User:Lisle202/SPARTAN-070 (Lisle202)

Master Chief Petty Officer Richard-070 was a SPARTAN-II soldier and a former UNSC Marine and one of the few Spartans that escaped Installation 00. He is referred to as the "Grunty Demon" by the Grunts due to his killing sprees on Grunts and "Richard The Lion Hearted" by several UNSC forces.

Childhood and UNSC Enlistment
Richard was born in July 7, 2504 on the planet Sargasso. He lived with his father after his mother died from Hemophilia. Not much is known about his education, but rumors suggested that Richard attended the Sargasso Primary Education Facility. In 2522, he joined the UNSC to fight for his family after his father left him.

Early Military Career
Richard's first mission was to defeat the Insurrectionists glassing the UNSC colony of Eris in the Scattered Disk system. He lead a squad of marines into a building when an Insurrectionist blew up the building, leaving a scratch on his left eye. A marine came to help him, but Richard refused to let the marine help him. Instead, he fired several bullets from his pistol to hold off the Insurrectionists. He was awarded the Purple Heart after the battle. After the battle, Richard was offered by Catherine Elizabeth Halsey to join the Spartan-II Program. Richard originally wanted to reject the offer and stay in the UNSC, but he agreed after a long conversation from Halsey. He began training with the suit for several months under the code-name Richard-070 until he was deployed onto Installation 04 without completing his manuever training.

Battle of Installation 04
After being deployed onto Installation 04 without a notice, Richard tried to warn Lord Hood that he didn't have his upgrades. Lord Hood completely ignored him and told him to focus on his mission. His mission was to find the location of the radiation coming from the facility near the Control Room. Richard was able to defeat the Covenant Zealots guarding the facility, and continued on. As he continued on, he failed to discover that the facility was actually a Flood containment facility. He continued on his mission until he found a locked door in the facility. He thought that the Covenant spotted him and locked down the facility so he forced the door open when many Flood Infection Forms burst out of the opening. Richard screamed as he ran away. He continued running until he sprinted through a door that was about to close. He then received Captain Keyes' transmission and told him about the facility as a Pelican picked him up. As the Pelican flew away, it suddenly ran out of fuel and crashed onto the other side of the ring, leaving the marines and the pilot stranded on the ring. Richard insisted that they should find a Covenant dropship to hijack. Their luck came when a Covenant dropship came in to eliminate the surviors of the Pelican crash. Richard was able to hijack it and the marines were able to escape.