Holly Edmondson

**Holly "Sparks" Edmondson** is a Helios worker at Happy Valley in 2003. She works as an electrician on the base.

## History

In 2003, Holly is an electrician working for Helios at Happy Valley, Mars. Her coworkers nicknamed her Sparks due to her work.

After her and her fellow workers had their contracts changed at short notice. Along with the plan for the mission to capture the asteroid Goldilocks being changed from Mars to Earth orbit. They went on strike. Helios CEO Dev Ayesa would eventually break the strike by offering over $1 million to each worker if they crossed the line. Holly was one of only five workers who did not take the deal.

This decision would result in her being recruited to Ghost Ops. Ghost Ops was a plan formulated by Dev to steal the asteroid and place it into Martian orbit. Her and the other workers who did not cross were considered committed enough to the cause to be included. Her electrical experience was invaluable to the team. Helping to create a faux Ops-Com necessary to communicate with and hijack the capture ship *Ranger*. While also manipulating an elevator to allow the team to travel discretely to the otherwise sealed off lower levels of the base. North Korean commander Cho Byung Ho was able to discover the location of Ghost Ops, while investigating team member Miles Dale. due to the elevator however. As he noticed that Miles travelled on the elevator but did not get off at any level. When Cho followed Miles, he discovered Holly and Gerardo Ortiz-Niño, but was choked unconscious by fellow North Korean member of team Lee Jung-Gil.

When Lee realised that Cho needed medical attention to survive, Holly agreed with him, against Gerardo's complaints. Miles would again reveal the location of Ghost Ops to investigators. This time under torture from KGB and CIA agents Timur Avilov and Mike Bishop. Holly and the other members of Ghost Ops were able to escape in time, with the exception of Gerardo who was captured. She and the rest of the team were given sanctuary in the North Korean module of the base, under the command of Lee. While brainstorming ideas for how to complete the plan, Ed Baldwin realised there was a S-Band transmitter in the module, they could use to communicate with Samantha. Dev realized she could operate the engine overrides to bring Goldilocks into Martian orbit. Holly though realised this would mean that Samantha would have to conduct an EVA due to the location of the overrides. Samantha was successful in her mission. Leading to Goldilocks being brought into Martian orbit. Shortly after, the base security force under the command of Bishop tried to breach the North Korean module, with Holly and the rest of the team inside. Only being stopped by the remaining Helios workers, who led by Miles attacked the security force. Leading to a bloody battle, that was only stopped after base commander Danielle Poole was accidently shot by security member Nate Lowry. Holly and the rest of the base then seized their hostilities, instead watching Dr Dimitri Mayakovsky save Danielle's life.

## Notes

* For episode 4x08, the character was erroneously credited as "Holly Madison".

## See also

* Ghost Ops
* Gerardo Ortiz-Niño
* Veronica Hunt
* Samantha Massey

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 7: "Crossing The Line"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 8: "Legacy"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 9: "Brazil"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 10: "Perestroika"