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Emil Burton
Wall Rose, Trost District
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With no answer to his yelling from Lauren, be it from her shock or her inability to hear him, Emil released his hooks from the wall and pushed his feet off of it hard. Falling from the wall Emil pumped the gas and flipped himself halfway over so that he was falling head first and looking out over Trost, 'This has to be a sick joke.' he thought as he fired his hooks from above himself into the building nearest to him. With a stomach lurching change of orientation, Emil swung between the building and came grinding to a halt. With the simple touch of a trigger, Emil's hooks released and he fell the meter and a half to the ground with a solid thud.
He turned quickly back toward the wall and ran to it. Desperately searching above, hoping that his comrades would come down from the wall, return to form up and receive their orders at the headquarters building. He brought his hands to his mouth, about to yell to those he knew were still above him, "The--"
"Emil?!" The voice came just a moment before Jade slammed into him, her arms gripping him close, trapping him where he stood as his arms shot out to his sides hovering in the air as he was unsure of what to do with her.
Jades questions came quickly, desperately to his ears, "Jade there's more on the..." he began to answer before she pulled himself from him and seemed to turn her gaze by to the wall where she quickly spotted Lauren. Then he heard the voice of Gabriel from somewhere above, the Giant had managed to survive and was doing what he had become known for in training. Taking charge. With Gabriel's call it quickly became evident just how many cadets had survived as here and there one or two cadets would burst forth from the smoke above in and make their way back to the rally point at the headquarters.
"Jade we've got to go..." he'd say from behind Jade as he grabbed her wrist and began to pull her toward the city, "Lauren we're leaving come on!" he yelled over his shoulder to the cadet high on the wall while he pulled out a gear handle with his free hand, "We've got to regroup, the Garrison has a plan for this, they'll know what to do..." he said, trying to reassure Jade as he towed her along although his voice faltered a bit at the end.
If possible I'd love to have Emil be with Grant!
@LetMeDoStuff
If we're going off of what I had put in Discord a long time back, which at the time and even some time after seemed to be what everyone had agreed on then it was as follows:
1. Tanner
2. Sano
3. Mora
4. Gabriel
5. Reese
6. Jade
7. Lauren
8.Grant
9. Olivia
10. Emil
If you want reasons as to why I can give what I'm pretty sure they were when I originally made this.
Also what sort of help do you need?
If we're going off of what I had put in Discord a long time back, which at the time and even some time after seemed to be what everyone had agreed on then it was as follows:
1. Tanner
2. Sano
3. Mora
4. Gabriel
5. Reese
6. Jade
7. Lauren
8.Grant
9. Olivia
10. Emil
If you want reasons as to why I can give what I'm pretty sure they were when I originally made this.
Also what sort of help do you need?
Cpl Edwin Tai
UNSC Eternity Abroad---------------------------------
"Get yer grubby hands off that!" Corporal Tai yelled as he leaned across one of the many tables in the ready-room, "You know how fucking hot that shit burns? It'd go right through the deck and out the bottom of the ship in a minute flat and their ain't nothing damage control could do to stop it, it even burns without oxygen so spacing a deck would be useless and your sorry ass would be stuck in the room with all this shit you caused going on!" Tai yelled as he grabbed his only thermite grenade from the Private at his front. With a flick of the wrist Tai sent the grenade spinning into the air, the distraught look on the Private's face grew as Tai seemed to miss catching the grenade and it struck the floor with a thud. For a moment all those around him were silent, and even a pin drop could have been heard in their ready room. Then Tai began laughing.
Banging an open palm on the table Tai would laugh as the Marines around him seemed to awkwardly shuffle in place and begin to go back to preparing for their imminent drop, "Don't worry about it, that shit wouldn't go off unless I really wanted it to." he'd reassure the now wide-eyed private in front of him before retrieving the grenade and placing it in a vest pocket.
Not waiting for the Privates response, Tai turned to a locker on the wall that read "CPL TAI". With a few button presses and fingerprint the locker unlocked with a click and Tai gave it a kick causing the door to slowly swing open. He reached inside and grabbed the rest of his armor and a few other small belongings before heading down the hall of the ready-room to the armory at the far side.
