Editing Jorge-052

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|homeworld=[[Pálháza]], [[Reach]]<ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/jorge-052 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Jorge-052'']</ref><ref name="vis">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 103''</ref>

|birth=[[2511|March 5, 2511]]<ref name="universe"/><ref name="vis"/>

|death=[[2552|August 14, 2552]]<ref name="universe"/> {{C|aged 41}}

|height={{Convert|223.5|cm|ftin}}<ref name="universe"/><ref name="vis"/>

|mass={{Convert|145.2|kg|lb}}<ref name="universe"/><ref name="vis"/>

|hair=Brown {{C|graying}}<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/images/news/inline10/bwu_071610/Reach_InitialArmoryInventor.jpg '''Bungie.net''': ''Initial Armor Inventory'']</ref>

|affiliation=*[[UNSC Navy]]<ref name="universe"/> {{C|formerly}}

**[[UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Warfare Command]]<ref name="universe"/>

***[[SPARTAN-II program]]<ref name="universe"/>

*[[UNSC Army]]<ref name="universe"/>

|rank=[[Warrant Officer|Chief warrant officer]]<ref name="universe"/>

|sn=S-052<ref name="universe"/>

 

'''Chief Warrant Officer Jorge-052''' (pronounced in the same way as ''"George"'') was a [[Spartan-II]] supersoldier of the [[UNSC Navy|UNSC Naval]] [[UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command]], attached to [[Special Warfare Command|Special Warfare]] [[Special Warfare Group Three|Group Three]]. He fought during the [[Fall of Reach]] in [[2552]] as a part of [[NOBLE Team]] under the call sign '''Noble Five'''.<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer]]'''</ref><ref name="gameinformer">[http://gameinformer.com/mag/haloreach.aspx '''GameInformer''': ''February Edition'']</ref>

Jorge was born in the small city of [[Pálháza]] on [[Reach]] on [[2511|March 5, 2511]],<ref name="universe"/><ref name="gameinformer"/> and was abducted and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II program by Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] in [[2517]] when he was six years old. While on Reach, he was [[Spartan-II Training|trained]] by the [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] [[Déjà]] and [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez|Mendez]] along with the rest of the Spartan children. During his first day of training, a trainer mispronounced his name by calling him by the Spanish pronunciation. Jorge quickly corrected the trainer only to be shocked and reprimanded for "back talking".<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]'''</ref>

In [[2525]], he and the other candidates underwent a [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|series of augmentations]] to improve their overall combat prowess in several different fields.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page ??''</ref> Jorge was among the candidates who survived the procedure.

Jorge was transferred from the main Spartan-II contingent (under the operational command of Naval Special Weapons) to [[UNICOM]]'s SPECWAR Group Three at an unknown point during the [[Human-Covenant War]]. His reassignment may have been facilitated under the guise of being too heavily wounded to continue active duty.<ref group="note">In ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' (page 240), Dr. Halsey claims that all available Spartan-IIs (save for [[Gray Team]], who are out of contact) have been assembled on Reach for [[Operation: RED FLAG]]. She states that three have been killed in action and one has been too heavily wounded to continue active duty between [[2542]] and 2552. In a [[Dr. Halsey's personal journal|personal journal]] entry dated August 27, 2552 (the day of the briefing), Halsey notes that she had lied in some way during the assembly ("That lie about all the Spartans gathered here, save for Gray - will that come back to haunt me?"). While her lie almost certainly regarded Jorge's deployment on Reach (as she notes that he is "obviously preoccupied" in the same entry), whether this means that Jorge was the wounded Spartan is unclear.</ref> He had been assigned to NOBLE Team as of [[2552#April|April 2552]], when the unit participated in the [[Battle of Fumirole]].<ref>''[[Deliver Hope]]''</ref> [[Thom-A293]] was killed during this mission and his death would deeply affect the other members of the team, including Jorge.<ref name="bnet"/>

{{Quote|Jorge. NOBLE Five. It's good to see him home again. But the Fall of Reach will weigh heavily upon him, and this mission will test every last ounce of his strength.|[[Catherine Halsey]].<ref>[[Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise]]</ref>}}

Jorge served with NOBLE Team under the call sign "NOBLE Five" during the Fall of Reach in [[2552]]. He served as a heavy weapons specialist, and was the only Spartan-II on the team.<ref name="gameinformer"/>

On July 24th, prior to the Fall of Reach, Jorge, along with the other members of NOBLE Team, investigated an incident at the [[Visegrad Relay]]. There, they discovered that [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] forces had bypassed Reach's defenses and had infiltrated key installations and communications centers.<ref name="winter">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[Winter Contingency (level)|Winter Contingency]]''</ref> During the preliminary stages of the Covenant invasion of Reach, Jorge and NOBLE Team partook in multiple operations against Covenant forces on the surface of Reach, including a counter-offensive operation to retake the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[Sword Base]] on July 26th and a large-scale UNSC assault on a Covenant-occupied site and the neutralization of a [[Spire One|Covenant Spire]] on August 12th.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''' campaign level ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Reach''' campaign level ''[[Tip of The Spear]]''</ref>

