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|spartantag=SPARTAN-G003<ref>[[Letter - Re:Spartan-Holly]], ''"Holly should be G003; the G122 looks to be an error. I’ll forward that onto TOR and make sure they correct it. Thank you for pointing this out."'' -- Eric Nylund, Nov 14, 2006 10:40 PM</ref>
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|birth=c. [[2540]]<ref name="g362">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 362''</ref>
|birth=Between [[2537]] and [[2540]]<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]] Page 100- the average age was only twelve in 2539.</ref>
|death=[[2552#November|November 3, 2552]]
|death= [[2552#November 3, 2552|November 3, 2552]]
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|affiliation=*[[UNSC Navy]]
|affiliation=[[United Nations Space Command]]
**[[UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Weapons]]
*[[UNSC Navy]]
***[[SPARTAN-III program]]
|rank=[[Petty Officer Third Class]]
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|specialty=Recon
|sn=S-G003{{Ref/Note|According to Chapter 10 of ''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', Holly has the Spartan tag G122, however Holly is later referred as having the tag G003 in Chapter 39 of the same book.}}
|battles=[[Battle of Onyx]]
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|class=[[Spartan-III]] [[Gamma Company]] : [[2551]]
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'''Holly-G003''' was a [[Spartan]] of the [[Spartan III]] program in [[Team Saber]]<ref>[[Halo: Ghost of Onyx]], page 114</ref>, one of the leading squads in the Gamma generation of Spartan IIIs<ref>[[Halo: Ghost of Onyx]], page 114</ref> stationed on [[Onyx]] at [[Camp Currahee]]. She had short cropped hair buzz-cut into a series of bear-claw scratch patterns<ref>[[Halo: Ghost of Onyx]], page 115</ref>. For that some of the other teams teased her, and she was demoted twice for fighting<ref>[[Halo: Ghost of Onyx]], page 115</ref>. She gave her life on [[Onyx]] when she voluntarily jumped in front of [[Kelly]] to cover her from a Fuel Rod Cannon, leaving only the outlines of two footprints on the floor<ref>[[Halo: Ghost of Onyx]], page 362</ref>.


==Personal Description==
'''Holly-G003''' was a member of the [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III]] program in [[Team Saber]], one of the leading squads in the [[SPARTAN-III Gamma Company|Gamma Company]] of SPARTAN-IIIs stationed on [[Onyx]] at [[Camp Currahee]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 114''</ref>
Holly was very tiny, even for a Spartan. Kurt said she reminded him of [[Kelly-087|Kelly]] when she was younger. Holly was also fast like Kelly (but not speed wise). She was good at reconnaissance.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Not that much is known about Holly because of her short life. Holly was conscripted into the SPARTAN-III program, developed by [[Colonel James Ackerson|James Ackerson]] around 2546 between the ages of 5 and 7 when she, along with other orphans volunteered to become Spartans and avenge her family, her home planet of Harvest, or just because she wanted to be like the man in green (Kurt in his MJOLNIR armor). Once on Onyx, she and the other Spartan candidates were trained by [[Franklin Mendez|Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez]], surviving [[Beta Company]] SPARTAN-IIIs [[Lucy-B091]] and [[Tom-B292]]; and SPARTAN-II, [[Lieutenant Commander Ambrose]] aka [[SPARTAN-051]].
===Conscription===
Holly was orphaned at a young age during a [[Covenant]] attack on her home colony. When she was four years old,{{Ref/Reuse|g362}} she was conscripted into the SPARTAN-III program developed by [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]], along with other orphans who had volunteered to become Spartans. She and the other SPARTAN-III candidates were trained on the planet Onyx by [[Senior Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez|Mendez]], survivors of [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company]] [[Lucy-B091]] and [[Tom-B292]], and Spartan-II [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Kurt Ambrose]]. Holly was assigned to [[Team Saber]] under the command of fellow Spartan-III [[Ash-G099]].


