Jay-G084

Jay-G084, also known as Boomer, is a SPARTAN-III super soldier of Gamma Company known for his various eccentric traits. He lost his family to the Covenant during the Human-Covenant War and was recruited into the SPARTAN-III Program to get revenge. During the conflict, he developed an eccentric personality, known for being slightly "off" and gung-ho. After the war he served on the world Athena, participating in conflicts with Covenant remnants and the Created. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Jay was born on March 3, 2535, on the small colony world of Dail. He lost his parents at the young age of five when the planet was glassed in 2540, developing his intensive hatred for the Covenant. He barely managed to escape off the planet. Jay would remain in cryostacis for the next four years during a bad slipspace jump by an evacuating refugee ship. 
In 2544 he was singled out as a candidate for Spartan training and was sent to Onyx for training. Due to be technically, but not biologically, older than the other candidates, he gained the nickname of "Old Man Gamma". The training was intensive, but Jay developed an intense motivation, and demonstrated exceptional talent heavy machinery and weaponry. Despite this, many trainers were concerned about Jay's personal lack of concern for his own health and erratic behavior. 
=== Military Years ===
Jay served near the end of the Human-Covenant War, and due to his developed skills, he was inducted into the Headhunter program alongside Dominique-G312, secretly deployed earlier than other members of Gamma Company. He developed a close bond with his partner, and participated in numerous high-ranking special operations, such as assassinating Covenant leaders or helping to defend evacuation efforts on various worlds.
==== The Dina Incident ====
While Jay remained an effective soldier, throughout the final year of the war he began to display increasing signs of erratic behavior and aggression, especially during military operations and as the Covenant made considerable gains towards Earth. This remained manageable, however, thanks to the efforts of his teammate, until the Dina Incident.
During the Battle for Earth the small city of Dina in North America was assaulted by a small group of Covenant forces. Jay and Dominque were sent in to eliminate the commanding Prophet and secure a foothold against Covenant forces. The duo was sent on a high-profile mission behind enemy lines to kill the Covenant commander, but due to faulty information they were overrun and lost communications with the UNSC. Despite inflicting heavy casualties on enemy forces, the two were forced to retreat back to the few UNSC holdouts in Dina, with a large assault by Covenant forces. Dominique was killed in combat, and the loss of his only true friend caused Jay to snap. 
He entered into a psychotic rage and butchered his way through Covenant forces, killing their leader and anything that got in his way, including any UNSC troops or civilians. Covenant forces eventually broke rank and retreated, but UNSC backup forces had difficulty retrieving Jay, and were forced to capture and restrain him due to his broken mental state.
==== Continuing the Fight ====
In the aftermath of the Dina Incident, Jay was immediately forced to undergo rapid psychological and physical therapy. However, due to the current conflict on Earth itself, his therapy was accelerated, and Jay was sent out to fight off the Covenant forces attacking the planet. He participated in numerous fronts across the planet, largely used as a last-ditch berserker to weaken Covenant resolve in key locations.
=== Post-War ===
Following the end of the war, Jay was sent on several high-level missions against immediate Covenant splinter factions. However, due to his continued mental instability and several military complaints, Jay was released from duty and underwent an extensive psych evaluation and therapeutic recovery to heal from the losses he endured during the war and the horrors he committed and witnessed. He was transferred to a watch-duty site on the planet Athena. He spent nearly 3 years undergoing intensive therapy, and during this period met Dr. Guillemin Karly. While hesitant to form connections with a new person, Jay and Guillemin and eventually became good friends. Thanks in part to this friendship, Jay managed to recuperate and largely recover, though would become known for certain eccentricates. 
=== The Testament Conflict ===
In the summer of 2558 Jay was serving on Athena, when a fleet of Testament forces, a radical Covenant splinter faction, entered into Athena space, and began a series of rapid attacks upon specific centers attempting to locate specific Forerunner relics. Over the next few days, the Athenian military would be quickly mobilized after initial strikes and engaged Testament forces. Jay ferried Guillemin from a secure location, and immediately was sent into the front lines of the conflict.
