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|rank=Petty officer<ref>''[[Halo: Retribution]]'', Chapter 2 (''"Osman scowled. “What part of ‘forget I mentioned them’ wasn’t clear, Petty Officer?” '' Olivia’s expression grew contrite. “Sorry, Admiral,” she said. “I didn’t realize the lamebrain was you.”'')</ref>

'''Olivia-G291''', nicknamed '''"O"'''{{Ref/Reuse|goo116}} or '''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Livi'''<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', ''pages 104, 115, 180, etc.'' (Google Play edition)</ref> is a [[Spartan-III program|SPARTAN-III supersoldier]] of [[SPARTAN-III Gamma Company|Gamma Company]].<ref name="goo116">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 116''</ref> Originally assigned to [[Team Saber]], one of the leading squads in Gamma Company,<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 117''</ref> she served as part of [[Blue Team]] following the [[Onyx Conflict]].<ref name="blue">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''pages 382-383''</ref> After [[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE]] in [[2553#July|July 2553]], Olivia was assigned to an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[Ferret|Ferret Team]] led by [[Veta Lopis]] along with fellow Gamma Spartans [[Ash-G099]] and [[Mark-G313]], serving as the team's information specialist.{{Ref/Reuse|ant}}

Olivia joined the SPARTAN-III program developed by [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]] at age six when she,{{Ref/Reuse|hll}} along with other orphans, "volunteered" to become Spartans to avenge their families' deaths. She and the other Spartan-III candidates were trained under [[Senior Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez|Mendez]], surviving [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company]] SPARTAN-IIIs [[Lucy-B091]] and [[Tom-B292]], and [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Kurt Ambrose]] at [[Camp Currahee]] on the planet [[Onyx]]. Olivia was assigned to [[Team Saber]] under the command of [[Ash-G099]].

Before the 717th could evacuate, the newly-elected [[President of Gao]] [[Arlo Casille]] sent [[Gao Republic]]'s military to forcefully remove the UNSC from the planet. Olivia and Ash joined Fred at the [[Portable Spartan Support Module]] in order to acquire their armor. However, Intrepid Eye had taken control of the module and attempted to suffocate Lopis inside the [[airlock]], but the Spartans were able to free the inspector and neutralize Intrepid Eye's inspection drone. Determined to prevent the Forerunner site from falling into Casille's hands, Blue Team, Lopis, and Roams Alone embarked to destroy the facility with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]. Pursued by [[Wyvern]]s carrying [[Gao battle-jumpers]], the team traveled in Warthogs to the [[Well of Echoes]], below which the Forerunner support base was located, and boarded the [[Owl]] [[UNSC Silent Claw|''Silent Claw'']], with [[Serin Osman|Rear Admiral Serin Osman]] waiting onboard. Mark dropped the HAVOK into the Well of Echoes, destroying the Forerunner base, while Blue Team exfiltrated from the planet successfully.{{Ref/Reuse|hll}}

In the following months, Olivia, Ash, Mark, and Veta Lopis underwent a training regimen to become ONI field operatives, with Olivia assigned as the Ferret Team's information specialist. To prepare her for her specialization, Olivia underwent an ONI Digital Infiltration and Sabotage course, which she was halfway through by mid-September of 2553. While she and the other Gammas were exceptionally quick to learn the new skills, their military background meant they would often instinctually fall back to lethal force in life-or-death situations. During this time, they regularly moved from one planet to another; the colonies they visited included [[Jastolo]].<ref name="ant">'''Halo: Fractures''', "A Necessary Truth"</ref>

Olivia is energetic and clever and has shown to be quick to catch on to new ideas.{{Ref/Reuse|ll c28}}<ref>'''Halo: Fractures''', "A Necessary Truth", page 234'' (Google Play edition)</ref> She is also empathetic and perceptive, for example quickly noticing [[Veta Lopis]]' anxiety in tight spaces and attempting to calm the inspector down. This was ostensibly to avoid the pair from being discovered, though she also appeared to show genuine concern for Lopis' well-being, unexpectedly opening up to her about a fear of her own; namely one of "white fire" generated by a [[plasma]] discharge. Psychologists stated this was because she had seen her family die in a plasma strike, though she could no longer remember the details of the event herself. As was the norm with Spartan-IIIs, Olivia joined the program in order avenge her family and homeworld. As she was trained, however, she would come to be motivated by a desire to prevent anyone else having to suffer a similar fate. Olivia would later reflect on the tragedy not with bitterness but as something that gave her purpose.<ref name="ll13">'''Halo: Last Light''', Chapter 13, ''pages 173-177'' (Google Play edition)</ref> She even appeared to take some measure of pride in the Gammas' augmentation-induced mental condition, namely their ability to fight under pain intolerable to any other human.<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', Chapter 23, ''pages 294-295'' (Google Play edition)</ref>

Olivia is known as the stealthiest Spartan in Gamma Company and is consequently called "O" for short because she is "as whisper-quiet as her vowel namesake.{{Ref/Reuse|goo116}} [[Kurt Ambrose]] believed that Olivia could have been wearing fluorescent orange fatigues and still blend in with the terrain.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''pages 252-253''</ref> Following her assignment to the Ferret Team, she specialized in electronic intelligence and hacking.{{Ref/Reuse|ant}}

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