Alyssa O'Connor

Alyssa O'Connor is a member of the. She is a skilled pilot and has served during the  racking up twelve kills against. Alyssa is often nicknamed the Texas Ace among her fellow pilots, as she holds a record of twenty confirmed kills against Covenant forces and is one of the deadliest human pilots post-Great War. She is fluent in Japanese and French and has learned few words of the Sangheili language, she also shows some respect for her enemy Sangheili pilots for their experience in exoatmospheric single-ship combat.

Early life
Alyssa grew up in Houston, Texas on Earth, the capital of humanity's interstellar empire. She lived in a high-middle class home and is the second eldest of four children, the other three being brothers. She and her brothers were shielded from the coverage of the Great War by their parents, even though most footage was heavily altered by the  to depict almost completely the opposite of what had been happening on besieged colonies. Alyssa continued with her life knowing very little of the dangers of outer space, and the possible extermination of all human existence.

When the Covenant arrived in October of 2552, several months after Alyssa's twenty-first birthday, she had been kept away from the truth so long that she believed the obliteration of New Mombasa as a Insurrectionist plot. But when the Prophet of Truth's fleet arrived some weeks later, they had attacked Houston, rounding up as many civilians as they could and executing them, or used by the Jiralhanae as toys, or meals.

During the Battle of Houston, Alyssa had lost her mother and two brothers to the onslaught, and her father had been tortured so badly that by the time UNSC forces could retake the city, he had entered into a coma, and her other brother, the eldest, a combat veteran and second lieutenant within the UNSC Army had gone missing in action during the Battle of Sydney. To pay homage to her missing brother, she enlisted into the UNSC Air Force on March 24, 2553.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Discovery (LHF)