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Duval

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This article is about the ODST that fought in the Battle of Netherop (2559). For the UNSC Army Sergeant Major that fought in the Fall of Reach, see Duvall.
Duval
Personal details

Species:

Human

Gender:

Female

Political and military information

Affiliation:

United Nations Space Command

 

Duval, is a soldier in the UNSC Marine Corps and a member of the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.

Biography

Battle of Netherop

Main article: Battle of Netherop (2559)

In November 2559, during the rogue AI Cortana's reign over the galaxy, Duval was a part of an ODST force called Tango Team under the command of Spartan Olympia Vale and Gunnery Sergeant Grim Bear that was deployed to the world of Netherop aboard the Point Blank-class prowler UNSC Hidden Point. Their aim was to recover the Divine Hand, a weapon that could be used to destroy Cortana's Guardians. Duval was deployed towards the surface of the planet in a D102 Owl insertion craft alongside Vale, Grim Bear, Keely Iyuska, Rosa Fuertes, P. Barnes, S. Legowski and the other 12 ODSTs of Tango Team. During their descent, the Divine Hand was fired by Nizat 'Kvarosee and the Defenders of the Sanctum, destroying the 40 Pelican dropships accompanying the Owl and leaving Tango Team the only ones to reach the planet's surface.[1] Upon landing at the summit of the tel were the weapon had fired, Grim Bear had her troops establish a perimeter and scout ahead for a way to infiltrate the tel. Tango Team was then ambushed by the Defenders of the Sanctum as the Covenant castaways opened up a tunnel directly below their landing zone. The humans were able to repel them despite Legowski and Fuertes going missing.[2]

After the ambush, Tango Team was joined by the remaining forces of Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and Commander Amalea Petrov. After the Arbiter's forces pursued the Defenders of the Sanctum through the tunnels, Duval remained on the surface alongside Grim Bear and the rest of First Squad while Vale, Iyuska, Petrov and First Squad descended into the tel through a ventilation duct.[3] They remained on the tell for some time, witnessing the second firing of the Divine Hand. Noticing a sudden Banished orbital drop, Second Squad began to set up a defensive trench line to respond to the oncoming attack. Fuertes and Legowski rejoined them at this point, as Fuertes tapped into the power of the tel and was able to tunnel their way out. Duval and Jonah Marcus briefly secured this tunnel as they broke the surface, preparing to engage any hostiles that emerged from it.[4] The forces inside the tel then returned to the surface, and Duval witnessed the delegation between Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and Warmaster Atriox, where the vacuum energy condenser which powered the Divine Hand was ceded to the Banished.[5] After the confrontation, Duval was evacuated from Netherop alongside the rest of the surviving human and Sangheili forces via their Owl dropship to a group of waiting D81-LRT Condor long-range dropships, which took them into slipspace.[6]

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 8
  2. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 10
  3. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 13
  4. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 22
  5. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 24
  6. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 26