"Name and serial number, hand on the scanner." the voice of the armorer beckoned to him even before he had really reached the armory window.
"Tai, Edwin M35886-21M35-13257-AA/S." Tai stated as he placed his hand on the scanner. The armored seemed to mumble at a display that Tai couldn't read and moved with a bit of a purpose as he disappeared into the depths of the armory. After nearly three minutes of waiting Tai began to hear what sounded like an unusually laden cart being moved through a tight space, the incessant clatter of a nut that wasn't quite snug and the ever so subtle clanging of metal hitting metal when it wasn't supposed to gave way to the armored returning witha cart full of goodies.
"MA5B... M6E... One satchel charge... and a good old M41 with six rockets... Just what the fuck do you do again?" the armorer asked in his monotone voice that made him seem as uninterested as could be.
"Anti-armor." Tai replied as he adjusted the strap on the M41 and loaded to of the six rockets into the chambers. Ensuring his rocket launcher was on safe he slung it over his back and took the M6E, loading a magazine and checking its safety again he shoved it into the holster at his right thigh and reached for the satchel whcih he attached to the back of his armor at the belt line a little offset as to allow him to sit comfortably. He grabbed the MA5B and loaded a magazine before placing it back on the table.
"The rest of them." the armorer said as he placed a few stacks of magazines on the windows counter.
"Appreciate it." he said as he began stuffing the magazines into their respective pouches. Rifle in hand, M41 on his back, and feeling over a hundred pounds heavier, Tai made his way to the hangar that had been designated as his teams departure point with a smile on his face. Nothing made him feel safer than high explosives.
///Fetching Enlisted Service Record M35886-21M35-13257-AA/S...
///Record Found... Query 424...
Name:
Edwin Tai
Age:
28
Gender:
Male
Homeworld:
Mars, Olympus Highlands
Rank:
Corporal
Role:
Anti-Armor/Sapper
Experience:
Seven years as a UNSC Marine. Following his firing from the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards, with no other options left to him due to the circumstances of his firing Tai enlisted in the UNSC Marines at the age of twenty one in the year 2519. Tai went on to take part in Operation: TREBUCHET in the Eridanis System as a part of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force, facing Insurrectionist forces over the course of the next four years before being reassigned to Reach following injuries sustained in combat.
Bio:
Born in a suburb of the Olympus Highlands; located on, around, and even under Olympus Mons; Edwin Tai was raised as an only child by his parents Melissa and Jeong Tai both of which were biology professors at a university located an hours travel from the Olympus Highlands. Although raised by two successful individuals, Edwin found himself mixed up in the wrong crowd by the end of of his highschool education. His parents, not very happy with his life choices and the fact his grades were not high enough to land him in any of the very competitive universities on Mars pulled a few strings with some of the professors they knew in the School of Engineering at their university and landed the then delinquent Tai a job working in orbit at the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards.
For the next three years Tai would work in orbit above Mars, the realization that he couldn't be the spoiled and delinquent child he had been in school hit him quickly as everyday he watched his home pass below him. Soon enough Tai found himself taking pride in his work, his a hands taking part in the construction of many of the great ships of the UNSC and CMA Naval forces. Apt with a welding torch, Tai was quickly placed in an apprenticeship position and expected to learn the trade within his first year. By the end of the year the Master welder that Tai had been shadowing decided that he was knowledgeable enough to work on simpler welds without supervision. Satisfied, the yard foreman would cut Tai loose on smaller welds and expect him to continue following Journeymen and Master welders whenever his welds were complete.
Following an unfortunate accident on a CMA vessel that resulted in the death of twelve CMA sailors when welds gave way to hard vacuum under a high-g maneuver, Tai and two Journeymen that had worked on that portion of the ship were let go in order for Reyes-McLees to hold onto the trust of the UNSC and CMA.
Out of a job, and his parents now unwilling to house him, Tai found himself outside of a UNSC Marine Corps recruiting depot and signing his life away by the end of the month. Following graduation from boot camp, Tai was assigned to the forces that were currently taking part in Operation TREBUCHET as a replacement for a recently injured Marine. Taking part in a handful of smaller operations against the Insurrectionist forces.
