Camile-G087

Camile-G087, born Camile Agbayani and later known as CODENAME: ATACAMA is a SPARTAN-III Gamma Company commando currently serving as an intelligence analyst and operative in service to the Office of Naval Intelligence, participating in operations under the auspices of Sections 1, 3, and 0. Once Team Banyal's leader and automatic rifleman of during the Human-Covenant War, Camile had proven to be a driven and motivated leader, adaptable no matter what circumstances he found himself in.  His quick wit and intuition had led to him being quietly earmarked for induction into ONI early in the SPARTAN’s career. 
Like many other SPARTAN-III candidates, Camile was born in the outer fringes of human space. The Agbayanis lived on the frontier world of Madraza to a family of lower-middle class manual laborers with little to their name, with Camile and his siblings living especially austere lives compared to the other children of Madraza. It was here where Camile was forced to learn to lead, to guide and protect his younger sisters and brother. 
With little in the way of planetary defenses, Madraza was at the mercy of the Covenant during the Human-Covenant War. The Covenant forces had overrun the world within a week of its detection, and glassed it within a month. Both of Camile’s parents and two of his siblings were killed in the chaos of the Covenant invasion. As with many other refugees fleeing the devastation of the Human-Covenant War, Camile and what remained of his family had settled on Reach. Two months after his arrival to Ezhtergom, Camile was whisked away to Onyx by ONI Agents. 
Camile was put through the brutal training and augmentation regimens of the SPARTAN-III program, earning top marks in several fields. Fueled by a desire to secure a better life for himself, Camile sought to lead a team of other high scoring SPARTAN candidates. However, he would be put into Team Banyal, who were mediocre at best. 
While he butt heads with nearly every member of Banyal, Camile would still strive to get them out of the War safely and without his leadership it is unlikely that Banyal would have survived the Human-Covenant War and the following conflicts at all.
After the official dissolution of Team Banyal, Camile would be recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence at the behest of CODENAME: ODYSSEY, the woman who would become his mentor. In the wake of the disbanding of Banyal, Camile would lead or directly participate in several counterinsurgency and counterintelligence operations throughout the scope of the UNSC, ranging from distant Outer Colony stations to the metroplexes of Earth, eventually earning the rank of Major and a great deal of prestige and respect in the shadowy intelligence organization.
== A New Life ==
Born on July 17th, 2535 to a pair of workers in the shipbuilding yards of Madraza, as the oldest of five children. After working long and tiring shifts left the Agbayani parents far too exhausted to care for their children, it often fell upon Camile’s shoulders to help shoulder some of the burden. Camile and his siblings would often spend more time with grandparents, aunts and uncles, or even neighborhood friends rather than their parents. The young Camile had quickly made a name for himself as a precocious child throughout the worker’s quarter of Nuevo Manila, Madraza’s capital city, offering to help family friends cook or clean in exchange for pocket money. While fortunate enough to not have been born into abject poverty like many other children of Nuevo Manila, the Agbayanis were far from wealthy. While not a chronic occurrence, nights where Camile went to sleep hungry were relatively common. 
The Worker’s Quarter was also the site of violence between organized crime groups and local police forces. While Camile and his siblings kept a wide berth from anyone affiliated with gangs, their presence was always felt in some way or another, be it from the distant sounds of gunfire or ambulance sirens responding to an assault. Camile would come into contact with this harsher side of life on Madraza once, his finger being grazed by a bullet a week before his ninth birthday. 
Madraza would be one of the many Outer colonies to fall to the Covenant upon the commencement of hostilities between the alien empire and the UNSC. Being a small relatively unimportant world, Madraza had little more than a token garrison of Army troopers and Marines which quickly folded before the numerically and technologically superior enemy force. Realizing that they were vastly outmatched, the UNSC troops had fully devoted themselves to protecting the civilian transports as they fled the world, each packed bulkhead to bulkhead with terrified refugees. The Agbayani family would be caught in the morass of people attempting to board any spaceworthy vessel they could find, with the adult Agbayanis aiming to board a ore hauler. Before they could, a pair of Banshees strafed the column of refugees with plasma fire, instantly killing Camile’s parents and severely wounding his younger brother and sister  in their first run. Desperate to flee from the oncoming alien aggressors, Camile never stopped running, only just barely making it aboard the ore hauler hidden in a shipbreaking yard. 
