Valeria Cattaneo

Colonel Valeria Cattaneo (13 July 1984-) is an Italian operative who serves as the current commander of SSM-I "Sagitta Iovis". She has served the SCP Foundation's Italian Branch for most of her life, being born to two high-ranking scientists before joining the Squadre Speciali Mobili.Dossier of the Captains of the SSM, SIR, and SPeV
==Biography==
===Early life===
Valeria Cattaneo was born on 13 July 1984 in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy to Giovanni Cattaneo, director of Site Asclepio, and Agatha Burke, an Irish-born biologist with Level 3 security clearance. When Valeria was 7, her parents were killed during a raid of Site Asclepio by the Fascist Council of the Occult. Due to this, she was sent to a Foundation-owned orphanage in Florence known as the San Francesco d'Assisi Orphanage and overseen by child psychologists to help her overcome such a devastating loss.
===Foundation career===
====Early career====
From 2002 to 2004, she attended the Italian Army's Scuola Militare Teulié in Milan, entering SPeV-I "Acies Aegis" as an agent the same year she graduated, being posted at Site Victoria. Cattaneo served in this unit for two years before becoming a member of SSM-III "Para Bellum". She climbed the ranks of the SSM-III, eventually becoming a team leader in 2010 and a Lieutenant in 2013. She began dating Alessandro Draghi, the now-Captain of SSM-IV "Pugnus Ferri", in 2012.
====Assassination of the Dictator====
In 2014, Cattaneo's team participated in an operation alongside SSM-I "Sagitta Iovis" to assassinate The Dictator, leader of the CFO and the killer of Cattaneo's parents. The operation was a failure, with most of the team killed and Cattaneo losing an arm in direct combat with the Dictator. Cattaneo blamed the former SSM-I colonel, Laura Mileni, for the failed operation due to her perceived weakness. She was granted use of advanced prostheses designed by the Advanced Engineering Section, being promoted to Colonel and commander of SSM-I in 2016 for Cattaneo's loyalty. As with all SSM-I members, Cattaneo underwent a treatment to enhance her physical abilities in the field and grant the ability to use particular anomalous weapons.
====Further activities====
SSM-I participated in the containment of SCP-001-IT/ABAD, with Cattaneo overseeing her team's status from Site Plutone.Entry Page: 001-IT/ABAD
==Personality==
Confident and determined, Cattaneo is a master of improvisation, utilizing simple plans that can be adjusted at any time. She typically does not formulate wide-ranging strategies, as she prefers to adapt to changing conditions of a mission and watch the evolution of how it is performed.
Out of the field, Cattaneo is highly sociable and optimistic, keeping amiable relationships with her colleagues. She is fond of making sleazy jokes, enjoying the exasperated reactions from her cohorts. Her best friends are S5-5 and SSM-IV "Pugnus Ferri" Captain Alessandro Draghi, forming a romantic relationship with the latter. She also keeps in contact with S5-9.S5 Council Dossier In her spare time, she enjoys reading and writing poetry, with her favorite poets being Charles Baudelaire and William Wordsworth.
However, this isn't merely just to serve as a likeable leader, she utilizes her attitude to ensure her team isn't pessimistic or defeated as this could lead to disaster, much like what happened to her former team during the attempted assassination of the Dictator in 2014. The failed assassination, coupled with the loss of her parents by the same hand, led to a severe depression that took Cattaneo many months to recover from.
==Meta==
===Appearances===
*Dossier of the Captains of the SSM, SIR, and SPeV
*S5 Dossier
*Entry Page: 001-IT/ABAD
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