Walter Larina

Walter Larina was a analyst and husband of Mariya Onegin. Born on the destitute colony of , Walter managed to break out of the cycle of poverty through diligent schoolwork that earned him a spot in a CAA youth talent placement program. During this time his family took in a foster child named Mariya and Walter soon befriended the girl. Although his family had no religious background, Walter found a quiet call to faith and privately converted to Catholicism. He surprised everyone by giving up a scholarship to a prestigious university on Epsilon Eridanus in favor of attending a seminary in the Outer Colonies. Walter left Gilgamesh with high hopes, but the seminary was destroyed during a attack, leaving him stranded in transit. Left with few prospects, Walter took a job as a clerk on an orbital station and impressed his supervisors with his diligent work. He eventually secured himself a position as a technician with a low-level CAA agency and was transferred to . There he encountered Mariya, now enlisted in the . The two married a few years later and had a daughter named Karina. Inspired by Walter's analyst position, Mariya asked him for help in locating her sister, lost to human trafficking when she was a child.
The advancing Covenant fleets interrupted Walter's happy family life as they pushed further and further into human space. At Mariya's insistence, he reluctantly took a position deeper in the Inner Colonies in order to get himself and Karina off Reach. Mariya promised to join them as soon as possible, but died during the . Left to raise Karina alone, Walter struggled to balance his career with the work of raising a child. After the end of the war he was transferred again, this time to the politically unstable world of . He continued to honor his wife's request to find her sister, but his innocuous records reviews forced him into contact with the rampant corruption throughout the CAA. After learning that many of his superiors were involved with the Syndicate, Walter refused a similar offer to join the criminal organization and threatened to take his findings public. He was assassinated by David Kahn on the orders of Tatiana Onegin, the very woman he had been trying to find. The legendary assassin felt insulted to be assigned such an unimportant target, but was impressed at the bravery with which Walter faced death.
Walter was survived by Karina, who eventually learned the truth regarding his death and her own broader family legacy.