The Blackburn Family was a family of UNSC citizens. Wright Blackburn and Melody Blackburn would marry on Earth, giving birth to two children, an older boy, Reece Blackburn, and in 2536, a younger daughter, Alexandria Clarissa Blackburn. All four would survive the Human-Covenant War, and both of their children would attend education on Earth. In 2553, when Acumen Science Laboratories and the UNSC Colonization Authority offered colonists a chance to settle on the distant to-be-founded colony world on Beryl, for unknown reasons, the Blackburn family accepted. The children would discontinue their education on Earth, and would take the UNSC Cyclopean to Beryl, where they would settle in the homestead of Nazareth.