Holly was assigned to [[Team Saber]], under the command of [[Ash-G099]]. When Onyx came under attack by [[Sentinels]], the teams were still vying for top honors. Team Saber went dangerously close to [[Zone 67]] to avoid the other teams. The team spied what they assumed at the time to be a new kind of covenant drone because of the energy shields. They decided to investigate and the sentinels engaged. Holly split from the rest of the team, all going different directions. She was cornered between a cliff and a Sentinel and that's when she and the team discovered the weakness in the Sentinel's shields when Ash side-armed a rock and connected with the Sentinel. The Sentinel chased Ash into a hole after which Holly and the rest of the team pummeled the drone with huge rocks, destroying it.  
===Onyx Conflict===
====Initial attack====
On [[2552#October|October 31, 2552]], Holly and the rest of Team Saber were competing for top honors along with two other Gamma Company fireteams. During the training exercise, Team Saber moved dangerously close to [[Zone 67]] to avoid the other teams. The team spied what they assumed at the time to be a new type of Covenant aircraft or drone, noting that it had [[Energy shielding|energy shields]] and seemed to use [[anti-gravity technology]]. Unknown to them, it was in fact one of a group of [[Forerunner]] [[Onyx Sentinel|Sentinel]], which had awoken in response to a pulse from the destroyed [[Installation 04]]. Team Saber decided to investigate and engaged the Sentinels, but upon being faced with the machines' deadly [[Directed energy weapon|energy weaponry]], Holly and the rest of the team were forced to split up and retreat.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 117-120''</ref> Holly became cornered by a Sentinel at the edge of a cliff, but was rescued when Ash hurled a rock at the Sentinel, distracting it. The Sentinel then chased Ash into a crevasse, after which Holly and the rest of Team Saber dropped boulders on the Sentinel and destroyed it.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 130-134''</ref>


A general decision was made and the Team moved to the armory to get some real fire power. Team Saber met up with Lieutenant Kurt, Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez, Tom and Lucy, and proceeded to play life and death games of cat and mouse with the sentinels. Holly met up with [[Kelly-087]] and [[Dr. Catherine Halsey]] but had no time for pleasantries because they were soon engaged by a pair of sentinels. After that was over, Holly and the rest of the Spartans took Dr. Halsey and Kelly to a bombed out bunker where Dr. Halsey revealed the origin of the Sentinels and what to do next.  
====Regrouping with UNSC forces====
Holly and the rest of Team Saber decided to retreat to the base camp to retrieve live ammunition and heavy weaponry. On their way, the group met up with Commander Ambrose, Chief Mendez, and Petty Officers Tom and Lucy, and proceeded to try and evade the Sentinels that were swarming throughout the forest. Shortly afterward, Holly and the rest of the group met up with [[Kelly-087]] and [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] who had recently arrived on Onyx. After the Spartans successfully defeated the attacking Sentinels, Holly and the rest of the group took Dr. Halsey and Kelly to a bombed-out bunker, where Dr. Halsey explained the origin of the Sentinels and outlined a plan of action.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 170-184''</ref>


Just as Team Saber was in the middle of battling the Sentinels, the covenant Destroyer ''Bloodied Spirit'' dropped out of Slipspace over Onyx; carrying the [[Blue Team]] of [[SPARTAN-104]], [[SPARTAN-058]], and [[SPARTAN-043]]; landed rather abruptly in the forest at the source of what was believed to be coordinates for a rendezvous point that was on the E-Band<ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]] Page 230</ref>. It turns out that the signal was sent by Kurt and the other Spartans. Holly and the others were knee deep in Sentinel trouble and decided to retreat back to Zone 67 and regroup, with Blue Team.
====Zone 67====
Some time later, Holly and the other survivors were joined by the SPARTAN-IIs of [[Blue Team]]. After a plan was made to destroy a trio of Sentinels patrolling the area, Holly and Team Saber scouted out a tunnel to trap a pair of Sentinels in, and Dante rigged it with explosives. Kelly led the Sentinels on a chase through the tunnel, which exploded behind her and successfully destroyed the Sentinels. After the team destroyed all Sentinels in the area, they moved into an excavated Forerunner city within Zone 67. Once there, they discovered the [[Cartographer|map room]] of the Onyx installation, and discovered the location of the lost [[Team Katana]]. Before they proceeded to use Onyx's [[teleportation grid]] to translocate to Katana's position, they were contacted by AI [[Endless Summer]], who urged them to launch a strike on the installation's [[Sentinel manufacturing facility]], thus cutting off the stream of Sentinels swarming throughout the planet.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 313-314''</ref>  


