Editing Kojo Agu

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{{Character Infobox|variant=Human

|image = [[File:RomeoODST.png|300px]]

|homeworld = [[Castra arcology]], [[Castra]], [[Madrigal]]

|birth = [[2524|June 12, 2524]]<ref name="ENC">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 61''</ref>

|rank = [[Lance Corporal]]

|species = [[Human]]  

|gender = Male

|hair = Black

|eyes = Brown

|height = {{Convert|190|cm|ft}}<ref name="ENC"/>

|mass = {{Convert|91|kg|lb}}<ref name="ENC"/>  

|sn=14606-85099-KA

|affiliation = [[UNSC Marine Corps]]

'''Lance Corporal Kojo Agu'''<ref name="ENC"/> ([[service number]] '''14606-85099-KA'''), colloquially nicknamed '''Romeo''', is a [[UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marine]] [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|Shock Trooper]], who served during the [[Battle of Ariel]]<ref>'''[[Halo: Helljumper]]''', ''[[Halo: Helljumper Issue 2|Issue 2]]''</ref> and the [[Battle of Earth]] in [[2552]].<ref name="squad">[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=Halo3ODSTsquad '''Bungie.net''': ''Meet The Squad'']</ref> During the Battle of Earth, he was a part of [[Buck's squad|a squad]] led by [[Gunnery Sergeant|GySgt]] [[Edward Buck]].

Kojo Agu was born in the [[Castra arcology]] in [[Castra]] on [[Madrigal]] in [[2524]].<ref naME="ENC"/> His homeworld was glassed by the [[Covenant]] when he was only four years old, but he managed to survive the glassing. Before enlisting in [[2541]], he served in the [[UNSC commercial fleet]] as a Merchant Marine. He later became an ODST when he angered the [[Governor]] of the colony at Castra by having an affair with said Governor's wife. This prompted the Governor to call upon people he knew in the UNSC who in turn sent Agu into the ODST to keep him away from the Governor's wife. During his tenure with the ODSTs, Agu served on various colony planets, such as [[Coral]], [[Mamore]], [[New Jerusalem]], and [[Beta Gabriel]], with a remarkable 100% kill rate.<ref>''[[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A/Romeo]]''</ref>

===Battle of Ariel===

{{Main|Battle of Ariel}}

After using improvised explosives to bring a canyon's walls down on a large number of Covenant and then evading the survivors, the two made plans to steal a [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantom]]. They proceeded to kill an Unggoy, use its corpse as a ruse, and then eliminate several Covenant infantrymen guarding the Phantom. However, a Sangheili managed to down the ship. The ODSTs bailed out before it crashed, falling through a building's skylight and into a building where the planet's missing colonists were being held hostage.

The ODSTs made short work of the Unggoy guarding the hostages and learned that the colonists had been forced to dig deep into the planet's surface, unearthing [[Ariel Forerunner complex|an alien complex]] and activating several traps at its entrance. The ODSTs entered the dig site intending to liberate other colonists; it was there that they found what the Covenant was looking for: an [[Forerunner|alien]] [[Ancilla|construct]] called [[the Knowing]]. If the Covenant got their hands on it, then they could wipe out humanity down to their last DNA strand.

Though Miles wanted to claim the Knowing to the UNSC, per ONI [[Xeno orders]], Kojo Agu preferred to destroy it, as "this is like Alexander the Great getting his hands on a nuclear arsenal" - he believed that humanity were not ready for the advanced Forerunner knowledge and would destroy itself. Agu asked the Knowing to activate its self-destruct and direct them out of the complex. As they made their way out, Agu tripped over an Unggoy's body and broke his ankle. Miles carried him and managed to escape the blast. When they got back to the surface, they were reunited with their squad, who had seen the Covenant fleeing the planet after the Knowing's destruction.

Later, Miles visited Agu while he was on the the infirmary bed. Agu stated that he filed in a transfer to be with Miles; he told his friend that he withdrew his. They both tried Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide who would go.<ref>'''Halo: Helljumper'''</ref>

[[File:Halo3 ODST-Romeo.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Romeo in his armor.]]

During the [[Battle of Earth]] on [[2552#October|October 20, 2552]], Kojo Agu served as a marksman in a squad led by [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Edward Buck]]. The squad was a part of the [[105th Shock Troops Division]],<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/related/video/into-hell-1/6c327f74-5bc0-43c4-ac92-0feef4a712b0 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Into Hell 1'']</ref> with a mission to attack the [[Prophet of Regret]]'s assault carrier, ''[[Solemn Penance]]'', which was stationed over [[Earth]]'s city of [[New Mombasa]]. At the last moment before the drop, an [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] operative known as [[Veronica Dare]] took command of the squad in order to use them for her own classified mission.

