Editing Linda-058

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{{Quote|I spotted for a class-II back on [[2539|'39]]. 0058. You know her? She was an absolute beast with the sniper.|A SPARTAN-IV remarks about Linda's capability.}}{{Ref/Level|H4|H4:Shutdown|Shutdown}}
'''Petty Officer, First Class Linda-058''', phonetic callsign "Sierra 058", born '''Linda Pravdin''', is a [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] supersoldier. She is one of the relative few known surviving Spartan-IIs, and is best known for her skill with the [[SRS99 series|sniper rifle]]. Linda often served as the primary sniper and scout of [[Blue Team]]. By [[2558]], she had engaged in a total of 189 military operations (of which 174 were full campaigns), most of them during the [[Human-Covenant War]]. As of most recent knowledge, Linda continues to serve alongside Blue Team in highly-classified operations.

==Biography==
===Childhood and conscription===
{{Quote|Every candidate has exceeded the selection criteria... and ''my'' expectations: superior strength and speed coupled with dazzling intellects and remarkable cognitive absorption rates. In another time, each could have been the next [[Wikipedia:Alexander the Great|Alexander]], [[Wikipedia:Cleopatra VII|Cleopatra]], [[Wikipedia:Hannibal|Hannibal]], or [[Wikipedia:Genghis Khan|Genghis Khan]]. One girl (Number 058) engineered her own intelligence network at school to spy on the teachers!|Doctor Halsey records her delight at the abilities of the selected children, and Linda in particular, in [[Dr. Halsey's personal journal|her journal]].}}{{Ref/Reuse|HJ91517}}
[[File:HLW ChildhoodLinda.PNG|250px|thumb|Linda was cared for as a child by her mother.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HLW1|HLW|Issue=1}}{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR3}}]]
Linda Pravdin was born on [[2511#March|March 19, 2511]] on the [[Outer Colonies|outer colony]] world of [[Verent]].{{Ref/Site|Id=WaypointLinda-058|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/linda-058|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Universe, Characters|Page=Linda-058|D=12|M=11|Y=2020}} There, she was taken care of by her mother.{{Ref/Reuse|HLW1}}{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR3}} As a child, Linda engineered her own intelligence network at school to spy on the teachers.{{Ref/Book|Id=HJ91517|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=September 15, 2517}} She was the very first child identified as a candidate for [[Spartan-II Program|Project: SPARTAN-II]].{{Ref/Reuse|WaypointLinda-058}} Ultimately, she was numbered the fifty-eighth of one-hundred and fifty children of similar age that had been selected based on specific genetic markers for inclusion in the Spartan-II program, which only had facilities and funding for half that number.{{Ref/Reuse|WaypointLinda-058}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR2|TFoR|Chapter=2}} She was screened by members of Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]]'s team at some point between July and September of [[2517]] and by September 23 of that year she had been abducted by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], rushed through [[slipspace]] to [[Reach]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR3|TFoR|Chapter=3}}{{Ref/Book|Id=HJ72117|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=July 21, 2517}} She was stolen from her bed while she had been sleeping and a [[Flash cloning|flash clone]] was used to take her place.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HFORBC|FoRBC}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR25|TFoR|Chapter=25}} Once awoken from [[cryostasis]] shortly before 2300 hours on September 23, Linda and seventy-four other children were led into an amphitheater through four sets of double doors, each accompanied by a [[UNSC Navy|naval]] drill instructor.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR3}} There, at around 2300 hours, far below the ground within [[Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|a FLEETCOM military complex]], Catherine Halsey informed them that per [[Naval Code 45812]], they were thereby conscripted into SPARTAN-II. She explained that they had been called upon to serve and that they would be the protectors of Earth and all its colonies. Halsey told them they could not return to their parents and that from this moment on, the complex on Reach would be their home and their fellow trainees would be their family. And through the training that lay ahead of them would be difficult, she expressed her full confidence in their ability to overcome it. With that said, she told them to rest and that they would begin the next day. [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez]] had the children escorted to their barracks, fed, and put to bed.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR3}}

