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Franchise: Halo

Faction: Various Employers (Formerly), Various Groups (Undercover), United Nations Space Command, UNSC Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence/ONI (Formerly), ONI Section 3 (Formerly), Counter Intelligence Office/CIO, Spartan Operations, Fireteam Sehkmet (In the future), Trident of Revelation (In the future)

Age: 34

Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Height: 6.10ft

Species/Nationality: Human, American

Birthplace: Charybdis IX

Citiezenship: UEG

Job: Freelance Tracker and Assassin (Formerly), Acquisitions Specialist, Spy, Spartan Supersoldier

Nicknames/Titles: Agent Temper, Nick, ONI to the Bone, Spook, Hitman, Locker, Karl Lucas (Undercover name), The Honourable ONI Agent, The One They Just Might Let into Valhalla

Gender: Male

Vehicles/Mounts: Silver HuCiv Genet 1500XLD, U81 Condor

Voice: Similar to Mike Colter

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Black

Skin Colour/Race: Black African American

Scars/Damage/Markings/Unusual Features: Some scars

Enemies/Rivals: The Covenant, Thora 'Marumee (Formerly), Banicrons, ONI, Vuzi Alliance, The Jiralhanae Covenant, Insurrectionists, The Seekers of Sublimity, Supreme Commander Ra'agai 'Vehsumee, "The Man", The White Serpent Gang

Status: Alive and Healthy on duty

Weapons:

'The Talker'- Customised BR85N Battle Rifle

'The Listener'- A Customised M6H2 Magnum with a suppressor

Hard Sound Rifle

Two Modified M7S SMGs with laser designators

Forge Industries X15000 "Kill A Ton of Bad Guys" High-Density Self-Propelled Claymore Bombs

Forge Industries Built-in I-0V Cranium-Sensitive Battle Pistols

Two Customised Black M6G Magnums

Standard Issue MA-37 Assault Rifle

Standard Issue BR55 Battle Rifle

Standard Issue M392 DMR

Standard Issue Forge Industries M13 Blister Handgun

Combat Knife

Frag Grenades

Equipment/Paraphernalia/Personal Belongings: Customised and Modified HUNTER-Class MJOLNIR Armour, ARTEMIS Tracking System, Personal Energy Shield Generator, Chatter Mobile Phone, Chatter Wristwatch, Ammunition Pouches, Vita-Responsive Biofoam Injection Drone, Translation Implant, Guerilla Album Collection, Photoreactive Panels, Health Monitor, Spartan Neural Interface Implant

Specialisation/Skills: Spy, Assassin, Stealth, Pilot, Martial Artist, Assault, Defence, Leadership, Stamina, Small Arms, Tactician, Persuader, Improviser, Agility, Perseverance, Survival, Marksman

Powers/Abilities: Spartan-IV Physiology

Personality: A collected, forward-thinking professional from head to toe, Lieutenant Commander Nicholas Temper is a former ONI agent who, prior to becoming a Spartan, rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served under ONI's Section III as an Acquisitions Specialist, his duties including the retrieval of important objects from the enemy as well as the tracking and assassination of high-value individuals. Some might think this makes him either a boring and stone cold shell of a person, or a grade-A government agent asshole, but that could not be further from the truth. Any impressions that Temper is "ONI to the bone" are largely invalid- Nicholas is troubled by many aspects of the organisation he used to serve under, which is probably why he was so willing to turn himself in after it was officially disbanded.

He is generally non-confrontational and willing to resolve conflicts though negotiation, using his knowledge and intelligence to solve complicated political and tactical situations. He has the ability to inspire great loyalty in his subordinates, even when they do not agree with his decisions. Though whilst Nicholas has the expertise of a master strategist, his teammates sometimes find him a little too cool under pressure, and because of that- a little off-putting. The truth is, back in his days as a freelancer, his desire to win at everything he did was an overriding concern, and over the years, it is one that he has tried to push down, but still has trouble overcoming. Some believe he may be little too effective at his job, as he's not exactly the easiest man to work with. He's not antagonistic (though is overconfident bordering on arrogant), but he's just very used to working on his own without backup, both in personnel and planning, needing to get a job done right, fast, and on the first try.

For better or for worse, he seems to have the chops to back himself up, with an amazing amount of both physical and mental speed and acuity. His obliviousness to the risk of alienation may catch up with him one day, but until then, he seemingly can't help but revel in his superior talents, and his seriousness about his duty to protect humanity and her allies is all that he needs to show his devotion to the side of good.

Nicholas Temper was born in the capital city of Scyllion on the Outer Colony of Charybdis IX, and grew up as an orderly by-the-book kid who followed the rules and laws. He was a figure of contrasts to many people in his neighbourhood, who were dissatisfied at the exploitative methods of the BXR Mining Corporation which effectively ran the entire mining colony. Many people were stacked with high prices and costs of living, which exceeded the amount BXR was paying them, causing most of Scyllion's residents to become saddled with debt. The inability to escape this debt led many to become angry and disobedient towards the colony's puppet government which was extensively lobbied by BXR and in many offices, ran by BXR associates.

The growing culture of disobedience and division ran so deep that children also caught on to it, and many would play in the streets and intentionally make dangerous messes on said streets so law enforcement vehicles could get their tyres popped. Temper was not one of these children, and he actually cleaned up the roads often which led to other kids calling him names and shunning him. Nicholas had a hard time adjusting to his parent's decision to get rid of their Roadware- which gave their car self-driving capabilities and was legally required for all vehicles to have installed and used when driving at exceptionally high speeds. When Temper asked why, his mother told him that she did not like how Roadware registered the car on the planet's surveillance grid and believed it was an invasion of their privacy. This eventually got his parents in trouble with the law when police scanners showed they did not have Roadware installed, and they were fined, forcing them to reinstall it, but Nicholas believed that it only proved how important it was to follow the rules.

At school, Nicholas was a good student who had consistently good grades, though he admitted to finding school boring and did not particularly have a favourite subject. He had few friends, though did make a meaningful connection with one Emilia Vaughin, who shared Nicholas' interest in the popular Starknights science fiction show.

Unfortunately, whilst Nicholas Temper was a rule-abiding young boy who liked the order of things in the world, when the Human-Covenant war came to his planet, it brought a toll, as he witnessed all that order collapse around him. Temper was watching news reports of riots on the planet led by Insurrectionist Jason Kincaide, and remembered noting that the fact the rioters were armed with Covenant weapons was a red flag. As the alien Covenant Hegemony invaded, he was separated from his family during evacuations, and orphaned as he was evacuated just minutes before the planet was glassed.

As one of few civillians evacuated from the planet, Temper stayed with the crew of the UNSC Midsummer Night throughout the subsequent Battle of the Rubble and Battle of Metisette, and was later released into state custody on the Inner Colony of Falaknuma.

