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Bonita Stone
Stone as she appears in the Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition).
Biographical information

Homeworld:

Komoya[1]

Born:

December 25, 2535[1]

Died:

April 26, 2560[2][3]

Cause of death:

Killed by Jega 'Rdomnai[2][3]

Personal details

Species:

Human

Gender:

Female

Height:

208 centimeters (6 ft 10 in)[1]

Weight:

110 kilograms (240 lb)[1]

Hair color:

Dark[4]

Eye color:

Dark[4]

Political and military information

Affiliation:

Spartan Operations

Service number:

12493-83921-BS[5]

 

Bonita Stone was a SPARTAN-IV reconnaissance specialist of Fireteam Shadow in the United Nations Space Command.[2][6][7]

Biography

Official cover art.
Stone (left) and the rest of Fireteam Shadow onboard UNSC Infinity circa 2558.

Early life and UNSC service

Bonita Stone was born on the human Outer Colony of Komoya on December 25, 2535. She would eventually enlist in the UNSC, serving with distinction on the stealth cruiser UNSC Relentless Watch. Here, Stone coordinated the efforts of several reconnaissance strike teams deployed to key areas of interest and unrest following the Human-Covenant War. This experience led directly to her assignment to Fireteam Shadow after her induction into the SPARTAN-IV program.[1] After joining the program, Stone and fellow Spartan-IV Nina Kovan ran trials and tested HIVEMIND-class Mjolnir at ANVIL Station.[7] During an operation on Talitsa, she notably monitored the activities of a Sangheili Zealot for six days.[8]

Requiem

Main article: Requiem Campaign

In February 2558, Stone and the rest of Fireteam Shadow assisted Fireteam Crimson in protecting the science team at "The Refuge". While Crimson defended the facility from the Covenant ground forces, Fireteam Shadow infiltrated Panom’s Canticle, the Covenant Zanar-pattern light cruiser that was deploying the Covenant forces.[6] In spite of heavy resistance, the team overloaded the ship's power core, destroying the cruiser and halted the Covenant's attack.[9]

Installation 07

Main article: Battle for Zeta Halo

On December 12, 2559, Spartan Bonita Stone was onboard UNSC Infinity when it was ambushed by Banished forces upon arrival at Installation 07. As the Infinity fell to the Banished assault, Captain Thomas Lasky was evacuated from the ship, and Spartan Hudson Griffin ordered all Spartans to evacuate.[10] Spartans Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan were ordered to evacuate while the other two members of Fireteam Shadow remained with Fireteam Taurus to repel Banished boarders from a hangar bay.[7]

On her way to the lifeboats, Stone held a collapsing beam so Lucas Browning could reach TJ Murphy's Bumblebee Papa Tango Delta Zero Nine, the companion lifeboat to Stone's Echo India Bravo Zero Eight. Stone then piloted Echo India Bravo Zero Eight, leading Papa Tango Delta Zero Nine through the raging battle. Both lifeboats managed to fly through a destroyed Banished dreadnought, though only Echo India Bravo Zero Eight came out unscathed. Papa Tango Delta Zero Nine was hit, losing its back section.[11][7]

Stone's lifeboat landed on an unoccupied area of the ring.[7][12] The next day, as Stone and her marines conducted a recon sweep of the area, an explosion on the ring caused a fracture on its surface. Stone ordered the marines to take cover in the lifeboat, but the ground beneath the lifeboat begun to crumble.[13] Using her armor's thrusters,[13] Stone pulled the lifeboat out of the breach, saving the lives of the marines.[14] While a few of the marines split up with Stone to reunite with their squad, five marines remained with Stone,[15] who tracked down the distress call Murphy's lifeboat, which had been lodged inside a crevice, leaving its occupant trapped.[11] Stone tore open the lifeboat's hull to pull out each survivor.[15]

Over the next six days, Stone led the survivors across the region. They eventually rendezvoused with another group of survivors led by Spartan Kovan. The combined group of non-combatants became the "boat crew". On the evening of December 18, while Kovan scouted ahead, the group was resting in the middle of a forest when they were ambushed by two Jiralhanae and eight Kig-Yar. While Spartan Stone traded blows with a Jiralhanae, marines from Kovan's group—Mosley, Deleke, Thompson, Kim, and Foutty—were killed by the second Jiralhanae.[16] The Jiralhanae left a dent in the titanium composite plating over her right shoulder blade, which now caused it to press against her bodysuit; it became an annoyance that limited her movement.[8] After Kovan returned and intervened, saving the boat crew from the second Jiralhanae, Murphy realized that Stone's motion tracker and targeting sensors were offline, and, despite Murphy's reassurance, Stone blamed herself for the deaths of the marines.[16]

Cropped version of Halo: The Rubicon Protocol cover art to better see Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan.
Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan on the surface of Installation 07.