On Eridanus II on the 19th of March, 2523, a then fireteam leader Corporal Tai would find his Warthog mounted patrol of two fireteams ambushed in a small farming hamlet. Following an improvised explosive devices detonation beneath the lead Warthog to open the ambush, Corporal Tai and his fireteam would find themselves pinned by effective fire from two heavily entrenched machine gun positions at nearly one hundred fifty meters to their left. Leading a desperate diversionary assault with one other member of his fireteam, Corporal Tai and Private First Class Leads would draw the entrenched positions fires away from the two Warthogs long enough for the remaining fireteam members to retrieve the two pinned survivors from the Warthogs wreckage. Tai and Leads would go on to successfully destroy one of the two machine gun nests with a set of five bound together grenades before being pinned by the second machine gun.
Pinned by the now destroyed first machine gun nest, Tai and Leads would attempt to make their way back to their Warthog after laying smoke but would both be hit by the random fire coming through the smoke screen. Following what would turn out to be a forty minute long fire fight which culminated in the destruction of the second machine gun nest by a flight of UNSC Hornets, Tai and Leads would be CASEVAC'd by Pelican Gunship. Corporal Tai would be awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for his actions that day as well as a Purple Heart for his injuries while Private First Class Leads would be posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for outstanding heroism in the face of overwhelming odds and a Purple Heart for his ultimate sacrifice during the ambush.
Corporal Tai was sent to Reach to recover in the more capable medical facilities there where he would remain until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. Following his full recuperation Tai was offered the chance to attend the Marine Sapper course, where he would learn how to effectively using many forms of explosives and weapons systems to breach buildings, deny areas, reclaim areas, and destroy enemy forces in battle. Following his successful graduation he was promoted to Sergeant, which would be taken away just six months later following a bar fight with a Second Lieutenant that resulted in a large amount of property damage.
Personality:
Tai can normally be found pouring over the latest in available data sets on Covenant weapons systems or reading some sort of technical specifications manual. He is known to be sarcastic at all times and tends to get right to the problem at hand when in combat. Outside of combat Tai is rather easy to approach, easy going and sociable, Tai has no problem putting a stop on what he is doing to be an ear for a younger Marine or Sailor and enjoys the company of others even while reading. Tai also a tendency to make distasteful jokes with great timing, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Appearance
Gear:
MA5B ICWS
M6E Magnum
1x Thermite Grenade
1x Satchel Charge
M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon
UNSC Battle Dress Uniform
Multi-Tool
Standard Issue Combat Knife
Relationships:
///Error Fetching Results...
Awards and Accommodations:
01FEB2523 -- Good Conduct Medal
01JUN2523 -- Purple Heart for Injuries sustained in support of Operation: TREBUCHET on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for Heroic Service while serving on Epsilon Eridanus on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Operation: TREBUCHET Participation Medal
01NOV2523 -- Sapper Designation earned after successful graduation from course located on Reach.
24MAY2524 -- Non-Judicial Punishment resulting in demotion from Sergeant to Corporal- Assaulting or Willfully Disobeying a Superior Officer
///Record Found... Query 424...
Name:
Edwin Tai
Age:
28
Gender:
Male
Homeworld:
Mars, Olympus Highlands
Rank:
Corporal
Role:
Anti-Armor/Sapper
Experience:
Seven years as a UNSC Marine. Following his firing from the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards, with no other options left to him due to the circumstances of his firing Tai enlisted in the UNSC Marines at the age of twenty one in the year 2519. Tai went on to take part in Operation: TREBUCHET in the Eridanis System as a part of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force, facing Insurrectionist forces over the course of the next four years before being reassigned to Reach following injuries sustained in combat.
Bio:
Born in a suburb of the Olympus Highlands; located on, around, and even under Olympus Mons; Edwin Tai was raised as an only child by his parents Melissa and Jeong Tai both of which were biology professors at a university located an hours travel from the Olympus Highlands. Although raised by two successful individuals, Edwin found himself mixed up in the wrong crowd by the end of of his highschool education. His parents, not very happy with his life choices and the fact his grades were not high enough to land him in any of the very competitive universities on Mars pulled a few strings with some of the professors they knew in the School of Engineering at their university and landed the then delinquent Tai a job working in orbit at the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards.