Having lost everyone he had known, Temper was placed in a state orphanage with other children who had suffered a similar fate. Upon growing older, many of his compatriots enlisted in the United Nations Space Command, eager for revenge against the Covenant. However Temper, having seen where the rules and laws he once supported had taken him, blamed the government for their failure to defend his homeworld and came to the conclusion that the UNSC was incapable of protecting its citizens. As a result, he became a freelance tracker and assassin.

He first worked for the Earth-based Crystal Security company, which was actually a front for a crime syndicate, and did numerous odd jobs for them across human colonies including monitoring and securing shipments of their illegal goods, 'pacifying' individuals who did learn about them, and acquiring rival shipments for Crystal Security.

Temper would expand his portfolio of employers when the Vestol Corporation hired him to steal blueprints for a new cybernetic arm design from a rival, and would later help Colonel Mukasa Okello of The War Vultures- a secessionist group formed to defend the Outer Colonies, expand his influence to a heretical Kig-Yar pirate operated space station known as Fuzn's Harbour.

As a spacetrotting freelancer, Temper had few friends, becoming distant from people in general. The few acquaintances he did make rarely lasted, as Nicholas would later admit, he had a personal need to win at everything because he had lost so much in the past. This made him quite manipulative and devalued his word to the point where even the smallest of promises were empty. Working partners often found themselves either left behind if they slowed him down or ratted out to cover his own tracks. Romantic partners awoke in the mornings alone in a bed which they had gone to sleep in together with the night before, and friends lost touch with Temper as he accelerated way ahead of their own ambitions.

Due to the nature of his work, Nicholas got to see more and more of the dark realities behind human society. Particularly in the Outer Colonies, Nicholas saw more BXR-like situations which drew him to become a fan of the slam rocker Benny Scorchead and his band Guerilla, whose anti-government and anti-corporate lyrics spoke to the miffed and vexed Nicholas Temper, and his outlook on the UEG got more and more bleak. His favourite Guerilla track, “For Bureacracy”- a song heavily criticising the difficulty of getting political change through and how the little change that did get through was never for the good of the people and usually infringed on their privacy and other rights, was relevant to Nicholas as it was this kind of difficulty for things to get done that led him to lose faith in the government, and it was infringements on rights like privacy which spurred so many people on his home planet to violence. Despite this, Temper regarded the UNSC's Spartan supersoldiers with great respect and viewed the famed Spartan Ivan-226 as his own personal hero, and believed him to be a symbol of what the government should be.

In 2545, Temper was hired by an anonymous employer who wanted him to revive and drum up Insurrectionist sentiment on the Outer Colony of Andesia, instructing him to meet with an undercover ECB News reporter by the name of Valerie Jewel in the city of Noctus, to form a partnership in which they would both work together to expose a scandal involving the White Serpent Gang on the planet and their modern slave trade ring, which the employer said the police knew about but did nothing to combat it.

Meeting with Jewel in the Femerian Hotel in Noctus, the two discussed the information they already had on hand. Valerie told Nicholas she had put together a data chip on the White Serpent Gang- a group with historical links to the Chinese Triads who had been shipping poor people looking for new lives from Earth and the Solar System to Andesia almost for free, taking advantage of the overpopulation and desperate need to branch out of Earth to make their promises of new life more appealing and unassuming. Little would these unwitting people know, the White Serpents would transport them in terrible conditions only to deliver them to their warehouses operating under the contract manufacturing company 'Suxart', which was commonly used by corporations like Traxus Heavy Industries who knew full well of the circumstances for their workers. Unfortunately, upon Temper's questioning, Jewel said that she was going off of where all her leads pointed her, but had no concrete proof that the slaves truly worked at Suxart, which is why she needed help getting video evidence, which is what led her to seek out the mysterious employer who hired Temper.

When Temper asked who she believed hired him, she admitted that it very well could've been a rival company trying to incriminate Suxart and its contractors to divert attention from their own dealings, but she said that even if it was, what was going on in Suxart was terrible and it needed to be exposed. Nicholas agreed, and after arranging to meet at the Femerian's revolving restaurant at the top floor to plot their moves, they departed to their suites.

Whilst dressing himself in a sharp suit, Temper remarked to himself that he looked "damn good", and met with Jewel at the restaurant. Upon agreeing with her that they would work on a plan to smuggle Valerie in as one of the workers with a recording device, and she would have Nicholas running a detection disguiser program on Suxart's surveillance system whilst she did so.

For days, the two searched for a way inside Noctus' Suxart factory, and learned more about one another. Temper came to greatly admire Valerie for her bravery and her conviction that she was willing to die if it meant exposing the truth, refusing to let it slip in the face of death, and Jewel came to greatly admire Temper for living his life freely and without the rules others put on him.

Eventually they managed to contact an ex-White Serpent named Hoyung Silo, who had left the gang after being assumed dead but was currently operating within it under the name "Cuba Mascertani", who was actually an agent in the gang doing everything as Silo instructed. Hoyung agreed to provide Valerie and Temper what they needed to get in, and eventually Jewel made a switch with a current 'employee' at Suxart, who was taken in by Hoyung at his luxury apartment where he fed her and gave her what she needed to get out of the city. Whilst Valerie spent the best part of a week at Suxart, Temper and Silo ran her 'mission control' whilst "Cuba", currently on guard duty, conveniently overlooked some of Jewel's obvious tells that she didn't belong there and at times advised her in private of how to behave in line with who she was impersonating.

With all the proof they needed recorded, "Cuba" smuggled the device out of the Suxart building and put it in the hands of Temper, but upon receiving it he was given an instruction by his employer to send them the footage, which he did, but then forbade him from going back to smuggle Valerie out of the building. Temper was confused by this order, but the employer explained that if Jewel disappeared, the Serpents would be suspicious and there had to be absolutely no way of tracing it back to them. Temper understood, but was unwilling to leave Jewel at the building, and asked when Suxart would be exposed so they could get her out. "Soon" was the only answer, and for the first week, Temper believed it, but after a while, it became more and more clear to him that his belief that it was a rival of Suxart wanting to incriminate the company became more and more logical, as he theorised the employer had informed Suxart of the recordings and was trying to use them as blackmail to coax them into yielding to whatever corporate arrangement the employer wanted. Temper, feeling uncharacteristically guilty for leaving Valerie Jewel to work as a modern slave, convinced Hoyung to help him smuggle her back out of the building, though Silo said he would only provide him the necessary breaking and entering tools, but he would receive no aid from "Cuba".

Though Jewel's Hotel room had been filled by new guests and Temper was expected to have left Andesia by now, Nicholas paid to extend his stay at the Femerian himself so he could have a base of operations from which he could prepare to rescue Jewel.

