Ninditha Alvi

## **Physical Description**

Ninditha is a rather athletic and bulky woman in her early 30s stemming from Earth’s Indian and Middle Eastern providence though her family had lived on Mars since it was colonized. She is 6’7 out of armor and 6’9 in as well as weighing in at about 295 lbs. Compared to other Spartan IV’s she is larger and more muscular, being able to lift much more than the average IV. This also was the same before she was augmented.  Working out and bodybuilding is her hobby off duty. Constantly she would be working out with her fellow teammates, running, lifting extremely heavy objects. It took her years but she is well versed in the art of body fitness and is perfectly willing to expand her knowledge to others in the task force.

## **Personality Description**

Strong, passionate, and fiercely loyal to the UNSC. These are traits Nindintia had exhibited since she was just a child. Being from a military family with such a high standing in the UNSC she was pressured by her parents, peers, and herself to meet the high standard her ancestors put before her. As a result, she had developed this never quit mentality, always striving to be better at everything she did but not in a stuck up way too condensed or demean her brothers and cisterns in arms. In fact, out of the fireteam, she is the more sociable and friendly with outsiders provided that their ideals align with hers or the UNSC. Anyone who served or is currently in the UNSC already has her respect regardless of occupation or position. On the other hand, if you deserted, showed that you are a coward, selfish, or joined the insurrection she would want nothing to do with you. The UNSC is her life, her blood, and the reason why she continues to fight. She would gladly die protecting it or bring it back.

Early on in her life, Nindintha developed an aptitude for technology and computer systems which she embraced after boot camp when she was assigned to the UNSC Corps Of Engineers. She had learned to fine-tune it as she went on with her career in the military and eventually became one of the smartest Spartans in the branch when it came to technology despite never fully attending an academic institution such as college. In combat, she typically is the person to bypass obstacles when force isn’t an option. The spartan would utilize drones, cyber attacks, and holographic attacks to disorientate the enemy though like the rest of the squad she isn’t afraid to blow stuff up and go in guns blazing. After a few months, using the Engineer class spartan armor and realizing how ineffective it was against cloaked targets as well as how overreliant it was on over-engineered scanners and systems that would break often with just a little bit of force Nindintha put in a request for a specialized Achilles-class armor specifically amplifies her technical abilities making her an even more dangerous opponent than her being just in regular GEN 2 armor.

## **Biography**

Born on the planet Mars in the city of Kenosha only a few months after the start of the human covenant war, Nindintha was raised as a continuing legacy of a long line of career military men and women who have either lived or died as heroes in the wars they fought in. The Alvi generational lineage had its roots deep in military service dating back to the creation of the UNSC during the interplanetary wars of the 22nd century. By the time Nindintha was born both her parents were decorated veterans of the UNSC’s war against the insurrection in the outer colonies. Both were Legion of Honor recipients and were very respected across the military community. When Ninditha was born, they retired and settled down on Mars near the primary HQ of the ODSTs where they continued to stay in contact with old war buddies and raise their daughter.

Growing up Ninditha was extremely well off due to her parents’ reputation. Everything and anything she could ask for was provided to her, but to say she never had to work a day for anything would be a gross misunderstanding. She was raised with the value that everything she did was a means to an end, that end being, of course, a legacy worthy of the UNSC and her family. It was a given that she was going to enlist in the military and with her parents status she wouldn’t have to do much to get the best duty stations in all of UNSC space but in the eyes of her family and herself, working as if she didn’t have an advantage over everyone else was a requirement of life. Nindintha worked hard to be the best at everything she did and even if she failed she would try and try again until she got it right. To others, it looked like an obsession meant to reinforce how much more privileged she was compared to everyone else when it wasn’t the case. Regardless it would affect her social relationships in her life with it being most prominent in her grade school years. Nindintha went to a school where the majority of her classmates were either the sons or daughters of military personnel assigned to the ODST Headquarters or the installations surrounding it. She did well academically and was a teacher’s pet in most situations with them holding her as an example that everyone else should strive for. This made her public enemy number one outside of the classroom. She was bullied by her peers, ridiculed, shamed. Throughout school, she never had anyone she could truly call a friend, the way she coped was just to prove them wrong and continue to be the best regardless of what they thought. Working out became her hobby and by the time she turned 16 no one wanted to pick on her anymore. Due to her high academic standing, she graduated early and went to enlist in the UNSC Marine Corps.

