#Olympia Vale

[halopedia]

Spartan Saturday — Olympia Vale

A child prodigy with innate linguistic skill, Olympia Vale became fluent in Sangheili to pass the time on a prolonged trip to Earth. After graduating from university, Vale followed in her mother's footsteps and joined ONI.

Vale became a liaison between the UEG and the Swords of Sanghelios, eventually participating in a joint mission to the Ark where she proved to be a capable soldier as well. Following this, she was recruited as a Spartan-IV and assigned to Fireteam Osiris.

During the Created crisis, Spartan Vale was stationed on Sanghelios, where she worked closely with Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and others within his faction. In late 2559, Vale became involved in a hunt for a weapon that could defeat Cortana's Guardians.

#spartansaturday #spartan saturday #halopedia #halowiki #halo wiki #olympiavale #olympia vale #fireteamosiris #fireteam osiris #halo5 #halo5guardians #halo 5 #halo 5 guardians #halo #osiris #vale #spartanvale #spartan vale #spartan #Spartan-IV #spartaniv #spartan4 #spartan iv #spartan 4 #halo outcasts #halooutcasts #halohuntersinthedark #hunters in the dark #huntersinthedark #halo hunters in the dark

[holyshonks]

I was reading a reddit thread about Vale where people were bitching about her being a Mary Sue, which automatically activated my misogyny alarm and I stopped giving their opinion any credence BUT I did find a comment from seven years ago that said that the only explanation they would accept for why she was so exemplary despite her age was that she met Halsey's requirements for a SPARTAN-II, and that's why she was a perfect child prodigy.

Well buddy, do I got news for you.

#no one gives a shit about the wackiness that is stanforth's timeline but we hate vale hmmmmmmmmmmmmm #anyway 343 should have just aged her up so her fieldwork would make sense #olympia vale

[halos-top-alien-model]

Bonus Poll: Sangheili & Spartans

rediscovered a post I made on my main, got a bad idea because of it

#halo #halo sangheili #sangheili #thel vadam #usze taham #ntho sraon #thel 'vadam #usze 'taham #n'tho 'sraom #the arbiter #master chief #john-117 #olympia vale #spartan vale #frank kodiak #spartan kodiak #bonus poll

[cornerdreams-txt]

scattered halo headcanons (for the funnies)

#. Johnson and Master Chief see each other as sibling figures, and bicker constantly whenever they're both off duty at the same time and in each other's presence.

#. Fred is the one to patch up the other three in Blue Team whenever they fuck up and get themselves hurt in the process of doing something stupid.

#. Cortana thinks about Noble Six sometimes. She never tells Chief there was another Spartan before him she wanted to partner with. She thinks they might've gotten along anyway.

#. Rtas is the only one allowed in Thel's private quarters. Normally it involves a lot of shit talking other Covenant members they secretly hated or Thel doing mundane things while Rtas watches over him silently.

#. Chief really loves the color green. Even the ugly shades. Kelly thinks he's out of his mind for it.

#. Thel is silently terrified that Chief will hate him if he finds out that he was behind Reach. When Chief finds it out, he brings it up to Thel, and when he sees Thel stiffen, quietly tells him that it wasn't his fault that the Prophets manipulated him and everyone else in the Covenant.

#. Rtas and Thel are extremely protective of each other, and become extra aggressive when they get separated during battle.

#. Blue Team treats Cortana like she's family. It makes her extremely happy every time, without fail.

#. Buck catches himself missing his old team whenever he's alone. He thinks about Vergil a lot too. He doesn't tell the others about this. (Locke knows anyway, and has tried multiple times to arrange for them to work together so Buck can see them again. It never worked out.)

#. Thel accidentally picked up human phrases and slang when he fought on Earth. He uses them occasionally, and it confuses the fuck out of the other sangheli.

#. Johnson met Blue Team a few times and promptly said he understood why Chief was "like that" when he saw them bicker. Linda laughed herself to tears and Chief practically pouted about it.

