Stella Steele

**Stella Steele** serves as the Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit's Chief Intelligence Analyst, supervising and directing the Intelligence Center and ensuring the Field Agents are equipped with the most detailed intelligence packets before they go on missions. Stella was born to a Michael and Tara Steele, two wealthy parents, on July 1st, 1998. As a child, she had a prestigious childhood but grew up to hate the isolated life her parents had set for her. Thanks to her father, Stella developed a knack for computers and anything electronic. She attended Largo High School in Largo, Florida in 2012 where she was on track to be an intern at the National Forensic Science Technology Center, an institution that was independent at the time before being fully directed by Florida International University. Upon studying at the NFSTC and by the end of her senior year in high-school, she was recommended by one of the civilian instructors there to have her move to the FBI field office in Washington DC to work as an Intelligence Intern. Working at the Bureau for a year, she was scouted out by Director Saul Eckhart where he offered her to join the Unit as the Chief Intelligence Analyst.

### Aliases

Angel ActualChief

Stell'

Control Freak

### Affiliation

Federal Bureau of Investigation (Formerly 2016-2017)Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit (2017-Present)

### Occupation

Intelligence Intern (Formerly 2016-2017)Chief Intelligence Analyst (2017-Present)

## Biography

### Early-life

Stella Steele was born to Michael and Tara Steele, two wealthy British-American individuals that worked in the private sector for paramilitary companies. Luckily, both parents were emotionally and physically available for Stella and had time to be parents to her. Stella went to a private elementary school where she learned certain crafts early on, such as learning Italian and Spanish and developed her own computer system, which would later be her forte. However, growing up, Stella did not make that many friends, and the other kids in her school saw her as a loner as she liked to work alone and be by herself. She was also called a "control freak" because she acquired dozens of computer parts and kept it for herself in class, to include she would sit in front of her teachers to grade her work so she can have the assignments back as soon as possible. More and more students called her "The Control Freak", and she began to resent it but kept up with her practices.

Despite her English roots, she actually developed the American accent instead of an English accent, which disappointed her mother, Tara.

Her home life was not much better either. The Steele family lives in a small, rich gated community. While her parents were conducting their PMC business from home, she considered the environment to be lifeless despite the love and affection she received like any other normal child. Her parents thought that the prestige status would be normal for her as a child. The other children in Stella's neighborhood were spoiled, entitled brats, some with abusive parents. She had not seen much violence, as Stella wasn't typically allowed anywhere outside her gated neighborhood. After school, she would sometimes resent going home and not do anything, but she coped with this as she started bringing home some of the computers from school. Michael Steele found out and to Stella's surprise, accepted what she wanted to do.

### High-School Career

In 2012, Stella enrolled in Largo High where she aimed to be on track for the NFSTC Internship program. As a freshman, she was selected out of 100 students to attend. She excelled in her general classes, as well as her electives which were Computer Coding, Crime Analysis, and Data Analysis. She had exemplary grades and demonstrated professional skill in her work. One of the school's technicians noticed her work on computers and data triaging. Stella has a keen eye for spotting anything out of the ordinary and is proficient in literally reading in-between the lines. She was later recommended by Largo High to attend the NFSTC institution to work as an intern and work with current and retired law enforcement to help hone her skills in computers and analysis.

She spent most of her time, after school, at the NFSTC's tech lab, working on exploiting computers, phones and other forms of technology. She would also go onto to learn more of Crime Scene Investigation work, helping detectives and forensics piece together crime scenes. Her skill level compared to the instructors was, of course, lower than theirs due to their years of experience, but most of the instructors thought that Stella had a natural instinct when piecing together crime scenes and identifying technological problems.

As the school years went by, Stella's parents gave her more social freedom than she was used to; allowing to her stay out later in the day so long as she returned by curfew. She also bought her first car in her sophomore year with the help of her parents. Stella still struggled with making friends, and her work ethic affected her abilities to make more friends. In class, she hoarded most of the technological equipment and paperwork that helped her with her studies. Stella still prefers to work alone and whenever projects were assigned, she volunteered to do it herself, instead of having a partner. She did however, met one friend that didn't see Stella as the "control-freak" everyone thought her to be and said that Stella just had a decent work-ethic. Erica Mays and Stella became good friends and often hung out after school. New to having friends, Stella struggled with what being friends actually meant. Erica, however, knew of Stella's struggles and helped her make more friends and helped her learn what it means to have a friend. Erica also volunteered to help with a project that Stella was struggling with: Fixing a computer.

Surprised, Erica asked what was going on with Stella and she replied that she simply had a block. Eventually, Stella grew angry and frustrated as she couldn't solve the problem. Erica lent her hand and solved the problem within five minutes, which only made Stella even more angry, but Erica calmed her down, saying it was okay to not know something. Stella is used to knowing all of the answers, and during crime scene work, the one rule she was told was that she wasn't going to know everything, and Stella tried her best to defy that rule.

Once during a Crime Scene, Stella was invested in a homicide and made copies of the case files report for herself and made sure to keep it secret from the law enforcement officials working the case.

#### Tragedy Hits

At home, Stella's mother grew distant as her private sector work became increasingly more active, and required her to be out of the house often. Tragically, sometime before 2016, Stella's father, was killed in an out-of-state trip in a "training-accident." An enraged Stella went to the field office where her parents worked at, and both her mother and the senior officers in charge did not disclose the actual reason as to how her father died. Stella blamed her mother for not being there for either her and her father and thus had a falling out.

At the funeral, no words were spoken between Stella and her mother. Their relationship became fractured to the point where Stella had asked Erica if she could stay at her place some nights.

In Spring 2016, just four months after the death of her father, Stella decided to infiltrate the field office where her parents worked at. She created a fake badge and illegally gained access to their archives via a remote hack through a software she got from the NFSTC. A sealed file to which she decrypted revealed that her father was actually murdered somewhere in New York by an unknown private military company. Stella confronted her mother about what happened, which would be the first conversation the two would have in months. Unfortunately, Tara continued to deny the truth and thought it wasn't any of Stella's business. Instead, Tara became upset that Stella broke into her work place and illegally obtained classified files. Tara decided not to call the police on her own daughter, but not out of love, but to protect her business, which she legally owned 100%. After high-school, the instructors at NFSTC put in a recommendation to the FBI field office in Washington DC to work as a Data Analyst as a full-time job.

With Stella's relationship with her mother destroyed, she saw it as an opportunity to leave home and follow her own path that her father once supported in her younger years. Before leaving Florida, she says her farewells to Erica and says she was grateful that she learned how to make friends because of her.

### Working in Washington D.C.

In the summer of 2016, Stella earned the position of a junior analyst, supporting the field agents in triaging data critical to their assignments. At the field office, she learned new technologies and methods that would help increase her proficiency at her craft. She befriended It was around this time where she had several run-ins with Sergeant II Saul Eckhart who was part of DC Metro's Special Reaction Team. The DC FBI field office would uncover a massive gun-running operation and read in DC's Metro SRT. Saul Eckhart, recently out of the hospital from an injury, led his SRT unit, Vulture Team to uncover stash houses and arrest the preparators of the gun-running operation. Their success was largely in thanks to Stella's exploitation skills, as she received evidence critical to uncovering the criminal food chain. Saul and Stella would continue to work together for several more cases, until Saul was medically discharged; just before his leave, Saul said to Stella that he could use her one day because of her skills.