Boot Camp wasn’t difficult in a physical, academic, or mental sense though many of the problems that plagued Nanditha in her childhood continued in her training. Instead of being an all-time favorite of her drill instructors she was the all-time hated. She was held up to a much higher standard than the rest of her platoon due to her family name. Many things that would be extremely difficult for the other recruits were effortless for her which often made the DIs haze her even more. Though she did find solace with a group of trainees who were very much like her. Hercules Jones, Frederick Ivanson, Lorenzo Sykes, and Hydra Kaldari, all of whom were in the same platoon as her. They were the first and only people that Nindintha considered friends throughout her time at boot camp, the only people that really understood her; With the 5 of them together boot camp made all that better. Extremely motivated to be the best that they can be, the group completed boot camp as honor grads, even impressing the boot camp commander with their test scores in all fields. They were true patriots in the eyes of the staff and they noted that all of them had high promise in their future military careers. Unfortunately due to the covenant war being in full swing the group was broken up and sent to different fronts. Nindintha trained as a field technologies specialist putting her in an experimental weapons technology division of UNSC Corps Of Engineers.

Later that year 2542 she was deployed to the colony of Alluvion as a part of the UNSC’s battle plan to defend the planet after a massive Covenant assault force discovered it and invaded. She was assigned to a weapons research facility controlled by ONI’s Materials Division. Her squad’s mission was to take prototype weaponry produced by the facility’s scientists and utilize it on the front line. These missions typically brought them to battles where UNSC forces were outnumbered and needed a breakpoint to turn the tide. If the weapon worked then typically the battle would go in their favor, if it didn’t they didn’t have any additional support and would have to assist ground forces with the equipment they had. Her battalion casualty rate was high but that didn’t matter to the ONI researchers whether the prototypes ended up in failure or success; the data was all they cared about. Weeks would go by and eventually, the UNSC would be pushed back to their last remaining bases on the plant, one of them being the Research Facility Ninditha was assigned to. As a result of disrupted or destroyed supply lines by the Covenant her battalion, as well as the ONI research team, were forced to stay behind and help with enacting Cole protocol. They held out for several days with no support, each day a large swath of her unit was annihilated. Low supplies forced them into desperate defense where they would use everything and anything they got to hold the perimeter but even that wasn’t enough. On the last day only Ninditha’s squad was remaining out of a battalion of 500. The only reason the covenant hadn’t destroyed them was that they needed the technology that was stored in the facility but they didn’t know that all the data had already been destroyed. The ONI researchers managed to escape themselves due to unknown means All senior leadership was dead and the last UNSC evac point on the plant was several kilometers towards the coast of the continent. In a last-ditch effort to save her comrades, Ninditha came up with a plan. Using the facility’s fusion reactor as a makeshift bomb she would rig it to overload while they used their remaining time to steal a covenant phantom. She led them through the no-man's-land between the facility and the covenant’s forces, crawling through the mud and the bodies of the comrades that died before. The plan went off without a hitch and the survivors managed to escape to friendly lines in time for evacuation.

