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Adam-172
Adam-172, born Adam Topol, was a Class II commando of the. Born in 2531 on, Adam was singled out as a physically and mentally superior child by the. Kidnapped and taken to Reach, Adam was trained for eight more years, before he was deployed along with the rest of the Class IIs against the genocidal aliens known as the.

After the end of the war, Adam was deployed to the rebel controlled planet of to assist in recapturing the planet. Sent on missions to capture key Venezian leaders, Adam and his fellow SPARTANs were key to shortening the battle that took place on the planet. With Venezia retaken by the UNSC, Adam continued to fight both against Covenant remnants, and Insurrectionists.

Early Life
Adam Topol was born on in the  in 2531. As he grew, he showed an intellectual capacity far above that of his peers, absorbing not only what he learned in school, but also going out of his way to learn more, especially in the realm of military history. His physical capabilities, while certainly not as noticeable as his knowledge, were still above that of his peers.

In 2537, Topol was visited by a strange man, who, unbeknownst to him, was a member of the, looking for candidates for the 's second class. Approaching Adam, who was on his own reading a book on the Second World War, the man asked him to describe what he had learned about it so far. Describing it in a far more eloquent way than many children of his age, Adam impressed the man, who continued to monitor the boy for a few more days, observing his physical capabilities. Having met all of the criteria to be a candidate to be a SPARTAN, Adam was abducted from his family by ONI agents. However, the young boy put up a fight, biting and hitting the agents as they attempted to take him, forcing them to sedate him.

Training
Taken to to be trained to be a SPARTAN-II, Adam was assigned the tag 172. However, the young Adam initially refused to have any part in the program, either causing trouble, or completely ignoring orders by the trainees' instructors. Due to his rebellious streak, the instructors enforced heavy punishment, both physical and mental, every time he refused an order, eventually breaking his habit, and making him follow their orders with little to no trouble.

After he was broken of his rebellious streak, Adam proved to be an adequate trainee, with a penchant for armored vehicles. One exercise where his knowledge of armored vehicles proved in handy was when the SPARTANs had to capture the flag of the OPFOR company they were facing. Adam, slipping past the guards, made his way into the motorpool, took an armored fighting vehicle, and caused general havoc around the base as the rest of the trainees took the flag, after which he escaped with them.

Augmentation
In 2545, the trainees were subjected to the SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures. Adam came out of the procedures unscathed, which he described as:

"...extremely painful, even more pain than I've ever experienced, even in comparison to the physical punishments that I was subjected to in the beginning of my training from those instructors"

However, some of his fellow trainees did not survive, causing Adam to feel melancholy in the weeks afterward as he recovered from the side effects of the augmentations. As he and the rest of the SPARTANs began to adjust to their newfound bodies, they became far faster and stronger than they could have ever imagined. When they had completely adjusted, they were issued their MJOLNIR Mark IV PAA.

Actium
After he was issued his Mark IV MJOLNIR, Adam and Crimson Team were deployed to the planet of Actium on May 13th in order to soften up the Covenant forces in advance of the 53rd Armored Division's planned offensive to destroy the alien staging areas. Crimson Team, for four days before the attack, caused havoc amongst Covenant forces, trying to make the attack easier for the UNSC.

While on the mission, despite not having quite as many enemy kills as his comrades, Adam developed a route for the tanks that would allow them to move fast and not get bogged down in the colony's notoriously constantly wet and muddy ground, as well as cause the max amount of damage to the Covenant during their fatal attack, during which the entire division was wiped out after they detonated two HAVOK nuclear weapons to completely wipe out the aliens.

New Berlin
"Let's see how these Echo Tangos like it when we're rolling over them!"

- Adam-172 during the Battle of New Berlin

After their deployment to Actium, Crimson Team was sent to the colony of New Berlin to aid UNSC forces struggling to hold the Covenant forces back from taking the only thing preventing them from glassing the entire planet: A tiny Forerunner artifact that had been discovered.

Commandeering a group of four M811 Heavy Tanks, Adam led the rest of his team in a raid into Covenant lines, while a group of the garrison launched a diversionary attack to draw enemy forces away. Cutting a several mile swath into alien lines, Crimson allowed UNSC forces to flood the hole in the enemy lines. Launching a full on offensive, the UNSC redeployed Crimson to keep the Covenant forces in chaos.

During the latter part of the operation, Adam was responsible for the deaths of multiple Sangheili field commanders, on top of many Covenant infantry. Thanks to the efforts of Crimson, the UNSC were able to continue attacking and forcing back the Covenant until friendly reinforcements could arrive and completely drive back the alien fleet. New Berlin had survived, but at a heavy cost.

