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[[File:SSgt Avery Johnson, UNSC Marine Corps.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Staff Sergeant Avery J. Johnson passing a field with the [[Harvest Colonial Militia]].]] | [[File:SSgt Avery Johnson, UNSC Marine Corps.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Staff Sergeant Avery J. Johnson passing a field with the [[Harvest Colonial Militia]].]] | ||
Officially, he was re-assigned to train the [[Colonial Militia of Harvest|Colonial Militia]] on Harvest, but their actual mission was to create a covert anti-insurgency unit, and to lay an ambush on insurgent forces suspected in the disappearances of DCS freighters around [[Harvest]]. However, while lying in wait on a bait freighter, he and Sergeant Byrne, who was also assigned to the position, fought and defeated four [[Jackal|bird-like extraterrestrials]] in the first official battle between the UNSC and the alliance of alien species known as the [[Covenant]]. Johnson and Byrne (with the rest of the militia of Harvest) were also present at the initial negotiations between the [[Brutes]] and the [[humans]]. They also fought Brute Chieftain [[Maccabeus]], his nephew [[Tartarus]], and several [[Grunts]]. He aided [[Staff Sergeant]] Byrne and ONI operative [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Cdr.]] [[Jilan al-Cygni]] in repelling the [[Brute]] ship ''[[Rapid Conversion]]'' long enough to allow most of the planet's population to escape into the [[Tiara]], a station attached to seven different space elevators stationed on the planet. Later, he would become | Officially, he was re-assigned to train the [[Colonial Militia of Harvest|Colonial Militia]] on Harvest, but their actual mission was to create a covert anti-insurgency unit, and to lay an ambush on insurgent forces suspected in the disappearances of DCS freighters around [[Harvest]]. However, while lying in wait on a bait freighter, he and Sergeant Byrne, who was also assigned to the position, fought and defeated four [[Jackal|bird-like extraterrestrials]] in the first official battle between the UNSC and the alliance of alien species known as the [[Covenant]]. Johnson and Byrne (with the rest of the militia of Harvest) were also present at the initial negotiations between the [[Brutes]] and the [[humans]]. They also fought Brute Chieftain [[Maccabeus]], his nephew [[Tartarus]], and several [[Grunts]]. He aided [[Staff Sergeant]] Byrne and ONI operative [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Cdr.]] [[Jilan al-Cygni]] in repelling the [[Brute]] ship ''[[Rapid Conversion]]'' long enough to allow most of the planet's population to escape into the [[Tiara]], a station attached to seven different space elevators stationed on the planet. Later, he would become romantically involved with al-Cygni after escaping from the planet. Although Johnson and al-Cygni seemed quite taken with each other it is unclear whether they formed a relationship, or how long it lasted. After Harvest, his UNSC career is unknown, but he is presumed to have served on many planets between 2525 and 2549, when the [[Siege of Paris IV|Battle of Paris IV]] took place. | ||
A query by the [[Artificial Intelligence|A.I.]] [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] into Johnson's medical history revealed that he had a false condition known as [[Boren's Syndrome]]. This disease was supposedly contracted while he was stationed at [[Paris IV]]. When the Covenant [[Siege of Paris IV|attacked]] Paris IV, Johnson fought valiantly; during the battle, he repossessed a crate of Covenant [[plasma grenades]] when his troops needed them and used them all against the enemy troops to keep them at bay so his fellow soldiers could evacuate. He received a commendation for bravery, and a twelve-hundred-rad cumulative dose of radiation as an unanticipated "bonus" from all the plasma detonations.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 244</ref> However, the Boren's Syndrome apparently had an unexpected side effect, as it made him effectively immune to infection by the sentient alien parasite known as the [[Flood]] because the radiation scrambled his nervous system so much that Flood [[Infection Forms]] could not force a match. This rendered the [[Flood]] unable to control him. However, the Boren's Syndrome story (referred to as the "Paris/BS Spoof"), was a hoax to cover up Johnson's involvement in the ORION Project, and that his immunity to Flood infection is a result of the procedures performed on him to make him a SPARTAN-I <ref>''Halo: Graphic Novel'', page 122</ref><ref>Halo Encyclopedia page 81</ref>. | A query by the [[Artificial Intelligence|A.I.]] [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] into Johnson's medical history revealed that he had a false condition known as [[Boren's Syndrome]]. This disease was supposedly contracted while he was stationed at [[Paris IV]]. When the Covenant [[Siege of Paris IV|attacked]] Paris IV, Johnson fought valiantly; during the battle, he repossessed a crate of Covenant [[plasma grenades]] when his troops needed them and used them all against the enemy troops to keep them at bay so his fellow soldiers could evacuate. He received a commendation for bravery, and a twelve-hundred-rad cumulative dose of radiation as an unanticipated "bonus" from all the plasma detonations.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 244</ref> However, the Boren's Syndrome apparently had an unexpected side effect, as it made him effectively immune to infection by the sentient alien parasite known as the [[Flood]] because the radiation scrambled his nervous system so much that Flood [[Infection Forms]] could not force a match. This rendered the [[Flood]] unable to control him. However, the Boren's Syndrome story (referred to as the "Paris/BS Spoof"), was a hoax to cover up Johnson's involvement in the ORION Project, and that his immunity to Flood infection is a result of the procedures performed on him to make him a SPARTAN-I <ref>''Halo: Graphic Novel'', page 122</ref><ref>Halo Encyclopedia page 81</ref>. | ||