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Petty Officer Third Class Rika-142 is a SPARTAN-II Class-II supersoldier. She was a member of Crimson Team and fought alongside members of Class-I's Red Team Team Beta during the Covenant invasion on Reach.

Personality and Description
Rika-142 is part of the Class-II's Crimson Team, along with Jane-095 and Alex-086. She has a superior knowledge in Intelligence Gathering and Structure Analysis, allowing her to reassess the mission and find the best location for offensive move as well as defensive. She is laid back yet devoted to accomplishing her goals.

Rika-142 has been helping the Section One of the Office of Naval Intelligence, rearranging ships position and fortifying planets that are targeted by the Covenant just by hacking into the Covenant Battlenet when available. She sometimes meets up and exchange ideas with Fhajad, a Lieutenant Commander and a discharged Spartan after suffering Augmentation Number 5 from the augmentation in 2525.

Early Life
Rika-142 was referenced into the SPARTAN-II program in 2532, at age five, when she was singled out as a intellectual child by Dr. Emily Ford. After she had received the funding to train 56 of the candidates, Rika was subsequently abducted in 2537. Like many other candidates, she was replaced by a Flash Clone that later died of natural causes.

Early Career
While recovering from the SPARTAN augmentations in 2545, Rika managed her time wisely by studying the case studies and past intelligence reports during wartime. At this point, Fhajad noticed her interest of knowledge and accompanied her as she recovers.

In 2547, Rika-142 managed to make some adjustment to the MJOLNIR IV by increasing flexibility and also enhance the performance of the user by a tenth. Additionally, Rika added several prototype attachments to the armour such as biofoam injectors and advanced motion sensors.

She was present in the Battle of Arcadia when their mission to secure a Forerunner Structure was held off when a Covenant fleet arrived and invaded the planet. Because of Rika-142's quick response after detecting an unusual tear of space near Arcadia, Crimson Team managed to escape the Covenant's glassing of Arcadia with several important artefacts and individuals

She was then at Paris IV during the Siege of Paris IV where Crimson Team had to defend several population centres from the Covenant ground forces so that the evacuation processes follows smoothly. The situation became severe as multiple reports from UNSC Frigates indicated that several Covenant CCS-class Battlecruisers penetrated the defense line and are en route to assist the troop deployment. Knowing that time is against them, Crimson Team began constructing a timed HAVOK Nuclear Warhead to eliminate the ground forces from disrupting the evacuation processes and also to act as a distraction for the UNSC ships to escape from the Covenant cruisers' plasma bombardment. The UNSC jumped out of the system as soon as the Covenant began glassing the planet.

Battle of Reach


Several weeks before the Battle of Reach, Jane-095 was asked to participate in an armour prototype project for several months in Essen, Deutschland and Lister, Aigburth. This was later revealed to be armour permutations for the new MJOLNIR armour. Because of this project, Jane-095 was absent in the Battle of Reach.

During the Battle of Reach, the remaining Crimson Team was tasked in helping out Red Team in defending the ODP generators. Failing in this operation would mean the fall of the planet. Rika-142 assisted in improving Fred-104's defense plan for the ODP generators while Alex-086 helped sniping Covenant officers in hopes that the enemy forces' morale would shrink with Beta Team dealing with the frontlines. The SPARTAN-IIs' position in the ODP generators was easily broken and was eventually overrun. Alex-086 died fighting against a Mgalekgolo after killing its pair. The Mgalekgolo struck a deadly blow at her chest, crushing the MJOLNIR armour and left her gasping before the Mgalekgolo threw her into a cliff. Rika-142 was the last remaining SPARTAN-II in the location and was shot in the shoulder by a Kig-Yar Marksman. Struggling to warn the UNSC, she sent a final transmission to an Open COM to notify that the ODPs are in danger and defenseless. Jane-095 received word of her fallen teammates when survivors of Reach reached Earth in September 25th.