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Bohater-B078
Need to work out something for Bohater to do in my main storyline, and need to make some adjustments if/when I make something up.

Bohater-B078 was a SPARTAN-III supersoldier, and eventual agent for the Insurrection. At first an orphan and then a SPARTAN-III supersoldier, Bohater became disillusioned with the UNSC, and defected from them, along with three other SPARTANs, faking their deaths during Operation: CAESAR.

Childhood
Born in 2533 on New Harmony, Bohater-B078 lived an impoverished life, to two colonial parents, who, from when he could walk and talk, spoke to him about how terrible an organization the UEG was, and how it ruined colonists such as their's lives. Although Bohater never truly took to their teachings, he being very young, it would come back to him later in his life. In 2539, Bohater's planet was attacked by the Covenant. His parents put him aboard a shuttle, but were unable to get aboard one themselves, and were killed by the Covenant invaders.

Orphaned
Now an orphan, Bohater was placed in a government run foster home on. While at the foster home, he was described as being very introverted, with very little social interaction, both with the other children and the caretakers. However, later on, Bohater would have radical mood swings, being happy and ebullient one moment, and sobbing his eyes out in his bed the next, screaming at anyone trying to talk to him. Although some of the caretakers thought he had a bipolar disorder, when he was taken to a psychiatrist, it was discovered Bohater had no such affliction, and that his mood swings were simply a result of the trauma he had experienced.

While at the orphanage, Bohater was visited by a strange man from the Office of Naval Intelligence soon after he had been vaccinated a week before. The man offered the young boy a chance to fight the Covenant, the aliens who had killed his parents. Without any hesitation, and looking for a way to get revenge, Bohater quickly agreed to the man's proposition, and was sent to the planet of to begin his training.

Selection and Training
On his first day on Onyx, Bohater was put through the initial test for all SPARTAN candidates: Jumping out of a Pelican. Not wanting to be a failure, Bohater jumped, not thinking about it, and landed hard, after which he was retrieved by the UNSC and brought to Camp Currahee.

As the training continued, Bohater fought harder and harder, wanting to, as he stated: "Back then I wanted to be the best I could. It was more of a selfish thing in a way. All I wanted was for myself to be the best so I could kill the Covvies who murdered my family"

- Bohater-B078

However, during the first few field exercises, B078 was very much self oriented, charging ahead and wanting to get all the glory, which led to he and his team failing multiple exercises. Eventually, he became more team oriented, and his sense of selfishness faded away.

As the exercises went on, Bohater distinguished himself as a rifleman, along with developing his own form of hand to hand combat, using one's, or another's rifle as the focal point. This style, however, led to multiple broken bones amongst Beta Trainees during exercises when they encountered Bohater in close quarters combat.

Although Bohater had no problems neutralizing fellow trainees and DIs in field exercises, he was perplexed by the indoctrination against a force they called the "Insurrection", wondering why they were trying to make him hate other human beings when he had been recruited to fight the Covenant. Despite never making his opinions heard for fear of punishment, these feelings stuck with him for the rest of his career as a SPARTAN.

Augmentations
In 2545, Bohater, along with the rest of Beta Company, was taken to the UNSC Hopeful for their augmentations. Bohater passed through the augmentations with little complications, after which he and the rest of Beta Company were sent back to Onyx as they adjusted. Bohater, now more eager than ever to fight, had to learn to control his newfound strength to prevent hurting his sparring partners.

Operation: CARTWHEEL
"Do I regret what I did that day? Hell no I don't. Those alien bastards deserved what I gave them and more."

- Bohater on CARTWHEEL

Bohater's first combat experience came in the form of Operation: CARTWHEEL, where Beta was deployed to New Athens, in an attempt to win the battle taking place there. Infiltrating behind Covenant lines, Beta Company set charges, assassinated Sangheili commanders, and wreaked general havoc. Bohater himself was described by his comrades on the mission as being merciless to the Covenant, recklessly so, as he endangered the safety of his team.

During a mission to assassinate a Sangheili General on the planet, Bohater charged the Covenant encampment, guns blazing, mowing down any who stood in his path, before stabbing the General in the abdomen, and breaking the Elite's neck by striking it with his rifle repeatedly.

Despite Beta's efforts however, the colony was still glassed, and the company was evacuated before the glassing had begun, the UNSC knowing they were about to lose the space battle to the aliens, and that a complete and utter glassing of the planet was likely to ensue.

Operation: HERCULES
"Bastards told me I was going to fight the aliens that murdered my family, not kill some discontent humans. So much for helping our race."

- Bohater on HERCULES

Soon after CARTWHEEL, Beta Company was sent to for Operation: HERCULES. The SPARTANs were being sent to destroy a fairly large Insurrectionist cell that was attempting to take over the now lawless planet. Bohater was at first shocked by the fact he would have to kill humans, but tried to shunt that thought into the back of his mind.

When Beta Company was sent to wipe out the main command post of the rebels, Bohater froze. He did not want to kill human beings, he wanted to kill Covenant. Although he continued and finished the mission, afterwards, he was berated by his teammates for again putting their lives in danger.

After HERCULES, Bohater became detached. His team began to shun him for putting their lives in danger, and he slipped into a fit of sadness. During this time, one of the teammates who shared Bohater's sentiment of not wanting to kill fellow human beings, Ryan-B248, came to become friends with Bohater. The two became best of friends, socializing with each other between missions, as both their teams had shunned them for their repeated hesitations during HERCULES.

In around mid May of 2545, Bohater and Ryan heard, through eavesdropping on their superiors of an operation codenamed TORPEDO. Although not many details were heard by the two, they did recognize that it was to be carried out by Beta Company, and that it was expected that none were going to survive.

Although Ryan was more in favor of defecting from the UNSC, his team having not just shunned him, but physically assaulted him for his actions, Bohater was torn between his own personal survival, and staying in solidarity with his comrades and likely dying with them.

After a period of intense reflection, Bohater decided to defect from the UNSC, not wanting to be used as a puppet until he was worn out, then thrown out on a suicide mission. The two also converted two others, Melissa-B192 and Edward-B024, to their cause, and the four made up a plan to fake their deaths and escape the fate of death that would befall them if they took part in TORPEDO.

