Helena Gruss: Difference between revisions

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|rank=*[[Corpsman]]<ref name="cf"/>{{Ref/Note|Gruss is referred to as a "UNSC Navy Medic", rather than a Corpsman on Waypoint, despite the fact that medical personnel attached to the [[Marine Corps]] are typically Hospital Corpsmen.}}

*[[Petty Officer]]<ref name="cf"/>

'''Petty Officer Gruss''', who also goes by "'''Doc'''", is a Hospital Corpsman of the [[United Nations Space Command]] [[UNSC Navy|Navy]]. She is assigned to [[Sunray 1-1]], the command squad of the [[Boomerang Company]] of [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] on the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}}.<ref name="cf"/> She was on the ship 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]] [[Covenant remnants|splinter faction]] known as the [[Banished]].<ref name="cf"/><ref name="cutscene">'''Halo Wars''' ''cutscene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw449I95UHY&feature=player_embedded "One Less Sun in The Universe"]''</ref>

Gruss was present on the modified {{Class|Phoenix|colony ship}}, ''Spirit of Fire'', on [[2531|February 4, 2531]] 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 [[Battle of the Etran Harborage|fight]] between the UNSC crew and the Fleet of Glorious Interdiction within the [[Forerunner]] [[shield world]] known as the [[Etran Harborage]]. After the ship's [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine]] was sacrificed to destroy the shield world, Gruss entered [[cryostasis]] along with the other survivors.<ref name="cutscene"/>

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.<ref name="Alice Report">'''Halo Wars 2''', ''[[Phoenix Logs]]'' – "Alice-130 Report #1"</ref> 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 [[Installation 09|a newly-created]] [[Halo ring]] put it beyond the Banished's grasp on [[2559|April 2, 2559]], the [[Mgalekgolo]] pair known as [[Colony]] hatched a plot which [[James Cutter]], captain of the ''Spirit of Fire'', had no choice but to respond to. Gruss was attached to [[Sunray 1-1]], which was tasked with stopping Colony's scheme as part of [[Operation: SPEARBREAKER]]. She was accompanied on this mission by [[Major]] [[Vaughan]], [[Warrant Officer]] [[Quinn]], [[Corporal]] [[Turpin]], and [[Lance Corporal]] [[Sparks]].<ref name="cf"/>

Gruss is a woman of very few words. The ODSTs of Sunray 1-1 make it their mission to interpret “Doc’s” opinion of their shenanigans by analyzing her body language, sighs, rude gestures, and grunts of disapproval. This friendly harassment ends when combat begins, for Doc holds the lives of the troopers in her able hands, wielding biofoam and trauma packs across the squad’s position with incredible skill and delicacy. So perfect is her timing in dealing with injury that it borders on the prescient, and squad members resign themselves to the inevitable if Doc appears near them during battle.<ref name="cf"/>