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'''Admiral Serin Osman''', born '''Serin Çelik''',<ref name="HMD15">'''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]''', ''Chapter 15''</ref> formerly '''SPARTAN-019''', and nicknamed '''Oz''', ([[service number]] '''39489-72738-SO'''<ref>'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 26''</ref>) is the [[Commander-in-Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence|Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], inheriting the role from [[Margaret Parangosky|Admiral Margaret Parangosky]] after the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]].

Born in [[2511]] on the [[human colonies|colony]] of [[Cascade]], Serin Çelik was born to [[Pinar Çelik]], a prostitute and drug addict who completely neglected her daughter. On more than one occasion young Serin resorted to digging through garbage cans for food. Numerous calls to child services were to no avail. The only person who cared for Serin was her teacher, [[Alkmini Leandro]], who regularly brought food to school for her.<ref name="HMD15"/> In [[2517]] Serin was abducted as a [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] candidate. She was given the designation Serin-019 and was trained under [[Franklin Mendez|Chief Mendez]] along with the rest of the candidates. Because of her living conditions she (along with [[Soren-066]]) was not replaced with a [[Flash cloning|flash clone]]. She often ate the other candidates' leftover food, a practice for which [[John-117]] teased her.<ref name="HMD15"/>

Osman did not successfully complete the [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|augmentation process]], receiving only the genetic and biochemical enhancements before her body started to reject the rest.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 214''</ref> While she failed the augmentation process, she still possesses a few of the enhancements, although no skeletal augmentation. The Office of Naval Intelligence took custody of her when she was 14 years old; they repaired the damage done by the failed augmentation process, educated her further, and put her into the ONI commanders' program.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 79''</ref> The other Spartans thought her dead; unlike some of the other washouts later assigned to ONI, she was withdrawn from the program before the funeral ceremony for the Spartans killed in the augmentations. As a result, she remained unaware if the successful Spartans were even told of the fate of the failures.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 82''</ref>

Considered as a protégé to [[Margaret Parangosky|Admiral Margaret Parangosky]], CINCONI, the Admiral groomed the former Spartan for a potential future as her successor. Osman considered herself the only person the Admiral would always forgive even if she failed. In order to hide her status as a former Spartan she adopted the surname "[[Wikipedia:Osman (name)|Osman]]". Though people often assumed she was of Turkish descent based on her name and appearance, she did not actually know whether this was the case; though the information on her pre-Spartan identity was readily available to her, she did not look at her personal file for decades<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 25-26''</ref> until spontaneously deciding to do so in [[2553#April|April 2553]].

By [[2553]], Osman held the rank of captain. She was handpicked by Parangosky to lead up a black operations team known as [[Kilo-Five]] with the mission to ensure a [[Sangheili]] insurgency, keeping the Elites from threatening humanity. The team was composed of the civilian professor and Sangheili expert [[Evan Phillips]]; [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODSTs]] [[Malcolm Geffen|Staff Sergeant "Mal" Geffen]], [[Lian Devereaux|Sergeant Lian Devereaux]], and [[Vasily Beloi|Corporal "Vaz" Beloi]]; and Spartan-II [[Naomi-010]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 74''</ref> Using Phillips, Osman arranged a meeting in January with [[Avu Med 'Telcam]], a member of the [[Servants of the Abiding Truth]], on [[New Llanelli]]. She agreed to give him weapons to aid in his upcoming insurrection, though this was part of ONI's ploy to destabilize the Sangheili.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 20''</ref> Later she met with Parangosky to confirm Kilo-Five's members, as well as being given the AI [[Black-Box]] and a secondary mission to find [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], who had disappeared with Spartan [[Blue Team]] after the [[Battle of Onyx]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 74''</ref> Upon arriving aboard the [[prowler]] {{UNSCShip|Port Stanley}} Osman transitioned the ship into [[slipspace]] and revealed her identity to Naomi. Naomi revealed to Osman that the surviving Spartans thought Serin had died.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 82''</ref> Osman then told the others about her past in the SPARTAN-II program, revealing that it started when she was six years old. This shocked the other members on the ship and angered Naomi-010, creating the very tension Osman had hoped to alleviate.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 108''</ref>

