the Insurrection, however his father's ship was not a frontline ship.

Ben's 3 younger siblings Leon, Kenneth, and Claire were born in 2526, 2528, and 2530. In 2534, when Ben was 10 years old, Ben Watson, Sr. had become the ships's captain and had the Guinevere transferred to the Insurrectionist frontline, but did not see any "action" until six months after the transfer. UNSC FLEETCOM had assigned both Guinevere and the corvette to the battlegroup defending Arcadia, where they were delivering troops, weapons, and other military supplies.

"I wonder if my parents are still out there somewhere...."

- Ben Watson, Jr's personal journal

However, en route, the two ships were attacked and raided by a Covenant battleship. When the ships never reached Arcadia, UNSC investigated, and later found the wreckage of a UNSC Corvette at what was to be the midway point between Reach and Arcadia, along with more than a dozen destroyed Bumblebee escape pods that matched the same ones in the Guinevere's manifest, but no wreckage matching a Frigate was ever found. Both Captain and Dr. Watson were declared MIA, and Ben didn't see either of them ever again for nearly forty years. He and his siblings were placed in the care of their father's brother.

The Orphanage
"By then I had lost all hope; My parents were missing in action, probably dead, my only known uncle was dead, and the Insurrectionist attacks and Covenant attacks weren't gonna let up anytime soon. Those three stays in Juvie didn't help much. For many nights I layed in bed wondering why I shouldn't just end it all, and let me tell you, I tried several times to do just that, only to find myself waking up in a hospital bed a few days later. To be honest, if that ol' warhorse hadn't shown up, I might not even be here right now."

- Ben Watson, Jr. Personal Journal

Unfortunately, more tragedy struck the Watson children a mere seven months after being placed in the care of their uncle; he was diagnosed with a rare and violent form of Brain Cancer, and only one year after his diagnosis, he died. Ben and his siblings were then placed in the Reach orphanage. Ironically, Ben's placing in the orphanage was the first turning point in his life - for a tremendous military oppertunity was about to come to, not just him, but his brothers and sister as well.

In the three years that they lived at the orphanage, Ben slipped into a long and brooding depression. He would eventually run away from the orphanage and join a street gang, whose influence made him shave his hair and dye it black, and engage in fights, store robbings, and open public hostility. Due to this, Ben was arrested and forced to serve time at the Reach Juvenile Detention Center three times as well. He would also make repeted attempts to commit suicide.

The SPARTAN-III Program
"Where are you taking us?"

- Ben talking to SCPO Franklin Mendez

"To your future, son."

- Mendez

In 2537, when he was 13 years old, the orphanage was visited by Franklin Mendez, who took several hundred of the orphans, including Ben and his siblings, for what he said would be, a "top-secret ONI evaluation". But when they boarded the Pelicans, Mendez informed them that they were going to be apart of the next generation of Spartans. Ben had heard stories of the SPARTAN-II super soldier, known as the "Supermen of the UNSC", but be believed them to be a myth. Mendez informed him that they were not to be training him as a SPARTAN-II, but as a SPARTAN-III; these Spartans would be faster, stronger, and better in battle than even their existing Spartan counterparts. The training would take place on the remote planet Onyx.

"You have been called upon to serve. Many of you have lost your family because of the Covenant, and I want you to get a chance to strike back. With mine and Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez' guidance, you will become the best that we can make you. You will become defenders of Earth and all her colonies....and you'll do it as Spartans."

- Lieutenant Commander Kurt (-051) Ambrose, at the Indoctrination of Beta Company

When the Pelicans dropped him on Onyx, Ben learned that the man who was training them, Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose, was a SPARTAN-II himself. He told him and the rest of the recruits that they would become the defenders of Earth and all her colonies (which, Ben later, learned, was the same propaganda that Dr. Catherine Halsey used on the SPARTAN-II's years before.)

Not long after the Lieutenant Commander gave his speech, the trainees got back onto the pelicans; their fist task was to do a night jump out of a Pelican when it became dusk. When Ben passed this test, the "real training" began. For the next five years, Ben would slowly become a Spartan.

Becoming a Spartan
"These exercises are designed to test your endurance. If you can't endure these, then you can't hope to endure on a battlefield, can you?"

- Lieutenant Commander Ambrose to Beta Company recruits

The training that the Lieutenant Commander put them through would be simple, but hard and rigerous. They began with usual exercises, not unlike those done by professional wrestlers of the 21st century. Push-ups, sit-ups, running laps, obstacle courses, and the like all became commomplace for the trainees at Camp Currahee. To maintain his determination, Ben, who now went by the callsign "Benjamin-B312" (or simply "Ben-312"; he also sometimes referred to himself as Sierra-B312; ONI would also refer to him in classified situations as Codename: ANTIOCH) earned the reputation of being the first one at the training site and the last one to leave. This constant regimen soon changed his scrawny build to that of an olympic athlete within a year's time.

When they moved on to weapon training, Ben became a skilled gunsman, but took exceptionally well to the M392 Designated Marksman Rifle, getting over thirty headshots at a time during several target practice sessions. He would also learn to handle Covenant weaponry and various kinds of turrets better as well.

As he improved his shooting skills, Ben began tinkering with his DMR, adding an infrared scope and improving its rate of fire to that of an SMG. Taking his weapon to Lieutenant Commader Ambrose, the LC liked the weapon, allowed its use, and within a few years, several members of Beta Company had the new M392A Designated Sharpshooter Rifle.

Ben eventually became the leader of Fireteam India, which consisted of him, fellow future NOBLE team member Catherine-B320, Jacob-B217, Mikayla-B307, and Damon-B198 (but Ben still continued to maintain connections with his siblings, now known as Leon-B247, Kenneth-B066, and Claire-B132, and with Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091 of Fireteam Foxtrot.)

Ben, as Team India's leader, became its driving force and its rallier, being tough but easy to get along with. With Ben's guidance, Team India passed multiple exercises with top honors, and Ben himself received commendations as well.

In 2542, after 5 years of hard training, Ben and Team India graduated with top honors.