


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 nuclear winter. 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. Holly's mother was at home with her brothers, washing dishes and reminiscing on a picture of her family, as Covenant destroyers rained down superheated plasma to glass their city. Holly returns to the compound after a successful hunt.Īs 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.
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As of August 2558 she had completed 23 military operations, including 14 full campaigns, in her combined Army and Spartan career. Shortly after their rescue Tanaka would enlist in the UNSC Army, becoming a non-commissioned officer in the UNSC Army Corps of Engineers, and later volunteered for augmentation and training as a Spartan-IV supersoldier. She was one of the three survivors of the 2550 glassing of her homeworld Minab known to have endured the three year struggle on its barren surface. Spartan Holly Tanaka ( service number 93312-28001-HT) is a human soldier of the United Nations Space Command who served in the years following the Human-Covenant War. " On a recent mission to the Outer Colonies, I encountered one Sergeant Holly Tanaka, currently of the 412th Engineer Command… During my brief time with her, Sergeant Tanaka exhibited a mix of intelligence, grit, assertiveness, and selflessness that in my many years I've rarely encountered." - Captain French to Jun-A266 on Holly Tanaka