After returning to the fleet Ninditha was commended for her actions during the battle and was given the Silver Star as a result. An ODST scouter, impressed with her current and past achievements, referred the woman to the ODST enlistment survey program a lot earlier than most candidates though being the young age of 16 she needed to reach the rank of at least Lance Corporal in order to volunteer. For 4 years she fought in the outer and inner colonies serving as a technical specialist in many Marine Combat Engineering Divisions. Eventually, she reached the rank of Lance Corporal after the battle of Miridem and was sent to ODST training after singing the volunteer papers. ODST Training was grueling and difficult for the Marine, much more so than boot camp but having been in combat operations hundreds of times at that point it was just another mission to her. She graduated training in 2546 and was assigned to the 105th Shock Trooper Division 2nd battalion as a Technical Specialist just like she was in the Marines. For the next 6 years, she would participate in the battles of Sargasso, Skopje, both battles of Meridian, Arcadia with black ops assignments scattered in between each engagement. The woman managed to rack up quite a resume as well as reach the grade of Sergeant by the time of the Battle of New Jerusalem.

In 2552, as a part of a rapid offensive picket, Ninditha and her squad would be attached to support the 26th MEF in the UNSC’s attempt to retake New Jerusalem after it was lost by the covenant. By the time the battle started it quickly became a mass evacuation operation. The Covenant broke through UNSC lines and quickly overwhelmed fortified positions. Nindinthaintia’s squad assignment was to hold the line long enough for civilians to reach the evac points across the sector. Even with all their training and equipment, her team was being overwhelmed. During the battle, she discovered her old friends from boot camp were also fighting on the planet as platoon and squad leaders. While she was surprised to see them, after all, that time she fully expected them to be where they were as ODSTs and NCOs. Regardless, slowly but surely the ODSTs/Marines they were commanding were killed off by the Covenant advance, forcing the survivors to group up in one last desperate final defense. Nindintia and her old boot camp squad were forced back to the evacuation zones with the goal to hold as long as they could so that the last evacuation shuttles could leave the planet unscathed.

With little supplies, support, men, but a whole lot of willpower the 5 held their ground fighting tooth and nail against the Covenant. They got to the point where they had to use Covenant weaponry against them. They were losing and they knew it but they kept fighting. During the final minutes of the battle, Jonathan Crest gave the ultimate sacrifice for the rest of his team. He held off a pursuing covenant strike team with a damaged warthog MG gun while the rest of the team got to the evac transport. No amount of convincing would change the man’s mind which forced the team to leave him behind. Nindinta felt responsible for Jonathan’s death that day, for leaving him behind in addition to the many losses her initial team suffered during the battle, the squad was disbanded. Despite the loss of a UNSC world after reviewing the helmet cam footage of the team they were all commended and rewarded with medals and shore leave pending arrival on Earth for the latter.

Though rest would have to wait for the battle-hardened NCOs as upon arrival at the human homeworld and waking up from cryo they were welcomed to a Covenant invasion of Earth. They were quickly put back to active duty and assigned to a UNSC cruiser in low Earth orbit over Korea for a combat drop. Their mission was to defend the industrial centers and research facilities from covenant forces which ended up being largely successful. The fighting lasted for the rest of the year and eventually ended up as a cleanup op finding and eliminating Covenant stragglers. The war ended in 2553 and with the first class of Spartan IVs being selected NAVSPECWAR wanted their best to be a part of the program. Nindintha and the rest of her team were all offered to join the Spartan-IV program as a shock fireteam. Through Spartan training to augmentation, they stayed together and fought together as not friends but family. After graduation, they all agreed with Achilles seeing as they all embraced the idea of Greeks and Spartans during their history and academic training. All adopting their own unique nicknames/call signs Nindintha adopted the name “Nike” the greek goddess of victory which she found rather fitting after suffering the ordeal of the war. Continued her past position as a technical specialist in the fireteam being the expert in energy derived or particle weaponry, equipment, explosives, as well as drone and computer systems. For the next 5 years, they would perform admirably across the conflicts of the post-war galaxy being one of the top-performing Spartan-IV combat teams in the Spartan branch. After their last deployment, Ninditha would be detached from her fireteam to serve on a tour of duty as a part of the Task Force Omega Spartan contingent.