Operation: CAESAR and Defection
During the company's next operation against Insurrectionists, this time on the planet of, where a group of Insurrectionists were planning to overthrow the colonial government by stirring up the populace in massive, violent riots. Deployed to the rebels' base, Bohater and his three cohorts faked their deaths, turning off their transponders and cutting off all communications with the rest of Beta Company.

Escaping the UNSC, the four went to Casbah and posed as spacers, looking for any way to get off the planet and away from the UNSC. Aboard the freighter Odysseus, the four were accepted as crew members. However, little did the four know that the ship was a rebel ship ferrying supplies to Venezia.

Drifters
When the freighter landed on Venezia, the four SPARTANs were faced with the dilemma of staying or leaving the planet. Bohater tried to convince Melissa and Edward, both of whom were in favor of not staying on the Insurrectionist controlled planet, that they would be safer on it, with the UNSC unlikely to find them. After a lengthy debate, Ryan stepped in, and backed up Bohater's claims, swaying the other two to their side.

While on Venezia, the four took odd jobs of all kind to eke out an existence on the planet. Continuing to stay on the planet for seven more years, the IIIs inhabited an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of New Tyne.

Bohater, during this time, felt genuinely remorseful as he thought about all his fellow Betas who had likely died during TORPEDO that he had left behind. Although he eventually came to leave it behind as something he could not change, Bohater was known to have nightmares regarding his dead comrades. 4

Mercenary
By 2553, Bohater and his fellow defectors had become nothing more than poor beggars. The four, needing a new source of income so they could survive, agreed to become mercenaries. After their first few operations, during which they were contracted by the Venezian government against UNSC insurgents on Venezia, the IIIs became wanted by almost every rebel group in the galaxy, renowned for their ruthless efficiency.

Although at first Bohater was still opposed to killing humans, the amount of jobs the four took part in eventually made him numb to the regret he once felt when killing humans.

Leader
"Ryan! No!"

- Bohater during the botched operation on Paradise Falls

In 2554, the unit was contracted by a rebel group on Paradise Falls, who requested the SPARTANs' help in knocking out a prevalent criminal gang on the planet, in order to stop much of the resistance blocking the rebels from taking control. Although the initial operations went well, with the destruction of the criminals' weapons stockpiles, the attack on the gang's stronghold went badly when Edward was discovered. A fierce firefight ensued, during which Ryan was killed when a chunk of shrapnel from a rocket went through his chest, killing him instantly.

Enraged at the gangsters for killing one of his closest friends, Bohater rallied the remaining two, and charged in, killing everyone in sight, planting explosives, and destroying the compound, before returning to the rebels for payment. After leaving the planet, Bohater became the leader of the group, with Ryan KIA during the raid.

Fall of Venezia
In 2556, two years after coming into command of the remaining two SPARTANs, Bohater was contacted by Venezia, stating they needed help immediately against the UNSC invasion. Bohater, torn between his Insurrectionist loyalties, and his want for the rest of the team survived, denied Venezia's request for assistance, due to the low survival chance he and his friends would have in a stand up battle against the UNSC, but stated: "We'll be back for you".

Hearing reports from the front of the UNSC's campaign enraged Bohater, as he felt the UNSC had no right to be causing so much death and chaos to take back a colony that was just fine under rebel control. With the advent of these feelings against the UNSC, and his own lacking of regret to kill humans, having killed so many he had become numb to the feeling, Bohater's loyalties shifted from neutral in the conflict, to siding with the Insurrectionists.

Hellas Operations
In 2557, Bohater was contracted by a group of Insurrectionists on Hellas, who desperately needed trained commandos to offset the UNSC's heavy military presence, as their use of Rumbledrugs had proved fruitless. Arriving on the planet via sneaking aboard a freighter bound for it, the SPARTANs arrived at the rebels' base. Bohater immediately developed a policy of rotating missions, one SPARTAN at a time, wanting to keep the remainder of his team. When the rebel leader became angry at the policy, Bohater threatened to withdraw his help from the rebels, intimidating the leader into going along with it.

Bohater's first operation for the rebels was to help a fledgling uprising by leading a group of rebel fighters in the city of New Athens in a raid on the police armory for arms and equipment. Entering the city without his SPI armor to blend in better, Bohater met with the rebels he was to assault the police station with. Inserting first, Bohater eliminated the guards around the armory, before blowing off the door, and leading the rest inside. Working with ruthless efficiency, Bohater led the raid inside, cleared the station, and the rebels received their needed supplies and weapons.

However, Bohater would be forced to evacuate from the planet with his group in late 2557 when a botched commando raid, which he led, allowed the UNSC to locate and destroy the main rebel base. Retreating, Bohater and his comrades went to the nearest spaceport to get off of the planet. Stowing away aboard a freighter bound for Venezia, the three discreetly raided its medical supplies to treat the wounds they had sustained during the raid.

Return (2559-2583)
When the freighter landed on the colony of Venezia, Bohater and the other two SPARTANs immediately left the immediate area of any population centers, and went out to Venezia's countryside. There, the three, after three weeks of wandering, came across a large group of remnants from the Venezian Colonial Guard. Upholding his promise that one day he would return to help the rebels on Venezia, Bohater offered the rebels he and his unit's services, in return for shelter from the UNSC. The rebels agreed, and, within a day, the SPARTANs were running missions, sabotaging, assassinating, or thieving from the UNSC, as the rebels tried to rebuild their strength and prepare to try and retake the planet.

Operations
While working for the rebels, Bohater's main responsibility was weakening the UNSC's hold on the frontier regions of Venezia. Assassinating UNSC garrison commanders, sabotaging convoys, and wreaking general havoc, Bohater allowed for rebels to gain footholds in the frontier regions as he continued to weaken the UNSC garrisons stationed there.

May 16th Ambush
One of Bohater's most infamous operations during this time was the complete annihilation of a UNSC unit over the course of an hour on May 16th. Leading a unit of crack rebel insurgents, he ambushed a part of the company going out on a routine patrol, forcing them into a nearby town, where the rebel insurgents were positioned.

Pinning down the patrol, the UNSC called for reinforcements from the rest of their unit. Bohater, stationed at the main entrance to the town, cut off the reinforcements, pinning them down with a sniper rifle. Meanwhile, as the rest of the rebels eliminated the patrol, they moved in on the reinforcements, encircling them, and completely wiping out the UNSC.

Resupply
In 2563, four years after Bohater's return to the planet, the rebels announced they were planning a second rebellion, and needed military equipment to help it succeed. Bohater and his unit were contracted to raid a UNSC base, and open it up for rebel fighters to move in and steal whatever was considered essential for the rebellion to succeed.

Donning their SPI armor, Bohater and his comrades slipped past the perimeter sentries on the base, before killing a guard, and using his access guard to get into the motor pool. Taking an M808, Bohater burst through the front gate of the building, before opening fire on anything in sight.

Signaling the rebels to begin their attack, Bohater blew a hole in the perimeter defenses with the Scorpion's 90mm main gun, before using it to cover rebel troops as they procured as much as they could. With the raid finished, Bohater and his compatriots escaped the remaining UNSC's patrols, and made their way back to the rebel camp.

Second Venezian Rebellion (2564)
With the rebellion looming once again, Bohater and the other rebel leaders went to work strategizing their moves that they hoped would lead to the planet's independence. Bohater and his team were assigned by the others to neutralize key figures of the government so the Insurrection could come in and usurp power.

The rebellion began in March of 2564, as rebels instigated violent riots and angry mobs in Venezia's main cities. Using the cover of the riots, Bohater and his team moved into New Messina, and infiltrated the building housing the high officials of Venezia's UEG loyal government. Easily eliminating the security detail and killing or capturing the officials, Bohater handed them over to the rebels, before moving in to help in the battle.

Although the rebellion was successful at first, it all came to an end about a week and a half after it began. With Venezia in danger of falling to the Insurrection once again, the UNSC deployed all of Gamma Company to put down the rebellion. Engaging in a gunfight with a fireteam of Gamma SPARTAN-IIIs, Bohater and his team managed to kill three, at the cost of Melissa and Edward. With the loss of his two remaining friends, and the arrival of Gamma Company, Bohater abandoned the rebels, knowing he too would most likely be killed if he continued to fight.

Post Rebellion
Retreating to a secluded location in the mountains, Bohater was plagued by the memories of his dead comrades. As he broiled in a fit of rage much like he had felt after his parents had been slain by the Covenant, Bohater eventually continued the rebels' fight, waging a guerilla war against the UNSC. Bohater eventually became infamous amongst the UNSC troops on the planet, and by 2570, was still fighting.

Weapons and Equipment
Originally, when he first began his work for the Insurrection, Bohater mainly used his Semi Powered Infiltration armor, with exceptions during undercover operations or times where it would be more of a hindrance. But as his work for the Insurrection dragged on, the armor became more and more worn out, and by the end of the Second Venezian Rebellion, Bohater's armor was nearly unusable, it being heavily damaged in the rebellion.

After the Second Venezian Rebellion, with his armor almost completely unusable, Bohater scrounged up fatigues from a fighter who had died during the rebellion, and wore them in place of his armor as he fought a guerilla war against the UNSC.

Bohater's weapons, much like his SPI armor, degraded over time. Although originally possessing an M7S and MA5K, these weapons were eventually lost or damaged as he fought against the UNSC, with few replacement parts, forcing the rogue SPARTAN to eventually entirely rely on Insurrectionist or civilian weaponry.

Nicholas Miller
"Men, I say this to you, the UNSC can destroy us, they can kill and round up and persecute anyone who supports us and our cause, but they cannot kill an ideal. They can kill us, and we shall be branded as traitors to a government, but centuries later, when our ideal has taken hold, our ideal of self government, we shall be remembered as martyrs and patriots, men who died for what was righteous. I implore you to remember that when we fight, we fight not for ourselves, we fight for our children, not by blood, but the next generation, that they may not suffer tyranny like humanity has for centuries!"

- Nicholas Miller

Lieutenant Nicholas Miller was an officer of the. Born in 2520 on, Miller was only five years old when the colony came under the control of the Insurrection. When he turned eighteen, Miller joined the Venezian People's Navy, and was commissioned as an officer, commanding a platoon of marines aboard the captured UNSC destroyer URF John Paul Jones, after he passed the tests to be shunted to officer status during basic training.

In 2555, after basic training, the UNSC assaulted Venezia, and Miller, along with the destroyer, and its escort, were forced to evacuate to, in order to get shelter from the UNSC. After being on Eayn for three years, the called for the rebels to hold up their end of the bargain by helping the aliens.

The Jackals, during the rebels' stay on Eayn, had brokered a deal with the, to aid the other aliens in any endeavors they had, as long as the Sangheili turned a blind eye to the Kig-Yar's smuggling and harboring of enemies of the UNSC. In turn, the Kig-Yar intended to use the rebels to help them, as long as they kept harboring them.

Despite Miller not trusting the Jackals or the Sangheili, he went along with his superiors' orders, and they went to Earth, in order to aid the beleaguered UNSC. By the time they arrived, Earth's defense was in shambles, and the Didact was in New York. After the Forerunner warrior escaped through a slipspace rupture, the rebels, as well as many other UNSC and Federation forces, followed him through. For nearly a month, they traveled through slipspace, and, after a battle and yet another slipspace jump at Zeta Halo, they arrived at the Greater Ark.

When they arrived, the force found that the Federation had come under attack by the UNSC, including the, and all her escorts.

Early Life
Nicholas Miller was born to two former Venezian People's Army personnel turned entrepreneurs in in 2530. As he grew up, Miller was shown to have a superior intellect to many of his classmates in school, enough so that he would have been marked as a SPARTAN-II candidate, had the planet still been in UNSC hands. However, his physical capabilities, in comparison to his academic strength and peers, were average.

As he continued to age, an unspoken expectance of Miller to join the Venezian People's Army, like his parents, came down on him. Although his enthusiasm about it was lackluster at first, he came to want to join the military, and, aiming even higher, to become an officer. These expectations, both by his parents and himself, were the impetus for Miller to join the VPA.

Basic Training
Miller joined the Venezian People's Army in March of 2538, and was sent to basic training at Fort Watts. Through the brutal training, Miller was an unremarkable recruit, his abilities, especially in physical training, surpassed greatly by many of the other recruits, who had come from heavy labor on farms, while Miller had come from the city, and had not done much physical labor, with the most being lifting things for his parents or the mandatory exercise required by his school.

