John D. Rico

Johnny Rico
* Johnny Rico Rich Kid
Biographical and chronological information
Homeworld:	Earth (Riuuliua)
Home universe:	Riuuliua Universe
Nationality:	Argentinian
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Physical and biological description
Species:	Human
Gender:	Male
Height:	1.78 m
Hair color:	Brown
Eye color:	Green
Societal and political information
Affiliation:	United Citizen Federation Buenos Aires Tigers (JumpBall Team)
Rank:	Corporal Acting sergeant Lieutenant Colonel General
Status:	Alive
Father:	Bill Rico (Deceased)
Mother:	Mrs. Rico (Deceased)
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John D. "Johnny" Rico is a male human from Riuuliua Earth, he served the United Citizen Federation from mobile infantry to become an official Citizen, losing his parents to the meteor sent by the Arachnid and became involved in the Arachnid wars. He barely survived the failed attack of the Battle of Klendathu became the hero of the Federation after he helped Invasion of Planet P, During his life, Johnny Rico became one of the most representative icons of the UCF. Johnny inspired courage and valor in every battle as a freedom fighter, gallant soldier, and brave man. He is an exemplary character for all men and women of the Federation and encouraging them to do their part in the First Multiverse War against the Axis of Empires and the Coalition of Independent States..

Following his service in the Alliance of Nations, he joined the Alliance Joint Military. Rico fought the Horfkans in the Great Serethan-Allied War. He was later resigned to the Planet Frontier alongside Carmen Ibanez who he later marries to fight against the Axis powers.

Biography  

Early Life 

Johnny Rico, was the only son of a well to do New Buenos Aires family. He was a good student and a gifted athlete. His best friends were Carl Jenkins Carl Jenkins  and Carmen Ibanez. It was well known that Dizzy Flores , the football team's quarterback, had a crush on him, but Johnny only had eyes for Carmen. Johnny's parents had already mapped out his future for him; attending Harvard and eventually taking over the family business. However, Carmen dreamed of becoming a starship pilot while Carl hoped to be scientist. Both of them set their sites on Federal Service.

Joining the Military

Almost on a whim and against his parents' wishes, Johnny, hoping to follow Carmen and qualify as a pilot, went down to the enlistment office with Carmen and Carl. Carmen aced her assessments and was admitted into the Fleet for pilot training. She eventually decided to make Fleet a career and sent a "Dear Johnny" letter. Carl enlisted hoping to join R&D so he could conduct scientific research, but scored so highly for telepathic potential that, to his delight, he was assigned to Military Intelligence, a fast track to high command. However, Johnny's results consigned him to Mobile Infantry. His parents made a last minute attempt to dissuade Johnny from throwing his future away by offering to send him on a post-graduation dream vacation, but the plan backfired, and instead, Johnny resolved to take control of his life and stormed off to report boot camp. Johnny excelled at boot camp, and impressed his drill sergeant, Zim, who promoted Johnny to Squad Leader.

However, Johnny soon discovered that the military was more than fun and games. Johnny made a grave error as Squad Leader during a training exercise, which led to the inadvertent death of Breckinridge, a squad mate, and another promising trooper's resignation. Sergeant Zim believed Johnny was still worth keeping, so the base commander ordered administrative punishment with 10 lashes. Nevertheless, wracked with guilt, Johnny resigned after receiving his punishment, although Dizzy dissuaded him from leaving. He called his parents from the barracks and asked if he could come home. They were supportive and told him they love him, but a shadow passed over the image of his parents and the call was abruptly disconnected. As he began to "take a stroll down Washout Lane," he learned that a Bug Meteor had destroyed Buenos Aires, killing millions of people, including his parents. As this incited immediate war against the Arachnids, Johnny asked to be reinstated. Zim tore up his resignation form while a commanding officer purposely turned his back to assure plausible deniability.

Disaster on Klendathu

In hopes of striking a swift, devastating blow, the Federation launched a full scale invasionof the Arachnid home world Klendathu. However, faulty intelligence turned the invasion into a complete disaster with over 100,000 killed in the first hour, including most of Johnny's unit. Rico was sent down with Lieutenant Willy's Wildcats. Initially, there were no Arachnids at the landing zones. The squad moved up and found some Plasma Bugsguarded by Warrior Bugs. Johnny was ordered to nuke the Bugs and did so with another soldier, destroying two of the Plasma Bugs. Confident, the squad moved up and met a swarm of Bugs. However, the Squad Leader Ace Levy, froze up. Johnny took command, ordering the unit to "kill them all," and dealt with the initial swarm. Nevertheless, the unit were quickly overwhelmed by the Bugs, which surrounded and isolated them, causing the Mobile Infantry to fall into a total retreat. Johnny was severely wounded in the leg and was eventually saved by Jean Rasczak, his old school teacher, revealing that Rasczak was now a Lieutenant. The total losses were in excess of 300,000 KIA, with several ships destroyed and few ships making it home unscathed. Although Johnny was wounded, mistaken information reported him as KIA, much to Carmen's dismay.

The Roughnecks

After recovering from his injuries, Johnny, along with Dizzy and Ace, was reassigned to another Mobile Infantry unit, "Rasczak's Roughnecks", lead by Lieutenant Jean Rasczak. Rasczak informed the unit of a new battle plan wherein the Federation would attack the Arachnids planet by planet, first executing an airstrike on the surface and then mopping up the stragglers. Unaware that this plan had an ulterior goal, the soldiers set off to begin the battle plan.

