Andrew-091

Lieutenant Junior Grade Andrew S-091 was a Spartan-II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. Like most IIs, Andrew served in numerous fireteams during the length of the Human-Covenant War, but spent most of its early years under command of Joshua-029 in both Gold and Red teams. S-091 was also denoted for his proficient leadership capabilities that would eventually lead to him becoming the standard lead in Gold Team sometime after 2526 following Operation: SILENT STORM. As of 2559, Andrew was the standing commander of Spartan personnel onboard the UNSC Cydonia.
==Service Record==
(As of 2561)
*SERVICE TAG: Sierra Oh-Nine-One (S-091)
*RANK: Lieutenant Junior Grade
*CALLSIGN: Gold Leader
*UNIT: Gold Team
*FULL NAME: Hardt, Andrew
*GENDER: Male
*BIRTHPLACE: Mandelam, Biko
*BIRTH DATE: 12/08/2512
*AGE: 49
*ARMOR CONFIGURATION
**HELMET: MJOLNIR MARK VI GEN3/SCOUT
**CHESTPIECE: MJOLNIR MARK VI GEN3
**LEFT SHOULDER: MJOLNIR MARK VI GEN3
**RIGHT SHOULDER: MJOLNIR MARK VI GEN3
**KNEE GUARDS: MJOLNIR MARK VI GEN3
**OTHER: TYPE UA/CHOBHAM, POUCHES, 40MM GRENADE BELT, MAKESHIFT RUCKSACK
==Preferred Loadouts==
==History==
===Early Life & Abduction===
Andrew Hardt was born on the 8th of December, 2512 to a lower-class family in the UEG-controlled world of Biko. His father was noted to have been a hardworking man and ran a small family farm to allow them to provide for themselves. Because of this and the overall agricultural nature of Biko, Andrew spent most of his time aiding his father with labor or rough-housing with the other children in his community. His mother, while also hardworking, was a polar opposite of his father in nearly every regard. Biko had been a primary source of rebel activity for the decades prior to Andrew’s birth, and this fact caused her to become slightly overbearing and overprotective of him. She didn’t want him in harm’s way under any circumstance and would do anything to ensure his safety; which often led to her and his father butting heads. 
At the age of 4, Andrew was described as being “remarkably intelligent” for his age, and was often noted by those around him as someone who thought on his feet. This led to his parents enrolling him in an elementary school located in Mandelam, the capital of Biko. This came with sacrifice, however, as his family was forced to move to the capital and leave their home and relatives in the countryside behind. Andrew was mostly successful in school, and also spent a large portion of his time socializing with the other children. 
A few days short of his 6th birthday, Andrew was visited by Doctor Catherine Halsey and Lieutenant Jacob Keyes outside of his elementary school, where he was then assessed and marked for abduction shortly thereafter. The young boy had displayed promising attributes for Halsey’s SPARTAN-II program, and during his in-person assessment showed advanced conversational and problem solving skills for his age. On December 11th, a team of ONI agents infiltrated Andrew’s home and abducted him in his sleep, replacing him with a flash-clone and successfully obtaining him as candidate 091 of the SPARTAN-II program. In the days following, the health of the flash-clone rapidly deteriorated, and just days weeks after his abduction, the flash-clone passed away. This left his mother utterly devastated, and caused his father to become distant. 2 months after his supposed death, Andrew’s mother committed suicide and his father returned to their homestead to live out the rest of his days alone. 
===Training===
Upon arrival to the FLEETCOM Military Complex on Reach, Andrew was rounded up along with the other candidates and informed of his new life in the Spartan program. Afterwards, he was sent to the facility barracks with the rest of his class where he met the candidates that would eventually become the members of his squad during training; Serin-019, Naomi-010, and Kirk-018. In the days to follow, Andrew-091 and Serin-019 became close friends and the squad in general grew closer through rigorous training regimes and other hardships dished out to them by the ruthless Spartan trainers.
As the team progressed through training, Andrew-091 gradually assumed a role of leadership among his squadmates. His ability to think on his feet transferred positively into his training, allowing for him to maintain morale and cohesion within his unit even under dire circumstances. Throughout the training process, Andrew's squad performed exceptionally well, outcompeting a fair number of other candidate teams excluding those such as Red, Blue, and Green. Andrew’s team was not without its faults, however, as Kirk-018 would sometimes let his ego get the best of him and take matters into his own hands during training ops, which often led to the team’s strategy failing and trust between Kirk and the other members to falter. Over the next few years, Andrew conditioned his team to better trust in one another and coordinate as a single body. As most other experienced SPARTAN-II teams did, his unit also learned to effectively communicate via hand signals and other forms of non-verbal communication. 
