Oriana-A058 (TPF)

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"She's a natural leader, you know. One of those who knows how to do it, I'd follow her anywhere. I will tell you one thing, if you told me that she was going to be the leader she is today, I would've laughed at you. She's different than the rest, there are many good ones, but she is a great one."

- Emilia-A049 on her commanding officer.

Oriana-A058 (SPARTAN Tag: A058) (Callsign: Red-One) (Codename: Redfly) is a officer that operated for the, , and currently for the. She was conscripted into Alpha Company where she became the Team Leader of Team Vulture, but shortly pulled out of her team and placed into an elite group. Labeled a Cat-II commando, Oriana received a battlefield and put in command of. She was assigned under the where she was placed into  of the Army and Special Element Group SIX of the Air Force.

Throughout the, Oriana led RED Team on numerous campaigns against the Covenant in the Human-Covenant War. Operating under both the Army's and Air Force's Special Operations Command, Oriana was able to transform herself into an exceptional leader that had a strong desire to learn and succeed. From her early days as a Team Leader for Team Vulture to the final hours of the Human-Covenant War, Oriana led RED Team through each battle with strength and determination that was engrained into her since training. At her peak, Oriana had seven other Cat-II SPARTAN-III Special Warfare Operators under her command, making her the leader of one of the largest SPARTAN teams ever field deployed. At the end of the Human-Covenant War, Oriana and RED Team had three total SPARTANs ready to fight.

After the end of the Human-Covenant War and during the, Oriana and RED Team were pulled into the UNSC where they began to operate under the Naval Special Weapons Applications Group. Working with the, Oriana deployed to various , participated in various campaigns that included the as well as resisting against the. As a veteran leader of a SPARTAN-III team, Oriana was able to pull from her experiences to create the best plan to win. With a focus on that are backed by the, Oriana continues to deploy as the field officer for RED Team. She remains as one of the very few Alpha Company SPARTANs that continue to deploy.

Early Life
Oriana Lena Osterberg was born to Emilia and Cassandra Osterberg; she was raised on the known as Eridanus II in Ny Alta. Emilia worked as an accountant while her partner, Cassandra worked as a nurse at Ny Alta's Central Hospital. Life in Ny Alta was comforting for Oriana; she was raised in a middle-class home where she was able to explore the world she lived on. Along with the birth of Oriana, they adopted a child one year later named Daphne. With her younger sister, Oriana became the older sister that was to protect her younger sister from anything that was going to hurt her. The small city known as Ny Alta was a breeding ground for prospective children with eager minds. Oriana and her younger sister were welcomed into the community where they were able to pursue anything they wished. Oriana and her sister were brought up with the ability to ask any question they desired an answer for.

From an early age, Oriana was able to travel the safe locations of Eridanus II with her family. The was a growing issue on the colony and restricted the travel of many small towns. Despite being limited at some times, Oriana was able to learn a great deal about the world she lived on. Bringing her younger sister along, Oriana began to protect her whenever they went out together. With Oriana's desire to learn more about rocks, her parents purchased an archeology book with the variety of rocks she was able to collect on the planet. Pursuing her passion for collecting rocks, she convinced her sister to join her, and the two went out rock hunting when they were home. With her sister, Oriana was able to cover more ground. Along with collecting rocks, Oriana started a seashell collection. Her parents often hid seashells in the backyard, which made Oriana spend her time outside looking for the seashells her parents hid.

Enrolled in Ny Alta's Secondary Academy, Oriana showed her prowess of learning anything put in front of her. Along with her ability to be a successful academic student, Oriana spent time teaching her sister anything she learned. The desire to not let her sister fall behind took center stage when Daphne began to slip back. Oriana took it upon herself to keep her sister close by in case she ever needed help with a problem. At one point, Oriana's parents were called in to discuss Oriana's action for fighting another student. Oriana told her parents they made fun of Daphne and she attacked the girl in defense, she was ultimately suspended for the rest of the day and got ice cream as a reward for sticking up to her sister. Oriana's protective nature only hardened as her sister continued to be a target for bullies, prompting her to hand out a beating that scared away people. It was bound to be tested soon with a much more significant threat that lingered in the sky.

In 2530, Oriana was attending school when the Empire attacked Eridanus II. Several large ships arrived in the atmosphere over Eridanus II, and air vehicles were sent to hunt down the population of the Outer Colony. The United Nations Space Command and Colonial Military Administration prepared to defend the colony while Oriana grabbed her sister, who was walking in a hallway. As Covenant forces deployed on Eridanus II, gunfights broke out, and the small town known as Ny Alta roared into chaos. People were screaming, fighting their way to safety as Oriana held her sister behind in a door frame. Once seeing the area was safe, Oriana made a run to a shuttle that her teacher told her to run for in the schoolyard. Upon reaching the shuttle, Oriana watched as the door closed, and the shuttle took off. By the time Oriana was able to think about her parents, it was too late. She was clawing at the door of the shuttle, screaming for it to go back and get her parents. A Marine Corps officer was able to settle her down, saying that her parents were waiting for her on the ship.

The parents of Oriana and Daphne never arrived, Oriana continued to question the officer that told her the lie. It was not long before Ny Alta, and the rest of Eridanus II was by the Covenant Empire. Not long after the attack, Oriana was registered into a Colonial Authority Administration orphanage on. Along with Daphne, Oriana was still determined to find out the fate of her parents. While Oriana continued to pester orphanage staff, they told her answers that led to the same question she was asking. Her parents were alive, Oriana knew and believed that for the longest time. Stuck on New Harmony and in an orphanage, Oriana worked on developing a way to break out of the orphanage with her sister. The plan she devised was going to work due to the success of other orphans escaping, with Daphne ready to go; Oriana hatched her plan to break out of the orphanage to go back home where her parents were waiting. Emilia and Cassandra arrived on, asking where their daughters were; hoping they were still alive after all what had happened.

Not long after the escape from the orphanage, Oriana and Daphne ran the streets of New Harmony stealing food and resting in shelters. They met up with a young group of children that called themselves the Harmony Runners, Oriana joined alongside Daphne, and the two began to work with the same group of children to make a profit as well as obtain basic needs. From 2530 to 2531, Oriana ran the streets of New Harmony, grabbing what she needed to live for her sister. The two took up housing in an abandoned warehouse; the two sisters spent their time planning a way to get off of New Harmony and to another world to try and find their parents. Daphne learned that her parents were on Meridian and informed Oriana of the information, Oriana foiled a plan to get back to her parents. Reaching a terminal, Oriana learned she only had money for one ticket. Deciding to send her younger sister, Oriana told Daphne to find her back at their home on New Harmony. As Daphne left for Meridian, Oriana was picked up by an orphanage and held. Daphne arrived in Meridian, found her parents and told them that they needed to get Oriana who was still trapped on New Harmony because of financial problems. Emilia and Cassandra departed to New Harmony to get their daughter back, just as the sat down with the young Oriana.

The ONI recruiter learned about how Oriana broke out of an orphanage in 2530 and was on the run for one year, living on the streets with her younger sister. Along with that knowledge, Oriana told the recruiter to let her go because she was going back to her parents. As a recruiter for the upcoming ONI project, Oriana was lied to saying that she was going to be brought to Meridian. Her parents were going to wait for her on Meridian, Oriana accepted to the deal and waited for the Recruiter to take her back to her parents. While Oriana waited, the ONI recruiter looked up all the records about Oriana and fabricated them, saying that she died on the day that they met. When the recruiter returned, Oriana left with her to return to Meridian. Upon leaving, Oriana was placed onto an unidentified ship that departed from New Harmony that was going to a far different planet. While Oriana continued to believe that she was being taken home, her parents were given the news that she died. Her parents were heartbroken and angered that the UNSC and CAA had failed to keep track of their daughter.

Oriana arrived onto as a SPARTAN-III program trainee. There, she was stripped of her name, given a SPARTAN tag, and told to fall in line with the rest of the newly created Alpha Company. Learning that she was lied to, Oriana tried to attack the ONI officer that deceived her but was stunned. It did not take her long to figure out that she was not going to see her family for quite some time. Stuck on Onyx and nowhere else to go, Oriana began to prepare herself for the upcoming brutal training she was about to go through. She was categorized as a natural leader and someone able to put up with many issues thrown at her. Due to being in such a large class, Oriana knew that she had to find a way to get out. Her duty to get back to her parents became her set goal, that was before the training ever started for her. By the time her training started, the memories she had held tight became the reason she was going to push through and graduate as one of the 300 SPARTANs in the Alpha Company class.

Initial Training
"Never be late, light, last or, out of uniform."

- SPARTAN-III Alpha Company's Training Manual; Page IV.

With a successful parachute drop under her belt, Oriana joined the First Section of the Alpha Company class. There, she underwent training that pushed her to the limits she never thought were possible. Long runs, physical exercises, academic work, learning how to fight through the pain, and anything else; Oriana pushed herself as far as she could until she told herself to give up. In the following months of 2531 and early days of 2532, Oriana spent the majority of her time taking care of herself. Lessons from, Oriana learned to take care of her feet and mind. The Instructors Oriana was punished by were looking for reasons to wash her out of the class, along with the rest of the candidates. Oriana found herself right in the middle of her Section, not too far behind or ahead. She was able to pace herself to do enough that was not going to end with her getting beaten. Finding a place for her to push her body, yet not exhaust herself made Oriana one of the smarter candidates among her Section. As she continued to progress through her initial training, she started to see candidates disappear. Unknown to where they were going, Oriana did not want to be pulled out and pushed herself harder as her Section grew smaller.

Pushing her way through the variety of training, Oriana saw that she was able to keep up with the top group of her Section. Once the washouts had been determined, the four Sections were placed together and mixed up. Oriana began to work through obstacle courses with a variety of people, the range of each team was extremely inconsistent as the Instructors tried to weed out who were the ones that had displayed natural leadership while others became lone wolfs. Many of the team games they played included Capture the Flag, one that Oriana showcased on-the-fly leadership in. Her desire to win as well as be the decision maker for her makeshift team put her on the radar as a potential leader for a SPARTAN-III fireteam. Going through team-oriented exercises, she displayed her desire to be the first in then the last out. If she felt something was wrong, she pushed ahead to check if the area was secure then ran back to her team to ensure the area was clear for the rest of them to come through. After passing the obstacle course, some SPARTANs continued to wash out while Oriana stayed with her company.

While she was able to showcase her ability as a team leader, Oriana turned her focus to the education she was bound to go through. Standardized testings, oral boards, and, academically challenging tasks were put before her. The academics were there to test how the children were going to react to failure; Oriana responded with frustration and continued to push with frustration. After a time, she began to talk with a candidate who helped her relax her mind when something went wrong. As Oriana pushed her way through the exams, she learned that she was bound to fail in something. The way she reacted was going to dictate what the next decision was going to be. Taking a different approach, Oriana pursued the desire not to achieve her best, but to react the right way to when she did make a mistake. Students continued to washout of the academic testing; she saw people grow far too frustrated at the issues they were having; causing them to fail. While Oriana was able to pass another test put in front of her, she began to wonder what she was going to do next to prove that she was a capable person.

Her final test, a combination of all the training that she had learned and applied it to the various tasks she was ordered to undertake. Starting with an obstacle course, Oriana went through multiple tests that she needed to meet time limits on not to wash out. The criteria included an airborne jump and walking back to the compound along with a hike throughout various zones. Once she passed the first part, she moved onto games that involved capture the flag, running obstacle courses together and, cleaning. During the tests, Oriana was placed into another group that she was not with before and thrived. Finally, she did a test and stood before an oral board that drilled her mentally. They pushed her mind to the limit along with trying to see if she was genuinely SPARTAN material. Once passing all the required tasks, Oriana was granted to go onto Professional Development. Along with her training, Oriana was going to become a SPARTAN Team Leader. She was bound to become one of the elite leaders that were going to push her team into combat wherever she was told to go.

Professional Development
After passing her initial training, Oriana went through Professional Development that was going to shape her into the person she needed to become. Early on, Oriana was selected to become a Team Leader and through a variety of commissioned and noncommissioned courses that shaped her as a team leader. She learned the various ways to use critical thinking, cooperation, and communication to achieve what she needed to do in the field. One primary course she was enrolled to was Advanced Special Operations; Oriana learned the difference between clandestine and covert operations along with the procedures afterward. Being a leader, Oriana knew that she was going to become someone that was bound to motivate other forces to follow her. Aside from leading her team, she learned to put together assault squadrons that conducted reconnaissance alongside her. The leader that Oriana became about due to the variety of training she was told to go through as a child. Her ability to become a learner made her able to develop any skill she had her mind set on.

After her leadership training, Oriana went through a large number of courses that rounded her out as a SPARTAN. She took a Mountain Warfare class that allowed her to navigate through the mountains of various planets she was bound to be deployed onto with her team. Followed with advanced driving, she learned offensive and defensive driving when being pursued by an enemy. Special Reconnaissance taught Oriana how to gain information about an area from a variety of instruments. A Protective Security course that allowed her to know how to handle herself when having to cover an essential person (V.I.P.). Followed with interrogation resistance, Oriana learned how to resist and escape if she was ever to be captured by the enemy. She found the course to be irrelevant because she was never going to be taken, prisoner. Oriana capped off the last of her training with pilot classes; she learned to fly a variety of aircraft that were going to be crucial for both inserting and extracting her team if she was ever to come across such a vehicle.

Oriana went through numerous warfare schools that taught her about various theaters she was going to operate in during her service. She began with Asymmetrical Warfare School (AWS), teaching her about how to operate as an Asymmetrical team in the field of combat. She took a variety of leadership classes within the AWS that helped her lead a team as such throughout an Area of Operation. Once completing the AWS, Oriana went through Urban Warfare School (UWS), where she learned how to navigate through a variety of urban areas during combat situations. She finally finished off her Warfare School training with Unconventional Warfare School (UCWS), Oriana felt it was similar to what she had in AWS, but the emphasis was placed on working with the local populace. Graduating from Warfare School, Oriana was able to be an expert in a variety of theaters we shwas going to be deployed into as an asset for Alpha Company. Cruising through Professional Development, she made a name for herself as a sponge for knowledge. She took in nearly every lesson she was taught by the Instructors and applied them to her work.

Before graduating from Professional Development, Oriana went through a variety of tests that ensured she was ready for the next section of her training. From a leadership test, Oriana had to write out a variety of responses to a situation she was going to be thrust into along with oral exams with psychologists that ensured she had the right leadership qualities. After passing her leadership tests, Oriana went through trials that her designated courses had to ensure she had mastered the skills that had been taught to her through the duration of being a SPARTAN. Placed into real-time scenarios, Oriana was able to display her ability to perform as an elite leader that was able to adapt and improvise during a variety of situations. She concluded with Warfare School testing that ensured she knew how to operate within the settings Oriana was taught in. After passing all of her tests, Oriana was authorized to go through Team Training, where she was going to get her team and prepare for combat exercises. Once in Team Training, Oriana was going to define herself as a SPARTAN team leader and attempt to become the best team in Alpha Company.

Team Training
Assigned to Team Vulture, Oriana became the Team Leader of three other SPARTAN-III special warfare operators. Her team included a sniper and, two assaulters with specialties in Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and, communications. With her team, Oriana was given the team title, Mission Support Site (MSS). Her team was going to act as an Advance Team (AT) that was going to provide Special Reconnaissance and targets for the rest of Alpha Company that planned to assault the designated target. Along with seven other teams, Oriana was selected as one of the many Team Leaders that were going to conduct such missions for Alpha Company. Early on in the Team Training, Team Vulture began with simple activities such as navigating across unknown terrain. Oriana was forced to check her ego at the door, and place her trust in the team she was working with. Other exercises that made Oriana trust her teammates included were Capture the Flag, setting up in a designated position as well as running the Kill House. As the time with the team continued to grow, Oriana began to see that each member was going to contribute to the success of the operation just as much as she did. Only being a leader meant that she was going to carry a lighter load and make the final decision in the field.

After proving that each operator of her team was more than qualified in their field, Team Vulture moved onto their next phase, which included much more rigorous training such as going against other teams. Oriana's trust in her teammates was put to the test due to the unknown factor she was not able to control. After a loss, Oriana began to trust her team, and then the wins started to pile up. From the variety of exercises Oriana and Team Vulture went through, they were able to come in second place after a struggling loss in their first match. Communication and trust became the main emphasis between the team as they operated during the battles against other teams. Oriana displayed her ability to think quickly and react faster to situations compared to other Team Leaders. With the success of the competition, Oriana knew that she was with a successful group of operators that she was able to trust. There was no doubt in her mind that she was going to be successful due to the team's chemistry. As a result, Team Vulture began to emerge as one of the top teams in their group who continued to showcase consistency across the board in all sections of their training.

