SPARTAN-073

SPARTAN-073 was a SPARTAN-II candidate. Along with the other candidates, he was abducted in 2517. In 2525 his body rejected the augmentation procedures and he died as a result.

Biography
073 was a genetically, intellectually, and physically gifted child chosen for the SPARTAN-II project. He was abducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence and replaced with a flash clone when he was around six years old. He and seventy-four other children were taken to Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system. There, he was trained by the "dumb" AI, Déjà and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, with the two serving as the Spartans' teacher and drill instructor, respectively. In 2519, he was taken alongside his fellow trainees to a Military Wilderness Training Preserve for a mission that required each trainee to be left alone in the woods with a only a single piece of a map. It was up to them to find one another so that they could piece the map together and locate the designated extraction point. The mission was ultimately a success. At another point during training, 073 and the others traveled to Emerald Cove for an underwater mission. There, they abandoned Mendez and lived on their own on an island for a few days. By July 14, 2523, 073 and his fellow Spartan-IIs had begun facing the formidable and ruthless UNSC Marine Corps' Tango Company in simulated war games. On March 9, 2525, 073 and the rest of the Spartan-II candidates underwent their augmentation procedures at Medical Facility Endurance orbiting Reach. During the procedures, his body rejected the augmentations and he was killed. He and the others who died were honored with a military funeral aboard the carrier, the, in the Lambda Serpentis system.

Gallery
 File:S-II's awaiting augmentation.png|073, Linda-058, Joshua-029, Cassandra-075, and other Spartans await their augmentations. File:S-II Augmentation - Negative Side-effects.png|SPARTAN-073 experiencing the negative side-effects of augmentation that resulted in his death. File:Scanned Spartan 073 dead.png|073 prior to his death. 

List of appearances

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