However, halfway through training, Miller became well known by many of the recruits, after he, and only one other recruit out of the two hundred and fifty man class, did well enough on their officer candidate tests to be bumped up to advanced training to become officers in the VPA. For two more years, Miller and forty nine other officer candidates trained at a different section of Fort Watts. In 2550, Miller and thirty other candidates, nineteen having dropped out, graduated, and were commissioned as Lieutenants in the VPA.

Deployment to the VPN Abankin
After earning his commission, Miller was deployed to the captured UNSC destroyer VPN Abankin, to command a platoon of the ship's complement of VPA troops. With no war to fight, Miller kept his unit sharp with regular drills and training sessions, knowing full well the UNSC could return at any time, and they would need to fight them off to the best of their ability. For five more years, Miller continued to train and train his men, paranoid every day that he might see a slipspace jump in system, with hundreds of either UNSC or Covenant ships.

Fall of Venezia
On November 23rd, 2555, Miller's fears were realized when a force of UNSC ships jumped in-system, headed straight for Venezia. When general quarters was sounded, Miller and his platoon, having trained for the past five years for such a situation, were the first unit of troops ready to repel boarders on the ship. From his position, Miller watched in horror as the vanguard of rebel ships was easily destroyed by the UNSC.

For the next half hour, which Miller described as the longest of his life, the Venezian People's Navy and the UNSC Navy engaged in a bloody melee. But by the end, despite their best efforts, most of the VPN was nothing more than a group of burned out hulks of ships. Knowing they could not fight any more, the captain ordered the ship to jump to, hoping to broker a deal with the.

Pirating
When the Abankin jumped out of slipspace near Eayn, they broadcast a signal stating they needed asylum, and were willing to trade with the aliens and make a deal for it. In response to the rebels' transmission, the Skirmisher, Slin, who had been on Venezia, spoke back to them, stating he was sending an envoy to the ship. Miller, along with three other soldiers, were sent with the captain to negotiate the deal with Slin's envoy.

Despite his reservations about negotiating with aliens, Miller held his tongue, and simply looked on as the maneuvering and bartering talk went back and forth between the two. Although the envoy's guards had not shown any signs of hostility, Miller still distrusted them, and kept his weapon's safety off, waiting for a firefight to break out. However, the two conducted the deal peacefully, and the two species brokered a deal, for the rebels to aid Slin, in return that he would give them asylum.

For three more years, the rebels waited for Slin to ask them to do something, but, to the shock of the entire crew, he did not until February of 2558, when he told the rebels they were to aid he and his fleet in a deal that they had brokered, this time with, to aid the beleaguered UNSC on Earth.

Despite the crew, including Miller's, objections to helping the UNSC, they were all reminded they had a bargain to hold up. With this, Miller, now in command of the entire boarding complement aboard the Abankin, ordered his troops to prepare for heavy combat against a foe they had heard was being called "The Pact".

Earth
By the time the Abankin, as well as the Kig-Yar and Sangheili fleets arrived at Earth, the battle was coming to a close, just as The Pact and the Draconian Empire's fleet jumped into slipspace. In a split second decision, the Arbiter and UNSC forces followed through the portal, just before it closed.

Installation 07
On April 8th, 2558, the Alliance Federation forces arrived at Installation 07, and commenced a battle on the ring's surface. Miller, deployed to the surface with twenty handpicked men, began working as part of Strike Force Alpha. The first part of the mission on the ring was to secure a landing zone, before assaulting the Installation's cartographer.

After he and his unit deployed from their dropships, Miller engaged in heavy combat with multiple lances of Covenant Remnants, as well as two Promethean Knights. Taking cover behind a cluster of rocks, he drew the fire of a stationary turret, while a unit of seven rebel troops moved up, and, after killing the crew, turned it on the rest of the forces, killing all but one Promethean Knight, who disappeared. However, while Miller was moving up with the rest of his troops, the Knight teleported behind him and knocked the Lieutenant to the ground. Aiming his HMG-38, he emptied an entire magazine of rounds into the Forerunner warrior, before transitioning to his, and finishing it off.

With the end of his part of the initial operation, Miller surveyed his casualties, which were three dead, four heavily wounded. The dead were brought up to the Abankin, via dropship carrying those who had been killed, from all member states of the Federation. However, while he was surveying the area, Miller ran into the vaunted SPARTAN-IIs who were part of REGAL-TF: 313. Miller, distrustful of the SPARTANs, made a comment to his troops, telling them not to trust them. However, Frederic-104 overheard some of Miller's troops talking about his comment, and confronted the Lieutenant. As the argument grew more heated, Miller nearly drew his M6D, but before he was able to do so, Jonathan-117 pulled the Lieutenant away, and Calliope-087 and Melinda-058 restrained Fred.

Despite Miller's distrust and anger, he had little time to let it brew, as they were again called up, this time to attack the Cartographer. Boarding a squadron of UNSC Navy Pelican gunships, the rebels laid down heavy fire from the dropships on the Pact forces below them. On one of the gunships, Miller took control of the weapons systems after the UNSC officer controlling it was killed, gunning down hundreds of enemy infantry. However, their attack would be short lived, as the, arrived in a Cerberus walker, forcing them to retreat. Returning to the Abankin, the rebels followed the Federation forces again, this time to Installation 00

Installation 00
On August 13th, the Federation ships arrived at Installation 00. Only an hour and a half after their arrival, the, accompanied by its escorts, came out of slipspace, and began opening fire on the Federation ships, including the Abankin. After the initial salvo, which killed the captain of the ship, Miller was put in charge, as the ship's real XO was unable to do anything due to medical treatment. Not trusting the UNSC, Miller ordered the ship to fire at will on any and all ships escorting the Infinity. Many of the rebels, still enraged at the UNSC for Venezia, wanted to move in and go on a rampage, one that would most likely destroy it. Miller, knowing the ships were still dangerous, ordered the crews to snipe them from a distance with the destroyer's MAC guns.