Temper broke into the building one night and tracked Jewel's location, hoping to find her and extract her without a hitch. Unfortunately, he was spotted by two guards, who he successfully stunned with electric-charge shots, but not before they could inform the gang of the presence of an intruder. Getting Jewel out of her assigned dorm wasn't the difficult part, but facing off against seven White Serpents at the exit he had designated was. Luckily, one of them happened to be Cuba who, when there were only two other Serpents, knocked both of the others on the heads, incapacitating them before he let Temper go, telling him to shoot him with one of his rounds. Temper thanked Cuba before firing an electric shock round at him and left the building with Valerie.

Returning to the Femerian, Temper set the tired reporter down on his bed, who revealed that the White Serpents were so much worse than she could ever have imagined- she was forced to truly slave away there, being subjected to harsh labour- she felt she had broken every bone in her body yet was still forced to work harsh, backbreaking jobs like blacksmithing, assembling and disassembling. He then took her to hospital to get the care she needed, but asked Temper to present the evidence to ECB News on her behalf. Nicholas refused, saying that wasn't his job and it was still hers to do, but upon telling him that it also wasn't his job to save her, he reluctantly agreed.

After sending off the evidence to ECB News with his own notes, narration and presentation, Temper remained on Andesia for a full month, extending his stay at the Femerian even further just so he could make sure Jewel was doing well. He also hid the data chip containing all the evidence in the soil of a ficus plant on his floor in case the White Serpents came looking for it. When Jewel was discharged from hospital at last, Temper told her where the chip was and said he'd pay for the next few days of her stay at the Femerian, but he would be leaving. As he left for pastures anew, Valerie gave him a warm embrace as thanks for all he had done and promised to pay him back every credit he had paid caring for her. For a moment, Nicholas froze in her arms and thought something aloud under his breath, but when Jewel questioned what it was he muttered, he said he was merely clearing his throat...

Yeah, sure Nick.

On his way to the Noctus Interplanetary Spaceport however, Temper was stopped by government vehicles and agents who stepped out to arrest him. Brought to an Office of Naval Intelligence facility, an ONI Handler named Yusanna Campman told Nicholas that she had been his employer the whole time, and Temper learned the entire operation was ONI's attempt to both blackmail the White Serpents into revealing lost information on the names of a set of slaves who had been delivered to Andesia in 2527 and testing if Nicholas would be a good operative. Yusanna admitted Temper's skills were great, but she said that his willingness to deliver the evidence of the Suxart factory, which he would know would incite Insurrectionist violence was proof that ONI could not trust him as a freelance operator. Nicholas asked if they were going to kill him, but Yusanna said that would be a poor waste of his talents. Instead, he could join the agency as an acquisitions specialist and be granted the safety and privileges of an ONI agent, or be disposed of. Seeing no other option, and desiring a life where he could have people looking over his shoulder for him, Nicholas Temper agreed to the terms. He only asked that Valerie Jewel be left unharmed and her report could get out. Yusanna said that she did everything in her power to stop ECB from using the evidence already, and that Jewel's data chip would be cleaned without her being imprisoned or worse, but Temper would have to reveal where the chip was. Temper told the handler its location, knowing Valerie would rather die than do it, and Yusanna had her people recover it.

Temper did not know whether or not to regret his actions. On the one hand, he secured a safe, comfortable life for himself and assured the survival of Valerie Jewel, but on the other he had betrayed many of his past beliefs and had fallen back under the sway of a government he knew was corrupt, and now Valerie would hate him for having allowed the evidence of Suxart to be wiped, not caring for her own life if she could use it to do the greater good. Despite receiving several missed calls on his Chatter from her, he answered none, fearing that she knew what he did and she was angry with him, something he for some reason couldn't let himself know for sure.

Entering ONI's extensive training program where he honed his skills to perfection and became one of ONI's top field operatives, Temper served Section Three as an Acquisitions Specialist, and would later explain that he did everything he used to do before, just for the agency now.

During the second wave of reconstructions under the ONI "Silent Project", Temper acquired samples of the biological material-corroding 'Biorust' virus which ONI had learned of from surveillance of the Covenant and first-hand recounts by Covenant defectors and even some prisoners of war. Eventually, Temper found that he had become infected with a minor, weak form of the virus, but he was told it would eventually 'corrode' his entire body if he did not receive some form of treatment. Researchers attempted a risky way of curing him by bombarding him with accelerated lead particles from a device designed by the Wakado Technological Research Institute, a method which worked, but left Temper with lead poisoning. Thankfully, this was easy to treat by the 26th Century, but the risks associated with it meant it was not recommendable as a suitable treatment for Biorust. Researchers themselves told Temper he just 'barely' pulled through from the damage it caused him. Nonetheless, he was assured his involvement with Biorust would help with the understanding of the disease.

Nicholas' other actions as an ONI Agent were not so pretty. He once assassinated a war photographer who became a rebel against the UNSC's censorship rules, and during his mission, believed that it was actually ONI's intent to silence him which led him to spend innocent lives to cover his numerous escapes. He would also commonly be tasked with testing the effectiveness of 'Unmentionables'- technology designed by several arms manufacturers, namely Forge Industries, whose playboy CEO Tyrone Forge came up with the name 'Unmentionables' which did not meet the guidelines for arms by the UNSC Ethics Committee, and often field tests of these weapons were done on small, minor Insurrectionist cells. Nicholas hated using the Forge Industries Sonic Paralyser, which used high-frequency noises to paralyse victims or overload their bodily systems and kill them, and was one of the many devices which led Nicholas to lament how awful what he was doing truly was.

Shortly after reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander, Temper compiled a target profile concerning Covenant Supreme Commander Thora 'Marumee, detailing the Sangheili's personal history from the UNSC's first known encounter with him on Thexacul to the glassing of Kroedis II, that he had been responsible for billions of human casualties and the destruction of 345 UNSC ships. Nicholas concluded the report by recommending the immediate termination of 'Marumee if the Covenant advance were to be slowed in any significant manner. He offered to personally carry out the assassination, but several other Section 3 operatives were tasked with the job instead, though each attempt on 'Marumee's life failed miserably.

In 2552, before the Fall of Garos, Section 3 authorised Temper to pursue his own plan to kill Thora 'Marumee, and during the invasion of the vital Inner Colony of Garos, Temper hunted Thora down relentlessly, but failed to get even close to him. The outbreak of the Great Schism months later and 'Marumee's partnership with the UNSC after realising that the Covenant's religion was a lie led to ONI abandoning the plan.

Months later after the Fall of High Charity and the defeat of the Covenant, the Treaty of 2552 was signed between the UEG and the newly formed Allied Sangheili Houses, resulting in the formation of the Trident of Revelation- a coalition alliance between the UNSC and Swords of Sanghelios led by Thora 'Marumee.

