Red Team

Red Team was a Spartan-II deployment of the UNSC, consisting originally of about two dozen Spartans. After years of fighting the Covenant and wrecking havoc everywhere they went, Red Team were granted a short break which they spent on the colony world of Arcadia. However, by a stroke of bad luck, the Covenant happened to attack the planet just after they landed.

After working with the Spirit of Fire to defend the planet, Red Team split into four sub-groups to evacuate - three of which made it off-planet before the Covenant Cruisers in orbit threatened to glass the area. The last Pelican, consisting of Jerome, Red Team's leader, and Alice and Douglas, his first officers, didn't quite make it out of orbit and was picked up by the Spirit of Fire, which was then catapulted across the Galaxy in a freak accident.

The three members of Red Team aboard the Spirit of Fire were listed officially as MIA, like all Spartans are when they are killed or genuinely lost. However, the Spirit of Fire was not destroyed and Red Team continued to assist Captain Cutter, Sergeant Forge, Serina and Professor Anders in their mission to stop the Prophet of Regret from claiming control of a Flood-controlled shield world.

Red Team helped defend Sergeant Forge as he attempted to destroy the sheild world, and watched as he killed the Ripa Moramee, the Arbiter. However, they had to stand back and allow him to sacrifice himself to destroy the shield world, in order to save the Galaxy and the Spirit of Fire. Red Team then went into cryosleep along with the rest of the crew of the Spirit of Fire for around 30 years.

After an extended period in hybernation, the Spirit of Fire encountered the Ark, and Red Team were deployed to an abandoned UNSC base on the installation. There they encountered Isabel, a logistics AI who was left alone on the base after it was attacked by the Banished. Red Team then encountered Atriox, and Douglas was wounded before they pulled back to Spirit of Fire with Isabel in tow.