Seth-146

"One boy, a six-year old, actually asked me if they were 'here to save everybody from fighting and killing each other'!" 
— Dr. Catherine Halsey quoting Seth in her journal
Senior Chief Petty Officer Seth-146 is a veteran SPARTAN-II Commando serving under Naval Special Weapons. He is the second-in-command and Scout of SPARTAN Purple Team, designated Purple-Two. Seth has served for over three and a half decades, participated in over two-hundred combat operations, and become one of the most decorated individuals in military history.
Due to the loss of key record keeping databanks throughout the Human-Covenant War, much of the original transcriptions are lost. The following records are derived from overlapping primary, secondary, and tertiary accounts of details. All dates and times are rendered in Military Calendar and Military Standard Time (MST) respectively.
== EARLY LIFE (2511—2517) ==
=== (2511-2516) — AGE 2-5 ===
Seth-146 was born in the Port Moyne Firehouse to mother Shannon O’Sprey, a civilian paramedic, and father Sammy Taylor, a UNSC Army Ranger, on January 24th, 2511. Born and raised on the outer colony moon Meridian in the town of Port Moyne, he lived with his mother and father, alongside his older brother and sister Ethan and Morgan. Seth began learning from his sister around two years old, showing himself to be highly curious with unusual depth in topics like English, mathematics, and vehicles as he grew older. His sister also tried to correct his left-handed writing preference to right-handed, missing the earliest signs of his ambidexterity. Notably at age four, Seth was inspired by a hometown musical performance he’d witnessed on virtual reality, later teaching himself to play a rendition of the song “The Old Refrain” on a Styllight borrowed from his older brother.
At age five, Seth was enrolled in kindergarten at the Gold Coast Education Center in neighboring town Brume-sur-Mer, with he and his mother playing a memory game on the makes and models of passing vehicles when he was dropped off and picked up. He was found to complete his work abnormally quickly and have an excessive need for constant mental stimulation, often asking for more work and opting to skip resting periods altogether. Seth appeared to form limited peer relationships, with his unusual engagement in schoolwork and a generally taciturn nature leading to him forming few close friendships aside from his best friend Giuliana, with whom he was particularly social. 
The two frequently explored their imaginative sides, pretending to be the Sardans cats they were taught of in the library and playing around the schoolyard’s central Banyan tree. The two had hatched a plan to climb to the top during recess, and while the tree was fairly young, it was still nearly ten meters tall. On their eventual journey up, Giuliana lost her grip and nearly fell from the tree’s midpoint, though Seth was able to quickly catch and heave her up to where he stood, displaying exceptional strength. While Giuliana insisted they return to the safe ground below, which he obliged, he returned to scale the tree against her wishes. Giuliana warned the teachers on duty to the precarious situation, and despite their instructions to wait for emergency services, Seth made his way down the tree and was swiftly escorted to the principal’s office. Joined by his aggravated parents, the group initially discussed his unusually delinquent behavior. However, conversation gradually shifted to the pending topic of his apparent prodigal traits, suggesting he be interviewed by the Meridian Gifted Academy. 
=== (2517) — AGE 6 ===
Seth’s parents would divorce after his sixth birthday due to unspecified disagreements, with his mother retaining custody of her children and his father having visitation rights. He would regularly visit his fathers A-frame home, originally built as a family vacation house, with the two often playing war games and discussing his father’s military service. By age six, Seth’s father had begun training him to be a young competition shooter like his father before him had done, since his mother could no longer object. Learning about the rules of safety, maintenance, and how to both quickly and accurately fire a CM 300 Frontier Rifle, Seth displayed great interest in further learning, which would continue after each week of school.
By the start of first grade, Seth stood a full head taller than his peers, possessing superior reflexes, greater physical strength that induced accidental injuries during play, and a vastly higher measure of intellect than students grades ahead. Seth’s mother took the opportunity to give her children free vaccinations, partly since he would be required to take them if he went to college, and partly now that their father couldn't object. He was later interviewed by Dr. Rebecca Brodie-Lloyd, who assessed Seth’s intelligence levels, being found to display markedly high intellect within the top five-percentile of college measurements. The doctor insisted that she help sponsor the required associates degree from the University of Meridian campus in his hometown, before he could be formally enrolled at the Meridian Gifted Academy. Seth’s concerns with the MGA amounted to family visitation and certainty there was a Have S’moa restaurant franchise near the campus, as his diet largely consisted of their iconic KolonyKids Meals. 
== TRAINING (2517—2525) ==
=== (2517) — RAISED FOR COMBAT ===
Leveraging the obtained examinations conducted by the sponsor and his DNA cataloged by the Outer Colony Vaccination Program, Seth was shown to display genetic markers for physical and intellectual superiority. He was eventually numbered 146 out of 150 total candidates for Project: SPARTAN-II and while available facilities and funding were later halved, he continued to be prioritized as one of the 75 ideal candidates. On September 10th, the day after his father’s birthday and five days prior to his first college class, Seth was located alone and asleep on the living room couch in his mother’s home. Personnel from ONI’s Retrieval Team Zeta sedated and transported him to a box truck parked outside, within which he was placed inside a flash cloning tank and sterile field generator. In the final segment of the process, Seth’s brain was 3-dimensionally X-ray scanned to transfer his memories into the replacement clone, which was returned to the household while Seth was driven to the Avignon Central Spaceport. His clone reportedly suffered from schizophrenia and died seven months later due to complications from multiple medulloblastomas. Seth was taken aboard the shuttle Solo, dressed in a cryonic suit, injected with cytoprethaline, and placed in a cryo-chamber, where he remained until the remaining candidates throughout Sector 3 were collected.
Seth and the others were then ferried to the inner colony planet Reach, remaining in cryonic storage within the FLEETCOM Military Complex. The candidates were awoken on September 23rd at 2300-hours, told to breathe in and cough to regurgitate the bronchial surfactant coating their lungs, then instructed to swallow to absorb the nutrients they had lost during stasis. Having never traveled prior, Seth panicked and choked before managing to swallow with a disgusted comment on it’s texture and taste. The candidates were then escorted by junior drill instructors into the nearby Naval Officers Academy and loaded onto the service elevator, going went down 300 meters to the subterranean amphitheater where most would first see Lead Scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey. She began her speech with their verbal conscription into Project: SPARTAN-II per Naval Code 45812, which led to attempts to leave by some confused candidates, who were pushed back into their seats by accompanying instructors. One such candidate, who had introduced herself as Kai during their walk there, was visibly concerned enough for Seth to wrap his arm around and attempt to console her before he was pulled away by an instructor. Having been told that they were all “called upon to serve” in order to “be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies”, a few including Seth began to sit straighter in their seats with genuine interest. 