Fleeing from the ruins of Madraza at best possible speed, the ore hauler carrying Camile would manage to escape the notice of the Covenant, slipspace jumping to Reach once they were sure they evaded their pursuers. Already inundated with refugees from the Covenant’s campaign, Camile and his remaining siblings would struggle to find a family to adopt them, instead bouncing from foster home to foster home. Soon after his arrival to the fortress world, ONI agents had quickly gotten word of his compatibility with the SPARTAN-III program, and whisked him away while he slept at a shelter.
== Becoming a SPARTAN ==
Camile had awoken aboard a Prowler, among dozens upon dozens of other children chosen for the SPARTAN-III project. Much like the other children on the Prowler, Camile was utterly terrified of his new situation, though being far too exhausted by recent events to express this fear. Camile did his best to put on a brave face, falling back upon his instincts as an elder sibling as he attempted to reassure the others around him. When questioned by an ONI agent, Camile was roused from his fatigue and terror, announcing that he would be the one to kill every alien involved in the death of his parents and the destruction of his homeworld. While they certainly didn’t expect him to accomplish this, it had also assured them of his resolve to the cause. Camile had spent the rest of the flight to Onyx caring for his fellow candidates aboard the cold decks of the Prowler. 
Upon their arrival over the world, Camile and the rest of his batch of his candidates would be introduced to Kurt Ambrose, welcoming them to Onyx and informing them of the task they would have to undergo if they wished to become SPARTANs: jumping out of the dropship with a Falcon Wing descent pack. While Camile had attempted to maintain a facade of bravery for the other youths aboard the Pelican, his resolve had quickly diminished to nothing in the face of such a task. It took another trainee pushing him out of the aircraft for him to make the jump. Luckily, Camile’s instincts had quickly taken hold and he had managed a rough but safe landing on the world. 
Camile was given his alphanumerical tag and put into a randomized squad with the four other children who successfully completed their jumps: Charlotte-G036, Maribel-G090, Fyodor-G181, and Rowan-G227. After the preliminary tests and evaluations, the nascent Team Banyal found themselves near the bottom of the leaderboards, scoring consistently below expected percentiles in several categories. Camile and Maribel’s metrics were the only ones that weren’t disappointing. Distraught that he had to fight with a squad with such a wide gulf of ability, Camile was certain that he would be kicked out of the program before he could make a name for himself, or find his revenge. His habits as an old sibling had once again shown their face, and he immediately berated the more unruly of Banyal for their various antics during their time at Currahee. He’d most often butt heads with Charlotte-G036, the girl’s opposition to nearly any kind of authority clashing with Camile’s desire to guide and shape the team to better suit their situation. The pair nearly came to blows with each other on more than one occasion, only stopped by the interference of teammates or guards. While he did his best to disguise it behind an air of benevolence, Camile was assured of his own superiority over those of the team he was made to lead. He demanded much from the rest of Banyal, urging them to run further or work harder for their own sake.
Camile was given his alphanumerical tag and put into a randomized squad with the four other children who successfully completed their jumps: Charlotte-G036, Maribel-G090, Fyodor-G181, and Rowan-G227. After the preliminary tests and evaluations, the nascent Team Banyal found themselves near the bottom of the leaderboards, scoring consistently below expected percentiles in several categories. Camile and Maribel’s metrics were the only ones that weren’t disappointing. Distraught that he had to fight with a squad with such a wide gulf of ability, Camile was certain that he would be kicked out of the program before he could make a name for himself, or find his revenge. His habits as an old sibling had once again shown their face, and he immediately berated the more unruly of Banyal for their various antics during their time at Currahee. He’d most often butt heads with Charlotte-G036, the girl’s opposition to nearly any kind of authority clashing with Camile’s desire to guide and shape the team to better suit their situation. The pair nearly came to blows with each other on more than one occasion, only stopped by the interference of teammates or guards. While he did his best to disguise it behind an air of benevolence, Camile was assured of his own superiority over those of the team he was made to lead. He demanded much from the rest of Banyal, urging them to run further or work harder for their own sake. 
