Kayden-127

"Sierra-127. One of the few surviving Spartan-IIs of the Human-Covenant War. An inspiration within the hierarchy of the United Nations Space Command."
Lieutenant Kayden-127, born Kayden Madras, is a Spartan II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command and is one of the last surviving SPARTAN-IIs. In 2531, he would serve as the leader of White Team. Noted as the most skilled close-quarters fighter, Kayden is also one of the top pilots in the program. Throughout his extensive training, his fellow brothers and sisters helped mould Kayden into the Spartan he is today.
==Biography==
===Early Life ===
Kayden Madras was born on September 27, 2511 on the colony world of Nyrus, located in the Leonidas System. He lived with his two sisters, Nicole and Isadora Madras, in a poor sector of New Kara, the sprawling capital megacity of Delora. His father had died in an Insurrectionist attack at a heavily populated underground train station and his mother was diagnosed with liver cancer weeks after. Kayden's mother asked her sister, Verlaine, a renowned former UNSC pilot, to raise the three children. Verlaine moved the trio out of their old home and into a coastal luxurious life on the coast of Sonastrand.
===Conscription and Training===
"You have been called upon to serve. You will be trained - and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies
- Dr. Catherine Halsey welcomes the abducted children to their new world.
Kayden was identified as a highly gifted child, and as a result, was designated as a potentially extraordinary soldier and a candidate for Doctor Catherine Halsey's SPARTAN-II program. He was taken at the age of six by the UNSC's Office of Naval Intelligence to be inducted into the SPARTAN-II program. He was then replaced with a flash clone and dispatched to Reach with the other Spartans in the Epsilon Eridani system. Kayden's flash clone would perish soon after his own kidnapping. Kayden was trained alongside the other Spartans at Reach by AI Déjà and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez who served as the Spartans' teacher and drill instructor, respectively. In the years that followed, Kayden was schooled in military strategy and tactics, weapons and history, and was given extreme physical training.
===ASTER===
On March 9th, 2525, Kayden and the other trainee's left Reach and were transported to Medical Facility Endurance above the planet to undergo a series of invasive procedures designed to chemically, physically and genetically augment their bodies. When the procedures had been completed, only a rough handful of the teenagers had ostensibly been augmented successfully. 
Kayden was amongst a handful of 'washouts' whose bodies rejected the augmentations and had to be retrained and re-augmented along with other augmentation washouts. After his re-augmentations, Kayden was paired up with Annie-148, Felix-094, Cal-141 and Tristan-105. The five Spartans then became White Team, with Kayden assigned to squad leader. The remaining reaugmented Spartans would form Red Team, with Jerome-092 as their leader. Before their deployment, Dr. Halsey debreifed the Spartans and informed them about the alien faction known as The Covenant, a religious syndicate with various alien species hellbent on the decimation of Humanity. 
On February 9th, 2531, Red Team and White Team would be deployed to separate human colonies, all clad in MJOLNIR Mark IV armour. 
===Operation: YELLOWJACKET===
On February 10th 2531, White Team was tasked with infiltrating and destroying a CCS-class battlecruiser known as ’Darkest Day’ that was stationed below orbit on the colony of New Forrester, extracting the Covenant victors following the battle that ended hours before White Team's arrival. Upon arrival from the UNSC Nightbourne, Echo-113 dropped White Team in one of the few remaining jungles just a few kilometres away from the cruiser's location. The hellish night sky and thick clouds of ash masked their approach as they stealthily neutralised Covenant infantry in the jungle who were en route to the cruiser. 
Once their path was clear, White Team soon arrived at the gravity lift, surrounded by more Covenant infantry moving supplies onboard the cruiser. The Spartans were able to eliminate the infantry and moved from cover to cover as they slayed the remaining forces. More reinforcements descended from the lift, but were put down to rest by the Spartans. Annie remained behind to guard their exit. The gravity lift arrived at a hangar bay, where the team were immediately attacked by Covenant infantry. With the element of surprise long gone, the Spartans pushed forward throughout the cruiser. They fought through several corridors before splitting up. 
Kayden and Cal eventyally found the ship's bridge and encountered the Shipmaster known as Fao 'Colomee. The Shipmaster barely had time to react to the Spartans' presence on the bridge as Cal blew out the back of his skull with her Sniper. They then proceeded to finished off the other Sangheili forces present on the bridge. Elsewhere, Felix and Tristan found their way to the reactor.  Once the charges were set, they rendezvoused at the hangar bay they emerged from, where Cal and Kayden were battling more infantry. As the waves of Covenant infantry began to soon dissipate, the team descended down the gravity well, making their way though the jungle to Echo-113's location. The pilot made its way back to the Nightbourne, which continued to monitor Darkest Day. Once Kayden and the others made their way to the brig, they looked outside at Darkest Day. Tristan then detonated the charges, blowing the entire ship and engulfing all of its remaining crew in the explosion. They had successfully sabotaged Darkest Day before it was able to enter slipspace.
