Sam-015

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Samantha "Sam"-015 (born Samantha Emily Arendt; July 7, 2511) is one of the last surviving supersoldiers. Sam-015, Rick-077, and , are the only Spartans of who did not during the , although the they escaped to prevented them from participating in the rest of the . After sufficient repairs, the frigate was able to make its way back into space after the war, allowing Sam-015, Rick-077, and Naomi-010 to return to service.
==Biography==
===Early Childhood===
Samantha Emily "Sam" Arendt was born on July 7th, 2511 at , . When Sam was five or six years old, she was identified as one of the one hundred fifty candidates for the , being physically and mentally superior to almost all children her age. She was abducted and conscripted into the program by , with her official name changed to Samantha-015. Like the rest of the Class-I SPARTAN-IIs, Sam was taken to and trained by and . Sam-015 was placed into , where she met , Rick-077, and Dom-094.
As with all of the SPARTAN-II children, Sam-015 underwent the excruciatingly painful . When Sam saw that Dom was losing the will to get through the enhancements, she promised him that they would endure and survive the process together. After Sam recovered, she was grateful that Kurt, Dom, and Rick were among those who made it, as several of the SPARTAN-II trainees died horrifically, with their bodies unable to take the rapid changes.
===Human-Covenant War===
====Battle of Liber====
In the month of March, 2526, the targeted the colony of Liber. While many of the Spartans were preparing for , a few were needed at the populated colony. These few were Dom-094, Rick-077, Sam-015, and also Annie-003 from , and were designated the Platinum Team. Upon the Spartans' arrival at the colony, Darryl Coatney informed them of the situation of the attack. Although the had a slight upper hand on the surface, the space battle did not seem winnable; there was nothing in Liber's orbital defenses that could take out the opposing , the Divine Eradication.
Having reviewed what had occurred in the , Coatney urged the Spartans to board the Divine Eradication just as had boarded the . Instead of bringing mere , however, the Spartans would bring a , as the assault carrier was at a safe distance from the UNSC vessels. The members of Platinum Team were aware of how perished at the and vowed to not lose each other. The Spartans agreed that opposing would be their greatest threat, and decided to take full advantage Sam-015's unparalleled skill with anti-armor weapons; Sam-015 was to swiftly eliminate durable targets with an , while each of her teammates would go into this mission with two additional magazines for the rocket launcher.
Similar to the events of Chi Ceti, Platinum Team traveled to the Divine Eradication by piloting a G95M Gull with the UNSC Future Untold and several other UNSC vessels drawing the Covenant's attention. The UNSC ships then fired their at the assault carrier, enough to create an opening in the Covenant carrier's narrow section for the Spartans to board. Platinum Team subsequently left their Gull and used their to propel themselves into the Divine Eradication.
The members of Platinum Team initially faced and and were able to take them out with little difficulty. When the Spartans began facing elites, Sam-015 to made liberal use of her M41 SPNKR against the durable enemies as planned, with her allies resupplying her whenever necessary. Once the Spartans had fought their way deep enough into the Divine Eradication, they armed the nuke, putting it on a timer. However, they prepared for remote detonation should the timer malfunction.
With the bomb in place, the Spartans proceeded to fight their way out of the Covenant ship. Commander Bella Caseiro contacted the Spartans, informing them that she was waiting for them outside aboard the UNSC Muted Whisper. Minutes after the Muted Whisper had safely recovered the Spartans, the HAVOK detonated, severing the Divine Eradication at its "neck" and also destroying a nearby Covenant .
With the greatest naval threat gone, the Liber fleet proceeded to turn the tide of the naval battle. The Spartans were then deployed on the surface to help the UNSC ground forces finish off the Covenant infantry and also search for survivors. In orbit, the surviving UNSC ships were able to force the last two battlecruisers into retreat, ending the battle in favor of the humans. The synergy between the Spartans played a major role in their success at Liber, prompting the establishment of Platinum Team as a permanent Spartan unit under the leadership of Annie-003.
