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"A sniper's job is to shoot from afar; instead, I'm disarming an IED under hostile gunfire. Fuck my life."

- Andra-D054 during operations in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Andra-D054, also known as Andra Kearsarge by personal preference, is a once trained by the illicit SPARTAN-III Delta Company from a young age. The resident sharpshooter and explosives technician of Ferret Team Boson, she later transferred into the Spartan, Team Massachusetts. Regarded by many as an exceptional sniper, Andra is often associated with the likes of her best friend, Merlin-D032, and her late mentor, Joshua-G024.

Born on the colony world of in 2545, Andra spent her formative years raised almost entirely by her ONI-employed father until Andra’s mother died fighting in the concurrent. A downward spiral of alcohol, medication, and domestic violence eventually led her father to suicide and turned Andra into a war orphan. Proving too emotionally volatile for foster parent prospects, the selected and recruited Andra to become a SPARTAN-III.

Andra graduated after four years of training with Delta Company in late 2557, during that period she struggled to find a niche among her fellow trainees and overcome her persistent depression. Eventually, she graduated as Team Boson’s primary sharpshooter and joined ONI’s after Delta Company dissolved. For a year, Andra and her team provided specialized military assistance to politically fragile ONI operations on and around Earth before dissolving in 2558 due to several desertions in Boson’s ranks. Following her reassignment to ONI’s Headhunter program, Andra and Merlin-D032 deployed to the edge of Human space, completing dangerous missions critical to the national security, primarily fighting Covenant remnant factions and. The sudden arrival of the and the fall of the UNSC destroyed any lasting stability Andra felt. With the death of Joshua and the disappearance of Merlin to parts unknown, Andra finds herself working with unorthodox individuals to fight against the Created’s new galactic order.