Edgar-150

Edgar-150 was a SPARTAN-II candidate. Along with the other candidates, he was abducted in 2517. In 2525 his body rejected the augmentation procedures and he died as a result.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Conscription[edit]

Around July, 2517, Doctor Catherine Halsey and her team processed the one hundred fifty candidates of the Spartan-II program with Edgar being one of them.^[2]

On September 10, 2517, Edgar-150 was selected as part of the final seventy-five candidates for the Spartan-II program, where Doctor Catherine Halsey gave the order to the "Dumb" Artificial intelligence Déjà to give the order round them up. Several retrieval teams proceeded to kidnap and replace the children, including Edgar, with flash clones,^[3] with the children placed into cryostatis and rushed straight to the planet Reach.^[4]

Training[edit]

Once awoken from cryostasis on Reach at the Reach Naval Officers Academy, shortly before 2300 hours on September 23, Edgar and seventy-four other children were led into an amphitheater through four sets of double doors, each accompanied by a naval drill instructor. With Doctor Catherine Halsey, and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez waiting for them on the stage. Halsey proceeded to tell the Spartans the truth about why they were taken and that they will be busy the following day.^[4]

Around 0530 hours on September 24, Edgar and the other candidates were woken and were formally introduced to Chief Petty Officer Mendez and the rest of the instructors. The seventy-five candidates proceeded to go though their first day of training. Mendez and the instructors put the candidates through exercises, eventually taking them for a run around the campus taking them to the entrance of the Naval Academy. At the end of the run the candidates were introduced to the Artificial Intelligence Déjà, who stated she will be the candidates teacher, and began to teach them for the day after they entered the building. Déjà proceeded to teach the candidates about Thermopylae, and the 300 Spartans who battled the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae. After class, the candidates were taken by Chief Petty Officer Mendez to "the playground", where the play played a game of Ring the Bell with the losing team not getting dinner, where Edgar's team didn't lose the game.^[5]

The next day on September 25, the candidates were taught about wolves and how they work together to get their pray from Déjà, when played Ring the Bell in the playground after class.^[5] On September 28, 2517; the Spartans were given hair cuts.^[6]

During one of the training operations on July 12, 2519, each Spartan trainee was dropped off at a different point in the preserve and was tasked with reaching an extraction point; the last Spartan to reach the point was to be left behind and forced to walk back. After being dropped off, the Spartans regrouped and made their way to the extraction point together. Upon reaching the point, the Spartans encountered a squad of UNSC Marines. When candidate Samuel-034 feigned an injury before the Marines, one of them moved to attack him. However, as part of their plan, the rest of the Spartans attacked the Marine by throwing rocks at him and knocked him unconscious. The Spartans then enacted a similar plan on the rest of the Marines and eventually defeated the entire squad. Afterwards, the Spartans reached a D96-TCE Albatross and, with Déjà's help, commandeered the dropship and left the training preserve.^[7]

Around September 27, 2520, Carris-137 accidentally killed one of the candidate handlers, causing the first casualty of the program, as a result all the candidates attended the handlers memorial services, and Doctor Halsey encouraged Déjà to emphasize the history of military training and how accidents happen to the candidates.^[8]

On August 22, 2524, the Spartans were rerouted to a Special Forces camp on the other side of reach due to interested parties within the Office of Naval Intelligence.^[9]

On March 9, 2525, Edgar and the rest of the Spartan-II candidates underwent their augmentation procedures at Medical Facility Endurance orbiting Reach.^[10] During the procedures, his body rejected the augmentations and he died.^[1] He and the others who died were honored with a military funeral aboard the carrier, the UNSC Atlas, in the Lambda Serpentis system.^[10]

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