Talitha Macer

Private First Class Talitha Macer is a member of the Sedran Colonial Guard.

Early life and career
Talitha Macer was born on the struggling Outer Colony of Sedra in 2537. When she was nine years old, Macer's father, who served in the Sedran Colonial Guard, was killed during a sting operation to infiltrate a weapon smuggling ring. After her father was killed Macer was raised in a rough neighborhood and while in secondary school she began to associate with street gangs. After a number of encounters with the local law enforcement, mostly for petty crimes, she was detained in a youth detention facility for a year. As a result of her time in the correctional facility Macer began to rethink her life and with a new sense of purpose, enlisted in the Colonial Guard to honor her late father. She enrolled in the youth wing of the Sedran Colonial Guard at the age of thirteen and quickly proved her abilities as both a combatant and a pilot. She was involved in a number of operations to against local criminals, in particular smugglers and narcotics dealers, as well as several orbital defense operations against pirates over a period of two years. By the age of age nineteen, she had risen to the rank of private first class and reported directly to Colonel Aiken.

Alpha Shard
Sometime after July 2557, the City of Sedra was attacked by terrorists with a new type of biological weapon. Macer and the Colonial Guard were forced to work with an Office of Naval Intelligence unit, led by Jameson Locke, to stop the terrorists. During the mission, Macer and the unit traveled to a partially intact segment of Installation 04, which had attempted an emergency slipspace jump during its destruction years prior. . During the aftermath of this mission, only Macer and Locke were the sole survivors.

Personality and traits
Macer is curious, intelligent and resourceful. She also possesses an innate talent as a pilot, and had an interest in aeronautics and physics at a very young age. Although she is loyal to her commander, Randall Aiken, she is not as resentful to the United Nations Space Command as most of the Sedran Colonial Guard. She is also noted for her ambition to advance in her military career, viewing the cooperation with Locke's team as an opportunity to prove herself. Although distrustful of Locke at first, she eventually came to trust him over the course of the group's struggle to survive on the Alpha Halo fragment.

Trivia

 * Macer is the female lead in Halo: Nightfall in which she is portrayed by English actress Christina Chong.
 * Her blood type is AB+.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Nightfall