User:Sgt.johnson/SPARTAN-G292

"I'm gonna set your lonely world on fire, baby."

- Travis-G292

SPARTAN-G292, also known as Travis is a SPARTAN-III commando of the UNSC Navy, and former Headhunter. He would serve in the closing phases of the Human-Covenant War, participating in several assassination and sabotage missions, all of which gave Humanity an edge over the Covenant. He served on Team Xiphos was their demolitions expert, and was classified as a "pyromaniac" by ONI psychiatrists. After being recruited into the Headhunters, he would be paired with his former teammate, Jack-G101. They would serve together on numerous operations, most of which were questionable in their morals and ethics.

Early History
"They wouldn't stop moving me around because I always set stuff on fire. I was sad all the time, and I found something special in those flames. The warmth reminded me of the loving embrace my moms used to give me, and the light reminded me of the lamp my parents had kept by my bed when I was little. What can I say? Fire is my escape from reality; it is my drug."

- Travis before an ONI Psychological Review Board

Born on an unknown and long-forgotten UNSC world, Travis claims to have lived a normal life up until the day the "stars fell from the skies" - the Covenant had bombarded his colony with plasma sometime in 2544. He was put onto one of the last shuttles off the colony by his mother, who had left him with the promise that they would find each other again. However, after spending several months in orphanages across the dwindling inner colonies, he soon lost all hope. Slowly coming to the realization that his family was dead, he soon became fascinated with fire as an escape. At first, he set fire to small things: scraps of paper, pencil shavings, and things in that vein. However, as the warmth of the flames began to engulf his soul, he began to set fire to curtains, beds, and before being recruited into the SPARTAN-III program, he had set fire to an entire orphanage.

Shortly after his arrival on Onyx, Travis was placed into Xiphos Team with three other orphans, including Jack-G101. The quartet was literally put through hell, and they were put into situations where they had to make the impossible, possible. After the graduation requirements for Gamma Company was heightened, Travis, fraught with stress and a seemingly never-ending depression again turned to fire to solve his problems, and set fire to an ammunition dump on the planet. Even though he was severely punished, Travis would graduate with the rest of Gamma Company, and was deployed on two operations behind Covenant lines before being conscripted into the Headhunter project, along with Jack-G101.

Sanctified
"I don't know why I can remember this, but I just can. My moms used to always tell me that I was special, and that my destiny would be to become a savior of Humanity. She was right, but I don't think she ever expected this. They dragged me out of my team, baptized me, and set me aside for their holy goals."

- Travis-G292 during his ONI Psychological Review Board

Following the incident in which he lit an entire ammunition dump on fire, the UNSC Navy considered re-categorizing him as "unfit for duty", and Colonel James Ackerson began to look at the young sailor for his own personal black-operations unit: Noble Team. Noble Team consisted of the SPARTAN-IIIs that the Navy and the Marines didn't want, but were still useful in missions against the Covenant and Rebel factions that continued to be a thorn in the Unified Earth Government's side. However, several higher-ranking ONI officers wanted the boy placed into the covert Headhunter unit, and their wishes trumped Ackerson's. Following his graduation with the rest of Gamma Company, as well as two combat operations, Travis was kidnapped and brought back to Onyx for Headhunter training.

After an intensive set of psychological and physical evaluations, Travis was paired up with SPARTAN-G101, a member of his former team; the ONI computers had matched them with a 97.43% probability of compatibility. Since they had shed blood, sweat, and tears together for the past several years, their bond was immediately apparent - they had somehow worked out a highly peculiar series of tactics. Despite the fact that neither of them had integrated neural interfaces, they knew what the other was doing even when they weren't looking at them. This led to them advancing through the operator course at an advanced rate, and they were placed into deadly operations against the Covenant and Insurrectionists.

Personality
"Pyromaniac. Sociopath. Never questions orders, and has no regard for anyone's life or property. Perfect candidate for the Headhunters."

- ONI Psychological Profile on SPARTAN-G292