Kayden-127

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Kayden-127
Biographical Information
REAL NAME	Kayden Anderson
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27th, 2511
HOMEWORLD	Sonastrand, Nyrus
Physical Information
GENDER	Male
HEIGHT	249.5 cm (8 ft 1 in) [With Armour]
WEIGHT	136kg (299.8 lb) [Out of Armour]
HAIR COLOR	Jet Black
EYE COLOR	Hazel
Political/Military Information
SPECIALTY	Close-Quarters Combat Aerial Warfare
SIGNATURE WEAPONS	M45 Tactical Shotgun
RANK	Senior Chief Petty Officer
SERVICE NUMBER	S-127
CLASS	SPARTAN II Class I
UNIT	White Team (2531-2559) Green Team (2552-2552
AFFILIATION	United Nations Space Command Naval Special Warfare Command SPARTAN-II Program
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Master Chief Petty Officer Kayden-127, born Kayden Anderson, is a Spartan II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command and is one of the few surviving SPARTAN-IIs. In 2531, he would serve as the leader of White Team which consisted of Spartan's Eric-007, Selena-098 and Cal-141, and later on, Juliet-083. Noted as the most skilled close-quarters fighter, Kayden is also one of the top pilots in the program. Throughout his extensive training, his fellow brothers and sisters helped mould Kayden into the Spartan he is today.

Biography

Early Life

Kayden Anderson was born on September 27, 2511 on the colony world of Nyrus, located in the Leonidas System. He lived with his two sisters, Nicole and Samantha Anderson, in a poor sector of New Kara, the sprawling capital megacity of Delora. Kayden's parents struggled gravely for money. His father would always work late as a security officer far from home and his mother worked at a massage shop, until she quit working. On several occasions, Kayden would witness his mother arrive home with an unfamiliar man who wasn't his father. One night, Kayden finally confronted his mother about who the men were and why he could hear screams emerging from her room upstairs. She formed an unconvincing sentence that she would just watch TV shows with the men for money. Kayden, not seeing through her lie, left the matter alone.

When his father died in an Insurrectionist attack at a heavily populated underground train station two months later, and his mother became diagnosed with liver cancer shortly afterwards, it fell onto Kayden's auntie, Verlaine Anderson, a renowned former UNSC pilot and her husband Logan Stone, to raise Kayden and his sisters. Verlaine and Logan moved the trio out of their old home with their mother's approval before she passed away, and into a coastal luxurious life on the coast of Sonastrand, just a few hours away from New Kara. The transition was fun and easy for Kayden's sisters as they didn't have to experience much of their old home, but he was very homesick.

Conscription and Training

"You have been called upon to serve. You will be trained - and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies

- Dr. Catherine Halsey welcomes the abducted children to their new world.

In September 2517, Kayden was one-hundred and twenty-seventh among one-hundred and fifty children of similar age that had been selected based on specific genetic markers for inclusion in Project: SPARTAN II, which only had facilities and funding for half that number. Later that same year, Kayden would be abducted by ONI operatives and replaced with a flash clone of himself. Kayden eventually 'died' just a few months later. Kayden's death motivated his sister, Nicole to join the Marine Corps at the age of eighteen, ultimately becoming an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. Samantha on the other hand, became a professional photographer once she graduated from Anestin University and moved to Reach, where she lived in New Alexandria, Eposz with her husband and daughter.

During his time on Reach, Kayden was grouped with Cal-141 and Juliet-083. In the years that followed, Kayden was schooled in military strategy and tactics, weapons and history, and was given extreme physical training.

A young Kayden-127.

ASTER

On March 9th, 2525 and just at the age of 13 to 14, Kayden and the other trainee's left Reach and were transported to Medical Facility Endurance above the planet to undergo a series of invasive procedures designed to chemically, physically and genetically augment their bodies. When the procedures had been completed, only a rough handful of the teenagers had ostensibly been augmented successfully.

Kayden was amongst a handful of 'washouts' whose bodies rejected the augmentations and had to be retrained and re-augmented along with other augmentation washouts. During his second training, Kayden was paired up with other washouts Eric-007 and Selena-098, and before their deployment, Cal-141 was transferred to their team. The four Spartans then became White Team, with Kayden allocated to be the squad leader. Juliet-083 and the other two unnamed Spartans were taken in by ONI. The rest of the Spartans would form into Red Team, with Jerome-092 as their leader.

