Carmen A497

Spartan III Carmen was a Spartan deployed in the Human-Covenant war between the years of 2531-2552. Like many of her Spartan allies, Carmen would meet her end on August 22nd, 2552 on the Planet Reach, where she perished due to damaged sustained from a Brute Chieftain's Gravity hammer.
Early Life (2517-2531)
Carmen (last name unknown) was a human female with brown hair and green eyes. Born on Eridanus II in 2517, Carmen was a very skilled academic, however her grades in more physical classes and sports were poor and barely passable. In 2520, her parents had another little girl. The little sister would be named Bailey. In 2530, the Covenant invaded and glassed Eridanus II. During the glassing, Carmen and Bailey were boarding civilian cargo ships ferrying people off-world to hopefully safety. The girls’ parents managed to get them on a transport just before it took off. The girls looked out the windows down at the spaceport and watched as a Covenant glassing beam came down and struck the spaceport where their parents had been. To this day it is unknown if the girls’ parents have survived. However, it is most likely they are deceased.
Spartan III Program (2531-2537)
The cargo ship then headed to the Planet Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system. Carmen had found Bailey a foster family to live with in New Alexandria, and in a year in 2531 she joined the UNSC under the Spartan III program. In the program a switch had seemed to flip in Carmen. After dealing with the emotional shock of her parents being taken from her, Carmen excelled in field training exercises and didn’t score top marks, but was definitely a soldier to be feared. From the academic side of training, she was an underachiever and barely passed into the programs further along stages. Being the last one to be inducted for augmentation being given the designation 497. 
Operation: HWACHA (2537)
Carmen-A497 participated in Operation: HWACHA wherein she boarded Covenant ships that were hiding out in the Bonanza asteroid cluster. Her astounding performance as reported in the reports led ONI to attempt to resuscitate her from some life-threatening wounds she would endure during the operation. Although ONI was able to save her life, they kept her official record as "KIA" as ONI had other plans for her in the future.
Service Under ONI (2537-2552)
Not many operations or details are known about Carmen-A497’s time serving directly under ONI. Only that they were highly redacted Black Ops that only a Spartan whose death had already been established in UNSC records could complete. Operations that were 100% of the time always solo.
Siege on New Alexandria (2552)
After protocol WINTER CONTINGENCY was established on the planet Reach in 2552 by Noble Team at Visegrad Relay, Carmen-A497 was tasked with traveling to Reach to aid in planetary defense. On August 22nd, 2552 Carmen-A497 was tasked with locating and reporting the condition of an ONI Section Three Cryogenics facility in New Alexandria. Whilst she was on her way to the facility, however, she was ambushed by a group of 4 Brute Chieftains who were on patrol commanding troops to eliminate as many human civilians as they could. Although Carmen-A497 fought hard, she didn’t last against the 4 Chieftains. After killing 3 of the 4, the 4th who was wounded, managed to secure a killing blow on Carmen by impaling the top of her head with the bladed side of his Gravity Hammer. After sustaining the injury, Carmen was able to get one last transmission out on an encrypted channel to her ONI handler due to the UA modification on her Mjolnir Mark V helmet; the injury wasn’t immediately fatal. The last unofficial transmission her ONI handler had received from her was: “Alpha Four-Nine-Seven Broken Arrow.” which told her ONI handler all he needed to know. She had been overwhelmed and would perish. The ONI handler was going to send a cleanup team to recover the body of a dead Spartan that shouldn’t be there, however, the handler’s supervisor decided against it, as the entirety of New Alexandria would be glassed by the Covenant, destroying the body anyways.
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