Randall Aiken: Difference between revisions

=== Battle of Vodin and life as a colonist ===

During the [[Human-Covenant War]], Randall-037 participated in fifty-nine battles and military operations. His last official service as a SPARTAN-II was in [[2532]] in the [[Battle of Vodin]] where he was listed as [[missing in action]]. During the planet's orbital space engagement with the Covenant, he fell from the planet's [[skyhook]]s into [[Vodin]]'s atmosphere and plunged to the surface, only to survive the impact by landing in an ocean on the planet. He was rescued days later by local survivors and lived with them following the battle.<ref name="waypoint enc"/>

===Attack on Sedra===

{{Main|Terrorist attack on Sedra City}}

{{Quote|You underestimate Sedrans, Commander. When we get punched in the mouth, we don't just outsource our fight to other people.|Aiken to Locke stressing his determinition to participate in operation<ref name="nf1"/>}}

{{Main|Mission to Alpha Shard}}

{{Quote|I don't wanna hear any more proper nouns until we exfil. No more Sedrans, no ONI. Just a team of soldiers.|Aiken taking command of the team.<ref name="nightfall2"/>}}

While traveling through [[slipspace]] in the Condor, the crew of the Condor began to argue. Aiken settled the argument by taking tactical command of the mission, and ordering the rest of the group to act like a team. Shortly after, the crew arrived at their destination and landed on the Halo shard's surface. After discovering the abandoned tug used by the smugglers, horse tracks were found nearby. The group followed the tracks' direction and come across the two smugglers—[[Arris Le]] and [[Haisal Wari]]—mining the element in a cave. The smugglers attempted to escape but [[Michael Horrigan]] and Locke quickly incapacitated and [[Physical restraints|restrained]] the smugglers. The team began to return to the Condor for extraction; however, while the [[dropship]] was setting down, a large number of [[Lekgolo]] appeared and began to swarm over the Condor and it flew off erratically—now controlled by the Lekgolo. More Lekgolo eels appeared in large gestalt formations, forcing the group to retreat as three of the Sedrans and the horses were killed. The fast Lekgolo began to pursue the team who escaped into a narrow crevice. Locke used a special appliance to [[Holography|holographically]] camouflage their position from the aliens. However, the Lekgolo quickly sensed the cloaking unit and destroyed it. As the eels closed in on the group, Arris revealed that the Lekgolo can sense active technology and movement, prompting the group to reluctantly shut down the electronics present in their equipment. Unable to detect the humans, most of the Lekgolo left the area and the nine survivors moved out of the crevice.<ref name="nightfall2"/>

===Death===

{{Quote|no=two|1=Jameson Locke|q1=See you in Valhalla.|2=Randall Aiken|q2=They don't let ONI into Valhalla... but you they might.|3=Randall Aiken's and [[Jameson Locke]]'s final words to each other<ref name="nightfall5"/>}}

As Aiken, Locke, and [[Talitha Macer|Private Talitha Macer]] approached the Condor, they realized that it was functional enough to transport them to the tug. Aiken ordered for both of them to take the dropship to the tug and escape, while he remained behind and activated the nuke. However, Locke and Macer both refused and, instead, the group decided to "draw straws" to choose who remains behind. Aiken broke apart his daughter's necklace and used its beads as straws; the one who would draw a red bead from his enclosed hand would stay behind. Locke and Macer both drew white beads, and reluctantly agreed to allow Aiken to stay behind and activate the nuke. However, in truth, there was no red beads in Aiken's hand as he wanted both of them to survive. After exchanging parting words with Aiken, Locke and Macer left in the Condor to make it to the tug. Once they arrived at the tug, Lekgolo worms attacked and killed Ramos and Horrigan, after Arris was gunned down by the latter. Locke and Macer were only able to escape from the worms when Aiken activated the HAVOK and, inadvertently, drew the Lekgolo towards himself. Randall ultimately sacrificed himself to detonate the HAVOK warhead, destroying the source of the bioweapon, while Lieutenant Commander Locke and Private Macer escaped Alpha Shard.<ref name="nightfall5">'''Halo: Nightfall''', ''Chapter 5''</ref>

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File:Nightfall - LockeAikenMacerWisner.jpg|Aiken with [[Jameson Locke|Agent Locke]], [[Talitha Macer|Macer]], and [[Samantha Wisner|Wisner]] in ''[[Halo: Nightfall]]''.

File:HM-AlphaShard.png|Randall Aiken (far left) during the Mission to Alpha Shard in ''[[Halo Mythos]]''.

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