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'''Roma-143''' was a [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] supersoldier of the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command]] attached to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. She serves with [[Team Black]] as an intelligence specialist, and is designated in the team as '''Black-Two'''.<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2964800_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2964800 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction - Page 9'']</ref> She is visually distinguished with the Roman numeral "II" on her visor.<ref name="evo">'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', "[[Blunt Instruments]]"</ref><ref name="issue1">'''[[Halo: Blood Line]]''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 1|Issue 1]]''</ref><ref name="issue2">'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 2|Issue 2]]''</ref>

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She was abducted and conscripted into the [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] program by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] in [[2517]] when she was six years old. She was then taken to the planet [[Reach]], and [[SPARTAN-II training|trained]] by the [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] [[Déjà]] and [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez|Mendez]], along with the rest of the Spartan children. She was assigned to Team Black, and trained with the other teams such as the [[Red Team]].<ref name="issue2"/> In [[2525]], she and the other candidates underwent a [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|series of augmentations]] to improve their abilities. Roma was among the ones that survived and were not crippled or killed by the procedure.

During the [[Human-Covenant War]], Roma fought alongside Team Black in various operations against the [[Covenant]], including a mission where they destroyed a [[Covenant citadel]].<ref name="issue5">'''Halo: Blood Line''', "[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]"</ref> and another in which they used [[C-12 shaped charge]]s to blow a hole in a [[Covenant cruiser]].<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', "Blunt Instruments", ''page 202''</ref>

In [[2552|mid-2552]], they were sent to destroy a Covenant [[Beacon]] on the Covenant-occupied colony of [[Verge]]. After landing, the team made their way past fortified anti-aircraft emplacements to the city of [[Ciudad de Arias]], where the Beacon was situated. In one of the city's skyscrapers, they assessed the Beacon's defenses, observing a large swarm of [[Yanme'e]], overseen by [[Kig-Yar]] guards and some [[Mgalekgolo]]. Roma was then ordered to find a safe room for them to get some rest. In one of the rooms, she found an injured, apparently non-hostile Yanme'e, whom she nicknamed "[[Hopalong]]". The Drone, through a translator device, revealed an alternate, hidden route to the Beacon. While Margaret and the rest of the team were suspicious, they decided to trust the Yanme'e.

 

On her way, she discovered an intact underground train, which they could use to escape. After telling Margaret, they decided to head to the train. However, Black-Three was not responding One's calls and Two decided to go rescue him, despite One's orders to leave him. After locating an injured Three, Two carried him over her shoulder and sprinted through the city's ruins, now crawling with freed Yanme'e, to the train where One and Four were already waiting. Before escaping, she detonated the charge she had placed on the pylon, brining the Beacon down. They got onboard the train and escaped as the tunnels collapsed under the beacon, and headed to a [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship]] for exfiltration.<ref name="evo"/>

Some time after the mission on Verge, Team Black was to embark on [[Operation: BLOWBACK|a covert mission]] to infiltrate a Covenant vessel. When [[Long Time Coming|their ship]] crash-landed on an [[Unidentified moon (Sub-sector 35)|Unnamed Moon]], Roma stayed behind to drop a [[Slipbeacon]] to [[UNSC Fleet Command|Fleet Command]] while the rest of the team went to scout the area.<ref name="issue1"/> After Two was finished, she moved out into the [[Line Installation 1-4|Line Installation]]. While she was inside the structure looking for her teammates, [[686 Ebullient Prism]] took control the [[Heads-up display|HUDs]] of the team's MJOLNIR armors to deceive them and to pit them against each other. After Prism led Two to a [[Type-50 Sniper Rifle System|Beam Rifle]], Two found her way to a ledge where she spotted [[Otto-031]], who appeared on her helmet display as a [[Mgalekgolo|Hunter]]. Two opened fire on him, oblivious of the fact her HUD was being manipulated.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 4|Issue 4]]''</ref> In turn, Black-Four saw Roma as [[Thon 'Talamee]] and shot her in the head, injuring her.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 3|Issue 3]]''</ref> Knocked unconscious, Roma awoke some time later as the wound was healed by [[Biofoam]]. After waking up, she made her way into the Installation's command center, where she helped the rest of the team destroy 686 Ebullient Prism. After being severely damaged, the monitor was destroyed as it flew into the Installation's main weapon just as it fired at an incoming Covenant fleet. The fleet crashed on the moon, and Team Black moved back to the surface in order to find a serviceable vessel they could commandeer to escape. Outside, they faced a massive Covenant ground force.<ref>'''Halo: Blood Line''', ''[[Halo: Blood Line Issue 5|Issue 5]]''</ref> The Spartans survived the resulting skirmish and eventually returned to UNSC territory.<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2963929_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2963929 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction - Page 6'']</ref>

By late [[2557#July|July 2557]], Roma-143 and the rest of Black Team had been reassigned to serve as an escort for a UNSC science team in a desert on the surface of [[Installation 03]]. On July 25, shortly after the [[Ur-Didact]]'s [[Raid on Ivanoff Station|attack]] on the nearby [[Ivanoff Station]], the Spartans were patrolling the vicinity of the scientists' camp when they noticed a series of incoming [[slipspace]] signatures. One of the objects crashed nearby, prompting Black to investigate. The Spartans made their way to the impact crater and discovered an unconscious Ur-Didact, who had been knocked into a slipspace rupture by [[John-117]] during the [[New Phoenix Incident]]. Unaware of who the Didact was, Team Black speculated the arriving objects to be an invasion force, though one member questioned the efficacy of the invaders given the unresponsive state of the figure before them. However, the Didact suddenly awoke. Furious at the Spartans' presence, the Didact savagely killed Roma and the rest of Team Black along with the nearby scientists.<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]]''</ref>

The following day, [[Blue Team]] arrived at Gamma Halo, having been deployed to investigate the disturbance by [[Terrence Hood|Admiral Terrence Hood]]. The Spartans of Blue Team found Roma and the rest of Team Black dead and were attacked by [[Promethean]] constructs shortly after.<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue 8]]''</ref>

Roma had a characteristic light-hearted sense of humor and she appeared to be the most open-minded member of Team Black, as demonstrated by her decision to attempt communicating with a Yanme'e instead of outright killing it. This may, however, have been linked to her inquisitive and curious nature, which may have been a contributing factor to her role in the team. Roma was fiercely loyal to her teammates and would refuse to leave one of them behind on Verge, despite direct orders.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', "Blunt Instruments", ''page 216''</ref>

File:Black Team.png|Black Team in the cargo hold of the ''[[Long Time Coming]]''.

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