#. Locke is really good at logic based puzzles. Vale enjoys teasing him for it and receives a blank, yet somehow incredibly disappointed stare every time.

#sources: #halo #halo reach #characters: #master chief / john 117 #thel vadam / the arbiter #rtas vadum / shipmaster #sergeant major johnson #frederic 104 #linda 058 #kelly 087 #noble six / b312 #cortana #edward buck #jameson locke #olympia vale #post type: #headcanons #posted by: #znmjr 🦈

[pedroam-bang]

Halo 5: Guardians (2015)

#2015 #gaming #concept art #science fiction #Halo 5 #Guardians #Halo #Frederic-104 #Kelly-087 #Linda-058 #Master Chief #John-117 #Blue Team #Jameson Locke #Locke #Holly Tanaka #Olympia Vale #Edward Buck #Fireteam Osiris #Spartan #UNSC #Pelican #Warthog

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

A visual reference to all the things that make Halo: Outcasts such a cool book.

Go read it!

Art credit: 343 Industries / Alex "Haruspis" Wakeford, Community Writer, 343

#halo #halo outcasts #olympia vale #thel vadam #troy denning

[clueless-tarnished]

#halo #thel vadam #olympia vale #They text eachother everyday

[bloodgulchblog]

Them

#halo #halo: hunters in the dark #olympia vale #usze taham

[inaccurate-halo-quotes]

*Vale walks in on Linda sitting in a Lotus Position*

Vale: Linda? You're a Buddhist?

Linda-087: Oh yeah. If I didn't have inner peace, I'd completely go psycho on all you guys all the time.

#inaccurate halo quotes #original: the simpsons #Linda-058 #Halo #Olympia Vale #buddhism

[crystalsandbubbletea]

This was sadly out of budget for me- *Sob*

#crystalsandbubbletea #halo: outcasts #halo #olympia vale #sobbing internally #sobbing for eternity #At least I might get it for Christmas- :') #Can't wait to see more of Vale #She's my personal favorite <33333 #My number one favorite characters is definitely both Kat and Kelly though- #crystals ish #crystal ish #bubble tea ish #bubble ish #tea ish #rian ish

[halobirthdays]

Happy birthday to Spartan Olympia Vale!

Today is her -512th birthday!

Vale was the daughter of Nerina and Caleb Vale. Nerina was a decorated member of the UNSC Navy, and her father was a slipspace technician and a staunch pacifist. Unbeknownst to Olympia, Caleb was selected to be part of the SPARTAN-II program, but was able to evade his kidnappers, possibly influencing his anti-war outlook.

When she was a child, her parents divorced and she was kept in her mother's custody. While en route to Earth after her mother was reassigned to UNSC High Command in Sydney, their ship's slipspace drive failed, turning the six-day trip into a six-month trip. Vale, a child prodigy in her own right, busied herself by learning the Sangheili language using the resources provided by the shipboard AI. She became so proficient that she was able to correct the AI's mistranslations.

Vale graduated Sydney University and enlisted in the UNSC. Nerina died during the Battle for Earth, and when Vale attempted to contact her father to tell him, she discovered that he had actually used an alias during her life and that he had "refused conscription" in 2517. When Vale went to ONI for answers, she received a cryptic warning to stop inquiring. Undeterred, she took to other means to find him and discovered his true identity, though not his location.

