Hideo Wakahisa

Hideo Wakahisa was a candidate of the SPARTAN-IV program.

Biography

Hideo Wakahisa was born on the human colony of Newsaka. As a child, he had traveled to the neighboring colony of Draco III, having visited New Albany with his mother on a business trip. During the Human-Covenant War, Wakahisa enlisted in the UNSC Marine Corps, where he eventually became an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. After the war ended, he was recruited to join the SPARTAN-IV program. He underwent his Spartan transformation on Mars, where he met fellow recruit Edward Buck and befriended him, both sharing a common adoration for the Draconian city of New Albany. Buck thought Wakahisa was reminiscent of his former squad-mate, the Rookie, and he considered Hideo to be a fine young soldier but a lousy card player.

Death

Weeks after their augmentations, both men headed off to a secret facility orbiting a dwarf planet to begin their Spartan-IV training. During a combat training exercise in the station's War Games chamber, the spartans were pitted against automated turrets in a jungle environment with tunnel systems below. At the end of the exercise, Wakahisa failed to return from the field and could not be reached by communications. Commander Musa immediately dispatched personnel to go out and look for him. Former Spartan-III Jun-A266 found Wakahisa's murdered body in the tunnels with the spartan's electronic locators forcibly torn from his jaw.

Trivia

In Japanese, Hideo means "Excellent boy" and Wakahisa means "Forever young".

List of appearances

• Halo: New Blood (First appearance)