By now, the team had figured out that the sentinels only come after them in pairs and there is always one over-watch, or observer that records all the action and reports back to the others, making the sentinels smarter and harder to defeat each time they engage in combat with the humans. So, the only way to turn the tables would be for the teams to take out all three of the sentinels. Holly and Team Saber, scouted out a tunnel to bury the sentinel pair in and Dante rigged it with explosives. They met up with Kurt in a tree and watched as Kelly gave the sentinel pair "the finger" <ref>[[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx]] Page 261</ref> and kept on running. She went through the tunnel and it blew up behind her, throwing her like a rag doll across the forest floor, but destroying the sentinel pair. Kurt dispatched Team Saber to go see if she was ok. Meanwhile, Tom and Lucy fired both rockets from their [[M19 SSM Rocket Launcher|SPNKr]] rocket launchers and Linda timed her fire so the sniper rifle rounds would impact at the same time as the rockets. The ploy worked and that bought the team some time.
After successfully shutting down the Sentinel production facility under Onyx's north polar region, Holly and the rest of the team arrived at Team Katana's holding area to find the group contained within an array of Forerunner [[slipspace field pod]]s. Dr. Halsey deduced the purpose of the [[shield world]], and also found out that [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|Covenant forces]] nearby had pinpointed the location of the group and were on the way with large numbers of troops to attempt to stop them.


After the team destroys the two sentinels and the over-watch, they move to Zone 67. Once there, they discover the map room and the location of [[Team Katana]]. First, Dr. Halsey proposed that they go to the sentinel factory and make sure no more sentinels are made. Then, they move to team Katana and find them in some sort of Slipspace cryotubes. Dr. Halsey found out the meaning of the Shield World and also found out that the Covenant knew the location of the group and was on the way with an entire armada of troops to attempt to stop them.  
====Death====
The humans then fell back into Onyx's [[core room antechamber]] and made a stand at the entrance to the [[ONI Research Facility Trevelyan|shield world]]. During the battle, a pair of [[Mgalekgolo]] moved to fire upon Kelly-087. Holly took the blasts from both Hunters' [[assault cannon]]s, saving the older Spartan but at the cost of her own life. She was vaporized by the blast, leaving only two footprints where she had stood. Ash was visibly distraught by her death.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 360-362''</ref> After successfully escaping into the Shield World, the surviving Spartans would hold a funeral and memorial service for their fallen companions.


Holly, along with the other Spartans made a loose half-circle kill zone around the entrance to the Shield World and picked off targets at range. When a pair of [[Hunter|Hunters]] got too close to the center, Kurt and the other Spartans fired at one and killed it quickly, but there was another pair of Hunters, as well as three Elites at their four o'clock position. Kelly dispatched the Elites but for once in her life, she was too slow. As the Hunter pair leveled their fuel rod guns, Holly jumped in between Kelly and the Hunters. The Hunters fired and all that was left of Holly were two charred footprints, she had been vaporized. Once the team was inside the Dyson Sphere, they made gravestones for William, Dante, Kurt and Holly.
==Personal description==
Kurt Ambrose remarked that Holly reminded him of [[Kelly-087]] when she was younger due to her determination and liveliness. Holly was remarkably agile, and was excellent at reconnaissance roles. She had short cropped hair buzz-cut into a series of bear-claw scratch patterns. For that some of the other teams teased her, and she was demoted twice for fighting.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 115''</ref>


Holly was unique among the SPARTAN-IIIs because she wore her hair buzzed short, with bear claw markings on her scalp. Some say Holly and Ash bonded and almost fell in love, others say they were just friends.
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'' {{Mo}}
 
==Notes==
{{Ref/Notes}}


==Sources==
==Sources==
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{{Ref/Sources}}
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Revision as of 16:35, January 6, 2023

"Holly" redirects here. For the Spartan-IV, see Holly Tanaka.
Holly-G003
Biographical information

Born:

c. 2540[1]

Died:

November 3, 2552

Personal details

Species:

Human

Gender:

Female

Political and military information

Affiliation:

Service number:

S-G003[Note 1]

 

Holly-G003 was a member of the SPARTAN-III program in Team Saber, one of the leading squads in the Gamma Company of SPARTAN-IIIs stationed on Onyx at Camp Currahee.[2]

Biography

Conscription

Holly was orphaned at a young age during a Covenant attack on her home colony. When she was four years old,[1] she was conscripted into the SPARTAN-III program developed by Colonel James Ackerson, along with other orphans who had volunteered to become Spartans. She and the other SPARTAN-III candidates were trained on the planet Onyx by Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez, survivors of Beta Company Lucy-B091 and Tom-B292, and Spartan-II Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose. Holly was assigned to Team Saber under the command of fellow Spartan-III Ash-G099.

