Editing Otto-031

{{Status|Canon}}

{{Character infobox

|variant=Human

|rank=[[Petty Officer Second Class]] {{C|Upon graduating SPARTAN-II training}}<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', p. 99 (2001)</ref>

He was assigned to Team Black, and trained with the other teams such as the [[Red Team]].{{Ref/Reuse|issue2}} During so, he had an unauthorized relationship with [[Margaret-053]]. They were ratted out by [[Victor-101]], however, and put into the brig by [[Franklin Mendez|Chief Mendez]]. Immediately following their release, a skirmish occurred, involving Margaret, Otto, and a few rowdy members of Red Team, which was set off by Otto's love affair with Margaret, described as "non-Spartan behavior."

 

In [[2525]], he and the other candidates underwent a [[Project ASTER|series of augmentations]] to improve their abilities.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HFoR6|HFoR|Chapter=6}} Otto and his three squadmates all washed-out, their bodies initially rejecting the augmentations. They were presumably retrained and successfully re-augmented along with some of the other washouts. Following this, Black Team was recruited by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] for operations that were strictly off the record.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P69|Enc22|Page=69}}

During the [[Human-Covenant War]], Team Black participated in numerous operations against the [[Covenant]], including one where they destroyed a [[Covenant citadel]]<ref name="issue5">'''Halo: Blood Line''', "[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]"</ref> and another in which they boarded a [[Covenant cruiser]] using [[C-12 shaped charge]]s.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', "Blunt Instruments", ''page 202''</ref> Another mission for ONI saw them sent to [[Mamore]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P69}}

In the next morning, the team proceeded to move to the Beacon through the tunnels. Equipped with C-12 "blow packs", they went separate ways and planted the explosives on each of the Beacon's four [[Anti-gravity technology|anti-gravity pylons]]. After planting the charges, they were engaged by the Covenant. Meanwhile, Hopalong had acquired a Covenant device and used it to free the rest of the Yanme'e. It was then revealed that the Spartans had been tricked: the Yanme'e, who now begun attacking the Spartans and the Covenant alike, were actually "[[Unmutuals]]", prisoners incapable of socializing with their kind. Three was attacked by several Yanme'e and lifted in the air by their antigravity [[grappler]]s, and while he managed to kill them, he was dropped from a great height and broke his ankle when he landed on the roof of a skyscraper.

While One had ordered the rest of the team to evacuate through a train, Black-Two went to get Three. She managed to find him and the two escaped, with Two carrying Three over her shoulder, chased by a massive swarm of Drones. While on their way to the train, Two also detonated the charges on the Beacon, destroying it. Three and Two got onboard the train, headed to a [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship]] for exfiltration, escaping as the tunnels caved in under the collapsing Beacon.{{Ref/Reuse|evo}}

Some time later, the team was assigned to [[Operation: BLOWBACK|a covert mission]] onboard the ONI vessel ''[[Long Time Coming]]''. However, the ship crashed on an [[unidentified moon (Sub-sector 35)|uncharted moon]], and One, Three and Four moved out of the wreckage toward a structure with breathable air and were soon engaged by Covenant forces. When Black-One was captured by mechanical [[Gatherer]]s, Black-Three and Four reluctantly allied with the Covenant forces also on the moon in order to rescue their captured comrades.{{Ref/Reuse|issue1}}{{Ref/Reuse|issue2}} However, the [[Forerunner]] [[Monitor]] of the Installation, [[686 Ebullient Prism]], hacked into Victor's MJOLNIR HUD, tricking him into attacking his allies, wounding [[Black-Two]] and nearly killing Black-Three, having been reminded of the incident in training.<ref name="issue4">'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 4|Issue 4]]''</ref> It took Three and Iona to remind him of the importance of his adopted family, snapping him out of his tantrum. Team Black then went to assist One against Prism in the facility's control center. Black-One eventually destroyed the Monitor with the facility's main gun, simultaneously bringing an entire Covenant fleet crashing down. Team Black then went out to fight the Covenant survivors so as to commandeer a functional Slipspace drive to escape the moon.{{Ref/Reuse|issue5}} They succeeded in doing so and eventually reestablished contact with the rest of the UNSC.<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2963929_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2963929 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction - Page 6'']</ref>

A day later, [[Blue Team]] arrived at the site of the massacre to investigate the disturbance and discovered the corpses of Otto and the others. They were attacked by [[Promethean]] machines shortly thereafter.{{Ref/Reuse|HE8}}

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