====Battle of Miridem====
Platinum Team was sent to in order to help evacuate its civilians. Among the multiple escort rounds, Dom-094 discovered three children who were orphaned by and hiding from Covenant forces. Dom-094 took the children to the rest of the Platinum Team, and the SPARTANs escorted them to the nearest transport, successfully keeping the children from enemy fire.
====Battle of Flora====
Sam-015 and the other Platinum Team members were called to the colony of Flora to defend it from a Covenant invasion. As the first SPARTAN to arrive, Sam-015 was immediately sent to the surface, where she helped fight off Covenant infantry from major cities. After successfully saving a few cities from immediate destruction, she was then sent to the Zion ship breaking yards to prevent the Covenant from capturing a . Alongside a large platoon of , the SPARTAN held off waves of . As the ship breaking yards conveniently possessed a room full of , Sam-015 was able to make full use of her . Despite the SPARTAN having singlehandedly taken down many elites, the sheer number of enemies enabled the Covenant to remove the core from its case. As Sam-015 pursued the elite with the core, three more blocked her path. Although she killed the three elites near-simultaneously, she was no longer close enough to the escaping elite to stop the core. Kyle Bean piloted an abandoned , and fired two at the elite with the core; the first shot missed, but the second stopped the core from being delivered. Unfortunately, Bean died in his efforts, having been too close to his target when he fired the killing shot. Detecting UNSC reinforcements, the that waited to extract the core fled. Sam-015 and the surviving ODSTs then finished off the remaining elites, securing the core.
The rest of the Platinum Team, as well as Ryan-A022 arrived at the system several days later. Rick-077 and Dom-094 landed on Flora to assist Sam, while Annie-003 and Ryan-A022 were sent to the other side of the colony. 
During the battle, had intercepted a Covenant transmission regarding an artifact called the Contumacy. A map on the location of the artifact was hidden within an underground structure on Flora. Sam-015, Rick-077, and Dom-094 were sent to the structure and fought through special operations elites. Although the SPARTANs could not reach the map before the Covenant forces did, ONI managed to track the map to the Unwavering Conviction, which by chance, was hovering a few hundred meters over Covenant-occupied land to refit. A deployed the three SPARTANs and a squad just outside the Covenant territory. The SPARTANs boarded the battlecruiser by using its , and immediately faced an attack on all sides. Through teamwork, they cleared the room and moved on, although the majority of the ODSTs were killed in the attack.
Just as the Unwavering Conviction left Flora's atmosphere, it was ambushed by the UNSC Alexandra and a few other . This enabled Annie-003 and Ryan-A022, who had left Flora's surface, to board the battlecruiser with a . The SPARTANs of both sides joined forces aboard the ship, and then killed the shipmaster and took the map. On their way out of the Unwavering Conviction, however, the SPARTANs discovered that their Longsword was destroyed by the Covenant. Fortunately, a Pelican was able to pick up the SPARTANs at the nearest hangar bay, allowing them to make their escape.
====Operation: SQUALL====
The Contumacy was hidden within a complex cavern on Ogygia. The Covenant ground forces were personally by Dar 'Akamee. The Fleet Master and his got to the artifact first, but the Platinum Team immediately caught up right after. At the end of a brief struggle, all of the zealots lay dead, thanks to the SPARTANs' better teamwork. Dom-094 carried the forerunner device while the SPARTANs were pursued by more Covenant forces. In the middle of the chaos, Dom-094 was separated from the team by a explosion. Due to the overwhelming number of Covenant forces in orbit, the rest of the Platinum Team was forced to leave their comrade behind, devastating Sam-015.
====Fall of Reach====
On August 30th, 2552, most of the remaining were deployed to the surface of by the Pelican, , from the . When Bravo 001 was crippled, the SPARTANs were forced to make high-altitude jumps. Four of the SPARTANs did not survive the landing. Upon regrouping, divided the SPARTANs into four splinter groups: , , , and ; Annie-003, Rick-077, and Sam-015 were in the Beta splinter team.
Team Beta was assigned to defend . Annie-003, as the appointed leader of Team Beta, ordered the SPARTANs to engage the oncoming thirty-two and 260 infantry in close quarters. Although the SPARTANs broke the assault wave, another two Covenant armored divisions along with three reinforced the first wave. All SPARTANs but Sam-015 and were eventually killed or severally wounded.