Reaching New Llanelli, Osman was surprised to see 'Telcam had kept his word; she gave him tagged Sangheili weapons.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 128-132''</ref> However, she was approached by [[Tom Muir]], a colonist who had managed to survive on New Llanelli in the wake of the colony's [[glassing]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 133''</ref> Brought aboard the ship, Muir angrily questioned Osman about why she was meeting with the Sangheili. Osman made up a story that they were exchanging fallen bodies; Muir fell for this deceit, sparing Osman the trouble of killing him.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 151''</ref> After a quick mission to [[Department of Colonial Security|DCS]] agent [[Mike Spenser]] from [[Reynes]], Osman went to aid {{UNSCShip|Ariadne}}, a ship that had been damaged in orbit of [[Venezia]]. However, Venezia's refusal to help ''Ariadne'' led to the ship's destruction before ''Port Stanley'' could reach it.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 161''</ref>

Osman went on several missions to aid the [[Servants of the Abiding Truth]], helping them continue their insurrection against [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]. She was also present during the UNSC's first diplomatic mission to [[Sanghelios]], accompanying [[Terrence Hood|Fleet Admiral Hood]] as he and the Arbiter formalized the peace between humanity and [[Swords of Sanghelios|'Vadam's allies]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''pages 353-358''</ref>

After the [[Trevelyan|shield world]] formerly housed within the artificial planet [[Onyx]] was brought back into normal space, Osman was part of the party that entered the [[Dyson sphere]] aboard Kilo-Five's [[Pelican]], ''[[Tart-Cart]]''. They met with [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], [[Franklin Mendez|CPO Franklin Mendez]], and the Spartan-IIs and [[Spartan-III]]s of [[Blue Team]]. Osman personally took Dr. Halsey into custody for "committing acts likely to aid the enemy": during the [[Battle of Earth]], Halsey had diverted a [[UNSC Navy]] [[Patterson's battlegroup|battle group]] to Onyx under false pretenses, weakening the homeworld's defenses.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 385''</ref> ''Port Stanley'' subsequently took the survivors to Earth for a debriefing at [[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 394''</ref>

In [[2553#March|March 2553]], after participating in the [[Voi Memorial]] ceremony, Kilo-Five was tasked with investigating Venezia and its reemerging rebel movement. With ''Port Stanley'' holding station near Venezia, Mal and Vaz were inserted to [[New Tyne]] while Evan Phillips, accompanied by a fragment of BB, left Kilo-Five to study Sangheili culture on [[Sanghelios]].

After an explosion in [[Ontom]], Sanghelios severed Kilo-Five's communication with BB's fragment and Phillips, Osman immediately ordered Kilo-Five to regroup aboard ''Port Stanley'', which then made a slipspace jump to Sanghelios to recover him.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 456''</ref> Osman had Devereaux fly ''Tart-Cart'' to Ontom amid [[Sangheili civil war|'Telcam's assault on Vadam]] while herself coordinating the operation from ''Port Stanley''. While initially failing to locate Phillips in the temple, Kilo-Five eventually recovered him from the [[Nes'alun keep]] in [[Acroli]].<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page 179''</ref>

Meanwhile, the Fleet's new flagship, {{UNSCship|Infinity}}, turned the tide over Sanghelios as it decimated the Abiding Truth's forces. As the battle began to turn against the Abiding Truth, Admiral Parangosky ordered Kilo-Five to extract 'Telcam as he was necessary to maintain the imposed stalemate between the two Sangheili factions. With Osman aboard ''Port Stanley'', Kilo-Five headed planetside aboard ''Tart-Cart'' and forced 'Telcam into the dropship. While Lord Hood and ''Infinity'' openly aided 'Vadam and defeated the attackers, with BB's help, ''Port Stanley'' posed as a Kig-Yar pirate ship. Disguised a Shipmistress named "Lahz", Osman and BB covertly destroyed some of 'Vadam's ships under Admiral Parangosky's orders, leaving the Arbiter with a Pyrrhic victory. After the battle, Osman rendezvoused with ''Tart-Cart'' and dropped 'Telcam off at New Llanelli for his safety.<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page 329''</ref>

After the operation on Sanghelios, Vaz and Naomi were inserted on Venezia disguised as UNSC deserters. Shortly after their arrival in [[New Tyne]], they spotted Naomi's father and known Venezian [[terrorism|terrorist]] [[Staffan Sentzke]] in the company of Sav Fel, the current possessor of ''Pious Inquisitor''.<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page 430''</ref> Shortly thereafter, Osman pulled Naomi off the Venezian infiltration mission and substituted her with Mal as her family ties might compromise the mission.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 84''</ref>

Osman experiences unusually strong symptoms of vertigo and nausea during [[slipspace]] transitions. While she was away on missions, Parangosky had crystallized ginger regularly shipped to her as a remedy.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''pages 84, 87''</ref>