Marcus Stacker
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- "You heard the man, boys! It's time for some hazard pay!"
- — Gunnery Sergeant Stacker during the Battle of Mombasa.
Master Sergeant Marcus P. Stacker (service number 41009-31545-MS)[4] is a veteran UNSC Marine and Orbital Drop Shock Trooper who fought during the Human-Covenant War and the subsequent conflicts.[2] As of July 2557, he was stationed on the UNSC Infinity.[4]
Biography[edit]
Fall of Reach[edit]
- Main article: Fall of Reach
- "Kilo 26, this is Kilo 40; Covenant Corvette's raining hell on us. Final protective fire one, danger close, my command, over."
- — Stacker coordinates artillery fire against one of the Covenant Corvettes assaulting New Alexandria.
Stacker served during the Siege of New Alexandria on the 23rd of August, 2552, under the call sign "Kilo 40".[Note 1] He participated during the Siege of New Alexandria, communicating with Kilo 26 and Kilo Dispatch, and along with several other units, assisted in the evacuation of civilians from Traxus Tower. Stacker was in charge of managing the elevators and ordered Kilo 26 to fire on an overhead Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette. The artillery fire was unable to prevent the corvette from inflicting heavy damage on Traxus Tower, a major evacuation point within the city. Stacker coordinated the evacuation of a group of civilians in a building adjacent to the tower, before advising Lieutenant Spartan-B312 to assist an ODST Air Assault unit in securing the tower's executive landing pad for civilian evacuation.[5]
Battle of Installation 04[edit]
- Main article: Battle of Installation 04
Stacker was later reassigned to serve aboard the Pillar of Autumn as part of its Marine contingent and managed to make it off Reach before the planet fell. Though the ship arrived at the Soell system and discovered Installation 04 on September 19, it quickly came under attack by the Fleet of Particular Justice, who had pursued it to the system. At this time he was listed as the Bravo Shift NCO in charge of Marine Security Detail B on Pillar of Autumn's duty roster.[6] The ship was soon boarded by innumerable Brhi Xur-pattern Leech boarding craft, and Captain Keyes was forced to give the order to abandon ship. Stacker was presumably among those who made it to the surface of the ring alive and intact, and was able to link up with other surviving elements of the Pillar of Autumn's crew and complement, who went on to mount a guerrilla resistance against the Covenant.[1]
Both the extent of Stacker's participation in the battle[7][8][Note 2] and the method of his survival are unknown, as he was not on-board John-117's Longsword or Shiela Polaski's Pelican, the only two known UNSC craft to escape the ring's obliteration.
Battle for Earth[edit]
- Main article: Battle for Earth
- "Cook the bastard…"
- — Stacker instructs Butkus to drain the shields of a Sangheili who held Lance Corporal Jones hostage with an energy sword.
A clean-shaven Stacker was present at the October 20th awards ceremony on Cairo Station, minutes prior to the Battle for Earth beginning. Outfitted in his official Naval uniform, he aided SPARTAN John-117 and Sergeant Major Avery Johnson in defending the station's command center from Covenant forces. While accompanying Johnson and Commander Miranda Keyes to board the frigate UNSC In Amber Clad, the party was ambushed by Covenant and pinned down. John-117's timely arrival and aid allowed the In Amber Clad's leadership to board safely.[9]
During the Battle for Earth, Stacker served in the 7th Battalion of the 105th Shock Division. He was dispatched from the In Amber Clad under the command of Sergeant Major Johnson, leading a squad of ODSTs in a Pelican. Upon entering a section of the city under heavy assault by the Covenant, Stacker's Pelican was shot down by a Scarab over Old Mombasa and crashed landed on an open beach near Hotel Zanzibar, killing the pilots and one of Stacker's squad. The surviving four ODSTs were immediately engaged by a Covenant patrol led by a Special Operations Sangheili. During the brief assault, the Sangheili held one of his troopers hostage momentarily before Stacker shot the Sangheili in the head.[2][Note 3]
Stacker and his squad then holed up in the nearby Hotel Zanzibar, following the instructions of UNSC AI Cortana while Spartan John-117 cleared a path to them. They were soon attacked by another group of Covenant infantry, and were pinned down in the hotel's lobby by a plasma cannon by the time John-117 arrived. Stacker then assisted the Chief in clearing the nearby beaches and tunnels of Covenant.[10]