Spartan IV "Carmen" Bailey

Spartan "Carmen" Bailey is a former ODST made Spartan IV who, after being in Cryosleep for 15 years, was awoken to see her 2nd home being attacked by the covenant. After taking up arms as a civilian, Bailey decided to make it official and join the UNSC in 2552 following the attack. Ever since she has been going under the operation alias "Spartan Carmen" as to carry on the legacy of her sister, Carmen, a Spartan III. However this has caused confusion in some higher ranks in the UNSC as she has been rumored to be Carmen-A497.
Early Life (2520-2531)
Bailey (last name unknown) is a human female with brown hair and blue eyes. Born on Eridanus II in 2520, Bailey was an aspiring valedictorian in her education. She saw how disappointed her parents were in her older sister Carmen with how she was awful at physical education, thus prompting her to join a little league gravball team, in which she was an average player at. When the year 2530 came around, the Covenant invaded and glassed her homeworld. During the invasion/glassing. Bailey’s parents managed to smuggle their children on a civilian cargo ship departing the planet. As the ship left orbit, Bailey and her older sister Carmen witnessed the spaceport they departed from get hit with a devastating Covenant glassing beam. Watching the spaceport go up in flames gave Bailey acute PTSD that she had to deal with until her first deployment in 2552/2553. 
Life On Reach (2530-2537)
Following the glassing of Eridanus II, older sister Carmen had set Bailey up with a foster family on the planet Reach in New Alexandria in 2530. From there, Carmen set her up in a foster home, where Bailey lived peacefully with an adopted family as Carmen left her for the UNSC to become a Spartan III. Bailey lived with her family until about 2537, wherein around September, she had begun to grow worried for her sister Carmen. Then in October, 2537, two strange individuals from ONI had broken into her foster home and kidnapped her. The ONI Section Three operatives had taken her to a remote secret ONI Cryogenics lab underneath the city of New Alexandria. She would be cryogenically frozen there for an indefinite period of time, as she was related and knew someone who was now officially dead, and ONI didn’t want to risk Carmen-A497’s identity to be known.
Siege of New Alexandria (2552)
On August 18th, 2552, the Covenant started their assault on New Alexandria during the Battle Of Reach. 5 Days later on August 23rd, Bailey was suddenly awoken from her cryosleep as the power couplings to the generators powering the Cryogenics failed due to the power grid being destroyed during the combat. Confused and fight or flight kicking in, Bailey managed to escape the facility, as everyone inside had already been killed by a Brute Chieftain and a squad of Jackals. As Bailey made her escape from the facility, she snuck up on a straggler Jackal who separated from it’s team to satisfy it’s insatiable urge to scavenge and collect valuables. As she snuck up on it, she saw a deceased UNSC marine to her left. Laying next to him an MA37 Assault Rifle. In a panic of Acute PTSD and her fight or flight response, she picked up the MA37 and took the Jackal by surprise, squeezing off a burst which struck the Jackal in the side of it’s head, killing it. She then stuffed her pockets with as many magazines as she could. From there, Bailey had snuck her way through the ruined city for hours until she stumbled upon a UNSC checkpoint that was harboring survivors for evacuation operations. She cautiously approached the checkpoint with her hands up. The guard had her identify herself as non insurrectionist, not that it really mattered at that point. When she stepped inside the guard post, the Army Troopers attempted to take the MA37 Assault Rifle from her, in which she pulled it away and gripped it tighter, stating: “This Rifle saved my life, and I’ll be damned if you’re going to stop me from using to save others’ lives as well!” Bailey then proceeded to assist the Army in defending the checkpoint from a wave of Jackals led by a Brute Major. When her ammunition ran dry, she dropped the rifle and boarded a transport Pelican ferrying civilians to Transports. As Bailey successfully escaped Reach on a Civilian Transport, Bailey looked out the window and saw a tall, dark figure on a beachhead pull a flare from their kit, light it, and toss it aside. She wondered if that was the “Spartan” some of the Army were talking about at the checkpoint. From that point forward, Bailey had suspicions that the reason she was kidnapped that night in 2537 was because her sister had become a Spartan. Following her evacuation from Reach, Bailey enlisted into the UNSC Military.
ODST to Something Greater (2552-2554)
Due to her experiences in New Alexandria on Reach and having 2 homes in her lifetime destroyed by the Covenant, Bailey sought upon herself the strength to join the UNSC as a UNSC Marine. During her training as a UNSC Marine she excelled in almost every field presented to her. One particular field was tactics. She was a tactical genius, however, the UNSC felt she was not cut out to be a leader, as she lacked the drive to rally fellow Marines together. This magnitude of tactical prowess caught the attention of the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs). On New Years 2553 Bailey would be sent out on her first deployment as an ODST. A year would pass by and in February 2554, Bailey’s unit was tasked with eliminating a high ranking Elite officer stationed in a Covenant fortress. Needless to say, this task was daunting for a fireteam of 5 ODSTs to handle. Ultimately, Bailey’s fireteam will fail this endeavor, with all 4 other ODSTs in her fireteam being declared KIA. She had narrowly escaped the fortress with her life and barely managed to get back to a friendly force where she could be rescued and given medical aid. Following the deaths of her fireteam, she would be offered the opportunity to be a willing participant in the UNSC’s new program, the Spartan IV program.
Spartan IV Program (2554-Present)
In 2555, Bailey had become Spartan “Carmen” Bailey. During her training to become a Spartan IV, she had made friends with an ONI contact in ONI Section Two. When she met the ONI contact, they’d asked her what she knew of the Fall of Reach, in which she replied with her story of fighting alongside Marines as a civilian in her home city of New Alexandria. In an effort to comfort her, the ONI contact shared pictures and security camera footage files from New Alexandria the day before and during the attack. The ONI contact tried their best to not include any conflict or too-war-torn footage of the city. In an act of kindness, unbeknownst to the ONI contact, they had shared a very peculiar video file with Bailey. The video file was taken from a security camera on the opposite side of New Alexandria from where she lived. The footage was dated August 22nd, 2552. The video showed a green in color Spartan running across the frame. After watching the footage hundreds of times in her free time over the course of the next few days, she made an illegal copy of the file and saved it to her personal datapad and sent a screenshot of the Spartan back to the ONI Contact. They proceeded to get very angry and asked her to delete the file. She, did, fullwell knowing she possessed an illegal copy, but she then further prodded her question towards the contact. They claimed they didn’t know and it was probably a Spartan helping with civilian evacuations in the area. From that point on Bailey thought, no, knew that was her sister Carmen. When developing her armor permutations with the Spartan IV program, she based all her choices on the Spartan she knew was her sister in the footage and tried to copy her armor as close as she could. She also requested her team members call her “Carmen” as she wanted to uphold the Spartan’s and her sister’s name and legacy as she now too, has become a Spartan.
Involvement With ONI
Expressing her distaste in working along with other Spartans as well as performing with top marks when becoming a Spartan IV, her ONI contact put in a good word for her and she shortly in late 2556 became a Spartan IV LONEWOLF Headhunter, working in exclusive Black Operations for ONI. Spartan “Carmen” Bailey’s whereabouts as of 2560 are unknown. In 2555 shortly after her graduation as a Spartan IV her initial deployment was on the UNSC Meriwether Lewis but has since been rumored and spotted on both the Meriwether Lewis as well as the UNSC Infinity. She is currently listed as “MIA” in official records, however ONI highly doubt she was KIA and might be currently taking part in a very long reconnaissance insurgency effort against the UNSCs current enemies, those being The Created and The Banished.
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