John-117/Silver
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- "They took my image...and bent it to their purpose, so I took it back. This armor doesn't belong to them...it belongs to me...to the ones who are gone...and the ones who are still in the fight."
- — John-117 reflecting on his journey to Installation 04.[2]
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is a Spartan-II supersoldier in the United Nations Space Command.[3] He served as the leader of Silver Team under the Asymmetric Warfare Research Group.[4]
Biography[edit]
Childhood[edit]
- John-117: "When I was a kid…there was this woman. She flipped a coin. She dared me to call it, and I did. Heads… 11 times in a row."
- Perez: "Lucky."
- John-117: "Maybe…but I wasn't guessing…I knew."
- — John tells Talia Perez about when Dr. Halsey found him as a child.[5]
As a child, John lived on the Outer Colony of Eridanus II with his parents and a dog named Ellie. While exploring one day while on a family picnic, John encountered a Forerunner keystone in a cavern outside of the Reach for Life installation, and he repeatedly drew both it and another keystone that was on Madrigal. Eventually, John's father grew frustrated and forced John to bury his drawings of the artifacts. During this time, John met Doctor Catherine Halsey who used a game to test John's luck.[1][6][7][8] When Halsey discovered his incredible luck due to John correctly calling a coin toss every time,[5] she took him in to become a Spartan II candidate against his will, subjecting him to numerous tests and augmentations and suppressing his memory. John never saw his biological family again.[6][7][9]
Spartan training and early career[edit]
As a teenage trainee, John and his classmate Soren-066, who was unable to continue due to a disfigurement from the augmentation process, planned to escape the training facility to The Rubble. However, John changed his mind at the last minute, but decided not to let anyone else know, allowing Soren to escape seemingly undetected.[6]
John would later gain the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer and was made leader of Silver Team. On an early mission to Madrigal, John was sent to quell dissent from the Insurrectionists. He then received orders to kill one of their leaders, which he carried out without question. The leader's daughter, Kwan Ha, witnessed the Spartan supersoldier killing her mother, leading to resentment towards John and the UNSC afterwards.[1]
Encountering the first Artifact, Kwan Ha, and the Covenant[edit]
- Dr. Catherine Halsey: "Dr. Halsey. Status report."
- John-117: "Returning from 23 Librae planet Madrigal… with a single survivor. Covenant disarmed, one escapee."
- Halsey: "And your neural lace metrics, any anomalies?"
- John: "I saw things...when I touched the object."
- — Dr. Halsey debriefs Master Chief on the Battle of Madrigal.[1]
In 2552, John led Silver Team, comprising of Vannak-134, Riz-028, and Kai-125 on a subsequent mission to Madrigal. This time, it was to aid the Insurrectionists against a Covenant attack. Though Silver team eliminated the squadron of Covenant Elites, the Insurrectionist outpost, led by Kwan's father Jin Ha, was also wiped out in the battle, with Kwan being the sole survivor. Venturing further, John and Silver Team discovered a Forerunner Keystone in a nearby cave. John personally encountered the keystone and began seeing flashbacks to his suppressed childhood. While the rest of Silver Team departed back to Reach on a Covenant Phantom captured for the purposes of research by the UNSC, John took the artifact and the unconscious Kwan with him aboard his team's Condor, intending to follow his teammates. When Kwan woke up, Miranda Keyes spoke to her through a hologram and attempted to enlist the girl's help in promoting the Spartans across the galaxy, but Kwan refused.[1]
Eventually, John joined Kwan and fed her, even attempting a joke, but he evaded her questions about his running diagnostics on his suit, the Forerunner artifact and his refusal to remove his helmet. Kwan revealed she had met him before when John had killed her mother and she gave him her side of the story, pointing out the inconsistencies in the UNSC's reasoning fo