Jilan al-Cygni (Earth-5875)

"Kissing is for politicians, and I'm certainly not that."

- - Jilan al-Cygni to Avery Johnson

Lieutenant Commander Jilan al-Cygni was an operative of the Office of Naval Intelligence and one of the first humans to make first contact with the Covenant on Shanxi. During the subsequent First Battle of Shanxi, al-Cygni took over the commanding officer role against the Covenant in the evacuation efforts, closely working with Staff Sergeants Avery Johnson and Nolan Byrne.

Biography
Most of Jilan al-Cygni's background is kept classified and under wraps duo to her nature as a member of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the little information known is what she presented, her birthplace, New Jerusalem, in the Cygnus system.

As a response to the mysterious disapperance of ICC-licensed freighters in the Epsilon Indi system, al-Cygni was deployed as an undercover agent to Shanxi to investigate the responsibles, which ONI believed to be either Insurrectionists or pirates. Once she arrived, she posed as an ICC manager under the pretense of resource management. After contacting Governor Ukko "Jukes" Joukahainen, she ordered Staff Sergeants Avery Johnson and Nolan Byrne to a boarding operation where they would neutralize the unknown assaulants. However, during the operation, the trio did not discover Insurrectionists or pirates, but hostile alien lifeforms. She then authorized the staff sergeants to eliminate the aliens before they destroying their ship with an Archer missile aboard a prowler.