Onyx Conflict

Initial attack

On October 31, 2552, Holly and the rest of Team Saber were competing for top honors along with two other Gamma Company fireteams. During the training exercise, Team Saber moved dangerously close to Zone 67 to avoid the other teams. The team spied what they assumed at the time to be a new type of Covenant aircraft or drone, noting that it had energy shields and seemed to use anti-gravity technology. Unknown to them, it was in fact one of a group of Forerunner Sentinel, which had awoken in response to a pulse from the destroyed Installation 04. Team Saber decided to investigate and engaged the Sentinels, but upon being faced with the machines' deadly energy weaponry, Holly and the rest of the team were forced to split up and retreat.[3] Holly became cornered by a Sentinel at the edge of a cliff, but was rescued when Ash hurled a rock at the Sentinel, distracting it. The Sentinel then chased Ash into a crevasse, after which Holly and the rest of Team Saber dropped boulders on the Sentinel and destroyed it.[4]

Regrouping with UNSC forces

Holly and the rest of Team Saber decided to retreat to the base camp to retrieve live ammunition and heavy weaponry. On their way, the group met up with Commander Ambrose, Chief Mendez, and Petty Officers Tom and Lucy, and proceeded to try and evade the Sentinels that were swarming throughout the forest. Shortly afterward, Holly and the rest of the group met up with Kelly-087 and Dr. Catherine Halsey who had recently arrived on Onyx. After the Spartans successfully defeated the attacking Sentinels, Holly and the rest of the group took Dr. Halsey and Kelly to a bombed-out bunker, where Dr. Halsey explained the origin of the Sentinels and outlined a plan of action.[5]

Zone 67

Some time later, Holly and the other survivors were joined by the SPARTAN-IIs of Blue Team. After a plan was made to destroy a trio of Sentinels patrolling the area, Holly and Team Saber scouted out a tunnel to trap a pair of Sentinels in, and Dante rigged it with explosives. Kelly led the Sentinels on a chase through the tunnel, which exploded behind her and successfully destroyed the Sentinels. After the team destroyed all Sentinels in the area, they moved into an excavated Forerunner city within Zone 67. Once there, they discovered the map room of the Onyx installation, and discovered the location of the lost Team Katana. Before they proceeded to use Onyx's teleportation grid to translocate to Katana's position, they were contacted by AI Endless Summer, who urged them to launch a strike on the installation's Sentinel manufacturing facility, thus cutting off the stream of Sentinels swarming throughout the planet.[6]

After successfully shutting down the Sentinel production facility under Onyx's north polar region, Holly and the rest of the team arrived at Team Katana's holding area to find the group contained within an array of Forerunner slipspace field pods. Dr. Halsey deduced the purpose of the shield world, and also found out that Covenant forces nearby had pinpointed the location of the group and were on the way with large numbers of troops to attempt to stop them.

Death

The humans then fell back into Onyx's core room antechamber and made a stand at the entrance to the shield world. During the battle, a pair of Mgalekgolo moved to fire upon Kelly-087. Holly took the blasts from both Hunters' assault cannons, saving the older Spartan but at the cost of her own life. She was vaporized by the blast, leaving only two footprints where she had stood. Ash was visibly distraught by her death.[7] After successfully escaping into the Shield World, the surviving Spartans would hold a funeral and memorial service for their fallen companions.

Personal description

Kurt Ambrose remarked that Holly reminded him of Kelly-087 when she was younger due to her determination and liveliness. Holly was remarkably agile, and was excellent at reconnaissance roles. She had short cropped hair buzz-cut into a series of bear-claw scratch patterns. For that some of the other teams teased her, and she was demoted twice for fighting.[8]

List of appearances

Notes

  1. ^ According to Chapter 10 of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Holly has the Spartan tag G122, however Holly is later referred as having the tag G003 in Chapter 39 of the same book.

Sources

  1. ^ a b Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 362
  2. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 114
  3. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 117-120
  4. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 130-134
  5. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 170-184
  6. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 313-314
  7. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 360-362
  8. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 115

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