<div class="floatleft">(http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/9/94/CP_armor.png)</div>Name: Max-356 (Surname on file: Read)<br/>Age: 20<br/>Gender: Male<br/><br/>Description: Height, 6'9 (out of armor), 7'1 (in armor), Wieght, 280 lbs (out) 970 lbs (in). Out of armor, Max's hair is brown, cropped shot, it grew back a little during his first long op after having it bald throughout all of basic training. His eyes are green and his skin was a tanned  from his first mission, but has faded nearly back to fair in the year since. He has a huge physique, tall and very well-built, typical of all Spartan's selected for their superior genetics and trained for most of their lives. His armor, colored purple, was tailored to his skill-set by the SPARTAN program to make full use of his particular abilities.<br/><br/>Weapons: Max sports a standard-issue M6G handgun sidearm, as well as a System 99D-S2 Anti-Matériel Sniper Rifle, befitting his primary aptitude at long-range combat and first designation as rifleman.<br/><br/>Background: Taken from his family at six years old and replaced with a flash-clone in true ONI style, Max has had a run of bad-luck with team mates. Neither of his tight-knit friends, Sally and Carter, made it through the program. Carter died during a training op accident, breaking his neck falling from a tree during a staged ambush, and Sally was left crippled from the biological augmentation, slipping into a coma and dying soon afterwards. His first op saw him through four more years of his life after, at 15, what was planned as a short recon mission turned sour. His four-man team of SPARTANs led by Patricia-312 were aboard the UNSC Frigate Graphite, ordered to drop into densely forested world called Pelixos near the outer-colonies to assess local wildlife hostility and the suitability for a small colony. It was overkill to send them in, but they were untested. Things began going wrong from the get-go. An equipment malfunction saw one of his team dead on arrival, and communications with the frigate were cut. Two days later, after a long march to find high enough ground to see over the canopy, they discovered that what was thought to be a far-off thunderstorm was actually part of the Graphite falling from orbit, now scattered across a neighboring valley. Without communications or their escort, the SPARTANs quickly found themselves alone, having to survive off of the land and local wildlife (which turned out to be difficult to handle after all.) Without armor, which had been stowed away to save their limited power supply, life was tough. Patricia kept them in line by adhering to military protocol, but they grew estranged. Max awoke one night, two years later, to find his counterpart Timothy-385 bashing their squad-leader's head in with a rock. Not to be reasoned with and insisting that he was now 'King', Max was forced to terminate his deranged team-mate. He was later rescued when he stumbled upon an inhabited research and monitoring station that the Earth Government had set-up in the three years they were missing. The time in between this op and the mission before him now was taken up by physical rehabilitation and the ongoing ONI investigation into the events surrounding Max's isolation, including some speculation as to the truth of his story.<br/><br/>Personality: As a result of his turbulent past, Max is very introverted, but can function properly as part of a team. He was after all, in the military for far longer than he was isolation. He is difficult to communicate with on a personal level and finds it difficult to make connections with other individuals. He now has a slight twinge of paranoia and watchfulness that the UNSC believes will serve him well. Though his military formality was dulled over the course of his ordeal on Pelixos, he was able to demonstrate deadly accuracy on the firing-range upon his return, and thus retained his designation as a rifleman.<br/><br/>(Wasn't sure about designated numbers, years and time frame, or rank, so let me know and I can fix it up.)