David Adams

==Biography==
David Adams is a combat simulation tester for Warzone Firefight and previously War Games, specifically to test armor, AI, VISRs and other components to find efficient possibilities for neurodivergent SPARTANs.
== Birth ==
David was born prematurely on May 26, 2530. The success percentage of his birth was less than ten, and multiple complications soon followed. Through either luck, sheer force of will, or both, David survived, and both of those would continue to influence his life. It was that same luck and sheer force of will that caught the attention of the SPARTAN-IV program, but by 2550 his mental health was rapidly deteriorating, and was exempt from active missions as a result of both this and his diagnoses of ASD, MDD, and GAD, among others.
==War Games service (2554 - 2558)==
At the behest of both the program and himself, David was put only into the War Games combat simulations on the UNSC Infinity in 2554, in order to better monitor and train him, as well as to test new types of both SPARTAN-IV GEN1 armor and AIs that would hopefully prove more suitable for neurodivergents. His personal most tested of his four years in War Games include Air Assault and War Master, with War Games designation Map_Set/:615-3 being his personal favorite simulation.
==Warzone Firefight [Pre-Blackout] (2558 - 2558)==
In 2558 David was transferred to Warzone Firefight, in order to test his response to GEN2 armor and combat more varied than simply against other SPARTANs, as well as fine-tuning testing for armor and other components. Testing quickly found that the Nightfall armor was suitable for him, due to its best-of-class life support, which David found after observing Jameson Locke’s mission to the Installation 04 fragment. 
==Warzone Firefight [Post-Blackout] (2558 - ?)==
David and the Nightfall armor performed effectively, until June 29, 2558 when a sudden data disruption caused a blackout of David’s entire record, including his War Games stint, and additionally resulted in the loss of his security clearance for the Requisition of the Nightfall armor’s helmet.
Additional Warzone Firefight training focused on testing substitute helmets for David, as well as finding a VISR and AI pairing suited to his neurodivergence, in the hopes of creating additional possibilities for SPARTAN-IV applicants.
David’s current testing setup consists of the Nightfall armor (due to its efficiency in hellish conditions and life support), the Beltane VISR (due to the AI monitoring system supporting his truncated vision and lack of situational awareness, while also allowing his hyperfocusing to set elsewhere), and the War Master helmet (due to its GEN2 variant’s neural interface being throttled after David’s early testing with its GEN1 variant in War Games, where he would dangerously overextend himself in combat). For weapon types, David has taken a liking to both Forerunner weapons (the Lightrifle, Suppressor, and Incineration Cannon highly among them) and Forerunner-adjacent weapons (such as the UNSC Morph Assault Rifle).
== Bella Integration (2560 - ?) ==
As some GEN3 armor variants began testing in 2560, David was not selected to participate, due to more time needed to fine-tune armor preferences, as well as finding backup solutions in case some designs weren’t upgraded for GEN3. To compensate for this, a Smart AI was integrated with David. Rather than an AI monitoring the Beltane VISR for awareness and providing support remotely over the battlenet, this allowed the Smart AI to directly integrate with David’s neural interface, dramatically improving situational awareness and processing while further attuning his hyperfocus and preventing sensory overload. This particular AI assigned to him had a female personality, which David began to call Bella, short for Beltane.
== Editor’s Notes ==
- The term “War Games” actually includes Warzone and Warzone Firefight. David uses the term separate from Warzone Firefight as a delineation for his tests of SPARTAN-IV GEN1 armor, as opposed to his current testing of GEN2 armor.
- It is unknown whether the decision to implement Companion AI into GEN3 SPARTAN-IVs came from the successful integration and testing of Bella with David Adams, whether the Bella integration was an additional phase of testing after the decision, or whether it was simply coincidence.