Ana-B299

"I will choose where I want to die. I'm going to choose where most of you die too."

- Ana makes her final stand

was an augmented super-soldier recruited as part of Spartan III Beta Company. A child prodigy prior to the destruction of her home world, her social development were severely stunted by the horrors of war, creating a brilliant, but withdrawn Spartan. Ill-suited to team missions, she was instead assigned to Delta-Six Operations. Trained as a forward operator, her skills in linguistics, cyber-intelligence, and combat accrued several victories against Covenant and Insurrectionist forces.

By a string of coincidences, she ended up being lumped in with the Spartan centric Task Force Longbow, comprised of Gamma company elements, and lead by Ajax-013, and ended up in a staff role. Now commanding rowdy Gammas, and with a chronic lack social skills or command acumen, her personal code of "adapt or perish" came into play, and found she could thrive as a commander.

During the Battle of Victoriam, her unit came under heavy enemy assault, and suffered several casualties. Intending to buy them time to evacuate, she held her ground, manning a machine-gun position until she was overran and gravely wounded. While her body was retrieved, she was beyond medical assistance, and was returned to be placed into suspended animation for attempted resuscitation. Unbeknownst to her comrades, her comatose body was retrieved by ONI to be used for the creation of an artificial intelligence. Her fellow Spartans were told she failed resuscitation and her body was cremated to preserve UNSC military secrets.