Fireteam Majestic

This is about a fireteam. For other uses, see Majestic (disambiguation).

"Here we go, Majestic!"

- Paul DeMarco to his team just before entering one of Requiems corridor's. Fireteam Majestic is a team of SPARTAN-IV supersoldiers of the Spartan branch. Majestic, consisting of five members, was assigned to the in early 2558 and were stationed at the Forerunner shield world Requiem during the ongoing hostilities.

History
Sometime before 2558, Fireteam Majestic, minus Gabriel Thorne, were deployed to Rio de Janeiro. In February 2558, Majestic was deployed to Requiem. On February 7, Commander Sarah Palmer assigned the squad to a mission in the sector Req-931-B. Sometime later, Fireteams Crimson and Majestic were sent north of the UNSC's area of operations on Requiem in order to shut down Forerunner power generators. Upon reaching their location, both Crimson and Majestic had their long-range communications jammed by Forerunner jamming devices. After deactivating the jammers, their mission continued. Initiated by Palmer, the mission became a competition for the fireteams to see who could complete their mission objectives first. Majestic took the lead at first, but were ultimately bested by Crimson.

Sometime later, Fireteam Majestic was being engaged by multiple Promethean Crawlers. Madsen started to complain about their ability to "pop up" anywhere, when a Promethean Knight teleported into the area. Thorne tried to warn Madsen, but he was shot in the shoulder, as more Knights entered the area. Hoya suddenly broke cover and charged at the Knights. While DeMarco yelled for him to get back into cover, he killed several before one managed to injure him. Nevertheless, Majestic managed to defeat the Knights and return back to the Infinity. Commander Palmer met them in the hangar to see how they had done.

Madsen and Demarco were later assigned to guard Catherine Halsey along with Commander Sarah Palmer upon her return to the Infinity. Later, Thorne volunteered to guard her during her research. During the UNSC's pursuit of Jul 'Mdama, Fireteams Crimson and Majestic were sent to two possible locations to search for him. Majestic engaged a large Covenant force and managed to corner them before the survivors mysteriously disappeared. Grant would soon figure out that they used Slipspace translocation to escape, which allowed Crimson to find a way to pursue 'Mdama.

Sometime during the operation in recovering the "Didact's Gift" from Galileo Base, Majestic was pinned down due to Covenant air support. With the base's anti-air defenses offline, Thorne quickly hijacked a low-flying Banshee and subsequently destroyed a nearby Phantom, allowing the Fireteam to complete their objective. Back aboard the Infinity, Thorne and DeMarco provided security for the artifact as Dr. Halsey and Roland examined it. The device released an energy burst shortly after revealing itself, and began to display images on the room's monitors; these were then identified as human memories harvested by the Composer during the Didact's attack on New Phoenix, URNA six months prior. Thorne left the room straight after discovering the Requiem translocation artifact on one of the monitors. Curious as to how the device had images of New Phoenix, Thorne investigated the Requiem artifact himself. After coming into physical contact with it, he activated it, and was sent to Requiem. He was transported to a Covenant-held base, where several Sangheili warriors surrounded him. After a short fight, Thorne managed to kill a few before being knocked unconscious. He was then dragged away to be held as prisoner.

Thorne later regained consciousness and escaped his captors with Henry Glassman (who had escaped prior to his arrival). They both fled the area in a hurry after killing their initial pursuers. Gek, however, quickly picked up their trail and pursued them himself. Some time later, Gek ambushed the pair as they were resting. After a brief skirmish, Gek garnered the upper-hand from Thorne, who he was about to kill, until the rest of Fireteam Majestic arrived. He was shot dead by DeMarco, saving Thorne's life. Thorne searched the dead Elite for anything significant, giving DeMarco the Energy sword as gratitude for saving his life. DeMarco also collected Gek's personal collection of UNSC dog-tags, commenting that some of them belonged to Spartans. Thorne took Gek's active camoflauge module for himself, which prompted Madsen to find anything valuable for himself. He picked up a small device and activated it, revealing a map of Requiem, much to his displeasure.

Later, they were attacked by Covenant forces. DeMarco radioed in for reinforcements and Fireteam Crimson was sent to aid them.

Personnel

 * Paul DeMarco — Team leader
 * Tedra Grant
 * Hoya
 * Madsen
 * Gabriel Thorne

Production notes
Fireteam Majestic are the protagonists of Halo: Infinity, the computer-generated cinematics that accompany each Spartan Ops episode. In gameplay, players fill the roles of Fireteam Crimson.

Trivia
The members of Majestic each bear the team's emblem on their left shoulder in the same place as a player's multiplayer emblem. Majestic's emblem is a gold version of the "Kingslayer" used in Halo 4 Infinity. In Spartan Ops Episode 8 Chapter 2, Majestic Rescue, Fireteam Majestic supposedly appears in-game, but are represented using default NPC Spartan characters (male Spartans in grey Recruit armor) as opposed to their actual character models.

List of appearances

 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops