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The Career Service Vitae (or CSV for short) is a log kept on each soldier in the United Nations Space Command|UNSC, similar to a civilian Wikipedia:resume|resume. Every member of the UNSC Armed Forces has one, as it keeps track of that person's entire military service. UNSC Personnel Command|PERSCOM keeps track of the CSVs for all of the UNSC soldiers and archives them for public and military access.Halo: The Fall of Reach, Chapter 18, ''page 159''(2001 paperback); ''page 184''(2010 paperback)
Contents Some of the things that a CSV contains include:
Service number|Service Number Date the person joined the military Background information on the person
:Category:Events|Battles the person has taken part in Unit or starship assignments Promotions, transfers, and retirements
:Category:UNSC Decorations|Decorations the person has received Time, place, and cause of death Casualty classification (Wounded in action|WIA, Killed in action|KIA or Missing in action|MIA)
Examples It was said that United Nations Space Command|UNSC Ensign William Lovell|William Michael Lovell amassed a CSV twice as long as that of Jacob Keyes'.
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''Cargo 1'' was a Banta-class colony ship|civilian transport on Arcadia.
During the Battle for Arcadia in 2531, ''Cargo 1'', along with ''Cargo 2'' and ''Cargo 3'', were forced to evacuate thousands of civilians from the colony's besieged capital. The female pilot requested help after being attacked by Covenant forces. Despite several repeated attacks, the United Nations Space Command|UNSC held off the Covenant long enough to allow ''Cargo 1'' to escape the planet.Halo Wars, campaign level ''Arcadia City''
Trivia
''Cargo 1'' is the primary target of Covenant forces after the destruction of ''Cargo 3''.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars''
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''Cargo 2'' was a Banta-class colony ship|civilian transport on the United Nations Space Command|UNSC colony of Arcadia.Halo Wars, campaign level ''Arcadia City''
When the Battle for Arcadia occurred in 2531, ''Cargo 2'', alongside ''Cargo 1'' and ''Cargo 3'', was forced to evacuate Pirth City as it fell under attack by the Covenant. The UNSC held off repeated attacks by the Covenant as hundreds of civilians fled to the transports. Despite these attacks, ''Cargo 2'' was able to escape the planet, saving hundreds of lives.
Trivia Unlike ''Cargo 1'' and ''Cargo 3'' which are colored blue and white, Cargo 2 is orange and white.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars''
Sources
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''Cargo 3'' was a Banta-class colony ship|civilian transport on Arcadia.
During the Battle for Arcadia, ''Cargo 3'', alongside ''Cargo 1'' and ''Cargo 2'', was used to transport civilians away from Arcadia. The male pilot requested help after being attacked by Covenant forces. After being attacked several times during the battle, the pilot went AWOL and disobeyed orders by trying to leave the planet without rescuing the incoming civilians. The transport was destroyed by Covenant Type-26 Banshees as it attempted to take off and all inside, as well as the civilians nearby, perished.Halo Wars, campaign level ''Arcadia City''
Trivia
''Cargo 3'''s fate is similar to that of ''6 Echo 2'' from ''Halo: Reach'', as the pilots of both craft attempted to take off early despite nearby Covenant forces and were shot down shortly thereafter.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars''
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A cargo walker is a powered exoskeleton used by the United Nations Space Command that is utilized to transport cargo. At approximately three meters tall and about two meters wide, the cargo walker moves with legs and pads. This design allows the walker to move smoothly on concrete, but makes movement difficult on muddy or rocky terrain. In 2553#July|July 2553, the 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion used several cargo walkers during their operations on Gao.
List of appearances
''Halo: Last Light''
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The Caribbean Ocean is a body of water|water on the human planet|homeworld of Earth. The National government|island nation of Cuba was located in the Caribbean Ocean.
History Blue Team flew over the Caribbean Ocean in a Pelican on their way to Cuba during the Battle for Earth.
Trivia The Caribbean Ocean is likely supposed to be the Wikipedia:Caribbean Sea|Caribbean Sea.
List of appearances
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
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Carinae Station is a UNSC outpost. In July 2557, Andrew Del Rio|Captain Andrew Del Rio ordered the to set a course for Carinae once they had escaped from Requiem.
Sometime following the Battle over Installation 07|defeat of Cortana at Installation 07 in late 2559, Carinae was the subject of a FIREWALL contingency|simulation conducted by Sloan, High Auxiliary of the remnant Created forces. In the simulation, Carinae housed the Durance containing SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan Edward Davis' memories and essence, with the Executor tasked with attacking the station to recover the durance. During the simulation, the Executor failed numerous times, with the station's security personnel able to load the Durance into a for evacuation. It is unclear whether this simulated attack represents a true reality, and whether Davis' Durance is actually housed on Carinae Station remain unknown.
Trivia Wikipedia:Carinae|Carinae was an area of ancient Rome. It may also refer to a location, the Wikipedia:Carina Nebula|Carina Nebula, or the Wikipedia:Carina (constellation)|Carina constellation.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
Story Shard: ''Precipice''
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Carjacking is an achievement in ''Halo 2 (Windows Vista)|Halo 2 for Windows Vista''. It is worth 5 Gamerpoints and is earned when you Boarding (gameplay mechanic)|board an occupied vehicle from an opponent and take it over.
It is represented by a sign with a U-turn on it.
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Carjacking could refer to:
Hijack|Carjacking medal - A medal in ''Halo 2''. Carjacking (achievement)|Carjacking - An achievement in ''Halo 2 (Windows Vista)|Halo 2 for Windows Vista''.
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Admiral Carl "Buster" Patterson was an officer of the UNSC Navy. He was the commanding officer of and, by extension, Battle Group Omicron.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 290'' Patterson was cunning, though he was very straightforward, favoring frontal assaults in combat.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 327''
Biography
Patterson and his battlegroup were deployed to Onyx to reinforce the UNSC presence on the planet's surface. Arriving on November 3rd, 2552, Patterson ordered his battlegroup to attack before receiving a full scan of the planet from the . Two Joyous Exultation Covenant|Covenant Covenant destroyer|destroyers were destroyed before twenty additional enemy warships revealed themselves from the other side of the planet. At the cost of four of his ships, Patterson was able to escape.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''pages 294-288''
He set up an ambush for the Covenant ships behind the planet's moon when Commander Richard Lash set up a field of HORNET mines in space, which succeeded in destroying all but two of the ships.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 332'' Patterson again ordered a forward charge to wipe out the remaining ones. Thirty-two more Covenant ships emerged from Slipstream space|slipspace around Patterson's ships in mid-charge, destroying the human fleet and killing the admiral in the process.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 333''
List of appearances
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
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Lieutenant Carl Radeen is a human officer serving within the UNSC Special Forces.Halo: Hunters in the Dark, ''pages 59-62'' (Google Play edition)
Biography By 2555, Carl Radeen served as an aide for Captain Annabelle Richards, the head of UNSC Special Forces, who served under the Office of Naval Intelligence's administration. In 2555, after it was discovered that the Halo Array's firing sequence had been activated on a five-week countdown, UNSC administration decided that a joint UNSCSwords of Sanghelios team needed to be sent to Installation 00 and attempt to stop the sequence. Richards, along with Radeen, oversaw attempts to reactivate Portal at Voi|the slipspace portal to the Ark at Voi, Kenya on Earth. When the Sangheili arrived at Research Center Alpha (Earth)|the site, Radeen warned Richards of SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan Frank Kodiak's disdain for the species, but she dismissed his claim.
After the portal was activated, a Retriever exited and began mining Earth's surface. After the Sentinel was destroyed, Radeen and Richards met aboard the Sangheili Covenant corvette|corvette ''Mayhem'' with the rest of the team to discuss the current situation.Halo: Hunters in the Dark, ''page 110'' (Google Play edition) After the corvette continued through the portal and crash-landed on Installation 00, Radeen remained behind on ''Mayhem'' with most of the UNSC Marines to secure the vessel and help the Sangheili repair the ship, if needed.Halo: Hunters in the Dark, ''page 140'' (Google Play edition) After Richards injured her leg and returned to ''Mayhem'' with the rest of the surviving Marines, she received treatment from Sehar. When monitor 000 Tragic Solitude unleashed an army of Retrievers through the portal to mine Earth, Radeen informed Richards after her surgery and the two watched the Retrievers enter the portal from the ship's bridge.Halo: Hunters in the Dark, ''page 262'' (Google Play edition) Eventually, the rest of the team stopped the monitor and averted the activation sequence, and the crew of ''Mayhem'' returned to Earth.Halo: Hunters in the Dark, ''pages 296-298'' (Google Play edition)
Personality and traits Radeen is noted to be tall and burly. Captain Annabelle Richards once compared him to an android, as he never smiles, laughs, frowns, or expresses any sort of reaction to any event. Radeen never looked Richards in the eye while speaking to her and instead focused on the space just to the right of her shoulder. Richards believed that this was due to some deeply ingrained concern over respect. Radeen rarely questioned the orders of his superiors and was known for completing his tasks with customary swiftness.
List of appearances
''Halo: Hunters in the Dark''
''Halo: Renegades''
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Carlo Hoya (service number 90302-89202-CH) is a SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IV supersoldier who serves on Fireteam Majestic, part of the 's Spartan Operations|Spartan contingent in 2558.
Biography
Born on Asmara, he and his family fled to Circumstance as refugees. Upon turning the eligible age he joined the UNSC Marine Corps. He eventually became an Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODST and served in several battles over his Marine career. During the Battle of New Jerusalem in 2552, Hoya was taken prisoner by the Covenant. However, he was able to escape and in the process managed to save a dozen UNSC Navy|Naval officers.
Hoya later joined the SPARTAN-IV program, and was assigned to Fireteam Majestic under squad leader Paul DeMarco. Majestic, with the exception of Gabriel Thorne was assigned to a mission in Rio de Janeiro. He and Majestic stopped a Sangheili from detonating a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|HAVOK nuke.
In 2558 Majestic was all assigned to the ''UNSC Infinity'' under the command of Sarah Palmer. The UNSC ''Infinity'' then began its second tour of Requiem.Spartan Ops, S1/Departure|S1E1 ''Departure'' At some point on their stay on ''Infinity'', Hoya helped Thorne search for Halsey's presence on the ship. Hoya found a letter from Admiral Margaret Parangosky to Dr. Halsey (whose name was redacted on the document) and gave it to Thorne, who kept it in his UNSC ''Infinity'' Briefing Packet.Halo 4 Limited Edition, UNSC ''Infinity'' Briefing Packet''
Majestic and Fireteam Crimson were sent north of the United Nations Space Command|UNSC's operational area to down Forerunner power generators. As they had similar objectives, Palmer turned the operation into a challenge between Majestic and Crimson. Despite having their long-range communications downed, the teams restored them and continued with the challenge. Though pulling ahead, Majestic was beat by Crimson, despite Crimson actually facing firmer resistance than Fireteam Majestic.Spartan Ops, ''Episode 1, Chapter 3: "The Challenge"''
File:Hoya - Operator.png|thumb|250px|Hoya fighting on Requiem. Later on Requiem's surface, Fireteam Majestic had to face a swarm of Promethean Crawlers, Slipspace translocation|translocating on the planets surface. Soon Promethean Knights began to attack, injuring Majestic member Anthony Madsen. Enraged, Hoya broke cover to take on the Knight, and got injured. He was evacuated and brought in a stretcher back aboard the ''UNSC Infinity'' where he was met by Palmer. Hoya informed her that he would return to the field.Spartan Ops, S1/Artifact|S1E2 ''Artifact''
True to his word, Hoya joined the rest of Majestic on retrieving the Durance|artifact known as the "Didact's Gift" from Galileo Base after most of the forces had been cleared out by Crimson. Retrieving the gift, they got pinned down by Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees and Type-44 Troop Carrier|Phantoms. However, Thorne managed to hijack a Banshee and destroy a Phantom, allowing Majestic to bring the gift back to the ''Infinity''.Spartan Ops, S1/Memento Mori|S1E5 ''Memento Mori''
Later, Hoya and the others from Majestic rescued Thorne and Dr. Glassman from Gek 'Lhar, and later on, attempted to rescue Dr. Halsey from Jul 'Mdama. Later, he, along with the rest of Majestic and Commander Palmer, located and deactivated one of the artifacts binding ''Infinity'' to Requiem. With the other artifact having been deactivated by Crimson, ''Infinity'' was able to escape Requiem before the shield world was destroyed.
On March 11, six days after DeMarco's death on Ealen IV, ''Infinty'' arrived in the Artesia-702 system having received a distress signal from the damaged freighter ''Pilgrims Pride''. When an ambush was sprung, Fireteam Majestic was deployed along Fireteams Fireteam Colossus|Colossus and Fireteam Fenrir|Fenrir to repel attack and prevent the freighter from self-destructing on the ''Infinity''. Leading the fireteams, Thorne ordered teams Colossus and Fenrir to secure the ship while Majestic made their way to the core. As the Spartans advance through the freighter, they encountered M202 XP machine gun|automated defense turrets but Madsen was able to swiftly destroy them with his rifle. With the enemy going into retreat, the freighter was tugged out into space, where Grant ejected the ship's core before it exploded. The Spartans survived the detonation and requested pickup.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 4|Issue #4''
Following the attack, ''Infinity'' learned that the assault crafts from the freighter belonged to the long-lost . Roland discovered that the freighter was launched near Oth Lodon, a gas giant located deep in Jiralhanae space. With the Spirit's possible location found, Lord Hood authorized Commander Palmer to conduct a search and rescue mission. Equipped with OF92 Booster Frames, Fireteam Majestic and Palmer scouted the planet's system. Exploring the system's asteroid field, the Spartans came across not the ''Spirit of Fire'' but instead a Oth Lodon station|Covenant station under control by New Colonial Alliance insurgents.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 5|Issue #5''
After the station fired upon ''Infinity'' with an energy projector and disabled the ship, Commander Palmer led Majestic on a mission to take control of the station. After evading oncoming missiles, the Spartans quickly boarded the station and secured the bridge. The Spartans then turned their attention to Vata 'Gajat, who was preparing to assault the crippled ''Infinity''. With the station's cannon back online, they fired on 'Gajat's flagship, destroying it and saving the ''Infinity''.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 6|Issue #6''
On 2558#May|May 9, 2558, Naiya Ray and Thorne were assigned, separately from the rest of Majestic, on a secret mission to capture Ayit 'Sevi|a Sangheili in possession of a mysterious bioweapon on Ven III. After communications with both Spartans were lost,Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 11|Issue #11'' Captain Lasky ordered ''Infinity'' to head toward Ven III while Commander Palmer prepared the rest of Fireteam Majestic for insertion on the planet. Palmer assumed command of Majestic on the mission in the absence of Thorne. Upon arriving at the pirates' base, Majestic and Palmer took out several Kig-Yar pirates. After receiving notification of Thorne's location by Ray, Palmer was going to redirect Majestic to Ray to help her retrieve the bioweapon but Ray shut off her locater to force them to rescue Thorne instead. Majestic eventually found Thorne and returned him to the ''Infinity''.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 12|Issue #12''
File:HE15 Hoya Saved 2.jpg|thumb|200px|Hoya is saved by a Promethean Knight. After ''Infinity'' was trapped near the uncharted world of Aktis IV on July 19, 2558, Hoya was deployed to the planet's surface alongside the rest of Majestic, with Palmer once again assuming tactical command of the team. On a forested island the Spartans discovered and secured a Forerunner structure after defeating a group of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant forces, and Henry Glassman|Dr. Glassman was brought in to investigate. Shortly afterward, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant launched a surprise assault against the Spartans and they became trapped in the structure. Hoya become separated from the rest of Fireteam Majestic after Jul's forces attacked them. He was left to fend off the Covenant in a jungle, unknowingly facing the rebel Sali 'Nyon's forces. He was attacked by a Zealot but was inadvertently saved by one of the Promethean Knights loyal to 'Mdama. Hoya fell off a cliff and spotted a Phantom with Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey inside. Hoya then contacted Ray about his discovery. His transmission reached the other Spartans despite his prior attempts at communication failing to do so, and led to Commander Palmer taking Ray and Thorne to the jungle in order to hunt down Halsey.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 15|Issue #15'' After the battle, Hoya supposedly returned to ''Infinity'' with the other Spartans.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 16|Issue #16''
Personality and traits While generally jovial and laid-back among his Spartan compatriots, Hoya has a notably short temper and a tendency for brash and reckless actions during combat. This was demonstrated during the Requiem campaign when he singlehandedly charged a group of Prometheans after Madsen was injured. However, his brazen attitude has also gained Hoya some of his more noted accomplishments, something that was recognized in his recruitment into the SPARTAN-IV program.
