Annalee-B220

Annalee-B220, formerly Annalee Tesarik, was a SPARTAN-III operator who was active during the Human-Covenant War. Notably, Annalee was one of twelve SPARTAN-III's pulled from Beta Company by to staff Rear Admiral Darren Cohen's Diamond Initiative—an off-the-books increase for Beta Company's graduating class. Annalee is best known for her role with Beta Company's Team Golf and, later, as Diamond Team's Commanding field officer.
An expert rifleman and a hand-to-hand savant, Annalee had always been one of the more deftly oriented warriors in Beta Company. Focusing on maintaining a level of expertise across most field weaponry made her one of the better versed in combined operations, procurement, and general battlefield tactics. Annalee's exploits as the leader of Diamond Team set her on track to be one of ONI's most efficient operators and an undeniably key asset in the Diamond Initiative's Xeno-Exploitation role, which would prove to be one of the war's most important factors.
Annalee's Spartan career is one that would constantly test her mental resiliency as well as her ability to adapt and lead. With her early life marred by inability to maintain control of her own destiny, her struggle to keep her head, and a tendency to fall in line with others who were quick to use her for gain, her greatest asset became her propensity to overcome unforeseen adversity. At her core, Annalee is nothing short of a adept warrior and a stubborn survivor.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Annalee Lyra Tesarik was born on February 20th, 2170 in the Corrotoman Arcology Hospital. Corrotoman Arcology was a small walled city located on , far in the northern hemisphere and away from most major settlements on the planet. She was her parent's —Antonia Doorman and Mikal Tesarik— first and only child.
Antonia Doorman, Annalee's mother, fled to Mars as a refugee seeking political asylum in 2168. Due to her work as a controversial Bio-Engineer and political actor for rogue elements in the field, she had put her life at great risk. Fearing imprisonment or political retribution, Doorman chose to flee Earth leaving behind her only living relative: her mother. With her career on Earth forced to a standstill, and her reputation dragged through mud, she sought the less restrictive government on Mars to continue her work. When she left for Mars, she had forfeit any hope of maintaining a normal life or family and focused entirely on her work and ideology.
Upon arrival on the Martian frontier, Doorman began work again for the that had supported her work on Earth. Shortly thereafter, she met another young scientist, Mikal Tesarik, while working on a high risk chemical augmentation project. Tesarik, a veteran Combat Medic from the , was beginning a new career as a . Tesarik took a quick liking to the young Doorman, and after a short period of courtship, the two married after finding that their work promised a potential mutual partnership—their ideologies in line with one another. 
Shortly after Annalee was born, radical changes in the United Earth Government started to affect Tesarik's work on Mars as it had on Earth. The couple, feeling as though their work and ideologies were unwelcome in this new order, sought to join a secretive colonization effort begun by former comrades of Mikal Tesarik. During this phase of their lives, Doorman was rocketed to a more political position as the prospect of her augmentation project was seen as an important development in the battle for sovereignty in the Sol system and beyond.
While her parents fought to maintain both their ideals and livelihood, Annalee's early childhood appeared to her standard and uneventful. She was friends with several Corrotoman children, and fondly remembered playing along the rooftops of the tightly packed buildings in her neighborhood. As an "Arcology Rat" she and the other children used these tightly packed homes to learn a sense of balance and agility as they played on roofs moreso than the often-narrow, and filthy streets.
However standard her childhood was, Annalee did acknowledge her parent's abnormal attention given to her. Her parents, right or wrong, saw her as an advanced child. Even as a toddler, Annalee's memorization skills were sharp and she was an adept learner of language. By age three, Annalee was fluent in Standard English, Pidgin Martian, and Czech. Her parents, ever the scientists, made sure to study both anthropological linguistic and standard linguistic literature to better teach and mold Annalee as a . Annalee would recall to many Spartan comrades that her father would constantly play memory games with her with anything from vid games to Latin flash cards, working hard to hone her sense as sharply as he could. She would, however, avoid mentioning the other sort of attention that she often garnered from her mother. Doorman, seeing the above-average development of her daughter, sought to use her daughter as an unwilling test subject—a practice which had been shunned by science for nearly 200 years. Doorman sought to learn how she might either enhance Annalee's development with her already semi-complete work, or she thought to start her work over and study the bio-mechanics of her daughter's brain in the hopes that, eventually, this could lead to a new high-grade mental stimuli that she could synthesis as a new augmentation.
