Jonathan Watts

Major Jonathan Watts, was an Insurrectionist pilot, as well as the son of Robert Watts. Born in 2517 to Jane Watts, the wife of Robert Watts, Jonathan was loyal to the Insurrection from an early age, being raised by rebels. Living a regular childhood, until 2530, he did not know what had happened to his father, being told by all his other family and friends that he was just out fighting. But in 2530, when the news of Watts' death was broadcast across the colonies, Jonathan demanded to know who killed him. Told it was the infamous SPARTANS, as soon as he turned eighteen, Jonathan volunteered to become a Pelican pilot for the Insurrection. Trained on the asteroid, Jonathan was sent to support the Mamore Insurrection in 2536. On Mamore, he became known on both sides for his daring and skills as a pilot.

But when SPARTAN III Alpha Company attacked, Watts' Pelican Gunship, which was an up armored and armed captured UNSC Pelican, was destroyed, and he began a one man guerilla campaign on the UNSC there, before going back to Secundus in 2544, where he was hailed as a hero for surviving the SPARTANS. Staying there for seven years as an advisor and pilot for Jacob Jiles, whom he hated, seeing him as unfit to fill the same shoes that his father had. Eventually, he left Secundus, along with the Iliad, still the pride of Secundus' fleet, to go and raid UNSC supply lines for two years to get supplies for the asteroid.

When they returned, the base was gone, and soon after, Watts was put in command of the Iliad, and they continued to raid UNSC convoys, as well as occasionally visit Mamore to recon the area and, if it was safe, send down some support to the rebels. But it was during one of these raids that Watts would die.

As they boarded the UNSC Catfish, Watts' troops were killed off quickly by Blue Team, who had been planted on the Catfish to specifically take out the rebels. After seven hours of fighting, the SPARTANs killed Watts and his crew.

Early Childhood
Jonathan Watts was born to Robert and Jane Watts on October 28th 2517 in the asteroid of Eridanus Secundus. Jonathan was born without any complications, and began to live a regular childhood, socializing with other Insurrectionist children in the asteroid. Although he was given no indoctrination or any psychological training of the sort, Jonathan was doggedly loyal to the Insurrection, due to his father being a rebel commander, and living amongst nothing but rebels. Jonathan was not as fit as other children, nor great academically, but could absorb great amounts of military knowledge.

At the age of eight, Jonathan lost his father, not knowing where he had gone. Pestering other adults for the location of his father, they all told him he had just gone out for another deployment. The junior Watts accepted this explanation, as he had learned to trust the Insurrectionists whom he lived with.

Teenage Years
At the age of thirteen, Jonathan found out what really happened to his father, and that he was now dead, executed by the Office Of Naval Intelligence. Now furious, Jonathan looked for someone to place the blame on. Eventually, the Insurrectionist soldiers he knew told Jonathan it was the SPARTAN-IIs, the "monsters" they had scared him with stories about when he was a child.