After a successful raid on Tango Urilla, Dizzy expressed her love for Johnny and they had sex. The Roughnecks next assignment was to relieve an outpost on one of the Bug worlds, Planet P. They arrive to find that the outpost had been wiped out, and the lone survivor, General Owen, was a shell-shocked wreck. They soon realized the distress signal they had recieved was a trap as a massive swarm of Bugs attacked. Lieutenant Rasaczak, General Owen, and many Roughnecks were killed in the battle, along with a Tanker Bug. Johnny asked Fleet to send their craziest pilot to retrieve his platoon. The survivors barely evacuated in a landing boat piloted by Carmen Ibanez and Zander Barcalow.

After a funeral service for Dizzy on the Rodger Young, Johnny's old friend, Carl, now a Colonel in intelligence appeared and gave Johnny and Carmen his unapologetic reason for the deaths of many of Johnny's squad mates—the Roughnecks were used as bait. Johnny and Carmen were horrified by Carl's apparent callousness, but the colonel further explained that humans were vastly outnumbered and the strategic sacrifice was necessary. Military Intelligence suspected the Arachnids had a social hierarchy and that they believed they had a centralized intelligence — a Brain Bug — on Planet P. The Mobile Infantry would return to Planet P and to capture a Brain Bug for research. Carl offered Johnny a promotion to Lieutenant and command of the Roughnecks. The Roughnecks were reinforced by fresh soldiers sent directly from boot camp and ordered to participate in the operation to capture the Brain Bug.

Hero of Planet P

During the invasion of Planet P, Johnny diverted from his mission on a rescue mission to save Carmen, who had crash landed in a Bug infested cave with the Brain Bug. When Johnny, Ace and Sugar Watkins reached the cave, a skirmish ensued and Watkins sacrificed himself to nuke the Bug hole after being severely injured. Johnny, Carmen and Ace escaped to the surface safely, where the Brain Bug had been captured by Johnny's former training sergeant, Zim, who had voluntarily demoted himself to private in order to be allowed to transfer from training to combat. Johnny, Carmen, and Carl renewed their friendship.

First Multiverse War

With new upgraded technologies to fight better and decrease the casualties of the UCF’s military campaigns, John found out that the war across parrellel universes has been going on for years by these inter dimensional aliens who started it called the Combine and realise there may not be any time of slowing down. He spent his spare time studying many enemies of the allies and found all worse than the Arachnids such as the Tyranids of the Fop'lla Universe that can concusses an entire planet’s biomatter and the Zerg from the Koprulu Sector in the Demi'ini Universe that mutate and evolve by each generation, reminding him too much of the Bugs and made an effort to train his team to fight the menace should his home be invaded by making certain these creatures dare not set foot outside their realities. One day he met soldiers of the UNSC Republic and the Human-Vortigaunt Federation who came to help train alongside them and was impress of the Spartans’ superhuman abilities and military equipment while also share a mutual understanding of their people threatened by another alien race that wanted to exterminate them.

Hydora Conflict

Assigned to a new mission with sightings of Transport bugs on their way to the water planet Hydora from the constellation of Virgo, he was in charge of the Roughnecks with Ace under his command and assigned with Clone Troopers with newly upgraded weapons and armour to stand against a breed of Bugs called Rippers and destroy them before they spread further across the planet.

Personality

Rico's Personality is that of a level-headed, calm under pressure individual. Despite coming from a wealthy family he never flaunted his wealth and was not afraid of a fight with anybody regardless of their position. In his youth he is passionate and somewhat emotional prone to jealousy easily. However his time in the Mobile Infantry hardens him and makes him an exemplary soldier. Rico is ever passionate in eliminating the Axis threat due to them destroying his home which pulled his people in the first Great War in 1429 N.E.. Despite this he still has a soft spot for his friends even though he is annoyed by Carl's secrecy he still values his friendship with him. Although at first, he had a little distrust towards some non-humans, mainly insectoids due to his experience of the Arachnids back in the Bug Wars, but eventually came to respect those who have a mutual enemy and later on allow Allied members of species to serve under him and work alongside, but only towards some he has hatred such as the Combine for the destruction they caused.

Rico is shown to be a natural born leader, who cared for his soldiers and lead by example from a young age. He was the leader and star of his high school football team. In the mobile infantry, he quickly earned squad leader status and despite being demoted multiple times for breaking regulation, or just being a scapegoat duruing his service in the Federation, until he was reasigned to the Alliance Joint Military and had earend more fairer treatment and praised for his efforts in conflicts. Grown used to the idea of working alongside non-humans over the years and travelling to other universes to defeat the Axis and later on the Combine-Chimera Alliance.

Relationships

Romances

Over the years Rico had been in several relationships, some ended and lasted temporary when focus on his career as a Federal Officer . However, he still had romantic feelings for his Highschool love interest Carmen Ibanez.

• Carmen Ibanez: Carmen was Rico’s high school love interest and girlfriend, wanted to be with her and went to the academy until Carmen eventually decided to make Fleet a career and sent Johnny a "Dear John" video-letter, stating: "I wanna command a ship of my own, and you know, I don't think that's gonna leave a lot of room for you and me." She then asked Johnny to continue to write to her so she would know they would "always be friends," alluding to an earlier promise they had made to always be friends, "no matter what." He later gotten over it after saving her from the Brain Bug and remained friends over the years.
• Dizzy Flores

Friends

• Ace Levy

Gallery

Rico before the disaster of Klendathu

Trivia

• Johnny rico's character is somewhat a mix of the movie and the animated roughneck chronicles version