SPARTAN-B312
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August 30, 2552[3][4][5] (aged 22) |
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205.7 centimetres (6 ft 9.0 in)[3] |
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- "Because of you, we found Halo, unlocked its secrets, shattered our enemy's resolve. Our victory — your victory — was so close ... I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor — all burned and turned to glass. Everything ... except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild."
- — Dr. Catherine Halsey[4]
Lieutenant SPARTAN-B312[7] was a Spartan-III supersoldier attached to Special Warfare Group Three of the UNSC Army.[3] During the Fall of Reach in summer 2552, B312 served as a member of NOBLE Team under the call sign "Noble Six".[8] Although unknown to most of the UNSC military and humanity in general due to the classified nature of their operations, Dr. Catherine Halsey stated that B312 shared a "hyper-lethal" rating with only one other Spartan[9][Note 2] and served just as essential a role in securing humanity's victory in the Human-Covenant War.
Since their file was heavily redacted by the Office of Naval Intelligence, much of SPARTAN-B312's early life is unknown. The Spartan was originally a Beta Company candidate whose performance so impressed their superiors that B312 (along with a small number of their peers, designated "cat 2") was reassigned immediately after training before the inevitable bloodbath of Operation: TORPEDO. As one of the few remaining contemporary Spartan-IIIs, B312 was repurposed as a counter-terrorist operator, performing black operations. After several years of being fielded against Insurrectionists, B312 was transferred from their ONI handlers to Spartan NOBLE Team, where B312 took the deceased Thom-A293's place as "Noble Six." B312's transfer to NOBLE came immediately at the start of the Fall of Reach, placing the Spartan in a new territory of teamwork against the Covenant.
Though initially viewed with resentment by some of their teammates, Six's skills eventually proved himself as the fight for Reach began failing and NOBLE Team took losses. On August 30, Six delivered a fragment of the AI Cortana to the UNSC Pillar of Autumn in the hope that the data she carried could defeat the Covenant. With the aid of their team, Noble Six delivered the AI intact, but chose to remain behind to secure the Autumn's escape from the Covenant. Though the Spartan was killed hours later, their sacrifice allowed humanity to discover the Halo Array, ultimately bringing about the dissolution of the Covenant and the end of the war.
Biography
Early life
- "We've been very lucky with β so far — very lucky — to get 312 out directly after training. An opportunity like that is not liable to happen ever again."
- — Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose[10]
SPARTAN-B312 was born in the city of Damask on the human colony of Jericho VII on January 30, 2530.[1][2] B312 ultimately survived the colony's glassing by the Covenant on February 12, 2535,[11] presumably becoming orphaned like many of the Spartan-IIIs. Circa 2539,[12][13][Note 3] B312 was one of the 418 candidates recruited in the Spartan-III program's Beta Company by ONI's Beta-5 Division with the promise of revenge. During their training, B312 and a few other Spartan-IIIs (designated "cat 2") outshone their teammates well enough that these select few were handpicked by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose to be assigned to separate special force units outside the general population of Beta Company. Thus, these Spartans did not participate in Operation: TORPEDO, the suicide mission that resulted in the deaths of almost all of Beta Company. Because of the concealed nature of their survival, B312's existence became classified and the Spartan was deployed as a black operator and assassin under the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Spartan career
- "Noble Six. The team's most recent addition ... my, my. So much black ink ... Six has made entire militia groups disappear. Curious ... "hyper-lethal". There's only one other Spartan with that rating."
- — Dr. Catherine Halsey[9]
Over the course of B312's career, the Spartan gained a reputation as an efficient lone-wolf assassin, having single-handedly broken terrorist organizations and made entire rebel groups disappear.[7] The Spartan was also a test pilot in a top-secret UNSC project, the Sabre Program, which resulted in the development of the FSS-1000 Sabre space fighter.[14