Senior Drill Instructor Franklin Mendez joined the doctor on stage as she finished her statements, then ordered the candidates (henceforth referred to as trainees) to fall out, some being pulled from their seats, and corralled back to the elevator. In a moment of his innate curiosity, Seth attempted to ask Halsey if they were there “to save everybody from fighting and killing each other?”, receiving no answer. The trainees were met by two pallets of small boxes upon returning outside, with each box weighing around 5.5 kg and containing either ten Meals Ready-to-Eat or six water bottles. Ordered to grab a box and go, Seth tested his two options and chose a box of MREs, as “the water sway[ed] around too much” according to him. The trainees then walked a strenuous mile on a gravel path in the pitch-black darkness, passing the brightly lit Fairchild Airfield, crossing a deployable bridge, and alongside the Big Horn River to arrive at “Painland”, officially Military Reservation 01478-B. This compound was designed, built, and dedicated to the SPARTAN-II program, consisting of a large cylindrical coliseum and a series of prefabricated structures beside it, including an infirmary, four dome-shaped barracks, and finally a mess hall. Each trainee was allotted a one-liter water bottle and assigned two peers to share a 3,000 calorie MRE, then taught how to unpack, cook, and eat the contents. The trainees were then shown the drill instructor barracks and divided between the three trainee barracks and their individual cots, which also served as hyperbaric oxygen chambers to reduce fatigue and improve recovery times. 
The program would call for the most advanced physical training regimen and high-level education ever administered, requiring ten years and two adjacent research projects. Starting the next day on September 24th at 0530 hours, the trainees were awaken by the shock of an aptly named Humbler Stun Baton. Seth’s gaze fearfully yet attentively studied Mendez as he introduced himself and his rules, before he was instructed to shower. Leaping onto the conveyor belt to escape the sparking glow of yet another baton, Seth washed himself under the waterfall of lukewarm soap water before bracing for the ice cold rinse like those before him. Racing from the shower to put on clothes from his footlocker, he stared at the stenciling on his shirt, “Seth-146”, before getting chased out of the barracks by an instructor. Seth fled into the first and closest of the five growing rows of trainees, though he hesitated when ordered to do jumping jacks and was struck in the abdomen by the blunt surface of a baton, causing him to double over before he uncurled and began to jump. Sit-ups were next, followed by deep squats, then knee bends, and finally leg lifts, before the trainees were granted rest and warm water. Seth quickly seized a bottle and drank as much as he could before throwing up in the grass beside him, desperate for a break when Mendez ordered a mile-long jog to the officers academy. 
The trainees were formally greeted from the building’s top step by their teacher, the “Dumb” Artificial Intelligence construct Déjà, who guided them into her classroom of desks topped with stale MRE crackers and room temperature milk. She then filled the room with a holographic display of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE, showing the success of the 300 Spartans in battle against thousands of Persians. This class would only be a short respite from their morning calisthenics however, as they were soon met by the instructors outside, who ordered a two mile jog around the large airfield back to Painland. The trainees were shuffled inside “The Playground”, an enormous coliseum beside the reservation that housed an obstacle course of cargo nets stretching between 20-meter tall poles nicknamed the “Pillars of Loki”, as well as slide poles, climbing ropes, swings, suspended platforms, pulleys attached to buckets, and a single brass bell. The trainees were ordered into three lines to make teams, Seth being on team seven with Noah-124 and Jynn-113, and introduced to the rules of the game “Ring the Bell”. Each member of a team must ring the bell to score, with the winning teams earning dinner, but the last team to score goes without food entirely. 
Seth sped through the crowd of trainees as the game began, but was not fast enough to outrun the first bridge as it flipped over, sending him and four others tumbling into the water. Not knowing how to swim, he floundered in the cold water until he relaxed enough to mimic the others and try to swim to the nearest climbing rope. He was instead non-verbally beckoned by Jynn, who whistled and shook the rope attached to a bucket, and while he was unsure of her ability to hoist, he climbed in. The two then regrouped with Noah who had been busy shoving Michael-138 into the water to guard Jynn, following the route he planned to another bucket that would bring them up to the top, grabbing the rope and helping Jynn in. Once at the top, the two heaved Noah up and all rang the bell, earning thirteenth place and a prize dinner of roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, fudge brownies, and vanilla ice cream. Despite his picky eating habits Seth ate as much of the food as he could stomach, sharing his gravy and mashed potatoes with his teammates. Most days followed a similar schedule with calisthenics, classwork, and Ring the Bell, with the only notable change that year being a mandatory haircut on September 28th, with Seth preferring his buzz cut over the floppy hair that usually covered his eyes. 
=== (2518) — INTRODUCTION ===
The first year brought parade drills to instill discipline and cohesion, which were infrequently interrupted by paint-pellet ambushes to keep trainees vigilant in seemingly “safe” scenarios. New obstacles were also added to the Playground, with Seth notably suffering conductive hearing loss from an intense 170+ decibel blast produced by the new stun mines. He would be hospitalized for two and a half weeks following this incident, requiring downtime in a flash cloning tank while his replacement eardrums were grown in situ. Afterwards, the trainees learned how to discreetly deploy both laser and physical tripwires, use laser reflections and aerosol string to detect them, and how to deactivate and reuse the wires. Being taught about firearms by his veteran father, Seth showed promise during lessons in disassembling, reassembling, firing, and otherwise maintaining M392 Designated Marksman Rifles. He and his team would win three of nine takedown-rebuild challenges, earning them freeze-dried ice cream.
Mendez later taught the trainees how to conduct first aid with battlefield resources, treating sucking chest wounds with Biofoam, broken bones with Bone-Knitting Polymer, and lost limbs with a combination of Polymerized Hemoglobin and a portable cloning tank. Each of these exercises were conducted on portions of flash cloned bodies from junior instructors for anatomical accuracy, which Seth had initially reacted poorly to. Despite this, Mendez reinforced that his duty required the ability to heal and mend, motivating Seth to tenaciously practice until he was at a skill level he deemed acceptable. Déjà would introduce her students to algebra, trigonometry, and many warfare-defining battles, from decisive strategy to intimate tactical decisions leading to both victory and defeat. Seth was studious with mathematics, but showed a distinct preference for the military science, displaying an astute understanding of war fighting and interest in the Battle of Hastings and World War II in 1066 and 1939 CE respectively. 