For the next three years Tai would work in orbit above Mars, the realization that he couldn't be the spoiled and delinquent child he had been in school hit him quickly as everyday he watched his home pass below him. Soon enough Tai found himself taking pride in his work, his a hands taking part in the construction of many of the great ships of the UNSC and CMA Naval forces. Apt with a welding torch, Tai was quickly placed in an apprenticeship position and expected to learn the trade within his first year. By the end of the year the Master welder that Tai had been shadowing decided that he was knowledgeable enough to work on simpler welds without supervision. Satisfied, the yard foreman would cut Tai loose on smaller welds and expect him to continue following Journeymen and Master welders whenever his welds were complete.
Following an unfortunate accident on a CMA vessel that resulted in the death of twelve CMA sailors when welds gave way to hard vacuum under a high-g maneuver, Tai and two Journeymen that had worked on that portion of the ship were let go in order for Reyes-McLees to hold onto the trust of the UNSC and CMA.
Out of a job, and his parents now unwilling to house him, Tai found himself outside of a UNSC Marine Corps recruiting depot and signing his life away by the end of the month. Following graduation from boot camp, Tai was assigned to the forces that were currently taking part in Operation TREBUCHET as a replacement for a recently injured Marine. Taking part in a handful of smaller operations against the Insurrectionist forces.
On Eridanus II on the 19th of March, 2523, a then fireteam leader Corporal Tai would find his Warthog mounted patrol of two fireteams ambushed in a small farming hamlet. Following an improvised explosive devices detonation beneath the lead Warthog to open the ambush, Corporal Tai and his fireteam would find themselves pinned by effective fire from two heavily entrenched machine gun positions at nearly one hundred fifty meters to their left. Leading a desperate diversionary assault with one other member of his fireteam, Corporal Tai and Private First Class Leads would draw the entrenched positions fires away from the two Warthogs long enough for the remaining fireteam members to retrieve the two pinned survivors from the Warthogs wreckage. Tai and Leads would go on to successfully destroy one of the two machine gun nests with a set of five bound together grenades before being pinned by the second machine gun.
Pinned by the now destroyed first machine gun nest, Tai and Leads would attempt to make their way back to their Warthog after laying smoke but would both be hit by the random fire coming through the smoke screen. Following what would turn out to be a forty minute long fire fight which culminated in the destruction of the second machine gun nest by a flight of UNSC Hornets, Tai and Leads would be CASEVAC'd by Pelican Gunship. Corporal Tai would be awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for his actions that day as well as a Purple Heart for his injuries while Private First Class Leads would be posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for outstanding heroism in the face of overwhelming odds and a Purple Heart for his ultimate sacrifice during the ambush.
Corporal Tai was sent to Reach to recover in the more capable medical facilities there where he would remain until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. Following his full recuperation Tai was offered the chance to attend the Marine Sapper course, where he would learn how to effectively using many forms of explosives and weapons systems to breach buildings, deny areas, reclaim areas, and destroy enemy forces in battle. Following his successful graduation he was promoted to Sergeant, which would be taken away just six months later following a bar fight with a Second Lieutenant that resulted in a large amount of property damage.
Personality:
Tai can normally be found pouring over the latest in available data sets on Covenant weapons systems or reading some sort of technical specifications manual. He is known to be sarcastic at all times and tends to get right to the problem at hand when in combat. Outside of combat Tai is rather easy to approach, easy going and sociable, Tai has no problem putting a stop on what he is doing to be an ear for a younger Marine or Sailor and enjoys the company of others even while reading. Tai also a tendency to make distasteful jokes with great timing, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Appearance
Gear:
MA5B ICWS
M6E Magnum
1x Thermite Grenade
1x Satchel Charge
M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon
UNSC Battle Dress Uniform
Multi-Tool
Standard Issue Combat Knife
Relationships:
///Error Fetching Results...
Awards and Accommodations:
01FEB2523 -- Good Conduct Medal
01JUN2523 -- Purple Heart for Injuries sustained in support of Operation: TREBUCHET on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for Heroic Service while serving on Epsilon Eridanus on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Operation: TREBUCHET Participation Medal
01NOV2523 -- Sapper Designation earned after successful graduation from course located on Reach.