Despite his best efforts to keep the ship out of harm's way, Miller was unable to stop some UNSC Marines from boarding the destroyer. With many of the troops dying, Miller ordered them to retreat from their positions, and, once they were out, he vented the atmosphere in the sections the UNSC had taken, stopping them dead, quite literally, in their tracks. Once he deemed it safe enough to attack again, Miller ordered the destroyer to attack the entire formation, where they wreaked havoc with the remaining weapons on their ship, before moving to a safe distance, away from the UNSC's guns. The engagement took place only in a matter of about thirty to forty minutes, before the UNSC turned and jumped out system.

For the next few months, until November, the crew was mainly focused on repairing the damage from their previous engagement, taking pieces from many of the Federation's destroyed ships, and welding them onto the holes on the Abankin. They also did the same with weapons, although they were less successful in this aspect. Miller also was reassigned back to his original duty, as the XO had finished his treatment, and took control of the ship.

Raid on the Infinity
In February of 2559, Miller was contacted by Master Chief once again, this time to take part in a raid on the UNSC Infinity. Taking thirty other VPA soldiers with him, he and the rest of his troops boarded the prowler UNSC Pegasus. As they came up on the massive flagship, Miller and his troops agreed to go with Master Chief. As they boarded the Infinity, Miller and his fireteam led the way. It was here that Miller's true calculating coldness was shown as he mercilessly mowed down UNSC soldiers, no matter if they were surrendering or not.

When the team discovered their package, Captain Lasky, and Osman stated that she would unleash the Infinity's complement of SPARTAN on them, Miller ordered his troops to load armor piercing rounds into all their weapons. Following the Chief. down to the hangar bay, Miller and his team were ambushed by a group of SPARTAN-IVs as 117 began fighting. Hefting a .30 Caliber Machine Gun loaded with AP rounds, Miller unleashed a murderous hail of bullets on the SPARTAN-IVs, aiming for the chinks in the armor plates, and if that didn't stop them, his men's sheer amount of fire downed them.

After being rescued, Miller stated he would not be following the rest of REGAL, and that he would see them at the Ark, as his men needed medical treatment. However, this was just a ruse so the Abankin could return to Venezia. However, before they left on a subprowler Doctor Halsey had supplied them with, the rebels captured three HAVOK nuclear weapons from the missiles in the Infinity's hangar. After the rebels returned to the destroyer above the Ark, the survivors were awarded the Order of Valiance for their actions, after which the ship began its jump to Venezia.

New Beginnings
After nearly a year of slipspace travel, the destroyer arrived at Venezia. The captain, wanting to know what had happened on the planet, deployed a team of three troopers to report on the planet's situation. Their analysis was grim. Dissidents on the planet were being rounded up and shot, and even law abiding citizens were being herded into internment camps. When this was reported, Miller became enraged, and asked for a meeting of the ship's officers. As he spoke at the meeting, Miller demanded to begin a campaign of complete and total warfare against the UNSC.

His proposal was accepted by the officers, and the CO relinquished command of the Abankin to Miller, as the former's health was ailing, and much of the ship wanted Miller to take command.. For the next few years, Miller led a campaign of guerilla combat against the UNSC, including using the three HAVOK nukes to destroy a UNSC shipyard in orbit above Mars. His combat actions were not limited to just from the Abankin, as Miller also worked as a rebel leader on multiple planets, and eventually became the rank of Colonel by 2561. He also became an arms smuggler, cutting deals with suppliers that in return for him smuggling their weapons, they would give him supplies or weaponry.

For many more years, Miller led the Abankin and its crew on multiple successful operations. These actions led the UNSC to place a bounty of 1.6 million Credits on just his head alone, and an extra 50,000 for each of his accomplices.

Appearance
Miller's physical appearance was very much average looking, with no real distinguishing figures. However the time of the end of the raid on the UNSC Infinity, Miller had multiple scars from the continuous combat he had been in, both from shrapnel and burns from plasma. He almost always kept his hair in military regulations, something he carried over from being an officer in the VPA, when it was still a standing army.

Personality
Miller's personality was the polar opposite of his outer appearance, with his thoughts and actions being unforgettable. He was a firm believer in "ends justify the means", something that was shown on the Infinity and after the raid, when he had no qualms about killing other humans if that was what it took to lead to his goal. Jonathan-117, who disliked fighting other humans, theorized his coldness in combat was a result of the fact he had become jaded, especially after Venezia was lost to the UNSC, and he was forced to retreat rather than stand and fight. He was also extremely irritable, although this usually manifested around SPARTANs, who he had little love for.

He also was a vehement believer in anti centralization and pro colonial autonomy sentiment, something that was again, a product of his Insurrectionist upbringing, as well as a distrust, if not outright hatred of, SPARTANs, who had been designed to fight the Insurrection. He also saw the UNSC, and, even the Master Chief and the rest of the SPARTANs he worked with as hypocrites, as during the Human-Covenant War, when they claimed to be protecting humanity, when yet they still killed other humans in the form of Insurrectionists.

Juxtaposed with his bitter relationship with the UNSC and SPARTANs, Miller was doggedly loyal to his men. This was manifested during the securing of a landing zone on Installation 07, when he drew the fire of a Shade turret, so the rest of his men could move up safely and take. Even when he told his men not to trust the SPARTANs, he thought he was keeping them safe from betrayal by them.

Battle of Rock Peninsula
The Battle of Rock Peninsula was part of the initial battles that comprised the larger Battle of New Warsaw. After the initial declaration of the war for the planet's independence by the New Warsaw People's Army, the NPPA Rock Peninsula Defense Battalion, comprised of NPPA soldiers who lived in the peninsula's many caves, was called up to defend the area.

On April 6th, the UNSC dropped the 16th Orbital Drop Shock Trooper Company onto the peninsula, on the only flat ground suitable for a drop. However, as soon as they landed, the ODSTs came under fire from rebel 95mm artillery pieces, who shelled them with three salvos of white phosphorous rounds before they were destroyed by air support.

After the ODSTs had cleared the area, the UNSC began moving Pelican dropships carrying two other UNSC Marine companies into the area. However, they too took casualties from the rebels' anti aircraft guns, which were also destroyed soon. after. Now the UNSC engaged in a five day battle for the rebels' headquarters, which was dug into the side of a mountain. On April 11th, NPPA commander Lieutenant Colonel Myron Pavlovich surrendered to the UNSC with the last of his battalion, numbering sixteen soldiers.