=== (2519) — COHESION ===
The second year notably took the trainees to the Military Wilderness Training Preserve on July 12th for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training. Ferried in aboard a D96-TCE Albatross, Kelly-087 handed Seth a ripped portion of a map with no discernible markings, though she made a nearly imperceptible gesture to the lake they had passed over—their rally point. Disembarking alone from the craft, his first objective was to locate the lake among the hills and cedar trees, climbing through a ravine to reach a higher vantage point. Seth followed a river to rally with his team, adding his portion of the map to the pile and helping to piece it together. Once the full map was complete, he and the others embarked on their day long hike to the marked extraction point, which would see the last arriving trainee be left behind. The group halted halfway to stretch, with Seth using the brief respite to eat the wineberries he’d scavenged on the way, while listening to Fhajad-084 ask which trainee should be left behind. Since the team had already regrouped, Seth suggested they “draw straws” and leave it chance, but John-117 refused, demanding they find a way to extract everyone. The trainees eventually made it within meters of their destination upon returning to their hike, with John and Samuel-034 returning from scouting to inform the group that they’d found the Albatross they flew in on surrounded by unidentifiable men.
Deciding to figure out what these individuals may do, a ploy was hatched to have John as lookout while Kelly led them to Samuel, who would feign a broken leg. Doing his part, Seth began using sharp rocks he’d found to chip away at a nearby boulder, collecting a pile of stones in sizes suitable for throwing or melee depending on their needs. Joining the others in the woods surrounding their ruse, Seth waited for a clear signal, and upon seeing a lone rock miss its target, he and the others began hurling a hail of stones. Once he’d thrown a few, he began running between his teammates to rearm them before their victim was incapacitated. Regrouped, the trainees planned a similar tactic for the remaining opponents, with Seth collecting more rocks on his way to surround the enemy. Upon the sound of the first whistle, he began throwing his rocks with a greater focus on accuracy, before the second whistle ordered him into a charge. Seth sprinted ahead of his peers to face the enemy head-on, leaping into one and punching a stone into their neck before he was kicked in the stomach by another, taking the wind out of him momentarily. He then crawled to one beside him, kicking as hard as he could muster in their stomach, ribs, and head. Seth and Fhajad helped each other onto their feet as the last opponent fell unconscious, with John ordering everyone into the dropship before boarding last. 
=== (2520) — CASUALTY ===
The third year began with classroom studies on classical mechanics in physics, though Newton’s laws of motion were traded for tactical theory when the outer colony moon Talitsa had multiple population centers embroiled in violent uprisings against the United Earth Government. Teaching about the nearly ungovernable society, Déjà frequently tasked the trainees with assessing historical counterinsurgency strategies used by the Colonial Military Administration and UNSC in 2493 and 2516. Given consistent updates on combat actions taken, the trainees were also given the opportunity to asses and choose how to proceed with given information, which offered out of the box solutions to the commanders involved. Seth found these exercises in military science far more interesting than the physics preceding it.
The trainees were later mustered in their dress uniforms for the first time on September 27th, after Carris-137 reversed a pin by an instructor, inadvertently severing the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and killing him instantly. After the funeral ceremony was conducted, Seth attempted to comfort Carris, though he ultimately couldn’t reach her emotionally and watched her cry atop one of the Pillars of Loki. Seth believed that he had failed his teammate in not being able to help her, but Mendez insisted that she would need time to grieve alone, suggesting that the only one who could help her find peace in the accident was her. Despite the two being practically strangers prior, Seth and Carris would eventually come together as friends in the years following this incident. 
=== (2521) — WAR GAMES ===
The fourth year introduced the trainees to the Sol system, the birthplace of humanity, the capital of the UEG, and the headquarters of the UNSC. Having never seen Earth in person, Seth remarked that he expected a world of such prestige to be more beautiful. He and the others would visit ONI’s Extreme-Conditions Facility UNSC Chiron, where they underwent extensive microgravity and vacuum environment training. The trainees would conduct numerous War Game exercises here, both traditionally and in the facility’s state of the art holographic chamber, which manufactured sensory data and simulated it directly into the trainees’ neural interface chips to mimic a realistic space. Seth, joined by Noah, Michael, and Jynn, was assigned to Purple Team and pitted against Yellow Team prior to elimination tournaments. Each trainee team would face each other to be the last standing, with Purple Team’s best run being the seventh semi-finals against Blue Team. Seth and his team would ultimately lose by one minute, seventeen seconds in a drawn out King of the Hill match on the map setting “Ivory Tower” [950-9].
Later that year, Déjà informed the trainees of the unprecedented Persephone Incident in October, with the eponymous ABLE-class Heavy Destroyer UNSC Persephone being hacked by the insurgent organization Minister Federation above the inner colony planet Minister during a routine patrol. With most of it’s functions disabled, the warship was rendered combat ineffective, causing the captain to order the overloading of four fusion reactors and the subsequent abandoning ship. Escape was executed with numerous Lacewing-II Lifeboat shuttles and D75-TC Pelican dropships, with the latter crafts attempting to regroup with and tow the former. Ultimately, only wreckage and corpses remained of Persephone’s 400 personnel, with their escape craft believed to be intercepted. The trainees were given computer science courses in relation to this, with Seth developing a crude algorithm that would help inspire the simple reworking of translation software into the new Counter-Illegal Entry Protocols. Seth would prove to be particularly adept in this domain of study, theorizing the early foundations for “Spoofer” Lockpick Devices, which were eventually capable of force overriding select xenological technologies. 
=== (2522) — INFILTRATION ===
On the fifth year, Dr. Halsey was promoted to a formal role as Chief Scientist of ONI, with Mendez surprising her over a week after with a “gift” in the form of a training exercise. The trainees were briefed on infiltrating Camp Hathcock and ONI’s CASTLE Base in the Reach FLEETCOM complex. First sourcing the necessary food and supplies, the trainees collected the plaque commemorating her promotion from a locked glass container, before exfiltrating Hathcock and beginning to breach CASTLE. Seth showed himself to be skilled in these clandestine missions, evading detection from advanced security systems and deactivating the narcozine gas countermeasures in her office long enough for the trainees to restrain her with Microfilament Handcuffs and duct tape. After the Neural-Inhibition Collar was applied, Seth helped lift Halsey onto a handheld stretcher from her lab to extract her from the facility. Taking her back to Painland’s mess hall, which had been decorated for the occasion by the drill instructors, Halsey suddenly awoke from the collar to Mendez, Déjà, the instructors, the seventy-five trainees, and a mess hall filled with so-called “high-fleet dining”. Against her wishes for a return to training and research for the trainees and herself, she and the party would eat hot dogs, turkey dinners, hot chocolate, and Cookie’s Surprise ice cream shakes.