Finally, in her Team Training, Oriana went through a mock assault on a designated target. She began with infiltrating behind enemy lines with seven other teams that set up in their designated Mission Support Site. Team Vulture was able to confirm the targets they had been told to verify and relayed the information to the assault squadrons. Once the assault squadrons were on the move, Oriana and Team Vulture moved forward as an Advance Team on the target and prepared to engage anyone that the assault squadrons did not catch. While the assault squadron continued to advance, Oriana was able to watch the battle unfold and pushed her team into areas that the assault squadron did not cover. Once the mock assault concluded, Alpha Company was then prepared for their next section of becoming a SPARTAN-III special warfare operator. Team Vulture graduated from Team Training as one of the top teams in the Advance Team squadron, Oriana was also noted for being an exceptional leader during the entire time. Her ability to trust each of her own and then develop herself as a better Team Leader made her catch the attention of a few people. She remained the Team Leader of Team Vulture and graduated with full honors from the first company of the SPARTAN-III program.

Augmentations
Project CHRYSANTHEMUM was the augmentation project that gave Oriana her strength and abilities as a SPARTAN. The augmentation process was said to be successful in all subjects, and Oriana was prepared for her medical procedure. With the drugs she was to be given, Oriana had numerous surgeries scheduled that were to transform her from a girl to a SPARTAN. She saw the augmentation process as a way to produce better results and win compared to her former size, Oriana was more than ready to accept the project. Leaving on a sunny day, Oriana was prepared for the next step in her career, and willing to do anything to win with her team. Arriving on, Oriana was brought into a room, and after laying down, the procedure began for her. The project includes the following drugs:


 * 8942-LQ99 - "carbide ceramic ossification catalyst" drug.


 * 88005-MX77 - "fibroid muscular protein complex" drug.


 * 88947-OP24 - "retina-inversion stabilizer" drug.


 * 87556-UD61 - "improved colloidal neural disunification solution" drug.

Stronger, faster, quicker, and deadlier; Oriana transformed into the soldier she needed to become for the UNSC. Her bones became impossible to break, strength was off the charts, eyesight nearly perfect, and she was able to react to a situation faster than she could comprehend. Oriana found herself different, but in the right way. She was glad to hear that the augmentation procedure worked perfectly, and there were no issues with her afterward. Seeing that Oriana was another successful patient, she was moved to surgery where the UNSC continued to be operated on for some time. During the operations, Oriana began to mentally prepare herself for what was next and how she was going to get what she wanted. All of the work put into her was only going to go so far; it was up to Oriana to prove that she was capable of becoming the leader she was trained to become.

Along with becoming a faster SPARTAN, Orian was able to grow dramatically in height and put on considerable weight. Going from a skinny girl to a SPARTAN supersoldier was quickly the most significant difference in her. Originally at roughly five feet and three inches, he grew to six feet and ten inches thanks to the growth hormones and specific genes that allowed her to grow much taller. Samuel also gained weight which fit his new frame. Weighing in at about 100 pounds before, she was able to add about 70 more and then bulk up to about 244 pounds before deploying as a SPARTAN-III. Oriana became one of the tallest outsides of armor; making her a rare outlier for her gender and in Alpha Company. Even though she remained extremely tall and bulked up, Oriana was prepared for her fight wherever she was going to be deployed.

With the rest of her augmentations, Oriana was given a standard neural interface. The standard neural interface allowed Oriana to interface with a variety of tasks without having to use other people. Being apart of a Squadron that forward deploys into combat, Oriana began to feel that the standard neural interface was going to become a valuable asset for telling her where friends and foes are. In between her missions, Oriana tried to tinker with the settings she was given but stopped when her commanding officer ordered her to. In 2553, Oriana was one of the many who received the SPARTAN neural interface after the end of the Human-Covenant War. With the successful upgrade, Oriana was able to have the option to carry a Smart AI during the Post-War Era. Still, Oriana had the abilities she had with the standard neural interface. Once completed with all surgeries, Oriana was sent back down to Onyx and prepared for deployments.

Team Assignment
Team Vulture became one of many Alpha Company fireteams that operated in the Advance Team Squadron. Oriana was known as the Team Leader and Leader of Vulture Element Alpha, where she had a sniper next to her. As the Team Leader for Team Vulture, Oriana was going to work with two other teams from Alpha Company where they conducted similar missions with one another. As an Advance Team, Oriana was designated with gathering as much intelligence on the target that the Assault Squadron was going to assault. Once the Assault Squadron began their engagement, Team Vulture was going to become a Mission Support Site fireteam where they set up final firing positions (FFP) and assist with the assault on the designated target. Her missions were extremely simple and crucial; Oriana needed to be on point during every operation to ensure the success of such an operation. Because Team Vulture was labeled as in the Advance Team Squadron, showcased just how versatile Oriana was as a Team Leader on the ground.

Not long after her graduation, Oriana was given a unique designation known to be Category-II unknown to her knowledge. Lieutenant Commander gave such a designation to Oriana as he watched her training. The Sniper that Oriana was deploying alongside in Vulture Element Alpha was also given the Category-II designation, making Team Vulture one of the unique teams with two Category-II designations within the Team. Others were pulled directly out of Alpha Company that was given the same designation but told that they washed out due to augmentation failures. While Oriana did prove herself throughout the training, Lieutenant Commander Ambrose wanted to see how Oriana was going to perform in the field before he decided to pull her out alongside the sniper. As the talk for Oriana's reassignment continued to dwell, she prepared for her first combat operation alongside Alpha Company. She was found to be both nervous and ready for the battle to come; Operation TRIDENT was soon crafted after the successful graduation. Oriana and Team Vulture were prepared for their first operation where others looked on to see if she was truly ready for what she needed to become.

Operation: TRIDENT
The graduation of Alpha Company came in December of 2536 and the first SPARTAN-III company was ready for combat. Colonel and Admiral  looked over the variety of places to send such a company. Immediately, Parangosky wanted to deploy Alpha Company against the Covenant Empire and put a stop to the enemy that was creeping on the edges of the 's. She was met by pressure from Colonel Ackerson, who said that he wanted to have Alpha Company do a mission against the Insurrectionists to get their feet under them. The plan after, Alpha Company was going to deploy against the Covenant Empire until there were no more left. Parangosky decided to bite the bullet and allow Alpha Company to conduct one operation against the Insurrectionists. Parangosky ordered Colonel Ackerson that Alpha Company must perform to prove to her that they were indeed the finest SPARTAN company produced. Colonel Ackerson found a mission on where he saw a perfect opportunity to test his new SPARTAN-III company. Not long after, Operation TRIDENT was authorized, and Alpha Company prepared for their first combat operation.

Oriana joined the rest of Alpha Company and the Advance Team Squadron during a Mission Debriefing that went over their target. An Insurrectionists group known as the Freedom and Liberation Party began to clash with UNSC military forces. The Insurrection group began to deploy guerrilla tactics and bomb essential UNSC facilities that were key to protecting the space surrounding Mamore from a Covenant attack. Multiple targets were laid out for the Advance Team Squadron to conduct special reconnaissance on as well as provide Mission Support Site. From supply warehouses to a Command Base, the work for Alpha Company was laid out for them. With a week's notice before the operation, Oriana began to run drills and do workouts with Team Vulture to prepare herself for the combat she was going to go into. While many SPARTANs spent their time elsewhere, Oriana soaked in every detail of the operation. She read over everything she was handed and prepared alternative missions for anything that were to go wrong. She wanted to prove herself to the Commanding Officers in Alpha Company that her team was full of winners.

Arriving above Mamore, Oriana and Team Vulture climbed into a (LRSOIP) and descended to Mamore. Landing in the Southern Hemisphere, Oriana linked up with the rest of the Team Leaders in the Advance Team Squadron and prepared to move out to her designated location. Reaching her first location, Oriana split Vulture into two Elements to gather the most amount of actionable information. She surveyed an Insurrectionists supply warehouse that carried a variety of ammunition that assisted with the Insurrections bombings on Mamore. Confirming with another Advance Team, Oriana relayed her information back to an assault squadron waiting for action. After a long day of getting good intelligence, Oriana shifted from an Advance Team then turned her location into a Mission Support Site with FFPs. With a green light, nearly 50 Alpha Company SPARTAN-IIIs along with a detachment of EODs, assaulted the area. Amid the action, Oriana spotted for her sniper who was able to tag his first two kills as a SPARTAN. Not long after, Oriana joined the rest of the SPARTANs to conduct Sensitive Site Exploitation where she learned more about a variety of supply bases she just assisted with raiding. Pulling back from the captured supply base, the EOD detachment destroyed all the ordinance while Oriana and the rest of the Advance Team prepared for their next mission.

Working off the information from the Sensitive Site Exploitation, Oriana and Team Vulture began to hammer down on the Insurrection's supply lines. She assisted with multiple assaults on convoys, supply outpost bases, and, anything else she was able to get her hands on. Being one of the first teams on site in an Area of Operation allowed Oriana to see the best idea of assault for the Assault Squadron. Night, morning, evening and, afternoon raids made the group assaulting nearly impossible to predict. Team Vulture distinguished itself as a powerful and reliable team throughout the missions they underwent, Oriana and her team made sure that they were performing at the top of their game at all times. As the supply raids came to a close, Oriana shifted her attention towards a mountain where the Insurrection was hiding out of. With orders from the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Special Warfare Command, Oriana shifted her efforts towards the new objectives. Before conducting missions in the mountains, Oriana was told to capture leadership if she could. Once getting her new set of orders, Oriana and the rest of the group she was working alongside were dropped onto the top of a mountain and began their assault down on the elaborate cave network the enemy had carved out to protect themselves. Despite her size, Oriana prepared alternative ideas for pulling an enemy out.

As the Advance Team Squadron moved their way down the mountain, Oriana worked closely with the Assault Squadron and her EOD technician to flush out the Insurrectionists before they disappeared. The tempo on the mountains began to pick up for Alpha Company, and they dominated the range. Actionable Intelligence was relayed back to the assault teams, and they were able to flush out the enemies before they had a chance to react. Mission after mission, Oriana continued to dominate the field of battle as a Team Leader for Team Vulture. Leaders of the Insurrection were captured as well as valuable data was collected, the mountains became the ally for Alpha Company. Using speed and a fast tempo, the group was able to descend the mountain and crush a sizeable chunk of the Insurrectionists uprising. Due to the many assaults in the past week, the Freedom and Liberation Party began to lock down their locations and prepare for all-out battles between the enemies that were hunting them. After many successful missions on the mountains, Oriana was given another assignment that led her to a vital communication base that the Insurrectionists were using. Once cutting off communications, Oriana knew that it was going to be extremely easy for the rest of the missions conducted by Alpha Company. Only three weeks on Mamore and Alpha Company was showcasing their success as a SPARTAN-III Company. After a day's break, Oriana and Team Vulture prepared to move out towards the Communications Base where they planned to shut it down for good.

Once locating the Communications Base, Oriana learned about the various entrances that were heavily guarded. An assault was going to cost the lives of her fellow SPARTAN-IIIs, and Oriana wanted to create another method of disabling the base. Offering a night operation, Oriana worked with her snipers to see what they were able to do and her options with them. With a sniper strike on the lights, the Assault Squadron was bound to approach without being spotted. A request for more Assault Squadron SPARTANs was put in then granted, bringing up the group from 50 to 60 total. Once the lights were out and the Assault Squadron close, EOD technicians, were going to blow multiple holes in the wall and then an assault was going to commence from many angles. Once the mission began, Oriana watched with her snipers as they took out the lights then protected the EOD technicians. Guards on balconies were engaged, and soon the Communication relay was swarmed with SPARTANs assaulting from all directions. Due to the speed and surprise of the attack, the Insurrectionists were not able to get out a call for help. Once securing the Communications Base, Oriana moved down to conduct Sensitive Site Exploitation while others handled the prisoners for the Office of Naval Intelligence to take.

The Uprising did not last long after the Communications Base was taken out. The rest of Alpha Company continued to swarm and engage anything that affiliated with the Freedom and Liberation Party in the Southern Hemisphere. One month after their deployment, Alpha Company was pulled out of Mamore and had a hugely successful first operation. Colonel James Ackerson reported to Admiral Margaret Parangosky about the success of the operation; he was met with the need to deploy Alpha Company against the Covenant. While Colonel Ackerson worked on the next operation for Alpha Company, Oriana returned to Onyx and went through a variety of psychological exams to ensure she was screwed on the right. Once passing all of her reviews, she joined Team Vulture at a firing range where they continued to work on their marksmanship. Following the success of Operation TRIDENT, Oriana wanted to build off the massive success she had. Team Vulture was proven to be full of winners, and Oriana showcased her ability to be an exceptional leader. As a tradition for Team Vulture, each member underwent a hot wash where they analyzed what they did and how they were going to improve upon it. Once concluding the hot wash, Oriana and Team Vulture moved out to work on what they did not achieve to the best of their ability in the field.

Operation: HWACHA
Following the success of Operation TRIDENT, Alpha Company prepared for its operations against the Covenant. Colonel James Ackerson received intelligence from the Office of Naval Intelligence about various Covenant Forward Operating Base (FOB) being set up in the neutral zone of space between the Outer and Inner Colonies. As fears began to spread that the Covenant were going to invade the Inner Colonies, Colonel Ackerson prepared Alpha Company for a variety of missions in the. The Office of Naval Intelligence learned that the Covenant used an array of reactors as well as refineries to fuel their military efforts against Humanity. With the help of the, the Office of Naval Intelligence was able to figure out when the least amount of ships were going to be around the Area of Operation for Alpha Company to conduct their mission. Not long after the planning, Operation HWACHA was approved by Colonel Ackerson and then sent to Alpha Company which had returned to Onyx from a successful Operation HWACHA. Soon, Alpha Company and its SPARTANs were going to put all of their training to the test and stop an enemy that seemed impossible to stop.

Due to the sheer amount of targets in the asteroid belt, Alpha Company was split up into three groups. Oriana and Team Vulture were apart of B Group which was tasked with hitting Covenant plasma refineries across her Area of Operation. During her mission briefing, she was informed to pick a pace and stick to it. Emphasis on the speed allowed Oriana to work effectively and efficiently against a stronger enemy compared to the Insurrectionists. Learning about the Covenant and having a brief experience with them during the Fall of Eridanus II, Oriana was prepared to meet the enemy that had destroyed a significant amount of Outer Colonies. Once getting the notice for the deployment, Oriana and Team Vulture conducted Capability Exercises (CAPEX) which allowed officers to see where teams needed to be moved. As one of the premier Advance Teams from the Squadron, Oriana was known as an excellent leader and someone willing to push the tempo of a mission at the right time. Once leaving Onyx with B Group, Oriana prepared for Operation HWACHA with her team and waited for the green light to deploy.

Launching into the Bonanza asteroid belt with the help of Calypso-class exfiltration crafts. Upon reaching her designated asteroid, Oriana began to conduct reconnaissance against the Covenant and the targets that she needed to confirm. Team Vulture was able to weave their way around a variety of Covenant anti-personnel mines and sensors, giving the Assault Squadron a chance not to be detected before they conducted their assault on the base. Once giving the green light, Oriana moved Team Vulture into an FFP and assisted with the assault on one refinery that the Covenant had held. Due to conducting such an attack while the Covenant was in the middle of traveling allowed Alpha Company to roam freely without getting killed by Covenant starships. Oriana was sure to note the luck on their side and continued to assist with the destruction of the base with the help of EOD technicians. With the destruction of the first base, Oriana knew that their cover was bound to be found and she began to prepare for harder missions against the Covenant. Pushing forward, she began to see more scout patrols and engaged them before they were able to find B Group that was approaching at an alarming rate. Soon enough, refineries began to go up in flames, and the Covenant were scrambling for a response.

Stumbling upon a Covenant Armory, Oriana and Team Vulture were able to assist with a surprise assault on the base. Using false pushes as a means to draw the Covenant away, Oriana and Team Vulture used themselves as bait against the Covenant which allowed the Assault Squadron to make their way into the base with little resistance. Under heavy fire, Oriana moved among the rocks she had and continued to push back the swarming Covenant force long enough for the Assault Squadron to flank behind and wipe them all out. Once the fire from the enemy stopped, Oriana moved from the cover she was in and surveyed as the EOD technicians rigged various areas with explosives. The Armory was soon destroyed after and the arrival of a Covenant starship brought a newfound enemy to the asteroid belt. A Group was closest to the starship when various UNSC starships responded with their own. All Groups were pulled back from their Area of Operation, and soon, other ships were getting too close to the Covenant Starship. On the starship that Oriana was on, Covenant troops began to land on the ship's outer hull. With Team Vulture, Oriana prepared for combat within the ship as Covenant forces attempted to board.

