Bless-G189

Bless-G189, raised as Bless Kazlow, was a Gamma Company commando, briefly assigned to Spartan Team Glaive during the final days of the before joining the as an force multiplier for the DCS Rio Station's gendarmerie unit.
Born in on , Bless was too young to remember her home before the attack. She never knew her parents and was raised in an foster care facility before joining the SPARTAN-III Program. She graduated from the program in and participated in limited action on , . Subsequent injuries and casualties saw Team Glaive dissolved and separated, Bless was equipped with transitional suites as part of her recovery.
Determined as less-vindictive towards aliens than other SPARTAN-IIIs, Bless was reassigned to the Colonial Security facility in Rio de Janeiro, Earth, to assist action teams responsible in monitoring the alien and refugees concentrated in and around Earth refuge centers.
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==Career Service Vitae==
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;Bless-G189 
;SR73 Spartan
NAME: Kazlow, Bless
SPARTAN #: G189
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UNIT: DCS Rio Station
ROLE: Force Multiplier
ENLISTMENT DATE: ██████████
LOCATION: ██████████
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GENDER: Female
BIRTHPLACE: Kholo
BIRTH DATE: 14 June ████
BLOOD TYPE: █████
HEIGHT: 180 cm, 5' 11"
WEIGHT: 87 kg, 192 lb
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;Service History
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===Earned Ranks ===
Insignia	Rank 	Date	Circumstance
 	Petty Officer Third Class (E-4)	2552	Pre-Battle of Onyx; Gamma Company graduation.
 	Ensign (O-1) 	2553	Ferret training; special officer commission.
 	Lieutenant (O-3) 	2554	Officer acceleration; reassignment to DCS Rio Station.
 	SR-73 Spartan (O-3) 	2558	Transfer to Spartan Operations; received equivalent pay rate but no command authority.
==Gallery==
==Biography==
===No Memory of Home===
Bless Kazlow was born on the fourteenth of June, 2538, in a southern hemisphere town on the human colony world of Kholo. Information about her upbringing is sparse due to the loss of government census and infrastructure servers on the planet. It appears her parents were named Rolan and Sabina but little else is known about them. Not even a year old, Kholo was attacked by a Covenant invasion force that became the . As a one-sided event, the Covenant landed a rare ground assault force while Covenant cruisers rained plasma upon the planet's surface.
Due to a very small UNSC naval force defending the planet, the military could not dedicate major resources to a planetary evacuation and directed most of the civilian populace underground into -era bunkers spread among the planet's population centers. Instead of waiting out a Covenant bombardment, the alien glassing beams kept burning and melted through the rock and concrete, cooking the civilians inside. The unlucky ones lived as the melted bunker mechanisms locked populations inside, leading to mass suffocation or starvation.
Bless one one of a lucky few who got off the planet. It was reported in Bless's official Naval Intelligence report that her parents raced to catch a orbital-bound police dropship commandeered by an team at the edge of their town. Seconds from destruction, Bless was retrieved by an unnamed ONI corpsman as Bless's parents were cut down by alien gunfire. It is disputed if Bless was the name her parents gave her, or one possibly assigned by the UNSC troops that saved her. Her hometown's name was lost in the subsequent glassing of the area. Marked as a healthy baby but too young to be transferred to cryostasis, an infant Bless was monitored by a UNSC medical crew around the clock during transit and later transferred to a military foster care facility near on .
===Gamma Company===
Upon authorization of SPARTAN-III Gamma Company in July , Bless made the short list of considered recruits for the Spartan training unit. Recruiters from the Office of Naval Intelligence made a visit in August 2544 and discovered a very disdainful girl who wanted to be anywhere but in the foster care facility. Adults described her as "cold and disturbed", her class and bunkmates called her "Jane Doe" despite having an established name. A subsidiary of the New Alexandria Federal Conservatory, the organization was a proven way home for Alpha and Beta Company prospects in years before, revealing further success with Gamma Company. Informed briefly on the nature of recruitment and the SPARTAN-III program, Bless jumped at the opportunity to become a defender of humanity like so many before her.
Placed into cryostasis by local minders, Bless made the interstellar journey from Reach aboard the alongside other frozen Gamma Company recruits to the remote human world of where their new lives would begin. On July seventh, 366 thawed children met their new training director at the gates, the SPARTAN-II supersoldier . After receiving basic introductions to other drill and combat instructors and a speech on their foreseeable future of training and purpose, the Gamma Company recruits were to return to the Pelican transports that brought them to the Onyx surface and pass a rite of passage experienced by previous training companies all the same. Bless didn't understand the context of the evening jump but felt fear all the same as the Onyx dusk bathed the Pelican troop bay in darkness and a drill instructor started yelling simplified directions about parachute harnesses. She put the parachute on all the same despite the wind in her face and the invisible ground below her. When the other children were corralled into a line, she followed suit. When her time came she almost froze but having watched other toddlers leap out to their seemingly deaths, however, the pressure of others waiting in line motivated her to rush out and off the back of the Pelican and into the night. When her parachute monitor told her to pull her chord, she did so and the rest came easy - sailing through the windy darkness until her legs found the hard-hitting ground that bruised her shoulders and knees.
Bless made it through jump night like most of the recruits. After being recovered by a transport Warthog, she and other gathered passing recruits were fed a proper dinner and sent off to bed in coffin-like barracks. Everything that would follow would be to tradition set by Alpha and Beta companies. Despite knowing absolutely nothing about UNSC military culture, she understood that she wasn't the first to go through her experiences at Camp Currahee. As she understood it, if other children before her could manage through whatever pain that was Spartan training, she could to and developed a mantra for it throughout her days on Onyx. She received the usual experiences and traditions that defined the SPARTAN-III program: intensive physical and mental conditioning, mandated education by the Deep Winter, advanced guidance led by Beta Company graduates Lucy-B091 and Tom-B292, and the refined hazing culture of SPARTAN-IIIs developed by failed recruits that became drill instructors and those invented by the recruits themselves.