Equipment Hoya wears the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Operator#GEN2|Operator variant of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|MJOLNIR GEN2 armor. Like the rest of Majestic his armor is painted blue and is equipped with Visor color#Halo 4|VISR 4.09. He commonly wields an M45 shotgun#M45D Tactical Shotgun|M45D shotgun, though he used an M392 DMR during the Battle of Aktis IV.
Production note
Hoya is voiced by wikipedia:Isaac C. Singleton Jr.|Issac Singleton.
Gallery
File:MajesticBio-Hoya.png|Profile sheet of Hoya. File:H4-CarloHoya-ScanRender.png|Portrait of Carlo Hoya. File:Thorne and Hoya.png|Hoya (background) with Gabriel Thorne, just before breaking cover. File:Hoya faces Promethean Knight.png|Hoya is faced by a Promethean Knight. File:H4 HoyaAndDeMarco.png|Hoya (left) and DeMarco at Galileo Base. File:HE15 Hoya Dodge.jpg|Hoya dodges a Zealot's energy sword. File:HE15 Hoya Hidden.jpg|Hoya just before spotting Dr. Halsey.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
*''Infinity Briefing Packet''
''Halo: Initiation''
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo: Tales from Slipspace''
*''Fireteam Majestic Poker Night''
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Sergeant Carlo M. Scudieri (service number 93071-28339-CS) is a non-commissioned officer serving in the UNSC Marines who was assigned to the during the Battle of Requiem.Halo 4, campaign level, ''Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer''
Biography In 2557|July 2557, Scudieri was aboard the ''Infinity'' when the ship was caught by the gravity well of the shield world Requiem. He was later assigned to Gypsy Company to destroy the particle cannons that defended the gravity well generator. The Company was sent to the location of the particle cannons, designated "Sniper Alley", along with an M510 Mammoth. Scudieri was in charge of navigation on the Mammoth during the engagement.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
Sources
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Carlos Wambua was a human civilian man working as an attendant at a toll booth at the New Mombasa 105 East#Tunnel System|Mtangwe Underpass in New Mombasa. He was killed by a Covenant Protos-pattern Scarab|Scarab during the Battle of Mombasa|invasion of Mombasa in the initial stages of the Battle of Earth. He never tried to escape, and Cortana speculated he was transfixed with terror. Though he married, his wife died before him, and left him with three adult children.Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "Palace Hotel", ''pages 347-348''
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Palace Hotel''
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Carmichael is a SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV supersoldier assigned to the . During the Requiem Campaign in 2558#February|February 2558, he served as Fireteam Shadow's mission handler, and on February 14 was involved in directing Shadow during a mission to destroy a Covenant Summit (building)|summit site. During the mission, Carmichael was overruled by Jared Miller, who co-opted Fireteam Shadow during Battle at The Refuge|an attack on The Refuge (Requiem location)|the Refuge. Miller apologized for going around Carmichael to get their assistance, before proceeding to direct Shadow on a Operation: VERTICAL UMBRAGE|mission to destroy the , ''Panom's Canticle''.
Following ''Canticle''s destruction, Carmichael resumed operational control of Shadow and quickly put them back to work - with Horatio Fry joking that he "was feeling left out of all the fun".
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
''Vertical Umbrage''
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"Carney Hole" is the name given to special spots in ''Halo 2'', ''Halo 3'', and ''Halo: Reach'' multiplayer levels that would give the player a huge tactical advantage over other players. Each was designed by Bungie employee, Chris Carney.
Carney Holes are included in many of the multiplayer levels. Some are hard to find, while others are wide out in the open. Some will contain weapons, a good view of the battlefield (and thus a good place to snipe), or just a very good place to defend.
List of Carney Holes
Lockout - There is a slanted ledge on the second floor of the Sniper Tower, accessible by the third floor. Ascension - The recession in the Big Tower, accessible only by Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshee. Headlong - There are two ledges, accessible only by Banshee. Guardian (map)|Guardian - Near the Active camouflage|Active Camouflage, a ledge accessible by crouch-jumping. Epitaph - The buttresses accessible by jumping from the M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon|Rocket Platform. Hemorrhage - Numerous places to the right side of red base (if you are facing blue base).
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File:HW2-voridus 01 concept.png|thumb|300px|Voridus wielding Carnifax. Carnifax is an energy scythe employed by the Jiralhanae warlord Voridus.
Production notes While never seen in-game, Carnifax was first depicted in concept art for Voridus produced by :Category:Images by Theo Stylianides|Theo Stylianides for ''Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare'' and seen at the top of this page. The weapon was later named and canonised in the ''Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)''.
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A carnivorous plant was encountered by the joint UNSCSwords of Sanghelios task force during Operation: FAR STORM. The plant uses its roots to ensnare its prey, cutting these roots causes the plant pain. It resembled an oak tree but was much larger, had a vast array of branches, and had streaks of purple on its bark. On one side of the plant was a cluster of black and red eyelike protrusions. These plants have a black ooze for blood.
List of appearances
''Halo: Hunters in the Dark''
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UNSC rank structure#Officer ranks|Flight Officer Captain Carol Rawley, better known by her call sign Foe Hammer, was a pilot in the UNSC's 23rd Naval Air Squadron. During the Battle of Installation 04, she piloted D77-TC Pelican|Pelican ''Echo 419'' and served as a crucial asset to the John-117|Master Chief during the Battle of Installation 04 in the Human-Covenant War by delivering the latter M12 Chaingun Warthog|Warthogs, Marines|allies and transportation to and from different points on Installation 04.
Biography
After the made a "blind" Slipstream space|slipspace jump to the Soell system, Covenant Empire|Covenant forces boarded the ship. Rawley and many other members of her squadron, including her co-pilot, Lieutenant Frye, and her crew chief, Cullen, escaped during the ensuing battle and descended to the surface of Installation 04 where many UNSC forces had landed. While the rest of the ship's crew and complement were escaping in Bumblebee escape pod|lifeboats, Rawley led the pilots in flying their Pelicans off the vessel, feeling that they would soon prove useful.
On the surface of Installation 04, she helped SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN John-117 and Cortana gather scattered UNSC Marine Corps|Marines and transported them to Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base. Shortly after, Cortana hacked into the proselytization network|Covenant battlenet and discovered that Captain (Navy)|Captain Jacob Keyes had been taken prisoner by the Covenant, a rare thing for the Covenant to do to a human. That night, Foe Hammer was called upon to insert John, Cortana, and a team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers to rescue Captain Keyes in a raid on the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
The next day, Foe Hammer deployed the pair and a squad of Marines on a beach to secure the Silent Cartographer, and later ferried John and Cortana to the Control Room. On the night of September 20, Foe Hammer carried John-117 to the installation's Flood containment facility. Foe Hammer and her crew survived the Flood outbreak by remaining airborne.Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level, ''343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark''
After the Chief caused the ''Pillar of Autumn''s engines to destabilize, Foe Hammer was called by Cortana to evacuate the Chief from the pending destruction. When Foe Hammer reached the designated evac point where the Chief and Cortana had been waiting at for only seconds, she was pursued by twin Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees and shot down. Although it is possible that Rawley and/or some of her crew managed to survive the presumed crash (which was not actually witnessed), they certainly would have been killed moments later in the destruction of the Halo ring. The normally stoic Master Chief was saddened by Foe Hammer's death, having befriended the pilot during the short time they'd known each other.Halo: The Flood, ''pages 338 and 339''
Personality Rawley was considered one of the best crewmen of the ''Pillar of Autumn''. She never expressed fear in her voice, and she was considered to have been a very efficient pilot. Foe Hammer put soldiers down on landing zones filled with hostile forces without hesitation, took heavy fire, ignored the odds and the consequences, and did not panic. In addition, she was known to joke around and have a sense of humor.
Trivia
Rawley was voiced by Tawnya Pettiford-Wates|Tanya Pettiford-Wates. The call sign "Foe Hammer" is list of Marathon references in Halo|a reference to the fourteenth level of ''Marathon|Marathon Infinity''. In turn, the level's name is a reference to Glamdring, Wikipedia:Gandalf|Gandalf's sword in the Middle-earth legendarium, which translated into English means "Foe-hammer". Foe Hammer is also the name of the dragon-slaying arrow in Stephen King's book ''The Eyes of the Dragon''. Foe Hammer is addressed by Cortana as a lieutenant in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', though she was actually a captain. However, it is possible that Cortana was addressing Lieutenant Frye, though this is unlikely, as Foe Hammer was the senior officer on board, and was thus in charge of ''Echo 419''. In the original ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', "Foe Hammer" is an unseen character, as she never leaves the cockpit of ''Echo 419'', which has an opaque windshield. However, the Pelicans in the remake, ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|Halo: Anniversary'', have transparent windshields, and Carol Rawley is depicted using the model of a generic Caucasian dropship pilot, likely taken from the one piloting the Bumblebee escape pod in the cutscene at the end of ''The Pillar of Autumn''.
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List of appearances
''Halo: Combat Evolved''
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: First Strike''
''Halo Graphic Novel''
*''The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor''
''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''
''Halo Infinite: Memory Agent''
Notes
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This is a collection of quotes by Carol Rawley, the pilot of Echo 419 in game.
Quotes
"This is D77-TC Pelican|Pelican Echo 419. Anybody readin' me? Repeat. Any United Nations Space Command|UNSC personnel, respond." - In the level Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|Halo, after defeating the Covenant Empire|Covenant attacking the first group of human survivors.
"Roger, Fire Team Charlie. Good to hear from ya."
"I'm on my way." - When transportation to the Command Shuttle was requested.
"Roger, Cortana. Okay, Charlie Team, M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthog deployed. Saddle up and give 'em hell." - To Cortana, level Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|Halo.
"That's affirmative. Echo 419 staying on station. Foe Hammer out."
"Echo 419 to Cortana, come in." - In the rock - slide crash site.
"Roger, Cortana. On my way. I've spotted additional bumblebee escape pod|lifeboats in your area. One near the cliff edge. And another near the head of the river. Hard to see from my altitude, but it looks like there are more survivors."
"Echo 419 to Cortana. Foe Hammer's on station and ready for another pick-up." - In the river - head crash site.
"Roger that. I'm on my way." - In the cliff - edge crash site, after all the Covenant Empire|Covenant forces are dead.
"Welcome aboard, John-117|Master Chief. Ready for dust-off." - In the end of the level Halo.
"Roger, Cortana, Echo 419 on approach." - The Truth and Reconciliation level, if the reinforcements are needed before engaging the Covenant forces by the Gravity lift|Gravity Lift.
"Copy that, Cortana. Hang tight, gentlemen. Foe Hammer out." - If the reinforcements are needed after defeating the pair of Mgalekgolo|Hunters by the Gravity lift|Gravity Lift.
"Echo 419 inbound, clear the drop zone."
"Foe Hammer here, Cortana ... I read you, but you're inside the ship. I'm not sure I can - " - If the reinforcements are needed after opening the large blast door.
"Roger, Cortana - Echo 419 on approach."
"I copy, Cortana. Echo 419 standing by for your signal." - If the reinforcements are needed after defeating the pair of Mgalekgolo|Hunters in the shuttle bay.
"Roger. Echo 419 inbound." - To Cortana.
"Negative, Cortana, I've been engaged by Covenant air patrols, and I'm havin' a tough time shakin' 'em. You'll be better off findin' your own ride. Sorry." - When Cortana requested for the reinforcements, after Jacob Keyes|Captain Keyes and a few UNSC Marine Corps|Marines were released from the Covenant prison.
"We're approaching the LZ. It's gonna be hot! Get set to come out swinging. Touchdown! Hit it, Marines!" - In the beginning of the level The Silent Cartographer.
"Affirmative. Echo 419 inbound. Somebody order a Warthog?" - When the beach is cleared of hostiles.
"You know 23rd Naval Air Squadron|our motto: We Deliver." - To Waller or random Marine.
"Echo 419 to ground teams. I'll stay on station and keep an eye out for Covenant bogies." - After the Covenant locked the doors leading to the Silent Cartographer.
"Foe Hammer to ground teams, you got two Taaku Xur-pattern Spirit|enemy dropships coming in fast!" - When the John-117|Master Chief was in the Silent Cartographer facility.
"The Captain has dropped out of COM|contact, Cortana. His ship may be out of range or having equipment problems."
"Affirmative. Foe Hammer out." - After the Control Room was found.
"Roger. On my way." - When the Master Chief reached the top side of the Silent Cartographer facility.
"Uh, Cortana...! These coordinates are underground!" - When Cortana gave her the coordinates and flight plan.
"I hope your analysis is on-the-money, Cortana. This Pelican won't turn on a dime."
"This is as far as I can go." - In the beginning of the level Assault on the Control Room.
"Good luck, Foe Hammer out."
"The last transmission from the Captain's dropship was from this area. That was over twelve hours ago. When you locate Captain Keyes, radio in, and I'll come pick you up." - In the beginning of the level 343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark.
"This is Echo 419. Chief, is that you? I lost your signal when you disappeared inside the structure. What's going on down there? I'm tracking movement all over the place!" - Near the top side, level 343 Guilty Spark.
"There's a large tower a few hundred meters from your current position. Find a way above the fog and foliage canopy and I can move in and pick you up." - To the Master Chief and a group of Marines.
"Chief, I've lost your signal! Where'd you go? Chief? Chief!" - When the Master Chief was teleported by 343 Guilty Spark.
"Roger, Cortana. I read you, 5 by 5." - In the elevator, level The Maw, after the UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn's engines were going critical.
"Affirmative. Echo 419 going on station."
"Echo 419 to Cortana. Things are gettin' noisy down there. Everything okay?"
"Affirmative, Cortana. Carol Rawley|Foe Hammer inbound." - When Cortana requested for extraction on the double, level The Maw.
"I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! Airfoil structures have been shot to hell! I can't hold her! I can't hold her!" - After being hit by two Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees. Category:Quotes
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File:Reach Bombing Run.jpg|thumb|300px|A squadron of Longswords carpet bomb a formation of Covenant Scarabs during the Fall of Reach. Carpet bombing is a form of aerial warfare, utilizing large numbers of unguided bombs, to attempt the complete destruction of a target region, either to destroy personnel and material, or as a means of demoralizing the enemy.
Background The UNSC have utilised carpet bombing several times throughout the course of the Human-Covenant War. B-65 Shortsword bombers were utilised in 2531 to deliver munitions on concentrations of Covenant forces during the Harvest campaign, Battle for Arcadia and Battle of Trove.Halo Wars In 2552, GA-TL1 Longswords were utilised in the Battle at Szurdok Ridge to carpet bomb a formation of Deutoros-pattern Scarab|Scarabs, following the destruction of anti-air defenses by NOBLE Team.Halo: Reach, campaign level Tip of the Spear In 2559, the utilised its complement of Archer missiles and other unguided munitions during the Second Ark Conflict.Halo Wars 2
Gameplay
File:HWA EarlyCarpetBomb.jpg|thumb|200px|The Shortsword's ordnance explode on Covenant Empire|Covenant forces in an early build of ''Halo Wars''. In ''Halo Wars'', the player can call in a B-65 Shortsword|Shortsword bomber from the , which swoops across the battlefield and drops bombs. The player can orient the direction of the bombing run by rotating the left thumbstick. The bombs detonate a short time after impact with the ground. This ability requires Tech Level of one and costs 600 Resources|resource points.
In skirmish and multiplayer, the carpet bombing ability can only be used by Sergeant John Forge. The ability can be upgraded up three times inside a UNSC Field Armory|Field Armory, to cover more ground and to deal more damage. This power is very effective against all ground units and buildings, and can also damage air units. However, a disadvantage is that the carpet bombing ability can damage allied units as well as enemies.
