Gage Yevgenny

Gage Yevgenny was an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper during the Human-Covenant War. He was a member of the Colonial Administration Authority before it was disbanded, and was fiercely opposed to the Covenant Empire. He fought for almost the entirety of the Human-Covenant War.

Early Life
Gage Yevgenny was born on the UNSC Colony of Harvest in 2506. He grew up helping his father on the farm, which he resented greatly, stating that it was just "dirt". He seemed to have a strained relationship with his father, often getting into arguments with him.

On January 3rd, 2524, the hour he turned eighteen, Gage joined the Colonial Military, wanting to do more with his life. After getting out of boot camp, Gage met Felicia Sanderson and Eric Santiago the Utgard Space Port, whom he became quick friends with. They participated in Operation: TREBUCHET on Eridanus II, doing small jobs, such as investigating possible Rebel activity and riot control in Elysium City. After two months, they had made friends with Alison Stark, a Pelican pilot for the CMA, who often flew them to parties on weekends. One particular weekend, after flying a Hornet to a night club, an Insurrectionist bomb went off inside, killing Alison, sending Eric into a coma, and heavily injuring Gage and Felicia, who were pulled out of the rubble by ODSTs.

While recovering in hospital, Gage, inspired by the ones that saved them, decided to join the ODSTs. Felicia, who had nothing else to lose, decided to join along with him. However, after several weeks of hard training, they were informed of the Covenant threat and Harvest's destruction. Felicia was in horrified shock and screamed at Gage for his disrespect for the planet.

Human-Covenant War
Gage was transferred from Felicia's squad, and for the next twenty-seven years, fought hard in the war against the Covenant. He participated in many vicious battles, and soon stopped making friends after seeing so many die. The war began to take its toll on him after countless crushing defeats, and he became a very serious, hardened person.

During the Battle of Skopje, while holed up in a museum, he encountered Felicia for the first time in over two decades. She had got over her distraught over Harvest and had become a colonel. While retreating the planet after another defeat, Felicia showed Gage that Eric had come out of his coma after five years and became a pilot. The three were delighted to be together again, and already were having talks of retirement.

Disobeying Orders and Death
Five years after reuniting with his friends, Gage was involved in an operation to infiltrate a city under siege by the Covenant, who were looking for alien artifacts, and extract a massive supply of gold from a bank to go towards funding for the war. However, after infiltrating the bank, the ODST team discovered a class of children and their teacher hiding in the underground vault, hoping to survive the planet's inevitable glassing. After loading two Pelicans full of gold, the ODSTs knew there was no room for the children. Gage, who had seen too many people cremated by the Covenant, was in strong favor of postponing the mission to save them. The other ODSTs, who claimed the children were as good as dead, disagreed, causing an argument. Felicia stepped in, wanting to call in more Pelicans, but rifles were raised, and in an instant, Gage was shot in the abdomen, the two other squad members were dead and Felicia was fatally wounded. Gage rushed to her side, but she died in his arms.

Gage, in shock, went outside to find Eric, who informed him that the UNSC were falling back. Gage knocked him out with his gun and called for more Pelicans, claiming they were under heavy fire. He then flew Eric's Pelican to the pickup point and collected the artifacts the Covenant were looking for and a Shiva-class Nuclear Missile, then flew away from the city. However, he was pursued by Covenant Banshees, and then shot down by ODSTs who knew of his betrayal.

Gage violently crashed near the mountains near the city, and was found mortally wounded by a rookie ODST who had come down with the reinforcements Gage had called. Gage, who knew he was dieing, told the rookie his life story, right up until he crashed the Pelican. The rookie, who had listened intently, promised to remember Gage, and do whatever he could against the Covenant. Gage then told the rookie that ODST and Covenant forces were on their way to the crash site, and for him to get as far away as possible, as he was going to detonate the Shiva, killing them all. The rookie ditched most of his gear, and ran for his life, until he reached the other side of the mountain, at which point Gage detonated the nuke, killing himself, his teammates and thousands of Covenant troops. The rookie, being the only survivor, hailed a Pelican and was informed that Reach had been glassed, and that they were retreating to Earth. They escaped as the planet was glassed, but the rookie would not forget Gage Yevgenny, and his long and tragic life.