Veta Lopis

Veta Lopis is an Office of Naval Intelligence agent who formerly served as a special inspector of the Ministry of Protection on planet Gao.

Biography
Like most Gao natives, Veta Lopis had been brought up to despise and distrust the United Nations Space Command and the Spartan supersoldiers from an early age. In July 2553, Lopis was assigned to conduct an investigation of brutally murdered Gao residents in the Montero Cave System. During her search to catch the serial killer, a culprit possibly hidden among the Spartans, Lopis became mired in a tremendous crisis on the planet.

Over the course of the mission, she worked closely with the Spartans and despite her initial contempt for them, she grew to trust them and ended up siding with the UNSC after now-president Arlo Casille, former Minister of Protection, deployed Gao's military against them. After the Spartans escaped the planet, Lopis was given the offer by Rear Admiral Serin Osman to join the Office of Naval Intelligence and put her experience to use as the head of a top-secret "Ferret" team comprised of the three Gamma Company Spartan-IIIs Ash-G099, Olivia-G291, and Mark-G313. Realizing she could not return to Gao and seeing the opportunity in applying her skills on a much larger scale than before, Lopis accepted Osman's offer.

Personality and traits
Lopis is hardened and cynical but dedicated to her job as a homicide detective. During her GMoP career, she preferred to take down her suspects rather than bring them to trial. She is observant and intelligent, and in the beginning stages of her investigation of the Montero Cave System murders she managed to trick Fred-104 into indirectly divulging classified information several times. Lopis also had a rigid and inflexible sense of justice. This was shown during her investigation into the murders on Gao, relentlessly prioritizing the apprehension of the killer even when full-blown violence had erupted between the UNSC, the Keepers of the One Freedom, and the Insurrectionist-supported Gao Ministry of Protection. When the nature of the Spartan-IIIs was revealed to her, she was appalled that a government could utilize children in such a manner and even proclaimed that she intended to take the Spartans of Gamma Company into protective custody.

When she was a teenager, Veta was held hostage inside a stone cellar only a few feet wide, before eventually breaking out and killing her captor with a rock. The incident had also left her with, among others, a fear of the smell of tobacco and men touching her hair, as well as a phobia of tight spaces. Despite these anxiety-inducing fears, Lopis refused to let them hinder her work and often insisted on clambering through the tight spaces herself, though her hesitance was noticeable to the Spartans. This traumatic experience also instilled in her the desire to see injustice of any kind met with strict retribution.

Lopis was regarded as exceptionally attractive, a trait noticed by Fred-104, who believed that Lopis looked more like a fashion model than an experienced criminal investigator. Lopis got along well with her fellow agents in the GMoP. She was heartbroken at the loss of her entire team, and vowed to avenge their deaths. She was troubled however at the circumstances behind their loss, as most of her team had been killed not by the UNSC (who she initially believed were the aggressor party) but by her own people on Gao.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Last Light
 * Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo
 * Halo: Fractures
 * A Necessary Truth