User:The Gold Plated Spartan/Keith Jakobs

Keith Jakobs is a human soldier, currently residing on the New Sparta Space Station. As of 2558, Jakobs is currently working security on New Sparta as part of the NSDF. Jakobs was one of the earliest people from any race to get that position as he was one of the first 50 soldiers to be picked for the job after New Sparta finished most of it's construction in mid 2557.

Childhood
Jakobs was raised by his parents Tom & Angela Jakobs; the former of which was an active serviceman in the UNSC. He was raised along side his brother Nick Jakobs who has has currently aged to 17. All throughout his childhood Keith heard war stories of all sorts from his father. These stories inspired young Keith with heroic tales of soldiers like the Master Chief and Sergeant Johnson; a man that his father had personally served along side on many an occasion.

These war stories cultivated both dreams and a deep respect for the military that would last for a lifetime.

Despite what respect he had for the military as a whole, Keith Jakobs always held on to the hope that the galaxy may one day find peace with the races of the Covenant. These were beliefs that were cultivated by his mother who was emotionally distraught by the Human-Covenant war, more so than most people.

Even during his teenage years, Keith was always ready to defend said beliefs. During his time in High School, Jakobs found fellow student Archer Niko being jumped by a gang of bullies because they overheard Niko's mentioning of his hopes for peace between Humanity and the Covenant. While Niko had already suffered quite a bit of punishment at the hands of these bullies, Jakobs stepped in to give him time to recover. Keith overpowered a few of these bullies until 3 of them held him down at once and started beating him. Eventually Niko got back up and freed Keith which allowed them to fight as a team. Keith and Archer both ended up bruised and bloody after the fight, archer suffered a broken arm. Thanks to Keith however, the head bully had a broken jaw. From that point on, these two would be best friends.

Faithful meeting
On October 17th, 2552; a mere 3 days before the Covenant's attack on Earth, Keith and the rest of his family were visited by a UNSC soldier to inform them that Tom Jakobs had escaped the Fall of Reach, only to die in battle aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. Keith's father died in battle to defend Captain Keyes from a covenant squad. It was the same squad that ended up capturing the Captain and taking him prisoner aboard the Truth and Reconciliation. The soldier didn't come to inform the Jakobs family because of an order. He came because it was Tom Jakobs' dying wish to have something delivered to Keith. It was a hat that was worn every day by Tom. It was a Sergeant's cap to be specific. After that day, Keith decided that he'd keep wearing that hat out of respect for not only his fallen father but for every Jakobs man or woman that had ever served.

It wasn't until this soldier left that he would reveal his name: Avery Junior Johnson. This was the same marine from his father's war stories. To this day, Jakobs attributes meeting Sergeant Johnson as one of the greatest moments in his life. That would be the only time that the two would meet, however.

Early military career
Five years later, at a time when most of the universe had changed for the better with the formation of the Union, Keith Jakobs and old friend Archer Niko enlisted into Union Military and they were trained in an on-station military facility on New Sparta. They, as well as most of the other recruits were trained by Master Sergeant Marcus P. Stacker; someone who Jakobs shared quite a close resemblance to. It was such a resemblance that Stacker often joked about how he liked Jakobs because he looked like him.

After all of his training was said and done, Jakobs; with the rest of the people Stacker had trained were given the opportunity to be guards for this massive new battle station. Most of them accepted. His life hasn't been much yet but his father always told him that he was destined for big things....

Trivia

 * Keith Jakobs is a character in the STARSIDE alternate universe of Halo which is the setting of an RPG under construction by the original creator of this article (The Gold Plated Spartan) and his friends. As such, his story will update as his parts in the game progress.
 * In appearance, Keith Jakobs was largely inspired by the character that trained him: Marcus P. Stacker.
 * This is The Golden Spartan's first article on any wiki.
 * Ever.
 * Please be gentle! D: