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This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? Even before earning his driver's license, Pete had a laundry list of traffic violations, and by seventeen had totaled two Model Spade pickup trucks. On the night of September 14th, , Pete and a friend, Skyler Weyl, stole his father's farm truck and went joyriding, catching the attention of Officer Paisley who'd regularly brought them in.
During the pursuit, Stacker nearly collided with the lead Warthog in a military convoy, swerving and rolling off the road with flames threatening to ignite its methane engine. Barely conscious, the boys were pulled from the crash by the Marines that had been driving the 'hog shortly before the vehicle exploded. Being saved by the Marines gave Pete a new respect for those serving in the military, and on July 17th of the next year, two days after his 18th birthday, he would enlist in the UNSC Marine Corps.
He showed a surprisingly quick aptitude for operating and coordinating vehicles, and went on to an Armor School to learn how to command mechanized infantry. Following three successful raids on Insurrectionist facilities with the 8th Marine Battalion, Stacker was temporarily reassigned to the Naval Special Warfare battalion stationed on Tribute. He remained with the squad up until the bombing of a Jim Dandy Restaurant in Casbah resulted in the deaths of most of Bravo Squad and wounded Stacker.
Stacker accepted, and after his body was healed, transferred to the colony Green Hills to attend Drop School. Reunited with his friend Skyler and bonding with other trainees such as Otis Len, Stacker worked his way up to squad leader and looked to have a promising career ahead.
But as the final weeks of his training closed in, the border planet Harvest went dark and the Covenant attacked the other Outer Colonies without warning. Stacker's platoon was outside of the major population centers on exercises when the glassing began, and though stunned, Stacker managed to get his squad moving. He figured out that the aliens never went over the same ground twice, and over the course of a week led the other recruit ODSTs around the Covenant's scorching pattern, reuniting with teams that hadn't been so lucky, and into Manastash's slagged ruins to take cover and search for survivors.
Being a relatively new colony, most of the settlement was built above ground and completely incinerated along with its inhabitants, but the squad managed to find shelter in a sewer tunnel, intending to wait until help arrived.
At first, they thought it had come when Lieutenant Erin Coney contacted them, but she instead ordered them to assault an alien point of interest. Despite the objections of his squad, Stacker followed the order, engaging a lance of Sangheili troops. The recruit ODSTs were unprepared to fight these shielded opponents, and by the end of the skirmish all of them except Stacker and Len had been killed, including Skyler.
They had allowed Coney's mission to succeed, however, and she extracted the two survivors in a Pelican before returning to a waiting corvette in orbit. Left bitter about his inability to keep his squad alive, her suicidal order, and his own decision to follow it, Stacker later confronted Coney about their deaths.
She reproached him with the strategic importance of her mission, informing Stacker of the scale of the war ahead and coming to fully understand it herself. Finding themselves both disheartened by the prospect, they engaged in a romantic relationship that lasted until the corvette returned to Earth months later. Over the next two years, most of their time was spent in cryo during slipspace jumps and waiting for a ground engagement to take place, during which the unit bonded.
Though Sedavian and most other NCOs remained aloof, Stacker developed a rapport with the troopers, among them Gage Yevgenny who'd lost his home on Harvest, and Stisen , a bitter squad leader who'd been part of the planet's first battle.
Dropped to the planet's surface in SOEIVs, the officers dropping in first were separated from the rest of the unit after taking fire from low-hanging Covenant capital ships, losing ten men before reaching the ground. While the majority of the unit was forced to make do on their own, Stacker and the other officers had dropped into the midst of hostile territory.
Fighting alongside Stisen, the squad leader began to panic when they became surrounded by Kig-Yar. In a failed effort to help him, Stacker told him to stay hidden and broke cover to draw the Jackals' attention away from Stisen, but moments later a plasma grenade fused itself to Stisen' armor and detonated, killing him immediately.
Fleeing the rest of the lance, Stacker was shot in the arm by a particle beam rifle and fell to the ground, saved only by the arrival of the unit's senior NCO, Franklin Mendez , with whom he fought off the remainder. The Chief Petty Officer had seen Stacker try to draw the aliens away, but been too late to help.
Returning to the rest of the unit, they found the enlisted men had regrouped under a squad leader named Rahud and taken their objective without any other casualties, but the space battle overhead had not gone so well, and required the troopers to extract immediately as Hat Yai was abandoned.
Troubled that even the ODSTs, humanity's best of the best, couldn't change the outcome of a battle, Stacker chose to remain in cryo for their next slipspace jump. Already weary by this time, Stacker had begun contemplating suicide and was under orders to meet with a psychologist regularly. He was being considered for a medical discharge when his new unit was called upon to take part in the Battle of Jericho VII. With a ground invasion already underway, the ODSTs were dropped in after a Navy battlegroup pushed the Covenant fleet back.
