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'''[[Warrant Officer]] Emile-A239''' was a [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III commando]] of the [[UNSC Navy|UNSC Naval]] [[UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command]], attached to [[Special Warfare Command|Special Warfare]] [[Special Warfare Group Three|Group Three]] of the [[UNSC Army]].{{Ref/Reuse|EVG}} He fought as part of [[NOBLE Team]] with the call sign '''Noble Four''', during the [[Fall of Reach]] in [[2552|summer 2552]].<ref name="rise">''[[Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise]]''</ref><ref name="bnet">[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24523 '''Bungie.net''' - ''Emile's performance report'']</ref>

Emile was born in [[Luxor]] on [[Eridanus II]] in [[2523]]. When he was very young, his parents were killed during [[Insurrection]] activity. Subsequently, his older brother took care of him in Luxor. In [[2530]] his planet was [[Glassing|glassed]] by the [[Covenant]] and his brother sacrificed himself so that Emile could escape; this event had a profound impact on him.<ref name="CF">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/emile-a239 '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Universe: Emile-A239'']</ref> Orphaned, he was conscripted into the [[SPARTAN-III program]] as a part of [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]]. Discovering that he could fill the hole in his heart with the corpses of the Covenant, Emile quickly adapted and excelled in his training. Emile graduated from the program at the age of 13, though his aptitude was such that he was removed from the general population of Alpha Company by [[Kurt-051]] and [[Franklin Mendez]] before [[Operation: PROMETHEUS]] in [[2537]] (which resulted in the deaths of most members of the company) to be used for tasks that required a more skillful hand.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040 '''Bungie.net''': ''Communique from Kurt to Mendez'']</ref> Later, he became a member of Noble Team, with whom he fought during the [[Battle of Fumirole]] in [[2552#April|April 2552]] and during the Fall of Reach in the summer of the same year.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}}{{Ref/Reuse|CF}}

On [[2552#July|July 23, 2552]], contact with the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrad communications relay]] on Reach was lost. After losing contact with the [[UNSC Army|Army]] fireteams that he had deployed to investigate the disturbance, [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]] sent Noble Team to find the cause of the communications blackout. Soon after arriving at the relay, Noble Team encountered a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] incursion force. Soon, the team split in half, with Emile, [[Jun-A266|Jun]], and [[Catherine-B320|Kat]] flying directly to the relay and [[Carter-A259|Carter]], [[Jorge-052|Jorge]], and [[SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six]] proceeding on the ground. After the team battled their way inside and fought a team of [[Sangheili Zealot]]s known as the [[Devoted Sentries]], Carter informed Holland that the [[WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY]] was in effect, as Covenant forces were on Reach.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[Winter Contingency]]''</ref>

On July 26, Noble Team helped defend the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[Sword Base]] from a Covenant attack spearheaded by an overhead [[Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette|corvette]]. Near the end of the battle, Emile took position near the top of the structure. From this position, he engaged several [[Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantoms]] and [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]] to allow some of the base's remaining [[GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords]] to get airborne. After the corvette was destroyed by one of Reach's [[Orbital defense platform|Orbital Defense Platforms]], Noble Team met [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], with whom they discussed the Zealot team they had previously encountered.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref>

On [[2552#August|August 23]], Noble Team rendezvoused inside ONI's now-compromised [[Olympic Tower]] in [[New Alexandria (location)|New Alexandria]]. During this meeting, Emile tried to mask his sorrow for Jorge's death through humor. Moments later, the Covenant began [[glassing]] dangerously close to Noble Team's position. As the SPARTANs fled, Kat was killed by a waiting [[Sangheili]] marksman. The survivors attempted to kill the Elite to no avail. On August 26, Noble Team emerged from a fallout bunker beneath the ruins of the Olympic Tower.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[New Alexandria]]''</ref>

The team soon arrived at a [[Forerunner]] [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|complex]] beneath the [[Babd Catha Ice Shelf]]. Halsey insisted upon the importance of the site and demanded Noble Team's support while she completed transferring critical data in her laboratory. Emile and the other Spartans defended Halsey's lab from several waves of Covenant forces, who had found an entrance to the ruins. Eventually, Halsey ushered the Spartans inside, where she revealed the data she had transferred: a fragment of the [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] [[Cortana]] that carried a "latchkey" discovery found in the ruins. She ordered Noble Team to escort Cortana to the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}, a {{Class|Halcyon|light cruiser}} that was drydocked at the [[Asźod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards]] in [[Asźod]]. Jun escorted Halsey to ONI [[CASTLE Base]], while Emile, Carter, and Noble Six flew to rendezvous with the ''Pillar of Autumn''. As the group parted ways, Halsey detonated explosive charges within the ice shelf, burying the ruins.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[The Package]]''</ref>

On August 30, as Noble Team neared the ''Pillar of Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s location, their [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]] was damaged, and Carter was severely wounded, by pursuing Banshees. Emile attempted to hold the pursuers off to little avail. Carter ordered Emile and Noble Six to escort the package to the ''Pillar of Autumn'' on foot. The two Spartans leapt from the Pelican and fought their way to the mouth of a ravine, where they were cornered by a [[Deutoros-pattern Scarab|Scarab]]. Fortunately, Carter arrived, though the Pelican's weapons were not powerful enough to damage the Scarab. As the commander told his plan to ram the Scarab, Emile encouraged Carter to ''"Hit 'em hard."'' With their leader dead and the Scarab destroyed, the two remaining SPARTANs continued toward the ''Pillar of Autumn''. Eventually, they reached the drydock's landing platforms, where [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]] would take possession of the package personally. Emile mounted an [[mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|"Onager" mass driver]] that the ''Pillar of Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] contingent had installed, using it to destroy several approaching Phantom dropships.<ref name="PoA">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]''.</ref>

After Noble Six had cleared Platform Delta, Keyes arrived in a Pelican to take possession of the package. While Noble Six met with the captain, a Phantom flew to the emplacement and dropped off a group of the Devoted Sentries. Emile dismounted the emplacement and knocked an Elite to the ground. The Zealot's energy shields flickered, then turned off as Emile finished it with his shotgun. However, a second Elite managed to impale him with a stab from behind using an [[Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword|energy sword]]. Defiant to the end, Emile pulled out his kukri and stabbed the Elite through the throat, causing both of them to fall from the platform. When Noble Six ascended the stairs to the mass driver, the bodies of Emile and the Elites who ambushed him were slumped against the railing, lifeless.{{Ref/Reuse|PoA}}

Emile typically wielded an [[M45 Tactical Shotgun]] and occasionally used an [[M319 grenade launcher]], for which he always carried grenades. His signature weapon was a large [[Wikipedia:Kukri|kukri]] knife that he sheathed on his right shoulder pauldron.

*Emile was voiced by [[Jamie Hector]] in ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', ''Credits''</ref>