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"An oddly cheerful individual, despite her line of work in the covert community. Adaptable and intelligent, borderline eccentric. Fancies the different and the unknown. A daredevil when required, but can be a trickster just as easily. Overall a very random person. And a random Spartan is to be feared, no matter how many smiles she cracks."

- Codename: MEDICI

"I'm a marine – but sometimes I wish I was just some tourist on vacation."

- Liza-108

Major Liza-108 (full name Jennifer Lavender Lawson at birth, Jennifer Liza Matild Tarkov post-adoption, and Liza Katona after Office of Naval Intelligence enlistment, also known by designations Sierra-One-Zero-Eight, Codename: SPACER and Albion Leader) is a commissioned field-grade officer of the UNSC Marine Corps, one of the last remaining SPARTAN-II Commandos of the UNSC Defense Force, one of three Leonidan Operatives and a distinguished operator of Section One of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Hailing from the original class of the SPARTAN-II Program, she served from the waning years of the Insurrection, throughout the entire Human-Covenant War and the following Mandorla and Reclamation campaigns. She then went on Operation: SAVIOUR, an effort by the UNSC to locate the missing Spartan John-117, until the operation was called off in 2596. Following her return from the operation, she assumed the role of commanding officer of Albion Company, one of several companies making up the 117th Special Operations Regiment.

Liza was born in a rebel hideout in the capital city of Tribute, Casbah, to Mark and Hannah Lawson, two of the best infiltrators and commandos of the United Rebel Front. For her safety, her parents placed her in an orphanage in Manassas, Reach. Ironically, she was then adopted by Antonin Tarkov, a Major General of the UNSC Army and Director of Reach's Colonial Military, and his wife, Yekaterina Tarkova (née Michanova), a university teacher. She then moved with her new family to the New Salgótarján habitat on Csodaszarvas.

At the age of six, only weeks after a seemingly inconspicuous meeting with a former student and friend of her mother's, Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, Liza was abducted from her home and taken to a military complex on Reach, where she and 74 other children were officially conscripted into the SPARTAN-II Program, as per Naval Code 45812. For the next seven and a half years, she and the other candidates underwent a rigorous training regimen. Over time, she ended up a member of Brown Team alongside Riker-012, Leonid-144, Maria-062 and Randall-037. In 2525, things took a turn for the worse when the augmentation procedures she and the other candidates underwent rendered her permanently blind and afflicted her with a fatal illness that took her life a few weeks later.

However, in reality, she survived; abducted by Rear Admiral Hani Kašaj, Deputy Director of Section One, as part of Project LEONIDAS and replaced with a flash-clone to cover her tracks. Following her recovery from the procedures, she was entered into the section's ranks under the supervision of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Nautilus Cardwell, a senior officer in the organization, to carry out high-priority intelligence missions and high-risk reconnaissance assignments on behalf of the agency. She quickly proved herself as the section's best operator after numerous high-risk missions against the insurrectionists.

The discovery of the Covenant Empire sparked a change of priorities regarding her deployments; as the war with the Covenant began to rage, Liza began to participate in more and more intelligence missions, often with the aid of other UNSC servicemen, against the alien juggernaut in numerous engagements (including the Harvest Campaign, the Battle of New Harmony and the Siege of Roost) and proved herself capable of fighting the new threat, while also collecting a large amount of valuable intelligence on the new enemy. This time also gave her the new mission set of enforcing the Cole Protocol to prevent the alien empire from discovering humanity's inner colonies, a mission requiring a great deal of effort ranging from infiltrating rebel enclaves to fighting through settlements crawling with invading Covenant.

In 2540, she was given a commission to Captain and reassigned to Fort Hamill on Tantalus to train the third class of the SPARTAN-II Program, the Ares Detachment. With the support of her new superior, Colonel Griffin Standoff, and former SPARTAN-I Commando Master Gunnery Sergeant Dean Jackson, she trained the fifty candidates in a similar manner to how she herself had been trained to prepare them for their new lives as supersoldiers. In 2548, the candidates underwent augmentations and were fielded soon after.

Liza then returned to frontline duty, going on increasingly desperate missions assigned by ONI to turn the tide of the war with the Covenant. One of those missions was to recover lost AI research on the formerly UNSC-held world of Aphrodite II. During the mission, she discovered and rallied other UNSC personnel – an ODST, Dexter Parker, and two SPARTAN-III Commandos, Jane-B337 and Nessa-B256 – on the planet sent to undertake the same task, and ultimately managed to complete the mission, though at the expense of Jane and Nessa's lives.

She continued to fight in the Great War, barely escaping the Fall of Reach in August 2552 along with fellow SPARTAN-IIs Riker-012 and James-007, going on Operation: WOLF BAIT and aiding in the Battle of Epitaph before returning to Earth, where her Leonidan status was removed and she returned into the fold of the Special Warfare Command to most of her remaining brother and sister Spartans. She was then placed in charge of two other Spartans, SPARTAN-II Class II Commando Amanda-208 and SPARTAN-III Gamma Company Soldier Kevin-G321 for the duration of the Battle of the Sol System, undertaking assignments on Titan, Ganymede, Luna and in the South Pacific. Following the UNSC victory thanks to their new Sangheili allies, Liza accompanied a small task force pursuing several Jiralhanae ships throughout the Labyrinth Array, until it achieved a devastating victory in a final battle over Mandorla.

After the end of the Human-Covenant War, she took part in the Reclamation Campaign to recover all of humanity's lost colonies and push back the crumbling Covenant. After the Battle of Doisac, she then accompanied her brother and sister Spartans on Operation: SAVIOUR to look for John-117. She stuck faithfully to the operation until it was called off and deemed a failure in 2596. She then headed to Arcturus, where she and the other Spartans began training the candidates of the new SPARTAN-IV Program, taking command of one of the companies, Albion, a position she still holds.

She is the girlfriend of Dexter Parker, the two developing a romantic relationship after the mission to Aphrodite II. Together, the couple had a child, Kalman, in secret. As both Liza and Dexter were unable to raise him, Kalman was handed over to a friend of the couple, Benjamin Reaver.