The ground battle went well for the UNSC thanks to the th taking the brunt of the Covenant army's attack. Although Marines held with minimal casualties in all other sectors, two Unggoy legions assaulted and overran the platoon's position, led by an Arbiter.
Stacker's squad, however, had been held back and had time to attempt to flee, but were cut off by the ornately-clad Sangheili who began slaughtering the few survivors. Stacker's life was narrowly saved yet again, thanks to Blue Team's intervention. As John engaged the Elite, Vinh detonated explosives in the forefront ranks of the Grunts, who upon seeing the demon slay their leader, broke and retreated despite their numerical advantage with the rest of Blue Team on their heels. Stacker accompanied the SPARTANs in returning the UNSC's chosen headquarters, becoming acquainted for the first time with John, and while initially shocked by witnessing the almost complete destruction of his unit, learned from talking with the Master Chief that their sacrifice had allowed almost all of the colony's civilian population to be evacuated.
While he'd only just rediscovered his will to fight, Stacker found himself facing a review board about his past performance.
Although he longed to do his part as an active soldier, Stacker was forced to strike a bargain or retire from the military, and became a Marine Drill Instructor. Stacker was honest with his men about the Covenant's strength, but in his own cocky demeanor showed them that it wasn't impossible to combat them. Reviewing his service record, Kurt Ambrose quickly approved his transfer and had him brought to Onyx for familiarization.
Shortly after arriving, Stacker was unexpectedly reunited with Erin Coney, whom he'd not heard from since after Green Hills. Discussing their prior relationship, Stacker admitted he still had feelings for her, but as they split up again to begin collecting candidates decided to remain friends.
Though Ambrose had encouraged him to motivate potential SPARTANs with revenge, as most were orphans of the war with the Covenant, Stacker resolved to take a different approach, having known vengeful soldiers to be poor human beings. Stacker's first assignment was on Miridem, looking for a child named Kody Jacques. Arriving on the 16th of February, his team had hardly two days to study him when a Covenant fleet jumped into the system and began an assault on the relatively small colony.
Knowing the candidate lived in an area the UNSC wouldn't be able to defend in time, Stacker made a rash decision to kidnap the boy in order to save him, despite that they hadn't had sufficient observation of him. Catherine Halsey trying to get home and find his parents, Stacker managed to escape with Kody thanks to Sheila , though the Spartan gave her life defending Halsey and Kody. Stacker was left with doubts that he'd done the right thing, but comforted the orphaned boy and explained to Kody that he had a chance to prevent what had happened to him from befalling others, and his offer was eagerly accepted.
The boy proved to be more trouble than he might have been worth, having escaped the orphanage regularly and was absent when Stacker came to collect him. Unable to stay long, Stacker spent the night searching for him on the streets, actually managing to find him embroiled in a street brawl and call out his name, which only caused him to run.
As he left the next morning, tired and disappointed, he found both Kody and Daniel stowed away aboard his Pelican, and proceeded to recruit him to the program. Once Gamma Company had been finalized and assembled on Onyx, their training began. Mendez made Stacker a platoon leader alongside Tom-B and Lucy-B , in charge of eleven squads of five recruits each with help from a number of NCOs, medics, or washouts of the Alpha and Beta Companies.
Stacker earned the respect of his fellow platoon instructors when he rebuked a group of Beta washouts acting disrespectfully towards Tom and Lucy, pointing out their failure to graduate was their own fault. After a while, the two rekindled their relationship, this time far more seriously. Stacker instructed recruits in vehicle operation during their individual talent development phase of training. Despite his best efforts, incidents of military property damage were a common occurrence due to several troublesome candidates.
Though frustrating at times, Stacker cared deeply for the young soldiers and helped to ensure every one passed the rigorous physical training and survived augmentation. When Reach came under heavy attack, Stacker's ship was one of the first to arrive in-system. Given command of a contingent of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, he was tasked with the defense of New Alexandria 's outskirts while the civilian populace was evacuated.
Not long after his men were engaged, the UNSC sounded a general retreat to minimize its military losses, at the expense of what would be thousands of lives. Stacker refused, using a general distress call to ask for volunteers to continue evacuation efforts. Immediately he was contacted by Admiral Roland Freemont and warned he was disobeying a direct order, and was to fall back for extraction immediately. He again, refused. Without any military transports available, Stacker planned and led an attack on the New Alexandria spaceport in the heart of enemy-controlled territory, and took control of almost a dozen large passenger shuttles.