File:HW2 Blitz Scatter Bomb.png|thumb|The Scatter Bomb Blitz art. In ''Halo Wars 2'', the carpet bomb has been largely replaced by an Orbital bombardment|orbital strike of Archer Missiles, available to Cutter. Similarly, Forge now has an ability called the "Scatter Bomb", that drops unguided munitions in a single area. Unlike its predecessor, neither ability in ''Halo Wars 2'' utilises the Shortsword bomber.
Scatter Bomb I: Drops a scattered salvo of bombs. Population Cost: N/A Supply Cost: 350
Power Cost: 275
Cooldown: 165 seconds Scatter Bomb II: Increases damage and number of bombs fired by Scatter Bomb Population Cost: N/A Supply Cost: 450
Power Cost: 450
Cooldown: 165 seconds
Gallery
File:HWA_EarlyCarpetBombHUD.jpg|The direction of the carpet bomb can be manipulated by the player. File:HWA_EarlyCarpetBombSelection.jpg|The carpet bombing ability in the circle menu. File:HW10.jpg|A Shortsword bomber after completing a carpet bombing run. File:HW_AlphaBaseBattle.jpg|A Shortsword initiates a carpet bombing run inside the grounds of Alpha Base (Harvest)|Alpha Base. File:HW AlphaBaseCarpetBomb.jpg|A Carpet Bomb's detonation inside Alpha Base. File:HW_ShortswordBombingRun.png|A Shortsword initiating a bombing run. File:HW_CarpetBomb_Begins.png|The deployed bombs begin to explode. File:HW_CarpetBomb_Ends.png|The bombing run finishes its destruction. File:HW2_AimingScatterBomb.png|Aiming the Scatter Bomb in ''Halo Wars 2''. File:HW2_ScatterBomb.png|The Scatter Bomb unleashes destruction on a Banished force.
List of appearances
''Halo: First Strike''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo Wars 2''
Sources
Category:Bombs Category:UNSC air weapons Category:Military tactics
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Carrera Squad is a squad of UNSC Marines who fought in the Battle for Zeta Halo.
History Around the time Master Chief Petty Officer|Master Chief John-117 arrived on the fragmented section of Zeta Halo, the Banished captured Carrera Squad and tied them to a plasma gyve. After the Chief Recovery|recaptured FOB Golf, the SPARTAN-II program|Spartan's Artificial intelligence|AI companion, The Weapon, picked up Carrera's distress beacon|distress call, prompting the Chief to rescue the marines.
In-game information In ''Halo Infinite'', Carrera Squad is found in the "Lockdown" section of the campaign. Answering their distress call earns the player 30 Valor points. This valor is awarded even if all members of Carrera Squad are killed.
List of appearances
''Halo Infinite''
Category:UNSC Marine Corps squads
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Carrie Korpijaakko was the wife of Esko Korpijaakko. She was also the recipient of his Conversations from the Universe#Letter from Coral|letter in ''Conversations from the Universe'' in 2552. They have only one son, named Oscar Korpijaakko.Conversations from the Universe
List of appearances
''Halo 2''
*''Conversations from the Universe''
Sources
Category:Human civilians|Korpijaakko, Carrie Category:Human characters
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Carrier Kill Assist is a medal in ''Halo 4''. It is earned by assisting in killing an enemy player that is holding the ball in any Oddball game-type.
Category:Halo 4 multiplayer medals
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File:H4-Carrier.png|right|100px The Carrier medal is a ''Halo 4'' multiplayer medal exclusive to the Flood (gametype)|Flood gametype. It is awarded for killing three SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartans in a row as a Flood without dying. The name is a reference to the Flood carrier form, the Flood form used to store and spread Pod infectors.
Sources
Category:Halo 4 multiplayer medals
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Carrier-of-Immunity (more commonly known as Carrier) was a third-form Lifeworker who took part in the Conservation Measure.Halo: Silentium, ''pages 19-20''
Biography During the evacuation of Erde-Tyrene in the final years of the Forerunner-Flood war, Carrier was the chief Lifeworker on the planet. He, along with two other Lifeworkers and Catalog, oversaw the mass evacuation of an African plain. During the evacuation, he received a signal from his ship informing him that the Librarian was in the system, and he was given orders to take Catalog to her ship. Another Lifeworker, Celebrator-of-Birth, asked if they were going to meet her. Carrier said they would not, as the human community of Marontik had not yet been processed. Carrier then escorted Catalog to the Lifeshaper's ship aboard the Lifeworkers' seeker (vehicle)|seeker transport. Catalog remained silent during the journey, as it saw no benefit in discussing matters with the Lifeworker due to his limited power and culpability. Immediately upon arrival aboard the Librarian's vessel, Carrier left Catalog and returned to Erde-Tyrene.
List of appearances
''Halo: Silentium''
Sources
Category:Forerunner characters Category:Lifeworkers
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File:Assault Carrier 2.jpg|250px|thumb|A Covenant assault carrier. A carrier is a general ship classification, with warships of different sub-classifications within the United Nations Space Command|UNSC and Covenant fleets. Such a vessel is formally defined as ''"a large warship carrying fighters equipped with flight decks for takeoffs and landings"''. There are multiple classes of carrier within this general designation. The term "carrier" is not limited to starships, as there are still Crassus-class supercarrier|seaborne carriers in service with humanity.''Halo 3'', multiplayer level, Longshore
Overview Typically the size of cruisers or larger, the general combat role of a carrier in combat is analogous to that of a seaborne Wikipedia:Crassus-class supercarrier|aircraft carrier; to deploy starfighters, such as Type-31 Seraph|Seraphs or GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords.''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)'', p. 249 Aside their fighter complements, carriers also possess weapons themselves, to protect themselves in combat when their fighters are unable to defend them. In planetary occupation missions, carriers are mobile deployers of ground forces to subjugate an enemy planet, launching dropships and top-cover fighters.''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe'', p. 277
The navies of the UNSC and the Covenant have different classifications of carriers. For example, Covenant s are on the scale of five kilometers long while s can have a length of around 29 kilometers,''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 111 giving a scale of the keel length of carrier-type warships. In the Covenant, carriers typically serve as the flagship of a fleet, while in the UNSC, the role is more commonlythough not invariablyfilled by cruisers.''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe'', p. 276 However, supercarriers still form the core of major expeditionary fleets, with carriers filling a similar role for smaller battle groups and defensive fleets.''Halo: Warfleet An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo|Halo: Warfleet'' - p. 40 In the Covenant fleet, the heavy-tonnage carrier classes ''DDS'', ''CAS'', and ''CSO'' are all classified as part of a "supercarrier" category distinct from lighter carrier vessels that fulfill support roles.
The Covenant are known to possess unidentified light carrier classes.
Types
UNSC
- A type of light carrier.
File:H4-Poseidon.png|A ''Poseidon''-class carrier
- A larger carrier that featured factories and chemical processors that allowed for the production of fuel, spare parts and sometimes full combat vehicles.
File:Halo Fleet Battles - Orion class.jpg|An ''Orion''-class carrier
- The heaviest carrier class behind the supercarriers.
File:Enc22 SoTP Epoch.png|An ''Epoch''-class carrier
- A super massive carrier. It was able to mount Frigates and Destroyers in ventral bays.
File:Enc22 SoTP Punic.png|A ''Punic''-class carrier
- The largest UNSC carrier to date.
File:H4-UNSCInfinity-Starship-Side.png|The , an ''Infinity''-class supercarrier
- A large carrier, usually deployed during invasions of strategic worlds.''Data Drop/Four|Data Drop #4''
File:H3 Assault Carrier render.png|A ''CAS''-class carrier
- A carrier class that served as a force deployment and occupation vessel.''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 28
- The largest type of vessel seen during the Human-Covenant War.''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 111
File:HReach-CovenantSupercarrier-LNoS.png|The ''Long Night of Solace'', a ''CSO''-class supercarrier.
Related vehicles
- Traditionally a cruiser, rarely deployed in a configuration that is equal to a light carrier.''Halo: Fleet Battles'', Core Rulebook - p. 125
- Modified ''Phoenix''-class colony ships are re-designated as ''Phoenix''-class carriers.
- A tithe ship, described as a carrier.''Halo Mythos'', p. 195
- Not described as a carrier, but could carry thousands of swift attack craft.''Halo: Cryptum'', p. 312-313
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Carris-137, born Carris R. Pernault, is a SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II supersoldier.Dr. Halsey's personal journal Her former civilian identification number was 65841-100-LR0200.
Biography
Carris-137 was born on 2510|December 15, 2510 in Irbid, Tribute. At some point in her childhood, she was removed from her Phys Ed class by her principal, after she injured, even hospitalized, some of her classmates. Her principal stated that Carris seemed unaware of her own strength. She was abducted in 2517 along with the other SPARTAN-IIs.
In 2520, when a handler attempted to pin her, she reversed the pin, throwing the man and severing his fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae. This killed the trainer instantly. She was later seen crying outside her barracks. Dr. Catherine Halsey and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez decided not to take disciplinary action. After the handler's funeral, Mendez spoke with her about the incident.
Gallery
File:Carris_Record_1.jpg|Carris-137's candidate record, page 1/2. File:Carris_Record_2.jpg|Carris-137's candidate record, page 2/2. File:HJ 137 by Halsey.png|Carris alone atop one of the Pillars of Loki after accidentally killing one of her trainers, as drawn by Dr. Halsey.
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
Sources
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*''Unwavering Discipline''
Two s Two Covenant frigates
*''Vengeful Deed''
*''Retribution's Promise''
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The Carrow Conflict was a conflict that erupted on the former Outer Colony of Carrow that was part-Sangheili civil war part-invasion by the Jiralhanae Chieftain Hekabe who was seeking the Sharquoi hive beneath the human city of Suraka.
Prelude During the Battle of Installation 00, Hekabe led a complement of warriors deep into the bowels of the Ark, recovering the vertex. He then spent six years decoding the forerunner text on the device, eventually finding the coordinates of the Sharquoi hive on Carrow.
After the conclusion of the Human-Covenant War, both Human and Sangheili colonists settled on the planet of Carrow as a part of the Joint Occupation Zone system between the United Nations Space Command and the Swords of Sanghelios. The humans were the former residents of the planet and settled in the abandoned city of Suraka, while the Sangheili were the refugees of the planet of Glyke and founded the city of Rak. Sometime after this, the Office of Naval Intelligence became aware of the Sharquoi hive underneath Suraka, so they built Gila Station in the Uldt Desert and stationed Commander Greg van Eekhout to monitor the situation. The Sangheili began clashing with human settlers in the Uldt Desert around various oases, making conflict seem inevitable. Around this time, a Sangheili sect that opposed the Kaidon Rojka 'Kasaan and the humans on the planet arose in Rak, led by Thars 'Sarov. In an attempt to stave off a war, a peace summit was arranged between the Kaidon of Rak, the Governor of Suraka, and a Unified Earth Government delegate. As such, Rojka received UEG envoy Melody Azikiwe prior to the date of the summit.
Sometime prior to the onset of the Carrow Conflict, Rojka retrieved the Cryo chambers containing the members of Gray Team from the debris field of Glyke.
Battle During his rebellion against his cousin Rojka 'Kasaan on Carrow, Thars 'Sarov made a deal with Hekabe for his help in the Carrow Conflict. However, this proved to be a grave mistake as Hekabe's real plan was to gain access to the Sharquoi hive beneath the city of Suraka and use the hundreds of thousands of creatures held there to destroy his enemies. During the beginning of the Great Schism, Hekabe had used the power the Jiralhanae had been granted by the High Prophets to find the ''vertex'' on Installation 00 during the battle there, the ''vertex'' being the device that would allow him to control the Sharquoi. During the battle, Hekabe's fleet was destroyed by the Surakan Militia Volunteers, including his flagship the ''Foebane'', but Hekabe was undaunted. With the help of SPARTAN-II Gray Team, Thars was killed by Rojka while Hekabe's plot was defeated. Hekabe was killed by Sharquoi under the control of human governor Ellis Gass who then destroyed the Sharquoi hive and all of the Sharquoi on Carrow with a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon.
Aftermath In the aftermath of the Carrow Conflict, the Surakan and Sangheili presence on Carrow was weakened due to the conflict. Kaidon Akato 'Dakaj wrested control over Rak from his opponents. He then received Rojka back in the city and delegated him as the Sangheili's representative to Suraka. Lamar Edwards also became the Governor of Suraka after the death of Ellis Gass. Together, these two cities sought to work together in order to survive and thrive on Carrow.
Gray Team and Melody Azikiwe were retrieved by the United Nations Space Command|UNSC and taken aboard the to a hero's welcome. They then had a meeting with Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI Commander Ivrin Yarick, who informed Melody that her time working with ONI had come to an end. He then recruited Gray Team as a part of an interspecies strike team that would operate out of an ONI .
List of appearances
''Halo: Envoy''
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Carrow, referred to by the Sangheili as Rakoi,''Halo: Envoy'', Carrow map is a planet and former human Outer Colonies|Outer human colonies|Colony in a Joint-Occupation Zone. Following the Human-Covenant War, the planet was settled as a Sangheili Sangheili colonies|colony, eventually acting as a home for both humans and Sangheili.
Overview File:Envoy - Carrow map.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A map containing several locations on the Uldt Desert.
Carrow has one main landmass that comprises the majority of its surface. This continent boasts two primary centers of residence: Suraka and Rak, the centers of human and Sangheili governance on the planet, respectively. Between them stretches kilometers of desert. Rak is situated along a hidden river in the midst of this desert. One-hundred and forty kilometers from Rak lies Sandholm, a human settlement. Between them, at seventy kilometers from each, an oasis called Masov Oasis is controlled by Sangheili.
Locations File:Carrow.png|250px|thumb|The desert on Carrow. Uldt Desert
*Suraka
**Wulandari Building
***Surakan Stock Exchange
*Rak
*Masov Oasis
*Sandholm
*Signal Hill
*Karfu Mountains
*Aza Oasis
*Gila Station
*Astlehich River
*Carstolum River
*Fallen Tree
Known residents Ellis Gass Lamar Edwards Greg van Eekhout
History
On Carrow, the Forerunners placed one of their Sharquoi hives, containing hundreds of thousands of the creatures. The hive was buried deep underground and could only be opened using the ''vertex'', a control device for the Sharquoi hidden at Installation 00.
Carrow was originally much lusher and greener than it is now, but some sort of ecological disaster at an unspecified time caused rivers to dry up. Carrow was originally established as an Outer Colony of the Unified Earth Government. Its capital was Suraka, a city which began small in an oasis, though grew larger.
At some point during the war with the Covenant, Carrow emptied of colonists.
In the wake of the Great Schism, Rojka 'Kaasan, a Sangheili, assembled a fleet and fled to Carrow in order to establish a new home. The result was Rak, a city built up along the banks of a hidden river in the desert. The Unified Earth Government permitted the settlement and also facilitated the reclamation of Suraka by new human colonists. Carrow was deemed to belong to a Joint-Occupation Zone. Not long after, a creaky old human ship bearing fiercely independent migrant refugees of the Human-Covenant War set its sights on Carrow, and specifically the region where Rak had been established, since it was known from old records there was a river giving life to the desert there. Upon discovering the territory was already occupied by the Sangheili, and without any hope of getting their ship in the air again, the migrants endeavored to carve out a harsh life one-hundred and forty miles from Rak and called their new settlement Sandholm.
Carrow Conflict
In September of 2558, as the Sangheili Fleetmaster Rojka 'Kasaan negotiated with the humans with the aid of Unified Earth Government|UEG envoy Melody Azikiwe, his cousin Thars 'Sarov launched a coup aided by Jiralhanae led by Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftan Hekabe. In the midst of the civil war, Melody awakened SPARTAN-II Gray Team from their cryo chambers onboard Rojka's flagship the ''Unwavering Discipline'' where they had been held since Rojka recovered the Spartans from the remains of Glyke. Recovering Whiskey Tango Foxtrot One|their old lifeboat, Gray Team escaped to the surface of Carrow with Melody and made for Gila Station, a secret ONI outpost on the planet while Rojka, having all but lost the battle, gave chase, ultimately crashing ''Unwavering Discipline'' in the Karfu Mountains.
