Andrea

Created in 2536 to monitor the growing sattelite network around Installation 00, Andrea started life as a simple Station AI, doing nothing more than crunching data, with no form of self awareness. However, when Michael Harrington began giving her more processing power to expand, she began to grow, and became aware of a "self". She began to study Harrington, as well as using spare time to think about things and learn how to talk. She talked to Harrington for the first time; saying "Good Morning". Station AIs generally could not talk, so this was a unique occurence. They became fast friends during the days of solitude on the ring. When the UNSC Fearless returned in 2537 to the ring, Andrea downloaded herself into Harrington's suit. She was an invaluble asset in the days to come.

Over the next few days as they traveled to meet up with Strike Team Delta, the group that would bring them up to the Fearless for debreifing, Andrea learned about human emotions, and they bonded as they made their way across the ring. When they finally arrived at the strike team's location, tradegy struck. The strike team was dead, and in his anger, Harrington killed their killers, a covenant ambush party. As they moved forward on foot, they discovered a Forerunner power core, and Andrea, as her programming dictated, began to explore it, and accidently overloaded the core, killing the army of Covenant surrounding it.

However, they were discovered, and Banshee fliers followed them over their journey across the ring. They were headed downspin to the drop pod's location, where they hoped Strike Team had hidden it. Harrington greived thhe whole way there, he had lost a good friend named Jacob during the ambush. As they made thier way across the ring, Andrea sheilded their Warthog from sensors, and gave Harrington the inspiration to find the drop pod. Andrea scanned for a space of nothing the size of the dropod, and found it quickly. However, an energy spike drew their attention, and they went to investigate, and found a huge energy cannon. But they had to warn the fearless; they set off for the drop pod once again. When they arrived they found it was damaged, but Harrington began repairs. BHowever, it was interupted when six banshees came in at them, and they activated the thrusters early, on a course for the Fearless.

Then everything went straight to hell. Andrea detected a large energy spike, and sure enough, the Covenant had fired the cannon. The EM waves knocked out everything but docking thrusters on the pod, and they fell back towards the ring. They landed in a snowy patch of the ring, and Harrington was knocked unconscious. Andrea, as a last resort, took control of the suit, and brought him to safey before the pod exploded.

Andrea then waited for Harrington to wake, and when he did she told him that they had to move somewhere different. However, he fell asleep once again, and when he awoke a second time, they headed off across the snowy expanse. The BioSuit Harrington wore was notouriously hard to control, and Andrea began to try and help him, and with her helping him through his neural lace, his control increased.

They began making their way across the ring once again, and during the trip, Andrea learned some parts of Harrington's past. He was from Carter's World, a small moon orbiting gas giant. It had been glassed in 2532, and he had been injured in the battle, as well as having lost his first life and childhood sweat heart: Andrea King. Andrea also wondered where Harrington was headed. However, she found out soon enough. They reached the old survey sight, and discovered two Covenant elites scouting it. They engaged the Covenant, and killed them with a combination of luck, surprise, and Andreas help. After reaching the hog, they found that now that they had a transmitter, the Satelitte Network had gone battle encrypted. Andrea began attempting to decode the encryption, but with the limited processing power of the suit, she could not do it very quickly.

However, she was able to decode some of it, and she discovered that the Fearless had retreated from the energy cannon, and the Search and Rescue team dispatched to find them had crashed. She told this to Harrington, and was shocked when he headed off with her, telling her "[it] was time [they] put their newfound relationship to the test."

They made their way to the energy cannon, and Harrington asked if she could interface with the cannon and overload it like she had done before. Unfortunately, they were jamming around it, so she would have to be in contact with the cannon's computer. She watched anxiously as Harrington made his way stealthily into the base and got inside the computer terminal.

But it was more than just a single terminal. It was a hub of all data on the planet; and Harrington's and Andrea's minds were pulled intot the machine. In such a rich expanse of data, Andrea's programming kicked in, and she attempted to understand all of the data. It was too large, and she began coming apart. However, by concentrating on Harrington, she was able to keep together. When they emerged from the data array, they found themselves surrounded by the group of AIs known as GAIA. GAIA was the ruling intelligence on the ring, and did not want to interfere with the battle by taking down the Energy Cannon. Andrea managed to make him stop the cannon by persuading him that the battle was an anomoly, and thus must be corrected. When they emerged from the computer, they began making their way to the surface. They emerged to find a huge group of marines had taken the cannon from Covenant hands, and they were brought to the Fearless to meet the captain.

Up there, Andrea met the AI Kaylee, and the two became friends. After meeting with the captain, Andrea and Harrington went to a funeral service, then went for a checkup in the cryo bay. They received an upgrade for the suit, which made it easier for Andrea and Harrington to interface. They then met with the captain in Hangar Bay Eight, where he gave them a stripped down Longsword Fighter/Bomber called the Tranquility. Onboard the ship, she chose her name after Harrington's dead wife.

They returned to the surface, and to Outpost Rio, and spent their next few months there. However, several days after they had returned, Andrea began detecting began detecting bio near the energy cannon. Using the sattelites to track this, she found that Chief Petty Officer Alex Hicks had been stranded down on the surface. She followed him using a half a dozen sattelites, and when he started getting pursued by a hunter, she used the sattlites to generate an EMP pulse which made the comm unit he was carrying erupt into static. She listened to his last testament, which he was recording using the comm unit and unwittingly transmitting to the sattelite network.

After several weeks of this, she and Harrington departed using a MJ07-Wasp to retreive the Petty Officer. After he pushed the hunter off the cliff, Andrea introduced herself, and told him of what had been happening. They then returned to the outpost, and stayed there for several months, and were joined by Hick's wife and daughter.