Boat crew
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 Spartans Kovan, Stone, and Horvath operating on Zeta Halo.
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The Boat crew is an ad hoc United Nations Space Command unit formed during the Battle for Zeta Halo. It is primarily composed of survivors from its namesake lifeboat Papa Tango Delta 09 and an unidentified RLT-85 shuttlepod, both of which were originally attached to UNSC Infinity in 2559. The team was typically co-led by two members of Spartan Fireteam Shadow: Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan.[1]
Known members[edit]
- Current composition (June 12, 2560)[2]
- Spartan Nina Kovan[6]
- Retail services specialist Erik Bender[1]
- Safety specialist Robin Dimik[1]
- Former members
- Spartan Bonita Stone[6] (KIA 26/04/2560)[7]
- Spartan Tomas Horvath (03/05/2560 - 14/05/2560)[4]
- First Lieutenant TJ Murphy[1] (KIA 14/05/2560)[8]
- Combat medic Lucas Browning[1] (KIA 07/06/2560)[9]
- Communications specialist Ensign Isaiah Cameron[1] (KIA 14/05/2560)[4]
- Mortuary specialist Gavin Jo[1] (KIA 02/02/2560)[10]
Operational history[edit]
Formation[edit]
- Erik Bender: "You know, we might not be like those guys over there, but... we all have skills."
- Gavin Jo: "What do you mean?"
- Erik Bender: "Well, take Dimik for example. She knows everything about preventing fire, explosives, plasma burns... which means she knows how to start them too. Browning here can stitch us all back together. I'm handy with this beautiful thing. And you, Jo, I'm guessing you know a thousand ways a person can die... in my book that makes you pretty lethal if you need to be."
- — Erik Bender to the rest of the boat crew.[1]
The boat crew was informally formed at some point within the first week of the Battle for Zeta Halo, circa December 18, 2559, when survivors from TJ Murphy's lifeboat—after being rescued by Spartan Bonita Stone—rendezvoused with another group of survivors from an RLT-85 shuttlepod, which was led by Spartan Nina Kovan. Gavin Jo and Erik Bender from Kovan's group, both being support staff, naturally gravitated towards Murphy's group, which was also entirely made up of noncombatants: Lucas Browning, Isaiah Cameron, and Robin Dimik.[1]
On the evening of December 18, while Kovan scouted ahead, the group was resting in the middle of a forest when they were ambushed by two Jiralhanae and eight Kig-Yar. Marines from the RLT-85 shuttlepod—Mosley, Deleke, Thompson, Kim, and Foutty—were killed in the skirmish that followed; only members of the boat crew survived, along with the two Spartans.[1] Led by Stone and Kovan, they travelled to the UNSC stronghold at the wreckage of the UNSC Mortal Reverie;[11] they arrived on December 19.[12] In the stronghold, members of the crew was split up and assigned to different stations. Bender worked as a barber and a mechanic, while Browning and Jo were assigned to the med bay within the ship's wreckage. Dimik was assigned to the weapons and ordinance stockpiles. Cameron was assigned to the command center in the bridge as a comms specialist. Murphy was put in charge of providing military training to supply staff and non-military personnel, including members of the boat crew.[13]
The boat crew participated in the defense of the Reverie when the Banished launched an assault on the wreckage on January 31, 2560; they were stationed at the secondary barricade.[3] On February 2, as the UNSC defenses fell to the Banished assault, Browning and Jo were attacked by a Sangheili Enforcer. While Jo was impaled by the Sangheili's energy sword, Browning was saved by Spartan Kovan. Bender and Browning tried to tend to Jo's injury, but Jo begged them to leave as more Banished troops approached. Bender and Browning reluctantly left Jo lying on the ground, then fled along with other UNSC survivors.[10] The boat crew—minus Browning, who drew Banished away from the group and was captured—hid in a cave from the Banished; they waited until Kovan returned with supplies, then set off on the morning of February 5.[14]
Rubicon Protocol[edit]
- Nina Kovan: "Asset denial. It means we do whatever's necessary to keep Zeta Halo out of Escharum's hands. The Rubicon Protocol means we don't need permission, don't have to wait around for orders. We've been given free reign, permission to act, to do what's needed, wherever and whenever we can."
- TJ Murphy: "So we don't just survive - we make life a living hell for the Banished. If that means armed conflict, or poisoning their water supply, or blowing their munitions supply, we do it every and any chance we get."
- — Kovan and Murphy discussing what the protocol means for them on Installation 07.<