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Unseal Cryo tube 3786
Occupant: Captain Peter Benjamin
ODST Captain
Three Purple Hearts
Colonial Cross
Specialized Carbon Fibre Armour at request
Captain of ODST dropship the Meteora
There was a sudden hiss as the cryo tube opened and the atmosphere pressurized, the hatch of the tube slid open and Captain Peter Benjamin hoisted himself out of the pod, he coughed and spat out the cryo fluid lodged in his throat, it hit the floor with a satisfying splat. "I hate that dam fluid," he said in weary voice, "always gets stuck at the back of my throat".
An officer in naval uniform approached him "Sir" the young man said cautiously "you're requested on the bridge".
"And what vessel has my dropship docked in today" the Captain asked the officer.
"The UNSC destroyer Pegasus sir" the officer replied.
"May I have I data pad about this ship?" he squinted to see the officer's rank "Corporal".
"Aye sir", the officer handed him the small pad with the uploaded data
"Thank you Corporal, that will be all"
"Yes sir" the Corporal gave him a brisk salute, turned and marched away.
Benjamin left the med bay on his dropship ship and stepped into the hangar of the destroyer, there were seven longsword fighters as well as two limited class sabre fighters. It would be a good layout to fend off Covenant attacks. The Captain walked through the automatic doors and started to analyse the pad. The ships weapon capabilities were impressive, it had three magnetic accelerator cannon or MAC guns for short, two shots from these guns could take out a covenant cruiser and on top of that it had fourteen seventy five millimetre rail guns which were used to take out the covenant fighters called seraphs. It also had six archer missile pods, each containing seventy missiles The ship had two and a half meter titanium A hull; this ship was armed to the teeth and could take a severe pounding before getting destroyed.
The Captain walked into the bridge and approached the Captain of the Pegasus. "Captain Peter Benjamin reporting for duty sir!" presenting a salute.
"At ease Captain, I am Captain Burke of the UNSC Pegasus, nice to have you aboard" Burke said and returned the man's salute, "I had a look at your service record, very impressive, your squad was one of the few that got off reach before the end".
Peter felt a pang of regret at that; he had had to leave some good people on reach.
""Yes sir" he said, then added so that only he could hear "we left some good people there".
Burke watched him then said, "be that as it may, I have decided to recruit you"
"Recruit me sir?"
"Yes, I have decided that you are going to train my group of Spartans"
"You have permission from the ONI to have a group of Spartans? Get real there's no way that y-"
"As it stands I do, our original group was one hundred out of one hundred and fifty candidates but ONI are now pressuring me to take the full one hundred and fifty, I have agreed to this, I believe that the more Spartans we have the better"
"That's understandable sir but this means that the teaching won't be as focused as it would be"
"I know this Captain which is why I have chosen you to teach these Spartans, you are apparently the best of the best, so Captain" Burke paused, "are you up for it?"
"Yes sir!"
"Good, I would like a brief of your training methods on my desk in a week please, the recruits will arrive two days after that.
"Excuse me sir but you intend to train these Spartans on the Pegasus?"
"No Captain my ship would be in ruins, no these Spartans are going to be trained on Ophelia four"
"Sir that's been abandoned by the UNSC for decades"
"Well it's not anymore, ONI have built a base specially designed to train these Spartans"
"Well, sir I can't find any fault with that plan so count me in"
"Excellent, I hope you still have that special armour of yours"
"Why?"
"These Spartans are gonna be tough"