===Training===
{{Main|SPARTAN-II training}}
{{Quote|What the hell, [[Vance]]? [[Kelly-087|One little girl]] too much for you to handle?|One of the men about to be set upon by the Spartan trainees questions one of his squadmates following his incapacitation by Linda. He'd been following after [[Kelly-087|one little girl]] but was felled by another.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HTFORTAS}}{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}}
[[File:TFORAS LindaTrainee.PNG|thumb|200px|left|Linda at the age of six, newly conscripted.]]
At around 0530 hours the next morning Linda and the other children were roused awake by Chief Mendez and dozens of other drill instructors.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR4|TFoR|Chapter=4}} Mendez addressed them all, saying they were to shower at the barracks aft and then return to their cots to dress. Linda stripped down and joined the other children on a conveyor to be washed in lukewarm soapy water and then rinsed in an icy cold spray. A trunk at the foot of her cot held underwear, thick socks, combat boots, and a matching set of gray sweats with "LINDA-058" stenciled on the chest. Once everyone was clothed, Mendez marched them outside and had them form five rows of fifteen children each. From there, they were ordered through a series of calisthenics which included one-hundred each of jumping jacks, sit-ups, deep squats, knee bends, and leg lifts. After the leg lifts the kids were finally given a respite in the form of water. Following the short break, Mendez ordered them to join him on a run. They jogged through the military compound, past more barracks, along a river, and over a bridge, finally coming to a stop in the courtyard of a naval officers' academy. There Linda and the others met [[Déjà]], a [[Dumb AI|so-called "dumb" A.I.]] who had been given the job of continuing the trainees' formal education. Within the building, Linda and the others were served crackers and milk and treated to a history lesson concerning the [[Battle of Thermopylae]]. After the lesson the trainees were told they were heading for the playground, but this turned into a two-mile run to a forest of twenty-meter-tall wooden poles, rope cargo nets and bridges, knotted climbing ropes, pulleys, and baskets. Mendez had them form three lines and declared that each row of three would be a team. Chief Mendez explained that they would be playing a game called "[[Ring the Bell]]" in which the objective was for every member of each team to ring a brass bell that hung from a slide pole next to the tallest wooden pole. Linda's team managed to avoid finishing last, and so she avoided being penalized with missing out on that night's dinner of roast turkey, gravy and mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, brownies, and ice cream served in the mess hall.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR4}}

The second day of training, [[2552#September|September 25]], began just like the first.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR4}} The trainees spent the morning doing calisthenics and in the afternoon reported to Déjà to learn. This day, she taught them about the hunting strategies of [[Wikipedia:Wolf|wolves]] and emphasized the importance of the pack over the individual in accomplishing a challenge, such as taking down a [[Wikipedia:Moose|moose]]. When it came time for the "playground" again, Mendez declared that they were to keep the same teams they had the prior day. The teams had a brief moment to strategize, as the course had been made more complicated as compared to before.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR4}} Three days later, on [[2517#September|September 28]], all the trainees were given haircuts.{{Ref/Book|Id=DHPJS28|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=September 28, 2517}} On [[2518#May|May 24, 2518]], the children were forced at 0920 hours to run through a course while being shot at with [[paint pellet gun]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|HFORBC}} Each trainee that was hit was made to do an exorbitant amount of push-ups.{{Ref/Reuse|HFORBC}} During the first few years of training, Déjà taught Linda and the others [[Wikipedia:Algebra|algebra]], [[Wikipedia:Trigonometry|trigonometry]], and the history of numerous battles and the rulers they happened at the direction of.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR5|TFoR|Chapter=5}} By mid-[[2519]], Linda had been taught how to string a trip line, fire a rifle, and treat a chest wound.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}} Much of the Spartans' early training took place at [[Military Reservation 01478-B]], known as "Painland" to the soldiers made to endure exercises there.