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Linda-058

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Linda-058
A screenshot of Linda-058 aboard Argent Moon on the level Blue Team.
Linda-058 in her ARGUS-class Mjolnir.
Biographical information

Homeworld:

Verent[1]

Born:

March 19, 2511[1]

Personal details

Species:

Human[1]

Gender:

Female[1]

Height:

213 centimetres (7 ft 0 in) (with Mjolnir armor)[1]

Weight:

109.769 kilograms (242.00 lb) (without armor)[1]

Hair color:

Red[2]

Eye color:

Green[2]

Political and military information

Affiliation:

Rank:

Petty Officer, First Class[1][3]

Service number:

S-058[1]

 

"I spotted for a class-II back on '39. 0058. You know her? She was an absolute beast with the sniper."
— A SPARTAN-IV remarks about Linda's capability.[4]

Petty Officer, First Class Linda-058, phonetic callsign "Sierra 058", born Linda Pravdin, is a SPARTAN-II supersoldier. She is one of the relative few known surviving Spartan-IIs, and is best known for her skill with the sniper rifle. Linda often served as the primary sniper and scout of Blue Team. By 2558, she had engaged in a total of 189 military operations (of which 174 were full campaigns), most of them during the Human-Covenant War. As of most recent knowledge, Linda continues to serve alongside Blue Team in highly-classified operations.

Biography[edit]

Childhood and conscription[edit]

"Every candidate has exceeded the selection criteria... and my expectations: superior strength and speed coupled with dazzling intellects and remarkable cognitive absorption rates. In another time, each could have been the next Alexander, Cleopatra, Hannibal, or Genghis Khan. One girl (Number 058) engineered her own intelligence network at school to spy on the teachers!"
— Doctor Halsey records her delight at the abilities of the selected children, and Linda in particular, in her journal.[5]
Young Linda Pravdin. From Halo: Lone Wolf Issue 1.
Linda was cared for as a child by her mother.[6][7]

Linda Pravdin was born on March 19, 2511 on the outer colony world of Verent.[1] There, she was taken care of by her mother.[6][7] As a child, Linda engineered her own intelligence network at school to spy on the teachers.[5] She was the very first child identified as a candidate for Project: SPARTAN-II.[1] Ultimately, she was numbered the fifty-eighth of one-hundred and fifty children of similar age that had been selected based on specific genetic markers for inclusion in the Spartan-II program, which only had facilities and funding for half that number.[1][8] She was screened by members of Doctor Catherine Halsey's team at some point between July and September of 2517 and by September 23 of that year she had been abducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence, rushed through slipspace to Reach.[7][9] She was stolen from her bed while she had been sleeping and a flash clone was used to take her place.[10][11] Once awoken from cryostasis shortly before 2300 hours on September 23, Linda and seventy-four other children were led into an amphitheater through four sets of double doors, each accompanied by a naval drill instructor.[7] There, at around 2300 hours, far below the ground within