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| | KURT-051 WAS THE DUMBEST SPARTAN OF ALL TIME. SERIOUSLY? "SPARTAN'S DON'T DIE" WHAT BULLSHIT |
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| {{SPARTAN Infobox
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| |name=Kurt Ambrose
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| |image=[[Image:SpartanIII.jpg|250px]]
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| |homeworld=
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| |birth=[[2511]]
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| |death=November 3 [[2552]]
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| |species=[[Human]]
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| |gender=Male
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| |hair=Brown
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| |eyes=Hazel
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| |cyber=
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| |affiliation=[[United Nations Space Command]]
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| |rank=[[Lieutenant Commander]]
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| |specialty=Commanding Officer
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| |battles=[[Battle of Chi Ceti]], [[Battle of Jericho VII]], [[Battle of Onyx]] and many more.
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| |class=Class I: [[2525]]
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| }}
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| {{quote|Die? Didn't you know? Spartans never die.|Kurt's final words, to [[Voro Nar 'Mantakree]]}} as he detonates two [[FENRIS Nuclear Warhead]]s and destroys [[Onyx]]
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| '''Kurt Ambrose''' ([[UNSCMID]]: 045888947) was a [[Spartan-II]] supersoldier. One of the leaders of the Spartan team, he was close to many of the other Spartans, before he went missing in [[2531]]. He was actually abducted by [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]] to spearhead the [[Spartan-III]] program <ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', page 49</ref>. The surname Ambrose is not his true surname, rather it was given to him by Colonel Ackerson prior to his abduction, due to the fact that he could not remember his real surname.
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| ==Personality and Description==
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| Kurt was unusually sociable for a Spartan. Where the rest of his teammates were closely guarded and private, Kurt spent a considerable amount of time making friends. This made some of his fellow Spartans uneasy; they were not comfortable with a leader who was so distracted. Still, Kurt was an extremely proficient leader.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]] page 33</ref> After his indoctrination into the Spartan-III program, his leadership qualities became even more pronounced.
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| Kurt had an uncanny ability to "feel" traps before walking into them. When something was wrong, Kurt would often get a bad feeling. When [[John]] and Kurt were originally on separate teams, John often lost as a result of Kurt's 6th sense. His teammates grew to view this as an asset, trusting Kurt's instincts and common sense.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]] page 33</ref>
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| Kurt was among the best of the [[SPARTAN-IIs]], right next to [[Spartan 117]] in skill and superiority. Kurt and [[Fred]] are the only [[SPARTAN]]s to make the rank of an Officer, [[Lieutenant (Jr Grade)]] Kurt by "courtesy" of Col. Ackerson. Fred was promoted by Kurt on Onyx.
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| ==Biography==
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| ===Early Childhood===
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| When he was marked as physically and mentally superior by [[Dr. Catherine Halsey]] in [[2517]] she had him abducted and sent to [[Reach]] to begin Spartan training. As with the other candidates to become Spartans, he was replaced with a [[flash clone]] that died of natural causes, just like all the other future Spartans.
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| ===Early Career===
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| During training, he often was selected to lead [[Green Team]] in field exercises, in which he won almost every course. He graduated with the rest of the Spartans in [[2525]] after augmentation. After the death of [[Sam-034]] during the [[Battle of Chi Ceti]], Kurt replaced Sam on [[Blue Team]] under [[Master Chief|John-117]]'s leadership and command.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]] page 33</ref> At first, his fellow teammates were uneasy and apprehensive with the transition, but after a mission to [[Camp New Hope]] where Kurt saved the rest of the Spartans from being captured by the [[URF]] [[General Howard Graves]], they quickly bonded.<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]] page 37</ref>
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| ===Disappearance===
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| Soon after, Kurt disappeared during an [[Wikipedia: extra-vehicular activity|extravehicular mission]] to Station Delphi to investigate a ruptured Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine when his T-PACK failed and malfunctioned. He was listed as MIA and presumed dead. However he had actually been abducted by Colonel James Ackerson and sent to Onyx to train the Spartan-IIIs. To do this, he was given a new second name and an officer's commission, as Lieutenant (Jr Grade) Kurt Ambrose. Over time, he was promoted for his successful efforts in training the new Spartans, eventually reaching the rank of [[Lieutenant Commander]].