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR27|TFoR|Chapter=27}} Linda and the others regularly made covert treks to [[Camp Hathcock]] in the [[Highland Mountains]] to pilfer food and supplies.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR24|TFoR|Chapter=24}} Training in the Highlands Mountains was split between Painland, facilities within [[CASTLE Base]], and [[Highlands|another location]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=FS19|FS|Chapter=19}}{{Ref/Map|Id=HRH|HR|Highlands}} At these locations, Linda and the others began to be tested against a company of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|orbital drop shock trooper]]s in jungle maneuvers.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS7|HSS|Chapter=7}} Amazingly, the children, who averaged around eight years old, often won.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS7}} At some point during their training, Linda and the others accompanied Mendez to the colony of [[Emerald Cove]], where they were given a mission that involved spending time underwater.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HFS24|FS|Chapter=24}} Mendez sabotaged half the air tanks provided to the trainees, and in response they ended up stealing his. Afterwards, they all ditched the Chief for a whole week while they camped on an island with nothing to do but light bonfires, eat [[Wikipedia:Clam|clam]]s and [[Wikipedia:Calamari|calamari]], and surf.{{Ref/Reuse|HFS24}}
[[File:TFORAS Lindalanding.PNG|250px|thumb|Linda drops to the ground.]]
On [[2519#July|July 12, 2519]], all seventy-five children were transported, via [[D96 Albatross]], to a [[Reach Military Wilderness Training Preserve|military wilderness training preserve]] in the Highland Mountains. While ''en route'', Chief Mendez explained that each trainee would be dropped off alone in different locations throughout the preserve with only a piece of various maps provided to them. Their goal was simply to reconvene at a designated extraction point, but the last one to arrive would be forced to walk back to base. [[John-117]] sighted a lake and the river which fed it and had [[Samuel-034]] let the others know to use it to meet back up with one another. Dressed in fatigues, a heavy parka, and boots, Linda was dropped off like the rest within a snow-covered forest.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}} Linda soon met up with John, Sam, [[Kelly-087]], and [[Frederic-104]].{{Ref/Film|Id=HTFORTAS|TFoRAS}} Sam decided to carve a mark into a tree that they could remember the location by for years to come.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFORTAS}} They soon after gathered everyone else together in one place. John told Sam to pick three others to help him scout the area and Linda was chosen, along with [[James-005]] and [[Fhajad-084]]. The four of them took off together into the brush and only returned after John whistled to signify they were ready to move out as one group again, the extraction point's location having been pinpointed as a full day's hike away. At noon the children stopped to stretch and eat berries they had gathered along their journey. It was near sundown when they finally came upon their destination in a meadow where another Albatross dropship sat.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}} This one was guarded by six men without any uniforms. John was certain that the men wouldn't just let them board peaceably, so he devised a plan wherein the men would be lured into a trap. Once [[Vance|one man]] had been tricked into chasing after Kelly to where Sam was feigning an injury, Linda hit him in the head with a stone before he could use a [[humbler stun device]] on him, knocking the man to the ground.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFORTAS}}{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}} She then dropped down from where she had been perched in a tree as the rest of the children continued to pelt the man.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFORTAS}}{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}} Their efforts left Sam's would-be aggressor bloody and barely conscious. This basic strategy was repeated, but the second time the remaining five men were set upon at once by the trainees, who assaulted them with rocks, fists, and boots. John opened a link to [[Déjà]] within the dropship and asked if she could teach him to fly it. Déjà responded by saying he was in no way authorized to do so, but that she could take control of it herself if he gave her access. One all seventy-four others were aboard, Déjà lifted them off the ground and returned them home.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}}