In late June of 2173, the family would leave their Martian home in Corrotoman Arcology after they were alerted to an impending UNSC loyalist raid. Annalee's mother, now a high ranking colonization official, was thrust into the top position after their ship's captain was killed in a UNSC raid. After a month of fleeing their home, the family finally joined and united with the crew of the Ambrosia Infinata. The Infinata, a 1.5 Kilometer long Pre-Slip Space Enzmann-type ship, was manned by a crew of twenty orderlies, with space for two hundred passengers. The Infinata came with suites of then state-of-the-art Cryostasis Modules with which the crew and passengers would be placed in stasis until reaching their destination. 
Due to the nature of the Infinata's mission, it's tracking beacons were removed or deactivated and it purposely never reported it's vector or flight plan with the proper authorities. As such, the ship was never a target of Operation: SLOW BURN, a UNSC operation to recover Pre-Slip Space colonization ships that were then caught in a sort of "technological limbo", traveling in interstellar space at sub-light speeds. The Tesarik family, Including Annalee, were set in Cryo-Sleep on August 12, 2173 on a vector towards , the proposed colony location.
=== Awakening ===
On July 15, 2534, the reported the activation of a faint and short distress beacon roughly 2 Light-Years from the Green Hills system. The Signal Corps also had reason to believe that the activity recorded afterwards indicated a Covenant presence that hadn't been known prior. As such, the newly christened Boudica was sent to investigate, along with a detachment: Green Team.
On July 23, The Boudica arrived in observation range of the distress call. Upon scanning a debris field, the crew determined that a Covenant cruiser had attacked a small contingent of Human Junker ships which were the origin of the distress call detected a week earlier. The ships had been thoroughly decimated by the Covenant cruiser, but not before one had presumably rammed the Cruiser, forcing it to withdraw and repair. What the crew didn't expect to find, though, was that some of the debris was from a Enzmann-type ship that had been sheared into larger sections by the Cruiser's pulse laser turrets. With the rediscovery of the Ambrosia Infinata, the Boudica's mission changed to asset denial. Green Team deployed to the ship to ensure that the Ambrosia Infinata's computers did not contain any information that might lead back to Earth if the Covenant returned to investigate the wreck further.
While on the Infinata, Green Team, led by CPO Kenneth-139 stumbled upon an intact Cryo-Suite aboard the vessel. All but one of the Cryotubes had either long since malfunctioned, or had been manually powered down after the Infinata was cut from it's main power source. There was, however, one cryo-tube which remained on battery back-up. This was Annalee's. The Spartan team then moved quickly to extract Annalee's pod and brought her aboard the Boudica, saving her from an almost sure death.
==== ONI's Ward ====
Annalee would remain in custody of ONI as she recovered in a Naval hospital. Regulations set in place by Operation: SLOW BURN dictated that any individual recovered in such a manner would remain in state custody pending their health and mental well-being, considering the potential shock of waking centuries later. 
For a month after her rescue Annalee would remain under constant watch as her body suffered severe cryo-burns, and she had several bouts of pneumonia due to the failed thaw. For the remainder of 2534 and early 2535, Annalee also was in a partial-diabetic state due to the primitive cryo-methods used when she was put in stasis. It was due to these same methodologies that Naval Doctors also noted very low-white bloodcell counts, and irregularity in her bone marrow. The extrapolation being, eventually, that the cryonics being used were running at less than efficient stasis, and thus some of Annalee's cell systems added more-or-less a half a year to her physical age, while others ceased function. As she was in hospital for an extended period dealing with these issues, she was routinely placed in a genetic database as part of a planned "integration program" where she would be vetted for eventual foster care by Naval Psychologist and State Psychologists.
Annalee's genetic map, quite unexpectedly, indicated that a sort of gene-therapy had been done prior to her cryo-stasis. The augmentations performed were specifically done to affect her brain activity and were studied at length, and eventually determined to originate from a compound known as 009762-OO (one which had been made illegal by the UNSC Medical Corps). Knowing the detriment this chemical could cause her brain in the long term, ONI's internal medical corps began working to find ways to counteract the inevitable deterioration. After her stabilization and recovery, Annalee was brought to ONI's headquarters in where her augmentation was further studied. 