Shortly afterwards, Hekabe betrayed Thars, destroying or disabling all of his ships while leading an attack on the human settlement of Suraka though Hekabe's fleet suffered heavy casualties in the process as well. In reality, Hekabe's purpose on the planet was to access the Sharquoi Sharquoi hive|hive beneath Suraka and use the beasts as an army to crush his enemies and take over the galaxy. Having recovered the ''vertex'' during the Battle of Installation 00, it had taken six years for Hekabe to decipher it and locate the hive on Carrow. Under the command of Governor Ellis Gass, the Surakan Militia Volunteers managed to Operation: BUZZHAWK|destroy Hekabe's flagship, the ''Foebane''. Undaunted, Hekabe unleashed the Sharquoi upon the humans, who fled to the planet's oases while Hekabe's forces captured Thars' repaired vessels to leave the planet.
After a failed attempt to stop Hekabe from taking control of Thars' ships, Thars was killed by Rojka with the help of Gray Team, Melody and a few surviving Sangheili loyal to Rojka. To stop Hekabe, Ellis, a militia squad, Gray Team, Melody and Rojka teamed up together to Battle of the Sharquoi Hive|assault the Sharquoi hive, Surakan engineers having created a makeshift EMP cannon that they believed would disrupt Hekabe's control of the ''vertex''. Though they lost the militia members, the EMP worked long enough for Ellis to remove the ''vertex'' and take control of the Sharquoi for herself. Ellis had the Sharquoi kill Hekabe and destroy his captured ships, ending Hekabe's plan. Summoning all the Sharquoi back into the hive, Ellis allowed Gray Team and Rojka to flee in a Pelican dropship while she detonated a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon in the hive, destroying it and the hundreds of thousands of Sharquoi within it, but also causing damage to Suraka from the shockwave.
Following the defeat of Hekabe, Thars 'Sarov and the Sharquoi, Carrow was left without any sort of a defensive fleet and with both the humans and the Sangheili having suffered heavy casualties. Akato 'Dakaj took control of Rak, but recognized that they were left in a situation where both the humans and the Sangheili would need each to survive. Rojka 'Kasaan agreed to act as an envoy to the humans on Carrow, helping to forge a peaceful coexistence between the two sides.
Upon arriving at the planet, the UNSC frigate scanned the location of the former Sharquoi hive and determined that all the Sharquoi appeared to have been killed in the nuclear blast. However, the UNSC intended to keep an eye on the desert in case any Sharquoi escaped before the HAVOK detonated.
Gallery
File:Envoy - textless map.png|Uldt Desert without text on it.
List of appearances
''Halo: Fractures''
*''Oasis''
''Halo: Envoy''
Sources
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Carry On is a ''Halo Infinite'' trailer released on November 28, 2021, as a continuation of the events depicted in ''Forever We Fight'' trailer which was released at the same time. ''Carry On'' depicts John-117 fighting Banished Jiralhanae on Installation 07.
Transcript
''The trailer opens to John-117 on Installation 07, who turns to observe a battle in a canyon. Cut to John running past explosions to approaching a pair of Jiralhanae. He knocks the Flaktura Workshop Skewer off the first Jiralhanae, dodging a swing from the Jiralhanae's retaliation. He melees the second Jiralhanae his MA40 assault rifle, and snatches the Type-2 spike grenade from the Jiralhanae's thigh holster. John sticks the grenade on the first Jiralhanae, and ducks just as the second Jiralhanae approached his back. The grenade goes off, killing both Jiralhanae.''
''John turns, firing two bursts from his rifle at another Jiralhanae, then runs on top of his foe, firing his rifle left and right at two enemies offscreen. He lands on the ground with a roll and reloads. Tovarus suddenly appears and kicks the Spartan, sending John tumbling away from the Jiralhanae.''
''Cut to Tovarus snarling at John. He leaps for an attack with his gravity hammer. While Tovarus is still in mid-air, John, still on the ground, fires his Grappleshot and pulls the hammer from Tovarus. The Jiralhanae lands next to John, who swings with the hammer. The Jiralhanae raises his fist for a punch. Scene slows down and cuts away just before the impact.''
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The Carson system is a human-controlled planetary system. The system is home to the UEG Human colonies|colony world of Dryad.
Overview
Dryad - Human colony established in 2377 and left unscathed during the Human-Covenant War.
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Carson was a D77-TC Pelican|Pelican pilot who served during the Human-Covenant War.
Summary In 2535|2535, she was assigned to the UNSC light frigate|UNSC Light Frigate when it journeyed to Charybdis IX. After the Scyllion Warehouse District Riot, she picked up the survivors of the battle, which included Corinthia Hansen, Jacob Keyes, and Faison.
Shortly after evacuating the survivors, a Covenant Empire|Covenant fleet arrived and Battle of Charybdis IX|attacked the defenses around Charybdis IX. On Hansen's orders, Carson brought her to the orbital platform above Charybdis IX before bringing the other survivors back to the ''Midsummer Night'', where they witnessed the glassing of Charybdis IX.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''pages 135-138''
List of appearances
''Halo: The Cole Protocol''
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File:Envoy - Carrow map.jpg|thumb|200px|The dry bed of the river can be seen in the eastern part of the desert. The Carstolum River was a river on the planet, Carrow.
Overview The Carstolum River once flowed southward for hundreds of kilometers through the Uldt Desert on Carrow, beginning in the Karfu Mountains to its north. At some point, it dried up, leaving only a dry bed. Gila Station was built near its headwaters.''Halo: Envoy'' Carrow map
List of appearances
''Halo: Envoy''
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The Cart or Electric Cart is a small human Ground vehicle|ground vehicle first introduced in ''Halo 3'' as a static prop, and later made driveable in ''Halo: Reach''.
Universe and lore The cart is a small civilian Civilian vehicles|vehicle that can move small trailers. It was prominently used in the Traxus Heavy Industries|Traxus Traxus Factory Complex 09|Factory Complex 09.
A different four-wheeled cart model was used by the Office of Naval Intelligence at SWORD Base on planet Reach. It had Tiger Grip wheels.
File:H3-Cart.png|Unidentified six-wheel cart''Halo 3''
File:HReach-Cart.png|Unidentified four-wheel cart''Halo: Reach''
Overview The cart resembles a luggage transport at an airport, having a yellow color scheme and sometimes being seen attached to trailers. It is mainly flat, with small railings on top.
There aren't vehicles directly analogous to the Cart. However, the Mongoose is similar in terms of size.
File:H5G - M290 Mongoose.png|Mongoose''Halo 3'', ''Halo 3: ODST'', ''Halo: Reach'', ''Halo 4'', ''Halo 2: Anniversary'', ''Halo 5: Guardians'' and ''Halo Online''
Gameplay The four-wheeled cart is a slow moving, single seater. It has no horn does make a beeping sound in reverse. During multiplayer activies, players can stand on the cart without being killed at full speed.
In ''Halo 3'', the six-wheeled cart is a static object seen in some levels like Floodgate.
The four-wheeled cart is drivable in ''Halo: Reach'' and can be found during the level ONI: Sword Base, early on. It can only be used in the courtyard, and cannot be taken to the next area. However, at the end of the mission, the cart can be taken into the base. Like all other civilian vehicles in ''Reach'', the cart is weaponless and is mainly there as a novelty.
At full speed the Cart is capable of splattering enemies in Easy and Normal modes, however, only Unggoy|Grunts can be killed with it. A Kig-Yar|Jackal or an Sangheili|Elite will merely be damaged. This is not possible on Heroic or Legendary. Splattering an enemy will unlock the achievement Workers' Compensation.
In the ''Halo: Reach'' component of ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', the four-wheeled cart can be Forge objects in Halo: Reach/Vehicles|spawned. It is located under the "Vehicles (MCC)" tab on Tempest and Forge World. It cannot be colored.
The six-wheeled cart can be Forge objects in Halo 3/Scenery|spawned in the Forge of the ''Halo 3'' component of the ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. Specifically on the map Waterfall, added in Series 6: Raven. It is located under the "Scenery" tab.
The driver won't be killed or ejected if the cart is destroyed. An effective way to transport encumbered teammates, such as those carrying turrets or the invasion core. Can haul forge objects with physical properties, as long as the said object is light enough. This includes other light vehicles, ammo cabinets, barricades, and health packs.
Weaponless. Slow. Driving in reverse is even slower and causes the vehicle to emit a loud beeping noise. Due to a bug, standing on the cart while it moves will sometimes damage the player.
Gallery
File:Halo3 123699410 Full.jpg|Rear view of the cart from ''Halo 3''. File:Halo3 123699411 Full.jpg|Front view of the cart from ''Halo 3''. File:Halo3 123699415 Full.jpg|Side view of the cart from ''Halo 3''. File:HR_Cart_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the cart for ''Halo: Reach''. File:Cart highpoly.jpg|A high-poly render of the cart for ''Halo: Reach''. File:Cart lowpoly.jpg|A low-poly render of the cart for ''Halo: Reach''. File:Halo Reach - Cart.jpg|The cart in ''Halo: Reach'', in-game.
List of appearances
''Halo 3''
''Halo: Reach''
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File:PL Atriox.png|thumb|300px|Atriox engages ODSTs in the armory.
Carter Guard Armory was an armory of the United Nations Space Command. In early 2550#January|January 2550, the armory was raided by the Banished, led by Atriox. The Banished killed Carter Guard Armory's entire garrison and stole all of its equipment. FootageHelmet recorder|recorded by Sergeant B. Wrightof the slaughter of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers stationed there offered the Office of Naval Intelligence its first introduction to Atriox and the Banished.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars 2''
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Commander (UNSC)|Commander Carter-A259 was a SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III commando of the UNSC Navy|UNSC Naval UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command, attached to the UNSC Army's Special Warfare Command|Special Warfare Special Warfare Group Three|Group Three. Carter was the leader of NOBLE Team, an elite team of Spartans who fought during the Fall of Reach. His call sign in the team was Noble One.
Biography
File:Birth of a Spartan - Carter.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A 16-year-old Carter immediately prior to undergoing Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentation on the UNSC Hopeful. Carter was born in Durban, Biko on August 27, 2520. His parents were killed when Biko was Battle of Biko|attacked and Glassing|glassed by the Covenant in 2526, though he survived the planet's fall. Before he could join the rest of the planet's refugee program, Carter was conscripted into the Spartan-III program's SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company in 2532. From early on, he stood out from the rest of the group, and Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose and Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, taking note of his exceptional skill, deemed him too valuable to be wasted on suicide missions. Upon his graduation in 2536, Carter was assigned to lead a special fireteam composed of Spartans similarly extracted from Alpha Company's mainline population. Carter's team was subsequently transferred under the operational authority of Unified Ground Command (UNICOM) as part of an arrangement to secure the UNSC Army's support for the SPARTAN-III program within UNSC High Command (HIGHCOM).
Carter's leadership skills in and out of combat throughout his military career eventually earned him the rank of Commander in the UNSC Navy, becoming one of the few highly ranked Spartans to serve in the field. Later, after the special forces unit Noble Team was formed, Carter became the leader of the team, which then consisted of Catherine-B320 and several other Spartans. Eventually however only Kat and Carter would survive as the remaining members of the original team by 2552, and Carter was given a lot of freedom in selecting replacement personnel by his superiors due to his ability to build tight-knit teams.
File:CarterFumirole.png|thumb|left|150px|Carter assassinates a Sangheili Ultra during the Battle of Fumirole. Carter and the rest of Noble Team were present during the Defense of Concord on 2551|December 2551. During Operation: OFFSET EYE, Carter remained back in the village of Skathi in the Hinterlands region of the planet to direct the local planetary militias in the town's defence while a small force consisting of Kat-B320, Rosenda-A344, and Thom-A293 advanced forward to tackle the approaching Covenant armoured column head-on; eliminating a in the process. Upon the trio's return to Skathi, Carter, Jorge-052, and Emile-A239 had assisted in fending off Covenant attacks on the town, at which point Carter recieved new orders from Colonel Urban Holland. The Covenant were amassing a strike force close to Fumirole, and the team (sans Rosenda) were to be redeployed to the planet to prepare a defence.
During the Battle of Fumirole on April 22, 2552, Carter led Noble Team in an operation put together by Kat to destroy the , ''Sanctity of Purification'', maintaining position above the planet's capital city. The operation was successful, but at the cost of Thom-A293.
Both Carter and Kat took responsibility over the death of Thom, unable to admit that the death of the SPARTAN was his own decision. Thom was replaced on Noble Team by SPARTAN-B312 a few months later, just prior to the Fall of Reach.
Throughout the course of the Fall of Reach, Carter led Noble Team in multiple operations against Covenant forces, such as the investigation of a communications blackout at the Visegrad Relay, a mission which led to the first confrontation with Covenant forces on the planet, the counter-offensive operation on Sword Base, and a large-scale UNSC assault on a Covenant-occupied site and the neutralization of a Spire One|Covenant tower.
The destruction of the by the Covenant ''Long Night of Solace'' after the Battle at Szurdok Ridge|Battle of Viery prompted Carter and Kat to review the situation. Recognizing the presence of the supercarrier as a large threat, Noble Team decided to utilize a FSS-1000 Sabre|"non-existent" space vessel and launch a Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine#Weaponized uses|makeshift slipspace bomb at the Covenant vessel. Carter, along with Kat-B320, Jorge-052 and SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six, helped UNSC ground forces repel Covenant invaders from a UNSC base, which housed the Sabre Program Launch/Research Range|Sabre launch facility. Noble Team was separated at this point, with Jorge and Six participating in Operation: UPPER CUT with the rest focusing on the groundside.
On August 23, Carter and the remaining members of Noble Team assisted the UNSC in protecting the planet's civilian population from the Covenant. They reunited with Noble Six in New Alexandria and helped in the neutralization of Covenant communications jammer|Covenant jammers and evacuation of ONI personnel from the Olympic Tower|ONI HQ. Not too long after, Noble Team was hailed by its Urban Holland|commanding officer and was ordered to destroy Sword Base. The team was forced to enter a radiation bunker to shield themselves from the Covenant's glassing of New Alexandria. However, Kat was killed en route to the bunker by a Covenant sniper.
File:Carter Death.jpg|250px|thumb|Carter rams his Pelican into a Scarab. Carter, along with the remaining members of Noble Team, proceeded to Sword Base and fought their way into the facility, only to have their directives revised by an unknown UNSC AI. In the facility, they encountered Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey once more. Noble Six was urged by the science officer to become the courier of Cortana|a package and to deliver it safely to the . Using Pelicans as their mode of transportation, Noble Team was split into two; Jun-A266 escorted Dr. Halsey to CASTLE Base while the others headed for the ''Autumn''.
Sometime during the transport of the package to the Autumn, Carter was gravely injured in the Pelican. Knowing that the delivery of the package was of the highest priority, he ordered Noble Six and Emile-A239 to drop out of the Pelican and proceed by ground while he diverted the Covenant aerial forces' attention. During the journey groundside, the two SPARTANs encountered a Scarab blocking their path. Carter, still in the Pelican, sacrificed his life by ramming into the behemoth, allowing the two SPARTANs to accomplish their objective.
Traits and personality File:HR RelayTension.jpg|thumb|250px|Carter steps in and intervenes when tension rises between his Spartans.
Carter is described as charismatic and reassuring, as well as a born leader, inspiring confidence in those under his command. He is said to be cool under pressure, with laser-like focus, even while maintaining adaptability and flexibility. Carter is also noted as being capable of interacting with non-SPARTAN personnel effectively and efficiently with low-to-no expected stress issues, and was said to be at his best while building a team. As a result, he was given considerable freedom by his superiors in picking replacement personnel for his team; an exception to this was when Colonel Holland personally selected SPARTAN-B312 as a replacement for Thom-A293 after the latter's death in the Battle of Fumirole.
As team commander, knows the challenge of losing members of his command, but a master of building tight-nit teams. However, he was said to have "minor trust issues" due to the death of Thom-A293 under his command; Carter attributed S-A293's death to his own "inadequate team preparation" while it was evidently due to enemy action or Thom-A293's own lapse in situational awareness. Carrying the guilt over Thom's death may have also been the source of Carter's hesitation to commit to one of the replacements. Despite this, Carter grew to trust Noble Six and even informed his subordinate that Cortana had made the right choice by picking him.
