Michael Crespo
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184.0 centimeters (6 ft 0.4 in) (pre-augmentation)[1][3][4][5] |
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85.0 kilograms (187 lb) (pre-augmentation)[1][3][4][5] |
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- "Private First Class Michael Crespo—Mickey. Smart enough to be a pilot, but trained to blow stuff up. He's never seen a planet get glassed, I hope he won't see that today."
- — Edward Buck[7]
Michael "Mickey" Crespo (service number 51033-15973-MC) is a SPARTAN-IV supersoldier and a former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper in the UNSC Marine Corps.[3] He served in Alpha-Nine, a small squad led by GySgt Edward Buck during the Battle of Earth and in the post-war era.[2] After joining the SPARTAN-IV program, Crespo defected to the United Rebel Front. He was eventually detained by the UNSC and incarcerated for high treason.[8] With the onset of the Created conflict, he was released from prison to serve in the reformed Alpha-Nine for the duration of the conflict, though his future once the conflict ended was left uncertain.[9]
Biography[edit]
Early life and military career[edit]
Michael Crespo was born in 2530 in Crisium City, Naniwa, Luna and has lived there ever since.[3][2] Despite this, he has never visited Earth, and has only seen it from a transport craft window. Crespo's parents were Insurrectionists who died wiring a bomb to a government building. He claimed that he never got to know them well because he was very young at the time. Despite this, his neural marker showed during an evaluation that he still had some fond memories of his parents, such as running into his mother's arms and seeing her smile while preparing a meal. He was placed in foster care, during which he studied subjects such as UNSC history and work productivity.[10]
Crespo signed up for UNSC service on June 4, 2548, as mandatory military service was a requirement for freedom from foster care. After the mandatory service, he had the chance to quit the military, but he decided to stay as he considered it home.[10] He was a pilot and then Crew Chief on a Pelican dropship for sometime before becoming an ODST with the rank of Private First Class.[10][6][2] Before the Battle of Earth, he had undergone extra-vehicular activity training and finished in the top of his class, as well as three HEV drops.[10]
Battle of Mombasa[edit]
- Main article: Battle of Mombasa
During the Battle for Earth in October 20, 2552, Crespo was stationed aboard the UNSC Say My Name, part of ODST fireteam Alpha-Nine, led by Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck. The squad was part of a larger detachment of the 65th Shock Troops Division[11] tasked with assaulting the Solemn Penance from orbit over New Mombasa.[12] The squad had been chosen by the ONI operative Veronica Dare to partake on a classified mission, which was not revealed to Crespo or his squad members until in mid-drop, when Dare ordered the squad to adjust their drop pods' trajectories away from the Covenant carrier