Here is the thing with the Mark of the Beast, God’s Word says it is going to happen. Not it might happen, but it is going to happen. God gave the revelation to John. ENCYCLOPEDIA. GAEA or GE (Gaia or Gê), the personification of the earth. She appears in the character of a divine being as early as the Homeric poems, for we read in. For more uses of the term John, see its disambiguation page. John. Height. 20. But most of all, do not underestimate him.”Master Chief Petty Officer. John- 1. 17, more commonly known as the Master Chief, is a SPARTAN- II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command who became one of the most important UNSC heroes during the Human- Covenant war. With over thirty years of active duty, he has become one of the most decorated war veterans in the United Nations Space Command, earning every known UNSC medal except the Prisoner of War Medallion. John is only ever referred to by name once in the Halo trilogy of games: by Cortana in the ending cutscene of Halo 3 prior to the credits. In Halo 4 - the beginning of the Reclaimer Saga, both Catherine Halsey and Cortana refer to him by name twice. Humans generally refer to him as the . The Covenant, aware of the lethality of the Spartans, refer to John exclusively as . However, after the Great Schism and the Sangheili alliance with the UNSC, both Thel 'Vadam and Rtas 'Vadum alternatively referred to him as . Forerunner enemies and their AI constructs generally refer to John as . Interestingly, the Ur- Didact in his apparent disdain for humanity, chose to curtly address John as . However, after John had successfully infiltrated his way into Mantle's Approach, the Ur- Didact chose to refer to him more respectfully as . Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research. Watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong, swift, and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Was I wrong?”— Cortana. John- 1. 17 as a young child, with Halsey deciding his fate with a 2. John was born in 2. Elysium city on the colony world of Eridanus II. He attended the Elysium City Primary Education Facility Number 1. As a child, John had brown hair, freckles, and a small gap between his front teeth. In a dream during cryo- sleep aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, John recalled that his mother . Parisa's father shot a photo of the two soon after that Parisa kept as a memento long after she thought John had died. Some nights, John would lay in grass fields with the girls and the three of them would look up at the stars together. Catherine Halsey identified John as an ideal physical and mental candidate for the 1. SPARTAN- II Program when he was six: he stood a head taller than the majority of his schoolmates, had greater physical proportions, and possessed greater strength, superior reflexes, and an aggressive drive for success. Halsey and Lieutenant Jacob Keyes visited Eridanus II in 2. In a final test of his viability as a candidate, he was asked to determine which side an old coin would land on. BOOK 1 THE ARGUMENT. This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plac't: Then. Renan and I halt in a small rock recess overlooking the north face of the mountain. Through blowing spindrift we can see Cory traversing another expanse of snow. He watched the coin as it flew in the air and caught it before it could land, correctly stating which side was face- up and which was the side of the eagle. John was the first candidate Dr. Halsey and Lieutenant Keyes studied. Later that same year, John and 7. John, along with the other candidates, was taken to the planet of Reach. Halsey informed them of the SPARTAN- II Program and how they would be . For eight years he learned history, military strategy, weapons and received physical fitness training. Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the. Narbonne, horrea. Flavius Josephus? Arch of Hadrian, from the east. Caparcotna, seen from Megiddo. Temple of Venus. Suq al-Awty, church. Tombstone of Aurelius. Muawiyah I (Arabic: . The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a Catholic Church tradition, are said to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. The creation of. Early on, he bonded with Kelly and Sam, who would become two of the few close friends that he would ever have. But he is the bravest, and quite possibly the luckiest. And in my opinion, he is the best.”— Dr. Catherine Halsey to Cortana. John quickly proved himself to be one of the program's top candidates during his training. Halsey and Chief Mendez identified him as one of four emerging leaders within the Spartan- II group, along with Kurt- 0. Jerome- 0. 