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{{incomplete}}[[Image:Tona-Criid.jpg|thumb|right|350px200px|Sergeant Tona Criid]]

Tona Criid started life as a down-hive woman on [[Verghast]], a rough veteran of a dozen different [[Hive]] gangs, with the tattoos to show it. She was around sixteen years of age at the time of the Siege. By chance, she was near the transit station at '''Veyveyr Gate''' when explosions and shrapnel killed [[Livy Kolea]], but not her two young children, [[Dalin Kolea|Dalin]] and [[Yoncy Kolea|Yoncy]].{{Fn|1a}} Criid saved them from falling debris and kept them in her care for the duration of the Siege, appointing herself their "Aunt Tona."{{Fn|1b}}

Tona and her two young charges struggled to survive in the weeks of the Siege, often taking turns to sneak into the camps of the newly-arrived [[Imperial Guard]] reinforcements to steal food. On one of these trips, Tona was spotted by a [[trooper]] of the [[Tanith First]], [[Dermon Caffran]], but she fled before he could make contact.{{Fn|1c}}

On her second trip to the Tanith's camp, when both children were close to starving, Tona was caught in the act by Caffran, who had been watching out for her. She fought him off with a knife, even as he pleaded that he wanted to help her, since she, like the Tanith "Ghosts," had no home of their own. Tona fled the camp, abandoning the backpack with her stolen supplies. To her surprise, Caffran dragged the pack outside the camp and left it for her. She was even more surprised to see he had added water, first-aid supplies, and his own [[laspistol]] to her stash. That night, when she and the children went to sleep with full bellies for the first time in weeks, she also found a regimental pin from the Tanith first - Caffran's "invitation" for her to join the Ghosts.{{Fn|1d}}

Tona and the children survived the Siege, and Tona eagerly accepted [[Warmaster]] [[Macaroth]]'s [[Act of Consolation]] to the citizens of the devastated Vervunhive, to join the [[Imperial Guard]] - on the condition that she be allowed to choose the Ghosts as her unit. She and Caffran adopted Dalin and Yoncy, who accompanied the Ghosts on their future campaigns.{{Fn|1g}}

*1: [[Necropolis (Novel)]] - — [[Gaunt's Ghosts: The Founding (Omnibus)]]**{{Endn|1a}}: Chapter One, pgs. 492-493, 503**{{Endn|1b}}: Chapter Two, pgs. 516-517**{{Endn|1c}}: Chapter Five, pgs. 542-543**{{Endn|1d}}: Chapter Ten, pgs. 611-617**{{Endn|1e}}: Chapter Fourteen, pg. 669**{{Endn|1f}}: Chapter Sixteen, pg. 703**{{Endn|1g}}: Chapter Nineteen, pg. 738