Hellas
Soon after New Berlin, Crimson Team was again redeployed, this time to the planet of Hellas, after reports of rebel troops armed with black market plasma weaponry were discovered on the planet. Dropped onto the frontier of the planet via HEV, Crimson Team was given orders to seek out and destroy any rebel bases, and retrieve any Covenant or Covenant style weaponry for the UNSC.

During a patrol, Crimson came under attack by rebels using what they had never encountered before, specifically, the drug known as a "Rumbledrug". As they began to approach a rebel base they suspected of having Covenant weapons, multiple squads of rebels began charging at the SPARTANs. Despite unloading round after round from his MA5B into one of the rebels, Adam was decked by one of them, who proceeded to try to kill him. Adam, having lost his rifle, picked up the rebel by his throat, and in his words, said he: "...squeezed the life out of that drug crazed psycho."

After killing the remainder of the rebels who had attacked them, Crimson moved onto the base itself, and, after dispatching the few guards who had not helped in the ambush, found that, sure enough, the rebels had a stockpile of black market Covenant weaponry. For their actions on Hellas, all of Crimson Team was awarded the Legion of Honor.

New Istanbul
After Crimson Team's extreme effectiveness on Hellas against Insurrectionists, they became a full time anti terrorist unit, roaming the galaxy against rebels. Crimson Team's first mission in this capacity was against a cell on the planet of New Istanbul, which was responsible for orchestrating multiple terrorist attacks on the planet.

Approaching the rebel camp, Adam spotted a captured AFV in the rebel camp. Sneaking on base, the SPARTANs easily eliminated the insurgents, before capturing their commander, a former UNSC Army captain, throwing him in the AFV, and escaping that way, with Adam using the vehicle to nearly destroy the base.

Cherbourg
With the destruction of the cell on New Istanbul, Crimson Team was deployed to the colony of Cherbourg to investigate a rebel unit sabotaging or raiding many of the ships, civilian or military, that stopped at the colony for resupply. Devising a plan, Crimson set up a trap, with a stockpile of weapons and vehicles aboard a supply ship. Staking out the area, they waited for the rebels to board the ship, before ambushing them, taking two of the men alive.

Interrogating one, Crimson discovered the location of the rebels' main base on the planet. Handing the two survivors over to UNSC authorities for further questioning, the team commandeered the two M808s, and prepared for an assault on the main base. Setting up his tank on a vantage point overlooking the base, Adam used it to rain shells down on the base, as the other tank, carrying the rest of the team moved in, decimating the rebel troops, before making their way back to UNSC lines.

Reach
After a few more minor anti insurgent operations, Crimson was quickly recalled to Reach in 2552, due to the sudden Covenant attack on the planet with the Fleet of Particular Justice. Deployed to protect one of the Orbital Defense Generators, Crimson Team engaged in fierce fighting with advancing Covenant forces. During the battle, teammember Timothy-253 was hit by a Jackal sniper, who the rest of Crimson Team immediately neutralized.

As it became apparent Reach was going to fall, Crimson Team was pulled off the planet, and taken to the heavy frigate, UNSC Yankee Doodle, for immediate transfer back to the Sol System. After arriving in the Sol System, the surviving members of Crimson were issued the Mark V variant of the MJOLNIR.

Earth
Soon after the Fall of Reach, the Covenant arrived at Earth. Deployed quickly from the Yankee Doodle to the city of Boston, Crimson Team was forced to take part in a slow and agonizing street to street battle against the Covenant forces that had landed there. While riding along with a convoy through the city, Crimson and the rest of the UNSC were ambushed by a large Covenant force. Taking cover in a nearby building, Crimson, along with about three squads of the surviving Soldiers and Marines, held off the Covenant.

During their last stand at the building, another of Crimson's members, Ashley-153, was critically wounded by Covenant forces, leaving only two SPARTANs in the fight while the Marine corpsman attended to her. Adam, taking up a vantage position, called in artillery and sniped cloaked Sangheili and other aliens who were attempting to breach the building, was able to play a pivotal role in holding back the Covenant until reinforcements were able to arrive, after two days of constant battle.

With the news of the end of the Human-Covenant War in early 2553, Adam experienced the first peace in his entire life. With the end of the war, the Insurrection once again came up as a problem, humanity fighting humanity once again. Having seen enough death, Adam privately expressed his views about the war, stating that he felt if colonies wanted to stay independent from the UNSC, they should be able to, as there was not a need for more bloodshed after the war.

Venezia
Despite his reservations about fighting rebels post war, Adam complied with orders when he, along with the surviving members of Crimson were sent to Venezia to help retake the planet. Operating behind Venezian lines, the SPARTANs took part in sabotage and assassination of rebel leaders to make the war faster.