Led by Stone and Kovan, the boat crew travelled to the UNSC stronghold at the wreckage of the UNSC Mortal Reverie;[17] they arrived on December 19.[18] Upon her arrival, Stone reported to Spartan Griffin, the de facto leader for the Spartans at the crash site.[14][Note 1]

On January 23, 2560, Spartan Griffin led Spartans Panago, Henri Malik, and Sarkar in an assassination mission on the Banished War Chief Escharum.[19] However, the assassination on Escharum failed. Griffin sent an encrypted message to the Reverie on January 31 before he was captured and handed over to Chak 'Lok for torture. In his message, Griffin warned the Reverie of an impending Banished assault.[20] Under the combined leadership of Bertold Vettel and counsel of Makovich, the UNSC forces at the Reverie braced for the Banished's attack.[21] Stone conducted a reconnaissance mission with Boulder Squad, having found a massive Banished force led by Chieftain Tremonius at Riven Gate in Sector 63.[22] On February 2, Stone returned to the Reverie and reunited with the boat crew in the midst of the assault.[23] Despite the UNSC defenses, the Banished assault forced the UNSC forces to retreat from the Reverie on February 2.[24] The UNSC forces scattered into the valley. Stone and Kovan split off from the boat crew repeatedly to fight off pursuit parties, and Stone eventually left the group.[25]

Although she was separated from Kovan and the boat crew, Stone managed to locate more UNSC survivors while maintaining communications with Makovich and Vettel; the scattered UNSC forces continued to run guerilla ops against the Banished in order to keep the ring out of their control, as per the Rubicon Protocol.[26] On approximately April 20, Stone and Kovan spotted each other in their sniper scopes; Stone made her way to Kovan, and reunited with the rest of the boat crew, which has now become a group of capable guerilla fighters.[4] The group noticed the increased air traffic from Escharum's personal fleet towards the Reverie—now a Banished outpost named after the Chieftain who led the assault on the wreckage—and decided to investigate. Arriving at the area on 22 April, while the rest of the boat crew made a supply run to scavenge from a ledge that caught some of the supplies the Banished had thrown into the chasm below the outpost,[27] Stone and Kovan investigated the newly-constructed outpost.[28]

On April 23, when Spartan Stone was scouting out the Banished outpost, she recognized Browning in the outpost from afar, then returned to Kovan to share her findings. That evening, while Stone provided overwatch, Kovan snuck into Outpost Tremonius and into the Phantom that held Browning. He couldn't be rescued, however, as the Harbinger and the Banished had put a pair of shackles on Browning's wrists, with a node on the Phantom's hull that would detect the sensors and detonate explosives within the shackles if Browning leaves the Phantom. Browning informed Kovan of the Harbinger, and opted to stay under captivity. Kovan gave him several recording transmitters, instructing Browning to learn whatever he could about the Harbinger or the Banished, and left a tracking beacon to Browning's neck. The Spartan made a promise to find Browning, then left before a pair of Jiralhanae patrol approached.[28]

Seeing two Jiralhanae patrols approaching Kovan, Stone created a distraction to allow Kovan to escape, but was unable to regroup with Kovan, because the Banished was tracking her closely; instead, she decided to investigate the Banished excavation.[3] She found that the Banished has unearthed artifacts she has never seen before, and reported to Makovich and Sorel that the Banished were moving focus to an excavation site south of the Reverie.[29]

By April 26, Stone had infiltrated the underground Forerunner structures near Outpost Tremonius, having seen the artifacts up close and determined them to be stasis pods. She made one final transmission to Makovich and Sorel, reporting her findings, but stopped short when she realized that she was not alone.[30] Shortly after, Stone discovered the Banished using a human prisoner to access the Conspectus network; they took a data node with information on the ring's defensive systems and location. Stone attacked the Banished and Skimmer forces, including Blademaster Jega 'Rdomnai and the Bloodstar Gorian. After she fought off multiple Banished, Stone fought 'Rdomnai directly, hampered by his active camouflage, shields and the damage that her armor had taken over the past several months. However, Stone managed to steal the data node and had Ouco copy the data and then corrupt the node. Ocuo was successful before Gorian slammed into Stone with a Riuctda Workshop Ghost and dragged her back towards the lift before Stone managed to break free and jerk the Bloodstar from the Ghost. Fighting through more Banished forces, including Hectarius, Stone attempted to reach the surface, but she was ambushed and killed by 'Rdomnai. As Stone's last act, she removed the corrupted data node which was taken by Gorian and 'Rdomnai to Escharum, unaware of Stone's sabotage. Stone died pleased that she had succeeded in throwing a wrench into Escharum's grand scheme.[3]

