Robert Flynn

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Captain Robert Flynn was a United Rebel Front officer on the planet of , during the Human-Covenant War. Born on Mamore in 2512 to a family of rebels, Flynn's parents were both rebel fighters that had gone underground to avoid the UNSC finding and imprisoning them. Due to their living off the grid, Flynn was homeschooled by the two, which implanted a deep hatred of the UNSC in him, instilled by his parents' teachings.
When Flynn was thirteen, the attacked the colony of . Despite the looming threat of the alien menace, many of the Mamore rebel groups, including that which Flynn's parents belonged to, stayed with the URF, and continued to fight the UNSC.
When he turned eighteen, Flynn was strongly urged by his parents to join the URF, which he did, and was immediately thrown into combat against the UNSC, after rudimentary military training. Despite the odds, he continued to stay unscathed throughout the combat. 
In 2537, the URF on Mamore launched a massive uprising, and Flynn, now a sergeant and squad leader, was ordered to assist. However, despite an early victory in taking a UNSC camp, he and his unit soon came under attack from the SPARTAN-III Alpha Company supersoldiers. Surviving once more, Flynn was promoted to Captain for his actions during the uprising.
For fifteen more years, despite both the URF's declining power and his own reservations about fighting, Flynn continued in small unit actions against the UNSC. However, in 2553, the Second Mamore Insurrection broke out, and Flynn's group was called upon to help. Engaging in combat against the UNSC in Concord, one of Mamore's towns, Flynn was killed during an attempt to cover the retreat of a unit of child soldiers.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Robert Flynn was born in 2512 to two fighters living off the grid on a secluded farm on , far from any of the planet's major population centers. Due to his family's living away from any large settlement, Flynn was homeschooled by his two parents. 
Although his parents taught him some academic skills, a chunk of his education was the teaching of the evils of the UNSC and how the Insurrection was simply fighting for freedom, a viewpoint reinforced when he socialized with other rebel families who were also living off the grid.
In 2525, when the news of genocidal alien alliance known as the leaked out, many of the other rebel groups on Mamore disbanded at the new threat. However, the group Flynn belonged to did not do so, it being an extremely hardline rebel cell.
===United Rebel Front===
====Enlistment and Early Battles====
When Flynn turned eighteen, he was strongly urged by his peers to join the United Rebel Front. Despite having some reservations about fighting other humans when there was an alien menace at hand, he enlisted anyway. After joining, Flynn, along with the rest of the new recruits, were given a week and a half long course of rudimentary military training, and assigned to combat duties immediately afterward.
After his first engagement, during which over half his unit was killed in a firefight during a botched attempt to break a URF officer out of a temporary UNSC prisoner of war camp, Flynn's reservations about fighting other human beings were quickly replaced by the simple urge to survive the next engagement. 
====2537 Mamore Insurrection====
By late 2536, Flynn had been promoted to Sergeant, and was now in charge of a URF unit of his own. At the same time, the URF were also planning to launch an uprising to take over the planet. Flynn's assignment was to take a UNSC firebase, which was supposed to act as a base of operations for the rebels to take over the province.
In 2537, the order was given for the uprising to begin, and Flynn led the attack on the base. Despite early victories in the attack, he soon met tough resistance by a squad of UNSC troops barricaded in the base's command post. Ordering a diversionary attack, he took the remainder of his unit in a flanking attack, and, after a half hour bitter battle for the CP, it was taken.
However, even though Flynn and his unit had taken the base, the triumph was not to last, as two days later, they came under attack by the SPARTAN-III supersoldiers of Alpha Company. In spite of being optimistic of his unit's abilities, Flynn's illusions were quickly shattered as every soldier he sent to defend the area was quickly killed, and he ordered a full retreat, hoping to save he and his men's lives.
Taking cover in a nearby tiny settlement, Flynn finally realized the true cost of the attack, with over three quarters of his unit annihilated in total from both the initial assault and eventual SPARTAN counterattack. This realization would affect Flynn until his death decades later.
====Interim Period====
After the slaughter that was the 2537 Mamore Insurrection, Flynn and his unit began wandering, picking up what few URF units remained after the SPARTAN-III counterattack. Although his operation had nearly been a slaughter, Flynn was promoted to Captain since it was still a success in the eyes of the other rebels, something he was not entirely comfortable with, feeling guilt for the deaths of his subordinates during the uprising.
For the next few decades, Flynn kept his unit off the grid as much as possible to keep the UNSC from finding and destroying them, seeing them as his last remaining family. In 2552, news reached Flynn that the last two leaders of the URF, General Adam Makosky and Matthias Gavilán, had been killed by the UNSC. Now without any real upper echelon leadership, and the URF falling apart, Flynn's group became its own independent cell.
====Second Mamore Insurrection====
In 2553, Flynn was contacted once more by a coalition of other rebel groups, who stated that they were going to try once more to take over the planet. Despite his misgivings of killing human beings, which had resurfaced, he was uncertain of what would happen if he surrendered to the UNSC, and so, agreed to the proposition. Deployed to the settlement of Concord, Flynn and his unit engaged in fierce, street to street battles against the UNSC. 
During the fighting, he was shocked by the rebels' use of child soldiers, something he saw as sickening. Taking a squad of the children aside, he convinced them to retreat and live, rather than fight and certainly die. As the children began to leave, a UNSC unit appeared, and began to advance on their position. 
Making a split second decision, Flynn ordered his unit to stand their ground until the children could get to safety. During the ensuing battle, Flynn and his unit were all killed. Despite his death, Flynn, along with his unit lived on through Insurrectionist propaganda for decades more.
==Personality==
Flynn changed radically throughout his life. At a young age, he was a fervent supporter of the Insurrection, having been exposed completely to pro rebel sentiment since he was born. The first strain on his loyalty was when he was thirteen, and news of the Covenant first reached the rebels. At this news, Flynn began to contemplate whether it was right to fight other humans when there was a genocidal alien alliance on the march.
This doubt, along with his more passionate support of the Insurrection, was quickly overshadowed after his first few operations, after which the Insurrection's ideals and his reservations about killing other human beings, which, despite still having a place in Flynn's mind, took a backseat to keeping he and his comrades alive. 
As the war dragged on, he began acting as a father figure to his subordinates and other, younger rebel troops, and began to hold their safety in higher regard, seeing them as his family. This desire to keep as many of his allies as safe as possible was what led him to give his life defending a unit of retreating child soldiers.