==== Life in Sydney ====
During her time in Sydney, Annalee would give periodic testimony about the Ambrosia Infinata. As part of her testimonies, she wove a timeline of her encounter with her would-be "Body Snatchers". As was recalled in her testimony: the so-called Junkers had woken her and two other survivors prior to the Covenant's discovery of the vessel. One of these survivors, she would explain, had been her own father. She witnessed as the Junkers vented the atmosphere in both his and another man's tubes, killing them by asphyxiation. Her testimony would eventually help constitute a case for the UEG to successfully indict the Junkers on charges of: Murder, the Intent to Traffic Humans for Sexual Exploitation, and the Intent to Harvest and Sell Organs Illegally. The Junkers, of whom Annalee never cared to learn their identity, were sentenced for the rest of their lives to an UNSC prison on Reach after Annalee had been conscripted.
These years Annalee lived in Sydney were also spent in foster care. Annalee would be "homed" with different ONI minders, most professional Psychologists or Doctors, in familial dormitories in the HIGHCOM bunker-system. She generally didn't care for these fosters as she felt she was treated more as an experiment than a person. This changed when she was six. 
Annalee, shortly before her sixth "birthday" (now legally the day she was thawed), was flagged as a potential candidate for the program by Section 3 Doctors who had become familiar with her history. Already under ONI's microscope for years, she had shown great promise for the program due to her heightened brain activity and, alternatively, the general interest that ONI Section 3 had in her performance under the use of compound 009762-OO. Her augmentation had presumably made her candidacy purposeful on top of all other things. By this time, ONI had developed counter-compounds to prevent irreversible brain damage, and they began to give Annalee small doses until her vitals normalized and indicated no dangers of grey-matter decay. Though not intended as such, this procedure would later become an off-the-books augmentation used in for Gamma Company Spartans.
Due to the strange, and sensitive nature of her origins, sent his orderlies to meet and address Annalee personally when she was recovering from her series of counter-augmentations. She showed an intense interest when told about the prospect of fighting the Covenant. While she knew that Junkers had killed her father, her mother's Cryo-Suite had been on a severed portion of the Infinata—ONI minders had made use of this fact for years when testing her reactions to anger, as well as forming and feeding her hatred of the Covenant. Annalee told Ambrose's orderlies that if they made her past a secret, she would volunteer to enter the Spartan ranks so she could escape the clutches of ONI. 
With her history squared away, and her future as a Spartan secure, Annalee would be given a chance to leave the walls of the Sydney facility in 2536 to attend a boarding school. This was done, mostly, to catch her up on a general education before she became a Spartan as she lacked any formal knowledge on some subjects. Marcella Todd, a Naval doctor who had cared for Annalee during her original recovery, offered to foster Annalee in her home so that she wouldn't be required to return to ONI's Sydney compound. 
Though her husband James was unaware the plans that ONI had for Annalee, Marcella would incidentally discover Annalee had been held against her will for years at the Medical Facility. Marcella, feeling frustration and empathy Annalee, while also lacking a child of her own, secretly attempted to make inroads with the UNSC Medical Corps to allow her and James to adopt Annalee. Unsurprisingly, during her time with the Todds, Annalee would excel in school but would struggle to socialize with other children. As Marcella and James showed her care she hadn't felt since losing her parents, she would rightfully became hesitant as her deadline to become a Spartan approached. Ultimately, though, Annalee would leave the Todd's custody when her schooling was done, and she was spirited away to Onyx in 2537. Her hospital documentation would list her as "deceased", giving the Medical Corps reason to rebuke the Todds requests after Annalee was already long gone. 
=== Spartan Trainee ===
As a Trainee, Annalee was assigned to Beta Company’s Team Golf. Though several Spartans were initially cycled through the fireteam, Golf would be focused to Nalini-B099, Wei-B258, Ahmed-B077, and herself during their early days of training. Nalini was given the reins as Golf's team leader not long after the group became better established. Thereafter, the Spartans-to-be quickly created what they would describe as a close-knit family-unit.
Annalee also became close friends with several other Spartan trainee's throughout the company, but in particular took a liking and became very close friends with Team Leader of Oscar Team: Spencer-B337 (who answered as "Spike"). This friendship between the two quickly blossomed and often resulted in their working in tandem either in training missions or early war games. Annalee's strong connection to both Teams Golf and Oscar often made her a cherished "peacekeeper" between the two, as competition between teams was rampant. As time went on Annalee and Spike's relationship became much closer, and Spike's drive to be a stand-out leader created rifts among the other groups which Annalee often found herself defending for Spike's sake. On several occasions when Team wasn't a factor, the two often worked together and were seen as a sharp, and potent duo. Observers within the Company had apparently flagged the two as potential , but were superseded by AI Fluellen of the secretive Diamond Initiative in 2543.
