Owen-B096
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Owen-B096, born Owen Uduike,[2] is a Spartan-III in service with the United Nations Space Command Armed Forces.[1] Orphaned at a young age following the Covenant's attack on his home world, he was trained to be a Spartan on Onyx as part of the Spartan-III program's Beta Company and biologically augmented.[1][7] Owen was separated from the rest of his company prior to its deployment to the 51 Pegasi system in 2545.[1][8][9] In 2548 he lent aid to the defense of Meridian, teaming up with four teenage residents of the moon in the opening stage of the conflict.[10][11] Together, they successfully evacuated surviving residents of Brume-sur-Mer off-world.[12] Three months later Owen then assisted these same teens in the sabotage of Covenant excavation equipment and the retrieval of the Forerunner artifact which had brought the aliens to Meridian in the first place.[13] In late 2553 he and another Spartan, Hazel-A302, were tasked with delivering the artificial intelligence Gabriela to Earth and assisting with an Outpost Discovery at major population centers on the planet.[14][15][16][17]
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Early life[edit]
- Owen-B096: "I was a war orphan. ONI found me on Jericho VII, eating bugs in the countryside. Half the planet had been glassed. My parents had been in town when it happened."
- Saskia Nazari: "I'm—I'm sorry."
- Owen-B096: "I lost my family. But I was given a new one."
- — Owen comforts Saskia by opening up about his personal history of loss and reclamation.[7]
Owen Uduike was born on Eremus,[2] a moon of Jericho VII in the Lambda Serpentis system.[1][18] The Covenant began a ground invasion of Jericho VII on February 9, 2535, and by the twelfth had begun to glass it.[19] His family being present on the planet at the time, Owen's parents were in a town which fell victim to orbital bombardment.[7][18] After half the world's surface had suffered the same treatment, Owen was eventually discovered by the Office of Naval Intelligence living on his own in the countryside and eating bugs.[7] Owen would eventually volunteer for the Spartan-III program a short time later, becoming one of four hundred and eighteen children making up its second company.[1][20] He and the other children would be initiated and begin their training circa 2539.[21][22][Note 1]
Beta Company was trained from that point on by the Spartan-II Lieutenant Kurt Ambrose and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez at the Camp Currahee complex on the planet Onyx in the Zeta Doradus system.[23] The regimen mirrored that of the Spartan-IIs', with intensive physical conditioning and education conducted by hand-picked trainers and multiple on-site A.I.s. All training and indoctrination emphasized the significance of achieving objectives at any cost and a willingness to sacrifice for the UNSC.[23] Beta Company's drill instructors also counted washouts from Alpha Company among their ranks, who always seemed to go out of their way to make things as hard as possible for the trainees.[20] On August 24, 2541 all four hundred and eighteen recruits were given an exercise near Camp Currahee in which their respective teams were task