Sergeant Aliyah Burakgazi is a UNSC Marine stationed on Earth. In 2552, she led a unit of eight to help evacuate Sydney, Australia. Hearing Jacob Castell's cries for help, they rescued him from where he had tried to crucify himself on the alter of an otherwise abandoned church. They then used the church, with its strong architecture, as a fall-back point for gathering other civilians who had refused to leave town.