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Douglas-042

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Douglas-042
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Biographical information

Homeworld:

Asphodel[1]

Born:

April 21, 2511[1]

Personal details

Species:

Human

Gender:

Male

Height:

2.238 meters (7' 4")[2]

Weight:

136.9 kilograms (302 lb)[2]

Hair color:

Brown[1]

Eye color:

Blue[1]

Political and military information

Affiliation:

Rank:

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Service number:

S-042

 

Senior Chief Petty Officer Douglas-042, born Douglas Rutland,[1] is a SPARTAN-II supersoldier of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. He was a member of Red Team and fought alongside the crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire in February 2531.[3][2]

Biography

Conscription

Born on the remote world of Asphodel, Douglas Rutland was abducted and conscripted into the SPARTAN-II program headed by Dr. Catherine Halsey in 2517 when he was six years old. He was then taken to the human colony world of Reach and trained by the AI Déjà and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez along with the rest of the SPARTAN children. In 2525, he and the other candidates underwent a series of augmentations to improve their strength.[4] Douglas was among the ones who survived and were not crippled or killed by the procedure.

Battle of Arcadia

Main article: Battle of Arcadia

Douglas was a member of Red Team during the Battle of Arcadia in February 2531 and was tasked with delaying the Covenant forces long enough to evacuate the civilians of Arcadia.[5] Afterward, he and the rest of Red Team linked up with forces from the UNSC Spirit of Fire and assisted in a counter-attack on a Covenant outpost.[6] Once the plan to infiltrate a large Covenant energy shield dome was passed down from Captain James Cutter of the Spirit of Fire, he and Red Team remained with the crew to assist with the assignment. They prevented the destruction of several prototype M-145D "Rhino" artillery tanks while they ensured that the shield was destroyed.[7] After Sergeant John Forge's forces triumphed over a Scarab assault platform, the SPARTANs searched for Covenant survivors in the jungles on a Warthog.[8] Upon hearing that Professor Ellen Anders had been abducted by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee, they went to the Spirit of Fire, which soon jumped into slipspace in pursuit of the Covenant vessel carrying Anders.[9] During the pursuit, Douglas fought Sergeant Forge over the former's recommendation to destroy the Covenant vessel carrying Professor Anders; the fight resulted in a broken chair and a broken bulkhead. However, the two always ate lunch in the mess hall together afterward.[10][2]

Shield world

Douglas fighting at the Apex
Main article: Battle of Shield World 0459

Later, upon arriving at a Forerunner Shield World, Douglas assisted the Spirit of Fire's crew in neutralizing Covenant and Flood forces.[9] Later, Red Team assisted Marines in destroying a proto-Gravemind.[11] Some time later, he and Red Team became stranded on the planet. With the Spirit of Fire being dragged down inside the megastructure, Red Team was assisted by Forge and his forces and successfully withdrew to the ship.[12] Red Team then assisted the crew in scouring the Flood forces from the hull of the Spirit of Fire.[13] Later, after the Spirit of Fire collided with a Covenant CPV-class heavy destroyer, Red Team successfully repelled Covenant boarders while the crew repaired the vessel's drive core.[14][2]

Once Anders was rescued, Douglas assisted Red Team in capturing a Covenant Scarab and used it to help Forge secure a beachhead.[15] The Spartans were then tasked with escorting the Spirit of Fire's slipspace drive to a teleporter that was linked to the Apex Site.[16] At the Apex Site's command center, he and the Red Team engaged numerous Sangheili while Forge dueled the Arbiter. Douglas, with the Spirit of Fire's crew, was then charged with opening the gate which allowed the Spirit of Fire to exit the Shield World.[17][2]. Douglas, as with the rest of the crew, entered cryo sleep after the Spirit of Fire escaped the destruction of the Shield World. After the loss of contact the UNSC tried to locate the Spirit of Fire for the next three years and eventually, in 2534, the Spirit of Fire and all its crew were declared "lost with all hands". Thus Douglas had been declared MIA.

The Ark

In 2559, after 28 years of drifting in space the UNSC Spirit of Fire found way to the orbit of the Forerunner Installation 00, known as the Ark. Awakened from the cryo-sleep, Douglas as part of the Red Team eventually traveled down to the Ark to find out how to establish contact with the UNSC. However on the surface of the Ark they encountered a hostile, violent mercenary faction known as the Banished, led by the cunning Jiralhanae warlord Atriox.[18]

Equipment

Douglas wears olive green Mark IV MJOLNIR armor with a white stripe along the center of the helmet. His right pauldron is painted with a red phoenix character;[1] his suit's biceps bear the image of a Sangheili skull with a bullet hole in the temple, set against a shield with crossed knives. He commonly used a four-barreled variant of the M41 rocket launcher from the Battle of Arcadia to Spirit of Fire's escape from Shield World 0459. He and Alice-130 both wielded pairs of M7 submachine guns during the raid on the Apex.[17]

Trivia

  • Douglas' name and tag are clear homages to the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its creator, Douglas Adams. In the book, the number 42 is stated to be "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything".
  • Douglas service number 42 is a 7 multiple:42/6=7. He is one of the two known Spartan-IIs (The other being Fhajad-084) to have 7 as a factor in their service number.

Gallery

  • Sergeant Forge and Red Team preparing to dismount Spirit of Fires FTL drive in Halo Wars.

    Sergeant Forge and Red Team preparing to dismount Spirit of Fires FTL drive in Halo Wars.

  • Red Team at the Apex.

    Red Team at the Apex.

  • Red Team about to attack on the Apex.

    Red Team about to attack on the Apex.

  • Douglas firing a M6C magnum after being wounded in Halo Wars 2.

    Douglas firing a M6C magnum after being wounded in Halo Wars 2.

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e f Halo Waypoint - Douglas-042
  2. ^ a b c d e f Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 153
  3. ^ Halo Wars
  4. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page ???
  5. ^ Halo Wars, level Arcadia City
  6. ^ Halo Wars, level Arcadia Outskirts
  7. ^ Halo Wars, level Dome of Light
  8. ^ Halo Wars, level Scarab
  9. ^ a b Halo Wars, level Anders' Signal
  10. ^ Halo Wars Timeline
  11. ^ Halo Wars, level The Flood
  12. ^ Halo Wars, level Shield World
  13. ^ Halo Wars, level Cleansing
  14. ^ Halo Wars, level Repairs
  15. ^ Halo Wars, level Beachhead
  16. ^ Halo Wars, level Reactor
  17. ^ a b Halo Wars, level Escape
  18. ^ GameSpot: Halo Wars 2 New Story Details and Images Revealed

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