After the war, she explored the Sangheili colony Khael'mothka, where she developed an understanding and appreciation for Sangheili culture. This experience led to her placement on a dual UNSC-Swords of Sanghelios mission to the Ark as a xenoanthropoligist and human-Sangheili liaison. The mission was initiated because of a signal emitting from the Ark which suggested that the Halo array was going to be activated. When they got there, they were attacked by hostile wildlife, and Vale was overcome by a compulsion to follow a chaefka away from the battle. Now missing, the team split up to find her. She was led to a Forerunner structure where she was then held hostage by Tragic Solitude, the monitor of the Ark. Solitude had become rampant and developed a hatred for the galaxy and particularly humanity for the destruction on the Ark. Vale tried to reason with the moniter, but ultimately it was destroyed by the rest of her team, who were able to stop the array's activation. Although the mission was a success, Vale questioned her usefulness due to her inability to convince Tragic Solitude not to activate the Halo array. She was consoled by Sangheili Usze 'Taham, who accompanied her on the mission and with whom she developed a mutual respect.

Due to the skills she displayed during the mission to the Ark, Vale was invited to join the SPARTAN-IV program. She participated in multiple campaigns and operations before she was assigned as a member of Fireteam Osiris. She participated in the requisition of Dr. Halsey, who had escaped captivity by the UNSC by joining Jul 'Mdama in his search for the Janus Key. Osiris located and assassinated Jul, taking Halsey with them. Vale then joined Osiris in their search for Blue Team, who were absent without leave in their search for Cortana. While they found Blue Team, they were unable to apprehend them and were then deployed to Sanghelios to aide Arbiter Thel 'Vadam in eliminating 'Mdama's remaining forces.

Osiris used a Guardian to locate Blue Team, where they all learned of the threat of Cortana and the Created. Vale was reassigned to be stationed on Sanghelios as both an advisor to the Arbiter and eyes and ears for ONI. She was secretly visited by xenoarchaeologist Keely Iyuska, who gave Vale a tip about a planet called Netherop that was said to possess technology that could destroy a Guardian. Vale got approval by the UNSC to travel to Netherop, only to discover that Thel 'Vadam and his forces had received similar information and had already left for Netherop.

There, Vale discovered the marooned UNSC forces who were still waging war with the Sangheili presence on the planet. Caught between peace between humans and Sangheili and their loyalty to their respective species, Vale and 'Vadam agreed that they would assist each other to a point, and then whoever got to the technology first would keep it. They fought their way into the structure, where they witnessed the devastating destruction that the Guardian-killing weapon was capable of. Ultimately, she and 'Vadam agreed that neither the UNSC nor Swords of Sanghelios should have access to such a destructive weapon and rendered it unusable.

In canon (~2560), she is turning 24!

#Olympia vale #fireteam osirism #spartan iv #i only mentioned usze once i am so strong #just read hunters in the dark okay #yes i know its weird that they spend so much time beating the crap out of animals its plot-relevant okay?

[halopedia]

Halopedia Reviews...

Halo: Outcasts!

We are very excited to announce our third ever review of a Halo novel! This time, it's a review of Troy Denning's latest novel, Halo: Outcasts.

Don't worry if you have yet to read the book; the first five questions are spoiler-free and the following spoiler section has been redacted by ONI censors. Click if you dare!

Also, if you have any suggestions on how to improve the review format, please share your thoughts!

#halopedia #halo #halooutcasts #halo outcasts #outcasts #arbiter #thearbiter #the arbiter #thelvadam #thel vadam #vale #Olympia Vale #olympia #olympiavale

[eschatonjudge]

they delayed outcasts even further im gonna sob

#halo #thel vadam #olympia vale

[dancing-coyote]

343i

343i WHY.

WHO APPROVED THIS

I JUST WANT TO TALK

#Halo #Halo Outcasts #Thel Vadam #Olympia Vale #BAD ART

[ask-cloverfield]

Again fair

#halo #halo: hunters in the dark #000 tragic solitude #tragic solitude #who is not a ball and that is hurting my soul just a lil bit #halo books #halo eu #olympia vale

[sasaleleselfships]

This may just be the monster fucker in me, but I really hope Vale and Arbiter get together in Halo Outcasts, or just in general tbh. If we all band together, we can normalize monster fucking in mainstream media.

#/lh but also /srs #halo #arbiter #thel vadam #olympia vale #spartan