Equipment Carter wore a B-class Mjolnir|Mark V[B] armor with a COMMANDO-class Mjolnir|Commando helmet (equipped with a Hardened Uplink|HUL[3] attachment) and an Armor accessories/Assault|Assault/Commando chest piece. He wore a Commando shoulder piece for his left shoulder and a Mk. V shoulder piece for his right shoulder. Carter also had a Armor accessories/Tactical|Tactical/TACPAD wrist piece on his left wrist and FJ/PARA attachments|FJ/PARA knees guards. He tends to favor the M392 DMR or the MA37 assault rifle as his main weapons and is sometimes seen carrying a M6G magnum as a sidearm.
In the Post-Covenant War conflicts|post-war era, Carter's armour configuration was revived by Chalybs Defense Solutions for integration with MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|MJOLNIR GEN2 as the NOBLE-class Mjolnir suite - named in reference to NOBLE Team.
In-game information
Carter can be Armor customization (Halo: Reach)|unlocked as a custom voice for use in the Firefight (Halo: Reach)|Firefight component of ''Halo: Reach'' multiplayer. In ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', he can be unlocked as part of the Series 1: Noble progression track. Carter's helmet was additionally made available as an Avatar (Xbox Live)|avatar award on the Xbox 360, unlocked by finishing a campaign mission on Legendary difficulty without dying.
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A Carter-themed armour kit is available for Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|unlock as part of Season 01: Heroes of Reach, in ''Halo Infinite'' multiplayer.
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| |align="center"|File:HINF Carter-A259 Armor Kit Icon.png|75pxCarter-A259 Kit
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|Season 01: Heroes of Reach Battle Pass level 20
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|Commando - HUL[3]/BNR/COURIER PEARL
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Production notes File:Kat in RealLife.jpg|thumb|x250px|Kat as depicted by Jordan Konkel at PAX. As shown in an early production note at PAX 2010, Kat was originally intended to have been born in 2529 and to have been a member of SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company. In this version of the story, she and Carter were the last remaining members of a SPARTAN-III team known as "Blue Team", (not to be confused with the Blue Team|SPARTAN-II unit). This is apparent in the similar coloration of their armor in early concept art. During the event, model and ''Halo'' fan Jordan Konkel was hired by 343 Industries to attend suited in a cosplay recreation of Kat's armour.
In the ''Halo: Reach Legendary Edition'' developer commentary, Lee Wilson jokes that Carter was upset by Kat's death because ''"She was cute."'' Martin O'Donnell responds, ''"We know there was some relationship between Carter and Kat at some point."''
In the final release of ''Halo: Reach'', Carter was voiced by .
Trivia
As a Commander, Carter was one of the highest-ranked SPARTANs. Carter's date of birth made him one of the oldest SPARTAN-IIIs. The majority of the trainees for Alpha Company were four, five, and six years old when the project began in 2531; Carter would have been eleven at that time, making him nearly as old when he was conscripted as most other Alpha Company members were when they graduated from the program. Given his rather extreme deviation from the otherwise consistent age range as well as the risk of complications in the Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentation procedures for those outside the ideal age group, it is possible that Carter had spent considerable time in Cryo chamber|cryosleep prior to his induction to the program; as individuals effectively do not age in cryo, Carter's biological age may have been closer to the SPARTAN-III standard than his chronological age. In the Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer|''Halo: Reach Video Games Awards'' trailer, Carter had a shaved head and a lighter skin tone. In the final version of the game, his hair is styled in a high-and-tight cut and his skin is noticeably darker. Carter is the only member of Noble Team who does not work as part of a duo with Noble Six at some point in the Campaign. Carter's SPARTAN tag, A259, may be a reference to the element Wikipedia:Nobelium|Nobelium. Nobelium has a standard atomic mass of 259 and is linguistically similar to Noble.
Gallery
File:HR_CarterFace_Concept.png|Early concept art of Carter's face for ''Halo: Reach''. File:HR_CommandoHelmet_Concept_1.jpg|Concept art of Carter's Commando helmet. File:HR_Carter-A259_Concept.png|Concept art of Carter-A259. File:2Nobles.jpg|Carter with SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six and Jun-A266 onboard a UH-144 Falcon|Falcon on the EDGE Magazine cover for ''Halo: Reach''. File:Carter-A259.png|An older render of Carter-A259 from the ''Video Games Awards'' trailer. File:HLC Leadership.jpg|Carter-A259 on the ''Halo Legendary Crate'' #13 poster.
File:Birth of a Spartan - Carter.jpg|Carter at age sixteen in ''Birth of a Spartan''. File:BirthOfASpartan - Carter Parents.png|Carter looking at a Holo-still|Holo-Still of his parents before undergoing the augmentation. File:BirthOfASpartan - AugmentationCarter.png|Carter after Project CHRYSANTHEMUM. File:BirthOfASpartan - Destiny.png|Carter facing a prototype of his MJOLNIR armor. File:Carter2.jpg|Carter from Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise|A Spartan Will Rise ViDoc. File:Carter.png|Carter in his MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor|MJOLNIR armor. File:HReach - A259.png|Another view of Carter. File:HR Carter A259.png|Carter in his COMMANDO-class Mjolnir File:REACHcartercorvette.PNG|Carter in a Falcon, looking at a Covenant corvette.
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach announcement trailer''
''Remember Reach''
*''Birth of a Spartan''
*''Deliver Hope''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo: Ground Command''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
''Halo Infinite''
''Winter Contention''
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Halo: Reach
"And, now, you're sending Noble Team|us." - To Colonel Urban Holland, who told Carter that all the fire teams he sent to the Visegrad Relay|Visegrad Relay were reported as Missing in action|MIA.
"Anyone claimed responsibility, sir?" - To Colonel Holland, asking who might be responsible for the lost signal.
"Sir. Consider it done." - Carter confirming Holland's order.
"Lieutenant." - To SPARTAN-B312.
"I'm Carter-A259|Carter, Noble Team's leader. That's Kat (Catherine-B320), Noble Two. Emile (Emile-A239) and Jorge (Jorge-052), Four and Five. You're riding with me, Noble Six."
"I'm not gonna lie to you, Lieutenant, you're stepping into some shoes the rest of the squad would rather leave unfilled. Me, I'm just happy to have Noble back up to full strength." - Carter to Noble Six alluding to his/her predecessor (Thom-293)
"Just one thing: I've seen your file, even the parts the Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI censors didn't want me to. I'm glad to have your skill set, but we're a team. That lone wolf stuff stays behind, clear?"
"Listen up, Noble Team. We're looking at a downed relay outpost, 50 klicks from Visegrad|Visegrad. We're gonna introduce ourselves to whoever took it out, and then Kat's gonna get it back online." - Briefing the team on the way to the relay outpost.
"If you've got a chance, maybe you can ask them, Jorge." - When Jorge asks why rebels would cut off Reach with the rest of the colonies.
"Backup channels?" - When Kat informs him that their communication to HQ has been lost.
"You heard her, dead zone confirmed. Command will not be keeping us company this trip." - After Kat informs the backup channels are lost too.
"Shoot down attempts are likely, so keep your distance." - Carter to the pilot of their UH-144 Falcon|Falcon.
"Let's stay focused. Watch your sectors."
"Could be the missing troopers. Let's check it out." - After Kat reports a distress beacon.
"Put us down on the bluff." - Carter to the Falcon pilot.
"Jun, I want your eyes in the sky." - Carter to Jun-A266
"Let's go, Six."
"Alright, Noble Team. Spread out. Watch the approach." - After Noble Team lands.
"Roger that. Eyes peeled!" - After Kat indicates that they are getting close to the distress beacon.
"Make out any ID?" - After Kat finds the beacon.
"Noble Three, can you confirm any ex residue in the area?" - After Noble Team notices there is evidence of a fight but no explosive residue.
"All right, Noble, looks like there's nothing here. Let's move on."
"Circle west and check it out. Noble Team: you have permission to engage, but be selective. They don't need to telegraph our presence." - After Kat informs him she sees smoke at the nearby house.
"Noble Six, move into the house. Go in quiet. I'm right behind you."
"Ask him what they're doing here." - To Jorge after finding a civilian in hiding.
"Some ''thing''?" - After farmer testifies that something killed his son.
"Copy that. Get them back inside." - After Jun reports seeing heat signatures to the east.
"Noble Team, double-timing" - Ordering the team to hurry.
"Damn..." - After finding the dead troopers' bodies.
"We've got military casualties, two of the missing troopers. Looks like they were interrogated... It's messy."
"Movement. Watch your motion trackers." - After enemy appears on the motion tracker.
"Jun, you see anything?" - After the enemy disappears from sensors.
"Noble Two, move up to the west. We're about to be flanked." - After Jun reports heavy movement outside.
"Contact, contact! Spartans, assist!" - After Noble Team spots the Covenant Empire|Covenant outside.
"They're heading into the basement. Move down to the lower levels!"
"Stand down, Noble, stand down. Contacts neutralized." - After the Covenant lances are killed.
"Kat, we've got to warn Holland. I need you at that relay outpost now."
"Copy that, Jun, we're on it. Six, you've got point." - After Jun reports more eastern activity.
"Emile, you're with Kat. Six and I will run interference on the ground. We'll meet you at the outpost."
"Get to work, Noble."
"Looks like we are clear, Lieutenant." - After neutralizing the enemies in the structure.
"Roger, Three. We are en route." - After Jun reports activity to the east of their location.
"Let's move, Six. We've gotta find the source of that distress call." - After Travis reports in with a distress call.
"We don't leave people behind. You see those troopers, you let me know." - After Jun asks why try to pick up the troopers.
"We need to find those troopers now" - After receiving second Mayday call from Travis reporting wounded troopers and inability to hold his position.
"Noble Three, we've located the trooper squad. Request immediate evac. My coordinates."
"Evac transport, keep your distance! Six, hold this position. Clear an LZ." - After Jun reports incoming Taaku Xur-pattern Spirit|dropships.
"We know, Corporal. Let's get you out of here." - After making contact with Travis.
"Transport, LZ is clear. Move in for evac." - After clearing out the LZ.
"Troopers, hop that bird on the double" - When the Falcons arrive for evac.
"Pilot, stay close. Watch for hostile air." - As Carter, Jorge and Six board the Falcon for evac.
"Noble Two, sit-rep." - Carter contacting Kat on her status.
"Can you beat it?" - When Kat reports the door has been locked.
"Okay, we're en route to your location."
"Drop us in the courtyard." - After pilot reports the approach to compound post.
"Put her down, pilot. Six, break's over." - When Falcon pilot protests about courtyard being too hot.
"How are we doing, Kat?" - After landing in the courtyard and engaging the enemy.
"Hold them off until Kat can hack the controls." - To Noble Team after Kat reports she is halfway done.
"Kat?" - When additional Covenant dropships arrive with more enemies.
"Everybody inside! Go, go, go!" - After Kat gets the door open.
"We need to find the control room. From there, Kat can get the relay back online. Emile, post here. If we flush any hostiles, they're yours. All right, let's do this."
"Can't see a thing. Noble Six, turn on your night vision." - If Six has not turned on his night vision.
"Where's the rest of your unit?" - After finding a lone trooper.
"All right, Corporal, stay put. We'll get you a combat surgeon."
"Jorge..." - After Jorge finds Sara Sorvadand she resists him.
"We've been engaged!" - After three Sangheili Zealots rush out.
"Bad guy coming out!"
"Negative Four, stay on the entrance. Two, handle her. Five and Six, clear the hole." - When Emile asks to pursue the Elite heading out.
"Kat needs you to reset a junction. Do it, get back here." - After Jorge reports that the targets have been neutralized.
"How long?" - To Kat on the results of her inspection.
"Two minutes is too long." - When Kat tells him the controls are fried.
"Find out what she knows." - To Jorge regarding Sara.
"Lock it down, both of you! Get her on her feet... the body stays here." - After Jorge and Emile begin an argument.
"I'll take it." - After Kat restores the signal to Holland.
"Colonel, this is Noble One. There are no rebels. The Covenant are on Reach. Acknowledge?" - After reaching Colonel Holland.
"Affirmative. It's the WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY." - After Holland asks if he is sure.
"Roger that. Dot, standby to receive and respond." After being advised to choose a different landing site.
"Alright people, we're stuck with that ship for the time being. Let's focus on the hostile infantry - give those troopers a hand." After Auntie Dot gives Noble Team the mission briefing.
"Kat, Six - you're out here. Jorge, Emile - you're next, get prepped."
"Kat, Six: push back the attack on Sword Base, find out what we're dealing with."
"Noble Strike, this is Noble Leader. Get back to Sword Base ASAP." After re-activating the comms array.
"Noble, be advised: Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette|Covenant corvette moving into position. Kat, Six, get here quick. We need you inside."
"Six, head upstairs and assist Emile. Jorge, make sure he (she) gets there." After Six enters the atrium.
"Six, get to the top floor and assist Emile." - After Emile indicates that he needs another Spartan to help.
"Keep moving up, Noble Six." - When Six gets to the level just below the top floor.
"We need you at the upper level, Lieutenant!" - If Six takes too long to get to the top level.
"Upstairs, Lieutenant, we need those GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords in the air." After Sword Control reports that the base won't survive another hit.
"Five, Six... Get down to the science wing, Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey wants a debrief, and Command's saying we're all hers."
"I did." When Jorge says it sounded like he said Halsey.
"If he was a civilian male in his mid-sixties, he died with a Covenant Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword|Energy Sword through his abdomen." When Halsey asks if he knows anything about Laszlo Sorvad's death.
"I gave the order not to pursue. Our primary objective was to get the station's relay back online." When Jorge reports that Sangheili Field Marshal|one of the Elites got away.
"Ma'am?" When Halsey criticizes Carter for letting the Zealot get away.
"Data retrieval was not a command directive. Even had we known, we had other, more urgent matters to attend to."
"Kat...?" - After Halsey accuses Kat of stealing the data module from Sorvad.
"Maybe you'd like to join her." When Halsey says she could have Kat penalized for trying to access the data module's content.
"We're currently under emergency planetary directive, WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY. I'm sure you're familiar with the punishment for civilian interference with a Spartan deployment."
"Just making a reading suggestion, ma'am." When Halsey's asks if he's threatening her.
"Let's move, Noble Team." After ending the conversation with Halsey.
"That landing zone has been tagged by UNSC command as a Priority One target."
"Kat, Six, what's your status?" After the two of them crash on the other side of a broken bridge.
"Kat, be advised: Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI has identified 2 hostile anti-aircraft guns southwest of your location."
"Six, AA gun should be in visual range."
"Noble Six, all our birds are stuck out of range unless you can do something about those guns."
"New intel Six, looks like normal weapons won't touch those AA guns."
"Good work, Noble Six. UNSC air support: skies are clear." After the first AA gun is destroyed.
"Noble Six, there's a mining facility near your location, the Covenant are using it as a Command outpost. Troopers on site have already engaged."
"Eyes on the prize, Noble. Take out that Zealot if you get the chance, but keep movin' towards the spires." When Auntie Dot informs of a nearby Elite Zealot.
"Update, Six: scans show another Covenant AA gun ahead of your location. I want you to neutralize that gun, by any means necessary."
"Noble Six, I need that AA gun offline right now." - If Six takes too long to neutralize the gun.
"Well done, Six. ONI needs up-close recon on those spires, we're gonna fly you the rest of the way." After destroying the 2nd gun.
"Copy that, I'm waiting on new intel. See what you can see, Carter out." After Kat reports she is going to stay while Six flies to the Spire One|spire.
"Solid copy, Dot?" - Asking Dot to analyze the shield after the pilot announces that he has eyes on the spire.
"Copy, we have your visual. Dot's working the problem, stand by." After Jorge reports arriving at the spire.
"UNSC frigate|Frigate UNSC Grafton|''Grafton'' is on station ready to kill that spire, but first we need to power down its shields."
"Get in there. Take out that shield, Lieutenant." After six begins flying up on the gravity lift.
"Spartans, I'm en route with a Falcon, will pick you up as soon as you knock out power to that shield."
