Linda (Halo 5)

Linda

058

Verent

March 19, 2511

Female

213 centimetres (7 ft 0 in)

Red

Green

UNSC Navy

Petty Officer Second Class

Sharpshooter

Petty Officer Second Class Linda-058, born Linda Pravdin,[1] is a SPARTAN-II super soldier. She is one of the few known surviving Spartans and also best known for her skill with her SRS 99-S5 Sniper Rifle Nornfang, and once eliminated two targets so quickly that even John-117 couldn't tell who she had targeted first in the field. She also has a very close working relationship with Joshua-029, Kelly-087, Frederic-104, and John-117 and formed the combat sub-unit Blue Team.

Decades later, Linda regrouped with Fred, Kelly, and John, allowing them to reform Blue Team under John's leadership.

Linda is famous for her abilities with the sniper rifle. John and Fred have noted on several occasions that she makes sniping seem almost like an "art." While she is sniping, she doesn't require a spotter. She is known even for taking out Banshees with one shot by sniping the pilot through the tiny slit between the canopy and the lower portion of the vehicle. She is notably the quietest member of Blue Team, as stated by John, and is labeled as a "lone wolf" Spartan. Mentally, Linda is unshakable and persistent. Physically, she is very pale, with blood-red hair and dark emerald green eyes. She, like every SPARTAN-II, was trained by Chief Mendez on the planet Reach. John once described her as the strongest Spartan, due to her lone wolf personality, which gave her an advantage over other Spartans, who were trained to function in pairs.

SRS99 series sniper rifles, notably including the customized Nornfang.

Linda-058's current armor is the Argus variant integrated into the MJOLNIR GEN3 platform. Manufactured by the Watershed Division, this configuration was built specifically to accommodate Linda's unparalleled requirements as Blue Team's premier scout-sniper.

The suit features the most advanced human-centric information fusion systems ever integrated into a mobile combat frame. It blends passive cyber-intrusion software with progressive sensor filtering. For the GEN3 platform, Dr. Catherine Halsey personally tweaked the software parameters to maximize Linda's spatial awareness and intelligence collection capabilities.