While A Group continued to be extracted, C Group provided the counter-boarding assault against the Covenant forces. B Group provided support and remained as the backup team if C Group were to fail. Once all of A Group was on board, C Group had engaged and repelled the attack against the Covenant's boarding party. As more Covenant starships exited slipspace, the UNSC starships returned to safety. The Bonanza asteroid belt was utterly destroyed due to Alpha's Company to surprise and hit the Covenant before they were able to make a response. The UNSC was in desperate need for stopping the Covenant, and Operation HWACHA proved that Alpha Company was a perfect response to such an enemy. Oriana learned how to adapt on the fly against a powerful enemy as well as take risks when the time called for it. Becoming a bullet fodder for the Covenant, so the Assault Squadron was able to sneak in showcased that Oriana was starting to transform from a good leader and into a great one. With the success of her first Covenant mission, Oriana began her journey back to Onyx where she was going to be met with a mission debriefing meeting, a hotwash and, psychological exams that ensured she was alright.

Following the success of Operation HWACHA, the Office of Naval Intelligence began to predict that the Inner Colonies were going to be hit within months. With the newly informed intelligence, the Office of Naval Intelligence began to work on strengthening forces around the Inner Colonies as well as pull back crucial leaders on the outskirts. In the meantime, Oriana went through numerous psychological exams to ensure that she was mentally capable of operating as the Team Leader for Team Vulture. Once done, she underwent Team Vulture's hotwash, where each member discussed what they needed to improve upon. Colonel Ackerson, as well as Lieutenant Commander Ambrose, was impressed with Alpha Company's ability to give a tactical and strategic defeat to the Covenant. Due to Alpha Company's success against the Covenant, the Office of Naval Intelligence began to find more operations for the SPARTAN-III company to conduct. In a short time, Alpha Company had been active; the Company had started to etch their name in as a significant contributor to stalling the Covenant and their brutal conquest.

Operation: MARATHON
Not long after Operation HWACHA, Alpha Company was rotated into another combat deployment with actionable intelligence from the Office of Naval Intelligence. Colonel Ackerson began to see how successful his Alpha Company had become, thus leading him to push the Company onto more missions to protect the Inner Colonies. The began to transmit signals that the Covenant were bound to reach the UNSC habitats, Covenant scout ships were being spotted, and the response weighed in on Alpha Company. As Colonel Ackerson worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence, many senior officers involved with Alpha Company felt that it was wrong to deploy an entire SPARTAN-III company onto the Colony Platforms when the intelligence was not reliable for a full deployment. In the end, Colonel Ackerson authorized the deployment of Alpha Company, and they were shipped off to the Far-Gone Colony Platforms to deal with a prospective Covenant invasion. Frustrations mounted with the authorization of Operation MARATHON due to Colonel Ackerson taking too much of a gamble with a force that was as valuable as Alpha Company. Not long after their protests, Colonel's Ackerson was bound to play into his favor.

Before arriving at the Far-gone colony platforms, Oriana and Team Vulture underwent Platform CAPEX that allowed her to figure out a way to navigate her way around the AO. Oriana and Team Vulture joined A Group which consisted of 60 total SPARTAN-III special warfare operators, Team Vulture was the only team from the Advance Team Squadron and tasked with securing the communication towers. Once getting her assignment, Oriana learned she was going to be doing more Mission Support Site than Advance Team due to the size of the habitats and what her tasks were at hand. Knowing that she was going to be involved with watching over a battle, Oriana worked with her snipers on creating FFPs as well as other means of supporting the AO. Once doing various CAPEX, Oriana and the rest of A Group were prepared to deploy in support of Operation MARATHON. With the potential of engaging Covenant forces, Oriana prepared herself and team for another hard battle against the deadly enemy. Already one successful operation under her belt against the Covenant, Oriana planned to add another.

Upon arriving at the Far-gone colony platforms, Alpha Company witnessed as the Covenant began to land on the various platforms and assault the habitats. Once leaving her pod, Oriana, Team Vulture, and the many teams did quick work to deploy to their areas and defend their designated positions. Reaching the Communication Tower, Oriana set up a Mission Support Site and worked with her team on providing sniper support. Covenant forces attempted to swarm and overwhelm A Group that took positions on the high ground but failed due to the lack of strength in the rushing squads. With Alpha Company engaged with the Covenant across the platforms, Oriana moved Team Vulture into a better position where she laid down heavy fire against the enemy that was trying to mass their troops. With the help of her EOD technician, Oriana was able to drive back waves of Covenant troops with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), and anything else she got her hands on. With the Communications Tower secured, for the time being, Oriana moved Team Vulture into a better position where she anticipated the enemy to launch an attack from.

With the help of others, Oriana was able to fortify various locations that were going to be used by A Group in their defense. Not long after strengthening their position, Oriana moved out with Team Vulture where they surveyed the upcoming enemy force approaching the Communications Tower. Relaying the information back to the Communications Tower, A Group prepared themselves in their ambush positions. Once the Covenant got close enough, A Group launched their assault and Oriana assisted with precise sniper fire on the leaders to confuse and break the morale of the enemy. With a vicious push forward, the Covenant was not able to break the lines that A Group had trapped them into. Oriana and other A Group teams surrounded the Covenant forces from all angles and worked their way down to the last combatant soldier that continued to fight. The teams moved back to secure the Communications Tower while Oriana prepared for the final phase of assaulting the Covenant forces that were trying to gain a foothold on the platform she was operating on. Other Groups were able to slaughter their way through the Covenant and keep them off-guard while the UNSC Navy was ready to dominate the space.

Team Vulture was found not too far away from the growing strike force that the Covenant were trying to build on the platform. With the information of an increasing enemy force, Oriana prepared her team to set up as an MSS while the rest of the SPARTANs assaulted the area. Not long after, the Covenant were caught off guard again when A Group swarmed the lines of the Strike Force's base. Team Vulture resumed their tasks of hitting officers and leaders while the rest of the assaulters crushed their way through the collapsing lines of the Covenant. In a final effort, the Covenant tried to battle against A Group but were wiped out before they were able even to respond. Shortly after, the Covenant fled from the AO with the troops they had left and fled the system after the UNSC Navy dealt a blow to the invading force. The remaining Groups secured all other platforms, and the Covenant pushed away from the Far-gone colony platforms. Oriana and Team Vulture were able to play a crucial role in never allowing the Covenant to set up and produce an assault against them. With the Covenant on their heels the entire time, Oriana was able to stay in control of the battle she was in and direct her team to make the most impact. Operation MARATHON was considered an overwhelming success and Alpha Company soon returned to Onyx.

The success of Alpha Company came off a lucky gamble from Colonel Ackerson; he knew that a deployment of Alpha Company that did not produce results would lead him to get escorted out of his office. Despite all the negatives he was looking at, Colonel Ackerson was able to land another powerful blow against the Covenant and its advancing forces. Shutting down yet another place for the Covenant to set up and prepare for invasions, Alpha Company was becoming one of many reasons the Inner Colonies were not getting attacked. While Colonel Ackerson worked on cooling heads, Oriana continued to train with Team Vulture and conduct their exercises together. Despite another successful operation and win, Oriana felt there were still things she needed to build upon as a leader and as a special warfare operator. Noted for being an exceptional leader, Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose began to pick out select operators he wanted to get out of Alpha Company before they were to meet their doom. By the time Oriana was selected, she was already deployed onto another mission with Alpha Company in response to another Covenant contact, Lieutenant Commander Ambrose needed to wait and hope that she was going to return from her operation.

Operation: IRON GREAVE
Word spread across the Office of Naval Intelligence that there was a on, the UNSC and Covenant were locked in the. A Vice Admiral by the name of informed the Office of Naval Intelligence that he was able to keep the Covenant at bay for the time but needed more reinforcements for the ground. Colonel Ackerson sprung into action with his Alpha Company and proposed that his Alpha Company did Hunting to ensure the UNSC Air Force and other Air Squadrons were free to bomb the Covenant back to whatever hell-hole they came from. With a green light on the plan, Ackerson orchestrated Operation IRON GREAVE and had the entire Alpha Company on Red Alert for deployment. He split up Alpha Company into fifteen different groups and had the Office of Naval Intelligence dispatch them across the entire planet to collectively wipe out every Anti-Air Turret that was placed on the colony's soil. With Alpha Company on the way, Ackerson knew that he was going to showcase the true power of the Company and its ability to wipe the Covenant out from the colony.

Oriana and Team Vulture were assigned to A Group and prepared themselves alongside the four other SPARTAN-III teams they were going to operate with. Learning that she was going to hunt various Anti-Air Turrets, Oriana readied herself for using her Warthog as a means to move about quickly to gather intelligence and swarm the enemy that were occupying the area. Using an M12 Force Application Vehicle Scout Variant, Oriana and the rest of Team Vulture were prepared to move across the region at quick speeds to gather as much information as they were able to. Getting a map of where she was operating, Oriana found where the UNSC motor pool was going to be and mapped out her route of hitting the different Anti-Air guns the Covenant began to set up on New Constantinople. Once getting the green light to deploy after various CAPEX, Oriana prepared herself for the first AA Hunting operation she was about to go on. With only 20 total SPARTANs operating together, Oriana knew that she had to make the right decision as a Team Leader from the Advance Team Squadron or lives were going to be at stake for her mistake. As Oriana arrived over New Constantinople with Alpha Company, she prepared herself for the Battle of a colony world.

Once on the ground, Operation IRON GREAVE went into full swings, and Oriana began her assaulting with A Group. After commandeering a vehicle, Oriana and A Group moved out with the locations of AA turrets and the intentions of destroying them. Upon reaching her first gun, Oriana was able to note the various weak spots the Covenant were not able to cover and began to guide the Assault Teams into the areas. Catching the Covenant off guard, A Group was ready to effectively swarm and eliminate all the enemies that were holding defensive positions. After wiping out the enemies, EOD technicians moved in to plant explosives and destroy the AA turret. With successful destruction, Air Force Fighter Squadrons moved in to bomb Covenant facilities as A Group continued to push forward. Moving fast and efficiently, Oriana was able to dodge and evade the many enemies that were standing in between her next target. As the tide of the battle slowly shifted into the UNSC's favor, Alpha Company continued to press on with their tempo of taking out AA turrets that were blocking the Air Force from destroying Covenant targets. The longer Oriana spent between destinations and not assaulting, the more people died.

The assaulting of various AA turrets led to the fall of air superiority for the Covenant; the UNSC began to establish their AA turrets and dominate the air space as Air Force Fighter Squadrons bombed Covenant locations. Once the AA turrets were down, Oriana then pushed into towns were the Covenant were spotted. Acting as a Quick Reaction Force (QRF), Oriana assisted the UNSC and CMA soldiers on pushing back the Covenant forces they were engaged with. Using fast flanking abilities and the speed of her Warthog, Oriana was able to divert fire from the civilians being evacuated as well as the soldiers who had taken heavy fire. Closing the gap between her targets, Oriana and Team Vulture were able to use their reflexes to their advantage by breaking the morale of the troops who were once winning a battle. A Group was successful in securing towns across their AO while the rest of Alpha Company and the UNSC dominated the Covenant that remained on the ground. Oriana did not catch a break for long; she proceeded to the next town once the current one was secured and continued on till she was ordered to stop or given a new mission. The usage of the Warthogs from A Group allowed them to cut down on the time they spent between action to save as many lives as they were able to. As town hopping came to an end, Oriana was tasked with one ultimate objective to ensure that the UNSC was going to win the space battle.

Covenant forces began to mass around the various Orbital Defense Generators to try and cut off the firepower, so the Covenant Navy had the chance to glass the planet. Oriana and Team Vulture arrived with A Group as a means to defend the Generators from the all-out assault by the Covenant military forces. With UNSC AA turrets, Air Force support and A Group standing ready, the attack was going to be a slaughter before it even started. Covenant forces rolled out of the tree line and charged towards the base, only to get cut down and bombed by the UNSC. Their ability to build a successful pushed was destroyed when A Group hit their flanks hard with Warthogs and trapped them in the bombing zone. As the Covenant forces began to retreat, A Group chased after them killing the ones who wanted to die tired. The defense of the Orbital Defense Generators became an overwhelming victory for A Group, and the UNSC Navy gained momentum on destroying the rest of the Covenant that was standing to fight. New Constantinople was the first victory for the Inner Colonies against the Covenant, Oriana was able to showcase herself as an effective Team Leader for Team Vulture. The rest of Alpha Company was hugely successful in their attacks across New Constantinople which ensured that Alpha Company was the tide turner in the battle.

As Alpha Company returned from yet another successful operation, Oriana found something else was in store for her. Undergoing her psychological exam, Oriana was met by Lieutenant Commander Ambrose and Chief Petty Officer Mendez for a new assignment she was going to be given. The upcoming operation,, was going to be extremely dangerous, and there was not going to be the same support as Alpha Company had for their other operations. Designated as a Category-II operator, Oriana was pulled from Alpha Company and Team Vulture. With five successful battles under her belt with Alpha Company, Oriana knew that she was a good Team Leader and she needed to stick with her team to ensure they all won the battle. What was told to others, she was pulled for a Deep Reconnaissance Mission that was going to support Operation PROMETHEUS. The lie was told to Team Vulture, and Oriana continued to argue with Lieutenant Commander Ambrose despite being ordered not to talk. Shortly after being brought into an office, Oriana looked at an ONI Section Three officer and another officer from the UNSC Navy. Her frustration continued to boil as she waited for what was going to happen with her. In summary, Oriana learned she was going to be commanding a different team and then she was given a new designation to lead that new team.

RED Team and Role
Petty Officer Third Class Oriana-A058 was given a commission and rose to the rank of Ensign; she became an Unrestricted Line Officer which allowed her to command military forces when deployed on the ground. After her promotion, Oriana was then assigned to a Category-II team within the new Special Warfare Group THREE aligned with the Unified Special Warfare Command. There, she became the officer of RED Team and was in charge of all decisions as to the officer of the team. The Mission Directorate (MD) of RED Team consisted of Unconventional Warfare, Asymmetrical Warfare, Counter-terrorism operations, Special Reconnaissance, and Direct Action operations. Along with the MD, RED Team was given the designation Special Missions Unit (SMU) which allowed them to operate on high classified and covert operations that supported the UNSC throughout the Human-Covenant War. Due to Oriana's low rank as an O-1 and only being a Team Leader, Oriana needed to prove herself as an active officer in combat as well as outside. RED Team consisted of three other special warfare operators while Oriana stood as the special warfare officer.

What made RED Team unique from any other SPARTAN-III Team in Alpha Company was the upgrade in Oriana's armor. She upgraded to the. Upon doing training exercises with the armor, Oriana was able to fit into the new armor and see how much of an advantage she had with the Mark IV. She was given the default variant of the armor as well as red stripes that indicated she was apart of RED Team. Due to the upgrade in armor, Oriana knew that she was going to become a valuable asset to the UNSC and its military.

The roster of RED Team consisted of Emilia-A049 who was pulled from Team Vulture, Draven-A284 who was retrieved from A Group and, Omar-B442 who was also drawn from A Group. Emilia-A049 was the designated sniper from Team Vulture and close friend to Oriana, she shared the same frustration Oriana had for being pulled away from Team Vulture. Draven-A284 was the Heavy Weapons Operator and designated Troop Chief by the rest of RED Team after he was an Assault Squadron Team Leader. Omar-A442 was the Communications Specialists and was also an Assault Squadron Team Leader like Draven-A284. Oriana took the designation Red-One, Draven was assigned Red-Two, Omar became Red-Three and Emilia sat as Red-Four. Immediately, Oriana made Red Element Alpha which consisted of Oriana and Emilia while Draven created Red Element Bravo with him and Omar. If RED Team needed to split up, they were able to break into elements and conduct missions. As time went on, RED Team expanded into six operators, allowed three operators per element.

After establishing RED Team, Oriana and RED Team were loaned out to the UNSC Army where they began to operate under the UNSC Army Special Operations Command (UNSCASOC). Oriana was also supporting the Unified Special Warfare Command (UNSCUSWC) and UNSC Special Operations Command (UNSCSOCOM). While remaining under the Special Warfare Group THREE, Oriana was going to conduct missions in support of the UNSC Army. Her senior officer became Dalton Ashley, a 1st Lieutenant who was working for the UNSCASOC. Not long after, Oriana began to deploy in support of the UNSC Army and the UNSCUSWC. Her missions remained the same as if she was in Team Vulture; she had a new team and new operators who Oriana was working with to win the battles she was going to be put into.

