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<center>''Were you looking for [[Shiela]], the [[SPARTAN-II]]?''</center>

{{Human Character Infobox

|name=Shiela Polaski  

|death=[[2552#September 2552|September 2552]]<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 223 (exact date of death unknown due to Slipspace time anomaly)</ref>

|rank=[[Petty Officer Second Class]]<ref>[[Letter - Re:Haverson]]</ref>

|weapons=

|equipment=

|vehicles=*[[D77-TC Pelican]]

*[[Longsword|C709 Longsword]] Heavy Fighter

*[[DX-class Spirit Dropship|Covenant Dropship]]

|hair="Dirty" Blonde

|eyes=Green<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 53</ref>

|cyber=

|era=

|notable=One of the only survivors of the destruction of [[Installation 04]].

**[[UNSC Navy]]

'''Petty Officer Second Class<ref>[[Letter - Re:Polaski]]</ref> Shiela Polaski<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 49</ref>''' was a blond-haired [[UNSC]] [[Petty Officer Second Class]] assigned to the [[23rd Naval Air Squadron]] in [[2552]]. She was stationed aboard the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn]]'' as a [[Pelican]] pilot. When that vessel fled the [[Battle of Reach]] and ended up at [[Installation 04]], Polaski survived the ''Autumn's'' crash landing.

She was never mentioned during [[The Battle of Installation 04]] but was among the handful of survivors who fled in a [[D77-TC|Pelican]] when the Halo was destroyed. She, [[Lieutenant (UNSC)|Lieutenant]] [[Haverson|Elias Haverson]], [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson]], and [[Corporal (UNSC)|Corporal]] [[Locklear]] hid in the debris field until they met with [[SPARTAN-117]] and [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] in their [[Longsword]] fighter. Despite the harrowing experience of Installation 04, she was relatively levelheaded. At some point, [[Locklear]] developed a crush on her.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 282</ref> She apparently returned his feelings.

She helped the Chief capture the [[Covenant]] [[Assault Carrier|flagship]] ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''. She then learned to pilot its [[DX-class Spirit Dropship|Covenant Dropship]]s, and when they returned to [[Reach]], she piloted the ship to the surface so they could locate the [[SPARTAN-II]]s who had survived the fall of Reach.  

When they returned to the ''Ascendant Justice'' and were caught in an anomalous [[Slipspace]] bubble, Polaski volunteered to pilot the Spartans outside the vessel to conduct extra-vehicular repairs.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 218</ref> She was killed along with [[Anton-044]] and [[Li-008]] when a renegade charge of [[plasma]] flash-vaporized the dropships cockpit.

It is also possible that the weapon that she uses to kill the Elite in the first section of the book may be the first sighting of the M6C pistol chronologically. Since it took ten rounds to break the shield and two headshots to kill it, it may have been the M6C pistol. Also, she was a Navy flier, which meant that the best weapons would have been reserved for the Marines, ODSTs, and Spartans that were onboard.

==Trivia==

*It is possible that either she or [[Haverson]] is the other soldier behind the Chief on the cover of [[Halo: First Strike]].

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[[Category:UNSC Naval Personnel]]

[[Category: Humans (Characters)|Polaski, Shelia]]