Editing John-117/Silver

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As a child, John lived on the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Eridanus II/Silver|Eridanus II]] with his parents and a dog named [[Ellie]]. While exploring one day while on a family picnic, John encountered a [[Forerunner]] [[keystone]] in a cavern outside of the [[Reach for Life installation]], and he repeatedly drew both it and another keystone that was on [[Madrigal]]. Eventually, John's father grew frustrated and forced John to bury his drawings of the artifacts. During this time, John met Doctor [[Catherine Halsey/Silver|Catherine Halsey]] who used a game to test John's luck.{{Ref/Reuse|Contact}}{{Ref/Film|Id=Unbound|TV|Episode=Unbound}}{{Ref/Film|Id=Emergence|TV|Episode=Emergence}}{{Ref/Film|Id=Homecoming|TV|Episode=[[Homecoming (TV Series)|Homecoming]]}} When Halsey discovered his incredible luck due to John correctly calling a coin toss every time,{{Ref/Film|Id=Reach (TV Series)|TV|Episode=Emergence}} she took him in to become a Spartan II candidate against his will, subjecting him to numerous tests and augmentations and suppressing his memory. John never saw his biological family again.{{Ref/Reuse|Unbound}}{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}}{{Ref/Film|Id=Reckoning|TV|Episode=Reckoning}}

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In 2552, John led Silver Team, comprising of [[Vannak-134/Silver|Vannak-134]], [[Riz-028/Silver|Riz-028]], and [[Kai-125/Silver|Kai-125]] on a subsequent mission to Madrigal. This time, it was to aid the Insurrectionists against a [[Covenant]] [[Operation: DEFIANT GLASS|attack]]. Though Silver team subdued the Covenant, the Insurrectionist outpost, led by Kwan's father [[Jin Ha]], was entirely wiped out in the battle, with Kwan being the sole survivor. Venturing further, John and Silver Team discovered a [[Forerunner]] [[Keystone]] in a nearby cave. John personally encountered the keystone and began seeing flashbacks to his suppressed childhood. {{Ref/Reuse|Contact}}

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Coming back to Reach, Halsey reassured John that a new upgrade to his systems would further enhance his battle effectiveness. John reluctantly agreed to the operation, in which [[Cortana/Silver|a new Artificial Intelligence]] created from a live clone of Halsey was implanted into his brain. The AI, known as Cortana, was activated soon upon the operation. While the AI stated her directive to overtake John's body, Halsey limited Cortana's access of John for the time being. John soon woke up and met Cortana, though he was not impressed and was naturally suspicious, dismissing her overly enthusiastic attempts to assist him and introduce herself to Silver Team. However, Cortana did help John to remove his [[emotional regulator]] pellet as Halsey prodded the AI to help him in order to gain his trust.

John, Cortana, Halsey, and Saly ventured back to his homeworld Eridanus II, to which John stated he had memories of the larger keystone. On the ride there, Cortana commented about the visualization of slipspace, echoing John's earlier comments to Kwan, but this time, John, amazed by his new experience of the colorful visuals, echoed Kwan's comments, quipping that Cortana was "ruining it".{{Ref/Reuse|Homecoming}}

After sidelining Kai, who he sensed had taken out her pellet, John once again touched the keystone, despite Cortana's warnings that it would continue to harm him psychologically and physically. This time, he saw the full truth: that Halsey had kidnapped him against his will to become a Spartan. Enraged, he attempted to physically assault Halsey before Cortana flooded their neural interface with signals, rendering him unconscious and allowing Halsey to escape.{{Ref/Reuse|Reckoning}}

===Choosing Kai or the Keystone===

When John came about, the Covenant had landed on Eridanus II, intent on seizing the keystone. John, Riz, and Vannak attempted to shuttle the keystone to a UNSC ship, with Kai authorized back into action to provide sniper support, but several members of the party came under attack. When Kai was endangered, John left the Warthog carrying the keystone to come to her assistance, hijacking a Covenant Banshee and crashing it into the squad threating Kai, Keyes, and several others. Though he saved them all and annihilated the Covenant squad, brutally beating the Elite attacking Kai to death, the keystone fell out from the Warthog, allowing it to be retrieved by the Brute [[Atriox/Silver|Atriox]]. Despite this, the covenant sent a drop pod onto the ground, containing the human [[Makee]].{{Ref/Reuse|Reckoning}}

