PARADISA Application

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CHARACTER NAME: Kat S-320 (Lieutenant Commander Kat B-320 aka Noble Two)
FANDOM: Halo: REACH
CANON: The moment immediately preceding the sniper shot that kills her
WHAT THEY LOST: The Sprint armor enhancement (She would still have Armor Lock, but being that she's the reason the Sprint ability exists, it's the more important enhancement to her character). Her running abilities would be more on par with a regular human being, and she'd be losing the ability to sprint at Olympic level speeds with little rest in between.

ABOUT THE CHARACTER: Kat is from the Beta company of the Spartan-III program, which consisted of children aged 4-6, orphaned by the Covenant attacks on human colony planets, put through rigorous and grueling military training and bone and muscle augmentation. The Spartan-III program differed from the Spartan-II in that it pulled from a more generous (and less psychological and physically desirable) gene pool, and that its members were more or less destined for the high-risk 'suicide' missions.

Kat was one of the few Beta Company Spartan-IIIs pulled by Lt. Cmdr. Kurt S-051 and put into Noble Team for special reconnaissance ops that literally saved her from the massacre that was Operation: TORPEDO. As part of Noble Team, which consists of Spartan-IIIs representing Alpha and Beta companies, and one Spartan-II, Kat is the tactician and technician. She has brilliant hacking skills, and does the best she can with what she has as quickly as she can. She's able to jury-rig and splice and does whatever she can in order to get the results she wants. She does, however, have a tendency to delve much deeper than her mission usually requires, and this has gotten her in trouble more than once with ONI and the UNSC. This doesn't seem to worry her any, and she's been known to break in and alter their own systems to her own agendas (such as the case of the missing P_A(r)NCSI-AMA certification).

Despite that, she's got a healthy respect for authority, especially where Noble Leader (aka Carter A-259) is concerned. Carter and Kat are the two remaining original members of Noble Team, and as such have formed a rather tight bond. Being in a situation without him, she'd probably seek someone in a leadership position to report to. She may be one of the highest ranking Spartans, and she's more than willing and able to direct people under her and put together operations on her own, but she's used to having someone else just above her giving the orders. Her respect for authority is also shown through the fact that, although she doesn't seem to be bothered by other members of Noble Team referring to her by her given name Kat, she herself refers to the others by their respective callsigns; Noble Six, Noble Four, etc.

On top of her stellar technical skills, she's also extremely good at reading situations and people, and making the most out of severely limited INTEL. Her abilities here have been described as 'supernatural', hinting at a sort of instinct or sixth-sense as far as tactics are concerned. However, there have been a couple events where, for whatever reason, her situational awareness wasn't at its peak, and two moments in particular ended with disastrous results. One was during the op that resulted in her losing her arm, and the other resulted in her own death via sniper shot from an Elite in a Phantom that was passing by as she ran through an open area to get to the fallout bunker.

Noble Team is one of very few of the Spartan teams that worked closely with non-Spartan military groups, so Kat's had experience dealing with others outside of her own little Spartan 'family'. In Paradisa, she'd keep an eye out for competent fighters and warriors that might serve as a replacement Noble Team, most notably seeking out someone in a leadership position. If other members of Noble Team ever did show up, she would obviously fall very easily into her role with them, but wouldn't forget the alliances she had already forged in the castle, and would probably us them as additional support fire-teams in the case of hostile world-changes.

THIRD PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:

"When does he get off calling a demolition op Priority One-" Kat slows to a stop, her robotic hand immediately dropping to her pistol, but she doesn't do more than brush her fingers against the surface.

She's not sure where she is, or how she got here, but the two immediate truths she does know are that she's not currently in any immediate danger, and this was not a Covenant construct. It looked most assuredly human, a lobby of a hotel, maybe, with a staircase and an elevator and hallways leading off who knows where.

She waits a moment longer, noting the stillness on her motion tracker, and the silence over the TEAMCOM. Two seconds ago she'd been with all of Noble Team – save for Jorge – and they were discussing their next course of action while trying to dodge a glassing and get to a bunker. Where was this and how did she get here?

Her headset picks up noise, dull chatter, and Kat turns to see an open journal on a coffee table. She approaches it, frowning in confusion as she watches words bloom onto the page, some corresponding with dictations, and background noises. How was it audio communications like this were operating in a book form?

Although she's still confused how it works, it doesn't take her long to figure out what it's supposed to be used for, and so after a moment she clears her throat, dictating into the journal and over an open channel on her headset;

"This is Noble Two. Noble Team, state your positions. What the hell just happened?"


FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [Sounds of light mechanical tinkerings. Kat's doing regular maintenance on her robotic arm as she dictates,]

So, you've got your castle, with its odd collection of residents who come and go without warning, some staying weeks, some staying years. Then there's the town, with natives, who don't like us very much. The Dead Zone, where electronics, and 'magic' doesn't function, and then more world.

My questions are,is this Dead Zone finite, and what's the farthest vector explored?

Filtered to Foxtrot-12

What intel do you have on this 'Peace Patrol'?

INTENT: What draws me to Kat is the sort of conflicting character traits of abiding to leadership and authority, while at the same time choosing to ignore some of their restrictions when doing her job and collecting intel, opting to satisfy the curious urge to dig deeper and risk imprisonment for tampering with sensitive material. On top of that, there's the fact that, as a Spartan-III, she's had a very tragic and short life, orphaned, trained specifically for suicide missions, and ultimately losing her life at the age of twenty-two. I'm fascinted at the prospect of playing a charcter that's had so much military and disciplined training from such an early age, on top of the physical augmentations and armor enhancements that make her nearly superhuman, but in a charcater that's been honed to control and react with logic and precision.