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| ===Onyx===
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| At the outbreak of hostilities in [[Zone-67]] in Onyx, Kurt regroups with [[Tom-B292]] and [[Lucy-B091]], the last remaining Spartans of [[Beta Company]], and selects the SPI armor used by the Spartan-IIIs instead of his near-invincible Mark IV (which he has upgraded) armor as he tells Lucy that he is one of them now, a Spartan III teammate. Later on during his stay on Onyx he is reunited with Dr. Halsey and Kelly. Dr. Halsey along with the help of the ONI AI Endless Summer are able to send a message through slipspace by using Cortana's original UNSC broadcast. She asks Lord Hood to send Spartans to Onyx in order to aquire possible Forerunner technology. Upon learning of this transmission, the Spartans on Earth, Fred, William and Linda infiltrate and capture a covenant vessel which they travel in to Onyx where they met Kurt. Kurt then leads the Spartans on a mission into the newly uncovered Forerunner city on Onyx to locate the technology Dr. Halsey has been talking about. The mission was abruptly made complicated due to the Covenant locating Onyx and learning of the humans' mission. Kurt and his team still managed to learn large amounts of information pertaining to Onyx, at the same time managed to destroy a Sentinel production factory and locate the missing Team Katana. However instead of escaping Kurt led his team towards the Core Room where he realized the true purpose of Onyx as a shield world. He died in the [[Core Room Antechamber]] of the Forerunner construct of Onyx, saving the lives of the rest of Blue Team by opting to stay outside the rift and fight off the Covenant by detonating two FENRIS nuclear warheads. However, he commissions Fred as an officer before sending them to the shield world in order to give the remaining Spartans a leader.
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| [[Image:Spartans-never-die.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Kurt in his final moments]]
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| ===Death===
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| Before detonating the two [[FENRIS]] nuclear warheads, Kurt marks the Spartan casualties as [[MIA]] - keeping with the policy of never declaring any Spartan [[KIA]] - and then does likewise for himself, adding Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose to the list next to SPARTAN-051, Kurt. During this time, he sees all of his former Spartan-III's that were under his command give him the [[Spartan]] "Okay" signal, as well as [[Sam]], [[Li]], [[Grace]], [[Will]], and the rest of his fallen friends. Finally, right before detonating the warheads, he tells the [[Elite]] [[Voro Nar 'Mantakree|Fleet Master]] who confronted him: "Die? Didn't you know?...Spartans never die." The detonation of the two warheads causes a chain reaction, that destroys the crust of the planet, which had been covering a giant sphere made up of Sentinels, who fire their lasers into space destroying the Covenant ships but without hitting the ''[[Dusk|UNSC Dusk]]''. Meanwhile the surviving Spartans are shielded in the rift. It is believed that this rift is actually "condensed" slip space, within the small inner chamber of the planet, created by the Forerunners as a part of the Forerunners plan to fight the Flood.
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| ==Legacy==
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| Kurt, according to John, originally made him uneasy. He did this by taking a lot of time to know his teammates on a more personal level. He died in the end as a brilliant commander, and noble hero who continued to know his [[Spartan-III]]s and [[Spartan-II]]s as comrades.
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| ==Trivia==
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| *The name Ambrose comes from the late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Αμβροσιος (Αmbrosios) meaning "immortal" which could reference the fact that Spartans are never marked as [[KIA]].''
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| *He kept a self-winding antique mechanical watch.
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| *Kurt is the only known [[SPARTAN-II]] to wear S.P.I armor.
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| *Next to John and Fred, Kurt is probably one of the more well-known leaders of the SPARTAN-II program.
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| *He is seen to the highest-ranking Spartan-II in the history of the Halo universe, surpassing even Chief [[Mendez]] and Master Chief
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| *Kurt, Fred, and John are said to be the "''Commanders of the Spartans''" leading them, always, into battle in some way, shape, or form.
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| *His last words "Die? Didn't you know... Spartans never die." Is an obvious reference to the fact that Spartans are never listed KIA. These words have become famous in the Halo community.
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| *Kurt's last name Ambrose was actually given to him by Colonel Ackerson of the [[UNSC]] Army, Kurt had forgotten his real last name.
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| *Kurt's [[SPI]] armor closely resembles the Halo 3's [[EVA armor]].
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| *Kurt-051 was the only Spartan-II that did not have any Energy Shields on Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, and did not bother to use the Jackal Arm Shields when he used the S.P.I Armor like the Spartan-IIIs did.
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Spartan-IIs|051, Kurt]]
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| [[Category:Characters|Ambrose, Kurt-051]]
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