TJ Murphy
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TJ Murphy was a First Lieutenant in the UNSC Marine Corps and a member of Icebreaker squad, which was stationed aboard the UNSC Infinity. During the Requiem Campaign, Murphy helped Fireteam Crimson in many of their missions on Requiem.[5] Murphy was later one of the survivors of the disastrous Battle over Installation 07, co-leading a group of survivors dubbed the boat crew alongside Spartan Nina Kovan on Installation 07's surface until his death in battle.[3]
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
TJ Murphy was born circa 2519 and grew up in Lexington, Earth.[1] As a child, Murphy had an interest in aviation; in the autumn, he ran up the hill behind his house with a bucket of paper airplanes.[3] He joined the UNSC in 2537,[1] when he turned eighteen,[6] then participated in the Human-Covenant War,[7] having fought his first engagement when he was twenty years old.[6]
Requiem Campaign[edit]
- Main article: Requiem Campaign
During the Requiem Campaign, Murphy, along with the rest of Icebreaker squad, was listed as MIA. They had been captured by Covenant forces and were imprisoned in the same detention facility as Fireteam Crimson. While Crimson was escaping, Roland picked up Icebreaker's signal and Crimson freed them. Murphy helped Crimson by remotely taking over a nearby Phantom and later piloting it for them through various missions in Covenant territory.[5][8]
Sometime later, a Covenant/Promethean force attacked the UNSC Infinity, causing Captain Lasky to recall all Spartan forces. Crimson and Murphy encountered heavy Covenant/Promethean resistance. Murphy eventually delivered Mantises to support Crimson, allowing them to secure a landing zone.[9] On their way back to Infinity, the ship's automated defense system auto-targeted their Phantom. Despite Murphy's evasive maneuvers, the Phantom took a direct hit, lost control, and subsequently crashed into one of Infinity's hangars. Murphy survived the crash but was stuck inside the downed Phantom. Miller ordered Roland to send an extraction team for Murphy, but couldn't get through to the AI.[10] Eventually, Murphy was rescued or managed to escape on his own.
After the attack on Infinity was thwarted, Murphy continued to assist Fireteam Crimson in their activities on Requiem, providing them with Pelican support. When Fireteam Majestic reported they were under fire from Covenant artillery, Murphy flew Crimson to the site of the artillery.[11] While dropping off Crimson, Murphy informed Infinity that Fireteam Kodiak's Pelican was shot down, Miller then warned Murphy to evac as Crimson would radio for a ride later.[12] Murphy later assisted Crimson and Lancer in destroying a Covenant nest in the Warrens. During the same mission, he provided evac for Crimson and Fireteam Switchback, who'd been rescued from the Covenant base.[13]
At the end of the Requiem campaign, Murphy retrieved Fireteam Crimson after they deactivated one of the slipspace artifacts binding the Infinity to Requiem. Murphy successfully brought Crimson back to the Infinity just in time for everyone to escape Requiem's destruction.[14]
Freighter ambush[edit]
In March 2558, the UNSC Infinity picked up distress signal originating in the Artesia-702 system. When Infinity arrived in the system on March 11, it found a damaged freighter, the Pilgrims' Pride. Murphy, leading several other Pelicans, analyzed the freighter. He reported that the freighter was in bad shape and was leaking atmosphere.[15]
Battle for Zeta Halo[edit]
- Main article: Battle for Zeta Halo
On December 12, 2559, Murphy was onboard UNSC Infinity when it was ambushed by Banished forces upon arrival at Installation 07.[16] As the Infinity fell to the Banished assault, Murphy’s Pelican was destroyed with its hangar bay. With orders to evacuate from the ship, Murphy piloted a lifeboat, Papa Tango Delta 09, and followed his companion lifeboat piloted by Spartan-IV Bonita Stone to the surface of the ring. However, as the lifeboat flew through a destroyed Banished dreadnought, it lost its back section to weapon fire, and spun out of control as it entered the ring's atmosphere.[17]
Murphy'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.[4] 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 Murphy.[18] Over the next six days, Murphy and other lifeboat survivors travelled across the region with Spartan Stone. They eventually rendezvoused with another group of survivors led by Spartan Nina Kovan.[1] 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;[19] they arrived on December 19.[7] Murphy was put in charge of providing military training to supply staff and non-military personnel, including other members of the boat crew.[20]
Murphy participated in the defense of the Reverie when the Banished launched an assault on the wreckage on January 31, 2560<