24MAY2524 -- Non-Judicial Punishment resulting in demotion from Sergeant to Corporal- Assaulting or Willfully Disobeying a Superior Officer
Emil Burton
Atop Wall Rose, Trost District
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Emil was crouched next to a crate full of cannon shells, delicately sorting through the strands of hay that kept the shells from touching as he felt deep into the crate to figure out how deep the shells were stacked. He nodded to himself before writing down a small number "12" on the inventory sheet he had on the clipboard in his hands. He placed the lid back on the crate before kneeling a bit further down to read the crate number and other information from its markings. Around him were the other cadets who had managed to make it to graduation.
Emil quickly moved his eyes over the group from his crouching position by the crate. They'd all grown quite a lot, and to say the least the majority of the younger ones couldn't be considered kids, at least not anymore. He stopped on Lauren, the brown haired girl had grown quite a bit. Gained almost a foot from what he remembered of her, it made him a little jealous in honesty as he had seemed to remain the same height over the three years despite being one of the oldest among the group. But that wasn't all, she was someone with a purpose. Driven by something bigger than herself. What it was though, Emil hadn't quite figured out, and she was one of the better cadets when it came to 3DMG use. His view remained on Lauren for a moment before he noticed her turning her attention to him and he quickly got back to looking at the clipboard in his hands.
Emil slowly looked up, ensuring that Lauren was no longer looking his way, 'Coast seems clear...' he thought to himself as he moved across the group once more. Gabriel seemed to be just as polarizing as he'd always been with Olivia and Reese at his side as they went about their duties. He had some worries for all three of them. From what he knew of them he was pretty sure they had their hearts set on joining the Scouting Legion, and if training had taught him anything it was that they'd either have to get leagues better with their gear or die in the process because there was no way they'd be able to cut it versus anything more than a training titan.
Then there were Tanner and Grant. Grant was a bit more of an enigma than Tanner, but both were about as confusing as they come. Three long years of training side by side with these folks and Emil had learned little about Grant, be it from Emil's own circumstances and being away when the boy did talk to everyone, or from the fact they were both the loners of the group, Emil knew only that he seemed to ahve something he was striving for. Something important to him, or to someone else. Tanner however was a different story, the kid was the closest of any of them to beating Emil with the gear, and he was sure he'd be able to hold his own versus a titan. Which was a relief seeing as he knew for a fact that Tanner was set on joining the Scouts.
'They're all crazy...' Emil thought as he looked out over the land that was once theirs on the Wall Maria side of Wall Rose, 'They all want to go out there and throw their lives away...'.
There was a blinding flash directly in front of him causing Emil to shut his eyes tight, the white flash still visible through his eyelids even with them shut tight. When he opened them after the light had passed he was greeted by the inhuman face of the titan from so many years ago, its face devoid of flesh and it's mouth stuck in an unwavering smile. Gasping for a moment he watched the massive titan raise it's arm and bring it sweeping down on the batteries atop the wall. With no noise but the crashing of the steel tracks and the rubble of the wall as the Colossal Titan brought its arm his way Emil stood and broke into a sprint for the Trost side of the wall, "Seventeen." he'd say to himself as time seemed to move in slow motion. He had seventeen meters to cover with just seconds left before the Colossal titans arm would reach him and send him splattered across the sky. The odds stacked against him and his fellow cadets, Emil reached for his gear handle as he sprinted. Not taking it from its holster he pulled on the gas handle as hard as he could and the noise of the gas burst to life behind him, the jet of the gas at its full output sent Emil roaring forward and it took everything he had to not fall and be pushed by the gas in random directions to then be finished by the Colossal titan.
The gas giving him the extra speed he needed to escape the Colossal's attack, Emil shot awkwardly over the side of Wall Rose, his body spinning as the gas sent him forward uncontrolled. The hiss of the gas behind him ended as he took the few precious moments he couldn't have wasted atop the wall to grab the handles out of their holsters. Spinning his upper body he would now be facing the Wall. He shot his hooks for the wall and they landed and stuck as intended, with another press of the gas handle Emil arrested his fall enough to make the jolt at the end more tolerable and came to a skidding halt along the side of the wall. Then came the debris from above. Emil dropped his legs to lay flat along the wall as the rock and steel showered down from above. After just a few seconds it was all over and Emil was back on his feet against the wall looking up.
