Lucas Browning
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Lucas Austin Browning was a combat medic in the UNSC Marine Corps.[5][8]
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Lucas Browning was born in Vaslo, on Alluvion,[1] circa 2534.[2] Browning grew up in a household of nurses and caregivers,[2] and went to primary school in Paugary.[1] He was evacuated from the planet when he was still a child,[1] presumably in 2542, when the Covenant laid siege to Alluvion.[9] After being evacuated, he would settle on Casmir and later went to Fielding-Smith High School where he would be the all star left fielder for two years in a row.[3] Eventually, Browning became a combat medic in the United Nations Space Command Marine Corps,[2] and joined the marine complement on the UNSC Infinity when the flagship was retrofitted over Earth.[1]
Battle for Zeta Halo[edit]
- Main article: Battle for Zeta Halo
On December 12, 2559, Browning was aboard the UNSC Infinity when it was ambushed by Banished forces upon arrival at Installation 07. As the Infinity fell to the Banished assault, Browning was evacuated onboard the lifeboat Papa Tango Delta 09 piloted by TJ Murphy. Browning was the last person to board the lifeboat as Spartan Bonita Stone held a collapsing beam above him so he could reach the lifeboat. During its escape from the flagship, Browning's lifeboat flew through a destroyed Banished dreadnought, but it lost its back section to weapon fire, and spun out of control as it entered the ring's atmosphere.[10]
Browning's lifeboat crash-landed on the surface of the ring, and was lodged inside a crevice, leaving its occupants trapped. The crew took turns transmitting a distress call, which was answered by Spartan-IV Tomas Horvath of Fireteam Intrepid.[8] However, after the explosion on the ring and its sudden slipspace jump, they lost contact with Horvath. The event, which fractured the ring, also buried the lifeboat deeper into the crevice, until Spartan Bonita Stone arrived and tore open the lifeboat's hull to pull out each survivor, including Browning.[11] Over the next six days, Browning and other lifeboat survivors travelled across the region with Spartan Stone. They eventually rendezvoused with another group of survivors led by Spartan Nina Kovan.[12] Browning bonded with two other non-combatants from Kovan's group, Erik Bender and Gavin Jo, who were supply staff personnel. The combined group became the "boat crew". Led by Stone and Kovan, they travelled to the UNSC stronghold at the wreckage of the UNSC Mortal Reverie;[2] they arrived on December 19.[13] Browning and Jo were assigned to the med bay within the ship's wreckage.[14]
Browning participated in the defense of the Reverie when the Banished launched an assault on the wreckage on January 31, 2560. Along with other members of the boat crew, he was stationed at a medical tent near the secondary barricade.[15] On February 2, as the UNSC defenses fell to the Banished assault, Browning and Gavin Jo were attacked by a Sangheili Enforcer. While Jo was impaled by the Sangheili's energy sword, Browning was saved by Spartan Kovan. Murphy and Bender tried to carry Jo to cover so Browning could tend to Jo's injury, but Jo begged them to leave as more Banished troops approached.[16] Browning fled along with other UNSC survivors of the battle. In order to prevent the Banished from finding Spartan Kovan and the rest of the boat crew, Browning stole a Ghost and led the Banished troops away from his friends. He expected to be killed, but was instead taken prisoner by the Banished.[17]
Captivity[edit]
On February 8, Browning was taken to the Redoubt of Sundering, where he was horrified, then angry, to learn that there was a human working as an inspector among the Banished. The inspector determined that, based on his physique, Browning was either a scientist or a doctor, so Browning was taken to a holding cell separate from the others. Over the next three to four weeks, Browning was left in the cell and watched other humans survivors being processed at the outpost, until he, along with a handful of other prisoners, was taken to Chak 'Lok's Tower for interrogation and torture. During his initial torture session, Browning fainted at the sight of plasma cutters and woke up in an enclosed holding cell. He was fed in scraps or slops every couple of days. He met another prisoner, Spartan Hudson Griffin, who occupied a cell next to his, though the two never actually saw each other, and Griffin kept his identity a secret from Browning.[18][19] However, Browning correctly guessed that the other man was a Spartan.[20]
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