Daniel-B147

Lieutenant-Commander Daniel-B147 (born Daniel Patterson) is a Spartan-III supersoldier and a member of the UNSC Eternal Hunt's Spartan contingent. Daniel is the leader of Fireteam VOODOO, a unique mixed unit of surviving Spartan-III and newer Spartan-IV supersoldiers, specifically tasked with raids deep inside hostile territory and the elimination of high-value targets (HVTs). His call sign in the team is "Mayhem".
==Biography==
===Early Life and Career===
Daniel was born in a remote farming settlement on the human colony world of Jericho VII on November 21, 2529. He survived the colony's glassing by the Covenant on February 12, 2535, but was the only survivor of his family, becoming orphaned like most of the Spartan-IIIs. With no other known living relatives, ONI wasted no time in conscripting Daniel into Beta Company. Along with the rest of the company, he was initiated and began training circa 2539. During training, he met Kaitlyn-B095, and the pair quickly became best friends, constantly motivating each other during the grueling training regime.
From the outset, he proved himself as an extraordinary marksman, helped by many years of shooting practice with his father to help protect their crops from pests and thieves. He would also show skill with explosives and demolition, as well as hand-to-hand combat. Because of this he was pulled from Beta Company's main body shortly after his augmentations, and was eventually assigned to a classified special unit, designated Task Force VOODOO, and created specifically to eliminate high ranking Insurrectionist leaders and sabotaging key facilities.
While most of this unit's operations remain highly classified, what little that can be gathered point towards Daniel and his unit being key in the tracking and elimination of the majority of the Freedom and Liberation Party, a radical insurrectionist terrorist group, responsible for the Haven Arcology Bombing in 2511, which claimed the lives of over 2 million people.
With the steady increase in hostilities during the Human-Covenant War, Task Force VOODOO was eventually disbanded, with its members returned to their respective companies in order to shore up numbers around the vulnerable human colony worlds. Daniel, by this time a Lieutenant, was shipped to Reach and was attached to Gauntlet Team. It was there that he was reunited with Kaitlyn-B095, who had previously been reported as KIA during the disastrous events of Operation: TORPEDO.
=== Fall of Reach ===
Following the incident at the Visegrád Relay and subsequent invasion by the Covenant, Daniel, Kaitlyn, and the rest of Gauntlet were deployed to help aid in Reach’s defense. Despite several successful raids against Covenant staging areas and securing sensitive material from UNSC and ONI facilities, and despite the successful destruction of the Covenant supercarrier Long Night of Solace by NOBLE Team during Operation: UPPERCUT, the sudden arrival of the Covenant Fleet of Particular Justice would signal the beginning of the end for Reach.
While fellow SPARTAN teams, Red and Echo, defended civilian evacuation centers in Casbah and New Alexandria, Gauntlet Team was ordered to eliminate a heavily defended Tyrant battery that was bombarding the outskirts of New Alexandria and threatening evacuation efforts. While they were successful in destroying the cannons, most of Gauntlet Team was killed in the assault and subsequent Covenant counterattacks, leaving Daniel and Kaitlyn as the only survivors. It was while destroying the final cannon that Daniel would sustain the injuries that claimed his left arm.
With the city being glassed and all other evacuation sites overrun, Daniel and Kaitlyn were forced to exfiltrate through the Highland Mountains in order to fall back to CASTLE Base in hopes of linking up with any remaining UNSC and Spartan forces. With the Covenant quickly gaining air superiority throughout Reach, the pair were forced to move only at night in order to avoid detection. After several days they were able to reach CASTLE Base and aided in its defense until their rescue by the Master Chief John-117 and the other survivors of the Battle of Installation 04 aboard the captured Covenant DDS-class carrier Ascendant Justice.
=== Post-War Career ===
Following the events of Reach, Daniel underwent multiple surgeries and rehabilitation to replace his lost arm, with Kaitlyn-B095 refusing to leave his side. Daniel recovered surprisingly quickly and was soon back to operational status. He and Kaitlyn participated in several operations combating the Covenant occupation of Earth before the end of hostilities finally came. With much of the Spartan III Program either dead or missing in action, the remaining units were eventually amalgamated into the fledgling Spartan IV Program, under the umbrella of the newly formed Spartan Operations branch. Daniel and Kaitlyn would initially serve aboard the Stalwart-class light frigate UNSC Meriwether Lewis as part of the ship's Spartan contingent. It was during this time that Daniel and Kaitlyn began a secret romantic affair that would eventually grow into a full-blown relationship.
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