Editing Alannah Quinn

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'''Warrant Officer Alannah Quinn'''{{Ref/Novel|Id=Fireside|Halo: Fireside}} is an [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]] (ODST) serving in the [[United Nations Space Command]] [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps]]. She works as the signals reconnaissance specialist of [[Boomerang Company]]'s [[Sunray 1-1]]. The team was posted on the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} prior to the loss of its [[slipspace drive]] in February of [[2531]] and in April of [[2559]], she was part of [[Operation: SPEARBREAKER]], a mission on [[Installation 00]] to thwart a plot by the [[Covenant]] [[Covenant remnants|splinter faction]] known as the [[Banished]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFFrosty}}{{Ref/Reuse|PL}}

==Biography==
Quinn has served in a number of roles in her career, before being assigned as an ODST in the [[9th Shock Troops Battalion]] serving aboard {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}}. Quinn served in the 9th STB alongside [[Major]] [[Elijah Vaughan]] for a number of years prior to [[2531]]. Due to her rank of [[Warrant Officer]] and her role as a technical liasion, Quinn was primarily assigned to work alongside ODST pre-assault and post-assault units for missions requiring a technical skillset as opposed to raw firepower.{{Ref/Reuse|CFFrosty}}{{Ref/Reuse|PL}}

In [[2531|February 4, 2531]], she was present on the modified {{Class|Phoenix|colony ship}} when it arrived at the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Harvest]] to fight the Covenant's [[Fleet of Glorious Interdiction]] there. She then went on to witness the [[Battle for Arcadia]] and the [[Battle of the Trove|fight]] between the UNSC crew and the Fleet of Glorious Interdiction within the [[Forerunner]] [[shield world]] known as [[Trove]]. After the ship's [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine]] was sacrificed to destroy the shield world, Quinn entered [[cryostasis]] along with the other survivors.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=59}}

===War on the Ark===
Over twenty-eight years later, she and everyone else were awakened to find themselves drifting above the extragalactic [[Installation 00]], also known as the Ark. There, the vessel's forces were forced to contend with the [[Banished]], a heavily-armed faction of ex-Covenant that sought to control the Ark largely due to its capacity for producing [[Halo]] superweapons. After the departure of [[Installation 09|a newly-created]] [[Halo ring]] put it beyond the Banished's grasp on [[2559|April 2, 2559]], the [[Mgalekgolo]] pair known as [[Colony]] hatched a plot which [[James Cutter]], captain of the ''Spirit of Fire'', was forced to respond to. In addition, the loss of Professor [[Ellen Anders]], who was on the Halo when it left, it fell to Quinn and others like her who have demonstrated affinity with – and knowledge of – Forerunner systems to be boots-on-the-ground resources for task force commanders.{{Ref/Reuse|CFFrosty}}{{Ref/Reuse|PL}}

====Operation: SPEARBREAKER====
{{Main|Operation: SPEARBREAKER}}
Quinn partook in [[Operation: SPEARBREAKER]] in [[2559#May|May 2559]], deploying onto the Ark's North Spire at 0247 hours. The drop was conducted via an [[M8900 drop pod|M8900 Human Entry Vehicle]], and marked Quinn's two-hundredth orbital drop. During the operation, Quinn was deployed as part of [[Sunray 1-1]] alongside Major Vaughan, [[Petty Officer]] [[Helena Gruss]], [[Corporal]] [[Chloe Turpin]], and [[Lance Corporal]] [[Devon Sparks]], and tasked with halting Colony's plan. Quinn fought alongside Sunray in the field, frequently conversing with Major Vaughan and providing updates and observations on enemy activity - noting the activities of the [[Retriever Sentinel]]s and their escort swarms, and the Banished cloaking fields surrounding the operation's target. Sunray 1-1 were ultimately able to capture a number of the [[Forerunner]] control towers projecting the cloaking field and destroy a Banished [[Outpost]] and a Retriever Sentinel, with the collapse of the cloaking field revealing the target of Colony's operation - a dormant {{Class|Despair|fighter}} currently [[Design seed|being assembled]] inside a subsurface dock.{{Ref/Level|HW2|Gatecrashers}} 