Operation: DREAMSTATE
Oriana and RED Team were given their first operation as a new team within the Special Warfare Group THREE, Operation: DREAMSTATE. 1st Lieutenant Dalton Ashley prepared Insurrectionists targets for RED Team; he needed to showcase that RED Team was capable of being an effective team on the ground with the investment put into each operator. Being the field officer of the operation, Oriana was able to engage more with her commanding officer to gather what information she needed to produce a useful result against the enemy at hand. But due to her low rank, Oriana was only able to do so much with frustrated her. Only able to request supplies and transport, Oriana worked with her team to figure out what they needed and prepared a variety of reports. Many of her requests were sent back due to incorrect information; 1st Lieutenant Ashley worked with Oriana on filing the correct format on each report. Oriana quickly adapted to the new format and made sure she was able to perform all the tasks given to her at the best of her ability. With the operation on Harmony, Oriana was able to have a QRF if she ever got into a deep fight that she needed help getting out of.

Once on, Oriana and RED Team prepared for their infiltration behind enemy lines to take down an Insurrectionists Training Camp. A moved the four personnel SPARTAN team into their dropzone under cover of the night, and Oriana prepared to conduct her mission. Hiking into the mountains on Harmony, Oriana was able to reflect her first operation with Alpha Company and how it foiled out with mountain warfare. Upon reaching their location, Oriana informed 1st Lieutenant Ashley of where she was and continued forward with RED Team. Making a great time, she set up an MSS along with an FFP and started to conduct Close Target Reconnaissance against the Training Camp. RED Team were able to gather a variety of actionable intelligence but were not allowed to engage the enemy until they got a green light from Headquarters. The flexibility between NAVPSECWAR and UNSCASOC showcased just how slow some things happened to be for teams on the ground. Oriana waited for her green light and slowly prepared for anything that was bound to happen in that short amount of time. About four hours later of her request, Oriana was given the green light to assault the Training Camp.

Getting the green light, Oriana and RED Team began their slow descent down into the Training Camp during the night. Once outside of the compound, Oriana began to infiltrate with her team and set up various explosives around the camp. Only engaging the enemies they had to, Oriana was sure to use stealth to the best of her ability to accomplish what she needed to be done. As the final explosive was set, RED Team was spotted inside of the walls, and the Training Camp broke out in a fury of battle. Oriana moved around RED Team, using their speed and agility to take out the hostile fighters while she continued to moderate the fight. Informing 1st Lieutenant Ashley that she was engaged, a UNSC Army Ranger QRF was sent to assist Oriana in her battle against the Training Center. Frustrated that a QRF was en route, she began to pick up the pace of the fight and engage all enemies that were still fighting back against her team. As the QRF arrived via Falcons, Oriana was able to secure landing zones and then pushed into the Training Camp with more forces. With all enemy personnel eliminated within the walls of the Training Camp, Oriana prepared to go after the stragglers that managed to escape.

Taking a small Ranger element with RED Team, Oriana began to conduct missions of rooting out enemies that had fled during the initial assault. With the help of Emilia-A049 providing Aireal Interdiction, she was able to help guide Oriana on paths that led her to the various targets she was searching for. With the help of the UNSC Army's Aircraft Squadrons, Oriana's Air Force Joint Tactical Air Controller (JTAC) and Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) were able to drop precise bombs, denying terrain that the enemy was trying to cross with to safety. RED Team and the Ranger element were able to close in on the enemies that were no longer having a place to flee. In the last chance effort, multiple fighting positions were set up by the enemy and prepared for the awaiting enemy. 1st Lieutenant Ashley told Oriana to offer the enemy a chance to surrender; she felt uncomfortable talking to the enemy that had just shot and tried to kill her. Regardless, Oriana asked for the enemy's surrender, and they responded with gunshots. RED Team began their assault on the enemy position and effectively wiped out all enemies that were standing where they were.

Once back at the Training Camp, Oriana worked with the Rangers and cleared the area for a detonation. With the base destroyed, Oriana was taken back to the UNSC Army Base where she met with 1st Lieutenant Ashley to give her After Action Review (AAR). At first, he wanted to inform her of the number of infractions she had made throughout the deployment. But, 1st Lieutenant Ashley watched as Oriana underwent numerous psychological tests by the Office of Naval Intelligence to ensure that she was intact. Once done, 1st Lieutenant Ashley noticed that Oriana had an intense desire to learn. Instead of writing up Oriana and RED Team for their numerous infractions, 1st Lieutenant Ashley worked with Oriana on the variety of protocols she was bound to follow before, during, and after a mission. He witnessed Oriana take in all the information he was giving and asking all the questions she had. Due to Oriana only being a Team Leader that was told to assault, she needed to learn more about the planning and organization that allowed the Army and the Unified Special Warfare Command to operate at its best. As Oriana continued to learn, she began to apply the skills taught by 1st Lieutenant Ashley.

Under a peer review done for the Office of Naval Intelligence and Unified Special Warfare Command, 1st Lieutenant Dalton Ashley informed the two parties of RED Team's success as well as failures during Operation: DREAMSTATE. Oriana was present at the meeting and watched as her commanding officer brought together a very compelling argument that showcased the advantages of RED Team. Oriana felt disappointed that she failed in certain aspects of the operation she was given but excited to hear that she had done many things successfully. Upon the ending of the hearing, RED Team was given the green light to continue operating. While walking out, Oriana was pulled aside by 1st Lieutenant Ashley who informed her about the status of Alpha Company. During, all 300 SPARTANs went missing in action, and no one returned from the operation. Oriana denied that all the SPARTANs she trained with were killed, but the reality soon hit her hard. As one of the last Alpha Company SPARTANs, Oriana pledged to herself to avenge her friends and family that she had built in the four years she had developed.

Operation: CLOVER ARROW
As 2538 started to come to a close, Oriana and RED Team continued to work relentlessly mapping out Covenant outposts that began to pop up outside of various Inner Colonies planets. Working closely with the Regimental Reconnaissance Company (RRC), Oriana was able to conduct multiple special reconnaissance missions that made her never fire a bullet. With her fallen SPARTAN friends, Oriana wanted to murder all the Covenant soldiers that she set her sights on. But as time went on, Oriana began to wait for the perfect moment to assault the Covenant. The Office of Naval Intelligence began to prepare many attacks that were going to stun the Covenant, for the time being, the UNSC Navy and other military branches needed a break from the constant battles. With fewer supplies on the frontlines, the Covenant were forced to wait and allow the UNSC to resupply. As Operation: CLOVER ARROW was passed down to Lieutenant Ashely, he informed Oriana and RED Team that they were going alone to disrupt Covenant plans. Feeling unsteady, Lieutenant Ashley was able to work up a small RRC element named MAKO 17. RED Team and MAKO 17 moved onto a Prowler and began Operation: CLOVER ARROW not long after.

Once reaching an asteroid field littered with Covenant supply lines, RED Team and MAKO 17 moved out to conduct Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) as well as destroy crucial enemy locations. The four personnel SPARTAN fireteam and six personnel Ranger Team moved across the asteroid named B8-184 to destroy a communications tower and secure valuable information about the impending Covenant invasion. Stalking towards an enemy's base, Oriana was able to use her stealth and surprise element to her advantage. Wiping out the guards and personnel within the base, Oriana was able to secure the base for her EOD technician to blow up. Once the base was destroyed, RED Team and MAKO 17 were able to track garbled communications to another location that the two teams began to investigate. Upon coming across the base, Oriana was able to recognize that it was an Armory's Storage where the Covenant kept valuable weapons and vehicles. Not long after the discovery, the teams pushed their way through the Armory, taking out enemies and secured the base. With explosives placed, the two teams moved back, and the station was destroyed shortly after. So far, Oriana was two for two on her missions hunting down valuable Covenant storage facilities.

As Oriana and RED Team continued their hunting with MAKO 17, they were able to stumble upon a refinery that was used to help create more -based weaponry. With the Covenant's need for plasma, cutting their supply was bound to slow them down much more than the Office of Naval Intelligence anticipated. Doing reconnaissance and studying the enemy, Oriana was able to figure out there were two specific places EOD technicians were going to be able to place charges. The need for a small explosion but massive damage was found with the two small spots. Shortly after, Oriana breaks her team into two to conduct the sabotage mission. The RRC remained as the QRF in case anything went wrong while RED Team was moving in. The mission became the first of many Oriana was bound to do with the RRC and other elite units. With a green light to push forward, Oriana and her element moved into the base while the other did the same. Taking their time and waiting for the perfect moment, Oriana was able to find her sliver of chance and was ready to plant a successful bomb. Moving back and into a safe area, Oriana watched as the bombs sabotaged the Covenant Plasma Refineries. Shortly after, RED Team and MAKO 17 made their way to another location for them to slow down the enemy even further.

Lurking their way to a Covenant shipping location with a valuable communications tower embedded into the base. As Covenant supplies continued to ship in and out of the area, Oriana prepared for a way to sabotage the base like she did last time and then move away. Already successful with many of her missions, Oriana prepared another one but met resistance from the Sergeant Major in charge of MAKO 17's element. While Oriana did have superior training and the higher rank, she took a lesson from Lieutenant Ashley and listened to the Sergeant Major inform her of what she thought. RED Team and MAKO 17 began to work up a dual plan which allowed two RRC Ranger Operators to break into the base to destroy the desired targets. Oriana wanted to protest because she felt her troops were far superior but listened to the Sergeant Major. Providing support and security RED Team was going to act as the QRF since they were much stronger and capable of bailing people out than MAKO 17. Again, Oriana wanted to protest because her soldiers were far more experienced, but still listened. Once hearing her plan, Oriana rolled the dice ever field commander had to do and gave the mission to MAKO 17. As MAKO 17 moved in to sabotage the base, Oriana and RED Team stood by as the QRF.

Oriana watched as MAKO 17 weaved their way into the base, splitting up into two elements and conducted their sabotage mission. Once the bombs were placed and the communication tower sabotaged, Oriana covered MAKO 17 as they made their way back to RED Team. The mission went off without a hitch, and Oriana was able to watch her target get destroyed. Once the mission was over, Oriana learned that she needed to surround herself with much more experienced soldiers who knew the field of battle and what to do. While the Sergeant Major did get her operators in then out safely, she dealt with 1,000 questions from Oriana who wished to know more about what she did and how it went. While MAKO 17 was an extremely accomplished team, they were one of many that the UNSCASOC had at their disposal that Oriana wanted to pick the brains of. Being an eager officer who wanted to get ahead of the enemy, Oriana prepared to ask Lieutenant Ashley questions when she got back from her operation to be more than prepared for anything. As the operation came to a close, the Sergeant Major left Oriana with one piece of advice. If she does not know, ask. The piece of advice stuck with Oriana throughout the rest of the Human-Covenant War.

Returning to UNSC controlled space, members of RED Team underwent their psychological exams while Oriana talked with Lieutenant Ashley about how the operation went. Operation: CLOVER ARROW was able to set back the Covenant and allowed many areas to stock up their defenses in case of a Covenant invasion. After Oriana's psychological exam, she was able to meet with a variety of UNSCASOC officers that Lieutenant Ashley was able to set up. Being a person who desired to learn, Oriana took up as much information as she was able to from the officers that were willing to speak to her. Many felt intimidated that a SPARTAN wanted to talk to them, but decided to teach the young officer a few things about how to handle a Company or Team of elite soldiers. With the amount of advice Oriana was able to take in, she began to cultivate all of the ideas and mesh them together, which allowed her to start leading RED Team better than before. During the AAR, Oriana informed Lieutenant Ashley that she wanted to give an award to the Ranger Operators in MAKO 17. After some time, the Sergeant Major in charge was given a Bronze Star for her actions during Operation: CLOVER ARROW thanks to Oriana and Lieutenant Ashley from the Special Warfare Group THREE.

Operation: KINETIC INQUISITION
Following her promotion to Lieutenant, Junior Grade in, Oriana prepared for her next major operation against the Covenant. The UNSCASOC and UNSCSOCOM were trying to map out the inside of Covenant carriers to deploy teams onto them during the siege of a planet. If the UNSC were able to find ways onto carriers and detonate nuclear devices, then the Covenant were bound to struggle with glassing a world. Captain Ashley, alongside the Combat Applications Group (CAG), planned a way of getting close to a Covenant carrier for RED Team to conduct reconnaissance and break away. Oriana worked with the Prowler Corps and with a Mission Support Site team that consisted of nearly twelve elite operates. With the help of the, Oriana was able to move RED Team onto the Covenant carrier to gather valuable intelligence. With approval from the UNSCSOCOM and UNSCUSWC, Operation: KINETIC INQUISITION was launched with the hope to collect any information on any Covenant carrier that they were able to board. A Section Three Paramilitary Operations Officer (POO) joined as the mission handler for the team while Captain Ashley remained back to inform the leaders.

With a focus in the Outer Colonies, RED Team and MSS Trapper moved across the various colonies that were attacked by the Covenant to find a lone ship that they were able to infiltrate. Coming across, Oriana was able to learn that the ship was undergoing retrofits and repairs. While the heavy cruiser was alone by the planet, there were patrol ships nearby which the Prowler was able to dodge its way around. Once getting close, Oriana and RED Team were given 90 minutes to conduct their reconnaissance mission throughout the ship. Once getting close, RED Team planned their infiltration and then conducted Extra-vehicular activity to break their way into the ship. The green light came from the POO and RED Team deployed into space above the ORS-class heavy cruiser to conduct reconnaissance and gather as much information as they could. Once inside, Oriana split up her team, and the Elements began their tasks.

Pushing her way throughout the ship, Oriana was able to place trackers and beacons on a variety of equipment used during ground assaults. With the information gathered, the UNSC was able to coordinate much more effective strikes against Covenant ground forces. After gathering a variety of information on the Covenant ground forces, helmet cameras were utilized to gather photographs of weaponry and bombs that a Legion was going to use during their siege on a planet. Avoiding the patrols and security sensors, Oriana struggled to gather all the information she wanted to due to how slow she was going. Anything from hallways to corridors was noted, boarding parties wanted to be prepared for where to look when the UNSC wanted to knock a Cruiser out of the fight. As Oriana made it towards the drive core, she began to see heavily armed guards. With no other option, Oriana engaged the enemies and pushed into the drive core to disable the ship for a longer time. She needed to figure out a way to shut down the ship drive engines before the Covenant found where they were.

Inside of the drive core, Oriana was able to take notes of what cables connected to what as well as how the drive core supposedly worked. Emilia hid the dead Covenant bodies after clearing out the engine room; the two continued their work of gathering as much information as they could before being found out. Oriana checked in with Element Bravo to learn that they were still progressing strongly with information gathered on the variety of weapon systems used in ship-to-ship combat. As Oriana ended her radio transmission, two Sangheili came into the room where Alpha was, they hid and waited for the foot soldiers to make their way out. Time started to become the enemy of Oriana; she needed to disable the drive core and render the cruiser ineffective then make her way back to the Prowler. Element Bravo was already on their way back, and Oriana had to make a split-second decision. Engaging the two Sangheili, they were killed, and Emilia set an explosive charge to detonate the core. As the loud explosion echoed throughout the ship, Oriana and Emilia rushed their way back to the Prowler with no regards of the enemy. As enemies went to red alert, Oriana continued to push their way through the small sectors with helmet cameras on to showcase how the Covenant fought on ships.

Making it to a hangar, Oriana was surrounded by Covenant forces and nowhere to go. Looking behind her, she was able to see space and prepared herself for diving out into space for the Prowler to extract them. MSS Trapper along with RED Team Element Bravo was ready to begin their assault until Oriana informed them of their plan. While the POO was arm-chairing the situation, Oriana had the enemy breathing down the back of her neck. In a final decision to try and tell them of her plan, she told to sit tight. Oriana disobeyed the order and told the Prowler to pick her up at the coordinates she set in space. With only 10 minutes of oxygen left, Oriana and Emilia sprinted towards the force field and launched herself into space. Eight minutes later, Oriana made her way into the Prowler where she met a furious POO. The patrol ships came circling back around to hunt the Prowler, but it was gone before they were able to do anything. In the span of their 79-minute reconnaissance, Oriana was able to gather a mountain of valuable intelligence on a Covenant cruiser that the Office of Naval Intelligence did not have.

Upon returning to UNSC controlled space, Oriana went in front of an Office of Naval Intelligence Psychological Team where she was ruthlessly tested for why she disobeyed her superior office. Providing concise reasons and detailed explanations, Oriana was released and forced to spend another year as a Lieutenant, Junior Grade due to violating a direct order. Returning to Captain Ashley, Oriana was awarded a Bronze Star for her actions after being written a valor letter by the CAG Squadron Colonel. The rest of RED Team were honored for their efforts while Oriana continued to think about what she did. Discussing her tactics with Captain Ashley, Oriana learned that she did everything right to accomplish the mission and bring everyone home. With the knowledge of the cruiser, Oriana was able to assist with the various ways a ship was able to flank and battle such an enemy starship. After completing her hotwash with RED Team, they were one of the first Army teams to conduct a successful operation on a Covenant ship.