Battle of New Warsaw
The Battle of New Warsaw was an engagement during the Battle of New Poland between the New Poland People's Army and the UNSC. The battle began almost at the same time as the Battle of Rock Peninsula, as NPPA militia units quickly took areas of the city, and set up fortifications, aiming to delay the UNSC while the majority of the NPPA's forces set up at New Gdansk.

As the UNSC entered the city, the militia, with the aid of the 2nd NPPA Sapper Company, waged a guerilla war, inflicting heavy casualties on the UNSC before the majority of the militia were finally destroyed in a citywide destruction of their hiding places, and those few that survived retreated to New Gdansk.

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Short Story
"Halt, patrol ahead!", hissed Sam-G019 to the rest of Ion Team. Ahead of them were two rebel soldiers, silhouetted against the night sky, an MA3A cradled in each of their arms. "Kodiak, Dyne, take them out.", continued the SPARTAN. The two other IIIs nodded, and moved up. Kodiak quickly jabbed one with his knife, and he dropped. Dyne, however, struggled to try and subdue the other man, who quickly fired his rifle. All of a sudden, the low drone of a siren wailed across the base, and the entire base was teeming with rebels. "Shit.", said Dyne.

"Sir, sir, please wake up!". Ryan Lee awoke to the sound of a pounding on the door to his quarters, and his aide's muffled voice begging him to wake up. Opening the door, his aide immediately began to babble at him. Holding up a hand to stop him from ranting on any more, he studied the man for a second. Something was wrong. His aide was wearing combat gear, equipment reserved for a UNSC attack. "What's going on?", he asked. "Sir, the SPARTANs are here, we have to get you out of here now!"

"Calm down. I have to get something.", Lee responded. Unlocking a compartment in his desk, Lee pulled out a bound pile of papers, and gave them to his aide. "Give one of each to the couriers, tell them to make haste to their assignments." Despite the fact the young man was obviously shaken by the attack, he immediately ran for the motorpool with little hesitation. Sighing, Lee sat down at his desk. He knew he couldn't escape, and he was at peace with that fact, as he looked out his window, heard the gunfire, and began to finish the constitution he had been writing for the settlement.

"Keep 'em back!" yelled the rebel in charge of Second Squad, as he raised his own MA3A, and fired a forty millimeter grenade from the underslung launcher on his weapon. The explosion threw up a massive amount of dirt and debris in front of his targets. Looking through the cloud that had been conjured up, his heart sank as he spotted the armored figures continuing towards their position.

"Let 'er rip! Unload your ammunition!", he screamed, terrified, at Second Squad, as their position erupted in a cacophony of gunfire. The noise of Confetti Makers, MA series rifles, hunting rifles, and all manner of firearms filled the air as they attempted to stop the inevitable.

Before anyone knew it, Kodiak was in their midst, illuminated by the light of their muzzle flashes, tearing through their ranks with a knife, spilling crimson across their fortifications. Attaching a bayonet to his rifle, Second Squad's CO charged at him, hoping to run him through with the weapon. Before he knew it, a knife had extended from within the SPARTAN's armor, and he himself had been run through.

"Forward!", ordered Sam to the rest of Ion Team after the first fortifications had been overrun. "Sepia, go in the commander's residence, and take him out. We'll deal with the rest of these Innies."

"Yes sir.", responded Sepia, cold as ever. Within her mind, she knew the rebel commander was more than just another name, another Innie. He had been a friend, a comrade, and now here she was, sent to kill him. Moving through the settlement, she began looking for the commander's residence, skulking through the darkness, and looking in the windows of each residence, trying to see which was the commander's.

Eventually, she found it. The home looked the same as most of the other domiciles, but it had a two guards outside, one of which, a young man, no older than eighteen, had arrived only seconds after Sepia did. Raising her silenced M6, she fired twice, and the guards dropped. Turning over one of their bodies, looking for the key to the home, Sepia was greeted with the sight of the younger one's face, his eyes locked straight ahead in fear, something she was unable to forget.

Opening the door, Sepia began checking room to room, trying to find her friend, no, target. Hearing the scratch of a pen against paper behind one door, she slowly opened it to see a man with a head of sitting hunched over at a wooden desk. At the sound of his door opening, he set down his pen and straightened up. He had no weapons. "No. No. No.", went Sepia's conscience as she walked behind Lee, and pressed the pistol to the back of his head. "I'm sorry.", she whispered, before pulling the trigger. The shot echoed in her mind, and the image of Lee's destroyed head imprinted itself in her mind. She had just killed a friend, for the UNSC. A friend, for a faceless organization that wanted to use her as nothing more than a human weapon. On the desk, there was a manuscript, what Lee had been working on. Out of curiosity, she picked it up, and placed it in one of her armor's storage compartments. Contacting Sam, she said, "Mission accomplished, Ryan...the target has been neutralized."

About Three Days Later

"Riots continue on the planet of Tyrene as rebel leaders continue to incite the populace against the UNSC. Many have attributed these riots to the recent death of infamous rebel figure Ryan Lee. So far, multiple firefights have broken out, and rioters have set fire to multiple UNSC government buildings with improvised explosives, and engaged in fights with police. Fatalities are not known at this time however.", the news correspondent said, as Sepia listened to the latest news on the newest insurrection on Tyrene. The UNSC's actions had come back to haunt it, and they were blaming it on the Insurrection. As she looked at the document that had been on Lee's desk, she pondered what this all meant. But she didn't know. Maybe she would in time.

James Moore
James Moore, also known as Codename: LANCER, was an leader on the planet of New Suffolk. Born on the colony of, he enlisted in the. During his deployment on Mamore, Moore came into contact with then First Lieutenant Jonathan Ulan, who at the time was starting to go over to the side of the Insurrection.

Engaging in a series of debates with the Lieutenant, Moore was eventually persuaded by him to defect to the Insurrection as well. Three years later, in 2537, with the end of many of the rebel cells on the planet due to an assault by Alpha Company, Moore was given a period of leave. Going to the frontier colony of New Suffolk, Moore defected to the rebels there.

As a former UNSC serviceman, Moore was treated with initial suspicion by the rebels when he explained he was a UNSC defector, but eventually the Insurrectionists' need for troops quickly replaced their suspicion.. As he continued serving the rebels, Moore was disgusted by the rebels' leader, who did no more than waste precious resources. A year later, Moore arranged a conspiracy with a group of other rebel fighters, and had the man killed. Although many other rebels suspected Moore to be the culprit, he was the only leader left, and took control of the group.