Shortly after, the newly elected UEG President Damion Hughner signed an executive order to disband the Office of Naval Intelligence after a New York-based vigilante named 'Truthunter' released many of the agency's crimes onto the Waypoint. The public learned that the government agency had for years been abducting children to serve as the Spartan supersoldiers- that the few official, publicised records of actual Spartan identities were that of the few Spartan IIIs who were consenting adults, brought into the program to serve just as much as heroes to the public as supersoldiers. Furthermore, ONI had sold Covenant defectors and prisoners of war back to Kig-Yar mercenaries in exchange for technology, had killed and imprisoned thousands of UEC citizens purely for learning too much, several times infringed on rights to privacy and sentences with trial and authorised various war crimes and even engineered genocidal weapons and tactics to beat the Covenant. When an official taskforce assembled by the President began hunting down and arresting ONI members who would not turn themselves in, Temper saw his shot at redemption for his misdeeds and turned himself in to the authorities.

After being extensively screened and interrogated for any sympathies towards ONI's crimes, Nicholas Temper was pardoned by the government and given an offer to work for the new agency taking ONI's place- the Counter Intelligence Office/CIO. Temper accepted and was even given his original rank and role in ONI back. The CIO Director Tony Laxen assured the agency that this was a new chapter for humanity and they could no longer rely on ONI's corrupt leadership.

Temper's first assignment in the CIO involved reporting on remnant ONI factions lying within UEG space. In spite of the best efforts of the taskforce, ONI simply controlled far too much and for that reason, it was able to retreat from human space in droves and had now set itself up as a 'Human Survivalist Syndicate' with the goal of 'protecting' humanity through whatever means it now wished to adopt. Temper would be the first to learn of ONI's mysterious new benefactor and organiser- a nameless individual who went only by "The Man". Following Nicholas' report and new behavioural examinations of the organisation, the UEG Senate came to the conclusion that ONI had human-supremacist ideals and wished to assert humanity's dominance over the alien races they were now at peace with. Temper himself theorised that "The Man" was a very powerful, wealthy and intellectual individual who must've come to the aid of the agency's new Director Charles Kaiser because he must've realised it as his opportunity to undermine relations between humanity and other species. He then compiled a list of potential public and private figures that could be "The Man", but did not exclude that he could also be a woman, or not even human.

Temper served in several classified operations as a CIO Agent, including one involving stopping a Neo-Covenant Sangheili Zealot from activating a bioweapon on the outer colony of Concord, which failed. This led to Temper leading a team alongside members of the Concord Colonial Guard to a broken shard of a Halo Ring from where the bioweapon's mysterious element which killed so many on Concord was extracted. After dealing with Thanolekgolo worms and smugglers, the team fractured as a result of CIO Agent Jack Nessler trying to abandon the smugglers they had taken prisoner and the Concordians so they could get off the Halo Shard before it's landscape faced the red giant star it was so close to again and killed them. Nicholas, reminded of his past self by Jack, was horrified at the suggestion, even more so by his own lingering desire to follow it, but pushed it down and rejected the proposal. Despite Temper's adamance that he did not panic like that, Jack eventually betrayed the group and attempted to make it off the shard with two others, but they were eventually killed by the Thanolekgolo whilst Temper, the smugglers and one surviving Concordian made it off the shard whilst the Captain of the Guard detonated a nuclear warhead manually to destroy it and ensure the destruction of the element used for the bioweapon. Following this, Nicholas started an investigation into the Zealot responsible for the attack and learned he was a member of The Seekers of Sublimity faction which had recently come under the leadership of Supreme Commander Ra'agai 'Veshumee following the death of its leader General Zarrug 'Cesharee.

Nicholas Temper was selected to become a Spartan-IV after his exceptional service and underwent the augmentation procedures. Leading dangerous and highly sensitive operations throughout the former Outer Colonies, Temper was often tasked with missions beyond the reach of UNSC support and garnered an impressive and successful career in the field. Nicholas participated in numerous low-profile, yet critical, operations. He participated in Operation: EATERY, a denial of material mission against insurrectionist forces on Groombridge-1830; Nicholas succeeded in destroying twenty-one special technical assets. In Operation: RIDDLER, Temper was a part of a counter-mobility strike on a Jiralhanae-Covenant controlled Forgeship. He later participated in a surveillance mission, known as Operation: PACIFIC THEATRE, on Kig-Yar salvage operations in the Procyon system. Temper had also served as security for an ONI xenoarchaeological survey team at a redacted location for Operation: DRUID.

Now, Nicholas Temper continues to serve as a CIO Agent and Spartan and has learned from his experiences under this newer, more honest and goodwilled agency the value of honour and teamwork. Still, Nicholas Temper harbours great guilt and regret over his past, namely with Valerie Jewel, which is likely why he still hasn't made himself a model friend just yet, but in time, he hopes to reconnect with Jewel once he feels he can look her in the eye again.

(Everything since then that is about to be written about takes place a little further into the future than where I currently tell the Haloverse's stories from the perspective of, which would be the mid to late 2550s)

Eventually, he was assigned to lead Fireteam Sehkmet, a specialised combat and intelligence gathering team of Spartan-IV supersoldiers operating under the CIO. The team would carry out complicated and classified missions, typically deemed hard to control by UNSC HIGHCOM. On official orders from President Hughner and Director Laxen, Nicholas was given full jurisdiction to handpick members from the Spartan-IV programme to serve on the Fireteam.

Temper selected Spartan-IVs Officer Phoebe Kallios- a gifted Sangheili linguist and diplomatic liaison who oversaw interspecies relations in the Trident; Sergeant Dana Symóne- a UNSC Army veteran who was commended for her actions in 'cleanup crews'- eliminating remnants of hostiles in the aftermath of numerous battles and wars; and Major Oxo Mintex/Pheralmone- a feral child raised by gorillas who was encultured in just 4 years and gained a very charismatic personality and wrote a book about his story, and he later became the UNSC's envoy on the Jiralhanae homeworld Doisac, fitting in with the Jiralhanae there. Fireteam Sehkmet was charged with carrying out a variety of complex missions for the UNSC Security Council and High Command.

Quotes:

"Nobody is putting anybody down. We don't panic like that. It's not an option."- Shutting down Agent Jack Nessler's suggestion to kill prisoners slowing their team down.

Temper: "Sometimes, I prefer to let the guns talk." Warnod Raugus: "Hehehehehehe....I like you."- Talking to 1000+ year old Jiralhanae Mercenary Warnod Raughus

"You may call me Nicholas, or Temper, but I draw the line at 'Nick'. That's a no-go."