Later on the trainees were sent to a new world, the inner colony planet Emerald Cove, which served as a safe replacement for Reach’s neighbor Beta Gabriel, which harbors far more dangerous sealife. The trainees would conduct maritime exercises in water competency, underwater survival, and submersible vehicle operation at UNSC Army Seaport Bethesda. Seth had great difficulty acclimatizing to aquatic activity, requiring extra time and resources from instructors to get used to the water. He showed signs of aquaphobia and a fear of weighing down his teammates, though Lead Psychologist Dr. Graham Alban was able to condition him into being more comfortable with this new environment as training progressed. During a noteworthy underwater exercise, Mendez sabotaged half of the trainees’ air tanks, including Seth’s, with Noah convincing him to sneak up and steal Mendez’s tank. Motivated by this rare bit of rebellion, the trainees decided to abandon their near-constant training regimen for “shore leave”. Using their varied skills, the trainees hid on a deserted island, lighting bonfires, baking clams, and teaching one-another how to surf for a week. While seven days in the brig were threatened to whoever stole Mendez’s “military property”, the trainees recognized a hollow threat and refused to rat on their peer, accruing a debt of thousands of calisthenics reps to pay back in coming months. 
=== (2523) — TANGO COMPANY ===
The sixth year taught the trainees of a rebellion rapidly overflowing into one of the foremost outer colony worlds, Andesia. Insurrectionists had built extensive strongholds on the planet far quicker than estimations could anticipate, with the UNSC deploying the 19th Shock Troops Battalion of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers in response. Despite the advanced resources available to this premier special warfare unit, they were systematically destroyed in a series of protracted ambushes. Seth accurately assessed that ambushes against transorbital deployments could likely involve doctrinal stagnancy or some form of prior warning, suggesting that there may be rebel sympathizers and infiltrators in connection with the operation. While a full-scale ground war would be narrowly avoided thanks to martial law and UNSC policing actions, corrupt CMA and UEG officials were found to have influenced 19 STB’s major losses.
The trainees concurrently ran exercises against Tango Company, a Marine combat training unit assigned to the Reach wilderness preserve under the 3rd Battalion, 67th Marine Regiment. Tasked with infiltrating the base to capture the company’s green flag, both Purple and Yellow teams cut small L-shaped holes into the base’s chain link perimeter fence for ingress and egress. Seth and Jynn were tasked with accessing the public announcement speakers using 5mm Narq-Dart Pistols, while Yellow Team prepared a hole in the command office’s wooden floor. Studying their patterns, the trainees had discerned the precise times where the base’s commander would be alone in their office, allowing Michael and Noah to crawl through the floor to hold them hostage. Stun grenades, connected to Noah by wires, distracted incoming guards as PA speakers blared with feedback from two walkie talkies, allowing the hostage-takers to slip back through the floor in the commotion while Yellow Team rained darts from adjacent rooftops. Seth and Jynn were able to collect the flag and slip through a hole in the fence, regrouping with the others and exfiltrating from the evac point.
=== (2524) — ADVERSARIES ===
The seventh year led with a grim reminder close to home, waking the trainees with wails of alarms and klaxons on FLEETCOM complex grounds. The sounds of SS-110 Longswords from the airfield cued to Seth that this may not be a drill, before spotting an object above him burning up in Reach’s atmosphere. Seven M650 Mastodon armored vehicles then arrived, transporting the trainees and instructors to CASTLE Base, where they would wait. Receiving the all-clear signal by sunrise, the trainees were briefed by Mendez on the luxury liner National Holiday, which had just been daringly bombed in Reach’s fortified orbit. The People’s Occupation Government terrorist organization was believed to have executed the attack for the UNSC’s harsh rebel quelling on Persia IX, using two remote-controlled taxi craft filled with improvised explosive devices to tear the liner asunder and ultimately claim the lives of over 1,500 civilians. This event had an apparently visceral and lasting impact on Seth, as it had with many other trainees, dragging the realities of their future duties to the forefront of his thoughts. Seth also theorized that an attack of that magnitude could soon be carried out on key military and civilian infrastructure, posing a threat to the trainees, the UNSC, and the people of Reach.
To separate this event from their mission, the trainees were taken to Earth’s surface and pitted against the 340th ODST Combat Training Unit, nicknamed “Adversaries”, a dedicated opposing force administering premier, world-class training exercises out of Special Warfare Center Seongam. The 340th was temporarily relocated over 10,000 kilometers away to the recently decommissioned and newly acquired Zanzibar Municipal Turbine 7 and Mount Kilimanjaro Water Plant, which were selected for their discreetness and the removal of home-field advantage. The latter consideration proved contentious but reasonable in practice, as the 340th’s veteran expertise allowed them to more evenly match the trainees compared to the standard Marines of Tango Company before them. 
The trainees quickly began leveraging their studies on ODST combat actions on Andesia, combining doctrinal stagnancy with drawn out ambushes to weaken their resources and resolve. However, the trainees were also surprised by ingenious tactics from the 340th, such as the invention of the so-called “Bulgogi Gambit”. Having wiped out much of the ODSTs defending the flag’s perimeter, the trainees conducted a high-intensity raid on the main structure. The last defenders had turned their training grenades into “dead-man’s triggers”, instantly detonating when let go to take down Seth and the other breachers in a bold suicide ambush. This dedication to their craft and brazen defiance in the face of near-certain defeat inspired Seth and the others, who ultimately left the two sites victorious despite some early defeats. 
After returning to Epsilon Eridani in late August for Naval Force Reconnaissance School, the trainees were covertly rerouted to a remote special forces camp on the opposite side of Reach by Army-ONI liaison officer Colonel James Ackerson. Interested in the progress of Project: SPARTAN-II, he planned an exercise between them and Army Rangers of the premier 75th Ranger Brigade, which were effectively equivalent to ODSTs. Without Mendez or the other instructors, the trainees were limited to the extremely short and bittersweet briefing offered by Ackerson: One-Sided VIP. One member on defense would be the Very Important Person, who upon death caused their team to lose. While the Spartans proved highly effective in eliminating the enemy VIP, Seth and the others soon realized a flaw in their “training”, a lack of time limitation, when they swapped sides to defending. While much of their training indeed had an emphasis on offensive action, they were no strangers to defending for days on end. Seth had volunteered as the VIP so the peers he considered his betters could focus on holding the line, though they slowly fell one-by-one, leaving him alone. Seth ended the fight with inspired defiance, using his take on the Bulgogi Gambit on an unlucky few. Despite losing against unending foes in a virtually unwinnable battle, the trainees took their day’s long defense as a hard fought pyrrhic victory. 
