Editing Jonah-B283

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|name=Jonah-B283
|image=[[File:Jonah.png|300px]]
|homeworld=[[Eirene]]{{Ref/Anthology|Id=Evo|Evo|Story=[[Headhunters (short story)|Headhunters]]}}
|birth=Before [[2535]]
|death=Between [[2549#March|March 28, 2549]]—[[2552#October|October 2552]]{{Ref/Note|Id=date|See [[Algolis Invasion#Notes|Algolis Invasion's Notes section]]}}
|causeofdeath=Suicide detonation of demolition charges{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}
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|species=[[Human]]
|gender=Male
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|affiliation=*[[UNSC Navy]]
**[[Naval Special Weapons]]
***[[SPARTAN-III program]]
***[[Headhunters]]
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|sn=S-B283
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{{Quote|You are assassins.  Weak and timid, you hide in the shadows...|Injured [[Sangheili]]}}
{{Quote|Says the alien shit-heel who invented [[Active Camouflage|active-camo]].|Jonah}}
'''Jonah-B283''' was a [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III]] supersoldier of [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company]],<ref>[https://content.halocdn.com/media/Default/forums/banners/headhunters_1920x675-2335875c640c421aa1f3ed8efddad628.png '''Halo Waypoint''' ''- MCC Flight 2.0 Banner'']</ref> serving within the [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[Office of Naval Intelligence|Intelligence]] [[Beta-5 Division]]. He was a member of an elite [[Headhunter]] team alongside fellow SPARTAN-III [[Roland-B210]]. During the [[Human-Covenant War]], the two of them led a [[Battle of Rangiren|semi-successful attack]] on [[Rangiren]] on which the [[Covenant]] were searching for [[Forerunner]] artifacts.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

==Biography==
===Childhood===
Jonah was born on the [[human]] [[human colonies|colony]] of [[Eirene]].{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}} When the colony was attacked and [[glassing|glassed]] by the [[Covenant]] in [[2535]],{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P50|Enc22|Page=50}} his parents, brothers, and sisters were all killed.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}} Orphaned by the attack, Jonah would become one of the 418 candidates recruited by [[ONI]] for training as part of [[Spartan-III]] [[Spartan-III Beta Company|Beta Company]] circa [[2539]].{{Ref/Anthology|Id=LL|Fra|Story=Lessons Learned}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P106|Enc22|Page=106}}{{Ref/Note|Id=Beta|''[[Lessons Learned]]'' establishes that Beta Company members [[Tom-B292]] and [[Lucy-B091]] were six years old when they started their training. Page 106 of the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)]]'' establishes that Tom and Lucy were born on April 14, 2533 and January 28, 2533, respectively. This makes Beta Company's start date somewhere between April 2539 and January 2540.}} During his training under [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Kurt Ambrose]], Jonah-B283 was found to be particularly proficient in combat. As such, he was assigned to separate special force units outside the general population of Beta Company, and thus did not participate in [[Operation: TORPEDO]], a mission that resulted in the deaths of almost all of Beta Company.

=== Induction into the Headhunters ===
Jonah was inducted into a two-man fire team as part of the special operations program known as the [[Headhunters]], meeting and exceeded all requirements. He was paired with [[Roland-B210]], a fellow survivor of Beta Company, because their match rating was an impressive 97.36 percent—a score that only one other Headhunter team is known to have surpassed.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

===Infiltration on Rangiren===
{{Main|Battle of Rangiren}}
At some point during the [[Human-Covenant War]], Jonah and Roland were assigned a mission to destroy six of ten identified Covenant bases located on an remote moon, [[Rangiren]], while another Headhunter team would destroy the remaining bases. After locating a base, they gathered intelligence about the enemy forces and then devised a plan to destroy the base camp.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

Inside the base, everything went according to the Spartans' plan. As Roland placed demolition charges in the base's reactors, Jonah eliminated several targets in the camp barracks by using [[Electromagnetic pulse|energy disruptors]] and [[flashbang grenade]]s to confuse his enemies. At one point, Jonah killed a Sangheili and beheaded its corpse with his [[combat knife]]. He began to taunt the remaining Covenant forces with the severed head and laughed as he watched their anger grow. Once he had his fun, he flung the head at the remaining Covenant and proceeded to kill them all.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

As Roland confirmed that the charges were in place, he was run through with a [[Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword#Bloodblade|red-bladed energy sword]] from behind. Before Roland died, he managed to say the word ''"Clear"'', indicating that the charges were ready for Jonah to detonate. After briefly fighting the energy sword-wielding Sangheili, which was a member from the Covenant [[Special Operations Sangheili|Special Operations]] group known as the [[Silent Shadow]], Jonah discovered that the alien was not traveling alone, and had brought five other Silent Shadow Sangheili along with him.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

Jonah realized that he had been caught in a trap and that the Covenant knew about the Headhunters. After being grabbed and toyed with by the lead Silent Shadow, Jonah detonated the charges, taking the six Sangheili warriors with him, and incinerating Roland's corpse.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

===Death===
[[File:HEvol - Elite SpecOps Sword.png|250px|thumb|Jonah, captured by the Sangheili.]]
The Sangheili in charge grabbed Jonah, dislocating his shoulder, using his energy sword to slowly slice a gash into Jonah's faceplate, destroying his eye in the process. Another Sangheili grabbed Jonah by the neck, but not before Jonah declared that his life for the six members of the Silent Shadow was a fair trade. He then released his finger from the detonator, activating the explosives. Jonah, the Sangheili, and the Covenant camp were vaporized,{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}} with the exception of [[Jega 'Rdomnai]], the leader of the Silent Shadow Sangheili. 'Rdomnai lost both his left arm and his left pair of mandibles in the explosion, and he became obsessed with hunting down Spartans and exacting his vengeance.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P454|Enc22|Page=454}} 'Rdomnai kept Jonah's blade, which had been recovered in the aftermath, as a [[keepsake|memento]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=EOD10|EOD|Chapter=10}}
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==Equipment==
Jonah-B283 wore standard issue green [[Semi-Powered Infiltration Armor|SPI armor]] with a few modifications, including [[Visual Intelligence System, Reconnaissance|VISR]], and [[energy shielding]]. During the battle of Rangiren, Jonah wielded an [[M7S SMG]], a suppressed [[M6C magnum]], a [[combat knife]], as well as energy disruptors and flashbang grenades.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}

==Personality==
Jonah, as compared to his comrade Roland, was arrogant, cocky, and carefree. He fed off the heat of battle and taunted his enemies before he killed them, often mutilating their corpses in some fashion. Roland said that the only reason he received the active camo was that Jonah would use it to give a [[Unggoy]] a wedgie. Jonah often regarded his missions as a sort of game, with little regard for the possibility of his death. Roland called his teammate a sociopath because of the joy he took in killing Covenant, a trait the Spartan did not dispute.

==Gallery==
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<gallery>
File:Headhunters_Jonah_Concept.jpg|Jonah, drawn by [[Jonathan Goff]].
File:JonahSIIIHH.png|Jonah, drawn by fan Garrett Post, as seen on the cover of ''Headhunters''.
File:Headhunters - Jonah profile.png|A profile image of Jonah by [[MoreFrames]].
File:Headhunters.png|Roland and Jonah during the battle of Rangiren.
File:Spivariant.jpg|Jonah and Roland fighting back-to-back.
File:Jonah being tortured.jpg|Jonah being tortured before he detonates the charges.
File:Halo Waypoint Banner Headhunters.png|Jonah and Roland on a mission.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]'' 
**''[[Headhunters (short story)|Headhunters]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Edge of Dawn]]''

==Notes==
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==Sources==
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