Description
Franchise: Halo

Faction: Various Employers (Formerly), Various Groups (Undercover), United Nations Space Command, UNSC Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence/ONI (Formerly), ONI Section 3 (Formerly), Counter Intelligence Office/CIO, Spartan Operations, Fireteam Sehkmet (In the future), Trident of Revelation (In the future)

Age: 34

Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Height: 6.10ft

Species/Nationality: Human, American

Birthplace: Charybdis IX

Citiezenship: UEG

Job: Freelance Tracker and Assassin (Formerly), Acquisitions Specialist, Spy, Spartan Supersoldier

Nicknames/Titles: Agent Temper, Nick, ONI to the Bone, Spook, Hitman, Locker, Karl Lucas (Undercover name), The Honourable ONI Agent, The One They Just Might Let into Valhalla

Gender: Male

Vehicles/Mounts: Silver HuCiv Genet 1500XLD, U81 Condor

Voice: Similar to Mike Colter

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Black

Skin Colour/Race: Black African American

Scars/Damage/Markings/Unusual Features: Some scars

Enemies/Rivals: The Covenant, Thora 'Marumee (Formerly), Banicrons, ONI, Vuzi Alliance, The Jiralhanae Covenant, Insurrectionists, The Seekers of Sublimity, Supreme Commander Ra'agai 'Vehsumee, "The Man", The White Serpent Gang

Status: Alive and Healthy on duty

Weapons:

'The Talker'- Customised BR85N Battle Rifle

'The Listener'- A Customised M6H2 Magnum with a suppressor

Hard Sound Rifle

Two Modified M7S SMGs with laser designators

Forge Industries X15000 "Kill A Ton of Bad Guys" High-Density Self-Propelled Claymore Bombs

Forge Industries Built-in I-0V Cranium-Sensitive Battle Pistols

Two Customised Black M6G Magnums

Standard Issue MA-37 Assault Rifle

Standard Issue BR55 Battle Rifle

Standard Issue M392 DMR

Standard Issue Forge Industries M13 Blister Handgun

Combat Knife

Frag Grenades

Equipment/Paraphernalia/Personal Belongings: Customised and Modified HUNTER-Class MJOLNIR Armour, ARTEMIS Tracking System, Personal Energy Shield Generator, Chatter Mobile Phone, Chatter Wristwatch, Ammunition Pouches, Vita-Responsive Biofoam Injection Drone, Translation Implant, Guerilla Album Collection, Photoreactive Panels, Health Monitor, Spartan Neural Interface Implant

Specialisation/Skills: Spy, Assassin, Stealth, Pilot, Martial Artist, Assault, Defence, Leadership, Stamina, Small Arms, Tactician, Persuader, Improviser, Agility, Perseverance, Survival, Marksman

Powers/Abilities: Spartan-IV Physiology

Personality: A collected, forward-thinking professional from head to toe, Lieutenant Commander Nicholas Temper is a former ONI agent who, prior to becoming a Spartan, rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served under ONI's Section III as an Acquisitions Specialist, his duties including the retrieval of important objects from the enemy as well as the tracking and assassination of high-value individuals. Some might think this makes him either a boring and stone cold shell of a person, or a grade-A government agent asshole, but that could not be further from the truth. Any impressions that Temper is "ONI to the bone" are largely invalid- Nicholas is troubled by many aspects of the organisation he used to serve under, which is probably why he was so willing to turn himself in after it was officially disbanded.

He is generally non-confrontational and willing to resolve conflicts though negotiation, using his knowledge and intelligence to solve complicated political and tactical situations. He has the ability to inspire great loyalty in his subordinates, even when they do not agree with his decisions. Though whilst Nicholas has the expertise of a master strategist, his teammates sometimes find him a little too cool under pressure, and because of that- a little off-putting. The truth is, back in his days as a freelancer, his desire to win at everything he did was an overriding concern, and over the years, it is one that he has tried to push down, but still has trouble overcoming. Some believe he may be little too effective at his job, as he's not exactly the easiest man to work with. He's not antagonistic (though is overconfident bordering on arrogant), but he's just very used to working on his own without backup, both in personnel and planning, needing to get a job done right, fast, and on the first try.

For better or for worse, he seems to have the chops to back himself up, with an amazing amount of both physical and mental speed and acuity. His obliviousness to the risk of alienation may catch up with him one day, but until then, he seemingly can't help but revel in his superior talents, and his seriousness about his duty to protect humanity and her allies is all that he needs to show his devotion to the side of good.

Nicholas Temper was born in the capital city of Scyllion on the Outer Colony of Charybdis IX, and grew up as an orderly by-the-book kid who followed the rules and laws. He was a figure of contrasts to many people in his neighbourhood, who were dissatisfied at the exploitative methods of the BXR Mining Corporation which effectively ran the entire mining colony. Many people were stacked with high prices and costs of living, which exceeded the amount BXR was paying them, causing most of Scyllion's residents to become saddled with debt. The inability to escape this debt led many to become angry and disobedient towards the colony's puppet government which was extensively lobbied by BXR and in many offices, ran by BXR associates.

The growing culture of disobedience and division ran so deep that children also caught on to it, and many would play in the streets and intentionally make dangerous messes on said streets so law enforcement vehicles could get their tyres popped. Temper was not one of these children, and he actually cleaned up the roads often which led to other kids calling him names and shunning him. Nicholas had a hard time adjusting to his parent's decision to get rid of their Roadware- which gave their car self-driving capabilities and was legally required for all vehicles to have installed and used when driving at exceptionally high speeds. When Temper asked why, his mother told him that she did not like how Roadware registered the car on the planet's surveillance grid and believed it was an invasion of their privacy. This eventually got his parents in trouble with the law when police scanners showed they did not have Roadware installed, and they were fined, forcing them to reinstall it, but Nicholas believed that it only proved how important it was to follow the rules.

At school, Nicholas was a good student who had consistently good grades, though he admitted to finding school boring and did not particularly have a favourite subject. He had few friends, though did make a meaningful connection with one Emilia Vaughin, who shared Nicholas' interest in the popular Starknights science fiction show.

Unfortunately, whilst Nicholas Temper was a rule-abiding young boy who liked the order of things in the world, when the Human-Covenant war came to his planet, it brought a toll, as he witnessed all that order collapse around him. Temper was watching news reports of riots on the planet led by Insurrectionist Jason Kincaide, and remembered noting that the fact the rioters were armed with Covenant weapons was a red flag. As the alien Covenant Hegemony invaded, he was separated from his family during evacuations, and orphaned as he was evacuated just minutes before the planet was glassed.

As one of few civillians evacuated from the planet, Temper stayed with the crew of the UNSC Midsummer Night throughout the subsequent Battle of the Rubble and Battle of Metisette, and was later released into state custody on the Inner Colony of Falaknuma.