=== (2525) — BUILT FOR WAR ===
==== Project: ASTER ====
The eighth year was the single most eventful of the SPARTAN-II training, introducing the trainees to the biochemical injections, biomechanical surgeries, and genetic engineering augmentations of Project: ASTER on March 9th. Taking place on ONI’s Medical Facility Endurance orbiting Reach, Seth and the other trainees had their heads clean shaven with incision vectors lasered across their bodies, before sharing a moment of silence with their brothers and sisters of eight years. They had all been shaped into spectacular specimens, each appearing to be eighteen year old olympic athletes with the minds of academy honors graduates, all around the physical age of fourteen. Escorted from the pre-operation wing to his dedicated surgical bay, Seth received monitoring electrodes, an oxygen mask, and intravenous sedatives. Seth would wind up experiencing a rare complication called intraoperative awareness, retaining partial consciousness and the ability to explicitly recall events of his procedures after his awakening. 
Phase one featured Occipital Capillary Reversal performed by a neurosurgeon, opening a small portion of Seth’s skull to access the occipital lobe in the left hemisphere of the brain, rearranging the capillaries to boost the flow of blood beneath the rods and cones of the retinas, before resealing, repairing, and bandaging the skull. Simultaneously, Neural Dendrite Superconducting Fibrification was performed by robotic chemotherapeutic infusers to alter the bioelectrical nerve transduction of each dendrite. Seth compared fibrification to the sensation of thermite burning up his spinal nerves. 
Phase two featured Organ Transplants performed by a cardiothoracic and hepatobiliary surgeon, implanting flash-cloned replacements of the heart and lungs lined with a synthetic polythread-weave and pulmonary surfactant respectively. Then an Intestinal Microbioreactor was implanted by a gastroenterologist, before altering the genetic makeup of intestinal bacteria and inducing a microbiota refresh. Passive Circulatory Shunts were then implanted by a cardiovascular surgeon, intravenously applying cybernetic shunts in strategic locations within the bloodstream. 
Phase three featured the Catalytic Thyroid Implant performed by an endocrine surgeon, incising the left thyroid gland to insert a dissolving platinum pellet containing human growth hormones, before resealing and healing the incision. Simultaneously, Intramuscular Enhancement Injections from robot infusers applied a protein complex into the body to support the release of growth hormones. Seth described the thyroid implant feeling as though his veins began pulsating with napalm before they were forcefully torn out of his skin, while the enhancement injections felt as though shattered plate glass was being worked through his muscles. 
Phase four featured Neural Interface Implantation by a neurosurgeon, permanently implanting the Torpet Datacluster into the midbrain. Shortly after, Carbide Ceramic Ossification was performed by an orthopedic surgeon, sequentially exposing the patient’s bones to remove a small percentage of surface material and bonding a carbide-ceramic shell to it in lieu of removed bone. Seth described ossification feeling as though his bone marrow was made of glass and repeatedly shattered. 
Phase five featured extensive gene therapy to fix any genetic aberrations, lengthen chromosome telomeres, and improve chondrocyte cells. Simultaneously, robot infusers injected chemicals to alter red blood cells with intelli-fibrin, and white blood cells with K5.2 Hemoescutcheon, while also modifying cyclic adenosine monophosphates, neuroendocrine cells, and chondrocytes. Seth suffered excruciating pain during his procedures, experiencing immense shock and succumbing to cardiac arrest twice, presumed to be caused by interoperative awareness, requiring resuscitation. 
Still unconscious, Seth and the other trainees were wheeled through the airlock onto the docked EPOCH-class Heavy Carrier UNSC Atlas, the only suitable starship for their tight recovery schedule. Seth awoke on March 25th to bleeding eyes, a migraine, aches in every bone, and the feeling that he had somehow passed away. Doctor Halsey soon arrived to gauge his recovery, helping him move as he stumbled, fell over, and had difficulty grabbing and keeping hold of a stress ball. Seth quickly grew afraid that he had somehow failed his procedure, terrified that he could be disoriented forever after years of honing his himself for a duty he may never uphold. Halsey assured him that his mind was simply relearning how to move a body, now with faster reflexes and stronger muscles. 
The next four days required bed rest, watching 2524 reruns of the 24 Hours of Quezon to sate his immense boredom, with intermittent physical therapy in-between. March 30th instead began with a newly issued, resized dress uniform, with experience teaching him that only a few things would happen next—parade drills (unlikely), a ceremony (probable), or a funeral (highly probable). Seth exited his recovery room and greeted his peers in the hall, but only counting 32 trainees out of 75, he grew increasingly worried that his predictions were accurate. Mendez soon walked between them, inducing an automated salute that’d go unreciprocated as three more trainees wheeled past. Fhajad shook uncontrollably in his chair, but Kirk-018 and René-081 were malformed within their neutral-buoyancy gel tanks, barely recognizable. Seth hoped for the others, but they never arrived, with Mendez escorting them into a missile launch bay adorned with black banners. 
He stared blankly into the merciless void as 30 ash canisters were hurled one by one on an unclear trajectory, doing the math to discern that at least nine other trainees may yet be alive in some form. Once dismissed, he returned to his recovery room and laid in silence before he was joined by Carris, who wheeled her bed in beside his to play speed chess on three separate boards simultaneously. The two used spent 14.5×114mm casings as kings, 12.7×99mm casings as queens, 8 gauge casings as bishops, 7.62×51mm casings as knights, 6.5×48mm casings as rooks, and 10×31mm casings as pawns. Shells wrapped in red duct tape played first and blue second, with Seth choosing the former. After two days of “full” bed rest, he joined his peers in prescribed stretches, isometric exercises, light sparring drills, and five meals—each followed by vitamin and mineral injections. Déjà would run Seth and Purple Team on vehicle simulators the next week, proving himself to be Purple’s top vehicle operator, and enjoying it far more than complex algebra and organic chemistry. 
Upon returning to Reach weeks later, Seth and two others accidentally killed their instructors during an otherwise routine exercise, not realizing their own inordinate strength. As his first taking of human life, Seth struggled with the resulting guilt and shame, though Carris was able to offer him support through her own experience years prior. This event required a major shift in their regimen, with the Naval Special Warfare Sniper School on Reach and vehicle operation training on Tantalus being scrapped until discrete replacements were found. The immediate “temporary” solution would be training in Menachite Mountain’s titanium mines thousands of meters below, though this option ultimately became their final training site. As a key precautionary measure, the instructors donned HRUNTING Mark I Exoskeletons, each capable of running at 32 kilometers per hour and lifting two metric tons, while having a 30mm turret mounted on a self-targeting armature using then-modern motion sensors and infrared optics. 
