Fireteam Osiris
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- "We are the shield between humankind and danger."
- — Spartan Jameson Locke[2]
Fireteam Osiris is a specialized combat and intelligence gathering team of Spartan-IV supersoldiers of the Spartan branch.[1][3] The team carries out complicated and classified missions for the Unified Earth Government and its United Nations Space Command, typically dealing with issues that are deemed hard to control by the UNSC High Command.[4] Fireteam Osiris' activities are classified at the highest levels of government.[1]
Members[edit]
Fireteam Osiris is composed of four of the most prominent and effective personnel from throughout the different branches of the United Nations Space Command. Osiris' members were selected based on their skills, with the desired outcome being that each team member's skills would mitigate another's deficiencies. The fireteam's balanced skillset and impressive success rates cause them to be commonly deployed in extremely sensitive and complex missions.[1]
- Spartan Jameson Locke – Team leader; former acquisitions specialist for the Office of Naval Intelligence.[1]
- Spartan Holly Tanaka – A highly skilled engineer; former member of the UNSC Army Corps of Engineers.[1]
Former
- Spartan Edward Buck – A former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper,[1] and former advisor and mentor of the team.[6] After the beginning of the Created conflict, Buck was sent by ONI on a secret mission to Cassidy III that led him to reform his old team of Alpha-Nine. Following the mission, Buck chose to leave Osiris to lead Alpha-Nine again on a permanent basis.[7]
- Spartan Olympia Vale – Former UNSC Navy intelligence officer and xenoanthropologist.[1] Following the start of the Created uprising, Vale was reassigned to serve as main liaison between the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios.[8]
History[edit]
By October, 2558, Fireteam Osiris were assigned to UNSC Infinity.
Rescue and assassination[edit]
- Main article: Battle of Kamchatka
After several human colonies were unexpectedly attacked by mysterious Forerunner entities, Doctor Catherine Halsey contacted UNSC Infinity with information about the attacks. In response, Fireteam Osiris was tasked with rescuing Dr. Halsey from the custody of Covenant Supreme Commander Jul 'Mdama on the Forerunner world of Kamchatka.[9]
After being briefed by Captain Thomas Lasky of UNSC Infinity, the Spartans were delivered to Kamchatka via D79H Pelican, where they discovered the Covenant engaging their former Promethean allies. Osiris exited the Pelican dropship to free fall past battling Covenant and Promethean ships, using their armor's thrusters to control their following landing. Osiris landed on a mountainside, where the Covenant and Prometheans were currently engaged in combat and the Spartans fought their way through the terrain. While Vale eliminated Covenant forces aboard a Mikpramu-pattern Phantom, Locke and the rest of Osiris battled numerous Covenant and Promethean forces on the ground. As one of the Covenant blockade runners crashed into a nearby mountain peak, Osiris regrouped and was forced to outrun the ensuring avalanche. The Spartans leaped off a cliff and slide down the mountainside, where they promptly engaged nearby Covenant forces in a valley. With 'Mdama and Halsey located in a nearby Forerunner structure, Fireteam Osiris fought their way past Covenant and Promethean forces to reach their targets' location. Although 'Mdama had a Shuul'se-pattern Kraken deployed to fend off the hostile forces assaulting his location, the Prometheans managed to force the walker to retreat.[9]
As Osiris battled their way to the structure, they arrived at 'Mdama's and Halsey's position on a balcony. While Tanaka, Vale, and Buck engaged 'Mdama's Zealot guards, Locke charged towards 'Mdama and engaged the Supreme Commander in close-quarters combat. After a brief fight, Locke managed to assassinate 'Mdama, and Tanaka, Vale, and Buck quickly eliminated the remaining Sangheili soldiers on the platform. With Halsey recovered, Osiris and the doctor returned to UNSC Infinity.[9]
Hunting the legend[edit]
- Main article: Battle of Meridian (2558)
- Locke: "Cortana's our concern now, sir."
- The Master Chief: "Like hell she is."
- — Spartan Locke and the Chief arguing[10]
Upon their return to Infinity, Fireteam Osiris learned that Spartan-IIs John-117, Kelly-087, Linda-058, and Frederic-104 of Blue Team traveled to the Outer Colony of Meridian—absent without leave—to investigate smart AI Cortana's location. Osiris was tasked with embarking to the recently resettled and now independent Meridian to track down Blue Team and take them back to the UNSC.[11] To prepare for the mission, Locke tasked an AI to identify weaknesses in Spartan-IIs and the MJOLNIR Mark VI and acquired an armor-locking device that could short circuit their armor's systems.[12] Fireteam Osiris arrived at Pinnacle Station—the Meridian space elevator—via Pelican, where they descended to the moon's surface. Osiris quickly discovered that the world was also under attack from Promethean constructs, with Meridian's settlers desperately attempting to fend off the invaders. In exchange for colony leader Governor Sloan's cooperation, Osiris agreed to help defend Meridian from the Prometheans. After destroying the Prometheans that were assaulting the outpost at the space elevator