Gabriel Thorne

"Thorne" redirects here. For other uses, see Thorne (disambiguation).

"I enlisted with the Spartans because I was in the Army a year before my family and friends were killed in New Phoenix. I always thought the Spartans were special. Maybe I could have saved them."

- Thorne discussing his reason in joining the Spartan branch to Dr. Halsey.

Gabriel Thorne (service number 83920-91083-GT) is a SPARTAN-IV supersoldier and a member of the 's Spartan contingent. In February 2558, shortly after joining the Spartans, Thorne was assigned to Fireteam Majestic as their newest member. By the next month he was given command of Majestic.

Early life
Thorne was born on July 5, 2534 on Earth and grew up in New Phoenix, URNA. He had joined the UNSC Army by July 2552, only months from the end of the war. Thorne served tours on Tribute, Reach, and would participate in both the Battle of Criterion, where he single-handedly saved his entire platoon, and the Battle of Mars. During his time on Mars he served under Colonel James Ackerson. Shortly after the Didact's attack on New Phoenix, in which all of his family and friends were killed, Thorne volunteered for the Spartans and was assigned to Fireteam Majestic shortly thereafter.

Second Battle of Requiem
In 2558 Fireteam Majestic was deployed to the. Sometime later, Fireteams Crimson and Majestic were sent north of the UNSC's area of operations in 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. When DeMarco questioned why Infinity command could not hear him, Thorne joked they were probably ignoring him. After deactivating the jammers, their mission continued. Initiated by Commander Sarah 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 complaining about the Prometheans' ability to "pop up" anywhere, when a Promethean Knight translocated into the area and shot Madsen in the shoulder. Several others then translocated in the area and engaged Majestic. They survived the fight and exfiled back to Infinity.

Thorne later volunteered to guard Dr. Catherine Halsey while she worked on the Forerunner artifact recovered by Crimson. He questioned her about the use of children for the SPARTAN-II Program. He also asked if she thought the current generation of Spartans were capable of being true Spartans. He later told her why he joined the SPARTAN-IVs, expressing his guilt that he was not able to do anything to save his family and friends during the New Phoenix incident. When asked about the Prometheans, he told Dr. Halsey they were nothing but trouble.

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 air defenses offline, Thorne quickly hijacked a low-flying Banshee and destroyed a nearby Phantom dropship, allowing the Fireteam to return to the Infinity. As the device was being examined by Dr. Halsey and Roland, the matrix gave off an energy burst, it sent images of New Phoenix throughout the monitors within the room, which Thorne quickly recognized. He noticed that the translocation artifact appeared in one of the images; curious, he left the laboratory and later approached the artifact. Wondering how the artifact could have been present at New Phoenix prior to its discovery, Thorne touched it and was unexpectedly translocated to a Forerunner structure in The Cauldron, where he was immediately surrounded by Sangheili Storm forces. Thorne put up a fight, managing to kill most of the Sangheili before being knocked unconscious. Coming to, he pretended to stay unconscious as the Covenant forces led him to their base. After arriving, Dr. Henry Glassman (who had escaped at the time) arrived at the front entrance. Thorne chose then to get up and kill his two Sangheili captors. When Gek remotely activated Glassman's plasma charge-rigged vest, Thorne quickly disposed of it and the two fled.

Gek quickly picked up their trail and pursued them. Some time later, Gek ambushed the pair as they were resting. Thorne quickly disarmed Gek of his energy sword and engaged him in a close-quarters brawl. Gek, however, managed to gain the upper hand from Thorne after smashing a large rock over his chest plating. Just before Gek could kill Thorne, the rest of Fireteam Majestic arrived. DeMarco shot the Elite dead, saving Thorne's life. Afterwards, Thorne searched the dead Elite for anything significant, giving DeMarco the energy sword in gratitude, as well as Gek's personal collection of UNSC dog tags. Thorne also took Gek's personal active camouflage module for himself.

As a Pelican landed to bring Glassman back to Infinity, Captain Lasky contacted Majestic via hologram, ordering them to rescue Halsey, who had been taken by the Covenant and had a kill order placed on her by CINCONI, Admiral Serin Osman. Returning to the Librarian's shrine, Thorne got the guards' attention, before Majestic opened fire from the high ground. DeMarco ordered Thorne to proceed inside and rescue Halsey. He caught Jul 'Mdama off guard and killed two of his bodyguards. As Jul grabbed Halsey, she passed him one half of the Janus Key given to her by the Librarian. As Palmer turned up, Jul summoned Promethean Knights to cover his escape. By the time the Spartans managed to destroy the Knights, Jul teleported away, with Halsey in tow. After yelling in frustration, Palmer demanded to know why Majestic was there. DeMarco explained that they were on a rescue mission, to which Palmer retorted that Halsey was a traitor. Thorne did not believe so, and showed the Commander that Halsey had given him one half of the Key.

After Jul 'Mdama set Requiem to a self-destruct trajectory with its sun, Thorne and the rest of Majestic were dispatched to deactivate one of the artifacts keeping Infinity locked in the shield world's orbit. Though they faced heavy resistance, the Spartans were successful in their mission and were evacuated on Infinity via a Pelican dropship at the last moment before Requiem collided with the star.

Freighter ambush
Sometime after the Second Battle of Requiem, Palmer transferred DeMarco to Fireteam Bailey and put Thorne in command of Fireteam Majestic, which led to the death of DeMarco in the Battle of Ealen IV. In March 11, 2558, six days after DeMarco's death, Thorne and the rest of Fireteam Majestic were deployed along Fireteams Colossus and Fenrir to repel an attack to the Infinity and prevent the freighter Pilgrims Pride from self-destructing on the ship. Leading the fireteams, Thorne ordered teams Colossus and Fenrir to secure the ship while Majestic made their way to the core. As the Spartans advance through the freighter, they encountered automated defense turrets. With the enemy going into retreat, the freighter was tugged out into space, where Grant ejected the ship's core before it exploded. The Spartans survived the detonation and requested pickup.

Homecoming
In April 2558 the quarantine was lifted from New Phoenix. Thorne returned to his hometown to learn the role played by John-117 during the attack on the city.

Personality and traits
Even before becoming a Spartan, Thorne had a strong sense of responsibility; he believed he could have somehow prevented the deaths of his loved ones in New Phoenix if given the chance. After his re-enlistment, Thorne was determined to make sure that there would be history for the SPARTAN Program, as proven in a journal entry he had written and his curiosity of the original Spartans.

Equipment
Thorne wears the Recruit variant of the MJOLNIR GEN2 armor, and carries an MA5D ICWS. After killing Gek, he took the Elite's T-3 Active Camouflage Module.

Behind the scenes

 * Thorne is voiced by and modeled after Ethan Peck, a grandson of the famous actor Gregory Peck.
 * Some of Thorne's effects, including his journal, a War Games scoresheet, a primer for new UNSC Infinity crew and complement, and a SPARTAN-IV overview guide, are included with the Halo 4 Limited Edition.

List of appearances

 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops
 * Halo: Initiation
 * Halo: Escalation