Jaena-G310

"'Erebus? Ya I've heard of them...the only other group even us Headhunters didn't want to engage with.' -Jaena-G310"Jaena-G310, nicknamed Cross, is a SPARTAN-III from Gamma Company and a former Headhunter. Her second most notable skill-set aside from her Headhunter experience is her medical expertise which she picked up after loosing her first Headhunter partner due to lack of knowledge to save him. On January 1st of 2557 Jaena was transferred to Fireteam Erebus after recovering from severe injuries.

Biography
"'Chief Mendez, Tom, Lucy, and all the other instructors were either like us or had trained people like us...that explains a lot actually about you guys.' - Jaena-G310 to Antonio-007 about the differences in their training"

Early Life
Jaena was orphaned after the deaths of her family via the Covenant at a young age. She was put through the system and transferred from planet to planet now and then, her original home planet being forgotten as to her it didn't matter. Eventually she was conscripted into the SPARTAN-III Program where she would become a member of Gamma Company at the age of four (not unlike Holly-G003). She would be driven at first with the singular goal of avenging all she lost like many of her fellow SPARTAN-III's; however her single-minded goal had driven her to be aggressive even before the introduction of the Gamm Company Mutagen within their Augmentations.

After the Augmentations were completed she was sent out on solo missions where the then Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose had hoped this would level her temper: the thought that finally seeing action would calm her enough to not be fatal. This proved to surprisingly work well and her anger was back in check; but Jaena wanted more for her abilities.

Headhunter
After bringing these concerns up to the Lieutenant Commander, he gave her a chance. To Kurt, he Headhunters could be the best place for Jaena to excel; she had proven to be effective alone (able to beat three fellow Gammas in hand-to-hand, exceptional marksmanship, great speed, and reflexes above the average of her company) so his would be a great chance to get her to work with others just as effectively for double the results. And thus Kurt assigned her to the Headhunters as she met the required two or more training missions for evaluation.

Jaena was paired with Warren-B315, a Spartan who had a flare for the dramatic and ‘fun’ of his job. Together they would see many missions: destroying various key Covenant fueling depos, resource caches, and taking out HVTs when they could and were assigned to. For three years the two were producing highly approved results in their work and hoped they had been making small dents in the overall Covenant and later Covenant Remnants infrastructure to the point of making it crumple in on itself. This however was proven wrong: the next mission together would be their last. Sent out to deal with an assumed HVT meeting by any means necessary, they did not expect an ambush. Warren sacrificed himself in order for his partner to be safe, locking her in a room as he fought the enemy forces: the Silent Shadow. When Jaena was able to get free she only saw the remains of the building and some bodies, rushing in to find that her partner was heavily injured and bleeding profusely.

She attempted all she could to save him but did not know enough medical information to save him. She led this side and called for extraction where she gave her report and was taken off field duty for a brief period.

After The Loss
After she was cleared for field operations again she instantly threw herself into battle on whoever front she could: Covenant factions, Insurgents, any. At first it was promising with the results she produced, but eventually she started to become sloppy. This is when she started to learn medical care and eventually became a field medic. She started having less of a combat presence and more of a support for wounded military and civilian alike, saving more lives then predicted would come back from the missions she accompanied.

She would still see active combat on her part, but her focus now was saving those she could, because she couldn’t save the one she had to when it mattered most.

Injured
Jaena had spent the last two years saving all she could, and eventually came to the one fight she couldn’t run from. When faced with the options of ‘escape now and let people die’ or ‘attempt to stall the Banished Jiralhanae Warlord so they can leave’, she chose the later and began her engagement. The Warlord was unable to keep up with her at first, but eventually was able to out maneuver the medic and pierce her SPI armor with it’s bladed side of a Gravity Hammer.

Jaena expected to die there but was shocked when the creature was killed with a sniper round to the head and a group of ODSTs. They introduced themselves as the Wolf Pack and evacuated her to safety where she would be fixed up and put through some physical therapy. After this she was given new orders: she was going back to the main lines again.

Joining Erebus
It was a massive shock for Jaena when she was transferred to ONI Section 0, and even more so when she was placed into a four, now five with her added, person squad (not counting the AI Maverick). She hadn't had a Fireteam or partner-like figure since Warren and was unsure how to approach her SPARTAN elders. This was washed away in her first interaction with them and more so as she got to know them: they were all accepting of a new member especially since they desperately needed a medic. Her new role saw her on multiple black ops missions in the future and always more to come, so she needed to prepare.

She began to train more now so she could be fully fit for any combat scenario that may present itself, sparing with fellow Erebus members and even Antonio-007 himself, where she truly learned what it was like to fight alongside Erebus. They were all different from the simple SPARTAN-IIs, and as such she wanted to be better then an average III and Gamma.

Her efforts eventually bore fruit and when it was time to test it, it was against an enemy none could have predicted.