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|homeworld=[[Sedra]]<ref name="wp macer">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/talitha-macer '''Halo Waypoint - Universe''': ''Talitha Macer'']</ref>

|birth=[[2537]]<ref name="wp macer"/>

|rank=Private first class<ref name="wp macer"/>

'''Private First Class Talitha Macer''' is a member of the [[Sedran Colonial Guard]].<ref name="wp macer"/>

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's death, 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 incarcerated in a youth detention facility for a year. As a result of her time in the correctional facility Macer began to rethink her life; after her sentence ended she enlisted in the Colonial Guard to honor her late father. Macer 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 against local criminals, in particular smugglers and narcotics dealers, as well as several orbital defense operations against [[pirate]]s over a period of two years. By the age of nineteen, she had risen to the rank of private first class and reported directly to [[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]].<ref name="wp macer"/>

Macer initially copiloted the joint team's Condor during their operations on Alpha Shard, which led to some of the ONI agents calling her a "glorified bus driver". While the ground team were returning to the Condor after capturing the two smugglers who were obtaining the exotic element, a [[Lekgolo]] swarm attacked the Condor. The craft was quickly plunged out of control and Macer was thrown out before the Condor was sent crashing into a distant canyon. Although several Sedrans were killed in the attack, Macer managed to escape along with the other survivors.<ref name="hnf2"/>

Piloted by Macer, the barely flight-capable Condor took her and Locke to the smugglers' freighter. Macer was lightly injured in the crash but with help by Locke, the two made it to the tug and successfully escaped just as Aiken detonated the HAVOK, leaving Macer and Locke as the sole survivors of the mission.<ref name="hnf5"/>

{{Quote|no=two|q1=So you think if you went through ONI training, you'd be just as good?|Locke|q2=Maybe even better.|Macer|Macer sharing her aspiration with Locke<ref name="hnf2"/>}}

Macer is a competent and determined soldier with a strong sense of loyalty. She is particularly intelligent and resourceful, possessing an innate talent as a [[pilot]] as well as an interest in aeronautics and physics, which she studied at a very young age.<ref name="wp macer"/> During her service to the Colonial Guard, she became a protégé to the Guard's commander, [[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]]. While loyal to Aiken and her homeworld, she is not as resentful to the [[United Nations Space Command]] as most of the Sedran Colonial Guard. She is also noted for her curiosity and 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.<ref name="SDCC">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZOLp6pYCE '''YouTube''': ''Halo: Nightfall Panel - SDCC 2014'']</ref>

*Macer is the female lead in ''[[Halo: Nightfall]]''. She is portrayed by English actress [[Wikipedia:Christina Chong|Christina Chong]].<ref>[http://upandcomers.net/2014/07/09/christina-chong-lands-female-lead-halo-nightfall/ '''Up & Comers''': ''Christina Chong Lands Female Lead in Digital Feature ‘Halo: Nightfall’'']</ref><ref name="waypoint"/>

[[Category:Humans|Macer, Talitha]]