Ashah Sidana

Spartan Ashah Sidana is a Spartan IV enlisted in the UNSC. She serves on the Spartan search and rescue team, Patron.

Biography
Ashah was born on November 1st, 2530, the same as her twin sister Ashita. The pair were raised in modern day India on Earth and joined the UNSC shortly after coming of enlistment age.

The pair established themselves as highly skilled and effective assets in combat. Long before her eventual Spartan augmentation, Ashah displayed a gung-ho, fool hardy method of combat. She was notorious for her close quarters battles often under overwhelming odds. Subsequently she bears large scars and marks on her body and face.

Lineage: Huntress Volume II
On October 23rd, 2555, Fireteam Patron was deployed to stop an in-progress hostage situation in the Shukka Province of the planet Ballast. A well established terrorist group had overtaken an abandoned shipping wharf and had captured several clean up workers hired by the Megalodon Corp. The terrorist group had initially demanded a ransom in exchange for the hostages and was informed by a UNSC contact that a handoff was in order. The terrorist group was caught off guard when instead of the expected hand off, Gregg Waller arrived by surprise, initiating an infiltration of the facility. Ashah, keeping in with her tradition of close quarters combat, charged a heavily guarded entrance to the facility, killing several terrorists in her efforts.

On October 24th 2555, Gregg Waller asked Ashah and the other members of Patron team to meet him in Shousbo on the planet Ballast. There, Waller revealed his intent to aid the rogue Monolith agent, Twenty-Seven and his wish for assistance from his team. Ashita Sidana quickly shot down the request and argued passionately against Waller's involvement with the mysterious fugitive. Ashah was not able to get much in edge-wise but tried to calm her sister down as best she could. Eventually, Twenty-Seven decided to leave without the promise of help from the group.

Later, on Biller Station, Ashah confronted her sister about preventing Gregg from helping Naomi. She also engaged Dom in the accusation and combined their input swayed Ashita to assist Gregg rescue Naomi.

Personality
Ashah is the most outwardly social and energetic member of Patron team. She always carries a positive and upbeat tone even while in combat. In fact, while in combat she seems to even mock her aggressors, most likely brought out by her Spartan IV augmentation.

Unlike her sister, Ashah keeps her hair cut short. She also bears three large claw marks across her face, a feature she is assuredly proud of.

Trivia

 * Ashah is the only member of Patron team who doesn't wear a variant of the Warrior armor.
 * Ashah and Ashita wear the same archetype of helmet, but Ashah's is adorned with a far flashier paint pattern.
 * Ashah is a variant of a Hindu/Indian name that means Hope.
 * The character design for Dom was created by the Mexican artist, TexD41.