===Disaster at Mare Erythraeum===
*Let's consider a defense of the ancient Martian magnetosphere shield from days of old? Maybe Team Glaive had to do something here too?
After graduation and augmentations, many in Gamma Company were itching to deploy to the frontlines against the Covenant war machine. The war effort was going poorly in ; Onyx was almost in enemy/contested territory. With Colonel James Ackerson away and occupied by the defense of from a Covenant invasion, Lieutenant Commander Ambrose had a difficult time preventing military bureaucrats from ordering him to hand over select Spartan teams for missions.
By late October, the majority of Gamma Company was off Onyx. At this time, Glaive received standby appointment with the Prowler Corps. Upon losing contact with Colonel Ackerson and reports of Covenant forces in the , Team Glaive received orders to investigate, recover, and return Colonel Ackerson to the ONI stealth cruiser . Of course, the mission turned complicated as they dropped out of near Mars a week into November.
The Sol command structure was in disarray, Earth's planetary defenses were in shambles, and Martian orbital infrastructure was scattered. Santos, commander of Team Glaive's Eclipse-class prowler escort UNSC New Moon, ordered his vessel to approach the planet by slipping through a debris field of destroyed shipyards and orbital habitats. The order was sound in theory but after years of hunting UNSC stealth ships, the Covenant developed competency at identifying and destroying prowlers. The extensive debris field above Mars provided concealment from Covenant cruiser fire but limited the New Moon's maneuvering positions as Banshee space interceptors intercepted them.
Glaive managed to drop their from the New Moon but were shot down as they descended towards the flatlands of . The UNSC New Moon was eventually cornered and destroyed. For the Jiralhanae naval group, , the New Moon's destruction marked their twelfth confirmed prowler kill. Team Glaive's intended landing site was the Martian multiplex space tether, once a bridge to the planet's main orbital infrastructure. Upon learning that Covenant decimated the orbital habitats, they rerouted their plans to , headquarters of the .
However, with their crash, Glaive was set off-course from Ackerson's last known location. Team Glaive's Pelican crashed far south of Shoreline, almost eighty-five kilometers outside the city of .
The Pelican crew was killed in the crash, their aircraft breaking apart on the descent. Team Glaive barely managed to survive the impact, throwing themselves out the back and relying on a mix of parafoils and booster packs to reach the ground. Still, the Covenant air patrols were not far behind. Stranded and in the open, the team was extended across a debris field extending over two kilometers. Bless-G189 was knocked unconscious during the crash and had to be hastily buried by her comrades in Martian sand as Covenant dropships approached. The rest of the team fanned out into the wilderness, hoping to draw attention away from the crash site as they were pursued by Phantom-borne forces and Banshee aircraft.
===Department of Colonial Security===
===Dar es-Salaam Confrontation===
===Rio Station Bombing===
===Requiem Tour===
===Battle of Zeta Halo===
==Character Assessment==
===Nicknames and Callsigns===
*"Jane Doe": An alias handed down by Bless's peers at the New Alexandria Federal Conservatory after refusing to make friends with others in her foster care group. Standoffish and antagonistic towards those that talk about her, observers began using the alias when discussing Bless to avoid attention and trouble with attitude-policing adults.
==Relationships==
===Erin-G174===
===Team Glaive===
===Argo 'Varvin===
Argo and Bless first made their acquaintance during the Battle of Mars. Argo and his UNSC Army Rangers escort found Bless separated from her Spartan team in the battlefield chaos. Forced to work together to survive, it was the first time either Sangheili spec-ops officer or Spartan supersoldier saw each others' type as an ally and equal. ONI took note of their brief alliance after the war and sought to capitalize on itover concerns that other Spartans were less comfortable with working in close proximity to aliens.
Transferred from her Spartan unit, Bless joined Argo under the ONI Department of Colonial Security to investigate threats to Earth's security by Covenant loyalists stranded on Earth and Mars and the potential danger posed by the new Swords of Sanghelios peace procession as Arbiter Thel Vadum's requests for the 2553 ceasefire proved a complex issue for the Unified Earth Government. Argo and Bless were professional through their working partnership, cautious around one another but able to do their job as the 2554 Swords of Sanghelios jurisdiction crisis threatened a civil war in Earth's skies. Despite learning and relying on each other, neither Spartan nor Sangheili thought of themselves as friends. The Covenant War's stigmatism did not get in the way of their work but it did with regard to their feelings. Lulls between missions devolved into directionless arguments over ideologies and vindictation as their distrust reflected the same misgivings between the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios.
Even after wrapping up the jurisdiction dispute in Dar-es Salaam, Argo and Bless scarcely interacted with one another at their shared Rio de Janeiro assignment with exception to intelligence reporting. Their animosity would continue as a cultural fixture as Bless's Aurora 6 unit and Argo's startup Chivomengro often had hostile run-ins in the understreets of Rio. Argo expressed some guilt upon learning of Bless's severe injuries in the DCS Rio Station bombing, especially given his own failure to force ONI to act on his reports of rogue nuclear weapons in the posession of Low Benefaction Covenant refugees.
===Fireteam Anchor===
==See Also==
===Notable Links===
*Argo 'Varvin
*Bo Konig
*DCS Rio Station
*Gamma Company
*Team Glaive
===Literary Appearances===
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