By 2523, Andrew and his squad had participated in various training missions against marine units such as Tango Company, of which they had suffered defeat at the hands of the SPARTAN-IIs every time. In one notable instance, equipped only with narq-dart pistols, stun grenades, and their training BDUs, Gold Team infiltrated one of Tango Company’s vehicle bases. The squad of Spartans hit hard and fast, utilizing narq-dart rounds to swiftly eliminate the marines guarding the entrance before sprinting in and employing stun grenades and more narq-darts to further disrupt their enemy. In the ensuing chaos, Andrew and his team made their way to the main vehicle hub and commandeered a CSG M-100627. The truck held a cache of MA2B and MA5B assault rifles along with their respective ammunition, which the Spartans returned to base for later use along with the truck itself.
=== Pre-War ===
==== Operation: PRODITOR CITADEL ====
On October 17th, 2525, UNSC HIGHCOM received reports of alleged rebel activity on the inner colony world of Circumstance. Famed for its substantial universities and courts of law, the planet was known to be a staple of peace within UNSC controlled space, and most at high command felt it was unlikely that an insurgent cell was growing in its midst. This feeling quickly changed, however, as a shootout between a local UNSC garrison and a group of heavily armed individuals took place shortly after the reports were received.
The situation on Circumstance would continue to escalate from there, as insurgent groups carried out terror attacks on UNSC forces and civilians alike; and only a few days later, HIGHCOM had their final straw. On the morning of October 18th, 2525, seventy-four heavily armed insurgents entered the Koletre-Browning University and began taking hostages. The insurgents soon gained full control over the university, relocating the hostages to secure locations before they broadcasted to local UNSC forces, claiming to be in possession of a nuclear weapon and threatening to use it if demands weren’t met. 
NAVSPECWARCOM saw this as the perfect opportunity to field test their latest and greatest toys; the Spartans. Following the crippling of Kirk-018 and the death of Serin-019, Andrew was reassigned to Red Team as Red-Leader and was to act as leader of the unit until further notice. On October 19th, S-091 was transferred to the UNSC Hammerfell, where he then met up with his new squadmates; Franklin-078 and Carol-119, Red-Two and Red-Three respectively. He had competed against both of them quite frequently during training, and therefore was at least somewhat familiar with their strategy and the way they operated.
After a few hours of discussing and strategizing, the Spartans donned their black body suits and geared up with their MA2Bs, stun grenades and extra ammunition. Red Team was then deployed to the university via a D96-TCE Albatross. The Albatross received minor small arms fire upon approach, but was ultimately successful in delivering the team of Spartans to the rooftop. Andrew’s team began swiftly making their way through the university, taking out any combatants they encountered on the way through to the suspected location of the nuke. 
With 8 minutes worked up on the mission timer, Red Team had thoroughly cleared their way through two levels of the building and were now stacked up on the entry to the basement. Andrew ordered Red-Three to kick down the door, and seconds later he entered alongside Red-Two. All three spartans moved into the room in a blur and briskly selected targets before opening fire; 7 combatants dropped dead before the rest even had time to react.
The Spartans made quick work of the rest of the insurgents, proceeding to secure the hostages and the nuclear weapon before extracting. Operation: PRODITOR CITADEL went down in the records as one of the first Spartan operations, and proved to many at NAVSPECWARCOM that the SPARTAN-IIs were a more than viable asset against the Insurrection and any future foes that humanity may face.
===Human-Covenant War===
====Battle of Jericho VII/Operation: FALLEN WALLS====
====Battle of Skopje====
==== Battle of Veits ====
==== Battle of Sigma Octanus IV/Operation: OCEAN BREAKER ====
====The Fall of Reach====
====Operation: SILENT VOID====
====Battle of Sasei II/Operation: FOUNDATION====
===Post-War===
====Operation: TYNE 53====
====Operation: BLACK GATE====
==Death==
==Quotes==
==Images==
File:AndrewWIP.png|Andrew's armor configurations throughout the years (excluding MJOLNIR Mark IV)
File:Bigman.png|S-091 alongside Spartan Michaels and Spartan Shevchenko during Operation: BLACK GATE
File:AndrewSadMaxing.png|Andrew in New Tyne during Operation: TYNE 53
File:S093Andrew.png|S-091 during Operation: BLACK GATE
File:Optimized-SilentVoidPart3.jpeg|Andrew S-091 (Pictured to the right) alongside Gold Team during Operation: SILENT VOID
File:Optimized-OPERATION SILENT VOID Part 2.jpeg|S-091 with Micah A-008 and Neena B-190 during Operation: SILENT VOID
File:Render.png|Andrew-091 alongside Gage Yevgenny and another ODST during the Battle of Skopje, 2547