With the path to the ''Despair'' fighter clear, Sunray proceeded to advance to the target. ''Spirit of Fire'' command noted that their reconnaissance [[D81 Condor]] had imaged several [[charging column]]s feeding energy into the fighter, leading Sunray to begin targeting the columns to buy time for their assault force to reach the construction site. Quinn provided direction to the team on where to shoot to destroy the column, and later informing command of two potential locations for a [[firebase]] drop. The team were ultimately successful in cutting off the fighter's power feed, allowing a flight of [[AV-14B Hornet]]s to attack the site with an air strike. Quinn speculated that the site would be used as a research outpost for [[Isabel]] to investigate the multitude of Forerunner technology abandoned by the Banished.{{Ref/Level|HW2|Not on My Watch}}

Upon returning from their successful mission, Sunray were quickly moved on to conduct more missions against the Banished. This included an assassination of a high-level Jiralhanae officer in the days post-SPEARBREAKER, before some downtime at [[Quebec Base]] on May 21 of that year. During their stay at Quebec, Sunray enjoyed the spoils of war, having a cookout and eating some [[thorn beast]] meat that they had looted from the Banished outpost. This included a gift of chocolate-raspberry ice cream offered by [[János Varga]] in honour of Quinn's birthday on the following day.{{Ref/Reuse|Fireside}} Throughout the rest of the year they continued to perform a series of assassinations on Banished officers identified as critical to the operations of [[Atriox]]. In the later months of 2559, they were deployed among several Banished-occupied regions of the Ark in strikes against a variety of hostile forces including the aforementioned Banished, and those of both Sentinel and [[Armiger]] threats.{{Ref/Site|Id=CF100|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/sweet-centennial|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Sweet Centennial|D=24|M=09|Y=2021}}

==Personality and traits==
Quinn is a highly trained signals intelligence analyst and electronic warfare operator. She commonly accompanies ODST pre-assault and deep strike post-assault teams on missions that require the application of technical wizardry in addition to raw firepower. Quinn relishes service in the field. She has no particular love for life aboard the ''Spirit of Fire'' – and despises its recycled air and the peculiar pull of the barracks’ [[artificial gravity]] – but she cares deeply for the crew and troops aboard it.{{Ref/Reuse|CFFrosty}}{{Ref/Reuse|PL}}

==Equipment==
[[File:HW2 Quinn Closeup Concept.png|thumb|250px|A closeup of Quinn's H-165 FOM and WILLOWKEY TSCS equipment.]]
Quinn serves as the signals intelligence and electronic warfare specialist of her unit. As such, her most important piece of equipment is a [[WILLOWKEY TSCS]] chest rig (with upgrades provided by ''Spirit of Fire'' [[Smart AI]] [[Isabel]]), equipped atop her [[ODST armor/Late-war design|late-war design]] of [[ODST armor]]. She employs a [[UA/Type O5]] armour module and an [[AN/PZY-6011Y TYPHON]] command network module upgrade on her helmet, with a slightly modified chestplate bearing patches for the UNSC and Sunray 1-1. She maintains a lighter weapons loadout than her teammates, preferring to wield a custom [[M6C/SOCOM]] pistol with a custom engraving and a [[H-165 target locator]] for fire support. The H-165 module is linked to both ''Spirit of Fire'' and "[[Hank]]", the [[MQ-96 Support Drone]] operated by Corporal [[Chloe Turpin]] and attached to Sunray 1-1.{{Ref/Site|Id=CF100|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/sweet-centennial|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Sweet Centennial|D=24|M=09|Y=2021}} Quinn's H-165 is considered a specialty prototype unit, and is linked to ''Spirit of Fire''{{'}}s [[EMP MAC]] support modules.{{Ref/Reuse|PL}}

In field operations, she may also employ an [[M7S SMG]].{{Ref/Game|HW2|Sunray 1-1 in-game unit}}

==In-game information==
===''Halo Wars 2''===
In ''[[Halo Wars 2: Operation: SPEARBREAKER]]''{{'}}s campaign, Quinn is one of the ODSTs present in the Sunray 1-1 hero unit. For gameplay information on Sunray 1-1, see [[Vaughan/Gameplay|here]].

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==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Quinn Portrait.png|Portrait.
File:ODST-Quinn Model.png|Quinn's in-game model in HW2.
File:HW2-Odsts-2.jpg|Sunray 1-1.
File:HW2-Odsts-1.jpg|Operation: SPEARBREAKER.
File:HW2_Not_on_My_Watch.jpg|Sunray 1-1 during Operation: SPEARBREAKER.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Wars 2]]''
**''[[Halo Wars 2: Operation: SPEARBREAKER]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Fireside]]''

==Sources==
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{{Sunray 1-1}}
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