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Caleb Aagard was born on [[2511|May 16, 2511]] in [[Newport]] on [[Luyten]] in the [[Luyten 726-8 system]]. He grew up in the city of [[Old Willem]], at 22 Hunnestad Road. During his childhood, he suffered a head injury due to a farming accident. Neuroimaging of Caleb's brain conducted after the incident confirmed a neural network accretion often associated with intuitive behavior—commonly called "precognition". On account of his exceptional attributes, Caleb was selected as a candidate for the [[SPARTAN-II program]]. However, he was never located during the attempted abduction. Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]] blamed this on failings in the mission, denouncing the rumor about his supposed prescience.{{Ref/Reuse|Journal}}

Caleb eventually changed his name to Caleb Vale and became a slipspace drive technician and married [[Nerina Vale]] with whom he had a daughter, [[Olympia Vale]]. A devoted pacifist, Caleb refused to work on military vessels, leading to Caleb and Nerina getting divorced after a last family camping trip to [[Hoodoo Gorges]]. The divorce was completed just ten days later - coincidentally on Olympia's eleventh birthday. Mother and daughter boarded a diplomatic shuttle for Earth, only to have a six-day trip turn into a six month trip due to a slipspace drive failure. Olympia would suspect her father of having somehow sabotaged the shuttle in a last-ditch effort to Luyten, but Nerina dismissed the idea so scornfully that Olympia concluded that it was a dumb idea until after the [[Battle for Earth]].

Caleb eventually changed his name to Caleb Vale and became a slipspace drive technician and married [[Nerina Vale]] with whom he had a daughter, [[Olympia Vale]]. A devoted pacifist, Caleb refused to work on military vessels, leading to Caleb and Nerina getting divorced after a last family camping trip to [[Hoodoo Gorges]]. The divorce was completed just ten days later - coincidentally on Olympia's eleventh birthday. Mother and daughter boarded a diplomatic shuttle for Earth, only to have a six-day trip turn into a six month trip due to a slipspace drive failure. Olympia would suspect her father of having somehow sabotaged the shuttle in a last-ditch effort to keep his family on Luyten, but Nerina dismissed the idea so scornfully that Olympia concluded that it was a dumb idea until after the [[Battle for Earth]].

Following Nerina's death in the Battle for Earth, Olympia attempted to contact her father to let Caleb know that his ex-wife had died in the [[Covenant]] attack. However, Olympia learned that Caleb Vale didn't exist. Through her ONI connections, Olympia discovered that Caleb Vale was actually a false identity assumed by Caleb Aagard who had been born on Luyten in the same year as her father, but the trail then ran cold. The only note in Caleb's file was that he had refused conscription in [[2517]] and then vanished. When Olympia tried to find a ghost file that would explain the discrepancy, her superior claimed that it was simply a case of father and son having the same name, and then advised her in a tone that suggested that the "advice" came from someone far above both of their heads to stop wasting ONI resources and devote herself to her proper assignment.

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 Caleb Aagard was born on [[2511|May 16, 2511]] in [[Newport]] on [[Luyten]] in the [[Luyten 726-8 system]]. He grew up in the city of [[Old Willem]], at 22 Hunnestad Road. During his childhood, he suffered a head injury due to a farming accident. Neuroimaging of Caleb's brain conducted after the incident confirmed a neural network accretion often associated with intuitive behavior—commonly called "precognition". On account of his exceptional attributes, Caleb was selected as a candidate for the [[SPARTAN-II program]]. However, he was never located during the attempted abduction. Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]] blamed this on failings in the mission, denouncing the rumor about his supposed prescience.{{Ref/Reuse|Journal}}
-Caleb eventually changed his name to Caleb Vale and became a slipspace drive technician and married [[Nerina Vale]] with whom he had a daughter, [[Olympia Vale]]. A devoted pacifist, Caleb refused to work on military vessels, leading to Caleb and Nerina getting divorced after a last family camping trip to [[Hoodoo Gorges]]. The divorce was completed just ten days later - coincidentally on Olympia's eleventh birthday. Mother and daughter boarded a diplomatic shuttle for Earth, only to have a six-day trip turn into a six month trip due to a slipspace drive failure. Olympia would suspect her father of having somehow sabotaged the shuttle in a last-ditch effort to Luyten, but Nerina dismissed the idea so scornfully that Olympia concluded that it was a dumb idea until after the [[Battle for Earth]].
+Caleb eventually changed his name to Caleb Vale and became a slipspace drive technician and married [[Nerina Vale]] with whom he had a daughter, [[Olympia Vale]]. A devoted pacifist, Caleb refused to work on military vessels, leading to Caleb and Nerina getting divorced after a last family camping trip to [[Hoodoo Gorges]]. The divorce was completed just ten days later - coincidentally on Olympia's eleventh birthday. Mother and daughter boarded a diplomatic shuttle for Earth, only to have a six-day trip turn into a six month trip due to a slipspace drive failure. Olympia would suspect her father of having somehow sabotaged the shuttle in a last-ditch effort to keep his family on Luyten, but Nerina dismissed the idea so scornfully that Olympia concluded that it was a dumb idea until after the [[Battle for Earth]].
 Following Nerina's death in the Battle for Earth, Olympia attempted to contact her father to let Caleb know that his ex-wife had died in the [[Covenant]] attack. However, Olympia learned that Caleb Vale didn't exist. Through her ONI connections, Olympia discovered that Caleb Vale was actually a false identity assumed by Caleb Aagard who had been born on Luyten in the same year as her father, but the trail then ran cold. The only note in Caleb's file was that he had refused conscription in [[2517]] and then vanished. When Olympia tried to find a ghost file that would explain the discrepancy, her superior claimed that it was simply a case of father and son having the same name, and then advised her in a tone that suggested that the "advice" came from someone far above both of their heads to stop wasting ONI resources and devote herself to her proper assignment.