Jorge-052
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Sacrificed himself to detonate the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine |
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- "In recognition of this, his endless courage, we honor him as the fighting spirit of NOBLE."
- — Monument to NOBLE Team
Chief Warrant Officer Jorge-052 (pronounced in the same way as "George") was a Spartan-II supersoldier of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, attached to Unified Special Warfare Command's Group Three. He fought during the Fall of Reach in 2552 as a part of NOBLE Team under the call sign Noble Five.[4][5]
Biography[edit]
Conscription[edit]
- Main article: SPARTAN-II training
Jorge was born in the small city of Pálháza on Reach on March 5, 2511,[2][5] and was abducted and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II program by Dr. Catherine Halsey in 2517 when he was six years old. While on Reach, he was trained by the AI Déjà and Chief Petty Officer Mendez along with the rest of the Spartan children. During his first day of training, a trainer mispronounced his name by calling him by the Spanish pronunciation. Jorge quickly corrected the trainer only to be shocked and reprimanded for "back talking".[6]
In 2525, he and the other candidates underwent a series of augmentations to improve their overall combat prowess in several different fields. Jorge was among the candidates who survived the procedure.
Early service with NOBLE Team[edit]
Jorge was transferred from the main Spartan-II contingent (under the operational command of Naval Special Weapons) to Unified Ground Command's Special Warfare Group Three at an unknown point during the Human-Covenant War. His reassignment may have been facilitated under the guise of being too heavily wounded to continue active duty.[Note 1]
In late 2551, Jorge joined NOBLE Team in the defense of Concord against a Covenant attack. During the ground campaign, NOBLE assisted local Army Ranger forces in repelling Covenant air superiority, before driving invading forces from the planet's large cities. In the process, the team's Pelican dropship was shot down in the Hinterlands region, leading to the team manually walking to the town of Skathi to make a stand against an encroaching Covenant assault force. During the battle, Catherine-B320 devised an operation and split the team in two, taking herself, Rosenda-A344, and Thom-A293 in an M862 Arctic Warthog to blunt the Covenant assault force head-on, capturing a Zashk-pattern Draugr in the process. As such, Jorge was left behind in Skathi alongside Carter-A259 and Jun-A266, and assisted the town's citizens in collecting ammunition and preparing defences. During the fighting, Skathi was attacked by Banshees, though spared the brunt of the attack thanks to the actions of the advance group. By the time of extraction later in the day, Jorge had assisted in removing debris from the middle of town, before NOBLE were redeployed to Fumirole in light of intelligence reports on a Covenant fleet massing near the system.[7]
That reassignment came to light in April 2552, when the unit participated in the Battle of Fumirole.[8] Thom-A293 was killed during this mission and his death would deeply affect the other members of the team, including Jorge.[9]