Realizing the presence of the [[Covenant supercarrier]] ''[[Long Night of Solace]]'' after the [[Battle of Viery]] as a great threat, [[Kat-B320]] of NOBLE Team devised [[Operation: UPPER CUT]], a plan which involved using a [[YSS-1000 Sabre]] starfighter to deliver a [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine#Atypical uses|makeshift slipspace bomb]] to the supercarrier and destroy it via a slipspace rupture.<ref name="lnos"/> After receiving authorization from [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]], the team traveled to a besieged [[Sabre Program Launch/Research Range|Sabre research facility]] and assisted the defending UNSC forces in repelling the attackers. Jorge and [[SPARTAN-B312]], NOBLE Six, boarded a Sabre and launched into space to join the [[Epsilon Eridani Fleet]].<ref name="lnos"/>

After rendezvousing with the UNSC fleet, the Sabres helped repel the Covenant invasion force and escorted the {{UNSCShip|Savannah}} in commandeering the ''[[Ardent Prayer]]'', a [[SDV-class heavy corvette|Covenant corvette]].<ref name="lnos">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[Long Night of Solace]]''</ref> ''Savannah'' diverted the corvette's fire, allowing NOBLE Six and a team of boarders to infiltrate the ship's hull and to allow a [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]] carrying Jorge, the bomb, and UNSC reinforcements inside the ship. Jorge and Six then used the hijacked corvette, which was on course toward the supercarrier to refuel, to transport the the slipspace device within range of the supercarrier.<ref name="lnos"/> After Covenant forces were defeated, Jorge discovered that they were not only cut off from their Sabres, but that the thrusters on the Pelican were damaged during the firefight, and that in order for them to return to Reach, the Spartans would have to free-fall back to the planet's surface. He had also found that the timing device that would have been used to activate the slipspace drive was damaged, and that the only alternative would be to trigger it manually.

Jorge resolved that he would stay to activate the slipspace device himself, and, realizing that doing so would cost him his life, [[Keepsake|entrusted NOBLE Six]] with his [[dog tag]]s before forcing his fellow SPARTAN off the ''Ardent Prayer''. He left Six with the words, ''"Tell them to make it count."'' As SPARTAN-B312 drifted away from the ship, Jorge activated the bomb, opening a slipspace rupture that enveloped the ''Ardent Prayer'' and a large portion of the ''Long Night of Solace''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mid-section, sending it into the slipstream with no way out. Operation: UPPER CUT was a success, though it resulted in Jorge's death.<ref name="lnos"/>

{{Quote|The big man was sentimental.|[[Emile-A239]]<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[New Alexandria (level)|New Alexandria]]''</ref>}}

Jorge was the only member of NOBLE Team that had seen as much action, if not more, against human militants as Covenant forces. Described as being very difficult to read, he was free with his opinions, vocal in his support of provincial self-rule, and just as vocal in his condemnation of the separatist and [[insurrectionist]] movements.<ref name="bnet">[http://www.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24524 '''Bungie.net''': ''Jorge-052 Profile'']</ref> He was shown to be empathetic and caring toward [[civilian]]s; a trait few other Spartans shared. He was also particularly attached to his home planet of Reach, going so far as to sacrifice himself in order to save it.

Like all SPARTAN-IIs, Jorge had seen almost thirty years of action during his career and showed no signs of breaking or slowing. In a performance report, he was noted as "inspiring confidence in those around him" and being "rock solid" despite his long military career.<ref name="bnet"/> According to Colonel Holland, Jorge was an excellent card player.<ref name="bnet"/>

Though naturally strong and driven, Jorge was not selected for the SPARTAN-II program based on his physical strength and tenacity alone. Indeed, where others failed Jorge often had a plan, and he preferred to overcome obstacles with subtlety and minimum expenditure of lives and resources. While brave and exceptionally lucky, Jorge was something of a fatalist toward the end of his career, believing that he had long outlived the span of time allotted to a Spartan warrior. For this reason, he would often take risks he deemed worthwhile for the good of his unit and the UNSC.<ref name="universe"/>

Jorge was fluent in the [[Hungarian|Hungarian language]]; he speaks Hungarian at various points, including one instance where he introduces himself by saying, ''"A nevem Jorge"'' ("My name is Jorge"). This is likely due to the fact that Reach, Jorge's home planet, had a significant population of Hungarian descent. Jorge himself was from [[Pálháza]], a city on Reach that shares its name with a [[wikipedia:Pálháza| Hungarian town]] on Earth.

Jorge wore a [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|MJOLNIR Mark V]] [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV(G)|grenadier]] helmet with a reddish-bronze visor and a UA attachment, the Collar/Grenadier[UA] chest piece, and grenadier knee pads with his [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V MJOLNIR armor]]. He used the Grenadier shoulder for the left shoulder, [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/V variant|EVA shoulder]] for the right shoulder, and UA/bracer supplementary armor for both forearms, along with supplemental armor on his lower legs. He has a Mark IV/LBE-A Field Case<ref name="vis"/> on his back, which he sometimes removed, most likely for increasing his agility. His weapon of choice was a modified personal [[M247H Heavy Machine Gun]] that he referred to as "Etilka";<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-noble-intentions '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Noble Intentions'']</ref> this modified machine gun lacked shield plating and a heat cover over the barrel, among other small differences.

*Jorge's blood type was B+, as seen on the upper left corner of his chest plate.

*Jorge's birthday (March 5) is the same as that of [[Marcus R. Lehto]], [[Bungie]]'s art director on the ''Halo'' series. Much as Lehto's birthday is stenciled on the Scorpion tank in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', Jorge's Spartan tag (S-052) is printed on the tank in ''Halo: Reach''.

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