SPARTAN-049

Spartan David-049, real name David Phoenix, is a Spartan-II supersoldier of UNSC Navy's Special Weapons division that was recruited by ONI to carry out infiltration missions and assassinations for ONI and UNSC personnel suspected on feeding classified information to the Insurrectionists.
== Overview ==
David-049 received following the completion of his training as a SPARTAN-II, however, David was contacted by an section of ONI who wished to employ him as an infiltrator. Following his augmentations; covertly ONI helped him leave the facility which resulted in him being listed by the program as a deserter and in order to save face; any evidence of David being apart of the program was erased and other Spartans were ordered to never disclose David's identity as a fully trained SPARTAN or a SPARTAN in general.
David was noted to being antisocial - a trait common among SPARTAN-IIs, however, his antisocial personality was suspected to be a result of his introverted personality. 
== Biography ==
=== Early life and conscription ===
David Phoenix was born on the UNSC Sword of Corbulo - a Phoenix-class colony ship - to a civilian doctor and an UNSC Admiral. The affair resulted in the Admiral receive reprimands for fraternising while on mission while the civilian doctor was discharged and sent back to Titan to raise her son. David was abducted on 2517 and sent to Reach, however, David often characterised Halsey as rescuing him as his mother few days earlier was murdered forcing him to flee his home and go into hiding. Despite this; he was located and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II program nonetheless.
During his time in the Program; David attempted to keep to himself and disliked spending more time than necessary with others. The trainers attempted to break his introverted. 
In 2525; following augmentations, ONI conscripted David into their service and tasked with infiltration missions, however, his recruitment took place before he was outfitted with Mjolnir armor and as a result for the first three weeks of his time as an infiltrator for ONI; he was conducting missions in a modified ODST armor.
=== Human-Covenant War ===
====First Fleet of Glorious Consequence====
Following the Fall of Circinius IV, on June 29th, 2526, David-095 along with Axle Lock (The cousin of Jameson Locke's father), Luna Crespo (the Aunt of Michael Crespo), and Meredith Keyes (not related to Jacob Keyes or Miranda Keyes in any capacity) were sent on an infiltration mission to the location of First Fleet of Glorious Consequence and were tasked with infiltrating the CSO-class supercarrier Indomitable Faith that was located just outside the planet's orbit. They were tasked on locating battle data and other information on members of the Covenant.
David and his team were able to maintain stealth for most of the infiltration, but they were discovered by a Yonhet that was on the Supercarrier due to the Fleet Master's suspicion on Forerunner tech being on the planet. (According to halopedia; the Yonhet are known for their skills at acquiring a large variety of items that were considered difficult to locate gave them flexibility and a high degree of tolerance within the Covenant). Luna shot and killed Yonhet, however, due being near a ledge at the time; he plummeted to his death and fell before the feet of a couple of Sangheili. 
Axle and Luna were killed in the ensuring battle. David and Meredith managed to push through and managed to acquire information on the Yonhet, Kigyar, and Unggoy. However, they weren't able to get all the necessary data due as David declared the mission compromised due to the relentless retaliation of the Covenant forces and they managed escape from the Indomitable Faith on a Type-25 Troop Carrier by forcing an couple of Unggoy at gunpoint to pilot the ship.
The troop carrier was almost shot down in the escape and one of ONI's stealth craft was able to retrieve them after they forced the unggoy to use one of Circinius IV's moons to elude their pursuers. The Unggoy were also taken aboard the ship and became POWs to the UNSC. 
The events of the mission was never disclosed to the public, however, ONI did share their ability to acquire some data to help the war efforts and refused to disclose anything other than what was necessary. However, ONI decided to reveal the details of the mission.
=== Post-war ===
====Spartan Operations transferal ====
In 2554; ONI proceeded to approve David's request to be transferred over to Spartan Operations. David received some mandatory training as part of his recruitment to Spartan Ops and completed a number of war games.
====Adelaide Rebellion====
David-095 was invited to join Fireteam Baldr and on October 31st, 2555, they arrived on the Outer Colony planet; Adelaide where they encountered a recent Insurrectionist group known as the Outer Corporation. The Outer Corporation not only wants "out", but was to establish a form of Corporate Republicanism on a select few worlds. It was formed by a former UNSC Marine that was blinded during the Battle for Earth. 
====Encountering 343 Guilty Spark====
Sometime after the Mission to Mount Kilimanjaro; David encountered the crew of Ace of Spades, however, he concluded that the crew wasn't a substantial enough threat and allowed the pass by without incident. While he spoke with Rion Forge; he had a short conversation with 343 Guilty Spark. David and his team vacated the area promptly.
== Personality and traits ==
Originally, David-049 is an introvert and is quite independent. However, over the course of the Human-Covenant War and his time with ONI; be became calm and collected under pressure. Additionally, he became some secretive as per a trait of the division of ONI he worked with. However, he was still relatively short with people as he spoke no more than he needed to and only answered closed questions with closed responses. Following his time with Fireteam Baldr; he became less secretive but remain calm and collected under the pressure.