===Operation: BREAKPOINT===
On October 21st 2548, White Team arrived at the outer colony of Khan, via a Longsword. The Spartans were tasked with eliminating Covenant forces that planned on activating forerunner weapons in one of Khan’s great underground caves. Utilising the HAVOC-class nuke they brought with them, they disposed of the forerunner weaponry. Shortly after emerging from the cave, another covenant fleet emerged from slipspace, deploying reinforcements to White Team’s location. Lionstand was dispatched from the UNSC Fallen Angel, a fleeing vessel from a battle on the other side of the planet, and made its way to extract White Team. Leaving the Longsword behind, White Team made their way to the L.Z. Cal and Kayden managed to make it onboard the Pelican, but Eric and Selena were unable to make it in time, forced to take cover from Covenant plasma fire. Lionstand returned to the Angel and jumped to a random location as per Cole Protocol, leaving Eric and Selena on the scarred planet.
=== Battle of Sigma Octanus IV ===
Kayden participated in the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, under Green Team. He was designated as Green-Three, following under Linda-058 into the suburbs surrounding Côte d'Azur. Their team scouted out the residential section of the city and found no survivors. They then helped escort the twenty civilian survivors that Red Team, led by Joshua-029, had found and were able to successfully evacuate them before Blue Team, led by John, detonated a HAVOK nuclear warhead in the heart of the city, destroying tens of thousands of Covenant forces stationed there. Green Team then arrived in the UNSC Leviathan shortly after via a Pelican and returned to Reach for debriefing.
===Fall of Reach===
On August 30th, 2552, Kayden was assigned to Red Team, callsign Red-Thirteen. He was assigned to Delta-Red. Kayden followed Will-043, Isaac-039, Vinh-030, Tristan-105 and Autumn-056. On their way to CASTLE Base, however, the team were separated by storm of Covenant infantry. Kayden, Oberon, Autumn and a handful of marines from Charlie Company stood their ground and held off the invading army. Kayden and Oberon were the only survivors. War Master, a pelican pilot from the UNSC Majestic, was sent to their position to evacuate them.
===Operation: HEARTBREAKER===
Around October 24th 2558, mere days before the Created Conflict, Kayden-127 and several fireteams of Spartan-IVs came under attack at ANUBIS Station whilst in a war games simulation. Fortunately, no lived were lost during the skirmish, although ANUBIS Station suffered slight damage. This attack was led by Ubio 'Sumai and Avastor, important figures from the Covenant-Splinter faction known as The Ascended. They have been locating forerunner artefacts across the galaxy to pinpoint the forerunner shield world known as Equinox. Given direct orders to pursue the attackers by Vice Admiral Quinn, Kayden was reunited with the crew aboard the UNSC Fallen Angel and hunted down their aggressors. 
===Battle for Installation 07===
=== Return ===
On July 7th, 2589, thirty-seven years after the Fall of Reach, Kayden returns to the newly-terraformed planet to assist in rebuilding.
=== Future ===
As of November 4th, 2650, Kayden is listed as MIA.
== Personality and Traits ==
"Superior battle tactics and hopeful demeanour. He's a reclaimer like no other."- 180 Attentive Reflex 
Kayden is a remarkable fighter and an intelligent individual, but amongst these traits, he's grown to become a remarkably adroit leader. He's very vigilant during operations. His service with the UNSC throughout the Human-Covenant War has left him as a highly decorated individual. The deaths of many allies throughout the Human-Covenant War, and the lessons he learned from them, helped mould Kayden into the spirited and hardened individual he is now. Unlike his fellow Spartan-IIs, Kayden learned fairly quickly how to adapt and communicate with other UNSC personnel.
== Skills and Abilities ==
Many Spartans noted that Kayden has the quickest reflexes amongst the Spartan-IIs, both physically and mentally. As well as being a skilful pilot, Kayden is a fierce zero-gravity combatant, but not nearly as deadly as Li-008.
== Physical Description ==
Kayden stands at 244.5 centimetres (8 ft 1in) in height with armour and 136 kilograms (299.8 lb) in mass without armour, making him one of the largest and strongest Spartan-IIs, as well as one of the tallest. He has brown skin with jet black hair. His eyes are dark brown. He has a small, yet noticeable facial scar that runs across his nose, which was caused during the late years of the ORION-II training.
== Equipment ==
Following his successful augmentation, Kayden was equipped with MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armour, using the standard Mark IV set. By 2535, Kayden wore the B variant of the MJOLNIR Mark IV armour. Later on, after upgrading to MJOLNIR Mark V armour by 2551, he would continue to use the B variant of the helmet. Upon his return to Earth following the end of the Human-Covenant War, Kayden and the rest of the active Spartan-IIs moved to the MJOLNIR Mark VI, where he would use the standard Mark VI. Eventually, Kayden's armour was upgraded to the Generation 2 platform which he continued to wear as of 2559.
== Production Notes ==
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