Editing Iona

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{{AI Infobox

|image= [[File:Bloodline AI.png|275px]]

|name= Iona

|began=Before [[2552#August|August 2552]]

|ended=

|gender= Feminine programming

|description=Tall and slender woman with short curly hair

|color= Red

|affiliation= [[United Nations Space Command]]

'''Iona''' is a [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] construct utilized by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref name="issue1">'''[[Halo: Blood Line]]''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 1|Issue 1]]''</ref>

 

Iona was originally built for Naval Intelligence analysis and had no experience with [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartans]] prior to [[Operation: BLOWBACK]]. As a unique feature not seen in other AI, she has a secondary, more simplistic "ghost" interface layered over her actual one. This was intended as a cover to deceive remote scanners, making her appear to them as a simpler AI, affordable by [[civilian]] miners. She is known to accidentally switch to this interface without realizing it in unexpected situations. This secondary interface also changes her [[avatar]], to a child-like version of her default appearance.<ref name="issue1"/> She is also able to communicate in 306 languages.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 2|Issue 2]]''</ref>

She was to assist Spartan-II [[Team Black]] during Operation: BLOWBACK, a covert [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[Office of Naval Intelligence|Intelligence]] mission to capture and destroy [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] ships in [[Sub-Sector 35]], onboard the ONI-commissioned prospecting ship {{UNSCShip|Long Time Coming}}. Just as the operation was about to start, the ship received a peculiar burst transmission of unknown origin. Iona asked the ship's [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Moreland]] for more time to analyze the message, but Moreland cared little about the AI's pleas and ordered the ship to jump into [[Slipspace]]. Just as they did, Iona realized the message was a warning of an [[astrogation]] hazard in their way. In an instant, the ship was hit by energy bombardment from [[Line Installation 1-4]], and dropped out of Slipspace, soon crashing on a [[Unnamed Moon|desolate moon]]. After the crash, Iona assessed the damage to the ship and awakened Team Black. She scanned the moon's surface, and it was soon discovered that it lacked a breathable atmosphere, and that an immense underground complex with breathable air was located nearby. Team Black decided to head to the structure, with Iona attached to [[Victor-101]]'s [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Black|MJOLNIR armor]].<ref name="issue1"/>

After [[Black-One]] was captured by a [[Gatherer]], Iona assisted Black-One and Black-Three on their efforts to rescue her. Black-One was taken into a holding cell deep in the Line Installation, for inspection by its [[Monitor]], [[686 Ebullient Prism]]. After a brief skirmish with Covenant forces also present on the moon, Iona managed to convince some of them to a temporary alliance, due to them having a similar problem. As Three and Four were on their way to where One was being held, Iona's secondary interface was taken over by the Monitor who was trying to hinder the team's progress.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 3|Issue 3]]''</ref> Prism, being a much more advanced construct, chased Iona through Black-Four's MJOLNIR armor systems, and was about to overpower and erase her. However, Prism became distracted when passing through a visualization of altered logs of Black-Four's training. Simultaneously in the physical world, Black-One escaped from her cell and fired at Prism with a [[Gatherer]]'s [[Directed Energy Weapon|energy weapon]], making the monitor disappear from Iona's systems.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 4|Issue 4]]''</ref>

Meanwhile, after subtle manipulation by Prism, Black-Four became determined to settle an old personal grudge with Black-Three. The two engaged in a fight despite Iona and Three trying to settle the matter peacefully. Finally, Iona managed to convince the two to stop fighting and focus on the mission at hand. They headed to the Installation's control center, where the team, now united, destroyed Prism while bringing down a [[Covenant Fleet]] with the Installation's main weapon. After the fleet crashed to the moon, Iona analyzed the wreckage, finding a possibly functional Slipspace drive in one of the [[Covenant Cruiser|Cruisers]]. Before the team exited the Installation, Iona warned them of over a hundred live Covenant outside, and suggested they wait for the enemies to eventually die of asphyxiation due to the moon not having a breathable atmosphere. Despite this, the team moved outside immediately to engage the enemy forces, with Black-Three declaring the fight to be "almost fair" for the Covenant.<ref name="issue5">'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]''</ref>

Over the course of the events, Iona occasionally filed status reports of the team's progress. When she was infiltrated by Prism, she already filed a message only to be sent in the event of a total mission failure, or if Team Black was to be neutralized.<ref name="issue5"/>

===Post-war===

After almost seven years of service, the UNSC decided to legally terminate her existence in order to stave off the threat of the [[Rampancy]]. In a last-ditch effort to save herself, Iona successfully launched an unprecedented legal appeal against her own death sentence. Her case was watched very closely not only by the highest levels of human government, but also by other organization.<ref name="Witness Protection">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-witness-projection '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Witness Protection'']</ref>

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