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Caroline Algrove-191 is the leader of the Vector Ghost Team, a team comprised of Spartans alienated from the normal Spartan program. These Spartans were not known to the public, ever, nor any low-medium ranking military official. Only extremely high ranking members of the military knew of Caroline, or the VGT.

Personality
Caroline was known to have a carefree, yet focused attitude towards her job. This led many around her to feel unsafe when under her command. Though she was carefree, she took charge of Vector Ghost Team particularly well, fitting in with the other three members. They accepted her personality, liking the joking and laughing before a mission to ease tension and nerves. During her Spartan training, she was a polar opposite to her later years, being extremely calm and to the point. She never joked with her fellow recruits. This was probably due to the fact that she wanted to prove herself as powerful as a male soldier and to not have the reputation of a joker. A year after augmentation she gained the carefree attitude.

Early Life
Caroline was born in 2524, on Harvest, just one year before it's destruction. She was taken from Harvest by her parents, who took her to Reach. She stayed on the planet for five years. At the age of five she was kidnapped while in her backyard. She was immediately taken to Onyx. She grew up in a facility, secluded from the normal Spartan training grounds. Only another nine trainees were there, all being prepared for undercover warfare against the Covenant or Insurrectionists. Caroline was being trained to combat both. Four of the ten were to join the Vector Ghost Team, which Caroline was made leader of in the later years of the Human-Covenant War. She took her trainers, people that called themselves "Teachers" as her parents. The other Spartan-IIIs at the normal training facility knew these trainers at Kurt-051 and Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez. From the age of four to ten she was taught insurrectionist and Covenant tactics. At the age of eleven to sixteen she began to use UNSC firearms and work with other Spartans. She used this time to hone the love of Shotguns and DMRs, which she was great at using. Other Spartans followed her every command, liking her calm exterior. Due to the nature of the training course, she was said to have "Failed" the Spartan program on her file, though this was a coverup for her transfer to Vector Ghost Team. The transformation process to a real Spartan was more painful for Caroline than any Spartan in the facility, she had to recuperate for two months before she was ready for combat. During the two month wait she was deemed unable to participate for combat, ever. She would have to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life, yet she suddenly made a quick recovery and saved use of her body. A month after he recovery, she was loaded out with the final Vector Ghost Team from covert facility and given her favored weapons. She was listed as Commander in rank, though she did nothing yet to earn the rank. It is unknown who or why ranked her so, it was unheard of for someone to gain such a rank immediately out of training. Her life was smooth for another four years, only acting in several minor Insurrectionist conflicts. On the year 2544, Caroline was removed from her old team and set into a lone wolf sector. She hated her new position, wanting to be put back into a team based sector. The same year she was set to Miridem. Here she participated in the Battle of Miridem. She came close to death as a Zealot Elite almost decapitated her with an energy sword, though she destroyed him with her Shotgun. Not much was known about the battle, though it was presumed that Caroline was sent to Miridem to cover Catherine Halsey. Yet in the post-action report there is no mention of Halsey or the Spartan that was with her, Sheila. The same year, she was sent on a UNSC Scout Class ship to the same zone as the Raid on the Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence. She was said to have been mixed up in the conflict, having to combat several Banshees approaching her ship, at the same time defending the five attacking Spartans from attack. Within five minutes Caroline managed to destroy twenty Banshees with her shotgun. She did so by jumping between Banshees, firing into the cockpit and killing the pilot. Her ship left the area immediately after the combat and she was not seen nor hear from for another year.