Camile also expected much from himself, and whatever free time the SPARTAN wasn’t using to corral his squadmates or for rest was used to study. Alongside Rowan and Fyodor, Camile would draw up maps, marking points of interest and easily defensible locations for his team to take. The three of them would also attempt to predict the actions of the drill instructors during training exercises. While Camile would try his best to organize his team into something resembling an effective fighting force, they still lagged behind the other SPARTAN candidate teams, in part due to simple inability combined with a lack of respect for him and his decision making ability. After five exercises in which Banyal only barely passed, Camile would seek other ways to motivate his fellow trainees. On the nights before a drill or an exercise, the young Camile would spend a half hour fanning the slowly growing flames of hatred Charlotte and the others were developing for the instructors, reminding them of the beatings they endured, focusing their energy towards the task of overcoming the Marines who so regularly tormented them. 
This approach would have tangible results during one of the last exercise Banyal partook in, with Camile and Charlotte fighting shoulder to shoulder as they stormed the ruins of a building, the rest of the team providing overwatch as the pair made their breach and cleared it of the Marines occupying the structure with tactical training rounds and paint grenades. After months of struggling, this exercise would finally cement Banyal as being worthy of the SPARTAN name. The discontent between the trainees of Banyal would finally simmer down and they would become something of a surrogate family for each other. 
With their training finally complete, the members of Banyal would be shipped to the UNSC Hopeful, the medical ship where the augmentations that would turn them into full fledged SPARTANs. The thought of opting out of the battery of physiologically altering chemicals had never crossed the young Camile’s mind and he underwent the procedures with no major complications. Upon the completion of the acclimation process, Team Banyal would be rushed to join the desperate defensive war against the Covenant. 
== Service Record ==
Team Banyal was embarked aboard the Marathon-class Heavy Cruiser Appeal to Authority, tasked with participating in boarding actions alongside its complement of Marines. Such actions necessitated extensive training and preparation for the hazards of both a vacuum or micro-gee environment and close quarters combat. Camile’s ability to rapidly adapt both himself and his team made him a natural fit for operations in such an environment. The long patrols the Appeal to Authority was often deployed on had left the team with much downtime when they weren’t in cryostasis. While many of the other SPARTAN-IIIs under Camile had chosen to mingle with the crew of the cruiser, Camile had chosen instead to continue his studies, expanding his expertise of small unit tactics.
=== OPERATION: ICEBREAKER ===
Banyal Team’s first combat deployment would be OPERATION: ICEBREAKER, the UNSC effort to recapture orbital defense stations over the world of Ballast. The Covenant squadron had dispatched packs of Jiralhanae-led boarders in an effort to disable or destroy the platforms from the inside out. Time was of the essence for the UNSC, as the planetary defense militia and UNSC garrison had already been heavily depleted by Covenant invaders. To make matters worse, many of the stations had suffered critical hull breaches thanks to the boarding parties, taking artificial atmosphere and gravity offline. While fighting in this environment would prove undoubtedly dangerous, it also presented many opportunities and routes of approach for a shrewd commander. Banyal Team made their breach into Platform Spruce, a platform armed with several light MACs and boasting a sizable contingent of Marine defenders. The Covenant breached it intending to use the armament of the station to destroy her sister platforms. Camile had his team make a breach behind Covenant lines, their violent entrance promptly killing a team of unprepared Kig-Yar, with a Jiralhanae led lance soon following them. Banyal’s speed and expertise at close quarters combat had lent itself well to the claustrophobic environments the platform, and with the likes of Charlotte-G036 at the front of their assaults Banyal had rapidly overwhelmed any resistance they came across, taking pressure off of the beleaguered defenders and allowing them to regroup and recuperate. With a majority of the Marines left defending critical points in the station, Camile had taken command of two squads to support his team in the assault to drive the Covenant off the station. Camile had often directed his team to draw fire away from the Marines, who were equipped in more fragile pressure suits. This forced the Covenant to focus their attention on the SPARTANs, clad in armor resistant to Covenant fire and the harsh environment around them. After nearly two continuous hours of heavy close quarters fighting through the darkened halls of Platform Spruce, Banyal and the remainder of their supporting Marines would reach the Chieftain leading the boarding efforts. Almost immediately pinned down by heavy plasma cannon fire while the War Chieftain's bodyguard unit advanced steadily on their position to eliminate them. Camile had ordered Charlotte-G036 and Maribelle-G090 to engage the War Chieftain and his remaining bodyguards at close range while the rest of Banyal and the Marines eliminated the incoming Brutes.
