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Name: 
Edwin Tai

Age: 
28

Gender: 
Male

Homeworld: 
Mars, Olympus Highlands

Rank: 
Corporal

Role: 
Anti-Armor/Sapper

Experience: 
Seven years as a UNSC Marine. Following his firing from the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards, with no other options left to him due to the circumstances of his firing Tai enlisted in the UNSC Marines at the age of twenty one in the year 2519. Tai went on to take part in Operation: TREBUCHET in the Eridanis System as a part of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force, facing Insurrectionist forces over the course of the next four years before being reassigned to Reach following injuries sustained in combat.

Bio: 
Born in a suburb of the Olympus Highlands; located on, around, and even under Olympus Mons; Edwin Tai was raised as an only child by his parents Melissa and Jeong Tai both of which were biology professors at a university located an hours travel from the Olympus Highlands. Although raised by two successful individuals, Edwin found himself mixed up in the wrong crowd by the end of of his highschool education. His parents, not very happy with his life choices and the fact his grades were not high enough to land him in any of the very competitive universities on Mars pulled a few strings with some of the professors they knew in the School of Engineering at their university and landed the then delinquent Tai a job working in orbit at the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards.

For the next three years Tai would work in orbit above Mars, the realization that he couldn't be the spoiled and delinquent child he had been in school hit him quickly as everyday he watched his home pass below him. Soon enough Tai found himself taking pride in his work, his a hands taking part in the construction of many of the great ships of the UNSC and CMA Naval forces. Apt with a welding torch, Tai was quickly placed in an apprenticeship position and expected to learn the trade within his first year. By the end of the year the Master welder that Tai had been shadowing decided that he was knowledgeable enough to work on simpler welds without supervision. Satisfied, the yard foreman would cut Tai loose on smaller welds and expect him to continue following Journeymen and Master welders whenever his welds were complete.

Following an unfortunate accident on a CMA vessel that resulted in the death of twelve CMA sailors when welds gave way to hard vacuum under a high-g maneuver, Tai and two Journeymen that had worked on that portion of the ship were let go in order for Reyes-McLees to hold onto the trust of the UNSC and CMA.

Out of a job, and his parents now unwilling to house him, Tai found himself outside of a UNSC Marine Corps recruiting depot and signing his life away by the end of the month. Following graduation from boot camp, Tai was assigned to the forces that were currently taking part in Operation TREBUCHET as a replacement for a recently injured Marine. Taking part in a handful of smaller operations against the Insurrectionist forces.

On Eridanus II on the 19th of March, 2523, a then fireteam leader Corporal Tai would find his Warthog mounted patrol of two fireteams ambushed in a small farming hamlet. Following an improvised explosive devices detonation beneath the lead Warthog to open the ambush, Corporal Tai and his fireteam would find themselves pinned by effective fire from two heavily entrenched machine gun positions at nearly one hundred fifty meters to their left. Leading a desperate diversionary assault with one other member of his fireteam, Corporal Tai and Private First Class Leads would draw the entrenched positions fires away from the two Warthogs long enough for the remaining fireteam members to retrieve the two pinned survivors from the Warthogs wreckage. Tai and Leads would go on to  successfully destroy one of the two machine gun nests with a set of five bound together grenades before being pinned by the second machine gun.

Pinned by the now destroyed first machine gun nest, Tai and Leads would attempt to make their way back to their Warthog after laying smoke but would both be hit by the random fire coming through the smoke screen. Following what would turn out to be a forty minute long fire fight which culminated in the destruction of the second machine gun nest by a flight of UNSC Hornets, Tai and Leads would be CASEVAC'd by Pelican Gunship. Corporal Tai would be awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for his actions that day as well as a Purple Heart for his injuries while Private First Class Leads would be posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for outstanding heroism in the face of overwhelming odds and a Purple Heart for his ultimate sacrifice during the ambush.

Corporal Tai was sent to Reach to recover in the more capable medical facilities there where he would remain until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. Following his full recuperation Tai was offered the chance to attend the Marine Sapper course, where he would learn how to effectively using many forms of explosives and weapons systems to breach buildings, deny areas, reclaim areas, and destroy enemy forces in battle. Following his successful graduation he was promoted to Sergeant, which would be taken away just six months later following a bar fight with a Second Lieutenant that resulted in a large amount of property damage.


Personality:
Tai can normally be found pouring over the latest in available data sets on Covenant weapons systems or reading some sort of technical specifications manual. He is known to be sarcastic at all times and tends to get right to the problem at hand when in combat. Outside of combat Tai is rather easy to approach, easy going and sociable, Tai has no problem putting a stop on what he is doing to be an ear for a younger Marine or Sailor and enjoys the company of others even while reading. Tai also a tendency to make distasteful jokes with great timing, much to the chagrin of his superiors.

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Gear:
[url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/MA5B_Individual_Combat_Weapon_System]MA5B ICWS[/url]
[url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M6E_Handgun]M6E Magnum[/url]
[url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Thermite_grenade]1x Thermite Grenade[/url]
[url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Satchel_charge]1x Satchel Charge[/url]
[url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M41_Surface-to-Surface_Rocket_Medium_Anti-Vehicle/Assault_Weapon]M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon[/url]
[url=https://www.halopedia.org/images/6/6c/HW_-_Marine_BDU.jpg]UNSC Battle Dress Uniform[/url]
Multi-Tool
Standard Issue Combat Knife

Relationships: 
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Awards and Accommodations:
01FEB2523 -- Good Conduct Medal
01JUN2523 -- Purple Heart for Injuries sustained in support of Operation: TREBUCHET on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for Heroic Service while serving on Epsilon Eridanus on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Operation: TREBUCHET Participation Medal
01NOV2523 -- Sapper Designation earned after successful graduation from course located on Reach.
24MAY2524 -- Non-Judicial Punishment resulting in demotion from Sergeant to Corporal- Assaulting or Willfully Disobeying a Superior Officer