User:RelentlessRecusant/Madeline Son

Madeline Son was an officer of the UNSC Special Operations Command and the UNSC Navy, serving as a special warfare operator in the elite UNSC Naval Special Warfare Group Six (NAVSPECWARSIX) / PROGWARDIV.

Born in 2565 as the daughter of decorated NAVSPECWAR Six operators Kawika Son and Chandler Danial, during childhood, she would receive extremely strong pressure by her parents to join the UNSC armed forces as they did, although Madeline privately was disgusted by the UNSC military after she had learned how the totalitarian UNSC oppressive, totalitarian military oligarchy had oppressed the UNSC citizenry in the name of "martial law". Because they had held literally all the power in their hands, they had been unstoppable, and she learned that UNSC special forces officers and ONI officers even ordered the targeted killings of civilians and even their comrades in the military. She abhorred the military, but it was against her will that she was wretched from high school at the age of sixteen to join the UNSC Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS) on Luna in 2581, using her father's influence to be one of the youngest to ever join the Navy. Madeline found the military bureaucracy despicable, how it unilaterally oppressed creative thought to promote efficiency, how it caused social dis-integration, and was horrified at the "drones" that she competed against in OCS, who were little more than mindless machines in what she thought was the bureaucratic clockwork. Madeline's heritage, however, allowed her to effortlessly excel, and despite the fact she contemptuously refused to study or participate in exercises, she would be the salutatorian of her graduating class.

However, her "silent protest" against the military was noted by her OCS instructors, who cautiously contacted her father and her mother. Her father, as an admiral of the UNSC Navy, was humiliated by her "insubordinate behavior", and her mother, a special warfare commander, said "she didn't even know her daughter anymore". Madeline, outcast and dejected, flung herself into the most remote place she could find for herself, the most agonizing training or assignment, any pain that would wash away her name, let her forget who she was, to lose herself.

Madeline would undergo training for UNSC Naval Special Warfare (NAVSPECWAR), as did her father and mother did, unwittingly following in her footsteps. Madeline did well, physically peerless, again because of her heritage and genetic heirloom. She briefly served as a Lieutenant Jr. Grade (O-2), serving as the second officer in charge (2IC) of a NAVSPECWAR platoon of sixteen before being well-decorated and being promoted to full Lieutenant (O-3), now commanding a whole NAVSPECWAR platoon underneath a troop in the elite UNSC Naval Special Warfare Group Six (NAVSPECWAR Six) special forces group. NAVSPECWAR Six would particularly admire her physical strength, her innate endurance, her razor mental focus and acuity; she had maintained a creative, flexible, resilient personality even through the personality-recycling environment of OCS Luna, which had been designed to break down all officer candidates and re-program them. Lieutenant Son by nature was an exceptional officer, a creative leader in asymmetrical warfare, and a solid warfighter, earning the respect of her soldiers, which she despised; this plummeted even further when she and her platoon embarked on a "hardcore" NAVSPECWAR Six mission—

—A black operation, this time to set up technical surveillance on a civilian who was running for continental governor against the uncle of a NAVSPECWAR commander. Madeline revolted in disgust, but it was imperative. There was no choice. She and her platoon established surveillance, consisting of wi-fi high-resolution imagers and infrared laser guiders.

A week later, when the target literally exploded and vaporized by a presumably "terrorist-made" laser-guided missile after the NAVSPECWAR Six mission, Madeline was in abject dismay. Her fears had been validated; the UNSC had always been a corrupt institution from the beginning. Madeline specifically requested reassignment out of NAVSPECWAR Six, and her commanders suspected that she was indeed having second thoughts. She was immediately replaced as platoon commander, demoted, and reassigned to a small NAVSPECWAR Six team attached to the |UNSC Beckon Dusk Forth, a stealth reconnaissance frigate engaged in astrological deep reconnaissance (DR) operations in support of UNSC Fleet Intelligence and Operation: PURPLE WILLOW.