Having lost everyone he had known, Temper was placed in a state orphanage with other children who had suffered a similar fate. Upon growing older, many of his compatriots enlisted in the United Nations Space Command, eager for revenge against the Covenant. However Temper, having seen where the rules and laws he once supported had taken him, blamed the government for their failure to defend his homeworld and came to the conclusion that the UNSC was incapable of protecting its citizens. As a result, he became a freelance tracker and assassin.

He first worked for the Earth-based Crystal Security company, which was actually a front for a crime syndicate, and did numerous odd jobs for them across human colonies including monitoring and securing shipments of their illegal goods, 'pacifying' individuals who did learn about them, and acquiring rival shipments for Crystal Security.

Temper would expand his portfolio of employers when the Vestol Corporation hired him to steal blueprints for a new cybernetic arm design from a rival, and would later help Colonel Mukasa Okello of The War Vultures- a secessionist group formed to defend the Outer Colonies, expand his influence to a heretical Kig-Yar pirate operated space station known as Fuzn's Harbour.

As a spacetrotting freelancer, Temper had few friends, becoming distant from people in general. The few acquaintances he did make rarely lasted, as Nicholas would later admit, he had a personal need to win at everything because he had lost so much in the past. This made him quite manipulative and devalued his word to the point where even the smallest of promises were empty. Working partners often found themselves either left behind if they slowed him down or ratted out to cover his own tracks. Romantic partners awoke in the mornings alone in a bed which they had gone to sleep in together with the night before, and friends lost touch with Temper as he accelerated way ahead of their own ambitions.

Due to the nature of his work, Nicholas got to see more and more of the dark realities behind human society. Particularly in the Outer Colonies, Nicholas saw more BXR-like situations which drew him to become a fan of the slam rocker Benny Scorchead and his band Guerilla, whose anti-government and anti-corporate lyrics spoke to the miffed and vexed Nicholas Temper, and his outlook on the UEG got more and more bleak. His favourite Guerilla track, “For Bureacracy”- a song heavily criticising the difficulty of getting political change through and how the little change that did get through was never for the good of the people and usually infringed on their privacy and other rights, was relevant to Nicholas as it was this kind of difficulty for things to get done that led him to lose faith in the government, and it was infringements on rights like privacy which spurred so many people on his home planet to violence. Despite this, Temper regarded the UNSC's Spartan supersoldiers with great respect and viewed the famed Spartan Ivan-226 as his own personal hero, and believed him to be a symbol of what the government should be.

In 2545, Temper was hired by an anonymous employer who wanted him to revive and drum up Insurrectionist sentiment on the Outer Colony of Andesia, instructing him to meet with an undercover ECB News reporter by the name of Valerie Jewel in the city of Noctus, to form a partnership in which they would both work together to expose a scandal involving the White Serpent Gang on the planet and their modern slave trade ring, which the employer said the police knew about but did nothing to combat it.

Meeting with Jewel in the Femerian Hotel in Noctus, the two discussed the information they already had on hand. Valerie told Nicholas she had put together a data chip on the White Serpent Gang- a group with historical links to the Chinese Triads who had been shipping poor people looking for new lives from Earth and the Solar System to Andesia almost for free, taking advantage of the overpopulation and desperate need to branch out of Earth to make their promises of new life more appealing and unassuming. Little would these unwitting people know, the White Serpents would transport them in terrible conditions only to deliver them to their warehouses operating under the contract manufacturing company 'Suxart', which was commonly used by corporations like Traxus Heavy Industries who knew full well of the circumstances for their workers. Unfortunately, upon Temper's questioning, Jewel said that she was going off of where all her leads pointed her, but had no concrete proof that the slaves truly worked at Suxart, which is why she needed help getting video evidence, which is what led her to seek out the mysterious employer who hired Temper.

When Temper asked who she believed hired him, she admitted that it very well could've been a rival company trying to incriminate Suxart and its contractors to divert attention from their own dealings, but she said that even if it was, what was going on in Suxart was terrible and it needed to be exposed. Nicholas agreed, and after arranging to meet at the Femerian's revolving restaurant at the top floor to plot their moves, they departed to their suites.

Whilst dressing himself in a sharp suit, Temper remarked to himself that he looked "damn good", and met with Jewel at the restaurant. Upon agreeing with her that they would work on a plan to smuggle Valerie in as one of the workers with a recording device, and she would have Nicholas running a detection disguiser program on Suxart's surveillance system whilst she did so.

For days, the two searched for a way inside Noctus' Suxart factory, and learned more about one another. Temper came to greatly admire Valerie for her bravery and her conviction that she was willing to die if it meant exposing the truth, refusing to let it slip in the face of death, and Jewel came to greatly admire Temper for living his life freely and without the rules others put on him.

Eventually they managed to contact an ex-White Serpent named Hoyung Silo, who had left the gang after being assumed dead but was currently operating within it under the name "Cuba Mascertani", who was actually an agent in the gang doing everything as Silo instructed. Hoyung agreed to provide Valerie and Temper what they needed to get in, and eventually Jewel made a switch with a current 'employee' at Suxart, who was taken in by Hoyung at his luxury apartment where he fed her and gave her what she needed to get out of the city. Whilst Valerie spent the best part of a week at Suxart, Temper and Silo ran her 'mission control' whilst "Cuba", currently on guard duty, conveniently overlooked some of Jewel's obvious tells that she didn't belong there and at times advised her in private of how to behave in line with who she was impersonating.

With all the proof they needed recorded, "Cuba" smuggled the device out of the Suxart building and put it in the hands of Temper, but upon receiving it he was given an instruction by his employer to send them the footage, which he did, but then forbade him from going back to smuggle Valerie out of the building. Temper was confused by this order, but the employer explained that if Jewel disappeared, the Serpents would be suspicious and there had to be absolutely no way of tracing it back to them. Temper understood, but was unwilling to leave Jewel at the building, and asked when Suxart would be exposed so they could get her out. "Soon" was the only answer, and for the first week, Temper believed it, but after a while, it became more and more clear to him that his belief that it was a rival of Suxart wanting to incriminate the company became more and more logical, as he theorised the employer had informed Suxart of the recordings and was trying to use them as blackmail to coax them into yielding to whatever corporate arrangement the employer wanted. Temper, feeling uncharacteristically guilty for leaving Valerie Jewel to work as a modern slave, convinced Hoyung to help him smuggle her back out of the building, though Silo said he would only provide him the necessary breaking and entering tools, but he would receive no aid from "Cuba".

Though Jewel's Hotel room had been filled by new guests and Temper was expected to have left Andesia by now, Nicholas paid to extend his stay at the Femerian himself so he could have a base of operations from which he could prepare to rescue Jewel.

