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[[Vice Admiral]] ''' Graselyn Tuwa'''<ref name="cf"/> was a [[human]] flag officer of the [[UNSC Navy]] in command of a {{Class|Marathon|heavy cruiser}}.<ref name="ll232"/>

In [[2553]], [[Admiral]] Tuwa was in command of a {{Class|Marathon|heavy cruiser}}, the [[flagship]] of a Navy [[battle group]]. That year, Tuwa was charged by Admiral [[Margaret Parangosky]] with bringing the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion]] to the [[human]] [[Outer Colony]] of [[Gao]] in the [[Cordoba system]] in search of [[Forerunner]] [[ancilla]] [[Intrepid Eye]]. While the [[battalion]] operated on Gao's surface, Tuwa's battle group remained just beyond the planet's orbit.<ref name="ll232"/>

After the battalion was attacked on [[2553#July|July 4, 2553]], Tuwa was unable to have her task force send more than a handful of [[platoon]]s to Gao's surface to aid the battalion under orders from Parangosky to prevent the UNSC from infringing on Gao's sovereignty and risking a planet-wide insurgency.<ref name="ll232"/> On [[2553#July|July 5, 2553]], Tuwa and her task force attempted to mask their approach into Gao's orbit by taking the Cenobian Corridor, a route behind Gao's closest [[moon]] of [[Cenobia]]. However, the [[Gao Ministry of Protection]] anticipated this move and blockaded the route. Instead, Tuwa deployed several [[Pelican]]s and [[Owl]]s to aid the battalion, but several of these [[dropship]]s were destroyed by the Ministry of Protection's [[fleet]] of [[patrol corvette]]s.<ref name="ll271">'''Halo: Last Light''', ''pages 268-271''</ref> Tuwa later devised plans to extract the surviving forces of the battalion from the planet's surface.<ref name="ll324"/>