Battle for Alluvion
In, Oriana remained as a Lieutenant, Junior Grade due to her infraction during Operation: KINETIC INQUISITION. However, Oriana was about to get her first crack at a Covenant invasion of a planet with the UNSC Army and her four personnel RED Team. The Covenant began to invade the system was located in, and the UNSC needed to deploy units to prevent the Covenant from slaughtering the already deployed troops. Working up a plan with Oriana, Captain Ashley was able to assign RED Team to Task Force RHINO; one of the many Task Forces being utilized throughout the battle. Along with RED Team, Oriana joined the D Squadron of CAG operators, a 24th Special Tactics Squadron team from the Air Force, a team of RRC Ranger Operators, and the 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment of the 1st Armored Division. Their mission directive included being deployed behind enemy lines with a tank column that was going to conduct sabotage, psychological warfare, Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) and advance force reconnaissance. With the help of modified, Oriana was able to maneuver with Task Force RHINO and assist with missions that were going to change the tide during the.

Arriving over Alluvion, Oriana was bussed to Châtel by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), also known as the Night Stalkers. Coming at FOB Ripper, Oriana was able to check in with her ONI handler and prepare for what she was about to undertake with Task Force RHINO. After getting her situation squared away, Oriana sat in the officer's meeting where she learned of her tasks during the missions they were bound to conduct. SPARTANS were valuable, but they were not a dime a dozen, so Oriana and RED Team were going to be set on QRF, holding expensive spots and assisting in any possible way. The ONI officer argued with the Lieutenant Colonel from the CAG but was quickly shut down. In short, Oriana needed to prove herself that she and her team were capable of conducting covert operations with the best the UNSCUSWCOM had to offer. Up to the challenge, Oriana informed RED Team and began to prepare for their advance behind enemy Covenant lines. With over twelve, Task Force RHINO moved into the mountains and valleys where they began to wage their war. Working with what felt like A Group from her Alpha Company days, Oriana thought that she was going to bring the pain to the Covenant and win the battle.

The primary issue that Task Force RHINO needed to take care of was the need to destroy any sensitive information that the Office of Naval Intelligence was not able to terminate at their outposts and listening centers. Oriana was allowed to move throughout the outposts where she saw ONI personnel who committed suicide; she was informed that they were saving themselves from the Covenant. What started as a shocking experience, became the norm due to Oriana coming across many ONI outposts with corpses that had been rotting. While the stench did not hit her as bad, the images were burned into Oriana's mind as she continued to conduct ONI Destruction Protocols that followed the. RED Team's EOD technician showcased his ability to plant explosives and send the outposts into a heaping ball of flames. As Task Force RHINO continued to push deeper into Covenant territory, Oriana started to see herself as a valuable asset because RED Team was far better seeing during the night. As the nights grew longer and days shorter, Task Force RHINO placed Oriana at the front of half-circled convoy to lead them through the dark locations they were bound to linger through.

Coming upon a Covenant supply line, Task Force RHINO watched as the enemy moved valuable supplies to the frontlines deep inside of the valley. Building up ways to try and take out the supply line route, the 24th STS opened the idea to drop the mountain on them. It was still winter season, which meant that the snow was going to be plentiful and soft. With no better idea, the tanks moved into an ambush position while the operators began to set detonation charges where they were bound to cause an avalanche. Oriana was called upon to conduct reconnaissance and inform the Task Force when a large shipment was obliged to pass through the supply line. The 24th STS began to work up airstrikes as well as orbital strikes that the Task Force had at its disposal to call upon if there were more enemies. After two days, Oriana informed the Task Force of multiple enemies pushing through the supply line. Not long after, an avalanche was launched onto the enemy, and they were crushed by the nature of Alluvion. Strike missions and orbital bombardments were called in to wipe out the remaining stragglers that continued to fight back. Not long after, Task Force RHINO moved out from the avalanche and punched their way into further enemy territory. There was no more turning back, and Oriana was ecstatic.

The tempo picked up, and soon, psychological warfare became the strongest suit for Task Force RHINO. While the frontlines were resupplying and getting their much-needed rest, Oriana watched as the Covenant chased ghosts in the forests. Task Force RHINO was causing chaos in the woods they were lurking in, Covenant forces needed to pull enemies back from the frontline to try and weed out the enemy that continued to pester their supplies and communications. False locations were leaked, ambushes were set, IED was planted and, the Covenant continued to struggle. Oriana displayed herself as an effective QRF when a team came under heavy fire; she deployed RED Team where they used their speed to wipe out the enemies and secure the AO. As the report of SPARTANs began to trickle in, Task Force RHINO moved deeper. Coming across a Legion's Forward Staging Area (FSA), Oriana noticed how weak the enemies were and prepared for an assault with Task Force RHINO. Using the night to their advantage, Oriana assisted with the assault on the FSA, and they were able to defeat the enemy using their speed and element of surprise. Even with the successful take, CAG lost one operator while the RRC lost two. Oriana remembered her 300 brothers and sisters and how she promised them to avenge them. Not long after, RED Team began to become the front-door kicker for various assaults. They were the relentless foe that the Covenant continued to fail holding back. Outposts, Communication Centers, Supply lines and so much more fell as RED Team took the lead in assaulting.

After six months of causing a nightmare for the Covenant, Task Force RHINO was rotated and a new group of personnel came in to fill the shoes that the UNSC Army and Air Force had taken out. Oriana underwent psychological exams, armor maintenance and redeployed back out into the field after one week of downtime. The Covenant came in with another fleet to deal with the growing problem on Alluvion. The music began to change, and the Covenant began to hit their stride. The frontlines buckled and collapsed as the Covenant rolled their way through. Task Force RHINO was pulled back to the planet's capital city of Alluvion where they began to setup ambush locations as well as FOBs to battle it out with the Covenant. Setting the forest ablaze, the Covenant were forced to halt their unstoppable advance for a time, giving the UNSC to breathe and catch themselves. Oriana set herself and RED Team up along with Task Force RHINO as a means to flank the enemy and force them to fight on two fronts. Moving out in the darkness, Oriana prepared for her long battle against the enemy that she knew was not going to stop. As the Covenant began their advance, Oriana conducted her missions of sabotage and hit the Covenant flanks, with all the power she had.

Mission after mission, Oriana showcased RED Team's ability that they were a force to be reckoned with. They pushed into dangerous areas with the cover of the tanks and highly trained operators to gather anything they were able to. From assassinations of battlefield commanders to disrupting communications, Oriana hit the Covenant. It worked, for a time, Oriana and Task Force RHINO along with sixteen other similar Task Forces were able to stun the Covenant which allowed a mass evacuation of as many UNSC personnel left and any civilians they were able to scoop up. Not long after the successful evacuation, Oriana was ordered to retreat with Task Force RHINO where she met the Night Stalkers and bussed back to a UNSC ship waiting for her. Charges were used to destroy the tanks and anything else that was not able to be taken on the Pelicans. What felt like the battle changing in Oriana's mind was simply a factor to stall the Covenant long enough to evacuate as many lives as they were able to. Watching from the window, Oriana witnessed the glassing of Alluvion. All nine months she spent on that planet went down the drain, Oriana and RED Team had suffered their first loss against the Covenant.

Meeting with the Lieutenant Colonel in charge of Task Force RHINO, Oriana voiced her frustration that she had lost and failed. She was sat down by the elite leader and told that she did not fail because she brought all of her team back alive. Oriana also learned that she had proved herself as a precious asset that the Army was very blessed to have, as well as the fact that Task Force RHINO was able to extend the Battle for Alluvion for over nine months when predictions indicated that the battle was only going to last weeks. Still, Oriana felt something was wrong and continued to gnaw on what she needed to do better. Making it back to her home base, Oriana was greeted by Captain Ashley where she filed her AAR. Undergoing psychological exams, Oriana was noted for feeling frustrated that she had failed her friends from Alpha Company and the people who died on Alluvion. Forced to take an extended leave from combat, Oriana met with the various operators she worked with in Task Force RHINO. Each one told her that her team was almost a symbol of hope in the darkest times, it soon turned Oriana's brooding into determination. After retaking her psychological exam, Oriana was cleared for combat and quickly deployed.

Battle of Actium
Receiving her promotion to Lieutenant, Oriana was granted to lead RED Team against the Covenant by herself with no more units or teams to assist. It didn't take long for Major Ashley to find her a mission where she was able to deploy with RED Team. was under siege by the Covenant, and the UNSC Army was requesting units to assist with doing special reconnaissance in Covenant territory. Oriana and various teams from the CAG and RRC were set up as Advance Force Operation (AFO) teams that were to conduct covert reconnaissance and surveillance to assist with an assault on a valuable target that needed to be wiped out. For the first time in their operational history, RED Team became known as AFO RED and began to prepare for inserting onto Actium where they were bound to assist with as a Target Expeditionary Force (TEF). Oriana sat in on various meetings and debriefings that allowed her to figure out what she was going to do as the leader of AFO RED. Being one of the many officers who asked questions, Oriana was able to buff out the edges she was unsure of and had a much better idea of what she needed to do. AFO RED loaded up with the rest of the AFO teams where they began their voyage to Actium in efforts to assist with the defense of the Covenant invasion.

Arriving onto Actium, Oriana was able to meet with a Lieutenant Colonel who was in charge of the AFO operations. For the first time, Oriana also found herself not under the watchful eye of ONI while on Actium. Wasting no time, Oriana was inserted deep behind Covenant lines with the help of the Night Stalkers. Checking in with the other AFO teams, Oriana was able to get a feel of the land she was on and how to proceed forward. With the help of four M274 Mongooses outfitted with equipment to call in airstrikes, map out the terrain and designate valuable targets, Oriana moved into her designated AO with AFO RED. Keeping close contact with the other teams around the AO, Oriana and AFO RED was assigned to take on the dangerous tasks that the other teams were not capable of. Upon reaching the valley she was designated to conduct AFO missions, Oriana split her team into two and divided up the work. Oriana took Emilia while Draven took Omar, the two teams remained in radio contact but rarely said each other for the rest of their deployment. As the battle on the frontlines began to pick up, the AFO teams started their work of calling in airstrikes and mapping out battlespaces. Efforts to stun and cause chaos behind enemy lines slowly began to work in favor of the UNSC while the Covenant were forced to halt their aggressive attacks.

Deep behind enemy lines, Oriana was able to assist with identifying one of the many Covenant staging areas that were found around her AO. Once locating the staging area, Oriana traced a route from the enemy's location back to a UNSC Armored Division known as the. Working closely with intelligence officers, Oriana was able to provide a route that allowed the Armored Division to push their way into the area to destroy the staging area. Working alongside another CAG AFO, Oriana mapped out the area of the battlespace where they felt the Covenant was bound to attack. With the locations listed, the AFO teams moved to conduct psychological operations against the enemies to ensure that the 53rd Armored Division was able to sneak past the enemy. Even with the success of the 53rd Armored Division sneaking past, Oriana knew that she had to plan for the next staging area right after because the Division was going to use a. Once the area was plotted, the CAG AFO stuck ahead of them as AFO RED and Oriana pushed forward to the next staging area where the Covenant were.

The intensity cranked up a few notches as Oriana watched the first nuclear detonation on the Covenant staging area. It did not take long for the Covenant to figure out what was happening and prepared their response. As AFO RED and other teams in the area gave a target list, tanks and artillery units were used to push forward the Division. Airstrikes were called in to assist with the pushes after AA turrets were destroyed and Oriana kept ahead with her fellow RRC AFO team to ensure they were able to feed actionable intelligence to the advancing Division. Their tactics proved to be extremely useful, which resulted in two other nuclear detonations that wiped out high-profile staging areas. Moving to the fourth, Oriana and other AFO teams moved into place to possibly the largest staging area that they had seen. In an all-out assault, Oriana monitored the battlespace, assisted with target identification and, giving that information to the teams during the attack. The Covenant were able to get their break, and quickly decimated the 53rd Armored Division. But, the Division was able to detonate one last nuclear device to prevent the Covenant from gathering their technology and taking as many enemies as they were able to. After the destruction of the 53rd Armored Division, the Covenant began to make up for the lost time.

Orbital bombardments, airstrikes, and a relentless ground assault allowed the Covenant to take back the land they had lost at a staggering pace. With their speed and efficiency, AFO RED was trapped behind enemy lines and was forced to fight their way out to the extraction point. Linking up with other AFO teams, they set the forest ablaze and built a barrier that was quickly burning away for them. With an extremely hot landing zone, a CAG AFO Team called AFO Zeus stayed behind to hold the enemy off so the AFO Teams were able to reach their extraction points and fight another day. With the Covenant closing in, Oriana saw the determination in the operators and moved her team aboard a Pelican, so they were able to extract. Leaving as much ammo and grenades for AFO Zeus, Oriana watched out the back window as the operators held the line for everyone to retreat. The last operator lived screamed Molon Labe, meaning Come and Get them in Greek, at the Covenant that soon slaughtered him. The radio fell silent, and Oriana knew that AFO Zeus was killed in action. One last bomb was detonated by AFO Zeus which made their final attempt to take as many Covenant soldiers with them. Making their way to a UNSC ship, Oriana and AFO RED remained absolutely silent thinking about how resilient AFO Zeus was to dying against the enemy.

Upon arriving back to home base, Oriana informed Major Ashley of what had happened to AFO Zeus and their operators. It was not long till four Legion of Honor medals were being pushed up the chain of command for the four operators that elected to stay behind. During her psychological testing, Oriana reflected on the words that Professor, AFO Zeus leader, told her. Concluding the psychological testing, she was noted for being eager and determined to get back into the fight. AFO RED turned back into RED Team, and Oriana was sat down to meet her four new team members that were assigned to RED Team. Special Warfare Operator, First Class Lynn-A392, Special Warfare Operator, Second Class Riley-B191, Special Warfare Operator, Second Class Isaac-B302 and, Special Warfare Operator, Second Class Tucker-B069. Without any further introductions or talks, Oriana immediately began running her team through various CAPEX as well as any obstacle courses she was able to find. More lives were being claimed as the Covenant continued to glass planets, Oriana needed her team up and running as fast as she could for her next mission.

Battle of New Llanelli
By, Oriana and RED Team were being assigned to where they were to support the  that had been waging for the past few days. As the UNSCASOC continued to build up teams to hunt down the Covenant in urban areas such as cities, Oriana and RED Team were augmented into Task Force CENTRAL where they were going to conduct urban warfare against the Covenant. Rangers, CAG and, Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha (ODA)s were among the other teams that were apart of Task Force CENTRAL who were going to be working alongside RED Team. Major Ashley emphasized that Oriana was going to build off the intelligence she gathered from each raid and continue forward. With multiple cities covered in Covenant, the need to punch them out to bomb them in forests, valleys, and mountains was going to save far more lives. As Oriana got ready for her mission and tasks, she was able to meet with the various officers she was going to work with. In a quick note, Oriana told them that if they came across something too dangerous, she was more than willing to send her SPARTANs to check it out. While the officers openly scoffed at the idea, they began to sit on it more and think about the benefits of having a SPARTAN team handy.

Arriving in New Llanelli, Oriana broke RED Team into two fireteams known as RED Team Alpha and RED Team Bravo. Reaching a metropolitan, Oriana laid out her plan with the CAG operators as well as anything other issues that needed to be handled. For a start, RED Team Alpha and Bravo were going to pack the first punches into the metropolitan to establish a spearhead for the CAG and Rangers to work off of. Meanwhile, the 3rd Special Forces Group (SFG) were building up a militia to work with providing security and guides throughout the AO. After nine hours of being on the ground, Task Force CENTRAL began their ruthless assaulting against the enemy. RED Team Alpha and Bravo were given the green light to hit designated targets with the help of the Night Stalkers, dropped onto a roof by a Falcon. Moving through the building, Oriana and Alpha Team were able to decimate everything inside that was not friendly. Hand-to-hand, knives and, fists were used to win against the Covenant that was surprised by SPARTANs breaking into the structure. Once the first building was cleared, Oriana loaded back onto the Falcon with Alpha Team and made their way to the next house.

The intensity ramped up for RED Team as they continued to knock on doors filled with Covenant. Inserted into areas, Oriana and Alpha Team were able to weave their way through multiple houses during their urban assault. Hitting the targets quickly and going off the intelligence, Oriana was ready to hit targets before they were able to move away. Along with Rangers, CAG and multiple SFG ODA's, Oriana was able to punch her way through the metropolitan that was crawling with Covenant activity. Each day resulted in a new advance for the UNSC military as well as a setback for the Covenant. More forces were pushed towards the AO but were wiped out after precise airstrikes stopped the reinforcement for the enemies that needed the supplies. As Task Force CENTRAL continued to encircle the enemy that was refusing to quit, Oriana laid down the hate on the enemy. Her relentlessness in the field led RED Team Alpha to become one of the most active units during structure-clearing operations. As one metropolitan fell, Task Force CENTRAL focused on the staging area where the Covenant were trying to send their reinforcement from. With one idea in mind, the CAG drafted up a plan that used RED Team as a means to destroy the Staging Area.

