Arya Campbell

"The Covenant kept shooting, the girls around me kept screaming, and I just lay on my back in the mud and thought about how I fancied a cup of tea right then and there."

- Arya Campbell

Arya Campbell is the heir to the Campbell family fortune and CEO of the Gloriana private military company. Born on Mamore to wealthy parents, she was groomed from an early age to represent her family among the ranks of the colonial elite. But despite her patrician upbringing, attendance at an Inner Colony boarding school forced her to confront the painful reality that she would always be considered lower class thanks to her Outer Colony origins. When Arya was a teenager her school came under attack during a Covenant raid and she was only saved when SPARTAN-II supersoldiers drove off the invaders. The experience inspired her to join the military and she enrolled in a prestigious military academy. In the meantime her father rebuilt the family fortune by establishing the Gloriana private military company. Arya completed her education and became a commissioned officer within the UNSC navy, seeing action during the final days of the Human-Covenant War. She continued serving following the war’s end, but her father’s abrupt assassination saw her inherit his shares in Gloriana and compelled her to resign her commission in order to take up the reigns as Gloriana’s CEO.

Under Arya’s leadership, Gloriana expanded its operations into the galactic frontier. She maintained the company culture her father had established of poise and gentility even amidst the brutal realities of frontier military operations. In addition to security contracts, Arya also worked to encourage economic growth on independent colonies. Looking to sow the seeds for a new generation of colonial aristocrats, Arya sponsored several private academies like the one she herself had attended—albeit with a distinctly military spin on grooming young socialites. In a bid to free the frontier from dependence on Earth goods, she encouraged the cultivation of many luxury products across the frontier—particularly tea.