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It is a blurred line that lies at the edge of Godhood and Insanity. Guess which side of it I am on.

= Spartan-098 =

Spartan-098 Marcus is a member of the Spartan-II program and holds the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He is a friend of Spartan-117 and is currently on Installation 03.

Early Life
Marcus lived his early life in London, Earth. He was strong for his age and was taller than his peers-approximately a foot, a sign of "perfect genetic match" for a project code-named Spartan II. He later became the strongest known Spartan.

Training
At the age of seven, Marcus was considered a "unique" child. He was stronger, smarter, and faster than all the other children in his grade. Dr. Halsey and Lieutenant Jacob Keyes went to his colony to visit him or "view" him and were quite amazed by his intelligence and strength when he picked up a boy his age, lifted him over his head and threw him into the snow. Marcus and quite a few other children his age were covertly kidnapped from their homes, and replaced with Flash Clones. Early on he seemed to be a strong assault co-ordinater among the Spartan children, and it was not long until he became in charge of a special six-man assault team. After being put in charge of his team he rarely saw any Spartan II soldier that wasn't in his squad.

Six years into Spartan training, Marcus and his fellow Spartans were biologically modified and enhanced. The following procedures were done:


 * Carbide Ceramic Ossification: advanced material grafted onto the skeleton for virtually unbreakable bones and increase in white blood cells. Recommended dosage not exceeding three percent. Risks: White blood cell necrosis, skeletal growth may cause irreparable bone pulverization.
 * Muscular Enhancement Injection: protein complex is injected intramuscularly to increase tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time. Risk: 5% of test subjects experiences fatal cardiac volume increase.
 * Catalytic Thyroid Implant: platinum pellet containing human growth hormone catalyst is implanted in the thyroid to increase skeletal growth and muscle tissues. Risks: Rare instances of elephantiasis. Suppressed sexual drive.
 * Occipital Capillary Reversal: submergence and boosted blood flow beneath the rods and cones of subject’s retina. Produces a marked visual perception increase. Risk: Retinal rejection and detachment. Permanent blindness.
 * Superconducting neural dendrites: altercation of bioelectrical nerve to shield nerves from electronic shocks. Three hundred percent increase in subject reflexes. Marked increase in intelligence and creativity. Risk: significant increase instances of Parkinson’s disease and Fletcher’s syndrome.

These procedures had substantial risks, and only 33 Spartans survived to functional status. 12 others suffered major problems, and were delegated to non-combat duties. The rest died.

Squad
Marcus's squad consisted of Spartan-098 Marcus, Spartan-037 Jack, Spartan-023 Emily, Spartan-109 Thomas, Spartan-081 Anna and Spartan-057 Karen. Marcus was the leader, Jack was the sniper, Emily was the explosives expert, Thomas was the stealth expert, Anna was the Comm tech and Karen was the medic.

Battle of Biko
His first assignment was the defense of the planet Biko in 2525. Although he fought for two days defending and evacuating civilians the Covenant eventually glassed the planet after numerous attempts to invade a Durban which was defended by Marcus and his squad. As the Covenant glased the planet the Spartans, marines and civilians escaped on a Prowler stationed in a military base. Although his assignment to defend the planet was technically a failure he recieved The Silver Star and a promotion to Chief Petty Officer for the saviour of over three hundred civilians and over eighty marines.

View on Human-Covenant War
The Spartan had never thought of the UNSC as good or the Covenant as bad because he saw an advantage in viewing the universe as gray rather than black and white and in 2537 when a Minor Domo Sangheili, as it refered to itself, was captured and questioned by his assault team the Spartans were able to get what the Covenant thought of the UNSC and some information regarding their culture, history, military and religon was also gathered. From what the Sangheili said about the veiws of the Covenant it was apparent to Marcus that someone was telling these aliens that humanity was worthless. That it was a blight on the galaxy and that in order for the 'Great Journey' to proceed they had to be exterminated.

Great Journey
After the information was gathered from the Sangheili the Spartans tried to capture as many members of the Covenant as they could and question them to find out who had told them about humanity and what the 'Great Journey' was. In 2549 when a Sangheili Councillor was captured the Spartan group learned everything they had wanted to know about the Covenant so the Councillor was released back to the Covenant.

Alliance
In 2552 the assault team led an assault on a Covenant Assualt Carrier. While onboard the team encounters a familiar Councillor and a group of Sangheili Ultras on the Bridge of the Carrier Unified Aspiration the team realizes the Sangheili are battling another group of the Covenant on their own ship known as Jiralhanae. The Spartans agree to help the Sangheili eliminate the rebellious Brutes if the Sangheili use the ship to aid the UNSC. The loose alliance between the Spartans and the Councillor is made.

After aiding the UNSC by destroying four Covenant ships the Unified Aspiration makes a slipspace jump to the planet Glorified Truce. While there the Elite ship is discovered to harbour Demons and a group of fifty Brute Captains is sent to kill the Concillor, his Elites and the Spartans. The Allied troops quickly eliminate the Brutes and flee onto the planet. As they do so word gets out and the Elites and Brutes begin to battle each other.

http://img.sheezyart.com/art/medium/2/27656.jpg As the planetary feud rages on the allied troops sow the seeds for rebellion against the prophets in an effort to by the UNSC time to reorganize a defense plan. As this happens the High Prophet of Truth learns of the Councillor's treachery and sends Tartarus along with a fleet of 100 Jiralhanae ships to deal with the heretics and quell the chance of rebellion. As Tartarus' fleet arrives the Elites have won control of the planet and began their rebellion. A massive engagment between both sides ensues with the 82 Sangheili ships and the 100 Jiralhanae ships. While the engagement continues the Unified Aspiration and a fleet of 7 Sangheili ships flee the system. The Jiralhanae are victorious and glass the planet.