He boarded the UNSC frigate Rage Against the Dying, participating in the space battle against the Testament fleet. After a pitched fight, most of the Testament ships were destroyed though the UNSC naval forces received heavy damage and casualties. Lork Tanu, the Testament leader, aboard his flagship the Testament of Faith and a few other Testament space craft managed to flee from Athenian navy via special slipspace coordinates that were the target of the Testament's attack on Athena. These coordinates lead them to Installation 02, also known as the Epsilon Halo, on the far side of the galaxy.
The Rage Against the Dying pursued the Testament forces, the only nearby undamaged UNSC military spaceship. Due to the Rage Against the Dying's slower slipspace drive, it took several days for them to arrive at Installation 02, finally appearing on August 18. Jay participated in the immediate battle against the Testament's forces, who had already begun establishing a new military base on Installation 02. Ultimately, the Rage Against the Dying would successfully bring down the Testament of Faith, thanks in part to Jay and an ad-hoc team of personal who boarded the ship. The Rage would suffer heavy damage and crash-land onto the ring's surface.
Along with Guillemin and UNSC forces, he helped fight off a small Testament attack, and the survivors of the crash established a temporary HQ on the ring. The UNSC and Testament forces would begin fierce fighting over the next few days. Guillemin participated in numerous missions that eradicated Testament military personal. Using his Forerunner expertise and with assistance from his personal AI Fey,
On August 21, the UNSC forces were assaulted by a wave of Flood-infected species of native aliens known as the lliaggale, along with remaining Testament soldiers. Most personal were killed, and Jay fled along with Guillemin. They would meet with the native lliaggale, and after a tense and awkward initial meeting, came to an understanding with the aliens, who had been targeted by the Testament. They discovered that Tonu intended to release the Flood in a controlled case upon human space, in a zealous attempt to "wipe clean the slate from human stench" and build a new Covenant from the ring.
Gathering a few remaining UNSC military personal and various lliaggale shoals, Jay and Guillemin lead an assault upon the Testament's fortress, located atop the Flood Containment Center. He and Guillemin managed to get into the center chamber of the facility, and personally fought with a crazed and Flood-infected Lork Tonu, and after a tense fight killed him.
In the aftermath, the remaining UNSC forces regrouped and began an extensive purging operation. Thanks to the assistance of the lliaggale and the monitor of Installation 02, 007 Contrite Witness, the Flood was quarantined and eventually exterminated, as well as any remaining Testament forces were wiped out.
Over the next two months Jay and the survivors of the Rage Against the Dying were stranded on the ring. Guillemin personally oversaw the reconstruction and repairing of the ship, and thanks to assistance from 007 Contrite Witness and the lliaggale, were able to finish if by October 25. They departed and arrived back on Athena on November 2. However, by this time the Created Crisis had begun, and Athena was under tight lock-down by the Created.
=== Resisting the Created ===
Jay, along with the rest of the Rage Against the Dying crew were captured by the Created. However, Jay managed to escape and rescue Guillemin. Both were betrayed by Karina Pine, Guillemin's partner, who allied with the Created to keep Guillemin's physical body safe. The two escaped however, and went underground. After hiding out, they managed to make contact with the Athenian resistance against the Created, and subsequently began a guerilla campaign against the Created, largely within the city of New Athens.
Throughout the rest of the winter of 2558, Jay proved invaluable to the resistance, using his SPARTAN training against the AI Created. He was sent on several high-end military missions, often partnered with Guillemin. 
Throughout 2559, Jay remained on the run with his friends, helping to keep up morale thanks to his unusual antics and providing valuable muscle. By mid-Summer, the Athenian resistance had managed to openly rebel and free several cities across Athena, using anti-AI programs to disable Created control over these territories. Conflicts began to increase across Athena, into winter, with open conflict between Created forces and reformed Athenian military. 
On December 12, Cortana died in a three-way battle for Zeta Halo, and her death marked the end of Created control over Athena. The DIANA Worldmind was able to reassert control over global web, and over the next three months remaining Created cells and remnants were wiped out. 
Following the end of the Created Crisis, Jay set to work helping rebuilt Athena.