In the third year of training in [[2520]], Linda and the others began [[Wikipedia:Physics|physics]] courses, which included the study of [[Wikipedia:Classical mechanics|classical mechanics]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS1|SiSto|Chapter=1}} On [[2520#September|September 20]] of that year, the candidates experienced their first casualty in the form of a handler that was accidentally killed by [[Carris-137]].{{Ref/Book|Id=DHPJS20|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=September 20, 2520}} Memorial services were held and all of the trainees attended. Following the loss, Halsey had Déjà emphasize that throughout the history of military training lethal force had often been employed and that deaths were an inherent risk.{{Ref/Reuse|DHPJS20}} After Linda turned ten years old in [[2521]], she and the other children began to learn counterinterrogation techniques, in particular that of of seizing the initiative.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} At some point during the training, the Spartans went through a fleet tactics course wherein they were taught a particular planetary assault doctrine.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS17|HSS|Chapter=17}}

===Facing Tango Company===
{{Quote|no=four|q1=Make sure the guys guarding the flag are removed.|John-117|q2=Count on it.|Linda-058|q3=After we get the flag, Red Team will get out of there. Watch for targets of opportunity and cover us. We rendezvous at the LZ and hopefully nobody finds us before then.|John-117|q4=You'll be in good hands.|Linda-058|Linda affirms her confidence in her abilities.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HFS17}}
As the years of training proceeded, the children were routinely matched up as teams against one another.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HGOO1|GoO|Chapter=1}} By [[2523]] the trainees had begun to be matched up in exercises against [[Tango Company]], a [[Company|unit]] of UNSC [[marines]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HFS17|FS|Chapter=17}} On July 12 of that year, four years to the day since the exercise in which the trainees had been left to fend for themselves in the Highland Mountains, Linda found herself facing the company for the seventh time as part of a team which was led by John and also included Fred, Kelly, Sam, and Fhajad.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR5}}{{Ref/Reuse|HFS17}} They hadn't lost yet.{{Ref/Reuse|HFS17}} Their objective on this date was to [[Capture the Flag|capture]] their opponents' flag and exfiltrate with it. On the twelfth they managed to capture a sniper-spotter team that had been tasked with hunting them down. From them they learned that Tango's captain had given orders to win no matter what, even if it meant bloodying some of the kids this time. During the evening of the next day, they stole shards of mirror from Tango Company's latrine. In addition, they hunted a [[Wikipedia:Squirrel|squirrel]], which Fred combined with unripe berries and the [[Drugs|antibacterial ointment]] in their first-aid kits to make a paste to poison the marines' [[Wikipedia:Dog|dog]]s. On July 14, the game was still ongoing.{{Ref/Reuse|HFS17}} By 1002 hours Linda and Fred were sitting within a hollowed-out [[Wikipedia:Cedar tree|cedar]] stump in order to muffle their conversations and insulate them from Tango's thermal goggles. The others soon gathered together with them and John told Linda and Fred to do a weapons check. Each was armed with a [[SRS99C-S2 AM sniper rifle|SRS99C-S2 sniper rifle]] they had liberated from the sniper-spotter team two days prior. Fhajad had modified the rifles' 114mm [[APFSDS]] rounds so that their deadly armor-piercing tips were replaced with [[Narq-dart pistol|narq-dart capsule]]s. Linda had test-fired the non-lethal ammunition and was confident she could be accurate with it up to one hundred meters. Though it was only a little after 1000 hours then, the trainees planned to spring their attack at 0500 the next day. John split the six trainees up so that Linda and Fred would form [[Blue Team]], with Linda as its leader and sniper and Fred her spotter. She assured John that the guys guarding the flag would be taken down before [[Red Team]], comprised of the four others, could capture it. When the time came to split up, she whispered a final warning to John to ''be careful''. At 0500 hours on July 15, from a distance closer to two hundred meters than one hundred, Linda dropped one of the marines near Tango Company's flagpole with a dart in his neck. She landed a second shot right in the back of another's skull just as he had begun to fire his weapon at John. A third she hit once in one of his thighs and then again in his chest. By 0545 hours Red Team had made it to their designated extraction landing zone, where Linda and Fred had also been instructed to rendezvous at. For their part, however, they posted in the treetops to provide any necessary cover for Red. At 6010 hours a [[Pelican]] landed at the zone, but given that Mendez was not supposed to extract them until 0700 hours, only John showed himself while everyone else remained hidden. Suspicions were proven true when the Pelican was revealed to be carrying members of Tango Company, four of whom surrounded John. After one landed a punch to his gut, the air was suddenly filled with a hail of darts fired by Linda and the others, taking all the marines out. Even then, they did not come out of hiding until John gave the ''all-clear'' signal: [[Oly Oly Oxen Free|a singsong six-note melody]]. Linda and Fred then dropped from the tree branch they'd been perched on and ran across the clearing to join John.{{Ref/Reuse|HFS17}}