The pair of SPARTAN-III would easily outmatch most of the Jiralhanae, even in the species’ preferred close quarters fighting, shooting their way through the Brute ranks, with Charlotte personally killing the Warchieftan. With their leader dead and control of Spruce back in UNSC hands, the Covenant naval squadron was forced to retreat or face the substantial firepower of Ballast’s orbital defense platforms. While Ballast was spared from glassing and Banyal had earned their first victory, it had also exposed Camile to the rigors of command for the first time, nearly a dozen marines had been killed under him, and three times that number were critically injured. It was his own decision that left his teammate crippled for life.
=== OPERATION: QUATREMAIN ===
Soon after the successful defensive action over Ballast, the Appeal to Authority would be rushed back to Earth, joining the Home Defense Fleet in protecting the Sol system from the invading Covenant armada. While Team Banyal and the Appeal’s complement of Marines would be prepared to defend the ship from incoming boarding parties, or to participate in boarding actions against the Covenant, neither possibility occurred. The Covenant fleet was more concerned with making landfall on Earth. The forces embarked on the Appeal would be stationed in the Marrakesh metropolitan area, supporting Army units deployed there in the defense of the city and civilian evacuation corridors. With a majority of the Covenant in Africa more concerned with fighting in the cities of Voi and New Mombasa, the UNSC saw many successes against the smaller Covenant force in the first days of the battle for the city but these successes would be short lived as Covenant forces intensified their attacks. During the earlier phases of the battle, Team Banyal would be deployed in forward observation and general reconnaissance roles. For weeks, Banyal identified key Covenant officers and designated installations for artillery and air strikes and bombardment from the Appeal to Authority. Later, Banyal would be tasked with the defense of civilian evacuation corridors in the city proper. The fighting in the suburbs had devolved into a quagmire of urban warfare, with UNSC and Covenant forces fighting from house to house in grueling close quarters combat. The presence of Banyal in the neighborhood of Chrifia would turn the tides of battle there, allowing the Marines and Army troopers to push the Covenant out of the suburb. 
By the third week of fighting over the city, the Covenant had retreated out of Marrakesh in order to receive reinforcements and recoup their losses. With the UNSC unwilling to leave their defensive positions to capitalize on this retreat, a stalemate had developed. In this momentary respite, Banyal was contacted by the Office of Naval Intelligence with orders to defend a warehouse containing a large number of Forerunner artifacts and research documents on their properties. The team was tasked with defending the site until all relics and documents could be retrieved from Warehouse 412. This change of priority would cause a great deal of division in Banyal Team, with Charlotte and Rowan arguing fiercely to defy these orders in favor of defending the civilians. However, recognizing an opportunity to endear both himself and his unit to the Office and recognizing that the UNSC was in the process of retreating from Marrakesh, Camile orders his team of SPARTANs to abandon their posts and head for Warehouse 412. 
Upon discovering the wealth of Forerunner artefacts located in the Warehouse, the Covenant forces move in force to take the Warehouse. The speed of their attack had surprised the defenders of the warehouse, and the Covenant had dropped twenty eight veteran Special Operations Jiralhanae and Sangheili to retrieve all Forerunner artifacts. Outnumbering the defenders, the Covenant troops made a fierce drive to the Warehouse. In an attempt to divert the incoming Covenant, Camile had Charlotte and Rowan equipped with transmitters sending falsified Forerunner signals and sent to abandoned office buildings. The Special Operations troops took the bait.