Dom-094

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 Dominic "Dom"-094 (born Dominic Hsieh; December 31, 2511) is one of the last surviving super soldiers who served throughout the. In late 2551 to early 2552, Dom and the rest of the Platinum Team fought in multiple battles to obtain a device called the Contumacy. When the SPARTANs acquired the artifact on the planet Phi-2 Orionis i, Dom volunteered to be the one to hold the relic as the SPARTANs made their way off the planet. In the chaos, Dom went missing in action, and due to the overwhelming number of forces in orbit, his teammates were forced to leave him behind. Dom remained stranded on Phi-2 Orionis i for several months, keeping his presence unknown to the Covenant forces that occupied the planet. In August, 2552, all Covenant forces but a left the planet, and following the  two months later, the  and  turned on each other. The civil war severally dwindled the numbers of both sides, prompting the, an elite, to order the ship to leave the planet and prepare for. Dom was able to sneak onto the battlecruiser before it took off and eventually succeeded in clearing the ship of all occupants but himself, allowing him to pilot the vessel to and return to the. Following the Human-Covenant War, Dom participated in the the Covenant Loyalist Campaign and the.

Conscription
When Dominic Hsieh was five or six years old, he was identified as one of the one hundred fifty candidates for the SPARTAN-II Program, being physically and mentally superior to almost all children his age. He was abducted and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II Program by. Like the rest of the Class-I SPARTAN-IIs, he was taken to Reach and trained by. During the training, Dom first befriended Rick, and was acquainted with most of the other trainees. Nearing the, Dom became much more detached from anyone else other than his best friend. After surviving the augmentation procedures, both Dom and Rick were pulled out of the they were originally assigned to, and placed into the newly-formed Platinum Team, which also consisted of Sam and Annie from the. Due to the other two SPARTANs' friendly and sociable personalities, Dom was able to get along with them very well.

Battle of Liber
"Mr. Hawking was right."

- Dom-094, upon seeing the Covenant for the first time.

The Platinum Team, led by Annie-003, was deployed on Liber, an outer colony, to defend the latter from a relatively small Covenant force. By the time the SPARTANs reached the planet, nearly a quarter of the colony had already been massacred. The SPARTANs first searched through the destroyed towns for potential survivors and managed to gather a few. Once the civilian was safely escorted to, the SPARTANs swept into the larger cities, effectively driving back the Covenant with their teamwork, changing the tides of the ground battle. Meanwhile in orbit, the UNSC fleet of Liber destroyed both of the Covenant invading force. After the battle, Dom and the other members of the Platinum Team were divided, only occasionally seeing each other again for the next twenty-six years.

Harvest Campaign
Dom participated in the in the year 2530. He was sent to help evacuate UNSC ground forces, alongside and. The three SPARTANs eventually went their separate ways in evacuating different groups of infantry. Dom met up with Rick-077, who was escaping to a Pelican along with several marines on an. Dom entered the rear section with the marines, while Private Michael Parks, the driver, successfully splattered their way to the Pelican. The dropship escaped, docking in a , which then slipspaced away.

Battle of Reynif
In the year 2545, as with many other human colonies, Reynif came under attack. Dom-094 was sent to the colony to aid the evacuation of civilians. By the time he reached the colony, there was only a single major city remaining, Saeloun Seoul. Towards the end of the evacuation, all nearby Pelicans were shot down, leaving the SPARTAN and a squad of marines stranded in the city. In the process of finding a safer area to hold out on, the marines were killed one by one until only two marines, Thomas Prado and  Cynthia Sinquefield, remained. Dom-094 and the marines arrived at the city's park, and found a young girl named Seung-ah whose mother was killed by Covenant forces. Dom-094 called for extraction, and they were able to make use of the park's pavilion building as a hiding spot. As they waited for transportation, a arrived at the park and deployed six. Dom was confused as to why the Covenant would need to when searching for human stragglers, but was nonetheless prepared for a fight he had slim chances of winning. Dom immediately ordered Sinquefield to take Seung-ah deeper into the building, and told her that he and Prado would fight the elites. When the first zealot entered the pavilion, he immediately vaporized Prado with his and then proceeded to bombard the SPARTAN with several more shots. Dom was able to temporarily find cover, sneak behind the zealot, and break his neck. For each of the next four zealots, Dom lured his enemy to his cover and took advantage of his maneuverability on foot, barely avoiding both shots and swings alike while firing off shots of his own with his until the elite died. Dom successfully used the same strategy on the last zealot, but suffered several burns from the elite's. Soon after, a Pelican arrived at the park, picking up Sinquefield, Seung-ah, and the wounded Dom. Saeloun Seoul ultimately fell to the Covenant, and Reynif was subsequently.

