Ethan Sterling

Specialist Ethan Sterling, also commonly known as Agent: MINNESOTA or Min for short, was a one of a number of supersoldiers created by Project: FREELANCER during the Human-Covenant War.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Ethan was born and raised on Earth in the United Republic of North America, living a rather unremarkable childhood. As his family had a long tradition of military service (extending back to before the American Civil War), Ethan attended a private military academy. Although his time at this academy made him eligible to become a student at the famed West Point academy, Ethan instead chose to join the UNSC Marine Corps as an enlisted serviceman.
===UNSC Marine Corps Career===
====ENGCORPS====
===Enrollment in Project: FREELANCER===
In 2549, Ethan was approached by an ONI operative, who told him that he had been selected to join an elite special forces group if he wanted to. Though he was hesitant to trust ONI, his desire to do something more meaningful with his skills drove him to accept the offer.
Ethan was sent aboard a modified known as the UNSC Mother of Invention. The Mother of Invention was hidden deep within the Kuiper belt, and was equipped with passive scanners and experimental high-efficiency active refrigeration technology, and was to serve as a base of operations for this mysterious new special forces unit, which Ethan was told was known only by the codename "Project: FREELANCER".
Aboard the ship, Ethan began an intensive training regimen. His physical limitations were tested like never before in brutal exercises which pitted him against the other candidates of Project: FREELANCER; an odd assortment of characters which included a locksmith, a disgraced Naval officer, and a former law enforcement sniper from the UK, among others.
Soon, the members of Project: FREELANCER received codenames based on the fifty states of the long since reorganized United States of America. Ethan was assigned the codename "Agent: MINNESOTA", which the other Freelancers quickly shortened to "Min".
===Early Service as a FREELANCER===
====Killing Armon Giorgi====
Ethan's first mission as a Freelancer was to assassinate a crime lord named Armon Giorgi, whom was known to be supplying stolen UNSC weapons to forces in the . Ethan was deployed into , the location of Giorgi's base of operations, dressed in plainclothes and armed only with a suppressed hidden within a scanner-resistant guitar case.
===Hunting the Director===
===Rejoining the UNSC===
===Battle Aboard the Mother of Invention===
===Comatose===
===Fighting the ===
===Separating From the UNSC===
==Career Service Vitae==
==Personality & Traits==
==Preferred Equipment==
As a member of Project: FREELANCER, Ethan was issued the standard PISCES Mark III combat armor system. Although he technically wears the default variant of the system, Ethan customized his armor with specialized modifications of his own design, up-armoring certain parts of the suit, adding more storage space for ammunition, improving ventilation, and a number of other tweaks.
As for weapons, Ethan preferred to make use of standard infantry rifles, particularly those of the or BR55 series, with one notable exception: his trademark .
==Relationships==
===Agent: VIRGINIA===
===Agent: MONTANA===