Carter-A259
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Sacrificed himself to destroy a Deutoros-pattern Scarab.[4] |
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- "In recognition of this, his steadfast resolution, we honor him as commander of Noble."
- — Monument to Noble Team
Commander Carter-A259 was a SPARTAN-III commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, attached to the UNSC Army's Special Warfare Group Three.[3][1] Carter was the leader of NOBLE Team, an elite team of Spartans who fought during the Fall of Reach.[2][6] His call sign in the team was Noble One.[7]
Biography[edit]
Childhood and early career[edit]
Carter was born in Durban, Biko on August 27, 2520. His parents were killed when Biko was attacked and glassed by the Covenant in 2526, though he survived the planet's fall. Before he could join the rest of the planet's refugee program,[2] Carter was conscripted into the Spartan-III program's Alpha Company in 2532. From early on, he stood out from the rest of the group, and Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose and Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, taking note of his exceptional skill, deemed him too valuable to be wasted on suicide missions.[8] Upon his graduation in 2536, Carter was assigned to lead a special fireteam composed of Spartans similarly extracted from Alpha Company's mainline population. Carter's team was subsequently transferred under the operational authority of Unified Ground Command (UNICOM) as part of an arrangement to secure the UNSC Army's support for the SPARTAN-III program within UNSC High Command (HIGHCOM).[2]
Carter's leadership skills in and out of combat throughout his military career eventually earned him the rank of Commander in the UNSC Navy, becoming one of the few highly ranked Spartans to serve in the field. Later, after the special forces unit Noble Team was formed, Carter became the leader of the team, which then consisted of Catherine-B320, also known simply as "Kat", and several other Spartans. Eventually however only Kat and Carter would survive as the remaining members of the original team by 2552, and Carter was given a lot of freedom in selecting replacement personnel by his superiors due to his ability to build tight-knit teams.[2]
Later career[edit]
Carter and the rest of Noble Team were present during the Defense of Concord on December 2551. During Operation: OFFSET EYE, Carter remained back in the village of Skathi in the Hinterlands region of the planet to direct the local planetary militias in the town's defence while a small force consisting of Kat-B320, Rosenda-A344, and Thom-A293 advanced forward to tackle the approaching Covenant armoured column head-on; eliminating a Zashk-pattern Draugr in the process. Upon the trio's return to Skathi, Carter, Jorge-052, and Emile-A239 had assisted in fending off Covenant attacks on the town, at which point Carter recieved new orders from Colonel Urban Holland. The Covenant were amassing a strike force close to Fumirole, and the team (sans Rosenda) were to be redeployed to the planet to prepare a defence.[10]
During the Battle of Fumirole on April 22, 2552, Carter led Noble Team in an operation put together by Kat