Marcus-B211

"You cannot rush precision."
-Marcus-B211Marcus-B211 was a SPARTAN-III commando for the United Nations Space Command. After his brief service in Beta Company, Marcus-B211 would operate as a long-distance sniper for UNSC Army operations, typically working from a distance during large-scale ground battles and eliminating crucial targets from a safe distance.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Much remains unknown and classified about Marcus-B211. What little is known is that he was born on July 23rd, 2527, to unknown parents. As such, he has no known last name.
====SPARTAN-III training====
Marcus was abducted extremely early in his life for the SPARTAN-III Program by the Office of Naval Intelligence, making him one of the oldest SPARTAN-IIIs and the UNSC the only life he ever knew. Still, he despised his life, aware that ONI viewed him and his fellow trainees as expendable soldiers. While his augmentations did not kill him, the pain caused him to grow extremely resentful towards ONI, but he still complied with their decisions for him.
===Human-Covenant War===
==== Operation: TORPEDO ====
By the time Marcus was nearly 17, he was being deployed in 2545 during the Human-Covenant War for his first operation alongside the entirety of the program's Beta Company, making him one of over 300 SPARTAN-IIIs deployed for Operation: TORPEDO, a precise strike operation against a large Covenant refinery on Pegasi Delta in the 51 Pegasi System.
As the battle progressed, Marcus saw the true horrors of war with the Covenant as his fellow Spartans perished horribly in combat. In the end, Marcus was one of only a handful of survivors from the battle, with almost all other Spartans massacred in battle, despite completing the objective. The battle horribly traumatized Marcus and gave him a deep hatred for incompetent and costly strategies and the officers that thought of them. He also developed a desire to save everyone he could in battle.
==== Battle of Meridian ====
In 2548, the human colony of Meridian came under siege by the Covenant, attempting to break the planet's defenses and cut off support heading out of Meridian to other colonies. The UNSC put up a fierce defense of the planet, leading to a three year-long campaign by the Covenant to crack the world. Marcus-B211 participated in the battle, but to what extent is unknown.
Eventually, by 2551, the UNSC repelled the Covenant assault completely, but the victory was short-lived, as a much larger Covenant fleet arrived to glass the planet and end the battle. At least three Syfon-pattern assault carriers, under the command of the High Prophet of Regret, leading the fleet personally aboard his flagship, the Solemn Penance, attacked the planet. UNSC forced tried and failed to hold them off, with even the stubbornest vessel, the UNSC Sevenfold Gates, being forced to eventually retreat.
Hoping to learn the location of Earth, Regret ordered boarding parties to storm the ship. Marcus-B211, who was aboard the vessel along with several others who had been evacuated from the surface, was forced to defend the ship from the onslaught of Covenant marauders. Despite the battle raging through the ship, the Sevenfold Gates still made the jump to slipspace, escaping the Covenant armada. Cut off from reinforcements, the remaining boarders were swiftly dealt with. The glassing of Meridia left the planet literally cracking, but still somewhat habitable.
==== Battle of Fumirole ====
On April 22nd, 2552, the Covenant warship Sanctity of Purification had discovered the industrial colony of Fumirole, and it was eventually joined by over a dozen other warships that assaulted Fumirole. Numerous SPARTAN-IIIs, most notably Noble Team, were deployed to defend the planet as it was besieged.
Marcus-B211 aided Noble Team in the attack on the Sanctity of Purification, eliminating targets from a distant rooftop as the Spartans and a large force of UNSC Army troopers and vehicles charged Covenant defenses in order to allow Noble Team to place a FURY tactical nuclear weapon inside the vessel and destroy it. Despite this success, the Covenant force still overwhelmed the planet's defenses and Fumirole was glassed.
==== Battle for Tribute ====
In early August of 2552, Covenant forces discovered the colony of Tribute and began an assault with a small fleet of ships. Casbah City, the biggest city on the planet, fell victim to the brunt of the Covenant assault. SPARTAN-IIIs were once again dispatched to defend again the Covenant invasion fleet, with a fireteam sacrificing themselves to allow civilian ships to escape the city. 
The first wave of civilian ships was gunned down effortlessly by the Covenant corvette Supplication of Purity, and thus Marcus-B211 mounted a solo mission to eliminate the corvette to prevent the same fate from befalling the second wave of evacuation craft. Utilizing an abandoned civilian heavy freighter, Marcus launched from Casbah City in an attempt to collide with the vessel. The collision destroyed the freighter and disabled the other vessel's engine and caused it to crash into the city, but the effort allowed several vessels to flee the planet. Marcus survived the crash, falling into the city harbor and swimming to the shore. 
The battle took a turn later that year on November 19th, when the Covenant broke out into civil war as the Great Schism gripped every battlefield and planet in the Covenant's domain. Jiralhanae and Sangheili, once allies, now turned on each other, ignoring Tribute's humans. As the Covenant civil war resulted in the destruction of most Covenant ships over the planet, human survivors could only look on in confusion. Eventually the remaining Covenant ships simply left Tribute, not deeming the planet worth any more effort with the fighting occurring at far more crucial locations. 
Marcus, wounded from the battle, spent the rest of the war in a hospital bed in Casbah City, watching the war continue from a screen, gazing in horror at the devastation of Earth. He would eventually recover and return to active service a few days after the war's conclusion. 
==Personality and traits==
Marcus-B211 is typically quiet and isolated, both in and out of combat operations. Very anti-social, he often prefers to work alone, believing that UNSC Army troopers are destined to die when fighting alongside Spartans, but during battle, he will still fight to save as many civilians and UNSC soldiers as possible.
Despite his willingness to throw himself in harm's way to protect his fellow soldiers and the innocent, he still refuses to connect with anyone, including other Spartans. He refuses to take his helmet off in front of anyone, and as a result, few know what he looks like under the helmet. He remains especially cold and unsociable to UNSC personnel he particularly dislikes.
Marcus was also known for his caustic attitude and icy demeanor. He proved that he could always remain calm, even remaining as such when failures occurred around him. He could be rude to others, often offering unsolicited and harsh criticisms accusing others of ineptitude, or otherwise breaching a sore subject.
Typically talking very little during operations while appearing to focus intently, he is easily annoyed when others try to rush him, or when military officers he considers "incompetent" employ ineffective and costly strategies. In situations like that, he may sometimes defy his orders from superiors and take his own actions to prevent heavy losses.
==Relationships==
Marcus-B211 has few relationships with anyone, straying away from building connections with others, despite his furious determination to protect everyone he can. Several UNSC Army and Naval Intelligence personnel view him as "unlikely to obey certain orders," due to his views on unnecessary sacrifices. Army troopers typically view him as a blessing on the battlefield, crippling enemy defenses from afar and turning unwinnable odds around.
==Equipment==
===Armor===
During his service in the UNSC Army, Marcus-B211 wore special heavily modified Mark V[B] MJOLNIR powered armor suit and a helmet specialized for sniper work. His armor had reinforced leggings for stability and to brace against rifle kickback, as well as lightweight arm plating for easier movement, and a number of pouches on the armor's torso for storing supplies and ammunition. 
===Weapons===
Marcus-B211 tends to favor his own custom modified sniper rifle as his main weapon, equipped with a stable tripod stand, improved scope, reinforced stalk, and a semi-automatic firing mode for necessary situations. He also carried a combat knife to use in close-quarters-combat should the need arise.
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