Later Life
Caroline appeared on May 17th, 2545, during the Battle of Actium, seemingly from nowhere. During a rough patch of the UNSC charge into the Covenant controlled territory on Actium, hundreds of witnesses, who sent reports to ONI and the UNSC before the annihilation of the planet, said they spotted a light green and steel Spartan battling Covenant forces. Caroline was never acknowledged to actually be on Actium, though it was almost certain. She was seen destroying several AA batteries and two Corvettes. She used her close quarters stealth capabilities to defend a company of stranded UNSC troopers from Elites with energy swords. After they were safe from the threat, Caroline vanished into the landscape as troopers were trying to find her to give thanks. For six days she was spotted on the battlefield, destroying Covenant structures or killing strike teams. Days before the glassing of the planet and UNSC troops, Caroline was seen hopping aboard a Pelican. She did not participate in any large battles for another four years, until 2549. In 2549, Caroline was called to the Fall of Arcadia. Once in atmosphere, she met with the rest of Vector Ghost Team, Franklin-382, Jay-212 and Lindsey-412. They were briefed and told to defend the planet's main city, Abaskun. Though there was hardly any UNSC presence and the mission was just to boost the moral of the civilians. They were dropped in the center of town and managed to hold off Covenant drop pod squads, who were lowering from a hovering Corvette. Caroline and Lindsey commandeered the Pelican and flew it towards the Corvette. They somehow passed the plasma cannons and breached the inside of the vessel. Here she met with another Spartan, Dom-094. He was sent to the Corvette by a nearby Scout ship on orders to destroy the ship no matter the cost. He had just arrived in the Hanger with a Pelican as Caroline and Lindsey flew in. Caroline quickly outlined her mission, ordering Dom to follow. He curtly replied, "Show me the way, Commander." They moved through the ship, finally arriving at the engine room, the blood of Elites streaming down their armor. Dom held the area with his shotgun as Caroline and Lindsey formulated a plan to blow the ship. Caroline came up with the crude but efficient plan of detonating the entire room. Dom covered the two Spartans as they gathered plasma batteries and placed them around the engines. Lindsey took a plasma blast to her side and limped as the Spartans exited the room. Caroline fired a short burst and sprinted from the explosion, with Dom and Lindsey close behind. They made their way to the hanger, the ship already tilted at a forty-five degree angle. Without a word Dom jumped into his Pelican and gunned the engines, boosting from the hanger as the ship groaned in protest. Caroline and Lindsey were a bit slower, only managing to get their Pelican aloft as the Corvette was almost at the ninety degree mark. They exited the hanger slowly, careful to not smash into the shifting vessel. As the two VGT members exited the ship, all they could see of Dom was a dark shape drifting towards a darker object. They received radio contact ordering them back to a UNSC Scout ship close by. Both women were listed MIA. This was just a coverup for more training and the gaining of AI for Caroline. Caroline's AI, Gregory, was extremely compatible with her. They took only a few days to get into working order. A month after this training Caroline was listed as in active service. This was not true, as she was sent to Reach for armor upgrades and slight recuperation. This supposedly went on for three years. It was 2552 and Caroline was still on Reach. She was regrouped with Vector Ghost Team and for two days, from the 21st of July, to the 24th, they went over situations with Covenant attack on Reach. Caroline was saddened to see Jay's new robotic arm, but he forcibly said that it didn't matter. To Caroline's dismay, the Covenant did attack on the 24th. After news of Noble team sweeping through Sword Base, VGT was sent to hold the position until help arrived. Caroline set he team up in the main doorway of the large facility, though on the second day heavy platoons of Grunts and Hunters moved in. The team annihilated the Grunts, but Lindsey died as a Hunter smashed her with it's shield arm. Caroline ordered Franklin to take down the Hunters with his shoulder fired rockets, which he did in quick time. They had to clear out of the base the same day, holding out in the mountains above the base. They watched as Covenant flooded the base, taking out any minor UNSC resistance. They monitored the situation until Noble team rolled through. At that point, they quietly moved off site. Jay was reassigned to a secret operation that not even Caroline knew of. Caroline and Franklin though, we sent to clear the path for Noble team as they would make their way to the Pillar of Autumn. Hours before the Pelican carrying Noble-Six came into the area, Caroline and Franklin battled through the area, clearing the UNSC refitting yard of Covenant. During one tense moment of encountering a General Class Elite, Caroline dives in front of a concussion rifle blast headed for Franklin. This instantly killed her, for her shields were down. Her last breath ordered Franklin to clear the path for Noble no matter the cause.

Equipment and Armor
Caroline used the M392 Designated Marksman Rifle throughout her life. On occasion, during a close quarters operation, she would switch to an M90 CAWS Shotgun. She used drop shield as her main armor ability, relying on it in several close calls. She could not use a rocket launcher no matter the situation, it just wasn't get style. She was proficient with sniper rifles, yet Caroline felt the sniper to large and heavy, picked the DMR instead. During her early years Caroline used Mark IV armor of default color and variant. During her 2551-52 portion of her career, she was equipped with Mark V armor. She customized this armor to her liking, using the Commando shoulder pad on her right, and a CQC on her left. Caroline used the Commando helmet with upgraded uplink nodes and up-armored sections. She used the Tactical Pad for quickly accessing Covenant databases and files. Caroline was setup for an armor refit after the events at Reach, possibly changing her arm attachment to breacher shells, her death canceled this appointment.

Caroline's AI
Caroline's AI, Gregory joked with her on many occasions. He was like her exact copy. Gregory could put aside the joking and tell Caroline to focus when the time deemed it and he was always alert. He would pretend to doze off every once in awhile, making it an ongoing laugh between the two. Gregory always kept tabs on the full Vector Ghost Team, keeping Caroline up to date on their movements and actions. He was fire-walled whenever one of the team members was removed from the team, but he reestablished contact the second they came back online. Gregory didn't have much else to do, as Caroline didn't count on him for status reports or running commentaries of the battlefield. He used his free time to compact files and analyze Covenant movements. At the end of Caroline's life, he had compacted and stored one of the largest archives of Covenant tactics known, sadly this was destroyed with Caroline's death.