Team Halberd

Team Halberd is a SPARTAN-III unit of Gamma Company.

History
After their training on Onyx, Team Halberd was deployed on several operations of strategic importance alongside the rest of Gamma Company over the course of the fall of 2552. In 2556, the members of Halberd were issued with the MJOLNIR/AQUILA powered assault armor. Halberd Team is attached to the UNSC Battle Group Endymion as of 2565.

LAURA-G179 - HALBERD ONE

 * Rank: Petty Officer, First Class
 * Date of birth: 04/01/2539
 * Birthplace: Point January, Bolder
 * Specialty: Team leader
 * Height: 195 cm
 * Weight: 102 kg

Team Halberd's leader, S-G179 is businesslike, driven, and strong-willed. Her most noteworthy talents are her quick problem-solving skills and tactical acumen. Over the years, she has built up a profound awareness of her role as a Spartan, and what began as a blind thirst for vengeance has developed into an acute sense of duty and pride about her service. Although she has never had problems holding her own physically or mentally, the greatest challenge for her in the beginning was to understand her teammates' weaknesses - and to effectively cultivate their strengths. She has perfectionist tendencies and has had issues with micromanaging in the past.

She wears a Recon helmet with an added Command Network Module as well as an internal modification suite geared toward her unofficial secondary role as the team's electronics specialist.

ABRAHAM-G195 - HALBERD TWO

 * Rank: Petty Officer, First Class
 * Date of birth: 20/10/2538
 * Birthplace: Antioch, Miridem
 * Specialty: Sharpshooter
 * Height: 201 cm
 * Weight: 111 kg

Abraham is the team's best shot on medium to long distances; as such he acts as the team's designated marksman and sharpshooter. He has a straightforward, level-headed and outgoing personality, and is never afraid to speak his mind. However, he has also been described as too stubborn for his own good. He acts as Laura's second-in-command, and out of the living members of Halberd, Abe and Laura have the strongest bond - something that may surprise the casual observer, as they seemed to be at each other's throats most of the time during their training years.

He wears a Commando helmet with an external optics and sensor-enhancing package, a reliable yet not over-specialized choice for his MOS.

MAYA-G067 - HALBERD THREE

 * Rank: Petty Officer, Second Class
 * Date of birth: 17/03/2540
 * Birthplace: Gauda, Parvati
 * Specialty: Assault / Grenadier
 * Height: 179 cm
 * Weight: 103 kg

A reserved and taciturn individual, Maya-G067 handles breaching, demolitions and grenadier roles within HALBERD. She is wary and reserved around new people, slow to adapt to new situations, and has a history of trust issues stemming from early childhood trauma. This makes her very reliant on HALBERD's team dynamic, and she is difficult to deploy outside the social safety net of the team.

She most commonly deploys with a CQB helmet, an M90 shotgun or MA5C ICWS, an XM510 grenade launcher, and a Pattern-2 machete for a combat knife.

SIGURD-G302 - HALBERD FOUR

 * Rank: Petty Officer, Second Class
 * Date of birth: 14/01/2537 (NOTE: experienced significant periods of cryosleep prior to Spartan career)
 * Birthplace: Abu Simbel, Actium
 * Specialty: Heavy weapons
 * Height: 198 cm
 * Weight: 107 kg

S-G302's skill set is relatively well-rounded and he has no particular area he excels in, though he most commonly acts as Halberd's support and heavy weapons specialist. He prefers high-capacity, full-automatic weapons such as the M247 or M739 SAWs, and has a special affinity for the M6 G/GNR whenever he can get his hands on one. He is consistently upbeat and eccentric, and finds fun in the strangest of places. He is detail-oriented to the point of obsessiveness, and has a tendency of getting attached to his gear. One example of this is his overwhelming preference for the GUNGNIR helmet, whose smart-link and targeting suite he has a special fondness for.

S-G302 was fitted with a prosthetic leg after a fateful encounter with a fuel rod. Driven by piezoelectric polymer musculature derived from Project MJOLNIR, such prosthetics have become popular in the post-war years especially among augmented personnel thanks to their subtle profile yet impressive performance; whereas previously, artificial limbs issued to Spartans have tended to be more crude in construction to properly replicate augmented strength, 7th-generation technology allows civilian-grade design and comfort with the power and responsiveness required of a Spartan.

CONNOR-G085 - HALBERD FIVE

 * Rank: Petty Officer, Third Class
 * Date of birth: 05/01/2540
 * Birthplace: Fife Arcology, Verne
 * Specialty: Rifleman scout

Fast, agile and keen-eyed, Connor-G085 served as a rifleman, scout and reconnaissance specialist in HALBERD's original roster. He was unusually sensitive and empathetic for a Spartan-III, which often worked to his detriment during the program's brutal training regimen. Toward the end of training, he began to lose his motivation, though he stayed in the program out of commitment for his team. He was killed during an operation to take out a Covenant ship repair facility in the rings of the gas giant Leviathan in the final weeks of the war, which had a profound effect on the rest of the team, particularly S-G067, whom Connor was close friends with since the early days of training.