John Forge

"He’s the guy you want in the foxhole next to yours… but you’d never introduce him to your sister."

- Common saying by marines under Forge's command

Sergeant John Forge was a veteran Non-Commissioned Officer and an Infantryman in the UNSC Marine Corps. Although excelling in tactics and combat, he had a repeating pattern of insubordination. He had a playing card attached to his left shoulder pad, and also carries a Combat Knife he nicknames "Lucy".

Biography
Born on Earth in 2502, Forge spent 2.4 years in prison for fighting with officers, an infraction that removed any chance of moving through OCS or even progress beyond the rank of Sergeant. In 2531, Lieutenant Prosser assaulted a woman in a bar, in which Sergeant John Forge stopped and confronted the Lieutenant. They engaged in a fist fight, with charges brought upon Sergeant Forge. Luckily for Forge, the woman proclaimed him as a hero and all charges were dropped, where he was later reassigned to the UNSC Spirit of Fire by Admiral Preston Cole personally. Later, he served aboard the during the Second Battle of Harvest. Those under his command trusted him greatly, despite the fact that Sergeant Forge failed his last psychological exam. One of his first missions on Harvest was to scout out Covenant activity in a northern polar region of Harvest, driving through Quadrant 4 to find a battalion of Elites a Hornet squadron had spotted earlier. Reporting the Covenant activity to his superiors, as to how they'd found a relic buried in the ice, he returned to Alpha Base, helping round up UNSC forces along the way. When Anders was sent down to do a research over the area Forge was reluctant. Together with other UNSC marine bodyguards they enter the relic. Inside the Forerunner relic they find a map of the Galaxy. Soon they were ambushed and were forced to defend themselves while UNSC reinforcements were sent to assist them. In the end both he and Anders were seen boarding a Pelican to the UNSC Spirit of Fire. He volunteered himself of activating the Spirit of Fire's FTL Reactor on the Shield World after his fight with the Arbiter, and due to the fact that the planet was destroyed by him, he did not make it out alive.

In-Game Information
Sergeant Forge serves as a Hero Unit in Halo Wars. His special abilities include:

Abilities

 * "Leader Power": Carpet Bomb.
 * "Unique Unit": Cyclops.

Upgrades

 * "Super Upgrade": Grizzly—a superior version of the Scorpion tank.
 * "Economy Bonus": All Supply Pads start as Heavy Supply Pads.

Trivia

 * Sergeant Forge appears on the battlefield in Halo Wars as a hero unit. He rides in a Gauss Warthog which has better armor protection, armament, and performance.
 * In Halo Wars if his Warthog is destroyed he can be revived but his Warthog will stay destroyed, at which point he will begin using a shotgun.
 * For an unknown reason he has nine Legendary symbols on his right breast plate, likely a reference to the number of Sangheili he's put down.
 * John Forge has five promotions, but also three demotions, including one for striking a superior officer. (despite the fact that this would make him a Lance Corporal
 * He may have an attraction to Professor Anders, as on many occasions he worries about her well-being.
 * In Halo Wars: Genesis, it is revealed that Sergeant Forge got in trouble for dating a nurse.
 * Forge may be the first Human to kill an Arbiter.