SPARTAN David-197

SPARTAN David-197 is a UNSC SPARTAN-II Class I-B commando. He participated in numerous campaigns and operations during the Human-Covenant War, including the Battle of Circinus-IV, the Battle of Chi Ceti 4, the Reach Campaign, the Omega Halo Incident, and the Battle of Earth.

Childhood
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Abduction
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Training
After his abduction and his induction into the SPARTAN-II Program Class I-B program, which was a second class of SPARTAN-IIs trained simultaneously with but separately from the Class Is, David quickly became the unofficial leader of the Class, receiving top marks in numerous combat exercises and forming close friendships with fellow Class I-B SPARTANs Marianne-201 and Jakob-233 over the course of his first ten months in the program.

Destruction of Class II's HQ
However, on 4 January 2518, not even a year after his induction into the program, an Insurrectionist cell detonated a tactical nuclear weapon inside of the training camp, located in the wilderness of Alpha Pavonis 6, killing everyone in the camp. Fortunately, however, for David and the twelve other cadets who were with him on a training run, the obstacle course that they were navigating at the time was located 1.1 kilometers away from the blast site. A large hill between them and the site of the detonation helped protect the children from the blast of radiation released by the bomb. Their supervisor, Senior Chief Petty Officer Vasili Kupchenko, ordered the children to stay put as he fruitlessly attempted to contact any survivors. However, their ordeal was not over just yet, as the Insurrectionists had subsequently uploaded a virus into the computer system controlling the armed drones guarding the base's perimeter, causing them to turn on their former masters, gunning down the other eleven SPARTANs, as well as SCPO Kupchenko. David somehow managed to escape as the only survivor of the incident, and was found two days later by an ONI Pelican dropship.

Subsequent Transfer to Class I
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