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{{Quote|no=three|q1=I was a war orphan. ONI found me on Jericho VII, eating bugs in the countryside. Half the planet had been glassed. My parents had been in town when it happened.|Owen-B096|q2=I'm—I'm sorry.|[[Saskia Nazari]]|q3=I lost my family. But I was given a new one.|Owen-B096|Owen comforts Saskia by opening up about his personal history of loss and reclamation.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HBB17}} | {{Quote|no=three|q1=I was a war orphan. ONI found me on Jericho VII, eating bugs in the countryside. Half the planet had been glassed. My parents had been in town when it happened.|Owen-B096|q2=I'm—I'm sorry.|[[Saskia Nazari]]|q3=I lost my family. But I was given a new one.|Owen-B096|Owen comforts Saskia by opening up about his personal history of loss and reclamation.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HBB17}} | ||
Owen Uduike was born on [[Eremus]],{{Ref/Reuse|EN}} a moon of [[Jericho VII]] in the [[Lambda Serpentis system]].{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}}{{Ref/Twitter|Id=Twitter8|GrimBrotherOne|1154749739545423872|Jeff Easterling|Quote=Eremus should be a moon of Jericho VII.|D=28|M=4|Y=2021}} The Covenant began [[Battle of Jericho VII|a ground invasion]] of Jericho VII on [[2535#February|February 9, 2535]], and by the twelfth had begun to [[Glassing|glass]] it.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFORP|HTFOR|Part=Prologue}} His family being present on the planet at the time, Owen's parents were in a town which fell victim to orbital bombardment.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HBB17|BatB|Chapter=17}}{{Ref/Reuse|Twitter8}} | Owen Uduike was born on [[Eremus]],{{Ref/Reuse|EN}} a moon of [[Jericho VII]] in the [[Lambda Serpentis system]].{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}}{{Ref/Twitter|Id=Twitter8|GrimBrotherOne|1154749739545423872|Jeff Easterling|Quote=Eremus should be a moon of Jericho VII.|D=28|M=4|Y=2021}} The Covenant began [[Battle of Jericho VII|a ground invasion]] of Jericho VII on [[2535#February|February 9, 2535]], and by the twelfth had begun to [[Glassing|glass]] it.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFORP|HTFOR|Part=Prologue}} His family being present on the planet at the time, Owen's parents were in a town which fell victim to orbital bombardment.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HBB17|BatB|Chapter=17}}{{Ref/Reuse|Twitter8}} After half the world's surface had suffered the same treatment, Owen was eventually discovered by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] living on his own in the countryside and eating bugs.{{Ref/Reuse|HBB17}} Owen would eventually volunteer for the [[Spartan-III program]] a short time later, becoming one of four hundred and eighteen children making up its [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|second company]].{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HGOO9|HGoO|Chapter=9}} He and the other children would be initiated and begin their training circa [[2539]].{{Ref/Anthology|Id=LL|Fra|Story=Lessons Learned}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P106|Enc22|Page=106}}{{Ref/Note|Id=Beta|''[[Lessons Learned]]'' establishes that Beta Company members Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091 were six years old when they started their training. Page 106 of the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)]]'' establishes that Tom and Lucy were born on April 14, 2533 and January 28, 2533, respectively. This makes Beta Company's start date somewhere between April 2539 and January 2540.}} | ||
Beta Company was trained from that point on by the [[Spartan-II]] Lieutenant [[Kurt Ambrose]] and Chief Petty Officer [[Franklin Mendez]] at the [[Camp Currahee]] complex on the planet [[Onyx]] in the [[Zeta Doradus system]].{{Ref/Reuse|HOSFM84}} The regimen mirrored that of the Spartan-IIs', with intensive physical conditioning and education conducted by hand-picked trainers and multiple on-site A.I.s. All training and indoctrination emphasized the significance of achieving objectives at any cost and a willingness to sacrifice for the UNSC.{{Ref/Reuse|HOSFM84}} Beta Company's drill instructors also counted washouts from [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] among their ranks, who always seemed to go out of their way to make things as hard as possible for the trainees.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOO9}} On [[2541#August|August 24, 2541]] all four hundred and eighteen recruits were given an exercise near Camp Currahee in which their respective teams were tasked with [[Ring the Bell|ringing a bell]] atop a poll in a field. Impeding their progress were their drill instructors, who were shielded by [[Semi-Powered Infiltration armor#Mark II|Mark II semi-powered infiltration armor]]. [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company]]'s members, conversely, only had sweat suits and light boots for protection against [[stun round]]s. Kurt had previously announced that eventually only three hundred slots would be made available for continuation as a [[Spartan]], and ringing the bell was required in order to advance. The lieutenant had also let it be known that grades would be a factor in the selection process, so the kids were as a whole exhausting themselves each night with studying before falling asleep. The exercise this day began at 1420 hours.