92, and Frederic- 1. Halsey most strongly expressed her belief in John by stating that he had the skills and natural ability to lead the entire Spartan- II group. However, Mendez disagreed and instead believed that Kurt would fulfill that role. The children also had instructions to leave the last child arriving behind lest they receive painful punishment; John- 1. After telling the Spartans where to meet, the Spartans looked to him as their leader, a role he was initially surprised to receive but eventually accepted. When the group came upon the Pelican, it was guarded by armed men. Those men were actually UNSC Marines but were not in uniform; the Spartans therefore mistook them for a hostile threat. John showed early acumen in critical thinking and tactics, not wishing to take for granted that guards would be friendly toward them. He came up with a plan to take the men down, capture the dropship, and ensure the safe extraction of every team member, as he made sure he was the last person aboard. To do so he ended up hijacking the dropship with the help of D. Chief Mendez was visibly displeased by John's having attacked his Marines and leaving no- one behind, but both Mendez and Halsey recognized John's initiative and promoted him to squad leader. Thereafter, despite other Spartans' rising in rank and at least a couple rising to lead their own teams, he remained the de facto leader of the Spartans as a whole. He also became the established leader of the Spartan- II Blue Team. These procedures killed 3. Spartan trainees. John was one of 3. Spartans who survived the process unscathed, while the rest who could still operate were moved to positions in the Office of Naval Intelligence. At only fourteen years old, John was said to have the body of an eighteen- year old Olympic athlete; the augmentation process hastened their reflexes, increased their strength, enhanced their eyesight, and rendered their bones nearly unbreakable. After their augmentation procedures, John and the other Spartans were transferred to the Atlas in order to recover in a microgravity environment. Four ODSTs confronted John during his first visit to the Atlas' gym; their sergeant then ordered the five of them into the boxing ring. In the ensuing fight, John killed two of the ODSTs, and left the others severely injured, an incident which quickly blossomed into major resentment for the whole SPARTAN Program throughout the Marine Corps. According to Major. Antonio Silva, . When you have a young man who can rise up from something like this and do what John has done.. He was shot in the side without heavy injury while leading his squad to capture United Rebel Front leader Colonel. Robert Watts. The mission casualty list was 1. John received a Purple Heart. The UNSC Commonwealth, under the command of Captain. Wallace, soon brought the Spartans and Dr. Halsey to the Damascus Testing Facility at Chi Ceti, where they received the Mjolnir Mark IV Powered Assault Armor. When a Covenant vessel, the Unrelenting, attacked the Commonwealth, John and the Spartan- IIs engaged in their first battle with the Covenant. The Spartans used thrusters to launch from a Pelican dropship. Each Spartan carried a HAVOK Nuke. Only John, Sam, and Kelly reached the ship. Sam's death profoundly affected John: it proved to him that the Covenant could be defeated, but only at the cost of many lives. The UNSC had suspected the safety of the planet for several days and garrisoned it with Marines and ODSTs. The Academy was destroyed almost as soon as the attack began, but Blue Team was able to deploy to the surface undetected mere hours later. John fought to the Academy ruins and protected the cadets by fighting off Covenant forces while waiting for evacuation by Kelly- 0. Frederic- 1. 04. He first met Thomas Lasky, who was a young cadet at the time. Catherine Halsey. The UNSC deployed a prowler stealth corvette to transport Spartans who would infiltrate the Covenant fleet as it was forced to exit slipspace in order to traverse a stellar magnetic field. The Spartans were given ten minutes to complete the rescue mission or be caught in the annihilation of Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence, likely only possible through the use of a prototype NOVA Bomb. The team infiltrated the fleet with OF9. EVA . Solomon detected Catherine Halsey's beacon from a Covenant CCS- class Battlecruiser that had its hangar bay shields down. John- 1. 17 intuitively voiced his concern about this irregularity but chose to disregard it. Solomon infiltrated the vessel with cover from Kelly and quickly discovered the source: a Covenant antimatter charge. A further scan resulted in positive readings from all enemy vessels from which John deduced that Catherine was held on the Covenant flagship at the heart of the fleet. The Spartans then successfully fought their way through the Covenant's Seraph formations, and sheared through the massive vessel's hangar bay energy shields with a large barrage of explosive ordnance, gauss cannon rounds, and their own Booster Frame's as projectiles to infiltrate the Covenant CAS- class Assault Carrier, the Resplendent Fervor. Upon entry John, Kelly and Fred protected themselves with a Bubble Shield. The clearing smoke revealed surrounding Covenant forces in the hangar bay. Ambushed by Sangheili Energy Swordsmen, Frederic locked the nearest doorway behind John and Kelly to engage them with combat knives alone. The Supreme Commander Luro 'Taralumee initiated a scuttle of the rear of the ship to escape the Spartans. Forced to leap from the section disconnected from the Assault Carrier, Kelly grabbed John's hand and threw him forward using inertia to increase his speed toward the escaping ship but thus threw herself back into space: John reached the ship. Thel disarmed John and kicked him to the ground, but he was forced out of the duel when his Fleetmaster separated the lower section of the Assault Carrier to kill the Spartan, thereby pulling Thel back into the upper section; both combatants survived unscathed. John and Halsey descended into the ship and commandeered a weaponless Covenant shuttle craft.
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