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'''Roma-143''' was a [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] supersoldier of the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command]] serving the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. She was [[Black Team]]'s intelligence specialist and was designated as '''Black-Two'''.{{Ref/Site|URL=https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2964800_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2964800|SiteName=Halo Waypoint|PageName=Catalog Interaction - Page 9}}

===Early life===

Roma was a genetically, intellectually, and physically gifted child chosen for the [[SPARTAN-II]] project. She was abducted by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] and replaced with a [[flash clone]] when she was around six years old. She and seventy-four other children were taken to [[Reach]] in the [[Epsilon Eridani system]]. There, she was trained by the [[dumb AI|"dumb" AI]], [[Déjà]] and [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez]], with the two serving as the Spartans' teacher and drill instructor, respectively. Roma was placed on [[Black Team]] along with [[Otto-031]], [[Margaret-053]], and [[Victor-101]]. In [[2519]], she was taken alongside her fellow trainees to a [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]] for a mission that required each trainee to be left alone in the woods with a only a single piece of a map. It was up to them to find one another so that they could piece the map together and locate the designated extraction point. The mission was ultimately a success. At another point during training, Roma and the others traveled to [[Emerald Cove]] for an underwater mission. There, they abandoned Mendez and lived on their own on an island for a few days. By [[2523#July|July 14, 2523]], Roma and her fellow Spartan-IIs had begun facing the formidable and ruthless [[UNSC Marine Corps]]' [[Tango Company]] in simulated [[War Games|war games]]. On [[2525#March|March 9, 2525]], Roma and the rest of the Spartan-II candidates underwent their [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|augmentation procedures]] at [[Medical Facility Endurance]] orbiting Reach. After the [[Covenant]] [[First Battle of Harvest|attack]] on [[Harvest]] and the onset of the [[Human-Covenant War]], Roma and Black Team conducted numerous operations against the alien menace. At one point, they were successful in destroying a [[Covenant citadel|citadel]] of some kind that was of importance to the Covenant<ref name="issue5">''Halo: Blood Line'', "[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]"</ref> and at another time they blew a hole in a [[Covenant cruiser]].<ref>''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe'', "Blunt Instruments", p. 202</ref>

On her way, she discovered an intact underground train, which they could use to escape. After telling Margaret, they decided to head to the train. However, Black-Three was not responding One's calls and Two decided to go rescue him, despite One's orders to leave him. After locating an injured Three, Two carried him over her shoulder and sprinted through the city's ruins, now crawling with freed Yanme'e, to the train where One and Four were already waiting. Before escaping, she detonated the charge she had placed on the pylon, brining the Beacon down. They got onboard the train and escaped as the tunnels collapsed under the beacon, and headed to a [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship]] for exfiltration.<ref name="evo"/>

Some time after the mission on Verge, Team Black was to embark on [[Operation: BLOWBACK|a covert mission]] to infiltrate a Covenant vessel. When [[Long Time Coming|their ship]] crash-landed on an [[Unidentified moon (Sub-sector 35)|unnamed moon]], Roma stayed behind to drop a [[Slipbeacon]] to [[UNSC Fleet Command|Fleet Command]] while the rest of the team went to scout the area.<ref name="issue1"/> After Two was finished, she moved out into the [[Line Installation 1-4|Line Installation]]. While she was inside the structure looking for her teammates, [[686 Ebullient Prism]] took control the [[Heads-up display|HUDs]] of the team's MJOLNIR armors to deceive them and to pit them against each other. After Prism led Two to a [[Type-50 particle beam rifle|Beam Rifle]], Two found her way to a ledge where she spotted [[Otto-031]], who appeared on her helmet display as a [[Mgalekgolo|Hunter]]. Two opened fire on him, oblivious of the fact her HUD was being manipulated.<ref>''Halo: Blood Line'', [[Halo: Blood Line Issue 4|Issue 4]]</ref> In turn, Black-Four saw Roma as [[Thon 'Talamee]] and shot her in the head, injuring her.<ref>''Halo: Blood Line'', [[Halo: Blood Line Issue 3|Issue 3]]</ref> Knocked unconscious, Roma awoke some time later as the wound was healed by [[Biofoam]]. After waking up, she made her way into the Installation's command center, where she helped the rest of the team destroy 686 Ebullient Prism. After being severely damaged, the monitor was destroyed as it flew into the Installation's main weapon just as it fired at an incoming Covenant fleet. The fleet crashed on the moon, and Team Black moved back to the surface in order to find a serviceable vessel they could commandeer to escape. Outside, they faced a massive Covenant ground force.<ref>''Halo: Blood Line'', [[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]</ref> The Spartans survived the resulting skirmish and eventually returned to UNSC territory.{{Ref/Site|URL=https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2963929_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2963929|SiteName=Halo Waypoint|PageName=Catalog Interaction - Page 6}}

She was assigned to Team Black, and trained with the other teams such as the [[Red Team]].<ref name="issue2"/>

File:Black Team.png|Black Team in the cargo hold of the ''[[Long Time Coming]]''.

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