 

The Master Chief was later summoned to interrogate Makee. John continued to question Makee about her upbringing with the Covenant. The two eventually developed an attraction to one another, something that John had never experienced before.{{Ref/Film|Id=Allegiance|TV|Episode=Allegiance}}

While trying to save both the keystones and Silver Team from the [[Covenant]], John realized that they were outmatched and Cortana warned him that he could only save one or the other. John instead ordered Cortana to take control of his body so that she could do both in his stead, despite the AI no longer wanting to do so. When John continued to insist, Cortana warned him that she wasn't sure if she could bring him back, but John declared that he trusted her. Moments later, [[Atriox/Silver|Atriox]] flung John into a temple wall with his [[gravity mace]], seemingly killing him. Manifesting her avatar, Cortana merged with John's body and used it to defeat the Covenant forces and save both Silver Team and the keystones.{{Ref/Film|Id=Transcendence|TV|[[Transcendence]]}}

John was returned to Reach, badly injured but still alive. As doctors tried to save his life, Cortana frantically called for him to wake up and ordered the doctors to sever the connection between the AI and the Spartan as he began to fade. As a tear fell from John's eye, the doctors permanently severed their connection and ultimately managed to save his life.{{Ref/Film|Id=Sanctuary|TV|Episode=[[Sanctuary (TV Series)|Sanctuary]]}}

Venturing further into the fog, John encounterd members of blue team, a squadron of UNSC Marines. The marines explained that they lost all communication signals and that they suspect enemy forces before Elites emerge and slaughtered them except for a marine named [[Talia Perez]]. John fought off several Elites, though Perez is injured. The duo were surrounded by a vast number of Elites before they suddenly retreated prior to Covenant destroyers unloading plasma bombardment, glassing the planet. Silver Team barely escaped with a handful of survivors, including Perez, though the shamans refused to leave the planet and accepted their fates, walking into the now-melted surface of Sanctuary to their deaths.{{Ref/Reuse|Sanctuary}}

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Coming to odds with Ackerson and suspicious of a cover-up regarding Cobalt Team, John tracked down flight trajectories for all Spartan Teams, realizing Colbalt was sent on a classified mission to the [[Visegrád Relay]].{{Ref/Film|Id=Sword|TV|Episode=[[Sword (TV Series)|Sword]]}} Upon reaching the relay, Silver team was apprehended by FLEETCOM and disciplined. They are suspended from combat missions, their suspicions are "disproven", and John is relieved of duty until taking a mandatory psychiatric evaluation, with Keyes relaying the message personally, telling him that he argued with ONI and Ackerson against giving him a court martial. Riz and Vannak left John alone, and Kai tried to reason with him to reconsider what he had seen, but when he continued to insist on what he had seen and attempted to invoke his rank, even she left him.

On his way to his evaluation, John picked up his signal to Parangosky, then knocked out his ONI escorts before escaping. Upon meeting up with Parangosky at a ramen restaurant, he divulges to her his suspicions, but she warned him not to go against ONI and to play along with their charades. John furiously realized that Parangosky never left the agency, and when he stood up to leave, several men in the background also stood up, but Parangosky motioned them to let John walk away, but not before warning him she could no longer help him if he continued going against ONI. John then met up with Perez's mother, who explained that she had gone to a church to pray. Upon John seeing her there, Perez, seemingly the only person to believe his experiences on Sanctuary, revealed that she had translated a message from the Covenant warrior Var Gatanai, explaining their intent to destroy Reach in the name of "Great Journey". Shortly after, explosions rocked the planet as the Covenant invasion of Reach began.{{Ref/Film|Id=Visegrád|TV|Episode=[[Visegrád (TV Series)|Visegrád]]}}

File:HTV-S2BadDayJohn.jpg|John-117 during a Covenant glassing.