Ash-G099
From Halopedia, the Halo wiki
 |
This article is no longer up to date and needs to be updated with new information from Halo: Retribution, Halo: Shadows of Reach, and Halo: Divine Wind. You can help by updating this article. |
| Ash-G099 | |
|---|---|
| |
| Biographical information | |
|
Homeworld: |
|
|
Born: |
|
| Personal details | |
|
Species: |
|
|
Gender: |
Male |
|
Height: |
195 centimeters (6.4 ft)[1] |
|
Weight: |
95 kilograms (210 lb)[1] |
|
Hair color: |
Brown[2] |
|
Eye color: |
Brown[3] |
| Political and military information | |
|
Affiliation: |
|
|
Rank: |
|
|
S-G099[2] | |
Ash-G099, born Ashley Gable,[1] is a Spartan-III supersoldier of Gamma Company, and the former leader of Team Saber. His call sign in the team was Saber One.[4] Following a stint of service as part of Blue Team between the Onyx Conflict and Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE, Ash was assigned to an Office of Naval Intelligence Ferret Team led by Veta Lopis along with fellow Gamma Spartans Olivia-G291 and Mark-G313, serving as the team's surveillance expert.[5]
Biography[edit]
Spartan training[edit]
Ashley Gable was born on the human Outer Colony of Alluvion on March 5, 2539.[1] Ash was orphaned when the Covenant glassed his homeworld in 2543,[6] and he joined the SPARTAN-III program at age six in order to avenge his family.[7] Once on Onyx, he and the other SPARTAN-III candidates were trained by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose and Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez. Ash was assigned to lead Team Saber.[2]
Onyx Conflict[edit]
Initial attack[edit]
When the human forces on Onyx came under attack by Sentinels, Gamma Company's teams Saber, Gladius and Katana were still competing for top honors, and Ash had nearly lost it for his team by walking into a trap set up by one of the other teams. In an effort to avoid additional traps, he took his team dangerously close to Zone 67 to avoid the other teams. There, the team spied what they assumed at the time to be a new kind of Covenant drone, as it was equipped with energy shields.[4]
They decided to investigate, and the drones engaged. Ash dispatched scouts to reconnoiter and figure out the weak spots of the drones. He and the rest of the team hurled rocks at the drones and to their surprise, the robots' shields did not activate. Curiously enough, one drone responded to Ash's COM, and talked to him, first using an unknown language, then switching to Latin and finally to English, calling him "Reclaimer". However, after Ash failed to provide the proper counterresponse, the machine reclassified him and the other humans on Onyx as an "aboriginal subspecies" and targets to be neutralized. Before the Sentinel could kill Ash, however, the rest of Team Saber ambushed and destroyed the machine, saving him.[8]
Regrouping with UNSC forces[edit]
The team then moved to the armory of Camp Currahee to retrieve heavier weapons. Team Saber met up with Ambrose, Mendez, Tom-B292, and Lucy-B091, and the Spartans proceeded to use guerrilla tactics against the Sentinels. The team later met up with Kelly-087 and Dr. Catherine Halsey once they had landed aboard the Beatrice,[9][10] escorting the two to a bombed-out bunker. In the bunker, Dr. Halsey revealed the origin of the Sentinels and what to do next.[11]
Just as Team Saber was in the middle of battling the Sentinels, the Covenant destroyer Bloodied Spirit dropped out of slipspace over Onyx, carrying the remaining members of Blue Team: Frederic-104, Linda-058 and William-043. The ship crashed in the forest at the source of an E-Band signal that the UNSC forces on Onyx had sent.[12] With the Sentinels increasing in number, Ash and the other survivors decided to regroup and retreat back to Zone 67.
By now, the team had figured out that the Sentinels only came after them in pairs, and there was always a third Sentinel that acted as an observer, recording the battles and reporting back to the others. This tactic made the Sentinels smarter after each battle; the only way to turn the tables would be for the teams to take out all three of the Sentinels, a strategy that they attempted and succeeded at. During the ambush, Ash ordered Team Saber to attack too soon and was notified of this by Kurt.[13]
Retreat to Zone 67[edit]
After the team destroyed the trio of Sentinels, they moved into a Forerunner city in Zone 67. Once there, they discovered the map room and the location of