==== Operation: TANGLE ====
Mendez would abruptly order the teams back to Onyx, early, where Nalini would face her Court Martial. While en route to Onyx, a hostage situation developed aboard ONI's remote Bravo 9 Listening Station located in . By chance, the Spartans were aboard the closest UNSC vessel. Mendez, given the choice by the captain of the ship, gave the green light for the teams to respond.
The incident had been carried out by the crew of the notorious Junker Pirate vessel Mata Hari. The crew of the Mata Hari raided the remote Bravo 9 Relay Station for supplies, but quickly found themselves in the middle of a hostage crisis gaining the ire of the UNSC. 
=== The Diamond Initiative ===
==== Project CHRYSANTHEMUM ====
Not long after Annalee and Team Golf returned to Onyx to finalize their training, the Spartans of Beta Company were alerted to the decision to Graduate 300 of the 418 trainees. Initially all of Team's Golf, November, and Oscar were not listed to graduate and instead were selected as "washouts" that had automatically been assigned to train the next company of SPARTAN-III's. Annalee was devastated, and immediately thought back to her chance to leave with Nalini, who was now gone and given a new identity. Within days, however, it was apparent that Mendez and Ambrose had something else in mind. 
When it came time for the potential graduates to leave for the UNSC Hopeful, Annalee and Team Golf were eventually ordered aboard and all of Golf, November, and Oscar were to receive Spartan augmentations, though it was notably off the record. Annalee would question this directly to Mendez who only assured her that it was not a mistake. He explained how all three teams had been carefully constructed by a team within ONI, and they would now work together pending a separation from the rest of Beta Company. When questioned further, Mendez could only reiterate that this was hardly done in error, and Annalee and the eleven other Spartans would be fully fledged Spartans, much to her relief.
Of the Beta Company graduates, including the off-books twelve, all received successful augmentations and were soon after put through even more rigorous training to test their new limits. During this time, all graduates were equipped with the upgraded Semi-Powered Infiltration armor and readied for impending operations. Once they had again proven their abilities, and were familiar with their new equipment, they would spend the next year conducting a series of smaller operations, generally against Insurrection targets, but occasionally against highly vulnerable Covenant targets as well. During this phase, although officially under Colonel Ackerson's command, the teams of Golf, November, and Oscar would almost always work together and were referred to as the "Diamond Lance" on direction from Rear Admiral Darren Cohen. Cohen, the benefactor of the off-books augmentation of the Diamond Lance, had managed to arrange for the teams to work closely before they would, eventually, be reassigned to the yet to be incorporated 90th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion.
==== Operation: CARTWHEEL ====
TBD
==== Operation: RAUCOUS SOLITUDE ====
In early 2545, the Diamond Lance were officially separated from the rest of Beta Company as instructed by Cohen. Though the Diamond Lance had yet been notified, they were now officially under the Umbrella of Cohen's Diamond Initiative. There had been one caveat, however, to their impending operation. While in negotiation for access to Spartans, Ackerson agreed to release full control on the Diamond Lance on the condition that they would conduct an operation that would test a new in-field data collection apparatus called STARS , as well as agree to hit a target that would both benefit Ackerson's goal to slow the Covenant war machine as well as Cohen's goal to collect vital Xeno-Technology. Cohen agreed, and Operation: RAUCOUS SOLITUDE was compiled and planned accordingly. 
Operation: RAUCOUS SOLITUDE was a high-risk, Spartan-only operation and it tragically resulted with most of the Diamond Lance KIA in the first hour of the mission. Annalee almost immediately found herself entirely split off from Team Golf within the first minutes of touch down, knowing that Joel-B404 and Ahmed-B077 had both died within mere minutes of landing. She was in on-again-off-again contact with Covenant patrols for several hours before retreating down from the plateau where their target had been located. 
After a week of avoiding patrols, and stockpiling food, weapons, and ammunition, Annalee had managed to infiltrate the outer perimeter of the which contained their target. She would accidentally bump into Andrew-B191 and Spencer-B337 —Drew and Spike— while infiltrating the camp, and the trio devised a plan to destroy the Citadel with a and attempt to escape the planet with at least something of value. After an intense firefight at the base of the Citadel tower, made easier by distractions caused by Drew and the unexpected arrival of a volunteer force led by Waimarie "Lucky" Paiwei to help extract the Spartans, the three were able to swipe a working data storage device and fight their way off of the Citadel tower and onto the UNSC Boudica, which arrived to retrieve the operatives. Sadly, Spike would sacrifice himself to allow for Annalee and Drew and the remaining ODST's to escape, leading them to believe they were the only Spartan survivors. Eventually, this would learned to be false as Mary-B300 and Wei-B258 would escape the surface via other methods. 