Before their deployment, Dr. Halsey came to them and informed them about the alien faction known as The Covenant, a religious syndicate with various alien species hellbent on the decimation of Humanity. On February 9th, 2531, Red Team and White Team would be deployed to separate human colonies, all clad in MJOLNIR Mark IV armour.

Operation: LONESTAR

On February 10th 2531, White Team was tasked with infiltrating and destroying a CCS-class battlecruiser known as ’Darkest Day’ that was stationed below orbit on the colony of New Forrester, extracting the Covenant victors following the battle that ended hours before White Team's arrival. Upon arrival from the UNSC Nightbourne, Echo-113 dropped White Team in one of the few remaining jungles just a few kilometres away from the cruiser's location. The hellish night sky and thick clouds of ash masked their approach as they stealthily neutralised Covenant infantry in the jungle who were en route to the cruiser.

The UNSC Nightbourne

Once their path was clear, White Team soon arrived at the gravity lift, surrounded by more Covenant infantry moving supplies onboard the cruiser. The Spartans were able to eliminate the infantry and moved from cover to cover as they slayed the remaining forces. More reinforcements descended from the lift, but were put down to rest by the Spartans. Inside the ship, the gravity lift deployed White Team a couple feet above deck, and were immediately attacked by Covenant infantry. With the element of surprise long gone, White Team pushed forward throughout the cruiser. They fought through several corridors and a couple of hangar bays.

Kayden suggested that they split up. Cal and Kayden would locate the ship's bridge whilst Eric and Selena searched for the cruiser's reactor and planted charges inside the reactor room and all across the ship. Eventually, Kayden and Cal entered the ship's bridge and encountered the shipmaster known as Fao 'Colomee. The shipmaster barely had time to react to the Spartans' presence on the bridge as Cal blew out the back of his skull with her Sniper. Kayden and Cal then finished off the other Sangheili forces present in the bridge. Kayden kicked the Shipmaster's lifeless corpse before following Cal out of the bridge. It was there when Kayden and Cal began to notice the bridge shake slightly as the ship woke itself to life.

Elsewhere, Eric and Selena found their way to the reactor.  Once the charges were set, they rendezvoused at the first hangar bay they entered, where Cal and Kayden were battling more infantry that entered the hangar bay.

As the waves of Covenant infantry began to soon dissipate, the team quickly made their way back to the exit of the gravity well, running past the dead bodies of Unggoy, Sangheili and Kig-Yar. They descended down the lift and made their way though the Jungle to where Echo-113 was waiting for their arrival. The pilot made its way back to the Nightbourne, which continued to monitor Darkest Day. Once Kayden and the others made their way to the brig, they looked outside at Darkest Day. Eric detonated the charges, blowing the entire ship and engulfing all of its surviving crew in the explosion. They had successfully sabotaged Darkest Day before it was able to enter slipspace.

Operation: SHOCKWAVE

On November 12th, 2539, White Team would be sent to the dying city of Elden on the planet of Hannibal to eliminate a high value Covenant target by ONI: An elite Zealot known as Atho 'Damen, although he was known amongst the Covenant as Sinai. As the entire planet was being glassed, it was deemed inhabitable. White Team were deployed from Echo-113 and began their engagement with the Covenant infantry on the surface, alongside the surviving marines. They evacuated the handful of soldiers onto the pelican. Cal provided cover fire with her sniper rifle for the marines returning with wounded. Selena, Eric and Kayden would draw most of the Covenant’s fire towards them.

Kayden and Eric heard more screams from a nearby building. They quickly headed over to the direction of the screams, ascending up a small police station masked with fire. He came just in time to find their primary target and three other Zealots finishing off a fireteam of Marines. Kayden pounced on one of them, narrowly missing the frightened Marine as the Zealot struck down at a nearby wall with rapid speed and Eric used his Assault Rifle and unloaded all of his ammo on two of the Zealots, killing them. Kayden snapped the Zealots' head, leaving only Sinai to fight. Sinai stood back and ignited his Energy Sword and charged at the two Spartans, but he was to slow and fell to the ground as bullets passed through his torso and head. The two Spartans returned to the fight shortly after, but not after Kayden took the Sangheili's Energy Sword. They made their way back to Echo-113 which was filled to the brim with Marines. As the final marine arrived aboard the Pelican, The mission was ultimately a success.

Operation: BREAKPOINT

On March 8th 2548, White Team arrived at the outer colony of Khan, via a Longsword. The planet was still in the midst of conflict. The Spartans were tasked with eliminating Covenant forces that planned on activating forerunner weapons in one of Khan’s great underground caves. Utilising a HAVOC-class nuke, they disposed of the forerunner relic to make sure it didn't fall into enemy hands. Shortly after emerging from the cave, another covenant fleet emerged from slipspace above orbit, deploying reinforcements at White Team’s location.