"Hurry, Lieutenant. We got a frigate inbound to blow that spire as soon as the shield is powered down." As six arrives at the top.
"Noble 6, we need to kill that shield to clear the area. Now! - If Six exits the spire before the shield is powered down.
"Lieutenant, drop the shield and get out of there."
"Get us outta here." To the Falcon pilot after the shield is dropped.
"One way to get their attention! Hang on to your teeth, people!" After Jorge expresses surprise at the choice to use MAC rounds.
"''Grafton'' is dust! We need to get out of here, ''now''!" After the ''Grafton'' is destroyed by the newly revealed Covenant supercarrier|Covenant Supercarrier ''Long Night of Solace''.
"All our nukes are either out-system or went down with the ships that carried them. You're preaching to the converted." When Kat complains that the UNSC Fleet is letting themselves be flanked.
"I know that look, Kat." When Kat offers to make a plan.
"No." After Kat challenges him to outright refuse her plan.
"...Fine. I'll hear it." When Kat asks if he at least wants to hear it.
"Vaguely. A slipspace drive malfunction, right?" When Kat asks if he remembers the disaster at Cygnus system|Cygnus.
"And this is relevant...how?" When Kat corrects his knowledge of the facts.
"Even for you, Kat, that's-" After Kat suggests using the same technique on the Covenant Supercarrier.
"Not the word I would use." When Kat asks if the plan sounds inspired.
"Go ahead. Explain." To Kat, when Jorge asks what's going on.
"What do you think?" When Jorge asks if this plan is sanctioned.
"So...all we need is orbit-capable transport, and the single most expensive piece of equipment made by man?" After Kat finishes explaining her plan.
"Good luck with that." When Kat tells him they need a green-light from Colonel Holland.
"Oh, there's no way in hell he's gonna go for this." After Kat taunts him into asking Holland for it himself.
"Anywhere closer's too hot to land." After Jorge asks why they are landing so far away from the launch station.
"Move up the beach, Noble."
"Hostile transport coming in!" When advancing towards the launch base.
"We've been engaged!" After the landing of several Orbital insertion pod|Orbital Insertion Pods.
"Inside Six, let's go."
"Let's get that Sabre airborne before he changes his mind." After Kat jokes that her plan was too good for Holland to say no to.
"Jorge, Six: get to the Sabre before the Covenant wreck it." Upon arriving to the control room.
"Jun's on his way with a Falcon, we'll exfil after you launch. Move!" After Jorge asks where Carter and Kat will go.
"Your report will have to wait, Lieutenant. The Covenant are jamming all comms to Command. Kat needs your help running a counter-op." After reuniting with Six at New Alexandria (location)|New Alexandria.
"It's good to have you back." Just before he takes off.
"Make Jorge-052|him proud." When Six apologizes for coming alone.
"He gave his life thinking he just saved the planet. We should all be so lucky." While Noble Team reminisces about Jorge after his death.
"Those are senior-level communiques..." After finding out Kat has found out more leaked information.
"I need that link to COM|SATCOM, Kat." When Kat insists that he answer her question.
"You want to know if we're losing?" When she asks him again a third time.
"Let's hear it." When Colonel Holland begins hailing them.
"How long for a secure link?" To Kat regarding the hailing.
"Could the Covenant trace it to us?" - After she tells him she can't guarantee security anymore.
"Carter here... Yes, sir." To Holland, after Kat hands him the communicator.
"Just lost Holland. What's going on?" After Kat reports a sudden radiation flare.
"Source?" When she reports it's gotten larger.
"How close?" After Kat informs him the flare is airborne.
"We're being redeployed to Sword Base." After Kat asks what Colonel Holland orders were.
"Which is why they want us for a torch and burn op. Keep Dr. Halsey's excavation data from falling into enemy hands." When Jun expresses his disbelief since Sword has already fallen to the Covenant.
"Maybe, but according to Holland, the Covenant are still hunting for something." After Kat responds that the data has probably been captured already.
"Come on! Come on! Get in!" As Noble Six begins dragging Kat's body into the fallout bunker.
"...Go ahead." When colonel Holland hails him to begin the torch-and-burn operation.
"Still outside. Thermal on the interior shows standing-room-only. We're gonna send 'em out or we'll be way too popular." After Holland asks what his status is.
"We've got a job to do, so let's stay focus and get it done. Six, are you in position?"
"Good. Execute." After Six tells him he's ready.
"Covenant own this sector now. They are defending for a full major strike, not a small-group infiltration. Eliminate all hostile anti-air defense so the rest of Noble can land at Sword Base for the torch and burn. Keep a low profile, we'll take them by surprise, this will be a hell lot easier."
"Get a move on, Noble Six. Our Falcons are standing by." After clearing an attacking area.
"Time to get to work, Noble Six. Take out those guns." After arriving at the Cheru-pattern Tyrant|Tyrant guns.
"Copy. Stand-by." After the first gun is destroyed.
"Nice job, Six. Falcons commend to set. Meet you inside the base, Lieutenant."
"Noble Team: Falcons landed, hostiles engaged. Jun is working on getting the gate open."
"Six, get over here! Covie's all over the base."
"Double time, and Six, come on!"
"Noble Six, get inside the base!" If the player stalls at entering the gate.
"Kill them all, Noble!"
Had to go through maintenance. Elevators out.
"Dot?" After Emile asks where they are going.
"Alright, up the ramp, to the right!" After Auntie Dot tells him to proceed to the prearranged coordinates.
"This is it, in here." Upon reaching the location.
"Or they were committed to the position." When Jun comments that a dead trooper squad must have been cornered.
"Dot, check your vector."
"Revised...?" When Auntie Dot suddenly corrects herself to say their coordinates have been revised.
"Alright, we came this far." After Auntie Dot reveals their new route through a secret passageway.
"Your new AI friend tell you anything else, Dot...? Dot?" After entering the tram.
"Dr. Halsey. Casualty reports have you listed as-" When Catherine Halsey appears on a vidscreen to brief them.
"We all do, ma'am." When Halsey remarks on the tragedy of Noble's recent losses.
"Not sure I understand." When Halsey tells him that they have unlocked the secrets of the excavation.
"Doctor, our orders are to destroy all sensitive material-" After Halsey tells them their new mission to safely transport that data.
"I'll need to confirm this new directive with command-" When Halsey tells him others will handle the demolition.
"Have your data ready, ma'am. We're coming to you."
"I don't think you understand. We're out of time. If it isn't portable when we reach you, it's gonna get buried." When Halsey protests that the decryption is still underway.
"Let's find Halsey's lab. Move!" After exiting the tram.
"They sure as hell got it. Doctor, we have hostiles inbound." After Jun notices the M8 Automated Defense System|Wolf Spider turrets nearby.
"Understood. Let's give the doctor the time she needs." After Halsey orders Noble to not let the Covenant break in to her lab.
"Noble Six! Activate the turrets! Set up a perimeter."
"More Covenant! Get your defenses ready, Six!"
"Door's opened, Noble Six. Get to the lab." After all the Covenant are killed.
"Six, open the lab! That's an order!" If the player stalls.
"I understand." After Halseys tells Noble Team to escort Cortana to the UNSC Pillar of Autumn|''Pillar of Autumn''.
"And what if we can't?" When Halsey tells them the scale of their discovery.
"Dr. Halsey, Noble Three will escort you to CASTLE Base." After exiting Halsey's lab.
"Jun, make sure ''nothing'' falls into enemy hands."
"You too, rifleman." After Jun bids him good luck.
"I need a heading, Dot." After entering the Pelican.
"Which leads to?" After Auntie Dot tells him the flight directions.
"Wouldn't be a Noble mission if it were easy." After Auntie dot tells him Covenant forces are approaching the area.
"Not sure how long d77-TC Pelican|she's gonna stay together! Skies are jammed up anyways. Gotta get you off her, Lieutenant." After being wounded by an attacking Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshee.
"Don't wanna hear it. Get The Package (data storage unit)|The Package to the Autumn." When Six tries to tell him of his injuries.
"Not yet, it's not... Emile, go with him/her. It's a ground game now."
"Likewise." After Emile tells him it's been an honor to serve with him.
"I'll do what I can to draw their fire."
"Six. That AI chose you... She made the right choice."
"On my mark!"
"Mark!"
"Stay low, let me draw the heat. You just deliver that Package." After Emile and Six drop out of the Pelican.
"Get the Package out of there. Remember your objective!" After a Deutoros-pattern Scarab|Scarab engages Emile and Six.
"Enemy forces blocking the road up ahead."
"Noble! You got a...situation." After a third Scarab appears and blocks their path.
"No you can't. Not without help." After Emile insists they can outrun it.
"I've got the mass." After Emile protests against trying to attack it.
"You're on your own, Noble... Carter out." Final words, before ramming the Scarab.
"We've been engaged!" - When encountering an enemy.
"This is going to influence the rating on your next OAR." - Said when stared at by the player. IWHBYD may be required.
"Your file mentioned this." - When stared at by the Player.
"Friendly!" - When shot at by the Player.
"Watch your fire!" - When shot at by the Player.
"This qualifies as 'lone wolf stuff,' Noble Six." - When stared at by the player. IWHBYD may be required.
"Not amused, Spartan." - When stared at by the player.
"Your file mentioned this." - When stared at by the player. IWHBYD may be required.
"They got me zeroed! - When under fire.
"Good work." - When the player headshots an enemy.
"What is it, Six?" - When previewing his voice in the Armory.
"You need an assist?" - When previewing his voice in the Armory.
"We got a job to do here." - When previewing his voice in the Armory.
"Noble One deploying heavy artillery." - When switching to or picking up a M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon|rocket launcher.
"Office of Naval Intelligence Directive 930|Spartans never die, but they kill just fine." - When switching to a M6 Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle|Spartan Laser.
"I've got some fuel for this firefight." - When switching to or picking up a Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon|fuel rod gun.
"Go, green machine!" - When switching to or picking up a Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon|fuel rod gun.
"One shot, one kill." - After getting a headshot kill.
"Swapping mags." - When reloading a weapon.
"Conserving ammo." - After getting a melee kill.
"Never saw it coming." - After getting a melee kill.
"They're no match for us, Noble." - When killing an enemy.
"These tangos make good target practice." - When killing an enemy.
"Welcome to Noble Team." - When killing an enemy.
"Strike first, strike hard, no mercy." - When killing an enemy. Reference to .
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"Office of Naval Intelligence Directive 930|Spartans never die, Jorge. They're just Missing in action|Missing In Action." - After Jorge says that he didn't think anyone survived Operation: TORPEDO.
"I read your file, Lieutenant. Even the parts ONI didn't want me to. I'm glad to have your skillset, but you can leave that lone wolf stuff behind." - An early variant of his speech in Noble Actual. Category:Quotes
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Cartographer may refer to the following:
''Halo'' universe Cartographer - A facility commonly found in Forerunner installations. UNSC Cartographer Initiative - A UNSC recruiting program for War Games map designers.
Real world
The Silent Cartographer - The fourth campaign level in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''. The Cartographer - The fifth campaign level in ''Halo Wars 2''.
Violent Cartographer - An achievement in ''Halo 2 (Windows Vista)|''Halo 2'' (Windows Vista)''. The Cartographer (achievement) - An achievement in ''Halo 4''. The Silent Cartographer (achievement) - An achievement in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' and ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''.
See also
Wikipedia:Cartography|Cartography page on Wikipedia.
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File:Ark.JPG|thumb|350px|Installation 00's Cartographer, showing a schematic of the construct. The Cartographer is a dedicated Forerunner facility designed to contain and provide access to the Silent Cartographer, a program featuring the complete real-time record and schematics of an installation. Overview A central component of any installation of Forerunner construction, it is found on nearly all of their Astroengineering|megastructures, such as the Halo Array and the shield worlds. Some installations contain a number of discrete Cartographer facilities.
When activated, a Cartographer provides a real-time Holography|holographic map which can be used to navigate the massive expanse that is an installation, along with other relevant information such as pinpointing every room or location within the vast structure. The Cartographer facilities on the various Forerunner installations differ in layout and design, though the primary map rooms on the Halo installations are buried within large structures housing a network of compartments and rooms. Due to their significance, the Cartographers are protected by multiple security measures.
An artificial intelligence is able to interface with the Silent Cartographer and, for example, set navigation points on the holographic projection. A Forerunner personal armor|Forerunner armor's personal ancilla was able to link with the Cartographer and provide packets of information on the installation's past activities directly into the wearer's brain.
If a Cartographer facility is destroyed, a new facility is either constructed elsewhere or a different facility is repurposed to act as that installation's Cartographer due to how important the Cartographers are. When 343 Guilty Spark accessed the new Cartographer on Installation 07, he was also able to use it to access the installation's historical records. By inserting the Librarian's coordinate key, which had specifically pointed to Zeta Halo and with Rion Forge acting as a Reclaimer for the system when prompted, Spark caused the Cartographer to turn from a map of the installation into a star map pointing to a location on New Carthage which was located in an entirely different sector of the galaxy. This suggests that when prompted, a Cartographer can also act as a star map, not just an installation map. In addition to the Installation 07 star map, Spark accessed a star map while using the Ark's Cartographer in order to pinpoint the Ark's exact location.
On at the very least Installation 07, due to security protocols, data taken from the Conspectus network could only be decrypted via ports in the ring's Cartographer facilities or at the Conservatory (location)|Conservatory.
Greater Ark Like all installations involved with the Halos, the greater Ark possessed a Cartographer. During the final weeks of the Forerunner-Flood war, this facility was the site of an emergency meeting between the Forerunner military leaders before the imminent Flood Battle of the greater Ark|attack on the greater Ark. The commanders conferred in a circle within an enormous hologram of the Ark while updates on the installation's status were provided through their ancillas. Omega Halo, the sole Halo ring present at the Ark at the time, was also projected in the hologram.
Installation 00
File:TLJ Cartographer.PNG|thumb|250px|The Cartographer's exterior on Installation 00. Installation 00, the Ark, was home to several Cartographers. One of the facilities was located on top of a massive spire structure, the map room itself lying in a wide open area giving a panoramic view over a massive waterfall and an ocean. Facing the desert on the other side, the Cartographer structure was protected by a large wall structure. Inside the wall was a deep chasm and an energy bridge allowing passage over it. A Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal was located within the wall near the activation switch for the energy bridge. The interiors of this Cartographer shared many architectural similarities with Installation 04|Alpha Halo's Cartographer shaft, although the two are considerably different in general layout.
Preceding the firing of the Halos in 97,445 BCE, the IsoDidact and 343 Guilty Spark visited the Ark's Cartographer to review the preparations for the Halo Array's deployment. When the United Nations Space Command|UNSC and Sangheili forces landed on the Ark during the Battle of Installation 00 in 2552, they were prevented access to the Cartographer by its exterior wall. After the landed nearby and deployed a convoy of multiple vehicles, Miranda Keyes|Commander Keyes suggested they go through the wall. The UNSC forces returned to the wall and with the assistance of 343 Guilty Spark, successfully passed through. The UNSC and the Sangheili breached the Covenant-held Cartographer with the aid of 343 Guilty Spark, and used the map facility to locate the Prophet of Truth and determine the Ark's location in intergalactic space with the Cartographer's star map. Though they were quickly driven off by attacking Covenant forces, the Cartographer revealed to Spark the existence of Installation 08, a newly-constructed replacement for Installation 04|his own lost installation.
Another one of the Ark's Cartographers, radically different in layout and design from the one encountered in 2552, was utilized by the Banished during their occupation of the Ark in 2559 to map out the megastructure and take control of its Teleportation grid|portal network. During the Second Ark Conflict between the Banished and the UNSC forces from the , the latter assaulted and successfully took control of the Cartographer. From the Cartographer, Professor Ellen Anders learned of Atriox's use of it to take control of the portal network, leading to a successful mission to cripple Atriox's ability to use the network. In addition, Anders learned about the Ark's weapons systems through the Cartographer. Isabel later used this information to have the ''Spirit of Fire's'' crew take over one of the Ark's particle cannons to immobilize the Banished ''Enduring Conviction'' and take down its shields as part of a plan to destroy the ship.
