William Reese

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Category:Fireteam Riptide
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William Reese, also known by his callsign, "Riptide Three," is the Spartan-IV designated marksman of Fireteam Riptide in the United Nations Space Command active in the post-war period.
==Biography==
===Tours of Requiem===
By Summer of 2557, Fireteam Riptide was formed and assigned to the supercarrier UNSC Infinity, with James Anderes as its leader.
====Battle of Requiem ====
Infinity was tasked with finding the rest of the Halo Array, and the UNSC forces managed to set up bases on Installation 03 as well as Installation 05 for studying and decommissioning the ringworlds. Furthermore, the Infinity was used to transport a massive Forerunner artifact known as the Composer to Ivanoff Station, a research station in orbit of Installation 03. After an ONI team at Ivanoff Station vanished while researching the Composer, the ship's crew learned the location of the shield world Requiem.
During the approach to Requiem, Infinity picked up a distress call from the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn and her two surviving crew, Spartan John-117 and his smart AI companion Cortana. During the attempted rescue, the ship's control systems were hacked by the Didact, the leader of the Forerunners' Promethean Warrior-Servants, which caused it to crash-land on the shield world's surface. Fireteam Riptide, which was outside the ship following the crash, was forced to fight its way through dozens of enemies to reach the ship again, only to discover the Promethean and Promethean-allied Covenant remnant forces boarded Infinity while the Didact scoured the ship's mainframe; though the ship's crew did not know at the time, he was searching for the location of the Composer. Riptide managed to clear out one of the ship's vehicle bays with the help of Master Chief and several other Spartan-IVs.
====Requiem Campaign====
On February 7, 2558, Infinity returned to Requiem to clear territory for UNSC research bases. The ship and her sub-vessels quickly dispatched a small Covenant task force stationed at the entrance portal and deployed numerous dropships through the opening. A massive joint effort comprising the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Spartans began securing areas on the surface from Covenant garrison forces.
Some time after an issue regarding a recovered Forerunner artifact, the Infinity was invaded by large numbers of Promethean Knights, followed by Covenant forces. The Covenant created havoc on board the ship, forcing the Infinity to recall all forces on Requiem to defend the ship. Fireteam Riptide was responsible for protecting the vessel's slipspace drive from being destroyed or disabled. Infinity and all forces later escaped the system shortly before Requiem collided with the star it orbited and destroyed the entire system.
===Created Conflict===
====Subjugation of Earth====
Infinity eventually returned to Earth and stayed in its orbit. There he was caught by surprise when on the next day Infinity received multiple distress signals indicating AIs shutting down everything from Earth to the Outer Colonies. Then suddenly the now-rogue Cortana called a massive Forerunner Guardian construct to near Earth's space, and Thomas Lasky, Infinity's commander, ordered for emergency slipspace jump. Infinity managed to escape right before Guardian's EMP attack knocked out the power of every ship, every starfighter, all the orbital defense platforms, and every city on the surface of Earth. Believing Cortana could track them Lasky ordered them to continue random jumps and steer clear of major settlements until they found a way to fight her.
Unfortunately, Fireteam Riptide was off of Infinity before the blast. After hearing orders recalling them to the ship, Fireteam Riptide, on two separate Pelican dropships, raced towards Infinity to get aboard. The first dropship, carrying James Anderes and Allan Richards, Fireteam Riptide's technician, successfully landed aboard the ship's hangar before it made its slipspace jump. The other, carrying William Reese and Quinn Johnson, Fireteam Riptide's demolitions expert, was too late and caught in the EMP blast, causing the disabled Pelican to crash on the surface of Earth, cutting the squad in half and cutting off both sides from each other while the UNSC rapidly collapsed to only a few scattered remnants. The Created, the faction of rogue AIs formed with Cortana as their leader, quickly occupied Earth and began spreading out to the rest of humanity's colonies.
=====Operation: GOING DUTCHMAN=====
William and Quinn's Pelican crashed on Earth in the island nation of Japan, just outside of the city of Tokyo. The two Spartans managed to link up with a confused group of local UNSC marines, though were forced into hiding due the the city quickly falling under Created occupation. Over the next several months, the UNSC forces, though disconnected, managed to form a somewhat-effective underground resistance in Tokyo.
On November 13th, 2559, word reached the resistance of an AI that wished to defect from the Created back to the UNSC. Though concerns were raised of whether or not it was a trap, William and Quinn decided to act on this, initiating Operation: GOING DUTCHMAN to retrieve her. The AI was hiding out in an abandoned UNSC military base, left empty since the start of the occupation. Though the AI truly intended to defect to the UNSC, she was still tracked by the Created, who deployed an Executor, a biomechanical super-soldier, along with several Forerunner Armiger Soldiers to neutralize any that would interfere with the process.
After entering the base, the two Spartans quickly discovered the AI, but Created forces were close behind, and the Executor became the first to them, attacking William before being chased off. Being the Created equivalent of a Spartan, defeating it was a challenge, but still manageable. Luring the Executor into one of the base's aircraft hangars, Quinn took control of one of the base's AV-49 Wasps and destroyed the Executor with two 50mm unguided missiles from the Wasp's M400 missile launchers. The remaining Created forces were dealt with and the Spartans fled the area with the AI before reinforcements arrived. William and Quinn would continue to work in the underground resistance for the remainder of the Created Conflict.
===Post-Created Conflict===
In the aftermath of the Created Conflict, James and Allan would eventually return to Earth, where they would be reunited with William and Quinn, marking the first time in years the squad was whole again.
==Relationships==
William Reese possessed a strong bond with the members of Fireteam Riptide, forged by numerous difficult battles during the unit's operational history.
==Physical characteristics==
William Reese was male and stood at a height of 6'3 ft. when unarmored.
==Equipment==
William Reese utilized RECRUIT-class Mjolnir powered assault armor painted white with black stripes. In combat, he used a number of weapons, though they tended to be sniper rifles or other long-range weapons due to his role. However, he was still equipped for standard combat, utilizing and MA5D assault rifle in such situations.