User:Raven's wing/Asuka-A146

Asuka-A146 is a SPARTAN-III commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, who served with Cypher Team as Cypher Four during the Fall of Reach and the Battle of Earth.

Conscription
Asuka was born on Hat Yai not long after the outbreak of the Human-Covenant war. Like most of the SPARTAN-III candidates, she lost both parents when the planet was attacked and subsequently glassed by the Covenant. As a result, she was conscripted into the program in 2531 aged five as part of the Alpha Company. Like her team mates, she was pulled from the company for reasons that were never elaborated on, however unlike some of them she had some operational experience under her belt, taking part in the Mamore counterinsurgency operation prior to extraction.

Cypher Team
Asuka displayed particular aptitude in tracking and recon during both her training and her service with Alpha Company. As a result, she was posted to Cypher Team as a scout when it was formed in 2548. Like Marcus, she was hand-picked by Alex, rather than having to serve probationally like Jon and Skye did.

The Fall of Reach
Asuka was posted to Camp Bastion in Viery with the rest of Cypher Team when the Covenant landed. She and the team were immediately deployed to knock out a Covenant Command post near the initial landing zone, and gather as much intel from it as possible.

Following this data-gathering mission and the abandonment of Camp Bastion, a contingent of the team, consisting of Asuka, Jon and Marcus, was sent to demolish an enemy anti-aircraft battery and deploy countermeasures to clear the way for air support to assist Noble Team in the destruction of Spire One as part of the larger battle for Viery.

In the run-up to Operation: UPPERCUT, one of the orbital tracking stations was taken offline, and Cypher Team was sent to investigate. Once there, they found that the station had been taken over by the Covenant and disabled. Whilst Jon and Alex worked to get it back on line, Asuka and Skye were sent to secure the rest of the facility. During this sweep, Asuka killed the Elite that commanded this particular force by jumping on its back and snapping its neck.

However, not long after this, the newly arrived Covenant fleet attacked New Alexandria, and the team was pulled back there to aid in the evacuation efforts.

Trivia

 * Asuka's first name, appearance and armour colours are all references to the character of the same name from Neon Genesis Evangelion.