The ship Unified Aspiration is taken to the Heretic base on Threshold's moon where all Sangheili troops are given to the Heretic Leader Sesa 'Refumee to fortify his base and their gas mining station. The remaining Sangheili and the Spartans take the ship to a makeshift Heretic base in a nearby asteroid field and leave the ship with them. In return the Allied troops are given a Dropship to take to High Charity for an assassination mission to eliminate the Prophet of Justice, Prophet of Certainty and the Prophet of Truth.

As the Spartans and Sangheili reach the dock of High Charity they are confronted by Tartarus who kills the remaining Sangheili and takes the Councillor captive. The Spartans hide in the city for a total of five days. They then split into three teams and go about the assassination of the three Prophets. The first Team includes Spartan-023 and Spartan-057, the second team is made of Spartan-098 and Spartan-037, while the finasl team includes Spartan-109 and Spartan-081. The first team manages to kill the Prophet of Certainty (who is later replaced by the Prophet of Mercy), the second team also manages to kill the Prophet of Justice (who is later replaced by the Prophet of Regret). However the third team is unable to complete their task. The third team is KIA.

The remaining Spartans rescue the Councillor and flee the Station by boarding and hijacking a Covenant Frigate. They instantly make their slipspace jump and head to the remains of Reach. While at the planet they attack and destroy two Jiralehanae ships before once again exiting the system. While in slipspcae they change their co-ordinates and head for a Covenant factory in an asteroid, Masked Obliterator. Before eliminating the factory they take a Sangheili prisoner who tells them of Halo's discovery, destruction and of the human warships survival. The alliance then fades and with the learning of Halo's existence and destruction the Councillor is driven mad by his treachery. The Spartans kill the Councillor in self defense. The surviving Spartans then engaged a self destruct countdown for the frigate and flee in Seraphs.

Earth
After two weeks of flying in space the Spartans finally make contact with Earth on October 19th. When they arrive they are greeted by Fleet Admiral Hood and the Master Chief. On October 20th they are given The Red Legion of Honor, The Bronze Star, The Medal of Honor and The Colonial Cross onboard the UNSC station London. They are given their medals and recieve Mark VI armour when the Covenant attack. The are sent to the city of Toronto, Canada to repel the massive Covenant invasion taking place there and to rescue as many civilians as possible.

After defending Toronto and rescueing a total of 1,384 civillians Spartan-098 and his team are sent to London, England where a Covenant ship is stationed just above the city. The Spartans mission is to clear a path through the city and eliminate the ship or its gravity lift. After fighting for five days in an attempt to retake the city the mission is cancelled and the Spartan team is forced to pull out.

With the cancelled attempt to retake London the Spartans are sent to Sydney, Australia to defend the UNSC's HQ. After a week of fighting and heavy casualties the Spartans and defending marines emerged victorous. Over the next three days however the Spartans had to defend the city from any further incursions without reinforcements. On the second day the Spartans ran out of ammo and had to use whatever weapons available. On the third and final day the two factions met in hand-to-hand combat on the area surrounding the UNSC's HQ. Although the Spartans emerge victorious all the marines die. This is one of the bloodiest battles in the Human-Covenant war.



With the UNSC's HQ secure the Spartans once again attempt to infiltrate the city of London. Under the cover of darkness the soldiers infiltrate the city and following extensive ariel bombardment the Spartans and Marines attack and destroy the Covenant Ship by throwing a Fenris Tactical Nuke into its hull. The city of London is back under UNSC control in a matter of hours.

Installation 03
After retaking London Marcus recieved a Mark VII and was transfered to the Argo while the remainder of his squad helped defend Earth. Onboard he was informed that FLEETCOM had ordered him and everyone onboard that ship to aid in the Battle of Installation 03 or Installation Gamma. He was given access to everything known about that Halo and about Installation Alpha and Delta. And with John's tales of the Flood, the sentinels and of how the Covenant regarded it as holy Marcus had every tid-bit known on the Halo's and their inhabitants. He arrived in system on October 28.

After arriving on Installation 03 the Spartan aided the marines in the Battle for the Control Room by using Scorpion Missiles two kill a pair of Hunters. He then left and followed a Phantom which Councilor 'Nodotee and Spartan-048 are aboard. Spartan-098 is unaware of this at the time and almost orders the pilot of the Pelican to fire a Scorpion Missile at the craft before he is informed of Spartan-048's situation.

After being briefed on the situation by Spartan-048, Marcus heads back to the control room to prepare a defense with Dgodt Visr Faltz from on attack by the flood. It is at this time when he also recieves Honor Guard Ultra Armor to put ontop of his MJOLNIR armour to sygnify his rank amongst the Covenant Seperatists.

Shortly after he upgraded his armour there is a large scale flood attack. With the help of the Sangheili, Unggoy and Lekgolo he is able to drive them back without heavy casualties.

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