For the next few decades, Moore directed the group in a series of hit and run attacks, even going so far as to built a bunker underground in one of New Suffolk's many forests. When the 2550s arrived, he took advantage of the new influx of Covenant weaponry on the black market, and began arming the rebels under his command with plasma weaponry, making them even deadlier in their increasingly frequent guerilla raids. However, in 2567, Moore met his end when Cyclops Team raided his base of operations, killed him, and demolished the bunker.

Early Life
Born on in 2514 to two vehemently anti  parents, throughout his life, even at a very young age, Moore was exposed to strong feelings of pro colonial autonomy, which, although it never took hold as strongly as his parents had hoped, would influence him later in life. In 2531, when he turned seventeen, Moore joined the UNSC Air Force on the planet, feeling he had more of a duty to serve humanity against the genocidal, rather than killing other human beings.

Enlistment
After he enlisted in the UNSC Air Force, Moore's parents became enraged at him, and refused to talk to their son, developing a separation that would last for the rest of Moore's life. Throughout Basic Military Training, Moore was extremely distressed at the loss of contact between he and his parents, whom he had had a close bond with while he was growing up.

Despite his wrecked emotional status, Moore graduated in the top five of his BMT class. After training, he was sent to Security Forces training. In that as well, he excelled, showing potential as a leader during exercises, leading him to have a promotion to Airman First Class soon after graduation.

Deployment
With the end of his training, Moore was deployed to Spaatz Air Force Base on the planet. While on his first tour of duty there, he met First Lieutenant Jonathan Ulan, who at the time was also on his first tour of duty. Despite looking up to the officer, who seemed to be the epitome of achievement to Moore for several years, he eventually became suspicious of the Lieutenant having pro sympathies.

When he confronted Ulan about this, Moore unwittingly began his own defection, as the Lieutenant told him what he had seen and been told by the citizens of the planet, and how the UNSC was responsible for it all. Although Moore was skeptical at first, his estranged parents' teachings came back to him, and he began to believe Ulan, thinking that his parents' anti UNSC teachings were real, and that the organization was in the wrong with regards to the colonies.

Defection
In 2537, Moore defected to the Insurrection. With the majority of rebel groups on Mamore having disappeared almost overnight, he was given a period of leave, and he, along with Ulan, defected on their leave, almost simultaneously. Going to New Suffolk, Moore stripped his uniform of its patches and nametapes, and went AWOL.

About a week after his defection, Moore found a rebel camp hidden in the deep forests of New Suffolk, and, after being detained by rebel patrols, explained his plight, and that he wanted to join them. After two more days of detainment, Moore was finally allowed to join, with the rank of Private.

Moore's defection also had an effect on the former friends he had at Spaatz AFB on Mamore. Originally seen as a exemplary airman of the UNSC Air Force, his name, as well as Ulan's, became associated with betrayal and treason, due to their actions against the UNSC.

People's Republic of Venezia Army
The People's Republic of Venezia Army (PRVA) was the main atmospheric combat force for the People's Republic of Venezia. Formed in 2526 soon after the secession of Venezia, the PRVA continually expanded and improved itself in preparation for the government's planned invasion of Earth.

However, this plan never came to fruition, as the UNSC attacked first, and the PRVA took part in a two year war against the invading UNSC forces, until the government was forced to surrender. However, many former soldiers of the PRVA continued to work as miltia members or Insurrectionist commanders, continuing to fight the UNSC even after the official cessation of hostilities.

Formation
The People's Republic of Venezia Army was formed in the aftermath of the Insurrectionist coup that occurred on Venezia in 2525 from the many militia groups that had aided in the overtaking of the planet. When an official government was formed, the People's Republic of Venezia divided the many militia groups into sectors of responsibility.

These sectors of responsibility were for in and around the three major cities on the planets, and many more dividing up the mostly unexplored frontier.

Anti Guerilla Operations
By 2530, UNSC loyal guerilla activity had begun to spike on the planet, and the PRVA was being put through a baptism of fire. Despite some victories against the guerillas, the PRVA was losing many men for a little gain, much like the UNSC had during the Insurrection, due to the fact many of the militias were not extremely invested in fighting the guerillas, and many groups simply disbanded when faced with the threat.

With the problems of the PRVA in its original form becoming apparent, the rebel government decided that a standing army would be needed to continue fighting the UNSC guerillas, rather than a loose collection of militias that were assigned to certain areas. To get recruits for this new army, and get the populace onboard, the government flooded the cities and countryside with propaganda urging people to get onboard with the idea of a professional army.

To an extent, the propaganda worked, culling recruits from all over the planet to be trained and become soldiers. However, even with the influx of new recruits into the professional army, the majority of the PRVA was still part of its "Irregular Warfare Section", which dealt with militia groups and other irregular military units.

This strategy worked however, and, with the presence of a standing army ready to put down UNSC loyal revolts, guerilla activity dropped dramatically, especially after the Frontier Revolt, during which UNSC guerillas launched a massive revolt in Venezia's countryside in 2535. To counter this massive revolt, the PRVA was sent in to put it down, and did so with overwhelming force, violently putting down the guerillas after they refused to surrender. However, some atrocities and uses of unnecessary violence were reported during the operation, but, to preserve their public image, the People's Republic covered them up.

Preparation
With the threat of UNSC guerillas mostly neutralized, the government moved on to preparation for the attack on Earth. As they prepared, the PRVA high command held a month and a half long council on war strategy, both for an attack on Earth and a war on Venezia. By the end of the meeting, they had developed strategies for both fronts, and what they would need. New recruits were at the top of the list. To accomplish this first objective, the rebels created new patriotic propaganda, especially centered around avenging Far Isle, and flooded the planet with it, aiming to gain more and more recruits for the army. Their strategy of using the rebellion as a tool worked, and multitudes of Venezians flooded the army with new troops over the next few decades.

