Kimberly Ivy Blackburn was a paramilitary operations officer of the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence and the UNSC Special Operations Command. Born in 2543 as the daughter of Alexandria Clarissa Blackburn, Kimberly was the first human being known to be born as the result of a "human synthesis" approach, that is, the artificial instructive direction of human development. The product of the convergence of several clandestine initiatives, such as Project FORECAST, Project PATRIOT, and HUMANCONFIG, she was born with extensive physical and psychological birth defects as a result of intentional in utero exposure to the SCARLET teratogen, which elicited indelible Flood-like teratogenesis. After birth, Kimberly underwent further biochemical and surgical augmentations and underwent extensive traini