Attack on Boralis

 * Dom-094: "Every time, I have to save your ass."
 * Rick-077: "That's because my ass is worth saving."
 * ―Dom-094 and Rick-077, just after the latter recovered from his first incapacitation of the battle

A was taken by a Paris-class frigate to a top-secret installation on the planet Boralis. The frigate was pursued by a single Covenant corvette. As only were being deployed to the installation to capture the navigation core, a company of  and  did not seem to be not enough to hold off the enemies. Rick and Dom were the closest SPARTANs to Boralis and were sent by another frigate to assist in defending the core. This would be Dom's first battle in the new. Before the SPARTANs joined the battle, the Covenant forces deployed an to prevent the UNSC from bringing in reinforcements by dropship. The moment the SPARTANs arrived in, Rick charged into a group of five elites and nearly died of this act. Dom was able kill six elites before suffering a head injury caused by a that grazed his helmet. When Rick received appropriate medical attention and returned to combat, he destroyed the anti-aircraft gun, but was (once again) severally wounded in the process. Both UNSC frigates eventually destroyed the corvette in space, putting a halt on Covenant ground reinforcements. When Dom returned to the fight, he killed five more Sangheili before being grazed by an. However, the elite turned his attention to an ODST before he could finish Dom off, allowing Dom to kill him along with the last elite on Boralis. After the battle, Dom was awarded a for his bravery.

Battle of Gliese 581
Dom-094 and Rick-077 were called to the Gliese 581 system to defend the colonies of Zarmina and Faunus from the Covenant. Dom and Rick were placed on an to fight off boarding Covenant infantry. Eventually, the SPARTANs left the station, with Rick flying a and Dom piloting a YSS-774 Spatha. After battling through many, Dom and Rick were ordered to land on Zarmina to defend it on the ground. Dom and Rick soon met up with Sam, who was already on Zarmina's surface.

During the battle, had intercepted a Covenant transmission regarding an artifact called the Contumacy. The Covenant themselves knew little of the relic's functions, but it required three key pieces to unlock. A map on the locations of all three pieces along with the artifact itself were within an underground structure on Zarmina. Rick, Dom, and Sam were sent to the structure and fought through. Although the SPARTANs could not reach the map before the Covenant forces did, ONI managed to track the map to the Unwavering Conviction, which by chance, was hovering a few hundred meters over Covenant-occupied land to refit. A Pelican deployed the SPARTANs on Zarmina and a squad just outside the Covenant territory. The SPARTANs boarded the battlecruiser by using its, and immediately faced an attack on all sides. Through teamwork, they cleared the room and moved on, although the majority of the ODSTs were killed in the attack.

Just as the Unwavering Conviction left Zarmina's atmosphere, it was ambushed by the UNSC Alexandra and several frigates and. This enabled Annie-003 and Ryan-A022, who had left Faunus' surface, to board the battlecruiser with a Longsword. The SPARTANs of both sides joined forces aboard the ship, and then killed the shipmaster and took the map. On their way out of the Unwavering Conviction, however, the SPARTANs discovered that their Longsword was destroyed by the Covenant. Fortunately, a Pelican was able to pick up the SPARTANs at the nearest hangar bay, allowing them to make their escape.

Operation: SQUALL
The Contumacy was hidden within the crashed Inheritor's Judgement on Phi-2 Orionis i. The Covenant ground forces were this time led personally by 'Akamee. The SPARTANs arrived just in time as the strike team unlocked and obtained the artifact. Through teamwork, the SPARTANs killed the elites and retrieved the relic. Dom carried the artifact and the Platinum Team rushed out of the structure. As the SPARTANs fought through more Covenant forces, Dom was knocked into a wall by the force of a plasma grenade explosion, which also caused debris to divide his unconscious body from his team. Due to the overwhelming number of Covenant forces in orbit, the rest of the Platinum Team was forced to leave Dom behind.

Dom remained stranded on Phi-2 Orionis i for several months, keeping his presence unknown to the Covenant forces that occupied the planet. During this time, he came across an, to who he gave his that was damaged by the explosion that knocked him out before. From the evade plug, the engineer created the Close Quarters Combat Optimizer, and returned the device to Dom.

In August, 2552, all Covenant forces but a single battlecruiser left the planet, and following the two months later, the elites and  turned on each other. The civil war severally dwindled the numbers of both sides, prompting the shipmaster, an elite, to order the ship to leave the planet and prepare for orbital bombardment. Dom was able to sneak onto the battlecruiser before it took off and eventually succeeded in clearing the ship of all occupants but himself, allowing him to pilot the vessel to and return to the UNSC. Dom was disheartened when he discovered that Annie-003 was killed during the.

