Quinn

Warrant Officer Quinn is an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST) serving in the United Nations Space Command Marine Corps. She works as the signals reconnaissance specialist of Boomerang Company's Sunray 1-1. The team was posted on the 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 splinter faction known as the Banished.

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. Quinn served in the 9th STB alongside Major 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.

In February 4, 2531, she was present on the modified 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 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 was sacrificed to destroy the shield world, Quinn entered cryostasis along with the other survivors.

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 a newly-created Halo ring put it beyond the Banished's grasp on 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.

Operation: SPEARBREAKER
Quinn partook in Operation: SPEARBREAKER in May 2559, deploying onto the Ark's North Spire at 0247 hours. The drop was conducted via an 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 Gruss, Corporal Turpin, and Lance Corporal 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 Sentinels 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 currently being assembled inside a subsurface dock.

With the path to the Despair fighter clear, Sunray proceeded to advance to the target. Spirit of Fire command noted that their reconnaissance D81-LRT Condor had imaged several charging columns 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 Hornets 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.

Upon returning from their successful mission, Sunray were quickly moved on to conduct more missions against the Banished. Shortly following the success of SPEARBREAKER, the team were used to perform a series of assassinations on Banished officers identified as critical to the operations of Atriox. Throughout 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.

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.

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 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 Turpin and attached to Sunray 1-1. Quinn's H-165 is considered a specialty prototype unit, and is linked to Spirit of Fire's EMP MAC support modules.

In field operations, she may also employ an M7S SMG.

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 here.

List of appearances

 * Halo Wars 2
 * Halo Wars 2: Operation: SPEARBREAKER