James Solomon

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James Solomon
Biographical information
Born:	c. 2511
Died:	December 15, 2559
Cause of death:	Self-destruct of his armor
Personal details
Species:	Human
Gender:	Male
Political and military information
Affiliation:	UNSC Navy Naval Special Warfare Command (formerly) SPARTAN-II program Office of Naval Intelligence
Rank:	Petty Officer, Second Class
Service number:	S-005

"We all need someone to look out for us. That's how humans are made."

— James to Chloe Hall during their time on Boundary

James Solomon (formerly known as James-005) was a SPARTAN-II supersoldier in the UNSC Navy, and later a private military contractor working for the Office of Naval Intelligence. He participated in numerous battles during the Human-Covenant War as part of Blue Team. During the Fall of Reach in August 2552, he was presumably killed during an EVA mission after his thruster pack was struck by needles from a Type-33 needler and he was sent spinning away into the vacuum of space. However, James survived and was recovered by ONI and shifted into working for them as a private military contractor under his adopted name James Solomon.

Biography

Early life

"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 to the abducted child conscripts.

The children being taught by Déjà.

James was a genetically, intellectually, and physically gifted child chosen for the SPARTAN-II project. He was abducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence and replaced with a flash clone when he was around six years old. He and seventy-four other children were taken to Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system. There, he was trained by the "dumb" AI, Déjà and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, with the two serving as the Spartans' teacher and drill instructor, respectively. In 2519, he was taken alongside his fellow trainees to a Military Wilderness Training Preserve for a mission that required each trainee to be left alone in the woods with a only a single piece of a map. It was up to them to find one another so that they could piece the map together and locate the designated extraction point. After everyone met up with one another, James, Fhajad-084, and Linda-058 were chosen by Samuel-034 to scout the area with at the behest of John-117. The mission was ultimately a success. At another point during training, James and the others traveled to Emerald Cove for an underwater mission. There, they abandoned Mendez and lived on their own on an island for a few days. By July 14, 2523, James and his fellow Spartan-IIs had begun facing the formidable and ruthless UNSC Marine Corps' Tango Company in simulated war games. At some point prior to that date, members of Tango Company brutally beat James during such an exercise and then claimed he had simply fallen down a flight of stairs in a one-story jail while they were escorting him from one cell to another. It took him an entire week to recover, but the abuse did not break him mentally. On March 9, 2525, James and the rest of the Spartan-II candidates underwent their augmentation procedures at Medical Facility Endurance orbiting Reach. After successfully enduring the procedures, James later attended a military funeral aboard the carrier, the UNSC Atlas, in the Lambda Serpentis system for the Spartans who died during the process. Afterwards, they all returned to Reach for their final training phase in the Highland Mountains.

Covenant War

James in his Mk. IV armor on Sigma Octanus IV.

After the Covenant attack on Harvest and the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, James and the rest of the Spartan-IIs were brought to the Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex, where Rear Admiral Michael Stanforth and the AI, Beowulf, briefed them on the emerging Covenant threat. In response, the training of James and the rest of the Spartan-IIs was accelerated, and the Spartans were sent to Chi Ceti IV in the Chi Ceti system to receive their new MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor from the Damascus Materials Testing Facility in order to aid in combat against the alien threat. While en route to Chi Ceti IV aboard the Paris-class heavy frigate, the UNSC Commonwealth, they were attacked by the Covenant warship, Unrelenting. The Commonwealth was able to ward off the Unrelenting and the Spartans were deployed to Chi Ceti IV with Halsey, where they each recieved a set of armor. While the Spartans were returning to the Commonwealth, the Unrelenting returned and engaged the frigate. To provide aid to the Commonwealth, John had James and the other Spartan-IIs use thruster packs to embark towards the Unrelenting so that they could destroy the warship with Anvil-II AS missiles, though only John, Kelly, and Sam made it aboard.

Sigma Octanus IV

"Point to team leader: enemy contact. Enemy troops within one hundred meters of my position, ten degrees left."

— James to John during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV.

James cradles the stump of his arm.

On July 17, 2552, James and eleven other Spartan-IIs arrived at the human colony of Sigma Octanus IV in the Sigma Octanus system with Vice Admiral Stanforth's Battle Group Leviathan to aid UNSC forces in the ongoing battle on and over the planet. Deployed to the remains of Alpha Headquarters to assist the local marine forces as part of