During part of a display on September 11th, Seth is recorded as having “free-rappelled down from the girders and gantries overhead. He landed behind one of the perimeter guards and punched the guard’s armor twice, denting the heavy plates, then dropped low and swept the target's legs. As the guard sprawled on the ground, he attached his rappelling line and a moment later the writhing guard shot upward, into the dark. Two other guards turned to attack, but Seth dodged, rolled, and melted into the shadows.” This shows Seth using the guard’s suit as a counterweight to allow John and Frederic-104, dangling from the other end of the rope, to drop unnoticed into the center of the bunker. John landed, braced, and kicked one guard, who landed in a heap eight meters away. Meanwhile, Fred jumped off the bunker, flipping end over end to evade the stun rounds that filled the air, throwing himself at the farthest guard and skidding together into the shadows. 
==== Operation: CHECKMATE ====
Seth would not be chosen for the first deployment of Spartans during a briefing for Operation: TALON on September 12th, though he believed his luck had improved when he and the others mustered for the Naval Officers Academy on November 2nd. He had been in it’s subterranean amphitheater only once prior, during their conscription, so he hoped he’d receive the next great change that put his training to the test. Mendez slowly strolled on stage with Halsey walking just behind, followed by Vice Admiral Hieronymous Stanforth—the head of ONI’s Section Three, and therefore the Spartans. He wasted little time introducing the trainees to the outermost human colony planet Harvest, the Covenant warships turning it’s surface to glass, and the alien hegemony’s untranslated message: “Your destruction is the will of the gods…and we are their instrument.” While both fascinated and terrified by the prospect of intelligent alien life, Seth was just excited that their extensive training wouldn’t be wasted on mere rebels and dissidents. Lastly, it was announced that their training was being accelerated to the final phase, with Mendez leaving to train “the next group of Spartans”. Seth had served under Franklin Mendez for eight long years; he had become one of the only constants during their extensive training and was respected as the father of the Spartans, so he wondered if he may see his surrogate father figure ever again. 
By nightfall, the Spartans’ semi-absent mother figure Halsey had gained control over her trainees (henceforth referred to as Spartans), with the last instructors having since departed. Seth wondered what was held over the heads of semi-average naval instructors to keep them quiet in such a morally questionable project, but that thought too soon left him while looking out from the utilitarian terminus of the Delphi Triple-Strand Network. the PARIS-class Heavy Frigate UNSC Commonwealth docked with the space station in geosynchronous orbit over Reach’s crown jewel, New Alexandria, in order to deliver them to the Chi Ceti system. While on route, the SPARTAN-II Squadron deployed in multiple covert missions to “tie up loose ends” and repay Halsey’s favors. Though some teams were given individual assignments, the entire squadron took part in Operation: CHECKMATE on the outer colony planet Jericho VII in the Jericho system. Seth and his peers were assigned to capture or kill key leadership personnel of the insurrectionist organization Freedom League, serving to display the Spartans’ superiority versus traditional special forces of the 10th Shock Troops Battalion, which had been practically stalemated there for 131 days. 
==== Project: MJOLNIR ====
[PENDING]
== HUMAN-COVENANT WAR (2526—2552) ==
=== (2526) — TOUR #1 ===
==== Fall of Bliss ====
####—#### Feb 19, Bliss, Faelith
[PENDING]
==== Fall of Circinius IV ====
####—#### Apr 26, Circinius IV, Circinius
[PENDING]
==== Alpha Aurigae Theater of Operations ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, (multiple), Alpha Aurigae
[PENDING]
=== (2527) — TOUR #2 ===
==== Invasion of Green Hills ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Green Hills, Igdras
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Chi Ceti IV ====
####—#### ??? ##, Chi Ceti IV, Chi Ceti
[PENDING]
==== Operation: SHELL SHOCK ====
####—#### ??? ##, Hellas, Minos
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Galodew ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Galodew, Gindenn
[PENDING]
=== (2528) — TOUR #3 ===
==== Siege of Madrigal ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Madrigal, 23 Librae
[PENDING]
=== (2529) — TOUR #4 ===
==== Battle of Asmara ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Asmara, Husten
==== Siege of Côte d’Azur ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Côte d’Azur, Monaco
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Verent====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Verent, Coramir
[PENDING]
=== (2530) — TOUR #5 ===
==== Battle of Eridanus II ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Eridanus II, Eridanus
[PENDING]
==== Siege of Dwarka ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Dwarka, Chosolor
[PENDING]
==== Battle of the Great Bear ====
####—1830 Dec 24, Groombridge, Groombridge 1830
[PENDING]
==== Fall of Lostwithiel ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Lostwithiel, Cornwall
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Endymion ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Endymion, Moor
[PENDING]
=== (2531) — TOUR #6 ===
==== Harvest Campaign ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Harvest, Epsilon Indi
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Arcadia ====
#### Feb 9 / #### Feb 10, Arcadia, Procyon
[PENDING]
=== (2532) — TOUR #7 ===
==== Battle of Vodin ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Vodin, Wake
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Victoria ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Victoria, 111 Tauri
[PENDING]
=== (2533) — TOUR #8 ===
==== Battle of Paradise Falls====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Paradise Falls, Maelesah
[PENDING]
=== (2534) — TOUR #9 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2535) — TOUR #10 ===
==== Jericho VII Campaign ====
#### ??? ## / #### Feb 12, Jericho VII, Jericho
[PENDING]
==== Siege of Chi Rho ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Chi Rho, Ectanus 45
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Eirene ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Eirene, Calypso
[PENDING]
=== (2536) — TOUR #11 ===
==== Skirmish At Line Installation 112-146 ====
####—#### ??? ##, (unknown), (unknown)
[PENDING]
=== (2537) — TOUR #12 ===
==== Battle of New Constantinople ====
#### ??? ## / #### Jun 1, New Constantinople, Thrace
[PENDING]
==== Battle of New Harmony ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, New Harmony, Constance
[PENDING]
=== (2538) — TOUR #13 ===
==== Valence Theater of Operations ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, (multiple), Valence
[PENDING]
=== (2539) — TOUR #14 ===
==== Fall of Kholo ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Kholo, Equinox
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Boundary ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Boundary, Metrome
[PENDING]
==== Amadora Campaign ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Amadora, Lisbon
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Herschel ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Herschel, Johnson
[PENDING]
=== (2540) — TOUR #15 ===
==== Battle of Cyrus VII ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Cyrus VII, Cyrus
[PENDING] 
==== Operation: GUARDIAN LANCE ====
####—#### Jul 12, Jericho VII, Jericho
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Persia IX====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Persia IX, Persia
[PENDING]
=== (2541) — TOUR #16 ===
==== Battle of Hellas ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Hellas, Minos
[PENDING]
==== Operation: SOLEMN FATE ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Barugi, Tisiphone
[PENDING]
=== (2542) — TOUR #17 ===
