Natalya Vinogradova

An oddity amongst the rather homogenous backgrounds of the higher ranked members of Baal Defense Solutions, Natalya Vinogradova spent only a few months in the UNSC Marine Corps before defecting to the Insurrection during the 2537 Mamore Uprising. Having joined aspiring to fight the Covenant, she was disgusted at fighting other humans and slowly began to sympathize with the rebels before finally betraying her comrades by releasing dozens of fighters from a UNSC POW camp. She fought throughout the rest of the uprising, surviving an encounter with several members of SPARTAN-III Alpha Company. When the rebels' defeat was imminent, she fled with others to Darreh Murdi, a small rebel-held world to seek refuge and resupply. While there, she began associating with a group of rebel commandos who trained her in the ways of guerrilla warfare. When the commandos left Darreh Murdi, they took her with them and partook in several missions against the UNSC over the years. In 2550, most of the commandos were wiped out by a SPARTAN-III Headhunter team after they were betrayed and used as bait by the URF. Her faith in the rebel cause forever shattered, she began wandering the remaining colonies, selling her services as a hired gun before briefly falling in with The Syndicate. In mid-2551, she was approached by a representative of the private security firm Baal Defense Solutions, who promised to remove the UNSC bounty on her head in exchange for her permanent service to the company. Faced with little alternative, she accepted and was tasked with training the best of BDS's operators into an elite commando group. Her position as head of BDS's special forces also meant she was directly in-charge of the feared Project APOLLYON, BDS's in-house supersoldier program.
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