Temper broke into the building one night and tracked Jewel's location, hoping to find her and extract her without a hitch. Unfortunately, he was spotted by two guards, who he successfully stunned with electric-charge shots, but not before they could inform the gang of the presence of an intruder. Getting Jewel out of her assigned dorm wasn't the difficult part, but facing off against seven White Serpents at the exit he had designated was. Luckily, one of them happened to be Cuba who, when there were only two other Serpents, knocked both of the others on the heads, incapacitating them before he let Temper go, telling him to shoot him with one of his rounds. Temper thanked Cuba before firing an electric shock round at him and left the building with Valerie.

Returning to the Femerian, Temper set the tired reporter down on his bed, who revealed that the White Serpents were so much worse than she could ever have imagined- she was forced to truly slave away there, being subjected to harsh labour- she felt she had broken every bone in her body yet was still forced to work harsh, backbreaking jobs like blacksmithing, assembling and disassembling. He then took her to hospital to get the care she needed, but asked Temper to present the evidence to ECB News on her behalf. Nicholas refused, saying that wasn't his job and it was still hers to do, but upon telling him that it also wasn't his job to save her, he reluctantly agreed.

After sending off the evidence to ECB News with his own notes, narration and presentation, Temper remained on Andesia for a full month, extending his stay at the Femerian even further just so he could make sure Jewel was doing well. He also hid the data chip containing all the evidence in the soil of a ficus plant on his floor in case the White Serpents came looking for it. When Jewel was discharged from hospital at last, Temper told her where the chip was and said he'd pay for the next few days of her stay at the Femerian, but he would be leaving. As he left for pastures anew, Valerie gave him a warm embrace as thanks for all he had done and promised to pay him back every credit he had paid caring for her. For a moment, Nicholas froze in her arms and thought something aloud under his breath, but when Jewel questioned what it was he muttered, he said he was merely clearing his throat...

Yeah, sure Nick.

On his way to the Noctus Interplanetary Spaceport however, Temper was stopped by government vehicles and agents who stepped out to arrest him. Brought to an Office of Naval Intelligence facility, an ONI Handler named Yusanna Campman told Nicholas that she had been his employer the whole time, and Temper learned the entire operation was ONI's attempt to both blackmail the White Serpents into revealing lost information on the names of a set of slaves who had been delivered to Andesia in 2527 and testing if Nicholas would be a good operative. Yusanna admitted Temper's skills were great, but she said that his willingness to deliver the evidence of the Suxart factory, which he would know would incite Insurrectionist violence was proof that ONI could not trust him as a freelance operator. Nicholas asked if they were going to kill him, but Yusanna said that would be a poor waste of his talents. Instead, he could join the agency as an acquisitions specialist and be granted the safety and privileges of an ONI agent, or be disposed of. Seeing no other option, and desiring a life where he could have people looking over his shoulder for him, Nicholas Temper agreed to the terms. He only asked that Valerie Jewel be left unharmed and her report could get out. Yusanna said that she did everything in her power to stop ECB from using the evidence already, and that Jewel's data chip would be cleaned without her being imprisoned or worse, but Temper would have to reveal where the chip was. Temper told the handler its location, knowing Valerie would rather die than do it, and Yusanna had her people recover it.

Temper did not know whether or not to regret his actions. On the one hand, he secured a safe, comfortable life for himself and assured the survival of Valerie Jewel, but on the other he had betrayed many of his past beliefs and had fallen back under the sway of a government he knew was corrupt, and now Valerie would hate him for having allowed the evidence of Suxart to be wiped, not caring for her own life if she could use it to do the greater good. Despite receiving several missed calls on his Chatter from her, he answered none, fearing that she knew what he did and she was angry with him, something he for some reason couldn't let himself know for sure.

Entering ONI's extensive training program where he honed his skills to perfection and became one of ONI's top field operatives, Temper served Section Three as an Acquisitions Specialist, and would later explain that he did everything he used to do before, just for the agency now.

During the second wave of reconstructions under the ONI "Silent Project", Temper acquired samples of the biological material-corroding 'Biorust' virus which ONI had learned of from surveillance of the Covenant and first-hand recounts by Covenant defectors and even some prisoners of war. Eventually, Temper found that he had become infected with a minor, weak form of the virus, but he was told it would eventually 'corrode' his entire body if he did not receive some form of treatment. Researchers attempted a risky way of curing him by bombarding him with accelerated lead particles from a device designed by the Wakado Technological Research Institute, a method which worked, but left Temper with lead poisoning. Thankfully, this was easy to treat by the 26th Century, but the risks associated with it meant it was not recommendable as a suitable treatment for Biorust. Researchers themselves told Temper he just 'barely' pulled through from the damage it caused him. Nonetheless, he was assured his involvement with Biorust would help with the understanding of the disease.

Nicholas' other actions as an ONI Agent were not so pretty. He once assassinated a war photographer who became a rebel against the UNSC's censorship rules, and during his mission, believed that it was actually ONI's intent to silence him which led him to spend innocent lives to cover his numerous escapes. He would also commonly be tasked with testing the effectiveness of 'Unmentionables'- technology designed by several arms manufacturers, namely Forge Industries, whose playboy CEO Tyrone Forge came up with the name 'Unmentionables' which did not meet the guidelines for arms by the UNSC Ethics Committee, and often field tests of these weapons were done on small, minor Insurrectionist cells. Nicholas hated using the Forge Industries Sonic Paralyser, which used high-frequency noises to paralyse victims or overload their bodily systems and kill them, and was one of the many devices which led Nicholas to lament how awful what he was doing truly was.

Shortly after reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander, Temper compiled a target profile concerning Covenant Supreme Commander Thora 'Marumee, detailing the Sangheili's personal history from the UNSC's first known encounter with him on Thexacul to the glassing of Kroedis II, that he had been responsible for billions of human casualties and the destruction of 345 UNSC ships. Nicholas concluded the report by recommending the immediate termination of 'Marumee if the Covenant advance were to be slowed in any significant manner. He offered to personally carry out the assassination, but several other Section 3 operatives were tasked with the job instead, though each attempt on 'Marumee's life failed miserably.

In 2552, before the Fall of Garos, Section 3 authorised Temper to pursue his own plan to kill Thora 'Marumee, and during the invasion of the vital Inner Colony of Garos, Temper hunted Thora down relentlessly, but failed to get even close to him. The outbreak of the Great Schism months later and 'Marumee's partnership with the UNSC after realising that the Covenant's religion was a lie led to ONI abandoning the plan.

Months later after the Fall of High Charity and the defeat of the Covenant, the Treaty of 2552 was signed between the UEG and the newly formed Allied Sangheili Houses, resulting in the formation of the Trident of Revelation- a coalition alliance between the UNSC and Swords of Sanghelios led by Thora 'Marumee.