Another Cartographer, located on the Epsilon Spire, was utilized by the Keepers of the One Freedom, Prelate Dhas Bhasvod's Dhas Bhasvod's Covenant and Intrepid Eye to locate a facility on the Ark from which the Halo Array could be fired following the destruction of the Installation 00 Citadel. Responding to Veta Lopis' status as a Reclaimer, the Cartographer's defenses allowed them through where the Cartographer's submonitor directed them to Epsilon Clarion, the only facility in the Clarion network that was either accessible or operable.
Installation 04
File:The Silent Cartographer Building.jpg|thumb|250px|Installation 04's Cartographer. On Installation 04, the Cartographer was located in an immense underground facility, below the middle of a large island. It was protected by a security system accessible by another underground facility on the other side of the island. These facilities were a part of the installation's larger tunnel network, with a massive shaft leading to the depths of the megastructure in between them.
After disabling the security system, the main passageway to the map room was opened. For additional security measures, the Cartographer's chamber and activation panel were located on the other side of the island, and buried at least half a dozen floors below ground. The path down to the Cartographer was a labyrinth of twists and turns, making it easy to get lost.
On 2552#September|September 20, 2552, SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan John-117 and two squads of marines were ordered by Captain (Navy)|Captain Jacob Keyes to secure the Cartographer so that they could locate Halo's control room. The soldiers landed on a Covenant-controlled beach, which they quickly captured. The Spartan soon entered the Cartographer facility, though it had been locked from within. After disabling the lock at a nearby security station, the Spartan accessed the Cartographer, learning the location of Installation 04's control room. The AI Cortana then requested that Carol Rawley|Flight Captain Carol "Foehammer" Rawley fly John-117 below ground to the control room, though they stopped at Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base.
Installation 07
The Cartographer of Installation 07, one of the original twelve Halos, was a massive structure, surpassing all of the other known Cartographer sites in scale. The map room was housed in an enormous, triangular structure protruding toward the Halo's interior out of one of the walls lining the ring's edges. The structure was shaped like a flat-topped wedge around 500 kilometers wide at its base, where it connected with the Halo's edge wall and was around 400 kilometers long from base to tip. Most of the structure's upper surface, apart from the tip, appeared largely uniform and featureless when observed from a distance. However, the wedge's tip housed a complex of vast, secondary structures, some of them dozens of kilometers high. A sleek half-arch stretched beyond the wedge's tip and an ornate lattice of cabling attached to this structure supported the main Cartographer control center, itself a complex of enormous structures, each of them the size of a small city.
The control center itself housed a series of platforms and walkways, some of them crisscrossing in many directions and facing a variety of complex display terminals monitoring the Halo's systems. Some of the walkways actually faced up- or downward in right angles and allowed passage by means of localized gravity manipulation along their surfaces.
Like several other control facilities across the ring, the Cartographer was equipped with stations allowing biological beings to interface with the Halo's systems in an emergency. During Mendicant Bias' and the Primordial's attempt to save the ring from collision with the wolf-faced planet, Chakas and a number of other humans were connected to one of these systems along with Composer-processed Forerunners, the latter supposedly necessary because the humans alone did not possess the knowledge or intellect necessary to properly interface with the ring despite having been previously imprinted with the knowledge necessary for the task.
This system used an elaborate webbing projected by a rod-like object to directly connect to each human-Forerunner pair via their skin, completely melding their neural networks with the Cartographer's controls. With the individual's consciousness now merged with the Halo's computer systems, they were flooded with the vast amounts of information and sensory input flowing through the Cartographer. The organic controllers, along with the Halo, formed a cybernetic gestalt intelligence which perceived the surrounding reality through the Halo's sensor systems and abstractions provided by the Cartographer. Numerous different event-paths and outcomes were consistently being calculated and processed while the controllers steered the ring and incessantly performed minute adjustments to its numerous systems. After the IsoDidact arrived to retake the ring, he entered the Cartographer and connected to the system with Chakas in order to see the ongoing salvage effort to the end.
By 2558, the Cartographer had been destroyed and its function transferred to the former Mendicant Bias' core. The new Cartographer was visited by Rion Forge and 343 Guilty Spark who had once been Chakas when he was human. When Spark accessed the Cartographer, he was able to access Zeta Halo's records and discovered that a record of a single very old event had been deleted by an unknown party. Having been led to Installation 07 by the Librarian's coordinate key, Spark inserted it into the Cartographer while Rion activated it as a Reclaimer. The Cartographer displayed a star map pointing to a location on New Carthage and provided the two with the second part of the coordinate key. However, Rion was suddenly pulled through a slipspace portal to Erebus VII by the Precept.
On 2560#April|April 27, 2560, Submonitor 091 Adjutant Veridity revealed to the boat crew that, due to security protocols, the data that had been stolen by the Banished from the Conspectus network could only be decrypted via ports in the ring's Cartographer facilities or at the Conservatory (location)|Conservatory.
Onyx A Forerunner city in what the Office of Naval Intelligence referred to as Zone 67 on Onyx was home to a Cartographer facility. This map room was located below a massive domed structure in the city. From the outside, the facility could be accessed via one of seven massive landing pads inside the structure's dome. Below the landing pad, a spiraling staircase led down into a smaller chamber. The chamber housed an energy bridge leading into the map room itself: a half-spherical chamber about 20 meters across. The center of the room housed a holographic console which could project detailed schematics of the entire Onyx megastructure. The room also featured a Teleporter|translocation platform.
Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey used this Cartographer structure during the Onyx Conflict, when she was trying to find a way to the core room antechamber|portal that led to the Sarcophagus|shield world in the core of the artificial planet.
Requiem A localized Cartographer facility was accessed by John-117 and Cortana shortly after their arrival on Requiem during the Battle of Requiem in 2557. From this facility, they learned the name of the shield world, although Cortana's further attempts at accessing the data within were quickly deterred by the Ur-Didact|Didact who briefly shut the device down. After its reactivation, the Didact manipulated the Cartographer to make it appear as if the was in the core of the shield world. Cortana was able to use the Cartographer to locate the nearest terminus on the shield world's teleportation grid and as they left, the Cartographer flashed the symbol representing the Didact.
Trivia
The multiplayer level ''Construct'' takes place in the Cartographer building of Installation 00.
Gallery
File:PXH_MacworldMapRoom_Screenshot.jpg|An early iteration of the map room in Pre-Xbox Halo. File:Anniversary Marines.jpg|Marines storm the beach on Installation 04's Cartographer island. File:HA SC 1.jpg|A view of the beach near the Cartographer. File:HA SC 2.jpg|The exterior of the Cartographer's security facility in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''. File:Carto.jpg|Alpha Halo's Silent Cartographer before activation. File:Carto01.jpg|The Silent Cartographer after activation. File:Carto02.jpg|John-117 watches as the Silent Cartographer finalizes mapping the sections of the installation. File:Silent_Cartographer_Eld.png|Eld under Installation 04's Cartographer entrance. File:Halo anniversary cartographer Glyphs.png|A look over the symbols that appear on the Cartographer.
List of appearances
''Halo: Combat Evolved''
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo 3''
''Halo: Primordium''
''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Silentium''
''Halo Wars 2''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
''Halo: Point of Light''
''Halo: The Rubicon Protocol''
Sources
Category:Forerunner buildings Category:Installation 00 locations Category:Installation 04 locations Category:Installation 05 locations
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Cartographer's Gift is a content update for ''Halo 5: Guardians'', released on 2015|December 16, 2015. The update included an improved Forge mode, four new multiplayer maps: Overgrowth, Battle of Noctus, Antifreeze and Entombed, and 51 new REQs for Armor customization (Halo 5: Guardians)|armor, weapons, emblems, and more.
Update content
51 new Requisition system|REQs New Armor customization (Halo 5: Guardians)|armor sets
*MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Mark IV GEN1
*RAIJIN-class Mjolnir|Raijin
**Raijin Sprite
**Raijin Stormstrike New multiplayer mode:
*Forge New multiplayer maps:
*Antifreeze
*Battle of Noctus
*Entombed
*Overgrowth
*Alpine (Forge canvas)
*Glacier (Halo 5: Guardians map)|Glacier (Forge canvas)
*Parallax (Forge canvas)
New sandbox items:
*Classic BR85N
*M41 SPNKr
**SPNKr EM
**SPNKr EX
**SPNKr Prime
4 armor skins: LOCUS-class Mjolnir|Locus Edge, PATHFINDER-class Mjolnir|Pathfinder Trailbreaker, ROGUE-class Mjolnir|Rogue Cutthroat, WETWORK-class Mjolnir|Wetwork Cleaner
5 List of REQ cards/Weapon Skins|weapon skins: Gold Standard (MA5D assault rifle, M6H2 magnum, BR85 battle rifle, M395 DMR|M395B DMR, M20 SMG)
1 visor: Pendragon
14 Emblems|emblems: Cone'd, Flaming Ninja, Number Zero, Number One, Number Two, Number Three, Number Four, Number Five, Number Six, Number Seven, Number Eight, Number Nine, Spartan Swords, Stuck
2 Assassination|assassinations: Nice Try, Oh Snap
2 Stance|stances: Fire Support, Tactical Carry Marketing
A small, 5 second teaser for the Cartographer's Gift update, showing the Mark VI armor and SPNKR rocket launcher on Truth and Entombed. This was shown during the Battle of Shadow and Light livestream held by 343 Industries on November 20, 2015.
A full trailer released on December 3, 2015, showcasing the update's content and features. Gallery
File:Eric-will-dlc-pack-2-artstation.jpg|Promo artwork. File:CG REQs.jpg|REQ reveal artwork.
File:H5G-Overgrowth-4.jpg|Overgrowth, a remix of Plaza. File:H5G-RaijinSPNKR.jpg|A SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IV wearing RAIJIN-class Mjolnir|Raijin armor during a game of Warzone on Battle of Noctus. File:H5G-Antifreeze.jpg|Antifreeze, the first of two maps released for the Big Team Battle playlist with the update. File:H5G-Entombed.jpg|Entombed, the second of two maps released for the Big Team Battle playlist.
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Carved Letters, initials rendered as a romantic gesture, are an :Category:Easter eggs|Easter egg that can be seen in the ''Halo 3'' campaign mission, Sierra 117.
Description File:H3 Carved Letters in Sierra 117.jpg|thumb|300px|Two of the carvings. Sprinkled throughout the dense foliage of Sierra 117 are carved hearts with initials and dates. This can be seen throughout all difficulties and requires normal gameplay. Players may also view these Easter eggs via Theater after completing the mission.
Some of these carvings include:
MF M+L 7-16-95
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The Carver Findings were a set of theories predicting the outbreak of the Insurrection written by Elias Carver|Dr. Elias Carver and published in 2491. The findings were summarized thus:
Though many were skeptical of these theories, they were taken under strong consideration by the Office of Naval Intelligence and the UNSC High Command|Admiralty, informing their strategies against the Insurrectionists for decades.Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), ''page 44''
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
*''Data pads''
''Halo Mythos''
Sources
See also
''The Viability of Extended Colonization''
Category:Books (Halo)
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Casbah City, commonly known simply as Casbah, is the city|capital city of the human Inner Colony planet Tribute in the Epsilon Eridani system. The city was a well-developed metropolis, with highways, spaceports, a MagLev train system, and high-rise office buildings, as well as at least one Jim Dandy restaurant. An expansive volcanic plain with a somewhat uneven terrain part covered in Wikipedia:Pumice|pumice was located adjoining the city, as well as a large body of water on one side.
Overview
Locations Casbah Station
History
The city is named after , the colony ship that began colonizing the planet on 2364|August 8, 2364.
Tribute was a site of ongoing resistance from Insurrectionist forces in 2524 during Operation: TREBUCHET, and so a battalion of United Nations Space Command|UNSC UNSC Marine Corps|marines were operating in and around Casbah that year, searching for Insurrectionist bomb makers, supported by the corvette and AV-14 Hornet|Hornet aircraft. They found one such bomb shop, and though they were able to neutralize the facility, the Marines were unable to prevent some of the bombs from making their way into Casbah. This led to a disastrous hostage situation inside a Jim Dandy restaurant in the city, resulting in the deaths of three Marines, thirty-eight civilians, and two rebels.
During one of the last engagements in the Battle of Tribute in 2552, a Spartan fireteam engaged the Covenant assault force in Casbah, sacrificing themselves so a group of civilians could safely escape Tribute. A simulation of the port authority's buildings in Casbah was later used by the 's SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV complement for training.
In 2558, the Nova Austin Station in Mindoro, Cascade offered flights to Casbah City. This suggests that the city was either never glassed or it was rebuilt and resettled following the war.
Gallery
File:Casbah City emblem.jpg|Casbah City logo printed on a wall. File:Halo 4 - Tribute buildings.jpg|Port authority buildings in Casbah. File:H4 Landfall.png File:H4 Landfall Corvette.jpg|Covenant forces lay siege on Casbah City. File:H4 Landfall Corvette 2.jpg|A Covenant light cruiser and corvette over Casbah.
List of appearances
''Halo: Contact Harvest''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Fireteam Raven''
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File:H4 - Casbah Station.png|thumb|250px|Interior of Casbah Station. Casbah Station is a large port authority building on the shores of Casbah, Tribute. Elements of the building were constructed by Hannibal Weapon Systems and Naphtali Contractor Corporation. Casbah Station had a large garage with two bays in it for vehicles servicing. There was a command center that had several computers and servers in it.''Halo 4'', multiplayer map, Landfall
History
In the late 2400s, Tribute saw large economic growth. This growth helped spur the creation of ports and Casbah Station.''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 222
Later, during the Battle of Tribute teams of SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-IIs and SPARTAN-III Program|IIIs fought the Covenant Empire|Covenant off to buy time for civilians. Their stand was at or near Casbah Station. To honor their sacrifice, a War Games simulation named Landfall|War Games Map_Set/: 891-3 was created for SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IVs that included Casbah Station.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
Gallery
File:H4 - Landfall Control Room.jpg|The Casbah Station command center.
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Cascade Stronghold Technologies is a human corporation located in Mindoro, Lhopat on Cascade. As of 2558, the corporation's current chief executive officer is a former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, a fact which has led to the company's pursuits in adapting ODST armor the various MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor platforms.
Overview
Multiple MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor GEN2 variants
*ODST armor (MJOLNIR)|ODST armor variant for the GEN2 platform
*HELLJUMPER-class Mjolnir
*Nightfall armor|Nightfall variant for the GEN2 platform
*RICOCHET-class Mjolnir Armor accessories/SAP|SAP attachments
*SAP/MT
*SAP/FJ Multiple MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor GEN3 variants
*FIREFALL-class Mjolnir
*STORMFALL-class Mjolnir
File:Cascadia-labs.jpg|thumb|200px|A logo associated with Cascade Stronghold Technologies. The company had facilities in the following cities and locations:
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History Cascade Stronghold Technologies had facilities in New Mombasa prior to the destruction of the city during the Battle of Earth.Halo 2: Anniversary, campaign level ''Metropolis'' In 2556, a facility was under "active investigation" by ONI after the Terrorist attack on Sedra City|Sedra terrorist attack.Halo: Nightfall: ONI: Walk the Path|ONI: Walk the Path
As of 2558, the company's chief executive officer was a former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, a fact which likely influenced the company's work with ODST armor and the creation of several variants of MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor fashioned after this armor style. By 2555, Cascade Stronghold Technologies had developed the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Helljumper|Helljumper armor for the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|MJOLNIR GEN2 platform. By 2558, the company had also ported the ODST armor (MJOLNIR)|ODST armor and its Nightfall armor|hostile environment variant to the MJOLNIR GEN2 armor.Halo Channel: ''Halo: Nightfall Season Reward'' However, Cascade would not only work with derivatives of ODST armor. Circa 2558, the company created the RICOCHET-class Mjolnir|Ricochet variant which was tailored specifically for Spartans to use in Ricochet (gametype)|Ricochet matches within War Games.Halo 4 ''- Armory description'' By 2560, Cascade had developed the FIREFALL-class Mjolnir|Firefall and STORMFALL-class Mjolnir|Stormfall helmets for the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|MJOLNIR GEN3 platform.
Production notes A Cascade Stronghold Technologies building was set to appear in the ''Halo Online'' map Icebox. The game was ultimately cancelled, but the map was added to the ''Halo 3'' component of ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''.