In mid-drop, Dare ordered the squad to adjust their [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|drop pods]]' trajectories away from the carrier. Right after this, though, the carrier jumped into [[Slipstream space|Slipspace]] above the city, generating a massive [[Electromagnetic pulse|EMP]]/Radiation shockwave which disabled the pods' electronic systems. The pods were scattered around the city due to the blast.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''', campaign level ''[[Prepare to Drop]]''</ref>

Right after the drop, Agu landed near Tayari Plaza and shot a [[Huragok]] he thought was going to kill Buck.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''', campaign level ''[[Tayari Plaza (level)|Tayari Plaza]]''</ref> Reunited with Buck, the two made their way to the [[NMPD Headquarters]] building where they would hopefully get information of their other squadmates' whereabouts.

Three hours after the drop, around 19:15, Miles and [[Michael Crespo]] had acquired a ride on an [[New Mombasa Police Department|NMPD]] [[D77C-NMPD Pelican|Pelican dropship]], and were ready to pick up Agu and Buck from a platform of the NMPD Headquarters, but before they could land, they were shot down by two [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]]. Romeo and Buck then proceeded to find and rescue their squad mates.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''' campaign level, ''[[NMPD HQ (level)|NMPD HQ]]''</ref>

After finding the downed Pelican site to find that their squadmates were unscathed, Agu, Buck, and the other ODSTs defended their position from Banshees and Phantoms, until a [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] arrived and impaled Agu in the chest with the blade side of his [[Type-2 Energy Weapon/Hammer|Gravity Hammer]]. The rest of the squad managed to kill the Chieftain, before realizing that Agu had been wounded from the impact of the blow. The squad headed for [[Kikowani Station]], to escape the city through train tunnels, but realized the whole sector had been flooded by water. Here, Agu's condition was getting worse. After Buck had administered [[biofoam]] to Agu's punctured lung, the squad decided a risky move to hijack a Phantom, and finally escape the city. Eventually, Agu and the rest of the squad escaped New Mombasa aboard the captured Phantom after going back and finding both the Rookie and Dare. They were last seen a month later, in an [[ONI orbital facility]], guarding [[Quick to Adjust|the Huragok]] the squad had extracted from Mombasa as [[Avery Johnson|Sergeant Johnson]] interrogated it.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''' campaign level, ''[[Coastal Highway]]''</ref>

Agu is shown interacting aggressively or abrasively with almost every squad member, as they will tell him to show some respect, including striking the [[Rookie]] with his [[Sniper Rifle System 99D-S2 Anti-Matériel|Sniper Rifle]] to wake him up. He is good friends with Miles, the squad's heavy weapons specialist. In his old unit, Agu racked-up multiple code of conduct violations, any one of which should have resulted in demotion—or worse.<ref>'''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''', ''Firefight character description''</ref> However, he was kept because the UNSC were running out of battle tested snipers, and Agu was one of the best. He is a consummate combatant but also saw himself as something of a ladies' man, hence his nickname "Romeo". He is proud of his colonial background, and doesn't hold much respect toward Earth. Prior to the Battle of Earth, he had never been to Earth, and had only seen it from the window of a transport. While he is still listed as a Madrigali citizen, Agu's last known place of residence is [[Holetown]], [[New Barbados]] on the colony of [[Emerald Cove]].<ref name="squad"/>

*Kojo Agu is unlocked for [[Firefight]] by earning the [[NMPD HQ (Achievement)|NMPD HQ]] [[Achievement]].

*If one explores enough in the level ''[[Mombasa Streets]]'', they will eventually come across an empty SOEIV in the middle of a garden, with an M7S Caseless Submachine Gun beside it. The pod is possibly Romeo's, as his pod is never seen, and when he is first encountered is only wielding a sniper rifle and an M6C/SOCOM.

*One of the names listed on the [[ONI Memorial]] is "Chen Agu". It is possible that he was a relative of Kojo Agu's.

*The story of Agu's enlistment is similar to that of [[Felicia Sanderson]], another ODST. Sanderson claimed that she was forced to enlist in the [[Colonial Military Administration]] after being caught in a romantic relationship with the daughter of [[Nils Thune]], the governor of [[Harvest]]. While this event actually occurred, it was not, as she claimed, the actual reason for her enlistment.<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''[[Dirt]]'', page ???</ref>

File:V502A - Agu.png|Romeo as he appeared in [[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A]].

File:ODST Sniper.jpg|A pre-production concept of Romeo.

File:IH ODST concept cover.jpg|Concept art of Romeo and Buck on the level NMPD HQ.

File:RomeoClose.jpg|A close look up of Romeo with his helmet.

File:Romeo Avatar with Helmet.png|Romeo's avatar, as seen on Bungie.net when viewing [[Halo 3: ODST]]'s service records.

File:RomeoHelljumper.jpg|Romeo in ''[[Halo: Helljumper]]''.

*''[[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A]]''

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