Battle of Oban
Following the project, the began sending refugees to the colony of. Dom-094 was sent to the planet with the first set of refugees to ensure their safety from potential insurrectionist or Covenant attacks. There, he met up with Henry-G066, Jim-G067, and Seung-ah-G218, who were on Oban to participate in Operation: DAYBREAK. Only a few days after the SPARTAN-IIs arrival, the colony was under attack by a small fleet of Covenant Loyalists. The combination of the SPARTANs and a greater number of UNSC Army and Marine ground forces annihilated the Covenant ground forces. The battle in space also proved to be successful, thanks to the UNSC's greater number of vessels compared to that of the Covenant, forcing the latter's two remaining ships, a and a, to retreat. The crew aboard the UNSC Sigyn was able to track down the carrier and its destination; a world controlled by a relatively small number of Covenant Loyalists. Alexey Surkov ordered the Sigyn and the majority of the Oban fleet to pursue.

Battle of Kepler-22b
"Remember, kids: pounce, but, annoy like no tomorrow."

- Dom-094 to the rest of Gamma-Platinum "No free rides."

- Dom-094, before shooting a latching off a

Personality and Description

 * Dom-094: "I went to punch him. Nothing is better than punching."
 * ―Rick-077 and Dom-094, just after the latter an   "It is what it is."

- Dom-094

Dom is a quiet individual and rarely speaks to anyone, unless he knows them on a personal level. During the, Dom was known to be fairly cautious; whenever he was deployed beside Rick, he would often hang back and act as a sharpshooter while Rick charged forward. After obtaining the CQC Optimizer, however, Dom became much more confident in combat and now toys with inferior opponents.

Being a practitioner of wushu, Dom excels close quarters combat, being able to outmaneuver virtually all infantry on foot, landing quick and powerful blows while effortlessly evading the opponent's attacks. Dom's close quarters combat prowess is further enhanced since obtaining the CQC Optimizer, which allows him to discharge a powerful electric burst in a one meter radius around him, severally stunning all adjacent infantry. Dom is notorious for having the greatest vertical leaping height of all SPARTAN-IIs, thanks to his relatively lighter build, earning him the nickname, "the Falcon." Somewhat like, Dom relatively lacks situational awareness, often focusing too much on a single task that he neglects (sometimes crucial) details around him. Therefore, he generally requires a teammate to "watch his back."

During the Human-Covenant War, Dom usually carried an and a. His most common sidearm of choice was a customized M6I/B US fitted with a suppressor, a smart-linked red dot sight, and a tactical light. Since obtaining the CQC Optimizer, Dom no longer carries a shotgun for close quarters, and relies on a combination of an XDEP-101, the CQC Optimizer, and his fists. For long range, he currently uses a.

Relationships
Internally, Dom despises almost all of his superiors who are involved with, although he has grown used to them. Despite disliking however, Dom sympathized with her when he discovered she was labeled a war criminal and then taken into custody aboard the, stating that the Infinity's crew "[had] no right to mistreat her." While almost all SPARTAN-IIs saw as a fatherly figure, Dom has entirely neutral feelings towards the instructor; Dom despised the training as a child, but came to understand that Mendez was just a man doing his job. Dom holds quite amount of respect for, even though the two have never held a personal conversation.

Among the SPARTAN-IIs, Dom was only close to those of the Platinum Team. Even with the additions to the Platinum Team, Dom cares deeply for the new team members. Because of his overall-superior-combat-performance as a result of possessing the CQC Optimizer, Dom believes that he is entirely responsible for the lives of his teammates, and will always try to do all the fighting himself. Outside his team, Dom sees Tavonne Douglas as an older-brother figure and also became friends with Mike Parks. He also has a decent amount of respect for Admiral De Gaulle and Vice Admiral Alexey Surkov. Dom is notable for possessing a very deep friendship with Sam, to the point where those around them believe the relationship to be romantic. Both deny any romantic feelings they may have for each other and claim that the love is purely of friendship.

When Dom was introduced to the Fireteams Mantle and Victoria to work alongside them, the SPARTAN-IVs saw themselves as being superior to the Platinum Team, and began a self-declared rivalry against the more-experienced SPARTANs. Although Dom initially treated the SPARTAN-IVs with indifference, he eventually found their petty rivalry to be incredibly irritating, significantly lowering his opinion on the newest generation of SPARTANs as a whole. Dom's disdaining for SPARTAN-IVs is shared with if not exceeded by that of Ryan-A022.

Armor
Throughout most of the Human-Covenant War, Dom wore the standard. He wore the of the armor when it was released in 2548. When the was issued, Dom wore a  helmet with a CBRN upgrade, a  chest piece, a CQC shoulder pauldron on his left shoulder, a UGPS on his left forearm, and a  on his left leg. Since reentering service, Dom wears a variant of, which consists of an helmet,  torso armor,  shoulder pauldrons,  gauntlets, and  leg armor.

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 * -|Against All Odds= Dominic "Dom"-094 (born Dominic Hsieh; December 31, 2511) is one of the last surviving super soldiers who served throughout the .  Being one of the the only survivors of, he was able to participate in the , but could not participate in the  because he escaped to the surface of  from a crippled  and became stranded on Mauritania.   forces were able to find him days after the end of the  and he subsequently returned to service.

