Holly Tanaka: Difference between revisions

===Glassing of Minab===

As the Human-Covenant War entered its final stages with the [[Covenant]] fully entrenched in the [[Inner Colonies]], Minab stood defenseless against the ensuing genocidal onslaught. Holly's mother was at home with her brothers, washing dishes and reminiscing on a picture of her family, as [[CPV-class heavy destroyer|Covenant destroyers]] rained down superheated plasma to glass their city. Holly and her father were spared from the indiscriminate Covenant attack that claimed their loved ones by being on the other side of Minab where their family business maintained a mining operation. For a year after the bombing, Holly, her father, and nine other colonists on the mining crew thrived without harassment by Covenant occupation forces and were able to gather resources in the snow-capped landscape caused by [[Wikipedia:Nuclear winter|nuclear winter]]. Holly became adept at hunting and setting traps for the local game, including a light brown-skinned species reminiscent of a [[Gúta]] from [[Reach]], and was relied upon by her father as his best engineer, able to construct and maintain [[Fusion reactor|fusion reactors]] for the mine. The two of them often debated if and when they should activate a distress beacon for rescue by the [[United Nations Space Command]] yet always concluding that anyone could pick up on it, such as the [[Kig-Yar]] scavengers roaming the surface of Minab.<ref name="HE17"/>

Some time before Holly went out on a hunt, one of the crew members, a disturbed, aggressively violent man, had attacked and maimed another survivor blinding him in his left eye. The assailant was later subdued and tied down by the other crew who would continually argue about what they would do with this threat to their well-being. Some advocated for his immediate execution while others called for him to be kept and cared for under more hospitable conditions. In the morning after one of these disputes, unknown to his captors, the assailant became unrestrained and escaped into the night to the surrounding wilderness. After discovering that he was gone, the other survivors argued yet again, brandishing a variety of long guns to intimidate each other. Holly fired her [[Shotgun|shotgun]] into the air to take control of the volatile situation. Her father volunteered himself to sweep the mine for the assailant and ordered that no further action would be taken if he wasn't found in an effort to end the hostility that was plaguing the group of survivors.<ref name="HE17"/>

===Military service===

Recovery teams would rescue Holly and two other survivors from Minab two years after the Ibie'shan assault on their mining operation in [[2553]]. Holly Tanaka would come to enlist in the service of the [[UNSC Army]] some time after her repatriation and in [[2556]] she had become a non-commissioned officer at the rank of [[UNSC rank structure/Enlisted#Army|Sergeant]]. Her technical skills that had proved so useful in the aftermath of her homeworld's glassing would see her assigned to the [[412th Engineer Command]].<ref name="HE17"/>

File:Halo Escalation Tanaka family.jpg|Holly Tanaka's family.

File:Halo Escalation Holly Tanaka 2551 snow.jpg|Holly dragging in trapped game on Minab in 2551.

File:Halo Escalation Holly Tanaka 2551 kidnapped.jpg|Holly is kidnapped by one of her fellow survivors during the Covenant assault.

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