User:Ebon Shadowshot/Jessica Harther

"My name is Jessica. I work at ONI and this AI is called Jennifer. Thats all you need to know, SPARTAN."

- Jessica to a SPARTAN-II.

Jessica Harther (known as Jess among friends) was a human member of the Office of Naval Intellegence. Born on the 22nd of October 2523 on Harvest, Jessica was forced to evacuate Harvest when the Covenant glassed the area. She lived on Reach afterwards, and later became a member of ONI. Her work with ONI had included adding additional rules to the famed Cole Protocol and preforming most unusual tasks not done by normal employees. Her IQ is 205 and she has been known to match the grand Catherine Halsey in the speed of typing.

Harvest
Jessica was born in a manor on Harvest in 2523. She was born into education, learning incredibly basic mathematics and learning to read at an incredibly young age. Jessica began having nightmares in early 2525; her description was obscured by her lack of higher vocabulary. However, a therapist managed to make out the words 'Alien', 'Come', 'Kill', 'Mummy!'. Her strange nightmares were dismissed by her parents as they began to fade. Later that year, a Jiralhanae pack encountered humanity for the first time. The result was the obviouse of bloodshed. As civilians evacuated Harvest, Jessica and her family escaped their manor before it was obliterated by the Covenant. Jess and her family managed to escape Harvest, and they were brought to Reach.

Life on Reach
At the age of four, Jess entered a school on Reach. Her knowledge was greatly expanded and she was the head of her class. However, as pre-pubescent minds go, Jess was bullied for her high intellegence. However, she saw through this, often just laughing and insulting the bully's intellegence. By the end of her first year of school, she was already working at the level of an average 5th Grader. Jessica recieved many awards in the school for mathematics, English and technology. When she was seven, she and her mother were robbed by a homeless thug on the walk home. The thug tried to pull a knife on her mother, but Jess intervened, grabbing hold of the man's hand and biting it. Jess used the knife to stab the thug in the knee while she and her mother ran home.

Jessica continued to live on Reach for another ten years until she enrolled at the Preston Cole University on Sigmatus Octanus IV.

The Battle of Reach
Main Article: Halo: Justice

Jessica arrived on Reach shortly into the battle. Her assignment was to retrieve vital Covenant information from the ONI centre in Terrador. However, her arrival was too late as the Covenant had already begun the attack on Terrador. Upon entering the ONI building, she found a team of SPARTAN-III's fending off against Sangheili Warriors. After brief persuasion, she convinced the SPARTAN's to assist her on her mission.