Conscription
When Dom was five or six years old, he was identified as one of the one hundred fifty candidates for the SPARTAN-II Program, being physically and mentally superior to almost all children his age. He was abducted and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II Program by. Like the rest of the Class-I SPARTAN-IIs, he was taken to Reach and trained by. During the training, Dom was first befriended by Sam-015 and was acquainted with the rest of the trainees. Nearing the, Dom became much more detached from anyone else other than Sam. Dom survived the augmentation procedures, and fortunately for him, Sam did as well.

Battle of Jericho VII
Dom-094 participated in the, and was temporarily placed in Red Team. While drew out the Covenant rear guard, Red Team slipped behind enemy lines and planted a. Despite success on the ground, the UNSC ships in space were losing tremendously. The SPARTANs were evacuated before was glassed.

Battle of Reynif
In the year 2545, as with many other human colonies, Reynif came under attack. Dom-094 was sent to the colony to aid the evacuation of civilians. By the time he reached the colony, there was only a single major city remaining, Saeloun Seoul. Towards the end of the evacuation, all nearby Pelicans were shot down, leaving the SPARTAN and a squad of marines stranded in the city. In the process of finding a safer area to hold out on, the marines were killed one by one until only two marines, Thomas Prado and  Cynthia Sinquefield, remained. Dom-094 and the marines arrived at the city's park, and found a young girl named Seung-ah whose mother was killed by Covenant forces. Dom-094 called for extraction, and they were able to make use of the park's pavilion building as a hiding spot. As they waited for transportation, a arrived at the park and deployed six. Dom was confused as to why the Covenant would need to when searching for human stragglers, but was nonetheless prepared for a fight he had slim chances of winning. Dom immediately ordered Sinquefield to take Seung-ah deeper into the building, and told her that he and Prado would fight the elites. When the first zealot entered the pavilion, he immediately vaporized Prado with his and then proceeded to bombard the SPARTAN with several more shots. Dom was able to temporarily find cover, sneak behind the zealot, and break his neck. For each of the next four zealots, Dom lured his enemy to his cover and took advantage of his maneuverability on foot, barely avoiding both shots and swings alike while firing off shots of his own with his until the elite died. Dom successfully used the same strategy on the last zealot, but suffered several burns from the elite's. Soon after, a Pelican arrived at the park, picking up Sinquefield, Seung-ah, and the wounded Dom. Saeloun Seoul ultimately fell to the Covenant, and Reynif was subsequently.

Fall of Reach
On August 30th, 2552, most of the remaining were deployed to the surface of  by the Pelican,, from the. When Bravo 001 was crippled, the SPARTANs were forced to make high-altitude jumps. Four of the SPARTANs did not survive the landing. Upon regrouping, divided the SPARTANs into four splinter groups: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta; Dom was in the Beta splinter team.

Team Beta was assigned to defend. ordered the SPARTANs to engage the oncoming thirty-two and 260 infantry in close quarters, and the SPARTANs broke the assault wave. Another two Covenant armored divisions along with three, however, reinforced the first wave. All SPARTANs but Dom and Sam-015 were eventually killed or severally wounded.

The was ordered by  to bombard the area, but the two SPARTANs were rescued by the pelican,, moments before the Majestic fired its  rounds onto the battlefield.

Personality and Description
Dom is quiet and rarely speaks to anyone else. The only one he will ever have an active conversation with is Sam-015. Internally, Dom dislikes dislikes almost all of his superiors who are involved with. Nonetheless, this does not prevent him from understanding the necessity of defending the against the Covenant and other enemies. While almost all SPARTAN-IIs saw as a fatherly figure, Dom has entirely neutral feelings towards the instructor; Dom despised the training as a child, but came to understand that Mendez was just a man doing his job. Despite all of these opposing views from those around him, Dom holds quite amount of respect for, even though the two have never held a personal conversation.

Being a practitioner of wushu, Dom excels in close quarters combat, being able to outmaneuver virtually all infantry on foot, landing quick and powerful blows while effortlessly evading the opponent's attacks. Dom is notorious for having the greatest vertical leaping height of all SPARTAN-IIs, thanks to his relatively lighter build. Other Class-I SPARTAN-IIs described his jumping as flying. Somewhat like, Dom relatively lacks situational awareness; he tends to focus too much on a single task that he neglects (sometimes crucial) details around him. Therefore, he often requires a teammate to "watch his back." In terms of weapon preferences, Dom usually carries a shotgun such as a C58 Phoenix, and one precision weapon, such as a BR60. Dom's sidearm of choice is a customized M6I/B US, fitted with a suppressor, a smart-linked red dot sight, and a tactical light.