Shortly after, the newly elected UEG President Damion Hughner signed an executive order to disband the Office of Naval Intelligence after a New York-based vigilante named 'Truthunter' released many of the agency's crimes onto the Waypoint. The public learned that the government agency had for years been abducting children to serve as the Spartan supersoldiers- that the few official, publicised records of actual Spartan identities were that of the few Spartan IIIs who were consenting adults, brought into the program to serve just as much as heroes to the public as supersoldiers. Furthermore, ONI had sold Covenant defectors and prisoners of war back to Kig-Yar mercenaries in exchange for technology, had killed and imprisoned thousands of UEC citizens purely for learning too much, several times infringed on rights to privacy and sentences with trial and authorised various war crimes and even engineered genocidal weapons and tactics to beat the Covenant. When an official taskforce assembled by the President began hunting down and arresting ONI members who would not turn themselves in, Temper saw his shot at redemption for his misdeeds and turned himself in to the authorities.

After being extensively screened and interrogated for any sympathies towards ONI's crimes, Nicholas Temper was pardoned by the government and given an offer to work for the new agency taking ONI's place- the Counter Intelligence Office/CIO. Temper accepted and was even given his original rank and role in ONI back. The CIO Director Tony Laxen assured the agency that this was a new chapter for humanity and they could no longer rely on ONI's corrupt leadership.

Temper's first assignment in the CIO involved reporting on remnant ONI factions lying within UEG space. In spite of the best efforts of the taskforce, ONI simply controlled far too much and for that reason, it was able to retreat from human space in droves and had now set itself up as a 'Human Survivalist Syndicate' with the goal of 'protecting' humanity through whatever means it now wished to adopt. Temper would be the first to learn of ONI's mysterious new benefactor and organiser- a nameless individual who went only by "The Man". Following Nicholas' report and new behavioural examinations of the organisation, the UEG Senate came to the conclusion that ONI had human-supremacist ideals and wished to assert humanity's dominance over the alien races they were now at peace with. Temper himself theorised that "The Man" was a very powerful, wealthy and intellectual individual who must've come to the aid of the agency's new Director Charles Kaiser because he must've realised it as his opportunity to undermine relations between humanity and other species. He then compiled a list of potential public and private figures that could be "The Man", but did not exclude that he could also be a woman, or not even human.

Temper served in several classified operations as a CIO Agent, including one involving stopping a Neo-Covenant Sangheili Zealot from activating a bioweapon on the outer colony of Concord, which failed. This led to Temper leading a team alongside members of the Concord Colonial Guard to a broken shard of a Halo Ring from where the bioweapon's mysterious element which killed so many on Concord was extracted. After dealing with Thanolekgolo worms and smugglers, the team fractured as a result of CIO Agent Jack Nessler trying to abandon the smugglers they had taken prisoner and the Concordians so they could get off the Halo Shard before it's landscape faced the red giant star it was so close to again and killed them. Nicholas, reminded of his past self by Jack, was horrified at the suggestion, even more so by his own lingering desire to follow it, but pushed it down and rejected the proposal. Despite Temper's adamance that he did not panic like that, Jack eventually betrayed the group and attempted to make it off the shard with two others, but they were eventually killed by the Thanolekgolo whilst Temper, the smugglers and one surviving Concordian made it off the shard whilst the Captain of the Guard detonated a nuclear warhead manually to destroy it and ensure the destruction of the element used for the bioweapon. Following this, Nicholas started an investigation into the Zealot responsible for the attack and learned he was a member of The Seekers of Sublimity faction which had recently come under the leadership of Supreme Commander Ra'agai 'Veshumee following the death of its leader General Zarrug 'Cesharee.

Nicholas Temper was selected to become a Spartan-IV after his exceptional service and underwent the augmentation procedures. Leading dangerous and highly sensitive operations throughout the former Outer Colonies, Temper was often tasked with missions beyond the reach of UNSC support and garnered an impressive and successful career in the field. Nicholas participated in numerous low-profile, yet critical, operations. He participated in Operation: EATERY, a denial of material mission against insurrectionist forces on Groombridge-1830; Nicholas succeeded in destroying twenty-one special technical assets. In Operation: RIDDLER, Temper was a part of a counter-mobility strike on a Jiralhanae-Covenant controlled Forgeship. He later participated in a surveillance mission, known as Operation: PACIFIC THEATRE, on Kig-Yar salvage operations in the Procyon system. Temper had also served as security for an ONI xenoarchaeological survey team at a redacted location for Operation: DRUID.

Now, Nicholas Temper continues to serve as a CIO Agent and Spartan and has learned from his experiences under this newer, more honest and goodwilled agency the value of honour and teamwork. Still, Nicholas Temper harbours great guilt and regret over his past, namely with Valerie Jewel, which is likely why he still hasn't made himself a model friend just yet, but in time, he hopes to reconnect with Jewel once he feels he can look her in the eye again.

(Everything since then that is about to be written about takes place a little further into the future than where I currently tell the Haloverse's stories from the perspective of, which would be the mid to late 2550s)

Eventually, he was assigned to lead Fireteam Sehkmet, a specialised combat and intelligence gathering team of Spartan-IV supersoldiers operating under the CIO. The team would carry out complicated and classified missions, typically deemed hard to control by UNSC HIGHCOM. On official orders from President Hughner and Director Laxen, Nicholas was given full jurisdiction to handpick members from the Spartan-IV programme to serve on the Fireteam.

Temper selected Spartan-IVs Officer Phoebe Kallios- a gifted Sangheili linguist and diplomatic liaison who oversaw interspecies relations in the Trident; Sergeant Dana Symóne- a UNSC Army veteran who was commended for her actions in 'cleanup crews'- eliminating remnants of hostiles in the aftermath of numerous battles and wars; and Major Oxo Mintex/Pheralmone- a feral child raised by gorillas who was encultured in just 4 years and gained a very charismatic personality and wrote a book about his story, and he later became the UNSC's envoy on the Jiralhanae homeworld Doisac, fitting in with the Jiralhanae there. Fireteam Sehkmet was charged with carrying out a variety of complex missions for the UNSC Security Council and High Command.

Quotes:

"Nobody is putting anybody down. We don't panic like that. It's not an option."- Shutting down Agent Jack Nessler's suggestion to kill prisoners slowing their team down.

Temper: "Sometimes, I prefer to let the guns talk." Warnod Raugus: "Hehehehehehe....I like you."- Talking to 1000+ year old Jiralhanae Mercenary Warnod Raughus

"You may call me Nicholas, or Temper, but I draw the line at 'Nick'. That's a no-go."