Charlie-320 was dispatched from the UNSC Fallen Angel, one of the surviving UNSC cruisers from the battle, and made it's way to extract White Team. Leaving the Longsword behind, White Team made their way to the L.Z. Cal and Kayden managed to make it onboard the Pelican, but Eric and Selena were unable to make it in time, forced to take cover from Covenant plasma fire. With no other option, Charlie-320 returned to the Angel and jumped to a random location as per Cole Protocol, leaving Eric and Selena on the scarred planet.

Raid on TITAN Base

On January 13th, 2548, Cal and Kayden, what remained of White Team, were sent on another assignment against the Covenant. They were deployed to TITAN Base, an Office of Naval Intelligence research facility hovering the planet of Delta Corinthus III. This mission would require immediate neutralisation of all Covenant forces before they attempted to access UNSC databanks in the station.

Battle of Sigma Octanus IV

Kayden participated in the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, under Green Team. He was designated as Green-Three, following under Linda-058 into the suburbs surrounding Côte d'Azur. Their team scouted out the residential section of the city and found no survivors. They then helped escort the twenty civilian survivors that Red Team, led by Joshua-029, had found and were able to successfully evacuate them before Blue Team, led by John, detonated a HAVOK nuclear warhead in the heart of the city, destroying tens of thousands of Covenant forces stationed there. Green Team then arrived in the UNSC Leviathan shortly after via a Pelican and returned to Reach for debriefing.

Personality and Traits

Trinity: "You could've exited any other way, but of course you choose the most dangerous one."

Kayden-127: "I'm still standing, aren't I?"

-Trinity and Kayden-127 after the latter jumped out of a Banshee and fell to the snowy surface below during Operation: HEARTBREAKER

Kayden is a remarkable fighter and an intelligent individual, but amongst these traits, he's grown to become a remarkably adroit leader. He's changed his selfishness to selfless acts, where he'd place other people's lives as a top priority before his own, which he'd frequently notice Cal do on the battlefield. He's very vigilant during operations or battles when with other personnel, but likes to act reckless when with his team, unless he knows what he's up against.

During his early days at training, he used to be very quiet, but would often crack jokes, quickly making friends by the minute and making even the saddest individuals show a slight smile. Although he doesn't talk as much as he used to, Kayden often makes jokes during a battle or operation to lighten the dark tone everyone faces, a trait he's had since he was little.

Unknown to anyone but the members of White Team, Kayden secretly loves the thrill of danger. He isn't afraid of death, and due to decades of constant battle, Kayden doesn't show much, if any emotion at all when it comes to fear. Kayden, alongside Kurt-051, Fred-104, Matthew-110, Fhajad-084, Musa-096 and Serin-019 are the only Spartan-IIs known to become officers. Kayden's service with the UNSC throughout the Human-Covenant War has left him as a highly decorated individual.

Skills and Abilities

Kayden loves close-quarters combat. The same reason he carries a weapon from the M45 series and a custom Energy Sword into the battlefield; he loves to get in close and personal. Although not the quickest in terms of running, John noted that Kayden has quickest reflexes amongst the Spartan-IIs.

Physical Description

Kayden stands at 244 centimetres (8 ft) in height with armour and 136 kilograms (299.8 lb) in mass without armour, making him one of the largest and strongest Spartan-IIs, as well as one of the tallest.

He has brown skin with jet black hair. His eyes are dark blue. He has a small, yet noticeable facial scar that runs across his nose from eye to eye which has been there since he was a child.

Equipment

"When I get old, I'm definitely keeping this armour."

- Kayden-127 after looking at Mjolnir for the first time

Following his successful augmentation, Kayden was equipped with MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armour, using the standard Mark IV set.By 2535, Kayden wore the B variant of the MJOLNIR Mark IV armour. Later on, after upgrading to MJOLNIR Mark V armour by 2551, he would continue to use the B variant of the helmet. Upon his return to Earth following the end of the Human-Covenant War, Kayden and the rest of the active Spartan-IIs moved to the MJOLNIR Mark VI, where he would use the standard Mark VI set with a white tint. Eventually, Kayden's armour was upgraded to the Generation 2 platform at some point, still keeping the same look of the Mark VI, which he continued to wear as of 2559.

Production Notes

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