The next day, the boat crew found Stone's body and a grieving Kovan retrieved Stone's data chip from her VISR which proved to contain the data that she had stolen from the Banished. Submonitor 091 Adjutant Veridity revealed that Stone had stolen from the Banished information on the ring's defensive systems and its current coordinates, giving the team the chance to broadcast a message to the UNSC for reinforcements. However, with Banished forces closing in, the boat crew were reluctantly forced to leave Stone's body behind.[31] Her body remained underground for nearly a month, and was found on May 28 by Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, who collected her enhanced energy shielding module.[2]

Personality and traits

Later during the conflict, Stone's dark hair had grown into her eyes, long enough to tuck it behind her ears. According to Kovan, it made Stone look softer.[4]

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Equipment

During the Requiem Campaign, Stone used the GEN2 RECON-class Mjolnir, and equipped an M395B DMR.[32]

During the Battle for Zeta Halo, she wore the Mjolnir GEN3 Mark VII armor, employing the Trailblazer helmet, the UA/Agathius shoulder pads, and UA/Type SA knee pads.[2] Her personal AI is Ouco, who has a steady personality and calming baritone that sets Stone at ease no matter the situation.[7] Stone also carried an active camouflage module.[3] Early on during the conflict, her armor's motion tracker and targeting sensors went offline;[16] the former was never replaced as Makovich took the last motion tracker from Reverie's storage.[8] After the battle of the Mortal Reverie, she acquired an enhanced energy shielding module,[28] which was inherited by John-117 when he found Stone's body.[2]

Production notes

  • Bonita Stone was portrayed by voice actress Krizia Bajos.[33]
  • Stone's Mark VII armor coating, Obelisk Stone, is available in Halo Infinite multiplayer. The coating can be unlocked by accessing the Mjolnir Armory locker at Outpost Tremonius, near the landing pad.

Gallery

List of appearances

Notes

  1. ^ While the audio log in Halo Infinite is dated December 18, Halo: The Rubicon Protocol retconned the date of Stone's arrival to December 19. Given the novel was released after Halo Infinite, Halopedia uses it as the most up-to-date depiction of the events.

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 102
  2. ^ a b c d e f Halo Infinite, campaign level Foundation
  3. ^ a b c d e Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 28
  4. ^ a b c d Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 24
  5. ^ Halo Infinite, UNSC Audio log: Outpost Intel #01 - Making Ends Meet
  6. ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder: Rubicon Rundown (Retrieved on Aug 3, 2022) [archive]
  7. ^ a b c d e f Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 1
  8. ^ a b c Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 14
  9. ^ Halo 4 - Spartan Ops, episode Memento Mori
  10. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Evacuation #01 - Infinity Down
  11. ^ a b Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 3
  12. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Ringfall #02 - The Calm Before
  13. ^ a b Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Ringfall #08 - Breach Maneuver
  14. ^ a b Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Reverie #02 - Debrief
  15. ^ a b Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 5
  16. ^ a b c Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 7
  17. ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 8
  18. ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 9
  19. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Retaliation #02 - Those Left Behind
  20. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Retaliation #05 - Encroachment
  21. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Retaliation #06 - Drawing the Line
  22. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Retaliation #07 - Red Tide
  23. ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 17
  24. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Retaliation #08 - The Retreat
  25. ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 18
  26. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Scattered #01 - Rubicon Protocol
  27. ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 30
  28. ^ a b c Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 26
  29. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Scattered #02 - What Lies Beneath
  30. ^ Halo Infinite, Spartan Audio log: Scattered #05 - Uncharted
  31. ^ Halo: The Rubicon Protocol, chapter 30
  32. ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Fourward Unto Dawn (Retrieved on Nov 10, 2022) [archive]
  33. ^ Halo Infinite, credits
  34. ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon fodder: Foundations (Retrieved on Jan 12, 2022) [archive]

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