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{{Quote|no=two|q1=So much for all that Elite warrior honor. They're just as bad as us.|[[Lian Devereaux]]|q2=Then we need to dirty up our game. I'd hate to see ONI lose the title of Most Devious Bastards in the Galaxy to a bunch of hinge-heads.|Serin Osman|Serin, beginning to enjoy herself, remarks upon the disarray of opinions among the Sangheili with [[Avu Med 'Telcam]].}}{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} | {{Quote|no=two|q1=So much for all that Elite warrior honor. They're just as bad as us.|[[Lian Devereaux]]|q2=Then we need to dirty up our game. I'd hate to see ONI lose the title of Most Devious Bastards in the Galaxy to a bunch of hinge-heads.|Serin Osman|Serin, beginning to enjoy herself, remarks upon the disarray of opinions among the Sangheili with [[Avu Med 'Telcam]].}}{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} | ||
The following day Naomi continued to look at Serin strangely during the shuttle transit to Midpoint.{{Ref/Reuse|G3}} After Osman had acclimated herself to the commanding officer's seat on the ''Port Stanley'''s bridge, she gave Black-Box permission to run through the final launch checks himself and asked him whether or not everyone else was secure. He took this opportunity to warn her that Naomi was on her way to the bridge at that very moment. With only five minutes until their planned jump to [[slipspace]], Osman was prepared for the Spartan's entrance. She asked Naomi if there was something she needed to ask her, to which she was fully straightforward regarding her perplexing familiarity with Osman's face. Serin chose then to tell her the truth about who she was. Serin-019 was alive. Opening up was a great relief to Osman, but Naomi barely reacted, simply belting in at a comms station and acknowledging that they should be heading out. Just then the rest of the team arrived on the bridge and after confirming that nobody had any issues with the arrangements on the ship so far, everyone was seated and strapped in for the jump. BB, knowing Serin's proclivities regarding jumps, offered to sedate her but she said she could deal with it, not wanting to appear weak in front of the others. Just before they slipped into another dimension, BB intercepted a databurst from the {{UNSCShip|Ariadne}}.{{Ref/Reuse|G3}} Osman struggled when the jump finally, as was usual, and it was Devereaux who asked if she was alright. Rather than making the captain feel even worse, she made light of the issue by comparing her situation to [[Wikipedia:Horatio Nelson|Horatio Nelson]] and his seasickness. With forty-eight hours until they reached the [[Brunel system]] and [[New Llanelli]], Osman asked BB about the transmission they had received right before jumping. He relayed that the ''Ariadne'' had been forced to drop out of slipspace near [[Venezia]] in the [[Orso system]] because of a technical problem. [[Pasquale|The ship's commander]] had requested permission to land nonessential personnel on the planet due to unsafe conditions aboard but the colony had refused him.{{Ref/Reuse|G3}} The message BB picked up had been meant for Earth and was a request for advice. Any further information regarding the developing situation would have to wait until they were no longer in slipspace, so Osman resolved that if nobody else had moved to aid them by then, she wanted to know. Retiring to her cabin to soothe her headache, Serin was greeted by a bag of crystallized ginger Parangosky had arranged for her, since she knew spaceflight could make her nauseous. She popped one of the cubes in her mouth and made for the hangar bay.<ref name="G3">''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', ''chapter 3''</ref> | The following day Naomi continued to look at Serin strangely during the shuttle transit to Midpoint.{{Ref/Reuse|G3}} After Osman had acclimated herself to the commanding officer's seat on the ''Port Stanley'''s bridge, she gave Black-Box permission to run through the final launch checks himself and asked him whether or not everyone else was secure. He took this opportunity to warn her that Naomi was on her way to the bridge at that very moment. With only five minutes until their planned jump to [[slipspace]], Osman was prepared for the Spartan's entrance. She asked Naomi if there was something she needed to ask her, to which she was fully straightforward regarding her perplexing familiarity with Osman's face. Serin chose then to tell her the truth about who she was. Serin-019 was alive. Opening up was a great relief to Osman, but Naomi barely reacted, simply belting in at a comms station and acknowledging that they should be heading out. Just then the rest of the team arrived on the bridge and after confirming that nobody had any issues with the arrangements on the ship so far, everyone was seated and strapped in for the jump. BB, knowing Serin's proclivities regarding jumps, offered to sedate her but she said she could deal with it, not wanting to appear weak in front of the others. Just before they slipped into another dimension, BB intercepted a databurst from the {{UNSCShip|Ariadne}}.{{Ref/Reuse|G3}} Osman struggled when the jump finally began, as was usual, and it was Devereaux who asked if she was alright. Rather than making the captain feel even worse, she made light of the issue by comparing her situation to [[Wikipedia:Horatio Nelson|Horatio Nelson]] and his seasickness. With forty-eight hours until they reached the [[Brunel system]] and [[New Llanelli]], Osman asked BB about the transmission they had received right before jumping. He relayed that the ''Ariadne'' had been forced to drop out of slipspace near [[Venezia]] in the [[Orso system]] because of a technical problem. [[Pasquale|The ship's commander]] had requested permission to land nonessential personnel on the planet due to unsafe conditions aboard but the colony had refused him.{{Ref/Reuse|G3}} The message BB picked up had been meant for Earth and was a request for advice. Any further information regarding the developing situation would have to wait until they were no longer in slipspace, so Osman resolved that if nobody else had moved to aid them by then, she wanted to know. Retiring to her cabin to soothe her headache, Serin was greeted by a bag of crystallized ginger Parangosky had arranged for her, since she knew spaceflight could make her nauseous. She popped one of the cubes in her mouth and made for the hangar bay.<ref name="G3">''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', ''chapter 3''</ref> | ||