The was ordered by to bombard the area, but the Pelican arrived in time to extract the survivors; Rick-077's unconscious body was nearby at the time of the Iron Fist's arrival, allowing Sam-015 and Naomi-010 to help him onto the pelican, moments before the Majestic fired its rounds onto the battlefield. The Iron Fist then took the SPARTANs to a Paris-class frigate, and Sam-015 froze Rick-077 in a . With little choice, the frigate made an emergency jump in order to escape the Covenant. The resulting jump damaged the frigate, leaving it and its occupants stranded. Fortunately, no Covenant pursued, allowing the UNSC vessel's crew to make repairs unhindered. The ship was ready to return to UNSC space months after the , allowing the three on-board SPARTAN-IIs to return to service, with Rick-077 receiving the proper medical attention for his "revival."
===Post-Covenant War conflicts===
====Battle Group Frigg====
====Battle of Brasil====
====Raid on the Antillia Flood research facility====
==Personality and traits==
When Sam was assigned to the Platinum Team, Sam-015 bonded very well to her teammates and formed a particularly strong relationship with Dom-094. Although many believe the relationship to be romantic, both Sam and Dom deny any romantic love they may have for each other. Because Sam's teammates were so close to her, their apparent deaths (one of which was confirmed) towards the end of the took a toll on her emotionally, prompting her to face all future forces with utter ruthlessness.
As a SPARTAN-II, Sam-015 is no doubt a very skilled soldier. In particular, she is more skilled at using grenades and weapons that possess slower-moving projectiles than her peers. As a result, she is most often tasked with supporting her allies by taking out enemy vehicles or heavier infantry such as higher-ranking , higher-ranking , and . Sam-015 is also notoriously lucky, a trait she shares with , although the odds she has faced have been noticeably less overwhelming.
==Equipment==
===Armor===
Throughout her career, Sam-015 has worn multiple variants of , with each suit being an upgrade from the last.
====MJOLNIR Mk IV====
Like with her fellow , Sam-015's first powered exoskeleton was a suit of . Sam-015's MJOLNIR Mk IV armor was customized, consisting of a , the larger bulbous pauldron of over both shoulders rather than just the right, the chestplate of the , and the standard Mk IV forearm guards and leg armor. This is the armor Sam-015 had spent most of her career in, having worn it from the start of the all the way through most of the year 2551.
====MJOLNIR Mk V====
When provided with late in the year 2551, Sam-015 chose to wear a helmet, , , on both thighs, and .
====MJOLNIR GEN2====
Following the end of the , Sam-015 was presented with (MJOLNIR GEN2). Sam's first MJOLNIR GEN2 consisted of a helmet, torso armor with the SURGE pattern, shoulder pauldrons with the DRIFT pattern, forearm armor with the SHARD pattern, and leg armor.
====MJOLNIR GEN2/FOTUS====
Since mid-2558, Sam-015 has been wearing an and armor. By far her most advanced suit to date, Sam's current armor was largely reverse-engineered from technology.
===Weapons===
Specializing in eliminating heavy targets, Sam-015 often carried an into the battlefield. As her individual weapon, Sam-015 prefers designated marksman rifles (such as the and ) over assault rifles. Throughout much of the , Sam-015 had used a heavily-modified as her sidearm, and loaded with M398 HEC rounds. After the war, Sam-015 instead began to use a as her sidearm in order to support her teammates by using its overcharged function to remove the of or outright kill .
As of mid-2558, Sam-015 most frequently wields a mounted with a as her individual weapon, and loads it with whenever they are available. As her secondary weapon, Sam either carries an M41 SSR MAV/AW with , or a with , the latter of which is use for missions involving tighter quarters.
==List of appearances==
*Survival of the Fittest: Season Five (Non-canonical appearance)
*Halo: Vae Victis (Non-canonical appearance)
*Halo: Child Soldiers (First appearance)
*Halo: The Platinum Annals
Category:SPARTAN