However, as the end of the campaign neared, Crimson was ordered into the city of New Tyne to capture a group of key rebel leaders, including the infamous, and many others, who were meeting to discuss strategy.

Crimson Team was sent into the city along with a UNSC force numbering multiple divisions to break the Venezians' defenses, and capture the leaders. While the main forces moved into the city, Crimson moved through the sewers towards the meeting bunker. However, while the SPARTANs were still in the sewers, the rebels detonated a HAVOK nuke that had been acquired for them by a mysterious mercenary only known as Caesar. Having been shielded from the worst of the blast, Crimson eventually came topside to find the entire city obliterated, and the UNSC forces in and around it decimated, with even more dying from the fallout.

With his resolve sealed to end the rebels after their actions, Adam led Crimson onto victory in many missions, including one in which they fulfilled their original mission to capture Venezia's rebel leadership, which threw many of the rebel units into panic, and allowed the UNSC to finally end the war, two years after it had begun.

Liberty Enclave
The Liberty Enclave was an group based in the Affar System. The Enclave was built out of a collection of Insurrectionist asteroid bases in the area, much like. The organization, although not causing problems for the UNSC during the Insurrection or Human-Covenant War, eventually became a major problem for the UNSC post war. The Liberty Enclave, despite the UNSC's best efforts, was never found, and its survival continued into the 27th Century.

Beginnings
The Liberty Enclave's predecessor in the Affar System's asteroid belt were a multitude of Insurrectionist bases hidden there in hollowed out asteroids. From these bases, the rebels launched attacks against the UNSC, who, much like in the Eridanus System, were unable to find the bases.

Formation
However, when the Human-Covenant War broke out in 2525, the rebel bases ceased to continue their attacks against the UNSC for fear of the Covenant finding them. For seven years, the rebel bases simply drifted in space, with their inhabitants living fairly normal lives.

But, in 2532, one of the rebel bases, having learned of the existence of the now-destroyed settlement, initiated communication with the other seven bases in the belt, with the intent of bringing all the bases into one massive rebel settlement like The Rubble.

Despite some pushback from some rebel leaders who desired not to be under a centralized government, the base assuaged them by stating that each base would be affiliated under one banner, but could make its own decisions, and be able to send representatives to vote on matters regarding the settlement.

With the agreement of all the bases to form into one settlement, the rebels now needed multiple AIs to complete this task, the first being a "smart" AI, which would be needed to bring the bases together into one base, and the rest being "dumb" AIs to oversee the various aspects of the settlement. In their desperation to get a smart AI, the rebels attacked the UNSC for the first time since the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, boarding the UNSC Cherokee. Due to the fact time was of the essence, the rebels blew out the command center's windows, before moving in with EVA suits, and retrieving the AI.

Having acquired the AI, the rebels fast grafted it to their cause, and used it to move the asteroids slowly together as they built the necessary docking tubes and airlocks. When the construction of those were finished in 2535, the AI finally moved the bases together, and the Liberty Enclave, as it became known, was formed. In the next four years, as the AI's lifespan began to come to a close, the rebels developed multiple dumb AIs, as well as looking into making smart AIs later.

Human-Covenant War
For the next seventeen years, the Liberty Enclave stayed a fairly stable settlement, as it worked on building its military for the inevitable continuation of the Insurrection after the Human-Covenant War. This was accomplished mostly by boarding and capturing UNSC cargo ships.

Along with the increase in the size of the military, the Liberty Enclave continued to slowly expand as it took other asteroids, hollowed them out, and brought them into the structure of the settlement, eventually coming to about twenty one habitats by the end of the Human-Covenant War in 2552. Eventually, the amount of habitats exceeded the capability of the dumb AIs that controlled the settlement, and the rebels developed their first smart AI in 2546, setting up a way to make the computer programs that would be used for decades more.

Post War
With the end of the Human-Covenant War, the black market for military equipment exploded with both Covenant and UNSC weaponry. Taking advantage of this new situation, the Enclave procured even more war material for their military. With this new influx of supplies, the Enclave became a rebel military powerhouse, rivaling even the stronghold of Venezia.

First Major Actions Against the UNSC
In 2556, the UNSC returned to the system, intending to recolonize it. Upon their entry into the system, a Liberty Enclave Navy recon ship spotted the UNSC's task force of three colony ships, escorted by a single Stalwart Class Frigate. In response, the Enclave sent the captured UNSC Cherokee, now the LEN Abankin to attack.

By the time the Abankin arrived to attack, the colony ships had already landed. After destroying the frigate escort with a slug fired from one of the destroyer's MAC guns, the rebels also landed ground troops. With the UNSC security forces neutralized, the rebel commander gave a speech to the colonists, imploring them to join the rebels against the UNSC. Despite many of the colonists joining the rebels, some did not, and so the rebels sectioned them off in their own area until they decided to join the main populace.

