dr. leonard church receives the unsc smart ai "alpha" for project freelancer, cloned from his own mind
the alpha spontaneously sheds a fragment ai known as beta, the personification of the alpha's cloned memories of allison church; beta is given the code name agent texas and cleared for active duty
agent washington receives the epsilon ai. the implant rejects violently as epsilon attempts to terminate itself inside wash's mind, crippling him with massive ptsd and mental trauma.
agent connecticut defects from project freelancer and is later killed by agents carolina and texas.
the mother of invention crashes on sidewinder after agent texas discovers her identity as ai fragment beta and leads an attack to free the alpha ai from captivity.
agent maine, acting as the meta under sigma's influence, steals iota and eta from carolina, then tosses her over a cliff.
malcolm hargrove is named chairman of the unsc oversight sub-committee
agent maine begins to hunt down the remaining project freelancer ai fragments
agent york fucks off from project freelancer, taking delta with him
the battle of meridian ends; meridian is glassed by the covenant.
AFTER BLOOD GULCH (A.B.G.) SPANNING 2552 TO 2557
2552OR0 A.B.G. — ALPHA'S ARRIVAL AT BLOOD GULCH
agent florida is reassigned to blood gulch outpost: alpha with orders to protect and guard the alpha ai. he later dies of an aspirin overdose, and alpha, now going by the name leonard l. church, assumes command of blue team and outpost a.
PRE-ENLISTMENT / EARLY HISTORY2525 to 2542 ❝I was born on Tribute, little FYI.❞ ❝She's drunk again.❞
MARINE CORPS / FORCE RECON2542 to 2548 ❝Never met a mustang I couldn't outpace, motherfucker.❞ ❝High Command saved most of the really good shit for their precious ODSTs, and Force Recon licked up the scraps, then said their thank you, sirs for the peasant meal.❞ ❝His specific unit was primed and trained for covert engagement with the Covenant, not Insurrectionists and their guerilla warfare shit.❞
REACH / SIEGE OF NEW ALEXANDRIA2548 to 2552 ❝Look. Witness it: what you could have been, if you hadn't cut the survivor out of you.❞ ❝Not me. All my fucked up shit came after the war.❞ ❝Then the Jiralhanae blew through countless civvies and Marines alike on the first goddamn day.❞ ❝Lost my entire unit within a few hours when shit got really bad in New Alexandria.❞ ❝The Covies are scrubbing this whole goddamn place.❞
POST-WAR / MERCENARY STINT / CHORUS2552 to 2557 ❝Felix, Locus says. He has a voice that demands attention, silky-deep and warm. Gates, he tries again, and you think you're not supposed to hear this part. His name. You think you've crossed a forbidden threshold. You think they might kill you for this later. Isaac, look at me.❞
MENTAL / PSYCHE / LOCUS SPECIFIC ♤ ❝There's really nothing in you, is there?❞ ❝Yeah, I've got a thing with motherfuckers who think they can step up to me.❞ ❝Dude's fired as fuck. We're done. We've been done.❞ ❝With all the annoying irreverence of a man who's never followed a direct order in his life.❞ ❝That's fair. Most people don't like him, and the ones that think they like him only think they know him.❞ ♤ ❝Blood splatters his lashes, and he blinks. Not his. Ephemera's, coiled over him like a goddamn demon.❞ ❝Then you're no good to me, either. Fuck off.❞ ❝I came here to get fucked up, so fuck me up.❞ ❝Don't ever start shit you can't finish with me again.❞ ❝He was preoccupied. I was ambushed.❞ ♤ ❝You loved them.❞ ♤ ❝The bait. The lure. I'm a talker. I worked people over.❞ ♤ ❝You sensitive to the idea of being controlled?❞ ❝You're vastly underestimating the depth of my apathy.❞ ❝Miss your partner that much?❞ ♤ ❝He doesn't have friends. He has contacts and assets, favors and debts owed to be paid in full when and where he needs the additional manpower.❞ ♤ ❝Locus his partner. Locus his shadow. Locus his rifle scope fixed for a fucking headshot. They've moved in sync since the ugliest parts of the war, two halves of one viciously efficient whole.❞ ♤ ❝It's easier to flinch first.❞
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