Dimah Tchakova (Earth-5875)

"My mother is Secretary of FLEETCOM and my father is a high-ranking ONI officer, so I was born to do this."

- - Dimah Tchakova

Dimah Tchakova was an officer cadet of the UNSC Marine Corps and a student of the Corbulo Academy of Military Science as a part of the 2529 class.

Biography
Like majority of Reach's inhabitants, Dimah Tchakova was of Eastern European descent. The daughter of a FLEETCOM Secretary and a high-ranking officer of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dimah was sent to attend the Corbulo Academy of Military Science in 2525, where she became a member of Hastati Squad under the lead of Senior Cadet April Orenski. She also became the roommate of Junjie Chen. During her performances, she always scored the standard.

During the Battle of Circinus IV, Dimah assembled with her squad in order to evacuate Corbulo through the academy's space elevator. Unwilling to wait and fearing for her life, she disobeyed direct orders, trying to use her mother's influence and power to intimidate a UNSC Marine into letting her board the elevator car. However, this led to her death when a Covenant ship destroyed the structure.

Personality
Dimah valued her family connections to the UNSC and the Corbulo Academy of Military Science, to the extent it was one of the only things she ever talked about, deeply irritating Senior Cadet April Orenski, her squad leader. She regarded her family's history and power in the UNSC as a motive for her being "born" to become a part of the UNSC Navy, even though all other cadets came from prestigious backgrounds. She was a single child and deeply desired to make her mother and father proud, wishing to join the UNSC as an officer as opposed to serving in the battlefield. After Michael Sullivan hacked a secret recording of one of the first encounters with the Covenant, he considering approaching Dimah to help him get away from ONI.

Even though she performed well in training exercises at the academy, behind her facade hid an insecure and emotionally immature girl, even compared to the rest of Hastati Squad. This, coped with her delusions of grandiose and the over-emphasizing of her family vanished during the first sign of danger she perceived. When nervous, afraid or excited, she comforted herself by holding a stuffed toy given to her by her parents when she was little. Much like the rest of Hastati, Tchakova disliked Thomas Reyes, whom she called "Innie-Lover".