Ray A-442

Commander Ray A-442 is a Spartan-III commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, attached to Special Warfare Group Four of the UNSC Army. She fought as part of ECHO Team with the call sign Echo One, during the Fall of Reach in summer 2552, but her current location and occupation is unknown.
== Biography ==
=== Childhood and Conscription ===
"We're not heroes, I hope you know that. We're faceless, machines for war. Nothing more, nothing less." - Ray A-442
Ray was born in South America on Earth in 2524. She has 3 siblings, 2 older and 1 baby brother. She was quite close with her siblings, as well as her parents, but all were lost in a Covenant attack. It's unknown if they survived, but it's assumed they're dead. As a child, she played many sports and constantly roughhoused; with both other children and her siblings. This made her active and fit, and a prime candidate for ONI to take for Alpha Company. 
Due to her skills in both leading and handling weaponry, she was pulled from Alpha Company before Operation: PROMETHEUS, but not before seeing some field time in the smaller scale battles Alpha Company participated in. She was the first member of ECHO Team, followed by Grayson B-128. 
=== Career Before The Fall of Reach ===
Before Reach was invaded, she, along with the rest of ECHO Team, dealt with Insurrectionist activity, namely against the People's Occupation and its many splinter groups. While teams RED, NOBLE, and GAUNTLET dealt with the growing Covenant threat, ECHO fought off said Insurrectionists until Colonel Kingston started to direct them towards the same threat. Ray was often deployed against things such as outposts, tanks, or anything that takes more destructive weaponry, namely her favorite. Shortly after reports of the Covenant's presence on Reach, the team was deployed as a whole more often, and they adjusted accordingly to this change.
=== The Fall of Reach ===
The Spartans of ECHO Team participated in a two part mission located in Esztergom with Ray and Lucas A-103 gathering information about the Covenant operations, while Grayson, Mitch B-106, and Eiji evacuated what civilians they could. The pair found very little in their brief time, besides deceased citizens and soldiers, before they were called to Sword Base, expected to escort ONI Officials and personnel out of the facility while NOBLE flushed out the enemy forces. During Grayson, Lucas, Eiji A-247, and new addition Ophelia B-607's time escorting said personnel, Ray and Mitch B-106 took care of anti-air, ensuring the Pelicans wouldn't be shot down. (Work in Progress, stay tuned!)
== Personality And Traits ==
"Do your job so I can do mine. If the alien dies and a family keep breathing, didn't I succeed?" - Ray A-442
Ray strongly believed that her team is invaluable, more so than non-Spartan personnel. While she wasn't vocal about this, her actions clearly showed that when it came down to it, a whole platoon of troopers isn't as important as a member of ECHO. This lead to many conflicts with her superiors, as well as the appearance of being incredibly callous, but that couldn't be further from the truth. While unwilling to sacrifice a teammate for others, she readily ran into the line of fire to help other, "weaker" beings. This is most notable in her encounter with a Brute Chieftan, when she engaged said creature in unarmed combat to save a pair of ODSTs. 
She is also known to be stubborn, arguing against, if not blatantly ignoring the orders of her superiors, if the method seems unnecessarily dangerous or risky. Despite this, she has gone on countless suicide missions with ECHO, which were completed with mixed results. She is shown to grieve quietly, avoiding unnecessary interaction, while engaging with the Covenant more violently. An example is after the Siege of New Alexandria, when she used up her Spartan Laser on a retreating Phantom during the very next engagement, which subsequently destroyed the vehicle and killed those inside. 
It has been noticed that she has a soft spot for animals, specifically ones that can be deemed as pets, and her favorite food is a Moa Burger.
== Equipment ==
Ray is equipped with a suit of MJOLNIR Mark V[B] armor, and her shoulder pads are those of an Operator. She has a Gungnir helmet with the CBRN attachment, while her chestplate is of the Tactical/LRP variety. Upon her thigh is the UA/CHOBHAM attachment, her thighs are the FJ/PARA kind, and she has a Tactical/TACPAD on her Her armor is primarily yellow, while the secondary color is silver.
== Trivia ==
Ray's color scheme is heavily based off of caution tape and related symbols. The owner himself doesn't know the reasoning, besides how it appears.
Her choice in helmet is most likely due to her favored weapon, but her choice in attachments is less apparent. 
She is the shortest out of the entire team, only an inch behind Mitch B-106. 
She originally had blue highlights on her armor, but it was decided that her armor looks better remaining yellow.
Category:Echo Team