===ASTER===
[[File:Scanned-Linda-058.jpg|250px|thumb|Linda is called forward for her augmentation procedures.]]
On [[2524#August|August 22, 2524]], the Spartan-II candidates were rerouted during a training exercise  to the opposite side of [[Reach]] from which they normally trained.{{Ref/Reuse|DHPJA22}} This was done at the behest of interested parties in ONI who wished to observe them firsthand.{{Ref/Book|Id=DHPJA22|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=August 22, 2524}} At some point after the trainees had began to physically mature, an incident in which one of them, [[Margaret-053]], was blinded during a beating meted out by four other teens, caused Chief Mendez to replace everyone's mess hall time with a period of fasting until [[Red Team|the perpetrators]] were identified.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HBL4|HBL|Issue=4}} It was not uncommon at this time for two trainees to [[martial arts|spar]] one another with [[pugil stick]]s while trying to balance on floating logs while the rest watched.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HBL3|HBL|Issue=3}} On [[2525#March|March 9 of 2525]] Linda and the other Spartan-II candidates were transported to [[Medical Facility Endurance]] in orbit over [[Reach]] in order to undergo a series of invasive procedures designed to physically, chemically, and genetically augment their bodies.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFORTAS}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR6|TFoR|Chapter=6}}{{Ref/Game|Id=H5GL|H5G|John-117's loadout}} The procedures began with the administration of an intravenous [[Drugs|sedative]] and the lasering of incision vectors onto each teen's body.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} The various augmentations, under the purview of [[Project ASTER|Project: ASTER]], were carried out the following day.{{Ref/Book|Id=DHPJA1|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=April 1, 2525}}{{Ref/Reuse|HOSFM83}} With the assistance of surgeons, biotechnicians, and automated robotic machinery, the surgical procedures Linda endured included occipital capillary reversals, the carbide ceramic ossification of her bones, the insertion of a catalytic [[Wikipedia:thyroid gland|thyroid implant]], injections to enhance muscle strength and endurance, and the fibrification of neural dendrites to make them superconductive.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} She also was treated with [[Wikipedia:Gene therapy|gene therapy]] and underwent [[Wikipedia:Transgene|transgenic hybridization]].{{Ref/Book|Id=HOSFM83|OSFM|Page=83}} When the procedures had been completed, only thirty-three of the teenagers had ostensibly been augmented successfully.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} As far as Linda was made aware, twelve others had been injured during the operations so severely that they would be unfit to be Spartans and the remaining thirty had died.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} The truth, conversely, was that those pronounced dead were in fact cryogenically preserved in the hopes that they could be revived later, and some of those that were crippled would go on to be rehabilitated and join the ranks of [[Spartan-II]]s in the future.{{Ref/Book|Id=DHPJM10|Dr. Halsey's personal journal|Detail=January 7, 2535}}{{Ref/Game|Id=HW2PLA130|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=Alice-130}} But at midnight at the start of [[2525#March|March 30]], Linda had been made to believe that forty-two of her fellow trainees had become casualties.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} The thirty-three to have officially come through the procedures unharmed and the twelve to have been grievously injured both gathered together at that point within the missile launch bays of the {{UNSCShip|Atlas}}, an {{Class|Epoch|heavy carrier}} heading for the [[Lambda Serpentis system]].{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}}{{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=02|Y=2018}} Adorned in black dress uniforms, they bid farewell to what they thought were twenty-nine of their lost brothers and sisters as stainless steel canisters were ejected into space.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} Linda and the others saluted in unison. Chief Mendez then commanded two full days of bed rest to be followed by microgravity physical therapy aboard the ''Atlas'' until they had all fully recovered. In the days ahead [[Déjà]] also planned to run the teens through some dropship pilot simulations and to cover some more organic chemistry and complex algebra, as long as they were up to the challenge.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR6}} For the next three weeks, Linda and the others were put through a routine of stretching, isometric exercises, and [[Martial arts|light sparring]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR7|TFoR|Chapter=7}} They were also under orders to consume five high-protein meals per day, each followed by mineral and vitamin injections in the ship's medical bay. By April 22, the ''Atlas'' was still patrolling the Lambda Serpentis system.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR7}}

Once the Spartans were returned to Reach, it became evident that the facilities they had used up until that point would no longer be suitable for training.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR8}} On the first day back, three trainers were killed during hand-to-hand exercises. On [[2525#September|September 10]] Linda and the thirty-two others were relocated to a [[titanium]] mine that had been used to store [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor#Armor generations|Mark I powered exoskeleton]]s. The teens were put through a number of exercises against trainers who now wore the exoskeletons for their safety. And though they hadn't left the cavernous room they'd been dropped into, by the next day they had somehow acquired a length of rope and black suits that made completing their objectives easier. In addition, they continually managed to locate hidden cameras to disable them. Halsey visited on the eleventh to observe their progress and got to witness a game of [[Capture the Flag]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HTFOR8|TFoR|Chapter=8}}

===TALON===
{{Main|Operation: TALON}}
Linda was chosen for the [[SPARTAN-II]]s' [[Assault on Eridanus Secundus|first mission]] in the [[Eridanus system]]; at this point, the Spartans did not yet have their later-trademark [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|MJOLNIR armor]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 98'' (2010 edition)</ref> She, along with John-117, Fred-104, Sam-034, and Kelly-087 boarded the ''[[Laden]]'' and traveled to the insurgent asteroid base [[Eridanus Secundus]], where they infiltrated the facility and captured [[Robert Watts|Colonel Robert Watts]], the then-leader of the [[Insurrectionist#Eridanus cell|Eridanus rebels]].<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 114'' (2010 edition)</ref>
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===MJOLNIR===
[[File:Lindaface.PNG|thumb|250px|Linda-058.]]
The ''Pioneer'' did not return to [[Reach]] until [[2525#November|November 2 of 2525]].{{Ref/Reuse|HTFORTAS}} John rode a Pelican to the military complex on the surface with the other members of Blue Team and was met by Chief Mendez, who told them they were to assemble