Moving up on the staging area where the Covenant were, Oriana along with the rest of the assault squadrons were able to figure out a way to break the lines of the enemy. With enough time to thin out the edges, Oriana and Alpha Team were going to slip through the cracks and detonate a nuclear device. With an all-out effort to destabilize the Covenant in the region, Oriana prepared herself for pushing into the area with a select team of EOD technicians and a communications operator. Once the mission began, orbital bombardment, precision airstrikes, and tanks were used to draw out the Covenant into various directions. Oriana was able to slip through the lines and make her way to the center of the base. Once arming the nuclear device, RED Team made their way back to safety and were able to destroy the Covenant's staging area. As the region turned back into UNSC controlled, the Covenant were angered that they had lost a stronghold. As the mushroom cloud cleared, the middle finger to the Covenant was very apparent, and Task Force CENTRAL moved onto the next area to clear out. Oriana was determined to take the planet back from the Covenant and there was nothing that was going to stop her.

The Covenant had another idea in mind, and they began to glass the planet after pulling back as many of their troops they were able to. ODGs became the most valuable equipment that was going to stop the Covenant from glassing the planet and everyone on it. Time became the enemy of Oriana as she tried to defend an ODG from a Covenant assault as well as an orbital glassing from Covenant carriers. Forced to retreat, Oriana lost numerous ODGs, and the Covenant continued to glass the area that they had just won. As the breathing space became smaller, Oriana and RED Team were pulled off of New Llanelli along with the rest of Task Force CENTRAL. Analyzing the situation, Oriana learned they made a mistake by not taking out multiple staging areas. With one area where the UNSC were operating from, the Covenant were able to pinpoint and decimate the most significant resistance. Sitting on the ship, Oriana and RED Team watched as the planet continued to get glassed. Many of the new members got to see firsthand what the Covenant did to the worlds they were told to protect. With all of Task Force CENTRAL on board, Oriana watched as the cruiser entered slipspace. Another loss for Oriana after all her work was put into trying to win.

Returning to base, Oriana was greeted for her psychological exam as well as a new set of orders. In the middle of being shaken up, Oriana was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. By the time she was able to gather her footing on everything that had happened, Oriana was reassigned to the UNSC Air Force where she remained under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Dalton Ashley. RED Team was placed under the 24th Special Operations Wing (SOW) and within both the 720th and 724th Special Tactics Groups (STG). Along with being augmented into the 24th SOW, Oriana joined the 1st SOW where she was also placed under the 4th Special Operations Squadron (SOS). Transferred from the UNSCASOC to the UNSCAFSOC, Oriana moved to another location on Reach where she and RED Team were shortly sent to Meridian. Arriving on Meridian, Oriana underwent refreshing pilot classes as well as anything that involved communications between aircraft, orbital and, ground control. During CAPEX with both the 1st SOW and 24th SOW, Oriana was able to showcase that RED Team was more than ready for anything to be thrown at them. As a Lieutenant Commander, Oriana was able to have members from both SOWs to assist with the mission she was going to be given by Lieutenant Colonel Ashley. In a quick turnaround, Oriana took the lessons learned from the loss on New Llanelli and improved on Meridian.

Battle of Meridian
The Covenant came rolling in to hit and Oriana was prepared for the battle alongside the rest of RED Team. Already working with the 4th SOS, Oriana was pulled away from her team and led an aerospace strike force with. Working with the elite pilots under the name Red Ghostriders, Oriana led the strike force through an asteroid field to get behind the enemies that were launching Covenant vehicles that were going to be used in the siege on the planet. Seraphs came after she and Oriana displayed her natural ability as a lead pilot, she led many Covenant fighters into the firing path of her allies which were able to get free kills. As fuel began to run low, Oriana returned to an (ODP) where she prepared for an infiltration onto a Covenant cruiser while being protected by the Red and Green Ghostriders of the 4th SOS. With the rest of her team ready, Oriana moved out with RED Team where two teams were armed with two Fury tactical nuclear weapons to ensure the destruction of an enemy cruiser. Not long after, Oriana was flown to an enemy cruiser and prepared for close-quarters combat.

Breaching their way onto a where RED Team began their fast assault to the two major areas to detonate nuclear devices. Punching her way through the Covenant forces that were trying to deploy onto Meridian, Oriana was able to cut off valuable reinforcement to the original siege force. RED Team Alpha made their way to the significant troop deployment area where they were able to arm a nuclear device. RED Team Bravo made their way to another and was successful in arming their nuclear bomb in another troop deployment area. As the two teams met back up and evacuated from the cruiser, they witnessed the destruction of the enemy ship. With the destruction of one vessel by a SPARTAN team, the was quickly turning in favor for the UNSC till more Covenant ships dropped out of slipspace. Not long after more Covenant reinforcement arrived, Oriana and RED Team were ordered down to the surface where they were going to link up with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron (STS) and conduct defense for the ODGs. If the Air Force lost their ODGs, the same tune was bound to be played by the Covenant that Oriana began to know all too well. With the determination to not fail this time, Oriana moved RED Team to the one ODG that the Covenant were massing on.

Due to such a quick notice on the defense of an ODG, Oriana was to work alongside a combat enabler team from the 24th STS. Making her way to the ODG, Oriana worked with the Major and Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the team to set up outposts where the 24th STS were able to enable action against the Covenant. Combat Controllers, Joint Tactical Air Control (JTAC), Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Pararescue (PJ), and Special Reconnaissance (SR) operators were all set up around the ODG to assist with the defense. PJs stayed close with RED Team, and the Air Force Security Detachment deployed in case one were to go down. As the Covenant began to try and swarm the ODG, Oriana and RED Team were able to witness an Air Force STS at full force while defending the area. Airstrikes, orbital strikes, and ICBM strikes were all called by various people who had radios in their hands on the swarming enemy. As the enemy continued their swarming strategy, they were pounded into the ground by air strikes while RED Team mopped up the stragglers. When one Security officer was shot, Oriana dispatched two of her SPARTANs to catch up to a PJ that took off running towards the officer down. The first defense of the ODG was successful, and Oriana soon saw the strength of an STS in a battlefield.

After some time, Oriana was able to meet up with some operators from the CAG. She knew the Army and Air Force had a close relationship, but never knew that she was going to be working with the same people from when she was assigned to the Army. Weeks turned into months, Oriana and her newly formed Task Force 82 were pushing their way through Meridian. Knocking out staging areas, supply lines, and anything they were able to come across, the Battle of Meridian began to last a bit longer than the others she was put into. Quick rotations were put in for the Air Force STS operators as well as the Army CAG operators. The Covenant began to settle on specific sectors of Meridian and hardened their defenses while the UNSC began to prepare for a variety of assaults and strikes that were going to take out the Covenant's ground game. As Oriana moved into position to scout out the enemy, she soon engaged Covenant Special Operations soldiers that were also scouting. Using her speed and the knowledge of the land, RED Team were able to get the upper hand against the enemy that was trying to find a way out against an enemy that was quickly backing them into a corner. After two months of planning, RED Team and Task Force 82 were given the task of tracking valuable Covenant leadership moving with the occupied areas with intentions to take them out.

Oriana learned that the Covenant were going to stand their ground and battle it out against the UNSC, the Covenant had one of their most battle-hardened Legions on the ground and were expecting them to win Meridian. With seventeen legions spanned across a small continent, it led to a festival for the STS augmented into Task Force 82. Anything that was not human had a bomb called in on it; if a structure looked weird, RED Team and a CAG team were up to assault it. Task Force 82 continued with pushing back the Covenant's scouting outposts and anything else they were able to get their hands on. From weaponry to intelligence reports, Oriana shipped them all back to safety where people were able to analyze the critical information. Task Force 82 was able to whip up a target list of valuable Covenant leaders that were present with the ground battle; they soon got the green light to kill/capture any leader they came across. A member within the Task Force created the Deck of Split Jaws and hunting for the leaders began. Oriana was one of the first teams that infiltrated the lines of the Covenant and began to hunt down the enemies that were marked on the deck. Due to how deep she was going, RED Team went alone at time but had support from the CAG and STS in case things went south for them.

RED Team began to establish outposts deep in Covenant territory where the 24th STS were able to set up and call in airstrikes against the enemy. Better target profiles were created for the Deck of Split Jaws, and Oriana led RED Team on various surgical strike missions that were taking out the pawns of the Covenant leadership. Throughout all of 2549, Oriana conducted asymmetrical warfare against the enemy that was occupying valuable land for the UNSC. The lines began to collapse for the Covenant, and the UNSC only pushed harder. Rotating squadrons allowed RED Team to keep new teams in Task Force 82 while Oriana continued her pushing. Driving through vacant towns, Oriana was able to witness the brutality that the Covenant launched onto civilian populations. Her hate for the Covenant only boiled more seeing the variety of humans dismembered by the greedy Covenant soldiers. Reaching a staging area, Oriana along with the rest of Task Force 82 worked with various UNSC military branches where they planned an assault. The Covenant did put up a fight, but the swiftness of the UNSC was able to occupy both the Covenant Navy and Army to prevent active support saving the staging area. Coordinated strikes with ODPs, Naval Ships, and the ground forces allowed the UNSC to begin their ruthless campaign of pushing the Covenant off of Meridian. By 2550, the UNSC was in favor of the Battle of Meridian.

In the early years of 2551, an all-out Covenant assault was planned to take out the UNSC stronghold. Four legendary legions of the Covenant rolled forward pushing back the UNSC at a staggering rate. Task Force 82 was dispatched to deal with the issue at hand and stop the enemy, Oriana found a ridge where they were able to see the enemy that was advancing. Task Force 82 engaged the assaulting force and were on the verge of being overrun for nearly a week, but they held the line. Amid a massive firefight, a JTAC was shot by a needler, and a PJ took off running. Oriana assigned Special Warfare Operator, First Class Tucker-B069 to defending the PJ as she tended the wounded. When Sangheili warriors swarmed their position, Tucker was able to push back wave after wave of enemies with effective airstrikes and explosions. He bought enough time for the PJ to stabilize the wounded JTAC and carry him to safety. Not long after, Oriana saw Tucker getting swarmed and ordered an airstrike directly on top of him. In a final effort, Tucker took an Energy Sword where he struck down six Sangheili before being stabbed by two other Sangheili. An airstrike arrived on his position shortly after and killed anything in the vicinity. Oriana was not able to think much about the death of Tucker-B069; she turned her attention back to the battle and continued to level the swarming enemies that were coming after her.

The ridge became known as Carter's Ridge and the battle lasted for nearly four days, the Covenant threw everything they could at the UNSC and were unable to make it past Task Force 82 along with anything they were able to get online. Every plane that was deployed came in with a full load and did not leave the airspace till they were Winchester on ammo. Tanks, artillery units, ODSTs, and anything available was thrown at Carter's Ridge to defend it from the swarming Covenant. Unable to win the battle, the Covenant retreated with intentions of returning to Meridian. Doing a damage assessment (DA), Oriana arrived at the location where she called in the airstrike on Tucker-B069. With no more Covenant around, the death of Red-Eight hit her hard. It was the first death of a soldier under Oriana's command that she told, she was going to protect. Angered at the Covenant for killing her friend, Oriana prepared herself for the next battle that she was about to undertake against the Covenant. She informed RED Team about the way Tucker was Killed in Action (KIA), but she also reminded them that Spartans never died. Unpacking the death of Tucker by herself, Oriana knew that he followed her orders to the very end and went down with a fight. He had a good death, and it was going to be a shame if she continued to hang herself on the fact that he died. As her thoughts concluded about the death of Tucker, the Covenant were back in with fresh faces and ready to destroy Meridian for good.

Space turned into the enemy for the UNSC as the Covenant began to establish a much stronger foothold over Meridian. They wasted no time and created a bubble around cruisers that started to glass the planet. Multiple carriers attacked ODGs, and the Covenant were showing no mercy against the UNSC. What they had worked to get for nearly three years, was lost in three days. UNSC Commanders saw that the Covenant was becoming almost unbeatable unless they were able to take out the command ship. Even then, it was a suicide mission that Oriana and RED Team were ready to take to win Meridian. Ultimately, the plan was shut down, and the UNSC began to conduct Sensitive Site Destruction (SSD) to ensure the Covenant were not able to get anything. With nothing else to do to stop the Covenant, all UNSC forces vacated the area and allowed the Covenant their ability to glass the planet. It was going to buy the UNSC time to harden their defenses within the Inner Colonies, but it came with a price. The Covenant learned about the location of Earth without knowing about it. Had RED Team known that if the Covenant were going to find the place of Earth on Meridian, Oriana was going to stay until her death to protect the secrets of Earth. Three years of continually battling the Covenant, Oriana lost another battle to them and the Outer Colonies seemed to be defeated by 2551.

Returning to the UNSC Army Special Warfare Group THREE, Oriana came back with one less and exhausted. ONI inquired Oriana about the death of Tucker-B069 and witnessed the leader show no remorse for someone who did their job. Oriana went on to inform them that if she had to do it again, she was going to make that same decision till her death. After leaving, Oriana met up with her team and informed them that they were not getting another eight based on her sole judgment. RED Team agreed with the idea while others protested to the others that they needed an eighth to operate at full strength. After debating the topic for a time, they concluded that it was best for them not to add an eighth to RED Team and continue with only seven. Many of the officers from the CAG and RRC noticed that RED Team was back and checked in to see how they did on Meridian, Oriana told them they lost. Soaking in all she was able to about Meridian, Oriana learned that she was operating at her peak and there was little slowing her down from being the top officer in the field leading battles against the Covenant. At one point, Oriana recognized she was able to assist with pushing the Covenant off of Meridian, which very few leaders around her were able to do. Regardless of what had happened, Oriana needed to focus on the next battle that she was bound to be thrown into.

Fall of Reach
By the time informed Colonel  that the Covenant were on, RED Team and C Squadron from the CAG were already moving with an STS combat enabler team to the Viery Territory to assist with pushing back the Covenant invading force. Lieutenant Colonel Ashley cleared the way for Oriana and RED Team to take the fight to the Covenant that was massing around Quezon as well as any other land in the region. It didn't take long for Lieutenant Colonel Ashley, and the other Senior Squadron leaders to mass up a Task Force called Task Force WARDEN. Oriana, along with the Major of both the CAG and STS, began to take on various roles that included the evacuation of civilians, destroying Covenant paths, and anything else in between. The first bullet on the agenda was to secure the Skyports that the Covenant began to occupy, which prevented the escape of civilians on the planet. Splitting up into two cells, Task Force WARDEN started their assault on two major Skyports which were going to allow the UNSC to evacuate almost all the civilians out of. Not wanting to waste time, Oriana pushed towards her target with two SPARTANs and a large cell from Task Force WARDEN. With the Covenant preventing civilians from escaping, Oriana had plans to wipe them out.

Linking up with a Company from the 75th Ranger Regiment, Oriana and Task Force WARDEN split them up to assist with two airfield seizures. It didn't take long for her to start the assault on the airfield where she saw various enemies crawling around the AO. Using the speed of vehicles and overwhelming tactics, Oriana was able to pull out two airfields from the feet of the Covenant. She ordered the Combat Controllers to direct planes out of the AO and towards safety as she worked on securing the area. While the UNSC were conducting missions to rip the Covenant out of their hiding spots, Covenant troops were waiting for the soldiers to make it close and then attack. Riley-B191 saw a get thrown at the ground in front of them and threw himself upon the grenade to take the blast. The blast ultimately killed Riley-B191 later after a PJ dragged him to safety due to plasma burns. Eventually, the Covenant were smoked out of their hiding locations as the tempo picked up drastically. Oriana hid the body of her fellow SPARTAN to keep the morale high and informed the unit that he saved to keep fighting, after one day of the Covenant on Reach and Oriana had already lost another SPARTAN. Combat Controllers were set up and directing planes out of the Skyport while Oriana settled in with the current situation at hand. The Skyports were secure, but more civilians needed to be evacuated from the city.

