Editing Amalea Petrov

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Lieutenant Commander '''Amalea Petrov''' is a [[commissioned officer]] in the [[UNSC Prowler Corps|Prowler Corps]] of the [[UNSC Navy]], and the former-captain of the {{UNSCShip|Night Watch}} - a {{Class|Razor|prowler}} active in the early years of the [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=OB3|Oblv|Chapter=3}} In [[2526#June|June 2526]], Petrov was tasked with leading her prowler as part of a [[Battle of Netherop|mission]] to [[Netherop]] to salvage the downed [[Covenant frigate]] ''[[Steadfast Strike]]''. During the battle, she became stranded on Netherop alongside a [[Defenders of the Sanctum|faction]] of [[Sangheili]] troops led by ex-[[Fleetmaster]] [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]], resulting in her leading a low-intensity guerrilla conflict against the Sangheili on Netherop for thirty-three years.

==Biography==
===Service in the Great War===
In late April of [[2526]],{{Ref/Note|Chapter 3 of ''Halo: Oblivion'' states that Blue Team had been assigned to ''Night Watch'' six weeks prior to the chapter's date of June 5, 2526.}} Petrov held the rank of [[Lieutenant Commander]] in the Navy and was assigned as the superior officer for [[Blue Team]], a unit of [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] commandos, after their escape aboard the [[prowler]] during the [[battle of Zhoist]]. At this time, UNSC ''Night Watch'' was intended to serve as Blue Team's mobile base of operations, with Petrov acting as their mission commander and superior officer while they were aboard her ship. Despite this, she frequently overstepped her bounds, acting as the Spartans' commander even when they were deployed on-mission. In early June of that year, she and her charge were tasked with partaking in the [[Battle of Mesra]], with the prowler intended to stay in orbit around [[Mesra]] and remain undetected by potential [[Covenant fleet]] units. Despite this, she readily broke communications silence midway through the battle after being informed by [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] of a new breakthrough in the war that required immediate exfiltration of Blue Team: a [[Task Force Pantea|task force]] of {{Class|Halberd|light destroyer}}s had taken on a [[Covenant frigate]] and successfully disabled it, resulting in the frigate crash-landing on Netherop's surface. The ''Night Watch'' and Blue Team were reassigned to assist in recovery operations on this spacecraft, overriding any objectives they currently held on Mesra.{{Ref/Reuse|OB4}}

Even despite being scolded by both [[John-117]] and the [[24th Marine Engineering Brigade]]'s CO, [[Brigadier General]] [[Artur Pahlavi]], Petrov remained resolute in her commitment to breaking her silence - with John noting that he could practically hear her smirk upon relaying Vice Admiral Cole's orders. As such, she informed Blue Team that her prowler would be on the ground in fourteen minutes to exfiltrate them and that they were ordered to be there - even if it meant abandoning their current defensive posts. Blue Team ignored this directive, attempting to finish current objective before meeting Petrov at the [[landing zone]] nineteen minutes later - resulting in Petrov's bitter retort to the team for both delaying their exfiltration ''and'' failing to stop the advance of the Covenant armoured column. Due to the delay, ''Night Watch''{{'}}s window for exiting Mesra's orbit undetected had closed, meaning Petrov had to improvise - with the intent of using the 24th MEB's evacuation transports as a cover to allow ''Night Watch'' to slip away unnoticed.{{Ref/Reuse|OB4}}

Upon arriving at Netherop two days later, Petrov wasted no time in jump-starting the recovery mission. While standard prowler doctrine would dictate a ship to lie in orbit for several hours conducting passive reconnaissance, Petrov instead attempted to hurry the mission along by deploying one of ''Night Watch''{{'}}s [[D75-TC/r Pelican]]s to Netherop directly - resulting in the Pelican being destroyed by one of the hidden [[intrusion corvette]]s of the [[Flotilla of Unsung Piety]]. Unbeknownst to Petrov and the prowler crew, the downed Covenant frigate was a trap set into motion by [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]] in an attempt to exact revenge on the Spartans for their victory at [[Zhoist]]; his corvettes were hanging in orbit over Netherop with the intent of intercepting the Spartans and killing them. As such, Petrov was forced to resort to directly lowering ''Night Watch'' into Netherop's atmosphere with the intent of directly deploying the Spartans to the recovery site so that they could begin clearing out the downed frigate of hostiles. However, the ship took heavy anti-aircraft fire on descent, resulting in its crash-landing on Netherop sixty kilometres from the target LZ.{{Ref/Novel|Id=OB6|Oblv|Chapter=6}}
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]''

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[[Category:UNSC Navy officers]]