Katherine 4-04

"It's alright. I understand completely. We've all lost something important, but suicide won't solve anything. Together, we can find a answer. "

-Tanner

"Tanner, I...I Love you.

-Katherine

Katherine 4-04
Homeworld:	New Messanas, Reach
Date of Birth:	Unknown, possibly 2546
Date of Death:	March 19, 2599
Rank:	Chief Warrant Officer 5
Gender:	Female
Height:	Unknown
Weapons:	Multiple, mostly Sniper Rifle and Assault Rifle.
Hair Color:	Unknown
Spartan Tag:	404, 4-04
Cybernetics:	1167 Humble Guardian

Chief Warrant Officer 5 Katherine 4-04 is a Spartan-IV sniper fighting for the UNSC SpecOps and Stealth Warfare Command, but belonging to ONI Section Four. She became one of the last two, and later last spartan to exist during the UNSC Reconstruction era. With just about 8 years of active duty, and earned the POW medal, Stealth Medal and SpecOps Medal. She was assassinated by Colonel Reynolds when having her augmentations removed when it was rumored she was caliborating with the URA Insurectionists. This turned out to be true and when Katherine was planning to have her augmentations removed and warn ONI of the UNSC's internal and political corruption, was assassinated by Reynolds to keep her quite. This would later prove to be a fatal mistake.

She is one of the main protaginists in the popular machinima series "SPARTANs" and "Reach: The Last War." Katherine is rarely ever referred to by rank, can be stubborn, tough, brave and extremely deadly in combat.

Childhood and Training

Katherine's childhood is very dark and misinterpreted. Some information is falsified by ONI while most is just plain horrible. When Katherine was 2 years old, her father was killed in the Human-Covenant War, and her mother was left to look after her. They moved to Reach, to start a new life, and when Katherine was 17, Earth came under attack. She was heavily bullied in High School mainly for her origins and personaility. She had no friends, and she eventually had had enough of the torture, and bailed out in Year 11. She instead decided to enlist in the UNSC as a NCO, but when she heard that the war was over, she was very disappointed.

However, when the newly formed ONI Section Four notices her, they invite her to join the new Spartan IV's. She happily joined, and she was trained for 4 years before being assigned the tag 4-04 and joining Ulysses Squad lead by Saul.

2 years after the war with the Covenant, the Sangheili once again declare war against humanity, and the Spartan-IV's see their first active battle testing. Katherine, during the war, learns of her unique sniping and stealth abilities, and puts them to the test, impressing the team and making her best friends with Saul. However, the Sangheili prove to strong in military power that they force the UNSC back to Earth, where Commander Grey takes command of the remaining UNSC Home Fleet and ground army. Eventually however, Saul's squad is overwhelmed in the Battle of Husgray Island, and Kat and Saul are the only ones left alive.

The Sangheili, lead by the Shipmaster eventually overwhelm Earth's defenses, find Omega Halo's coordinates and begin glassing Africa. Katherine then accompanies Saul, Grey and the crew of Grey's vessel, the Bewildering Twilight, and pursue the shipmaster to Installation 07, Omega Halo

Omega Halo

Katherine and Saul help UNSC marines neutralize the Shipmaster's ground troops but accidentally release the Flood in the process. Eventually, the Shipmaster initiates contact with the Installation's monitor, 1167 Humble Guardian. The Shipmaster begins the activation of halo when Kat and Saul arrive to stop him. Kat is severely injured by the Shipmaster but Saul and Grey are successful in killing him and getting Kat back to the Bewildering Twilight to have Kat nursed back to health.

Eventually, Saul and Kat are sent to destroy Omega Halo's firing mechanism. This causes severe trauma to the ring's structure, causing it to go into catastrophic meltdown. Saul how ever is shot in the leg and unable to continue, and after a emotional minute, Kat escapes while Saul covers her. Saul is eventually overwhelmed by the Flood and killed. Kat is then engaged by Guardian who attempts to kill her but is destroyed by Grey, who evacuates her out of the area before Omega Halo then begins to collapse. The Second War is over, and Grey is the only family Katherine has left.