Holly Tanaka
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Template:Under Construction Template:Character Infobox Spartan Holly Tanaka is a human soldier of the United Nations Space Command who served in the years following the Human-Covenant War.[1] She was one of the three survivors of the 2550 glassing of her homeworld Minab known to have endured the three year struggle on the harsh world.. Shortly after their rescue Tanaka would enlist in the UNSC Army, becoming a non-commissioned officer in the engineers, and later volunteered for augmentation and training as a SPARTAN-IV supersoldier.[1]
Biography
Early life and family
Holly Tanaka was born on Minab, an Earth colony, approximately a decade before 2550. The Tanakas are a multiracial family of Black and East Asian descent courtesy of Holly's mother and father, respectively. She was raised with her brothers in the colony's capital city of Kynur where their parents managed the construction company Tanaka Exploration.[1]
Glassing of Minab
As the Human-Covenant War entered its final stages with the Covenant fully entrenched in the Inner Colonies, Minab stood defenseless against the ensuing genocidal onslaught. Holly's mother was at home with her brothers, washing dishes and reminiscing on a picture of her family, as Covenant destroyers rained down superheated plasma to glass their city. Holly and her father were spared from the indiscriminate Covenant attack that claimed their loved ones by being on the other side of Minab where their family business maintained a mining operation. For a year after the bombing, Holly, her father, and nine other colonists on the mining crew thrived without harassment by Covenant occupation forces and were able to gather resources in the snow-capped landscape caused by nuclear winter. Holly became adept at hunting and setting traps for the local game, including a light brown-skinned species reminiscent of a smaller Gúta from Reach, and was relied upon by her father as his best engineer, able to construct and maintain fusion reactors for the mine.[1]
Military service
List of appearances
- Halo: Escalation (First appearance)