In holding back enemy infantry however, Stacker and his squad remained behind. Though he would be decorated for his heroism later, Command wouldn't officially send him any assistance. While her actions had been unauthorized and reckless, her bravery and skill as a pilot impressed Captain Jacob Keyes.
To follow the letter of law while remaining fair, Keyes assigned her the workload of the Autumn' s late Pelican wing leader in addition to her own duties, the responsibility all but officially promoting her to Flight Captain.
When the Autumn left slipspace, the vessel was immediately attacked by Covenant warships that had tracked the cruiser's jump and arrived first, discovering the coordinates had led them to Alpha Halo. The ship's AI, Cortana , miraculously fended off the Covenant and destroyed four enemy ships, but was unable to prevent several dozen boarding parties from entering the ship.
Despite holding the boarders, their enemies' sabotage succeeded in other areas, forcing the crew to abandon ship. His squad fought their way to a Bumblebee lifeboat and evacuated, touching down on the surface of Halo. Their escape would be short-lived, as several lances of Covenant troops trapped them within the rock outcropping they'd landed on. Later, during the Infinity's assault on several particle cannons and the gravity well generator , Stacker remotely commanded a platoon of armored vehicles making a ground assault on Jul's Covenant forces.
With John's aid and Stacker's direction, the force was able to push through multiple waves of Covenant armor and clear a path to the generator. Identified by his strong southern American accent, Stacker is a tough, charismatic Marine. He is easily able to inspire confidence in his troops, often with jests or taunts at the enemy. A dependable leader in the face of adversity, Stacker has survived important roles in countless major battles.
Stacker has served alongside Spartan-II John on many occasions, often providing assistance in vital situations. Having firsthand experience of John's prowess on the battlefield, Stacker has often directed troops under his command to follow the Master Chief's lead. Whether it be offering a vehicle, weapon, or compliment, Stacker displays tremendous respect for the Spartan.
In-game, Stacker behaves and acts just as any other Marine NPC would, though like other Marine Sergeants, he will sometimes pause to shout and motion orders to other Marines.
The player can trade weapons with him in games where it is possible , and he can be killed during the course of gameplay. If he is killed, he will reappear in later appearances regardless, even within the same level. The full extent of Stacker's participation in the Battle of Installation 04 are unknown, as he does not appear in Halo: The Flood depiction of events, nor is his presence guaranteed in his Halo: Combat Evolved appearances with the exception of his appearance representing Waller.
Stacker can appear as one of a pair of Marines guarding the first lifeboat bay encountered. The door will explode outwards via a plasma grenade detonation, killing both Marines as a Covenant lance boards the Pillar of Autumn.
Stacker can appear in a group of crash-landed Marines in the level Halo , whose Bumblebee lifeboat made landfall near a small Forerunner structure. The Marines were quickly located by Covenant dropships , and forced to move into the adjacent hills, where they were able to hold out until John arrives and dispatches the Covenant attackers.
Stacker and his men are evacuated via Pelican, and able to link up with other surviving elements of the Pillar of Autumn 's crew and complement, mounting a guerrilla resistance against the Covenant. Stacker can appear during the level The Truth and Reconciliation among Marine reinforcements, in any of the three possible Marine squads deployed throughout the mission.
Stacker leads a large Marine force in The Silent Cartographer , assaulting a heavily-defended Covenant beachhead. Stacker's Marines provide support to John throughout his mission to locate the Cartographer , while the Sergeant remains on the surface with the main Marine force, ready to provide reinforcements.
While the Spartan is deep in an underground Forerunner structure, Covenant dropships are sighted approaching the island, too swiftly for the Marines to retreat into the structure. Stacker implores the Spartan to locate his objective, and states his forces will delay the incoming Covenant for as long as possible. By the time John reaches the surface, the entire Marine force including Stacker have been killed. Stacker may appear among a large Marine force encountered in the level Assault on the Control Room , though without his namesake voice actor.
The Marines aid the Spartan assault a valley heavily fortified by Covenant, before Cortana sends a distress signal and orders the Marines to hold position for extraction. Stacker may appear among the Marines encounter on the surface in the level Guilty Spark. The Marines are holding position inside a Forerunner structure when John emerges from an elevator.
They proceed to accompany the Spartan through the flood-infested jungle, moving towards a large tower so Echo could provide extraction. Stacker and First Squad in the Kenyan jungle, after awakening John Stacker and Second Squad taking cover during the Battle of Earth.
Article Discussion Edit History. Stacker and Dubbo fighting aboard a gondola in Halo 2: Anniversary. Spawning a model with this voice will result in the same dynamic combat dialogue as Stacker's firefight voice, suggesting Kilo 40 is Stacker himself. However, whether he actually does is down purely to chance.
As a result, it is unclear if he was actually present during these skirmishes.
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