Serin Osman
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- "The only rule is there are no rules."
- — A maxim frequently used by Osman[4]
Admiral Serin "Oz" Osman, born Serin Çelik[1] and formerly known as SPARTAN-019, (service number 39489-72738-SO[3]) is the Commander-in-Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence, inheriting the role from Admiral Margaret Parangosky after the end of the Human-Covenant War.
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Serin Çelik was born in 2511 on the colony of Cascade. Her mother, Pinar Çelik, was a prostitute and drug addict who completely neglected her daughter. On more than one occasion, young Serin resorted to digging through garbage cans for food. Numerous calls to child services were made, to no avail. The only person who cared for Serin was her teacher, Alkmini Leandro, who regularly brought food to school for her.[1]
SPARTAN-II program and ONI career[edit]
- "BB sometimes wondered what kind of operational Spartan she would have made, just the averagely terrifying kind or a full-blown angel of death."
- — Black-Box[5]
In 2517, Serin was abducted as a Spartan-II candidate by an ONI agent named Mr. Teddy.[6] She was given the designation Serin-019 and was trained under Chief Mendez along with the rest of the candidates. Because of her living conditions, she (along with Soren-066) was not replaced with a flash clone. She often ate the other candidates' leftover food, a practice for which John-117 teased her.[1]
Serin did not successfully complete the augmentation process, receiving only the genetic and biochemical enhancements before her body started to reject the rest.[7] While she failed the augmentation process, she still possesses a few of the enhancements, though no skeletal augmentation. The Office of Naval Intelligence took custody of her when she was 14 years old; they repaired the damage done by the failed augmentation process, educated her further, and put her into the ONI commanders' program. The other Spartans thought her dead; unlike some of the other washouts later assigned to ONI, she was withdrawn from the program before the funeral ceremony for the Spartans killed in the augmentations. As a result, she remained unaware if the successful Spartans were even told of the fate of the failures.[8]
Considered as a protégé to Admiral Margaret Parangosky, CINCONI, the Admiral groomed the former Spartan for a potential future as her successor. Serin considered herself the only person the Admiral would always forgive even if she failed. In order to hide her status as a former Spartan, she adopted the surname "Osman". Though people often assumed she was of Turkish descent based on her name and appearance, she did not actually know whether this was the case; though the information on her pre-Spartan identity was readily available to her, she did not look at her personal file for decades[9] until spontaneously deciding to do so in April 2553. For a few years of the war, Osman served as an ONI field agent in various operation against both the Covenant and those humans who sought destabilization during a time when humanity needed unity more than anything. She gained experience working undercover in the arms industry and trade unions.[10] By 2553, Osman held the rank of captain. She was handpicked by Parangosky to lead up a black operations team known as Kilo-Five with the mission to ensure a Sangheili insurgency, keeping the Elites from threatening humanity. The team was composed of the civilian professor and Sangheili expert Evan Phillips; ODSTs Staff Sergeant "Mal" Geffen, Sergeant Lian Devereaux, and Corporal "Vaz" Beloi; and Spartan-II Naomi-010.[11]
Meeting the Bishop[edit]
- "Just remember that my enemy's enemy isn't my friend, Professor. He's my enemy who's just taking a sidebar."
- — Osman stops just short of confirming to Evan Phillips ONI's underhanded intentions in working with the Servants of the Abiding Truth.[9]
Evan Phillips was tasked with connecting Osman to dissident Sangheili who were likely to try to disrupt any formal peace deals between the UEG and the Arbiter. His efforts resulted in a January meeting on the glassed world of New Llanelli with Avu M