With an estimated ten hours left before they arrived at [[New Llanelli]], Osman took it upon herself to seek out the rest of her new crew for a very particular purpose.{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} BB, having listened to conversations being had surrounding the odd tension between the captain and Naomi, had encouraged her to be transparent with everyone about her past.[[File:PortStanley.png|thumb|300px|left|As the commander of Kilo-Five, Osman also served as the captain of its dedicated {{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}}, the {{UNSCShip|Port Stanley}}.{{Ref/Reuse|G2}}]] The A.I. preceded her arrival to inform them she had called a meeting and would be preset imminently. She met Phillips on the hangar deck and found the three [[ODST]]s within [[Tart-Cart|a small stealth dropship]] made to look like a civilian patrol vessel. To Vaz, Phillips looked as if he had just been reprimanded in some way by Osman. She casually asked how things were going before making it clear that she was as omnipresent as BB as long as he shared information with her. Just before she appeared, Devereaux had asked Vaz if he was aware that they really didn't have a plan for their current mission. Osman rebuffed this, stating that she ''did'' have one. She explained that in light of the absence of any top-level entity in command and control of the [[Sangheili]], the best they could do then was to hand off the weapons to see where fault lines formed.{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} She also cautioned that given the patchy short-range comms they would be at the mercy of during the majority of their mission, the ODSTs would be engaging in more surveillance work than they would be combat, though she thought it likely there would be some of that as well. Abruptly changing the subject, she then revealed what she had intended to: that she had been in the [[Spartan-II program]] and that she and Naomi knew each other years ago. She even told them they had been been six years old when they began, and that at that young age they had been put through real boot camp, not a military academy.{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} Naomi, who had joined the others shortly after Osman first showed up on the deck, was angered by the captain's willingness to divulge such closely-guarded secrets and couldn't keep herself from giving her an accusatory look. Between Naomi's indigence and the shocked semi-silence of the others, Osman awkwardly exited the conversation with instructions to BB regarding bringing them out of slipspace in two hours and doing a comms sweep of the [[sector]]. She jumped down from the dropship's crew bay and took the ladder up to the upper gantry, leaving the crew.<ref name="G4">''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', ''chapter 4''</ref> | With an estimated ten hours left before they arrived at [[New Llanelli]], Osman took it upon herself to seek out the rest of her new crew for a very particular purpose.{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} BB, having listened to conversations being had surrounding the odd tension between the captain and Naomi, had encouraged her to be transparent with everyone about her past.[[File:PortStanley.png|thumb|300px|left|As the commander of Kilo-Five, Osman also served as the captain of its dedicated {{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}}, the {{UNSCShip|Port Stanley}}.{{Ref/Reuse|G2}}]] The A.I. preceded her arrival to inform them she had called a meeting and would be preset imminently. She met Phillips on the hangar deck and found the three [[ODST]]s within [[Tart-Cart|a small stealth dropship]] made to look like a civilian patrol vessel. To Vaz, Phillips looked as if he had just been reprimanded in some way by Osman. She casually asked how things were going before making it clear that she was as omnipresent as BB as long as he shared information with her. Just before she appeared, Devereaux had asked Vaz if he was aware that they really didn't have a plan for their current mission. Osman rebuffed this, stating that she ''did'' have one. She explained that in light of the absence of any top-level entity in command and control of the [[Sangheili]], the best they could do then was to hand off the weapons to see where fault lines formed.{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} She also cautioned that given the patchy short-range comms they would be at the mercy of during the majority of their mission, the ODSTs would be engaging in more surveillance work than they would be combat, though she thought it likely there would be some of that as well. Abruptly changing the subject, she then revealed what she had intended to: that she had been in the [[Spartan-II program]] and that she and Naomi knew each other years ago. She even told them they had been been six years old when they began, and that at that young age they had been put through real boot camp, not a military academy.{{Ref/Reuse|G4}} Naomi, who had joined the others shortly after Osman first showed up on the deck, was angered by the captain's willingness to divulge such closely-guarded secrets and couldn't keep herself from giving her an accusatory look. Between Naomi's indigence and the shocked semi-silence of the others, Osman awkwardly exited the conversation with instructions to BB regarding bringing them out of slipspace in two hours and doing a comms sweep of the [[sector]]. She jumped down from the dropship's crew bay and took the ladder up to the upper gantry, leaving the crew.<ref name="G4">''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', ''chapter 4''</ref> | ||