He turned to his left to see Lauren slightly farther above him but well within earshot, he looked around for others who had escaped the attack but didn't notice anyone to his right. As he continued to search he'd call out to Lauren, "Anyone else make it?" his voice sounded small, distant, he wasn't sure if it was because of the adrenaline or because he was afraid of what was to come, "What do we do now?!" he yelled again.
///Fetching Enlisted Service Record M35886-21M35-13257-AA/S...
///Record Found... Query 424...
Name:
Edwin Tai
Age:
28
Gender:
Male
Homeworld:
Mars, Olympus Highlands
Rank:
Corporal
Role:
Anti-Armor/Sapper
Experience:
Seven years as a UNSC Marine. Following his firing from the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards, with no other options left to him due to the circumstances of his firing Tai enlisted in the UNSC Marines at the age of twenty one in the year 2519. Tai went on to take part in Operation: TREBUCHET in the Eridanis System as a part of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force, facing Insurrectionist forces over the course of the next four years before being reassigned to Reach following injuries sustained in combat.
Bio:
Born in a suburb of the Olympus Highlands; located on, around, and even under Olympus Mons; Edwin Tai was raised as an only child by his parents Melissa and Jeong Tai both of which were biology professors at a university located an hours travel from the Olympus Highlands. Although raised by two successful individuals, Edwin found himself mixed up in the wrong crowd by the end of of his highschool education. His parents, not very happy with his life choices and the fact his grades were not high enough to land him in any of the very competitive universities on Mars pulled a few strings with some of the professors they knew in the School of Engineering at their university and landed the then delinquent Tai a job working in orbit at the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards.
For the next three years Tai would work in orbit above Mars, the realization that he couldn't be the spoiled and delinquent child he had been in school hit him quickly as everyday he watched his home pass below him. Soon enough Tai found himself taking pride in his work, his a hands taking part in the construction of many of the great ships of the UNSC and CMA Naval forces. Apt with a welding torch, Tai was quickly placed in an apprenticeship position and expected to learn the trade within his first year. By the end of the year the Master welder that Tai had been shadowing decided that he was knowledgeable enough to work on simpler welds without supervision. Satisfied, the yard foreman would cut Tai loose on smaller welds and expect him to continue following Journeymen and Master welders whenever his welds were complete.
Following an unfortunate accident on a CMA vessel that resulted in the death of twelve CMA sailors when welds gave way to hard vacuum under a high-g maneuver, Tai and two Journeymen that had worked on that portion of the ship were let go in order for Reyes-McLees to hold onto the trust of the UNSC and CMA.
Out of a job, and his parents now unwilling to house him, Tai found himself outside of a UNSC Marine Corps recruiting depot and signing his life away by the end of the month. Following graduation from boot camp, Tai was assigned to the forces that were currently taking part in Operation TREBUCHET as a replacement for a recently injured Marine. Taking part in a handful of smaller operations against the Insurrectionist forces.
On Eridanus II on the 19th of March, 2523, a then fireteam leader Corporal Tai would find his Warthog mounted patrol of two fireteams ambushed in a small farming hamlet. Following an improvised explosive devices detonation beneath the lead Warthog to open the ambush, Corporal Tai and his fireteam would find themselves pinned by effective fire from two heavily entrenched machine gun positions at nearly one hundred fifty meters to their left. Leading a desperate diversionary assault with one other member of his fireteam, Corporal Tai and Private First Class Leads would draw the entrenched positions fires away from the two Warthogs long enough for the remaining fireteam members to retrieve the two pinned survivors from the Warthogs wreckage. Tai and Leads would go on to successfully destroy one of the two machine gun nests with a set of five bound together grenades before being pinned by the second machine gun.
