.:Backstory for Arch:.
Eating dinner on a warm, summer day in Reach, those Marines and ODST's came in so fast I don't even remember the Commander's face. They took me, captured me, trained me. They just, stolen me. From my own home. From my own parents.... It all happened when I was 12. Twelve! I trained in the depths of war, these wars and battles are my training center, my battlefield. Ever since that day, the day that I lost the only things important to me, I just keep fighting until it is all over. "You're a soldier." The Commander had said to me. "No. I'm more than a soldier. I'm a Spartan." I said back to him. That day will always be in my memory. The day I had become a So-, a Spartan. And now, I am the leader of a 5-member team. I do not do these wars, these battles, these trades, this leadership for nothing. I do it because I must save Reach. It's the only thing left I have that I truly care about, but I stand tall, with honor and dignity, saving this planet is my destiny. Spectral, Eclipse, Shadow, Reaper... the team I must work with, Shadow... my only true friend. The one who stuck with me all these years in Northern Reach. He still has his parents. I don't. So, I guess he is the lucky one, eh?