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOO9}} An exceptional candidate, Owen's tenacity and single-minded focus allowed him to grind his way through the remainder of the punishing training in the years which followed and the [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|biological augmentation]] processes to reach the top honors program.{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}} Beta Company graduated at some point during the first few months of [[2545]] and by May 30 at least some of its members had been deployed for [[Operation: CARTWHEEL]].{{Ref/Book|Id=HOSFM84|OSFM|Page=84-85}}{{Ref/Generic|[[Noble Team performance reports]]}} Three hundred were deployed to the [[51 Pegasi system]] on July 3 of that year for [[Operation: TORPEDO]] following a number of other missions the company had completed, but Owen was not among these, having been detached from the rest of his comrades for special assignment.{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}}{{Ref/Book|Id=HM76|HM|Page=76}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HGOOP|HGoO|Part=Prologue}} Soon after this separation he was given [[Mjolnir]] armor.{{Ref/Site|Id=Dispatch|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/discovery-dispatch-february-21-2019|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Discovery Dispatch - February 21, 2019|D=28|M=4|Y=2021}}{{Ref/Reuse|HM76}} At some point between 2545 and 2548, Owen was send to Jericho VII after the rumor of Covenant activity on the planet.{{Ref/Novel|HMerDi|Chapter=8}} | Beta Company was trained from that point on by the [[Spartan-II]] Lieutenant [[Kurt Ambrose]] and Chief Petty Officer [[Franklin Mendez]] at the [[Camp Currahee]] complex on the planet [[Onyx]] in the [[Zeta Doradus system]].{{Ref/Reuse|HOSFM84}} The regimen mirrored that of the Spartan-IIs', with intensive physical conditioning and education conducted by hand-picked trainers and multiple on-site A.I.s. All training and indoctrination emphasized the significance of achieving objectives at any cost and a willingness to sacrifice for the UNSC.{{Ref/Reuse|HOSFM84}} Beta Company's drill instructors also counted washouts from [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] among their ranks, who always seemed to go out of their way to make things as hard as possible for the trainees.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOO9}} On [[2541#August|August 24, 2541]] all four hundred and eighteen recruits were given an exercise near Camp Currahee in which their respective teams were tasked with [[Ring the Bell|ringing a bell]] atop a poll in a field. Impeding their progress were their drill instructors, who were shielded by [[Semi-Powered Infiltration armor#Mark II|Mark II semi-powered infiltration armor]]. [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company]]'s members, conversely, only had sweat suits and light boots for protection against [[stun round]]s. Kurt had previously announced that eventually only three hundred slots would be made available for continuation as a [[Spartan]], and ringing the bell was required in order to advance. The lieutenant had also let it be known that grades would be a factor in the selection process, so the kids were as a whole exhausting themselves each night with studying before falling asleep. The exercise this day began at 1420 hours.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOO9}} An exceptional candidate, Owen's tenacity and single-minded focus allowed him to grind his way through the remainder of the punishing training in the years which followed and the [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|biological augmentation]] processes to reach the top honors program.{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}} Beta Company graduated at some point during the first few months of [[2545]] and by May 30 at least some of its members had been deployed for [[Operation: CARTWHEEL]].{{Ref/Book|Id=HOSFM84|OSFM|Page=84-85}}{{Ref/Generic|[[Noble Team performance reports]]}} Three hundred were deployed to the [[51 Pegasi system]] on July 3 of that year for [[Operation: TORPEDO]] following a number of other missions the company had completed, but Owen was not among these, having been detached from the rest of his comrades for special assignment.{{Ref/Reuse|Dispatch}}{{Ref/Book|Id=HM76|HM|Page=76}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HGOOP|HGoO|Part=Prologue}} Soon after this separation he was given [[Mjolnir]] armor.{{Ref/Site|Id=Dispatch|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/discovery-dispatch-february-21-2019|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Discovery Dispatch - February 21, 2019|D=28|M=4|Y=2021}}{{Ref/Reuse|HM76}} At some point between 2545 and 2548, Owen was send to Jericho VII after the rumor of Covenant activity on the planet.{{Ref/Novel|HMerDi|Chapter=8}} | ||