Adeline Jaccoud

"City's been under siege for the last five days. Thought we had it in hand, then those corvettes showed up. Our fleet's scattered, pulling back. Hell, we all got orders to evacuate. Guess some of us just don't like leaving a job half-finished." - Adeline Jaccoud, Siege of New AlexandriaAdeline Marie Jaccoud was a pilot in service of the United Nations Space Command Air Force and later Marine Corps who served in the Human-Covenant War and later the Forefather War.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Adeline Marie Jaccoud was born on the 23rd of January, 2532, on the planet of Society in the Outer Colonies. When the planet was invaded by the Covenant in January of 2537, she was one of the very few civilian survivors who managed to escape the planet. Instead of settling in Far Harbour like the strict majority of the survivors, her family eventually settled on Mars.
===Human-Covenant War Military Service===
Adeline joined the United Nations Space Command Air Force in 2550 at the age of eighteen, passing every exam and being qualified as an in-atmosphere pilot. She was assigned temporarily the Seventh Hornet Command before being rotated into a semi-permanent position as a Falcon pilot.
===Fall of Reach===
When the Covenant invaded Reach, Adeline was part of one of the hundreds of aerial squadrons that were rapidly activated and sent into combat. She first saw combat during the Fall of Reach at the Battle of Szurdok Ridge, where her falcon was engaged in intense aerial combat against Covenant banshee squadrons. Managing to survive the brutal battle unharmed, she then went on to serve across the Viery territory until eventually the city of New Alexandria came under siege.
====Siege of New Alexandria====
"Midtown airspace is way too hot, gonna take an alternate route."
On the 18th of August, New Alexandria came under attack by a large number of Covenant forces. Initially aerial forces, which included Adeline's falcon, where able to successfully hold off a series of aerial assaults by the Covenant, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy while supported by anti-aircraft emplacements. Her falcon was involved in escorting civilian transports out of the city on the 19th to the 22nd of August, however the arrival of four SDV-class heavy corvettes saw the battle drastically begin to shift in the Covenant's favour, and made the skies significantly more dangerous. Early on the 23rd, aerial engagements between her squadron and the Covenant lead to her becoming the last surviving aircraft of her squadron after they had all been wiped out. By the afternoon, Adeline and another falcon were escorting a pelican which was intended for civilian evacuations when Noble Six and a number of ODSTs captured an executive landing pad after decisively destroying the Covenant's garrison in the area. Immediately, the three aircraft were sent to the landing pad. Upon arrival, the Spartan boarded Adeline's falcon and was flown to Caracalla Park, as the evacuations had become jeopardised by Covenant ground forces and a Corvette which had positioned itself over the adjacent starport. After deploying Noble Six to Caracalla Park, Adeline provided local aerial support before she disengaged from the engagement and withdrew to a nearby munitions depot to repair and rearm.
As night fell, her falcon was sufficiently rearmed and all damages repaired, and she was redeployed to assist in an operation to eliminate several jammers deployed by the Covenant across the city. As the UNSC's efforts in the city began to deteriorate due to the Covenant beginning to glass sections of New Alexandria, she joined the rest of the UNSC forces in New Alexandria's evacuation efforts and disengaged before the Covenant could torch the rest of the city.
==== Escape from Reach====
Days after the fall of New Alexandria, Adeline was rotated into Operation: WHITE GLOVE and assisted Noble Team by participating in the aerial combat taking place above and around Sword Base. As Noble Team reached their objective, the base itself, her falcon was shot down by a banshee, crashing into a ridge where a Covenant anti-aircraft battery had previously been. She and the men aboard her falcon were left with minor injuries and were rescued by another falcon after a prolonged firefight.
With WHITE GLOVE concluded and her injuries, while minor, preventing her from participating in the final day of ground engagements, she was withdrawn to Lábatlan, one of the few surviving off-world extraction points on the planet. However, the forces sent to evacuate at Lábatlan arrived too late, only finding the remains of the Battle that had taken place there and discovering that the site was now occupied by the Covenant. With the survivors now on the move again, they were intercepted by Covenant aerial forces. While they were able to fight them off each time they were attacked, the constant assaults whittled down the surviving aircraft and severely damaged their morale.
Early on August 31st, the survivors received a communication from the Spartan-II Rose-788, who had taken refuge in an underground Office of Naval Intelligence facility. Despite having arrived at the provided set of coordinates successfully, they found no suitable area to land their aircraft and were intercepted and shot down by banshees, leaving only a couple of survivors including Adeline, who suffered a moderate concussion. They were rescued by the Spartan who fought off approaching Covenant forces and withdrew with them into the bowels of the nearby facility. As the Covenant breached the facility, Adeline, Rose and the survivors boarded the Razor-class prowler Thousand and One Nights and escaped off-world.
===Endgame of the Human-Covenant War===
As the Human-Covenant War reached it's conclusion, and as the Covenant began it's assault on Earth, Adeline saw combat across the planet until the conclusion of the battle, upon which she was requested by the Marine Corps and subsequently left the Air Force for them.
===Forefather War===
As the Forefathers and the S'southi Armada began their rampage across the Milky Way Galaxy, Adeline found herself as a highly skilled and experienced pilot serving under James Coleman, one of the UNSC's most decorated naval officers. A survivor of major engagements including the Fall of Antis, she became familiar with the S'southi's unique fighting style and tactics and was chosen to take part in Operation: RESOLUTE HOPE, the final engagement of the war and desperate gamble by the Galactic Alliance. 
====Second Battle of Installation 01 and Death====
"Lima-251 down.. requesting immediate assistance. Hello?.. Is anybody still there?.." - Adeline Jaccoud's final comm transmissions and presumably her last words before her death.
Adeline Jaccoud was deployed in the early stages of the Second Battle of Installation 01, piloting a pelican during the Assault on Point Charlie where she assisted ground forces by providing vital armour reinforcements. After the library had been secured, she flew the Spartans John-117, Theo-783 and Rose-788 to the control room under the cover of night, and after the three had successfully captured the control room with the support of Fireteam India she assisted in deploying reinforcements to defend it.
As the Abyss Facility was designated as the GA's next point-of-attack, Adeline alongside the remainder of the UNSC's aerial assets on the ring deployed the UNSC's combined ground forces to the facility and took part in the aerial engagement that took place within the gigantic cave system. After the S'southi had retreated into the Abyss facility and had been pursued by the three Spartans and Fireteam India, Adeline and the rest of the aerial assets regrouped with surviving marines and began to retreat as the ring came out of slipspace above Installation 00, where a gigantic engagement between the combined navies of the Galactic Alliance and the S'southi Armada was underway. Binding Enlightenment and his personal guards deployed to the ring itself and the newly-arrived S'southi aircraft harassed the retreating UNSC forces to limited success. Unluckily, Adeline was one of the few aircraft that the S'southi had managed to shoot down while the evacuations were underway, and she crashed into a ridge overlooking the entrance to the Abyss. As the ring was successfully activated by the three Spartans and Binding Enlightenment killed, her fate was sealed. Adeline's final moments were spent watching the Galactic Alliance's fleet retreat in space, knowing she had fulfilled her purpose and that the war had been won, before being wiped from existence.