Next on the list was arming this military for a protracted war. Despite the UNSC convoy raids being conducted and black market deals being arranged, with the center being, it was insufficient to equip the quickly growing PRVA. To solve this, the government looked to the black market, but not for just weaponry. They wanted industrial equipment to build their army. After nearly a year of bartering and dealing with criminals and smuggling groups, the planet received its first shipment of black market industrial equipment, first for building MA3A assault rifles. As the decades went on, the PRV eventually acquired equipment for building vehicles such as the, M805 Light Tank, and, in 2554, equipment to build the A-168A "Skyhawk", which was the original version of the used during the Human-Covenant War. Even with this, the majority of the PRVA was based on land, with a very limited part of it dealing with air combat, known as the People's Republic of Venezia Army Air Corps.

Also during their preparation and building up of the army, the PRVA acquired limited numbers of Covenant equipment, especially during the 2550s, from smugglers and arms dealers, and three, from Ralph-303, acting under the pseudonym of Caesar. The PRVA, at least during the mid-late 2540s, also began to set up a leadership structure for their army, with the majority of the army being composed of "Enlisted", which held certain positions, which dictated the title in front of their name i.e. Squad Leader. The rest of the army was composed of "Officers", who used the same ranking system as the Enlisted, and "Generals", who made up the PRVA high command.

Fall of Venezia
In 2557, as the Venezians were making their final preparations to attack, the UNSC assaulted the planet, with the intent of reclaiming it from the rebels. After a quick space battle, the UNSC began landing troops on the planet.

Early Stages
Despite the UNSC's element of surprise, most of the PRVA had been mobilized already in preparation for the attack on Earth, and the initial UNSC assaults were repulsed by the PRVA, who proceeded to take back what land they had lost, as well as acquiring more UNSC equipment. However, their early victories became null and void as the UNSC landed tens of thousands of troops on the planet to take it back. Despite inflicting heavy casualties on the UNSC, the PRVA were forced to retreat to their strongholds.

Stalemate and Final Offensive
With the rebels heavily dug in, the two sides were now stuck in a war of attrition, with the tug back and forth that was the war. As both sides fought to try and win, neither was able to until about a year and a half after the war had started, and tens of thousands of casualties on both sides. When the UNSC finally made their breakthrough, the rebels halted their advance three times by detonating the HAVOK nukes Ralph had acquired for them.

Despite these losses on both sides, the UNSC and PRVA fought rabidly for every inch of ground, and, while it was no longer a stalemate, the war for control of Venezia was becoming a costly fight for every single town, fort, and city that the rebels were willing to defend.

End of Hostilities and Aftermath
However, in November of 2559, the UNSC entered the capital city of New Messina, and, after a street to street battle, finally forced the PRV to surrender. With the dissolution of the PRV, the PRVA was disbanded, officially at least, and many of its members were taken as POWs, or escaped capture, forming their own militia groups, one of which took on the name of the People's Army of Venezia, claiming themselves to be the continuation of the PRVA.

It's a Long Way To Victory
Verse 1:

Up to mighty New Tyne

Came a young recruit one day

As the streets were packed with troops,

And everyone was gay,

Singing songs of Eridani, The Rubble, and Sigma IV

Then Johnny got excited and he shouted to them there:

Chorus:

It's a Long Way To Victory,

It's a long way to go

It's a long way to Victory

To the sweetest maid I know,

Goodbye, Eridani

Farewell Sigma IV

It's a long, long way to Victory,

But my mind's right there!

Verse 2:

Johnny sent a message

To his girl in New Cassino

Saying "Should you not receive this, reply and let me know"

"If I make mistakes in spelling, my dear", said he

"Remember its the pad that's bad, don't lay the blame on me!"

Peter Maly
Commodore Peter Maly was an naval officer during the Insurrection, Human-Covenant War, and Interspecies Union Conflicts. Born in 2499 on a rebel asteroid base in the Thodorus System to two Insurrectionist sailors, he followed in their footsteps, and in 2517, joined the base's navy as a navigation officer.

For the next eight years, Maly acted as a navigation officer aboard several ships, until the Covenant attacked Harvest in 2525, and the rebels stopped their attacks for fear of being discovered by the aliens. Over the next few decades, Maly climbed the ranks to become the rank of Commodore, in command of his own vessel, patrolling the area around the base.

In 2554, the captured UNSC Kursk arrived at the base, and Maly, being the most experienced officer, was assigned to command the ship, which he renamed the Grom. Leaving the base with the Grom for the ship's first deployment, Maly began a series of hit and run attacks against the UNSC.

For the rest of the year, he continued to command the Grom in attacks. However, just as they were about to return from their deployment, Maly received news that the base had been destroyed not long after they had left, as the Kursk's original mission was to destroy the base, and the UNSC had still known its position.

With this news, Maly and the rest of the crew began raiding not just for attacking the UNSC as orders dictated, but for some, revenge, but most of all, survival, as they had no base to return to, and their only source of supplies had become UNSC convoys. In 2557, however, Maly was lured into a trap by the UNSC, and, despite his best efforts, the ship was destroyed, and he was killed.

Childhood
Peter Maly was born on February 17th, 2499, on an asteroid base in the Thodorus System to two rebel sailors. Along with his regular education on the base, his mother, a former navigation officer who no longer served in the base's navy, taught him astrogation, a field of study he became extremely interested in.

As he grew up, his father eventually retired as well, and told the junior Maly about his time fighting the UNSC, stories that piqued his interest in serving as a officer for the rebel navy, which led him to enlist in 2517.

Training
As he began training to be a sailor in the navy, Maly showed promise as a NAV officer, due to his prior education, leading him to be bumped up to an advanced training level to become an officer candidate. After about a year of training as a NAV officer, he was finally commissioned and assigned to the cargo ship turned warship Hammerhead as its NAV officer.

Navigation Officer
Barely two weeks into his first tour on the Hammerhead, Maly got his first taste of combat with a UNSC ship scouting the outer edges of the asteroid belt. On a rountine patrol, the Hammerhead, along with nine other ships, encountered a single. Opening fire on the ship, a few missiles hit the UNSC frigate, but as it returned fire, four rebel ships were destroyed, but the Hammerhead was saved due to Maly's quick maneuvering. The remaining ships fired their last weapons, and forced the ship to retreat, but the Charon Class fired one last salvo, damaging the Hammerhead, barely allowing it to limp back to base.

With the Hammerhead out of commission, Maly was assigned to the Peregrine.