Wasting no time after a day at the Skyport, Oriana and the rest of Task Force WARDEN left behind the STS teams with Ranger elements then set their eyes on the city. Conventional forces were unorganized, and Oriana began to think of a way to break down the Covenant invading forces. With a well-coordinated push, Oriana was prepared to find a way to knock back the Covenant to the outskirts of the city for the UNSC Air Force to bomb. It took little time for Task Force WARDEN to push their way through the city with a sizable force that was going to knock the enemies back to the outskirts. Fast-paced assaults and hunting the Covenant led to hitting back an enemy that was trying to get a foothold, the faster they went, the better of a chance that the Covenant was not going to seize the city. Keeping them off balance, Oriana along with the rest of Task Force WARDEN were able to knock the Covenant out of Quezon along with having the Air Force destroy any enemies that were fleeing. After the enemy was pushed out, Oriana worked on fortifying various areas that Task Force WARDEN was going to use when the Covenant was going to come back. Oriana and Task Force WARDEN were not keen on waiting around and soon joined the.

Once getting information about the Covenant Towers and what the main assault was going to pan out as RED Team alongside Task Force WARDEN planned to hit the left while NOBLE Team and their strike force hit the front. Utilizing whatever vehicles they were able to get their hands on, Oriana and Task Force WARDEN began to swarm various locations that were held by the Covenant. Taking out valuable positions, RED Team continued to push their way through the area until they were met with massive resistance. With help from the Air Force, Oriana continued to push forward as NOBLE Team took out Anti-Aircraft weapons that were being a hassle. The turned the battle upside down after the destruction of a UNSC starship, prompting the retreat of all forces. Having already pushed so far, Oriana and Task Force WARDEN agreed to push forward and continue to hunt the Covenant without QRF. Pushing deep into the night with Task Force WARDEN, Oriana continued to sever communication outposts and supply lines. As the resistance began to grow, they all retreated in time to prevent themselves from being caught in a fight with no one to get to them. The arrival of the ship brought a fear among the others that they had already lost, but Oriana continued to think about Meridian and how long they lasted for. If she was able to do it on Meridian, then she was able to do it on Reach.

Things never got better, more Covenant ships arrived, and they were ready to battle. Quezon was under siege again, but the ODGs were the main focus for RED Team and Task Force WARDEN. The last order that Lieutenant Colonel Ashley gave to Oriana was to defend the ODGs at all cost. With only 53 reliable operators, Oriana was about to be put up against the enemy that was massing into the thousands. Covenant forces began their siege on the ODGs where Task Force WARDEN started to hold, everything was thrown at the enemy, and they continued to push. Flanking maneuvers were cut off, dropships were shot down, and the forces on the ground continued to swarm. While Lynn-A392 continued to direct air traffic and provide sniper support from a Falcon, a snuck through the lines and shot a fuel rod projectile that killed her. The Falcon crashed to the ground, and the corpse of Lynn-A392 was barely recognizable. Bombings, tank support, and anything that the Task Force was able to throw at the Covenant were thrown at them. After four days of brutal fighting, Task Force WARDEN was worn out and successfully stopped the Covenant from taking the ODG. Reloading on ammo and getting a new mission, Oriana was assigned to where she was to assist with the evacuation of all Reach  personnel and any other officers in the vicinity.

No doubt that by the time Oriana reached the complex that Reach was lost, senior officers were destroying everything they were getting their hands on as the Covenant were knocking at the door. Oriana ordered the CAG and Rangers to escort the officers to safety as they prepared for the defense of the Complex. IEDs were laid out, strike missions were prepared, and RED Team was preparing for their stand against the Covenant. Not long after, Covenant ships began to swarm the area, and the UNSC laid everything on the line against the enemy. Task Force WARDEN was able to move VIPs to safety while Oriana and RED Team continued to lure the enemy deeper into the complex that was vacant. Buildings exploded and dropped onto the armor pushing into the area; mines were tripped and blew off the legs of enemies, which resulted in psychological warfare while RED Team continued to retreat. When they were deep enough, and everyone was on board, they collapsed a tunnel and ran to the last Pelican taking off. Upon hearing that one Admiral was lost, Oriana planned to go back in but was ordered to stay on the Pelican by Lieutenant Colonel Ashley. As the Pelican pulled away, Oriana watched as the Complex fell to the Covenant. She did inflict staggering losses to the Covenant, but they were still able to win.

Making it to safety and out of the system, Oriana sat back and took in all the information that had happened since the battle. Two of her SPARTANs were killed, Reach was lost, and the UNSC had just lost its most valuable colony. With only five operators left from RED Team, Oriana met with Lieutenant Colonel Ashely to discuss what the next plans were going to be. With no idea, Ashley only shrugged his shoulders at her. Frustrated with his response, Oriana met with the CAG and Ranger officers, who only gave her the same answer as well. Refusing to believe that there was nothing she was able to do, Oriana worked up a plan where she was going to assist with planning various assault CAPEX on Earth. Pissed off that she was continuing to lose, Oriana put her anger into the work and began to study past battles to see what went wrong and how she was going to do better. Many officers remained in shock that the Covenant had taken Reach while Oriana and RED Team were busy studying tactics and ideas on how to take out the Covenant. Once completing the studying, Oriana built up a list of targets she felt the Covenant was going to hit after Reach. The first one on the list was Earth and she was sure that they were gunning for it. By the time they had reached Earth, Oriana began to think of the various theaters she was going to be deployed to and what valuable assets were in the area.

Battle for Earth
Arriving on, Oriana spent her time studying the various regions around Australia and where the Covenant were bound to attack. was the primary target while Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, and the capital, Canberra were close behind. The National Parks around the area provided excellent cover for RED Team as well as anybody they were able to scrape together for a fight. Setting up a Forward Operating Base outside of Orange, Australia; the curious citizens that it was a training exercise that the Sydney Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) personnel were conducting. Vehicles were flown in, and Oriana prepared herself for the various battles that were going to happen. A Sky Elevator, as well as many valuable UNSC buildings, were located within Sydney which only made the area such a ripe target. For weeks, Oriana continued to plan for the battle with RED Team, and nothing came. But her time was running thin, Oriana had used up time and resources that were not going to be used for some hunch she had. Oriana rolled up all the information she had about the battle and set it on a shelf for her to use it if Sydney were ever to get attacked. Two weeks later, Oriana was dusting off her plans for defending Sydney after the Covenant arrived over Earth. Moving back to Orange, Australia; Oriana took a look at what was happening and found that her hunches were starting to become facts in the field of battle.

Moving into the Blue Mountains National Park, Oriana and RED Team were the first to put together a battle plan. Immediate evacuations of the UEG Headquarters, UNSC Fleet Command,, UNSC High Command and, the Security Council were all ordered to make their way towards Cameron Corner where a secure facility rested for all essential figures in the UEG. Pushing through the city to get various officers, Oriana was able to coordinate aircraft to get them the VIPs they needed to safety without being shot down. Once the VIPs were secure, Oriana worked on securing weapon caches that the UNSC had stored across Sydney to ensure that the Covenant was not allowed to get their hands on valuable technology. Raiding locations, Oriana worked with RED Team to destroy the sensitive information. Anything from Smart AI profiles to weapon projects, Oriana ensured to destroy it all. As much as the valuable information that RED Team was able to kill, they turned their attention to the growing threats of enemies that were waging battles in the streets. Forming up with the A Squadron of CAG, Oriana pushed into the city where they began to battle their way through Bankstown and towards Leichardt. Covenant resistance was strong, but Oriana punched her way through the areas to reach the heart of the battle.

The weeks continued to pile on as Oriana and RED Team pushed their way through various areas that were locked in battles with the Covenant and UNSC. Airstrikes were called in on buildings that were bound to funnel the Covenant into specific regions, and RED Team were able to push the enemy back towards the coast where they were met by the Wet Fleet shelling. Despite their best efforts, the Covenant were able to use ships to their advantage and take out the Wet Fleet with successful orbital bombardments. With the Wet Fleet gone, RED Team was locked into a conflict where the Covenant were beginning to build up their forces more. The Sky Elevator was damaged drastically, and many were unsure of what to do. In the middle of everything, Oriana was informed that select Sangheili had aligned with Humanity. Unknown that the Great Schism was underway, Oriana did not change her ROE and persumed that all Sangheili were declared hostile. As other conventional officers argued about who was good or bad, Oriana executed the enemy with no second thought. It was impossible to figure out who was a spy or friend; Oriana was not going to take any chances. After the information about the Sangheili rebelling, the Jiralhanae began their second wave assault on Sydney.

The arrival of a brought the attention of RED Team and the need to destroy it. If that assault carrier was going to continue its intended plans, Sydney was no longer going to exist along with the rest of Australia. Hatching a plan, Oriana and RED Team got help from the Night Stalkers and a nearby secured armory. Two nuclear devices were handed to the team and ordered to destroy the ship by Lieutenant Colonel Ashley. Only taking RED Team, Oriana began yet another vessel seizure where she planned to destroy another Covenant carrier. Once on board of the ship, Oriana split her team into two where Draven and Omar went with one nuclear device while Oriana took Isaac and Emilia with the other. It was going to be an all-out assault to the areas they were going to reach, and Oriana knew that she was going to lose some friends along the way. Pushing towards a hangar, Oriana fought through waves of enemies that were trying to stop them. Making it to the hangar, Oriana armed her nuclear device and waited for the other two to make it back to her. Holding off against an overwhelming amount of enemies, Oriana was informed by Omar that Draven was killed by two Mgalekgolo that he took with him and that he was going to watch the blast.

Oriana knew that Omar was not going to make it and evacuated the ship where she saw that Omar armed the nuclear device. Not long after, she pressed detonate, and two nuclear bombs went off inside of the ship. The assault carrier was torn into three significant parts which allowed a nearby ODP to blast it to bits. The assault carrier was down, and major reinforcements were cut off for the enemy on the ground. Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth were still under siege by the Covenant; Sydney was going to be handled by the conventional forces. Meeting back up with the CAG, Oriana was asked where Omar and Draven went; she told them that they stayed behind on the Covenant carrier to ensure that everyone was killed. It later came to her attention that Draven had taken down six Mgalekgolo, which gave Omar enough time to reach the engine room. RED Team spent little time mourning their friends and poured their anger into the enemy they found in Melbourne. Weaving their way through the Covenant lines, Oriana and RED Team were able to cut their way through the enemy with fast flanks and precise airstrikes. City after city began to fall, Australia was gaining its footing against the Covenant and soon expelled them from the land. Battles around Australia started to clean up, and RED Team was assigned to assist with the.

Grabbing a Combat Enabler Team from the 24th STS, Oriana moved to assist with orbital bombardments and anything else she was able to grab. From directing airstrikes to building a battlespace, Oriana worked quickly to assist with the destruction of all Covenant forces that were located in Arizona. As the Jiralhanae leadership continued to try and hold out, Oriana only let the enemy get hit harder with more precise weaponry. Frustration built within the 24th STS seeing that the Covenant were not willing to give up, which only allowed Oriana to bomb them more before they were going to die. On December 3rd, Oriana assisted with the total annihilation of the enemy that refused to quit. Battles across Earth and the Sol System soon began to turn into the favor of the UNSC as the Covenant started to retreat. What seemed to be impossible turned into reality for Oriana and RED Team, the Covenant was retreating, and she had finally won. Little did Oriana know that it was going to be the end of the Human-Covenant War. Nearly fifteen years of being engaged against the Covenant, they were no longer the major threat to the UNSC. She was removed from Earth and taken to a disclosed base in Antartica where she was expecting to get her next orders.

Meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Ashley, he told her that she was right about Australia and that he was happy to be her mission handler while she was apart of the Special Warfare Group THREE of the UNSC Army and Special Element Group SIX of the UNSC Air Force. Various CAG, Ranger, and STS officers told Oriana that she was going to become a great leader for whatever branch she was going to serve under in the coming years. She rose to become a field officer of nearly eight SPARTANs and was left with three at the end, Special Warfare Group THREE suffered drastic casualties throughout the entire war and left them nearly devastated. Along with the information that the SPARTAN-III programs were no longer active due to the death of Colonel James Ackerson and Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose, Oriana was unsure of what was going to happen. After completing her psychological exam, Oriana asked if she was going to stay with the UNSC Army or Air Force, but none of her questions were answered by the ONI officer in charge. Not long after, Oriana learned that she was being brought back under the command of the Naval Special Warfare Command and there was a new assignment waiting for her.

Role and Assignment
Under the Naval Special Warfare Command (NAVSPECWAR), Oriana joined the Naval Special Weapons (NAVSPECWEAP) where she became apart of the Naval Special Weapons Applications Group (NSWAG). No longer a Cat-II team, Oriana and RED Team were a problem due to the only three special warfare operators that the team had. Placed into the Black Bandit's Squadron, Oriana was placed in command of a Surveillance and Observations Group (SOG) that was going to work with Critical Skills Operators (CSO) from the Orbital Drop Shock Troops (ODST). Due to her new role, Oriana was promoted to Commander and placed in command of the Squadron when deployed. Emilia-A049 was promoted to Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator; she quickly became the Senior Troop Chief and a Team Leader while Isaac-B302 was promoted to Chief Special Warfare Operator. He became a Junior Troop Chief as well as a Team Leader, a role that Isaac did not see himself fulfilling. Despite the new positions, Oriana began to see what she was starting to take on as the leader of Black Bandit's Squadron.

Oriana's new MD consisted of her conducting Special Reconnaissance, Long-Term Surveillance, Intelligence Gathering, Air and Ground Mapping, along with building a TEF when operating. If the UNSC were to ever deploy alongside Black Bandit's Squadron, then Oriana was going to act as an AFO team. Due to Black Bandit's Squadron being focused on missions deep in Covenant territory as well as any other areas, Oriana was informed that she was going to be working alongside the UNSC Air Force 24th STS where they were going to provide PJs, Combat Controllers, and Special Reconnaissance operators from time to time. The Air Force operators were going to marry up with the ODSTs but continued to take commands from Oriana since she was the Squadron Leader. By the time the MD had been mapped out for Black Bandit's Squadron, they were labeled an SMU and given the tag Task Force Black within NAVSPECWEAP whenever being addressed by other officers in the UNSC NAVSPECWAR. The ROE remained the same for her and RED Team as it had always been since she had deployed in the field.

Along with the mission, Oriana was ordered to serve on the UNSC Shah-i-Kot, a Marathon-class heavy cruiser that was going to serve as a central operations center for Oriana and her missions. From 2553 to 2558, Oriana operated on the UNSC Shah-i-Kot then upgraded to the UNSC Twelfth man in 2558. The Triton-class light cruiser allowed Oriana to move across space better where she continued to serve as the Squadron Leader. Oriana reported directly to the Captain in charge of the ship as well as an ONI Section Three officer who was stationed on the vessel to assist with any issues as well as give missions. By the time Oriana began to deploy, she had nearly 40 operators under her command who were going to assist with the upcoming tasks the UNSC had planned.

Surveillance of Installation 03
The end of the Human-Covenant War did not keep Oriana waiting for a mission; many Halo Rings were newfound discoveries that the UNSC wanted to study. Ever since the discovery of the Ring and the power it possessed, the Office of Naval Intelligence wanted to get teams on the ground to explore the Ring and how it came to be. RED Team was cycled through for their first deployment under Operation: INHERENT TURBULENCE and shipped out towards Installation 03 with a surveillance team. While Oriana continued to prepare for the surveillance mission, the UNSC was trying to ward off the Swords of Sanghelios for a time due to the desire of being on the ring first. Trust was thin between the two groups, and Oriana was not going to be one who was going to work alongside the Swords of Sanghelios. Once receiving her orders from NSWAG, Oriana prepared Black Bandit's Squadron for their first mission. Many other teams from Spartan Operations and NAVSPECWAR were bound to join them, but Oriana had her own set of orders she needed to follow.

Arriving over Installation 03, Oriana and Black Squadron wasted no time getting onto the Halo Ring to study the area. Oriana found herself deployed to the surface rather than standing on the ship's bridge where she was going to monitor any activity. Working with RED Team and ODSTs, Oriana investigated numerous buildings that were created by the Forerunners. Gathering intelligence and various spots that were never scouted out, allowed Oriana to spread her Squadron nearly across the entire ring in teams of two while using multiple instruments. Coming across a variety of Forerunner artifacts, Oriana ordered Black Squadron to ship them back to the Science Facilities being set up by the Office of Naval Intelligence for further studying. One issue caught the mind of Oriana when she was informed about possible Flood infested areas. The worry of another Flood outbreak forced Oriana to call upon more assistance from NAVSPECWEAP and later Spartan Operations with securing areas that had potential Flood species.

After the arrival of Dr. Catherine Halsey, Oriana was ordered to assign two people from her Squadron that were going to watch over the doctor for a time till more ONI Security Forces arrived. Ordering Emilia and Isaac to handle the situation, the two kept a close eye and updated Oriana consistently. While Dr. Halsey remained on Ivanoff Station, Oriana was able to discover possible Flood outbreaks and studied what needed to be done. Ordering the assistance of HAZMAT and CBRN teams, Oriana marked the area for quarantine and assisted with the destruction of the area to ensure that the Flood was no longer going to be present on the Ring. As time went on, Oriana found that keeping quarantine teams around was extremely valuable due to the unknown dangers her teams were going to face shortly. She placed a request for a HAZMAT team from the ODST to rotate through Black Bandit's Squadron, which was later approved by the end of the surveillance mission. By the time more ONI Security personnel arrived, Emilia and Isaac were called back down Installation 03 where they continued their explorations and discoveries of the Halo Array. A few months after that, the UNSC began to work with the Swords of Sanghelios to assist with studying the Installation.

