Samisha Taol

Samisha Taol was a former Covenant serviceman and crewmember of the Parhelia.

Biography
Taol enlisted into the Covenant around 2542 and was assigned into the 56th Dasim of Eayn Dragoons legion. She worked as a gunner for a flown by Yis, and later met Tennbau Quatch here as well.

Taol's first battle was the Battle of Fairfax II, a vicious engagement where her dropship was shot down behind enemy lines and left her as the sole survivor. It was here that she earned her first kill, where she ripped out the throat of a UNSC soldier to take his rifle. The trauma that she went through on the colony left Taol with deep psychological scars and post-traumatic stress disorder relapses that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

After leaving the military, Taol followed Quatch and joined the crew of the medium freighter Libation, where she put her technical talents to use as part of its engineering team.

Fall of High Charity
On the morning of November 1, 2552, Taol and the majority of the Libation 's staff were captured by Marsangtus' Jiralhanae pack. Although he planned on conscripting them as cannon fodder, a surprise Sangheili raid on the platform distracted the brutes. Both Quatch and Taol attacked the brutes to give the surviving crew an opportunity to escape, and continued to scout the way for the rest of the crew to the harbormaster's office. While the others searched the documents stored there and planned their next move, Taol watched the stairs and searched the bodies of the nearby charnel house. It was while she was doing this that she watched P'thon 'Umtalla get escorted away by the brutes.

After Quatch struck a deal with Kuotasim 'Umtalla for one of the 'Umtalla freighters, the crew were divided up. While Quatch went to collect P'thon, Taol led a team to capture some repulsor sleds that the group would use. With no other option, she arrived at a waiting line of sleds in the evening period, where she disguised herself as a ration deliverer to assassinate three of the Unggoy drivers without raising an alarm. She led the sleds back to the office to collect the 'Umtalla bodies as per their agreement, and again to one of the warehouses, where they came under attack by Jiralhanae troops.

With both types of cargo acquired, Taol raced down Pier Three of the dockyards to link up with their rendezvous, the Wealth of Szedethe ‘Umtalla. Heavy fire from the brutes eventually forced her to crash before she reached it. Fortunately, she had been informed by Dwe that they decided to instead capture the Parhelia, a racing freighter loaded with refugees that rested within a nearby berth. After she disabled the main entrance to the hangar shut, she worked with the rest of the crew to quickly ready for the Parhelia for launch. Although the Flood managed to enter the hangar, a few volunteering refugees sacrificed themselves to allow the freighter to lift off and escape.

List of appearances

 * Not All Who Wander