==== Battle of Alluvion ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Alluvion, Bhaakto
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Camber ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Camber, Farwatch
[PENDING]
=== (2543) — TOUR #18 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2544) — TOUR #19 ===
==== Battle of Miridem ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Miridem, Rampart
[PENDING]
=== (2545) — TOUR #20 ===
==== Invasion of Draco III ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Draco III, Draco
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Actium ====
#### May 8 / #### May 22, Actium, Erem
[PENDING]
=== (2546) — TOUR #21 ===
==== Battle of Sargasso ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Sargasso, Portland
[PENDING]
==== Battle of New Llanelli ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, New Llanelli, Brunel
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Sansar====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Sansar, Sweorice
[PENDING]
=== (2547) — TOUR #22 ===
==== Battle of Skopje ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Skopje, Macedon
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Hardscrabble ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Hardscrabble, Outbound
[PENDING]
=== (2548) — TOUR #23 ===
==== Defense of Meridian ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Meridian, Hestia
[PENDING]
==== Reynes Campaign====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Reynes, Kezu
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Bounty====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Bounty, Mayer
[PENDING]
=== (2549) — TOUR #24 ===
==== Battle of Algolis ====
#### Jan 17 / #### Mar 13, Algolis, Algol
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Estuary ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Estuary, Thompson
[PENDING]
==== Siege of Paris IV ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Paris IV, Paris
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Iota ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Iota, Sigma
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Kroedis II====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Kroedis II, Kroedis
[PENDING]
====Cleyell Campaign====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Cleyell, Verdun
[PENDING]
=== (2550) — TOUR #25 ===
==== Siege of Minab ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Minab, Naryn
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Ballast ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Ballast, Kennewick
[PENDING]
=== (2551) — TOUR #26 ===
==== Meridian Campaign ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Meridian, Hestia
[PENDING]
==== Battle of Imber ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Imber, Salisbury
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Concord ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Concord, Alabaster
[PENDING]
=== (2552) — TOUR #27 ===
==== Gliese 777 Theater of Operations ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, (multiple), Gliese 777
[PENDING]
==== Defense of Sigma Octanus IV ====
####—#### Jul 18, Sigma Octanus IV, Sigma Octanus
[PENDING]
==== Epsilon Eridani Theater of Operations ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, (multiple), Epsilon Eridani
[PENDING]
==== Earth Campaign ====
#### ??? ## / #### ??? ##, Earth, Sol
[PENDING]
== POST-WAR LIFE (2553—) ==
=== (2553) — YEAR 1 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2554) — YEAR 2 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2555) — YEAR 3 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2556) — YEAR 4 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2557) — YEAR 5 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2558) — YEAR 6 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2559) — YEAR 7 ===
[PENDING]
=== (2560) — YEAR 8 ===
[PENDING]
== PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION ==
=== — BEHAVIORS ===
Seth appears to be notably empathetic towards civilians, even risking the removal of his helmet to calm those around him. However, this behavior does not seem to apply to fellow service members, potentially to avoid eroding their trust or to inspire them. Seth has frequently placed himself in harms way to physically safeguard anyone in danger, with recorded instances of him shielding the blast and fragmentation of live explosives for others. 
Seth possesses a dry sense of humor he uses even on deployment, seemingly in concert with Noah-124 and Michael-138, which appears to provide a motivating effect for non-Spartans. He also shares a desire with his team to speak openly with non-Spartans, despite his limited ability to connect with them (see RELATIONSHIPS below). 
Despite Seth insisting that he remembers little of his family and appreciates the opportunity he was provided in becoming a Spartan, he accepted to learn of his old family and their fate when offered. When asked about his motives, Seth simply said that “[he doesn’t] like the feeling of forgetting”. 
Seth is vocal about his support for the provincial self rule of colonies, though there is no evidence to suggest he’s been operationally compromised. He’s served against human insurrectionists for decades, rarely hesitating to eliminate them as required, though this may be due to reluctance in deploying him on morally ambiguous operations. 
He’s known to staunchly follow rules to the letter, seemingly as long as he deems them “applicable” and “reasonable”. In rare instances, Seth has been reprimanded for ignoring and/or circumventing direct orders. Nonetheless, his service has proved reliable and dutiful, imbuing a seeming lack of concern from senior personnel, though stricter psychological evaluation standards are in place. 
=== — PERSONALITY ===
Seth was best described as a calm, reserved, and abnormally quick learning student by his teachers, while his peers during and after training describe him as “fast”, “quiet”, “efficient”, and “instinctual”. Seth’s personal handler described him as “quick”, “to the point”, and “conveniently un-talkative”. 
Senior Drill Instructor Franklin Mendez noted that Seth had good leadership potential but seems to underachieve by choice to avoid the unwanted attention, while Project Lead Catherine Halsey suggested that Seth harbors little loyalty to the UNSC or greater UEG, instead devoting himself to a personal view of humanity’s best interests. 
Seth seems to be particularly observant, reading otherwise minuscule details in things around him to best leverage available information. Inversely, Seth is also rather difficult to read, often keeping to himself in a taciturn manner. Combined with his rather literal choice of wording with answers and a persistent need for specificity, Seth is markedly more difficult than most to psychologically evaluate without extremely precise questioning. 
Seth has suggested a desire to participate in major events such as the 24 Hours of Quezon and New Carthage Sprint Series races. However, the infamous 2549 scandal during one of his favorite races, the Tantalus 10,000, solidified his inability to do so, as he recognizes it’d be unfair for him to compete with un-augmented racers. This “need for speed” seems to have manifested with him driving at high speeds without Roadware active, as his enhanced reflexes allow him to safely enjoy. 
=== — RELATIONSHIPS ===
Seth had a quote “disconnected” childhood from his family, only recalling the sound of waves at his beachfront home, the memory games he’d play with his mother, and the sounds of his father’s antique 1969 Pontiac GTO. He also recalls a distinct disliking of his brother and a somewhat better relationship with his sister, which saw her attempt to teach him various skills and activities.
Seth can only recall connecting with a single female elementary school classmate with whom he vaguely recalls trying to scale a large tree. He seems to better visualize them, recalling her kind demeanor, dark eyes and hair, strange verbal cadence, and her propensity to pretend to be a skittish cat, though he doesn’t recall her name.
