The Master Chief
-Full Name: Master Chief John-117 (Spartan-117)
-Description: The Master Chief is a second-generation product of the SPARTAN project: he was selected at age six and received intense augmentation and indoctrination as part of a super-secret military experiment. He began his career-after thorough political indoctrination and advanced training in weaponry and infantry tactics-as a Petty Officer Third Class. His first combat deployment was 2525, at age 14, participating in a spec ops mission against an anti-government separatist group. However, such missions were only a prologue.
Shortly thereafter, the threat of the Covenant was discovered. In November of 2525, the SPARTANs were issued the MJOLNIR Mark V armor, and soon became One of the UNSC's most effective surgical strike tools against the aliens. The Master Chief's ground engagements with the Covenant throughout the Outer Colonies, and into the Inner Colonies, numbering over 200, spanning a field career of more than 25 years. He has been awarded every major service medal except the Prisoner of War Medallion.
In order to force a peace, Earth's military commanders conceived a plan for a specially equipped team of super-soldiers to board a Covenant vessel, access the target ship's computer core, and pinpoint the location of the Covenant home world. Once this was accomplished, it was hoped the team could then be covertly deployed to capture the Covenant's leaders and broker a gunpoint truce.
Before the plan could be implemented, the Covenant arrived at Reach-the last major human naval base, and the training area for the SPARTANs-and obliterated the planet. Of the SPARTANs present, it is believed that only the Master Chief survived, fleeing the system aboard the cruiser Pillar of Autumn.
Though typically addressed by his rank (Master Chief) or by his service number (SPARTAN-117), his real name is John-117. His last name was deleted from the SPARTAN project records on Reach. This name is not used by anyone except his instructors and SPARTAN-II science team. In fact, His name is not included in his military dossier. Only Doctor Catherine Halsey's secret files on Reach contained the "names" of the SPARTAN-II subjects. These records were presumed destroyed during the Covenant assault on the planet. |