First Contact
With the loss of contact with the colony ships, the UNSC sent a task force to figure out what happened to the colonists. The rebels, after discovering the task force due to a massive spike in Cherenkov Radiation, immediately scrambled all naval units not assigned to sentry duty around the Enclave. Emerging from the asteroid field, the rebels surprised the UNSC, annihilating a major portion of the task force, before retreating back into the asteroid field.

Knowing the UNSC would be coming back to attack them again, the Enclave deployed large numbers of troops to the colony to counter the inevitable UNSC landings. Sure enough, the UNSC returned about two weeks later with a superior force, and landed on the planet, finding only the colonists, with no rebel troops. The colonists knew almost nothing, only that the rebels had disappeared almost overnight, leaving only the colonists.

Guerilla Warfare
The UNSC, knowing the rebels were most likely still on the planet, began combing it, looking for the rebels. The first firefight took place about three days after the campaign began, with a rebel platoon ambushing a UNSC convoy in one of the planet's thick forests.

Battle of Highland Forest
About three weeks after the first firefight with UNSC forces, the rebels engaged in a major battle with the UNSC in the Highland Forest. The battle was the result of a rebel plan to wipe out the UNSC in one fell swoop. The Highland Forest was the location of a large UNSC force, which the rebels intended to wipe out in hopes of weakening the UNSC's force so much that they would be able to force them to surrender.

The rebels' initial attack was repulsed by UNSC forces, and the engagement turned from what was supposed to be a small skirmish, into a massive week long battle. By the end of the battle, both sides had lost a great many troops, and both had little to no gain from the sacrifices during it.

Battle of Hill 582
After two more years of guerilla warfare, the final battle of the campaign took place on and around Hill 582. The rebels, taking up positions on the hill and the forests at its base, engaged in brutal combat with the UNSC for four days. By the end of it, the rebels had run out of ammunition, and were forced to surrender after a final attack that they hoped would break the UNSC's lines.

Post Battle
After the military slaughter on the colony, the Enclave attempted to use the defeat to try to rally the rest of the population to war, depicting the rebel soldiers for propaganda purposes as the valiant defenders who made a last stand and died to the last man for freedom. The propaganda worked, and the rebels continued to take part in a space guerilla war. However, by the 27th Century, the guerilla war had died down, and it became simply a search for the rebel base for the UNSC, which was fruitless, and by 2605, the UNSC had stopped trying to search for and destroy the rebels.

Government
The Liberty Enclave is a democratic republic, with each habitat voting in its own representatives to the Enclave Council, who meet in Habitat Triumvirate. Each habitat is also allowed to have its own governor, as well as laws. The only laws that apply to all habitats are those that are part of the Liberty Enclave Constitution, which lays down certain laws that no habitat is allowed to alter or contradict with their own laws.

Despite some power hungry officials in the Enclave, the term limits, transparency of government bills and policy, as well as the decision of not just the people of the Enclave but also officials' peers on matters of government, the opportunity for power abuse is slim.

Recruitment and Training
The Enclave military is an entirely volunteer army, with the minimal enlistment age being sixteen years old. Despite there being no conscription or draft, the amount of propaganda urging those of age to join the military makes for many new recruits to the force.

The quality of training in the Liberty Enclave Armed Forces increased exponentially from the time of formation, with the original military's training being barebones, teaching one how to perform their own specific duty, and nothing more. As time went on though, time spent trying to improve the quality of the military resulted in a far improved training regimen by the 2550s.

Equipment
The LEAF's equipment quality varies from unit to unit in the military. Some units, mostly militias on the habitats, are simply supplied with outdated rifles, olive drab coveralls, and, if a unit is lucky, helmets and light body armor. The frontline units, especially commandos, are supplied with more modern weaponry, as well as heavier body armor, usually old UNSC issue, and in general, equipment more suited for battle.

The Enclave Navy is composed mainly of captured and armed cargo and civilian ships, intended for hit and run attacks, but there are three captured UNSC ships, which act as flagships for groups of the former. The first is the LEN Abankin, formerly the UNSC Cherokee, a destroyer. The other two are the LEN Midway, and LEN Thunderchief, both Paris Class Heavy Frigates. The three ships oversee the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Flotillas, respectively. The Enclave Navy also encompasses the Enclave Aviation Force and Enclave Marines, both of which are based mainly off of each flagship.

The aviation units are mainly equipped with the D77-TC Pelican dropship, which is sometimes armed as a gunship, as well as some captured UNSC single ship fighters, usually the F-147 Sparrow or Skyhawks modified for exoatmospheric combat.