As the Warthog neared one of the Ghosts, Thom leapt to the vehicle and took it for himself. The Ghosts began to flank the Spartans' Warthog, with Thom supporting the defence of the vehicle from the cargo bed by throwing M9 fragmentation grenades at the attackers. During the drive, Thom joked about the overconfident nature of Covenant ground forces to deploy into winter environments while bearing their usual multicoloured armour, making them easy pickings for human forces. Kat drove their treaded Warthog straight at the approaching convoy, attracting the attention of the Draugr's escort of six Karo'etba-pattern Ghosts and mortar fire from two Zurdo-pattern Wraiths. Formulating a plan, Kat-B320 had Thom and Rosenda-A344 join her in their M862 Arctic Warthog while the rest of NOBLE stayed in town as a rear guard. As the others were preparing the citizens of the town for the coming battle, Jun-A266 informed them that a Zashk-pattern Draugr siege platform was leading the charge. They made their way to the town of Skathi, which was under imminent threat from a contingent of Covenant ground forces. After being rerouted from one of the cities, NOBLE's Pelican was downed in the mountains of the Hinterlands region during a particularly brutal snowstorm. Following this, the unusually small number of Covenant warships in orbit had been neutralized by a UNSC strike group. By December 12, a joint effort between the Army Rangers and the Concordian militia had denied the Covenant air superiority, and also drove the invaders from the major cities. In December 2551, Thom and the rest of NOBLE were sent to Concord to defend the colony from Covenant invasion. Operation: OFFSET EYE Main article: Operation: OFFSET EYE He and a small number of other Spartans were given MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor and were assigned to smaller special operations units and eventually NOBLE Team. Thom was identified by Ambrose and Mendez as one of a handful of exceptional specimens within the SPARTAN-III Alpha Company and was extracted from the group before the disastrous Operation: PROMETHEUS. Thom was taken to the classified world Onyx for training under Lieutenant Kurt Ambrose and SCPO Franklin Mendez in late 2532. This freighter eventually made contact with a vessel operated by the Office of Naval Intelligence, at which point Thom "volunteered" for induction into the SPARTAN-III program - having been identified as a potential candidate for the program at a young age. ![]() During the battle, Jiralhanae forces were dispatched to ransack the planet's residential sectors though Thom was able to join a number of evacuees and escape the planet's glassing aboard a freighter. ![]() ![]() He spent his early life there until the attack on the colony by the Covenant in 2530. Thom was born on October 15, 2525, on the colony world of Dwarka.
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