Pinned by the now destroyed first machine gun nest, Tai and Leads would attempt to make their way back to their Warthog after laying smoke but would both be hit by the random fire coming through the smoke screen. Following what would turn out to be a forty minute long fire fight which culminated in the destruction of the second machine gun nest by a flight of UNSC Hornets, Tai and Leads would be CASEVAC'd by Pelican Gunship. Corporal Tai would be awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for his actions that day as well as a Purple Heart for his injuries while Private First Class Leads would be posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for outstanding heroism in the face of overwhelming odds and a Purple Heart for his ultimate sacrifice during the ambush.
Corporal Tai was sent to Reach to recover in the more capable medical facilities there where he would remain until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. Following his full recuperation Tai was offered the chance to attend the Marine Sapper course, where he would learn how to effectively using many forms of explosives and weapons systems to breach buildings, deny areas, reclaim areas, and destroy enemy forces in battle. Following his successful graduation he was promoted to Sergeant, which would be taken away just six months later following a bar fight with a Second Lieutenant that resulted in a large amount of property damage.
Personality:
Tai can normally be found pouring over the latest in available data sets on Covenant weapons systems or reading some sort of technical specifications manual. He is known to be sarcastic at all times and tends to get right to the problem at hand when in combat. Outside of combat Tai is rather easy to approach, easy going and sociable, Tai has no problem putting a stop on what he is doing to be an ear for a younger Marine or Sailor and enjoys the company of others even while reading. Tai also a tendency to make distasteful jokes with great timing, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Appearance
Gear:
MA5B ICWS
M6E Magnum
1x Thermite Grenade
1x Satchel Charge
M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon
UNSC Battle Dress Uniform
Multi-Tool
Standard Issue Combat Knife
Relationships:
///Error Fetching Results...
Awards and Accommodations:
01FEB2523 -- Good Conduct Medal
01JUN2523 -- Purple Heart for Injuries sustained in support of Operation: TREBUCHET on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for Heroic Service while serving on Epsilon Eridanus on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Operation: TREBUCHET Participation Medal
01NOV2523 -- Sapper Designation earned after successful graduation from course located on Reach.
24MAY2524 -- Non-Judicial Punishment resulting in demotion from Sergeant to Corporal- Assaulting or Willfully Disobeying a Superior Officer
///Record Found... Query 424...
Name:
Edwin Tai
Age:
28
Gender:
Male
Homeworld:
Mars, Olympus Highlands
Rank:
Corporal
Role:
Anti-Armor/Sapper
Experience:
Seven years as a UNSC Marine. Following his firing from the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards, with no other options left to him due to the circumstances of his firing Tai enlisted in the UNSC Marines at the age of twenty one in the year 2519. Tai went on to take part in Operation: TREBUCHET in the Eridanis System as a part of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force, facing Insurrectionist forces over the course of the next four years before being reassigned to Reach following injuries sustained in combat.
Bio:
Born in a suburb of the Olympus Highlands; located on, around, and even under Olympus Mons; Edwin Tai was raised as an only child by his parents Melissa and Jeong Tai both of which were biology professors at a university located an hours travel from the Olympus Highlands. Although raised by two successful individuals, Edwin found himself mixed up in the wrong crowd by the end of of his highschool education. His parents, not very happy with his life choices and the fact his grades were not high enough to land him in any of the very competitive universities on Mars pulled a few strings with some of the professors they knew in the School of Engineering at their university and landed the then delinquent Tai a job working in orbit at the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards.
For the next three years Tai would work in orbit above Mars, the realization that he couldn't be the spoiled and delinquent child he had been in school hit him quickly as everyday he watched his home pass below him. Soon enough Tai found himself taking pride in his work, his a hands taking part in the construction of many of the great ships of the UNSC and CMA Naval forces. Apt with a welding torch, Tai was quickly placed in an apprenticeship position and expected to learn the trade within his first year. By the end of the year the Master welder that Tai had been shadowing decided that he was knowledgeable enough to work on simpler welds without supervision. Satisfied, the yard foreman would cut Tai loose on smaller welds and expect him to continue following Journeymen and Master welders whenever his welds were complete.
