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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Early life=== | ===Early life=== | ||
Michael Crespo was born in [[2530]] in [[Crisium City]], [[Naniwa]], [[Luna]] and has lived there ever since.<ref name="ENC"/><ref name="guide"/> Despite this, he has never visited [[Earth]], and has only seen it from a transport craft window. Crespo's parents were [[ | Michael Crespo was born in [[2530]] in [[Crisium City]], [[Naniwa]], [[Luna]] and has lived there ever since.<ref name="ENC"/><ref name="guide"/> Despite this, he has never visited [[Earth]], and has only seen it from a transport craft window. Crespo's parents were [[Insurrectionist]]s who died wiring a bomb to a government building. He never got to know them well because he was very young at the time. He was placed in foster care, during which he studied subjects such as UNSC history and work productivity.<ref name="oni"/> | ||
===Military career=== | ===Military career=== | ||
Crespo signed up for | Crespo signed up for UNSC service on [[2548#June|June 4th, 2548]], as mandatory military service was a requirement for freedom from foster care. After the mandatory service, he had the chance to quit the military, but he decided to stay as he considered it home.<ref name="oni"/> Both he and The Rookie enlisted in the same year, and were both students before they enlisted. It is possible that they both knew each other before joining the UNSC. | ||
He was a pilot and then Crew Chief on a [[Pelican]] dropship for sometime before becoming an ODST with the rank of [[Private First Class]]. Before the Battle of Earth, he had undergone EVA training and finished in the top of his class, as well as three [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|HEV]] drops.<ref name="oni"/> | He was a pilot and then Crew Chief on a [[Pelican]] dropship for sometime before becoming an ODST with the rank of [[Private First Class]]. Before the Battle of Earth, he had undergone EVA training and finished in the top of his class, as well as three [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|HEV]] drops.<ref name="oni"/> | ||
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During the [[Battle of Earth]] in [[2552#October|October 20, 2552]], Crespo was stationed aboard the {{UNSCShip|Say My Name}} and was interviewed for [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] by [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Edward Buck]]<ref name="oni"/> and became part of his squad, | During the [[Battle of Earth]] in [[2552#October|October 20, 2552]], Crespo was stationed aboard the {{UNSCShip|Say My Name}} and was interviewed for [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] by [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Edward Buck]]<ref name="oni"/> and became part of his squad, [[Alpha-Nine]]. They were part of a larger detachment of the [[105th Shock Troops Division]] that was to be dropped from orbit right onto the [[Prophet of Regret]]'s flagship, ''[[Solemn Penance]]'', stationed over the city of [[New Mombasa]].<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/related/video/into-hell-1/6c327f74-5bc0-43c4-ac92-0feef4a712b0 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Into Hell 1'']</ref> Unknown to Crespo, the squad had been chosen by the ONI operative [[Veronica Dare]] to partake on a classified mission, which was not revealed to the squad members until in mid-drop, when Dare ordered the squad to adjust their [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|drop pods]]' trajectories away from the [[CAS-class assault carrier|Covenant carrier]]. Crespo's drop pod was caught though in the [[Electromagnetic pulse|EMP]] blast from the retreating flagship. It lost power and slammed into the Rookie's pod, cracking the window and causing him and the Rookie's pod to land farther away from his squad. | ||
Later that day, Crespo stumbled upon several retreating Marines. He helped them fight through to their rally point with a Scorpion tank near the entrance of the ONI Alpha Site which led him to rejoin with [[Taylor H. Miles]] in aiding with other Marines also. After defending the area, both ODST's met up with a desperate [[NMPD]] officer. In response, they defended the [[ONI Alpha Site]] complex with him and several other officers and Marines.<ref>'''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''', campaign level, ''[[ONI Alpha Site (level)|ONI Alpha Site]]''</ref> After the courtyard was overrun they moved inside where NMPD officers were defending the building, and getting ready to blow it up, should the Covenant overwhelm them. Sure enough after a few waves they fell back to the roof on an elevator, there Crespo told the last remaining officer to link the charges to him, saying "If anyone's gonna blow this place, it's gonna be me." Once on the roof they evacuated on a NMPD [[D77C-NMPD Pelican Dropship|Pelican]], where they finally made contact with Buck who was at the NMPD Headquarters, the pilot agreed to take them to him. | Later that day, Crespo stumbled upon several retreating Marines. He helped them fight through to their rally point with a Scorpion tank near the entrance of the ONI Alpha Site which led him to rejoin with [[Taylor H. Miles]] in aiding with other Marines also. After defending the area, both ODST's met up with a desperate [[NMPD]] officer. In response, they defended the [[ONI Alpha Site]] complex with him and several other officers and Marines.<ref>'''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''', campaign level, ''[[ONI Alpha Site (level)|ONI Alpha Site]]''</ref> After the courtyard was overrun they moved inside where NMPD officers were defending the building, and getting ready to blow it up, should the Covenant overwhelm them. Sure enough after a few waves they fell back to the roof on an elevator, there Crespo told the last remaining officer to link the charges to him, saying "If anyone's gonna blow this place, it's gonna be me." Once on the roof they evacuated on a NMPD [[D77C-NMPD Pelican Dropship|Pelican]], where they finally made contact with Buck who was at the NMPD Headquarters, the pilot agreed to take them to him. | ||