==== Interlude on Reach ====
When the Boudica finally arrived back with survivors to UNSC space, Darren Cohen was dismayed to learn that had already concluded months earlier, and there remained no SPARTAN-III’s to replenish the Diamond Initiative's personnel goal. The stinging irony, he would realize, was that the STARS system directed the Spartans to a highly inoperable landing zone, and this could have indicated a potential flaw in their design and maybe even the postponement of Operation: TORPEDO. As the mission took longer than expected, and the Boudica had enacted the , which dictated they make several random jumps away from Earth before returning to Human-Controlled Space, they arrived back too late to make a difference in the outcome.
Though the project now had a terribly dismal outlook as it had lost nearly all it's Spartan Operatives, the survivors had dragged working Xeno-technology back with them, and the data it contained was a game changer. Cohen, with aid from the Initiative's AI Fluellen, would seek to discover why the Covenant had put so much effort into learning about the artifact they referred to as the Guiding Light. The rest of the program, of course, would change inherently due to the lack of Spartans for a larger strike force. This change prompted Cohen to make sure both the Spartans in his charge received promotions and be placed into leadership positions, with Annalee now being the leading ground commander for this new team. His visions of a Battalion was diminished, and he instead planned to focus the small Spartan team to be an elite, intelligence team that would seek out leads that stemmed from Operation: RAUCOUS SOLITUDE. 
On return to , Annalee was taken out of an emergency cryo-stasis and her wounds healed. After her recovery, and on Cohen's request, she would briefly be enrolled in the in preparation for her role in the Diamond Initiative and it's impending mission on Mendel. She would take an accelerated "shotgun" semester, and would only remain there for two months. Cohen saw fit to give Annalee time to mull over the events she had experienced and to find a better resolve as a new leader. Cohen felt by having Annalee slow down and take time to return to duty, rather than to give her an expedient field promotion, that it might show her his desire for her to succeed. 
On the day of her graduation, Annalee received a brief meeting with the Superintendent of the Academy, and was surprised to find that one of the two witnesses to her graduation was none other than Kenneth-139, the Spartan who led the team that saved her years prior. Kenneth recognized her, and she him. Their short reunion was one which Kenneth struggled with the idea he had likely condemned her to life as an ONI tool, and she made clear she believed she was well enough in control of her own destiny. The two parted on good terms.
=== Diamond Team & The Battle for Mendel ===
==== Operation: SWEEP ====
==== The Centroid ====
== Relations ==
== Service Summary ==
=== Major Assignments ===
* — 2537 to October, 2545
* — November, 2545 to January 9th, 2546
* Diamond Team, — January 9th, 2546 
=== Dates of Rank ===
Insignia	Rank 	Date	Circumstance
 	Spartan Trainee (E-1) 	2537	Conscription
 	Spartan Recruit (E-2) 	2538	Promotion
 	Spartan Team Leader (E-3) 	2542	Promotion
 	Spartan Recruit (E-2) 	2542	Demotion
 	Petty Officer Second Class (E-5)	2543	Promotion (Grad.)
 	Petty Officer First Class (E-6) 	2545	Promotion
 	Lieutenant (O-3) 	2546	Promotion (OCS)
== Appearances ==
=== In Circulation ===
*Centroid
*Index Alpha
**Bygone
=== To Be Distributed ===
*Apeiron
== Trivia ==
* Annalee's character named was originally "Kelsey-220" when she was written as a character for a Machinima called "Seekers".
* The name "Annalee" is a Latin derivation of "Hannah" and "Lee" meaning "grace" and "shelter" respectively. 
* "Lyra", Annalee's middle name, is the name of recognized by the International Astronomical Union. It is Latin for , a smaller harp-like instrument. The choice to give this name was to honor the Jewish heritage of the voice talent from Annalee's original depiction due to the importance of the instrument in Israeli/Middle Eastern history. 
* "Teserik" is a Czech surname meaning either "small carpenter" or "unskilled carpenter". It also shares a phonetic similarity to the Latin term "Tesatrix" meaning either a "woman who has left a will" or a "woman who has left a legacy".
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