Following an unfortunate accident on a CMA vessel that resulted in the death of twelve CMA sailors when welds gave way to hard vacuum under a high-g maneuver, Tai and two Journeymen that had worked on that portion of the ship were let go in order for Reyes-McLees to hold onto the trust of the UNSC and CMA.
Out of a job, and his parents now unwilling to house him, Tai found himself outside of a UNSC Marine Corps recruiting depot and signing his life away by the end of the month. Following graduation from boot camp, Tai was assigned to the forces that were currently taking part in Operation TREBUCHET as a replacement for a recently injured Marine. Taking part in a handful of smaller operations against the Insurrectionist forces.
On Eridanus II on the 19th of March, 2523, a then fireteam leader Corporal Tai would find his Warthog mounted patrol of two fireteams ambushed in a small farming hamlet. Following an improvised explosive devices detonation beneath the lead Warthog to open the ambush, Corporal Tai and his fireteam would find themselves pinned by effective fire from two heavily entrenched machine gun positions at nearly one hundred fifty meters to their left. Leading a desperate diversionary assault with one other member of his fireteam, Corporal Tai and Private First Class Leads would draw the entrenched positions fires away from the two Warthogs long enough for the remaining fireteam members to retrieve the two pinned survivors from the Warthogs wreckage. Tai and Leads would go on to successfully destroy one of the two machine gun nests with a set of five bound together grenades before being pinned by the second machine gun.
Pinned by the now destroyed first machine gun nest, Tai and Leads would attempt to make their way back to their Warthog after laying smoke but would both be hit by the random fire coming through the smoke screen. Following what would turn out to be a forty minute long fire fight which culminated in the destruction of the second machine gun nest by a flight of UNSC Hornets, Tai and Leads would be CASEVAC'd by Pelican Gunship. Corporal Tai would be awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for his actions that day as well as a Purple Heart for his injuries while Private First Class Leads would be posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for outstanding heroism in the face of overwhelming odds and a Purple Heart for his ultimate sacrifice during the ambush.
Corporal Tai was sent to Reach to recover in the more capable medical facilities there where he would remain until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. Following his full recuperation Tai was offered the chance to attend the Marine Sapper course, where he would learn how to effectively using many forms of explosives and weapons systems to breach buildings, deny areas, reclaim areas, and destroy enemy forces in battle. Following his successful graduation he was promoted to Sergeant, which would be taken away just six months later following a bar fight with a Second Lieutenant that resulted in a large amount of property damage.
Personality:
Tai can normally be found pouring over the latest in available data sets on Covenant weapons systems or reading some sort of technical specifications manual. He is known to be sarcastic at all times and tends to get right to the problem at hand when in combat. Outside of combat Tai is rather easy to approach, easy going and sociable, Tai has no problem putting a stop on what he is doing to be an ear for a younger Marine or Sailor and enjoys the company of others even while reading. Tai also a tendency to make distasteful jokes with great timing, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Appearance
Gear:
MA5B ICWS
M6E Magnum
1x Thermite Grenade
1x Satchel Charge
M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon
UNSC Battle Dress Uniform
Multi-Tool
Standard Issue Combat Knife
Relationships:
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Awards and Accommodations:
01FEB2523 -- Good Conduct Medal
01JUN2523 -- Purple Heart for Injuries sustained in support of Operation: TREBUCHET on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for Heroic Service while serving on Epsilon Eridanus on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Operation: TREBUCHET Participation Medal
01NOV2523 -- Sapper Designation earned after successful graduation from course located on Reach.
24MAY2524 -- Non-Judicial Punishment resulting in demotion from Sergeant to Corporal- Assaulting or Willfully Disobeying a Superior Officer
Definitely interested. I'm always down for a Halo RP that isn't about Spartans.
Just as a clarification, I am aware that the date is wrong on the War Correspondent's piece for the landing at Normandy. That is because it was not written on the actual day that they landed but rather the next day, likely after editing notes and scribbles he had made while watching and likely even helping in the actual process of unloading everything from the ships, as War Correspondents were seldom known to just sit back and do nothing when they could lend a hand.
Most of his posts will be labeled as a few days after the actual events took place, so don't be alarmed by that.
Most of his posts will be labeled as a few days after the actual events took place, so don't be alarmed by that.
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