Seth found quick friendship with Carris-137 upon his conscription, with the two often playing Chess partly because she was a challenge, and partly because he “couldn’t match her [physical] talents” in other games. He also found quick friendship with Jorge-052, who taught Seth to play the card game Ulti, which he admits he “didn’t particularly enjoy”. Seth also admits that he remembers “regrettably little” of his friends, as both Carris and Jorge ceased communication sometime during the war. Seth recalls Carris’s “piercing” blue eyes, a small cut on her upper lip, and the sight of her crying atop the Pillars of Loki. Seth recalls Jorge’s Hungarian accent and their shared preference to overcome obstacles with subtlety and minimum expenditure of lives and resources, rather than the direct approach exhibited by most SPARTAN-IIs. 
Seth shows a continued friendship with teammate Michael-138, with the two becoming one of the best performing pairs in the S-II program. Their relationship has reportedly strained in recent years due in part to the many difficult choices made and experiences throughout their service, but this does not appear to affect operational capabilities.
Seth reports a limited ability to connect to those outside of the S-II program, usually amounting to acquaintanceships. Rare exceptions include Zander Krabs, Nidia Leoterra, and Logan-B112, with whom he frequently talks to via ChatterNet.
== CLINICAL ASSESSMENT ==
=== — MEDICAL HISTORY ===
Seth very likely suffered innumerable unrecorded injuries during his grueling training regimen, though the most common injuries in roughly equivalent services of the time were lower extremity musculoskeletal, including fractures, dislocations, sprains, tendinitis, and bursitis. It is also possible that a portion of the skin grafts and wound scarring detected in physical examinations (see below) could also be attributed to his training. 
Seth’s combat injuries have reportedly consisted of third and fourth degree burns from plasma weaponry, wounds from blunt and bladed strikes, bullet entry, various shrapnel, and concussions. Seth also reports chronic migraines when off duty.
=== — PHYSICAL EXAMINATION ===
Seth’s neck, hands, arms, torso, legs, and feet have deep and lengthy incision scars as a consequence of his augmentation procedures, while decades of combat leave signs of skin grafts and entry wound scars. Seth also has a benign supernumerary mandibular incisor tooth behind his 22nd cuspid and 23rd lateral incisor, as well as a hook-shaped scar, reportedly from a dog bite, on the dorsal side of his right hand near the fifth digit.
Seth requires approximately 18,000 calories (kcal) daily to remain in optimal condition, though his intestinal bioreactor effectively doubles nutrient absorption. This caloric intake requirement is met with specially tailored mess hall orders, or three standard 3,000 kcal Meals Ready to Eat (MREs). 
In accordance with Spartan Training Order 11.6, Seth reports two hours of physical training and augmentation monitoring, followed by two hours of Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) training. 
== EQUIPMENT RECORDS ==
=== — ARMOR HISTORY ===
Seth was issued the First Generation (GEN1) of MJOLNIR Mark IV Powered Assault Armor in the form of the limited production “Beta” (B) model from November 27th, 2525 to February 28th, 2535, being supplanted by the final production model from February 28th, 2535 to November 24th, 2551. The final model replaced the comparatively volatile Compact Fission Reactors with much more stable Microfusion Reactors, antiquated Sidearm Holsters and Rifle Scabbards with Magnetic Hardpoints, and added improved Vacuum Survival Systems. 
Seth was then issued the First Generation of MJOLNIR Mark V Powered Assault Armor in the form of the limited production “Beta” (B) model from November 24th, 2551 to August 29th, 2552, being supplanted by the final production model from August 29th, 2552 to October 20th, 2552. The final model added the new Computer Memory Superconductor Layer, providing synthesis between the operator and Artificial Intelligence constructs, which allows near instantaneous reaction times and specialized intelligence gathering and disseminating services. 
Seth was finally issued the First Generation of MJOLNIR Mark VI Powered Assault Armor (final production model) on October 20th, 2552, being upgraded to the Second Generation (GEN2) and Third Generation (GEN3) on January 1st, 2553, and February 10th, 2559 respectively. Mark VI improved upon its predecessor by incorporating Linear Accelerators to double shield strength and recharge rate, Neural Induction Circuits within the liquid crystal layer to amplify strength and reaction times by a factor of 5, an Armor-Lockdown Module within the hydrostatic layer to protect the operator from sustaining heavy-impact injuries, and Automatic Biofoam Injectors to treat injuries. 
Seth’s suit is upgraded with a COURIER PEARL Hardened UpLink, an Ultrawideband Machine Interlink to improve vehicle synchronicity, a ZILANT Communication Suite to interface with ONI’s Project: ZILANT Microsatellite Constellations, the HERMES Enhanced Mobility Subsystem to improve speed, agility, and reaction times, a BRAVADO B120-T5 Reactor Fitted-Stabilizer to mask it’s temporary radiation footprint, and the latest GEN3 Infrared Signature Modulation panels. His suit is modified with a MkV Multipurpose Bag, M11 Combat Knife sheath, M2 Naval Sword sheath, two shoulder-integrated Throwing Knife sheaths, an M10 Tactical Soft Case for rifle magazines, two M6 Magazine Pouches, six 40mm Pouches, two SuperSix-Load Shotshell Carriers, a First Aid Kit, and an MC5 Individual Data Network Terminal. 
=== — REQUISITIONS ===
Having become acutely aware of shortcomings relating to Naval Logistical Operations Command in his early years, Seth became well experienced in the bureaucratic dance required to provide his peers with otherwise near-unobtainable exotic materiel. Since the introduction of MJOLNIR GEN2, he’s also tailored his armor’s administrative AIs to aid in navigating these longstanding hurdles. 
Seth often employs the BR75 Service Rifle with an M257/A Underslung Grenade Launcher, an M90/B Close Assault Weapon System, and an M6/G “Magnum” Personal Defense Weapon System, as well as two M9/S High-Explosive Dual-Purpose grenades. He’s also outfitted with an M11 Combat Knife, an M2 Naval Sword, and two M5 Throwing Knives, with all blades having custom embedded homing beacons for retrieval and target tracking.
== TRIVIAL INFORMATION ==
Seth reports his favorite songs are We Remember, Ghosts and Glass, and Finale—each composed by Lance “the Elder” O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori.
Seth reports his favorite foods are beef burritos, mozzarella pizza, chicken, and Moa wings—while his favorite beverages are GAUSS Lemon/Lime soda, root beer, iced tea, hot chocolate, and water. According to order records, Seth has a preference for Menu No.89 Taco Pizza with Breadsticks MREs.
Seth has been ambidextrous since birth and thus lacks any handedness preference, though which hand he uses for particular tasks is semi-constant. He defaults to right-handed shooting and writing, left-handed guitar play, a southpaw stance in fistfights, and an orthodox stance in knife fights. 
Seth is agnostic, describing it as “neither believing nor disbelieving in the existence of a god or gods”. 
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