User blog comment:IceBite/Future Story Ideas/@comment-26685181-20120320085906

"Tesla" reminds me of the Russian physicist Nikolai Tesla. The article itself mentions that she met a scientist - perhaps she is guarding some information that he found on the planet that the Covenant need? Or, since you've written that she was born and raised on a Flood infected world (an idea I raise my eyebrows at, but that's for another time) she's immune from Flood infection, ala Johnson's Borens Syndrome, and the Covenant see her as a way to weaponise the Flood - study her to work out how to become immune themselves, then loose it on the UNSC?