== Personality and Traits ==
=== Physical Appearance ===
Due to his biological enhancements, Jay is larger, stronger, and faster that any regular human. He possesses brown hair and brown eyes, and is covered in multiple scars, most notable one across his right eye. Thanks to his enhancements, Jay stands at nearly 7 feet tall.
=== Personality ===
Jay has undergone extreme trauma and stress over his life, and this had made him appear somewhat "off" and crazy to others. He is generally jovial and never appears worried, even in the thick of combat, cracking jokes or cackling madly when facing down his enemies. Jay has a way of finding the grim humor in any situation, but this should not be taken as a sign that he does not care. In rare occasions, when his friends are threatened, he has been known to enter a state of pure psychotic rage, ignoring any pain and pummeling any perceivable threat. Jay himself is well aware of, and concerned, about this part of himself, and tries to present himself in a more comical light. 
=== Augmentations ===
* 8942-LQ99: A carbide ceramic ossification catalyst which hardened the subject's skeletal structure to the point of being virtually unbreakable.
* 88005-MX77: A fibroid muscular protein complex which increased the density and strength of muscle tissue.
* 88947-OP24: A retina-inversion stabilizer which significantly improved the eye's sharpness and granted the subject virtually perfect night vision.
* 87556-UD61: A drug which reacted with the augmentations' colloidal neural disunification solution to boost reaction time.
* 009762-OO: A mutagen that alters key regions of the subject's frontal lobe. Enhances aggression, strength, endurance, and tolerance to injury under stress.
* 009927-DG: Miso-olanzapine. An antipsychotic. Counters the mutagen's properties.
* 009127-PX: Cyclodexione-4. A bipolar-integration drug. Counters the mutagen's properties.
As a result of 009762-OO, the Jay has to use the antipsychotic and bipolar-integration drugs, colloquially known among the Gamma Spartans as "Smoothers" to keep the effects in check. If denied regular access to the "Smoothers", which can be administered via injections every twelve hours or longer-lasting subcutaneous implants, he starts to lose his rationality and will eventually descend to a psychotic state. This occurred during the "Dina Incident" and led to Jay's current mental state.
== Skills and Abilities ==
Jay is a lethal warrior, trained for years under intense conditions intentionally designed to be grueling. He is an expert in military weaponry, and an expert in melee combat (he has a special fondness of boxing), his preferred choice of engagement with an enemy. Jay possesses incredible strength and durability thanks to his genetic modifications and augmentations. He prefers heavy-weaponry and close-ranged firearms and has some mechanical knowledge with explosives and heavy weapons. Jay loves anything "goes boom!" and always takes the biggest gun. 
== Relationships ==
* Guillemin Karly: Guillemin is one of, if not the only, friend of Jay's. The two have worked together for many years, and there are few people Jay cares as much about. Despite being younger than Guillemin, Jay refers to him as "kid" and is quite protective of him, acting as an eccentric older brother, and encouraging his friend to be more social and experience life. He great respect for Guillemin, even if he doesn't always show it, and there are few things that make him as happy as fighting alongside Guillemin.
*Karina Pine: Guillemin's fiancé and later wife, Jay has an interesting relationship with Karina. On the one hand, it's his best friend's partner, but he still remembers that she handed them over to the Created, albeit with good intentions, and nurses a slight grudge against her. Despite this, Jay maintains a cordial relation, and is happy that at least Karina is a good match for Guillemin and that his friend has someone to truly love him.
*Fey: Guillemin's personal AI, Fey and Jay have a snarky but well-meaning friendship, often exchanging crude remarks on one another, but both genuinely care for each other.
== Trivia ==
* Jay has a variety of strange tastes. He loves shotguns, bazookas, and big guns, and in combat always prefers to use the largest and heaviest machinery, especially explosives. 
* Jay loves 1980s music, which he frequently plays even in battle. He is also fascinated by art pieces from the 1980s-2000s, and constantly references them.
*He loves boxing and enjoys watching centuries old WWE wrestling matches. 
*Jay is rumored to have eaten dead Covenant soldiers during the Battle for Earth, rumors which he has never confirmed nor denied.
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