By the time the Swords of Sanghelios had landed their group, Oriana and Black Squadron were planning ambushes against the enemy. Oriana was not informed of the Sangheili's presence in time, and it led to her preparing for multiple battles. Firefights almost broke out, till the Captain of the Shah-i-Kot informed Oriana that they were indeed on their side. Regardless of whose side they were on, Oriana was not pleased to have the Sangheili around. Her refusal to share information and intelligence about the ring only led to her getting the Captain of NAVSPECWEAP to force her. Black Squadron was not enjoying the idea of sharing data with their former enemy, and it led to Oriana preparing for battles if they were ever to turn. Even though she continued to voice concern, Oriana pushed on with the missions at hand. Often summoned to break up ODST and Sangheili, she carved out her area to study first then dealt with any other issues later. Withholding valuable intelligence became a sport for her as well as maneuvering her teams around the Swords of Sanghelios. Surveillance began to be handed off to other teams, and Black Squadron was due for their first rotation. It was not long till Oriana was rotated off of Installation 03 and given a new set of CSOs to operate with.

Returning to Earth, Oriana was pulled aside by ONI that tried to keep her away from the NCIS while the NCIS were looking to charge her. The issues brought up were about Oriana's ability to withhold information from various sources that were operating in the area. By the time Oriana had rotated her teams and had her squadron at full strength, NCIS dropped their case after learning that someone was trying to get dirt on the SPARTANs. Oriana did not care about the decisions she was being held accountable, because she was making the rights one at the moment to keep her troops alive. Seasoned officers welcomed her aggressive nature while others felt she was too risky with her teams, Oriana did not care what people thought of her and continued on the path she was on till something happened wrong. It was going to take an extremely long time for the Swords of Sanghelios to build a relationship with Black Squadron due to the commander being reluctant to share knowledge. All sides had their reasons to not trust one another, but Oriana was prepared to do anything to keep her troops safe before doing anything else with anyone else.

Surveillance of Sangheili Space
In the early months of 2554, the need for more information about the Sangheili and their colonies was growing. It remained a great fear that the Sangheili were going to hit the UNSC again due to learning how weak they indeed became after the Human-Covenant War. If the Sangheili were to conduct another strike against the UNSC, they wanted to respond with an attack of their own. In the Galaxy, Glyke was a war crime. But in the military, Glyke was a success and test subject for something further to happen. The Sangheili were capable of glassing, and the UNSC was capable of nuking. Oriana was ordered to conduct surveillance on a variety of Sangheili colonies and prepared various locations for possible NOVA nuclear devices to be deployed. Most of the operation was going to stay classified entirely and redacted until further times due to scouting an ally as a potential attack target. With tensions still high between the Sangheili, Oriana and Black Squadron moved out to conduct their operations. Hopefully, a politician was not going to get word of such an issue and bring it upon the UNSC.

Pushing deep into Sangheili space, the ship was going to park outside of the space patrolled by the Sangheili then Pelicans were going to bus teams to certain surfaces. The deal was to test the Sangheili and their security abilities in certain areas. What was able to pass through, and how many were. Oriana began to plan out various ways that she was going to conduct reconnaissance on the ground. Anything from the population density to the importance of each area to the Sangheili needed to be taken into account. Oriana launched Black Squadron onto Hesduros where information about an up and coming Covenant faction was building their forces. The Swords of Sanghelios were dealing with the enemy on their own and refused any human help, Oriana knew how to play that card into her favor. Landing on the surface covertly, vehicles were broken out, and teams moved across the surface to specific locations that needed scouting. Military installations became the first targets that were being focused on, then the population centers. The reconnaissance that Oriana was instructing the ODSTs to use was slowly adopted into NAVSPECWEAP as the standard doctrine for all reconnaissance teams to follow when on an alien planet.

Hesduros was a chaotic fire, which meant it was the perfect environment for a Squadron like Black to work in. Borders were unpatrolled; space was a disaster to control and, the enemy was trying to handle their land. With the ability to sneak teams in deep, Oriana created AFO teams under the name FLASH and had 32 units operating on targets. Running about nearly 64 missions, she was able to turn Black Squadron into a group that was developing an insane amount of information about the planet. Targeting lists included leaders and any other particular citizens that were helping with the growth of the colony. The Sangheili were unable to detect any human activity which concluded to Oriana that they were not as strong as well. Pulling off of the planet after a successful operation, Oriana planned for the next one while Black Squadron rotated their personnel. The three-month reconnaissance mission took a halt for about three days then they were back out on another task. Wanting to keep the tempo up, Oriana knew that it was only going to be time before the Sangheili were going to plug up their space with better patrols. After mapping out their next planet, Oriana launched with Black Squadron with intentions of doing the same thing that she did before.

Making her way through Duraan, Khael'mothka, and Bhedalon, Oriana was able to gather a mountain of actionable intelligence for each planet. Dedicating Black Squadron to collect anything they were able to get their hands on, Oriana pushed the tempo of the missions she was running so they were ready to hit as many planets as possible. The more they were able to get in a shorter amount of time allowed the UNSC to create concrete plans to deal with the Sangheili if an attack were ever to come. Aside from Oriana's desire to get back at the enemy that she lost many friends too, she wanted to ensure that they had weaknesses. Throughout her entire career, the Covenant seemed to impossible to defeat on paper, that changed when Oriana went into the field, but the intelligence was always skeptical about the Covenant and the Sangheili. The idea to build up as much information to showcase the Sangheili were weak, was going to be the tipping point for the UNSC if they felt that they were able to launch a team and conduct an operation to destabilize the region successfully. After a year and a half of conducting reconnaissance on four planets, Oriana was able to return with Black Squadron with no loss of life.

Time remained the ally and enemy of Oriana as she conducted multiple operations with Black Squadron. Talking with the many officers involved with intelligence gathering after, she was able to conclude that they did not know much till she set foot on those planets. She felt frustrated due to the issues that the Office of Naval Intelligence was known to be the premier group for gathering intelligence, yet they did not know much about their enemies. After learning about such, Oriana began to dedicate herself and her team to find out information about the blanks in ONI's reports. It spanned from Halo Rings to other species that were in the Galaxy, the list went on for months, but it meant that Oriana was going to have a lot of work. Her hunger for searching the new unknown was satisfied when she got information about a new Halo Ring that had been recently discovered. Wasting no time, Oriana spun up Black Squadron and was prepared to be deployed within 24 hours. She was done waiting, the months of sitting around and running drills started to drive her mad. Back on the ship and heading out to the next operation in INHERENT TURBULENCE, she knew it was going to help Humanity in the long run.

Zeta Halo Project Reconnaissance
The newly discovered Halo Ring called Zeta Halo also known as Installation 07, was recently discovered and the UNSC began to piece together a science team to explore and map out the entire Halo Ring. Among that 300 personnel being pulled in to conduct the reconnaissance was Black Squadron and the sixty operators Oriana had on deployment for her to study the ring with. Focused on the military aspect of reconning a newly discovered Halo Ring, Oriana put together a new mission directive that revolved around gathering as much valuable intelligence on Forerunner sites first, then on other areas that were labeled as importance. Along with her reconnaissance missions, Oriana learned she was going to provide temporary security for other teams that were going to voyage into dangerous areas. She requested for a security detachment from NAVSPECWEAP but got one from Spartan Operations. Despite the different branch, the squad was under the orders of Oriana and prepared to do whatever she ordered them.

For the first four weeks of surveying the entire ring, Oriana was able to gather that it was far smaller than the rest the UNSC had found. Regardless of how things looked, Oriana prepared for the valuable information that was going to flood her intelligence teams. Not long after, scans and helpful information was sent to Oriana and then quickly organized. Once the classified information was stamped and secured, the other was sent down to the Project Team, where they were able to analyze it further. Learning from their past mistakes of sharing information with the scientists, Oriana made sure she was not going to make the same mistake. While Black Squadron worked on gathering the data, Oriana broke up the 22 personnel security detachment into four teams that went out on expeditions. She often assigned one of her teams who was doing nothing to assist with the security detachments. Not wanting her teams to get cold feet, Oriana ensured to keep up the operation tempo stayed up. Rotating groups allowed them to catch a breath and have a different scenery from time to time. In no time, Oriana was keeping a good pace of intelligence rotating through her team and spitting out the rest to the Project Team.

Without any notices, Oriana learned that Zeta Halo was primed and ready to fire after something happened on Installation 00. Locking down the Ring and pulling everyone to safety, Oriana ordered Black Squadron to set up security perimeters across the bases ONI had set up alongside the research outposts. Hearing about Operation: FAR STORM, Oriana was ordered by NAVSPECWEAP and ONI to stay on Installation 07 until further notice. Knowing that the rings were capable of destruction, she ordered the UNSC Shah-i-Kot to vacate the space for a time till given an all-clear by the Navy. Researchers began to demand what was going on, but Oriana's silence met them. Without the knowledge that Oriana had, many of the scientists began to pick fights with the ODSTs and Spartans to gather as much information as they were able to. The actions of the scientists led Oriana to break all up instigations that were becoming quite rampant. In a decision, Oriana told the lead scientist what had happened on Installation 00 and the possible outcome of the actions. He promised her to keep quiet, or he was going to wake up to an ONI team that was going to whisk him away from the Galaxy. By the end of Operation: FAR STORM, everyone was cleared to go back to work after the security drill. Tensions between the scientists and Black Squadron remained strong, shortly after the UNSC Shah-i-Kot returned and the Project on Zeta Halo went on.

The strain between Black Squadron and the science teams went away over time, Oriana was able to showcase that she was the right leader in charge of the area. Only known as the Security Director, Oriana continued to build up a vast amount of information about the newly discovered Halo ring. As the years passed, Oriana began to work on creating better teams and settle on the Ring. Rotating her ODSTs on a six-month basis for nearly three years, allowed her to have fresh troops. In the early days of 2557, Oriana returned to Earth where she briefed the leaders of NAVSPECWEAP on the ways to assault a Halo Ring. Conducting CAPEX and other exercises with the UNSC Shah-i-Kot allowed Oriana to showcase what one ship was able to do if they were using stealth and speed to their advantage. Along with providing valuable assaults, Oriana worked with other humans on generating protocols if the Halo Ring were ever to be attacked. Due to being stationed on Zeta Halo for quite some time, Oriana was finally rotated off in January of 2558 for another operation she was going assist with. Due to her experience with directing operations with a ship and a squadron, Oriana was due for an upgrade.

Arriving back at Earth, Oriana was able to rotate a fresh set of operators into Black Squadron then began to work on preparing for her next operation. Before she was able to return to the UNSC Shah-i-Kot, Oriana was introduced to the new ship she was going to be operating out of, the UNSC Twelfth Man. A Triton-class light cruiser, Oriana was able to learn about the much smaller and faster ship that was going to become the more significant asset to her. Along with the assets that were valuable to the ship, Oriana learned that her younger sister, Daphne Osterberg was on board the ship acting as a Tactical Arms Officer. It took Oriana quite some time to register her younger sister had made it through the Human-Covenant War and was in the UNSC. Oriana was more frustrated that her sister was in the military rather than pursuing a life with a spouse and being safe on Earth. Not long after getting settled on the ship, Oriana and Daphne were able to reconnect. Oriana learned that her moms made it off of Meridian in time and were safe on Earth during the Battle for Earth. When asked if Oriana would do everything she did all over again, Oriana responded yes without thinking twice. RED Team was her family, and Black Squadron became her pride, there was nothing that was going to keep her away from the family she had built with her team.

Requiem Campaign
Joining Expeditionary Strike Group 1, Oriana and Black Squadron transformed into an AFO Squadron that deployed onto the grounds of Requiem. Following the successful Operation: BLACK WARDEN, Oriana was able to take what she knew about the Target Expeditionary Force and everything else in between. She quickly split up her teams into AFO capable teams and sent them down to assist with Direct Action Teams from Spartan Operations. Providing valuable intelligence to the teams on the ground, Oriana was able to relay that actionable intelligence down to ground commanders that were moderating the battle. Moving around her AFO teams, Oriana was able to support a massive amount of raids being conducted. Despite her best efforts, she was often told by field officers to bug off due to being a pain. Upon hearing that from other officers, Oriana joined the fights her AFO teams were in and assisted with more significant assaults. As the UNSC began to sink their teeth into Requiem, Oriana worked on building up her network of teams and intelligence on the planet to have much more accurate information over time. BLACK WARDEN did a great job, but Oriana knew that she needed to do more based on what the UNSC wanted.

Managing her teams on the ground, Oriana was able to handle the information and requests given to her faster than when she was on the ship. Pushing her teams into areas that were not yet mapped out, Oriana continued to encourage the fast-paced tempo to assist with other operations. Due to working with Spartan Operations in the past, Oriana was able to gather a handful of Spartans that she was able to direct into areas that her teams were already scouting out to be raided. Deploying those teams forward, Oriana was ready to serve as the bridge between Spartan Operations and NAVSPECWEAP. Trading intelligence and personnel allowed Oriana to push Black Squadron into areas that both NAVSPECWEAP and Spartan Operations needed eyes on before raids. Keeping the attacks coming and the tempo up, Black Squadron was an extremely active Squadron that was always looking for work. Focusing on the top hitters on Requiem, Oriana continued to work her way up the list that the UNSC had built. Once getting her hands on the intelligence, Oriana quickly shot it to Spartan Operations then sent a Fireteam to deal with the target that was marked by Black Squadron.

When Catherine Halsey went rogue and began to assist the Covenant, Oriana was tasked with casting a net over Requiem and tracking down the woman. Ordered to kill or capture Dr. Halsey, Oriana was determined to bring her back alive after what had happened. Working closely with her AFO teams, Oriana was able to condense the information where Dr. Halsey was down to two areas Oriana felt Dr. Halsey was residing. Working with ONI, Spartan Operations, and NAVSPECWEAP, Oriana assessed the situation and continued to update the three groups on how their findings went. By the time Oriana was able to locate Dr. Halsey, Sarah Palmer and Fireteam Majestic were en route to eliminating the doctor. Oriana called for the capture due to the importance of her, but the CINCONI determined her course of action. Frustrated with the decisions made at hand, Oriana was forced to continue building up intelligence on contacts that the UNSC was still going after. A sour taste remained in Oriana's feeling after the deliberate decision to try and assassinate a valuable target. Oriana was taught to capture the high-value targets and return them for interrogation. Oriana was not too happy with Sarah Palmer's deliberate attempts to follow an insane order. However, Oriana was not allowed a lot of time to think due to the destruction of Requiem being imminent.

Evacuating as much as Black Squadron off of Requiem, Oriana was able to get away with all her teammates but lost valuable intelligence, equipment, and knowledge on the planet. Many people felt that Requiem was a success for some, while Oriana found it to be an utter failure for the entire UNSC. They lost the planet, a new enemy needed to be captured and, there was a valuable Forerunner artifact in the hands of a traitor. The UNSC Infinity took off after whatever lead they were able to trace while Oriana returned to Earth. While the ship reloaded on supplies and equipment that was lost, Oriana informed the Office of Naval Intelligence as well as NAVSPECWEAP of what happened at Requiem. Pulled in for multiple hearings and inquires, Oriana was able to defend her actions throughout the entire campaign as well as the orders to capture Dr. Halsey before killing her. As the rest of RED Team underwent their tests, Oriana was able to collect a variety of information on issues that were developing across UNSC space. Ordered for some downtime from her relentless missions, Oriana took the time to build up her next mission within INHERENT TURBULENCE with NAVSPECWEAP and Spartan Operations officers.

Personality and Traits
Dedicated to the mission, Oriana is known as someone who refuses to quit on anything. From a young age, Oriana never accepted defeat and always strived to push herself into the best possible position she could manage. Learning from her mistakes and pushing forward, Oriana hardened herself as an officer who did not want to quit or accept defeat. As her time as a Spartan officer, she worked on transforming herself into someone who tried to do the most work. As she rose through the ranks, Oriana found that her desire to never quit became one of the foundational traits within her that she was never going stray from. At the end of the Human-Covenant War, Oriana found that her desire to never quit pushed her through the toughest times she had to manage as an officer of RED Team. Becoming the Commander of a NAVSPECWEAP squadron, she had showcased her ability to never quit after many years of pushing operation tempo against the enemy when others were reluctant to.

Swords of Sanghelios

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