Gallery
File:HO Icebox Cascade.jpg|A CST building in the map Icebox. File:H5G Cascade.png|A variation of the Cascade Stronghold Technologies logo.
List of appearances
''Halo 3''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Nightfall''
*''Halo: Nightfall: ONI: Walk the Path|ONI: Walk the Path''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo Infinite''
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Cascade is a Unified Earth Government Outer Colonies|Outer Colony world. The origin point for numerous commercial goods, Cascade is considered the crown jewel of the Outer Colonies.
Overview
Much of the Covenant War era population is housed in a ribbon of relatively newly built arcologies and floating cities. Locations Kowloon
*Old Admiralty Hotel Lhopat
*Mindoro
**Fort Southwick
**Nova Austin Station St. Malo Volamon
Alkmini Leandro Pinar Celik Serin Osman|Serin Celik
History
Cascade was founded in 2435. The first wave colonists settled and remained in several core metroplexes.
The UEG spent a considerable amount of resources on the planet to replace losses elsewhere in human space. As well, skilled technical and engineering personnel from other Outer Colonies ended up on the world. To defend all of this, a naval depot was established on the world in 2530.
After the war, Cascade emerged as one of the most urbanized, richest surviving colonies. Several major corporations in Mindoro, the city|capital city of Cascade, backed the construction of a new space elevator in the city. The elevator's terminus, Nova Austin Station, was slated to become the most important commercial spaceport on the planet when completed. This construction site was reproduced as a War Games simulation for the 's SPARTAN-IV complement.
In the post-Covenant War years, conflict also arose on Cascade, which led to the deployment of SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IVs to the planet. MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|MJOLNIR GEN2's outer-plated gauntlets were developed for the Spartans fighting on Cascade. The MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Protector GEN2 variant was used in raids on Mindoro and Volamon on Cascade. Additionally, the ODST armor#MJOLNIR GEN2 variant|MJOLNIR (GEN2) ODST armor was also produced on the planet.
Government and society
Cascade was home to a naval depot.
Cascade is known to be home to some agricultural activity. "Technoartisinal" greenleaf lettuce grown on Cascade is used by the restaurant Have S'Moa on Gannick 22 in their "Ground Pounder" burger meal. The defense contractor Cascade Stronghold Technologies was also based on the planet.
The planet had a space elevator, which was being rebuilt by several corporate entities.
Gallery
File:H4 Skyline.png|The city of Mindoro, located in Lhopat on Cascade. File:Cascade moons.jpg|Cascade's moons. File:Enc22_Cascade.jpg|Cascade in the ''Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)''.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Mortal Dictata''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
*''Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition dossiers|Limited Edition dossiers''
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Casillas is a SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IV supersoldier who served with Fireteam Castle on the .Halo 4 Limited Edition|Halo 4 Limited Edition ''War Games Session Summary'' In February 2558, Casillas and the rest of Fireteam Castle were killed after their Pelican was shot down by Jul 'Mdama's forces while on a supply run to Copernicus Base.Spartan Ops, S1/Didact's Hand|S1E4 ''Didact's Hand''
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Casimir Station is a space station that is presumably in orbit of Reach.
History On the morning of 2552#August|August 30, 2552, Ensign William Lovell was in contact with Casimir Station, requesting a check on the sensors of the , which was picking up unusual EM readings bouncing off Turul. Unbeknownst to the crew of the ship, which was being kept ignorant of the Fall of Reach|Covenant invasion, the readings were actually a result of battles occurring on the other side of the planet.Data Drop/Six|''Office of Naval Intelligence//Section 3 - Data Drop Six''
Trivia Casimir Station shares its name with the city of Casimir on the planet Reach. This may indicate the station to be an , following the trend of naming Orbital defense platform|OWP stations after cities on the planet below them (ie Quezon Station after Quezon on Reach, or Cairo Station after Cairo on Earth). It is possible that it was named after Wikipedia:Hendrik Casimir|Hendrik Casimir, one of the scientists who discovered the Wikipedia:Casimir effect|Casimir effect.
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Casimir was a human city on Reach.
Trivia A similarly-named space station, Casimir Station, is mentioned in the Data Drops. It is unknown if one was named after the other, akin to Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station being located in orbit above the city of Cairo.
List of appearances
''Halo: Outpost Discovery''
''Halo: The Television Series''
*''Solace (TV Series)|Solace''
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Casmir is a Human colonies|human colony or settlement. It is home to the Boson Research Facility. In 2558, the research facility's AI administrator, Erin Lynn, defected and joined Cortana's Created.Halo 5: Guardians, campaign level, ''Guardians''
List of appearances
''Halo 5: Guardians''
Sources
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File:H5G MainMenu Fleet.jpg|300px|thumb| and its escorts in the Caspar system. The Caspar system is a remote planetary system on the fringes of civilization, consisting of at least five planets orbiting around the star Caspar.
History The fifth planet in the system, Kamchatka, was created by the Forerunners through astroengineering to serve as a node for the Domain. Following the firing of the Halo Array, the Caspar system became a relatively obscure system on the fringes of civilization, until a Forerunner communication hub suddenly activated on Kamchatka in 2558, attracting the attention of the Unified Earth Government and Jul 'Mdama's Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant.
Jul 'Mdama's Covenant would use Kamchatka as a staging area for the bulk of their fleet. As part of Operation: ANCHORITE, the UNSC Navy's Expeditionary Strike Group 1 launched an assault on the fleet in 2558#October|October 2558. The ensuring battle resulted in 'Mdama's death.
List of appearances
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
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Cassandra Rose Clarke (born September 21, 1983) is a speculative fiction writer. She is the author of the first ''Halo'' young adult novel, ''Halo: Battle Born'' and its sequel, ''Halo: Meridian Divide.
Background Cassandra Rose Clarke grew up in south Texas and currently lives in a suburb of Houston, where she writes and teaches composition at local colleges. She graduated in 2006 from The University of St. Thomas with a bachelors degree in English, and in 2008 she completed her masters degree in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin. Clarke's first novel, ''The Assassin's Curse'', received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was nominated for YALSA's 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults.
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Cassandra-075 isUNSCDF asks,''In the LE Booklet it speeks of a female named "Cassandra" is she a Spartan or not?''A better question would be, "was" she a Spartan? a SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II supersoldier who was severely crippled by the SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|augmentation procedures.Conversations from the Universe#Letter to the Master Chief|Conversations from the Universe, "Letter to the Master Chief"''Scanned''
Biography Cassandra was a genetically, intellectually, and physically gifted child chosen for the SPARTAN-II project. She was abducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence and replaced with a flash clone when she was around six years old. She and seventy-four other children were taken to Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system. There, she was trained by the dumb AI|"dumb" AI, Deja and Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, with the two serving as the Spartans' teacher and drill instructor, respectively.
In 2519, she was taken alongside her fellow trainees to a Military Wilderness Training Preserve for a mission that required each trainee to be left alone in the woods with a only a single piece of a map. It was up to them to find one another so that they could piece the map together and locate the designated extraction point. The mission was ultimately a success. At another point during training, Cassandra and the others traveled to Emerald Cove for an underwater mission. There, they abandoned Mendez and lived on their own on an island for a few days. By 2523#July|July 14, 2523, Cassandra and her fellow Spartan-IIs had begun facing the formidable and ruthless UNSC Marine Corps' Tango Company in simulated War Games|war games.
On 2525#March|March 9, 2525, Cassandra and the rest of the Spartan-II candidates underwent their SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|augmentation procedures at Medical Facility Endurance orbiting Reach. Cassandra was significantly crippled during the surgeries and she could not continue her military career as a SPARTAN-II. She attended a military funeral aboard the carrier, the , in the Lambda Serpentis system for the Spartans who died during the process. Mendez noted to John-117 that though Cassandra and others could no longer fight, their sharp minds could still be used by the UNSC Navy or ONI in particular to plan missions, analyze data, or troubleshoot operations.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 61''
In 2552, Cassandra was residing at the UNSC's M2SL Recovery Station. Following the Fall of Reach and the subsequent discovery and Battle of Installation 04|destruction of a Halo ring, Installation 04, she reached out to John-117, survivor of both. She expressed relief at the fact that he was still alive and informed him that her recovery was still ongoing. She would soon be proceeding to the fourth stage of her rehabilitation. This step in the process would be more painful than prior ones, but she noted that at the very least she was grateful to be covered in skin once more. In her message, she also commented on John's imminent acquisition of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|Mark VI platform of MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor and her reticence to see further Covenant technology used in humans' own. She told John that she and others missed him and that she had asked Sergeant Major Avery Johnson to let her know if the Chief was ever near M2SL. She closed on a sad note, given the current state of the galaxy and the loss of so many that had been family to she and John, and promised to contact him again in the future.
List of appearances
''Halo 2''
*''Conversations from the Universe''
''Scanned''
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Cassidy III, also referred to as Cybele VI or Freedom, is a planet in the Cassidy-Cybele system.
Overview
Cassidy III is a typical large, blue-green world with swirling clouds white and clean as fresh snow. From the surface, the sky appears a shade of indigo during the day. Both the planet and is atmosphere look pristine from orbit, drawing comparisons to pre-industrial Earth. Only one colony ever settled the planet and its colonists have not done much to spoil it. It has one large continent surrounded by concentric rings of islands that form long and fertile archipelagos. The mainland is bisected by a gigantic mountain range with a vast jungle on one side and a sprawling desert on the other. The desert's ridgelines and sand can reflect sunlight to give them a glowing red appearance. The Hole in the Wall is located on the lush and golden high plains just on the desert side of the mountains, sitting on land that is fairly flat apart from a dry and jagged ridgeline to the south. High and dry but not desiccated, the colony is gathered around a trio of massive Forerunner towers on the edge of a large lake. There the air smells like freshly turned soil with just a hint of a breeze off the lake. On the opposite side of the planet from the Hole, not a single artificial light can be seen when it is in darkness, though a line of active volcanoes there glows red-hot.
Trees and grass are both present on Cassidy III and a herd of some sort of peaceful Wikipedia:Bovidae|bovid grazes in a field north of the Hole in the Wall. Locations Hole in the Wall
History
Prior to the Great Purification|firing of the Halo Array in 97,445 BCE, the planet later known as Cassidy III, Cybele VI, or Freedom was frequented by Forerunners, who built various structures on its surface which were embedded into the landscape.
When Unified Earth Government pioneer groups initially scouted the planet, it was considered to be highly remote from the standpoint of human-occupied space at the time. So although a UEG colony was established there, it was abandoned by the governing authorities by around 2458, rather soon after it had been settled. This was due to the travel costs associated with the limited Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|Shaw-Fujikawa translight engines available then. The locals moved into the rubble a decade after its abandonment and found themselves sitting atop of a lot of Forerunner technology. From that point on they quietly eked out a self-sufficient living there, at times selling some of the planet's Forerunner tech on the black market. In 2508 the settlement referred to as the Hole in the Wall was founded by a large number of outlawsmostly Piracy|pirateswho wished to build a secure hideout for themselves.
Once this was done, these outlaws fell in with a bunch of insurrectionists on the run also in need of a place to hide. When the Insurrection began to wane due to the Covenant's Human-Covenant War|war against humanity, a large portion of the United Rebel Front was folded into the group occupying Cassidy III. Cassidy III's occupants never showed much interest in deciphering the nature of the Forerunner technology which hid them, being either purely indifferent or worried that messing with it could cause it to stop working.
The Office of Naval Intelligence only discovered the Hole in the Wall thanks to an accidental slipspace Slipspace drive|failure which caused a survey team to stumble upon it during a routine expedition decades prior to 2558. As the war with the Covenant raged on, ONI hid a number of items on and around Cassidy III, partly because they would be safe there but also in order to monitor the rebels present. These were hidden far enough away from the Hole that its denizens never realized they'd been compromised. The world was never seriously leveraged by the UNSC in order to keep from drawing the Covenant to it. Given its unique ability to remain hidden, the transfer of large amounts of UNSC assets to Cassidy III was one of hundreds of back-up plans to be considered in the event that the aliens ever found Earth. And though its uncanny ability to go undetected by sensors may have been advantageous to research, this was never made a priority while the war was still ongoing. What research that was being done then was happening sporadically, after all, as all resources were being pressed toward stopping the genocide of the human race.
Following the cessation of the war ONI elected to keep the Hole's location classified as Top Secret but leave its existing population alone. And even then, researching this backwater world with anomalous Forerunner technology did not take priority over the many problems the UNSC faced regarding refugee populations, colonies on the brink of habitability collapse, and Post-Covenant War conflicts|ongoing conflicts. The last few probes it had sent to the system by 2558 had returned with plenty of evidence of the surface's Forerunner technology and indications that the Hole in the Wall apparently still remained the only settlement.
Created conflict When the artificial intelligence Cortana led an Created Conflict|uprising in late 2558#October|October of 2558 to seize control of Milky Way Galaxy|the galaxy under the auspices of assuming the Mantle of Responsibility, the Hole in the Wall initially escaped her notice. Adjacent colonies, even the smaller ones, were taken completely offline, so to speak, by the Attenuation pulse generator|attenuation pulses employed by Guardian Custodes under Cortana's control. The fact that the UNSC's sensors hadn't detected a single Guardian signature at Cybele VI made it abundantly clear to ONI that something about the technology on the planet was concealing it even from her despite the Forerunner resources she had acquired.
A group led by Veronica Dare|Agent Dare, consisting of Spartan-IVs Edward Buck, Kojo Agu, Michael Crespo, Taylor Miles, and Gretchen Ketola, Huragok Quick to Adjust, and civilian consultant Sadie Endesha made contact with the colony in early November 2558. Despite local hostility from Mayor Wells, the presence of Spartan Crespo prompted them to agree to a meeting. Wells initially refused to let the UNSC study the Forerunner camouflage tecnology, saying that the takeover of the Created was responsibility of the UEG, as creators of Cortana, and that this technology could be used against the rebels by the UNSC in the future. The UNSC argued that Cortana's discovery and subjugation of Cassidy III would only be a matter of time since her location was already stored in the ONI and URF systems, and it was necessary to master the camouflage in order to employ it against the common enemy.
The Created discovered the planet and deployed a Guardian there before a decision was made when the AI Leonidas was revealed to have infiltrated the Mjolnir suits of Taylor and Gretchen. Wells then agreed to let the UNSC Huragok reactivate the ships disabled by the Guardian's fire, prioritizing the escape of researchers who have studied the camouflage tecnology. With the departure of the twelve available transport ships, Wells pronounced the surrender of the population remaining on the planet through Leonidas, ending the short invasion.The UNSC troops managed to flee soon after to join the UNSC Infinity.
List of appearances
''Halo: Bad Blood''
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Castellans are a kind of Forerunner battle station. They are comparable in size to a moon, making them some of the largest spacecraft employed by the Forerunner fleet.''Halo: Warfleet An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo|Halo: Warfleet'', Battle Stations - p.86-87
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File:Edited_Castallaneta_Postcard.png|thumb|250px|A postcard from Castellaneta. Castellaneta is a human tourist station in geosynchronous orbit on the "sunny side" of Saturn's outermost ring, in the Sol system. The station features a zero-gravity resort with a swim-up bar and club, known for over-priced alcoholic beverages. UNSC Marine Edward Buck had been sent to the station on mandatory shore leave in 2545, where he first encountered Office of Naval Intelligence operative Veronica Dare.Halo: New Blood, ''pages 26-27''
Trivia Wikipedia:Castellaneta|Castellaneta is a city in Southern Wikipedia:Italy|Italy. Assuming :File:Saturn postcard.png|a postcard from Castellaneta presents an accurate depiction of its interior, the station has ostensibly massive open spaces with a beach and a large body of water, as well as a clear, unobstructed view out into space, although at least part of this may be illusion achieved via holography|holographic displays. The station's name is misspelled as "Castallaneta" in a postcard featured in ''Hunt the Truth''.
Gallery
File:Saturn postcard.png|A postcard from Castellaneta sent by Jakob Walker to Benjamin Giraud.
List of appearances
''Halo: New Blood''
''Hunt the Truth''
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Castiglione is the capital city of Escala III.''Halo: Escalation'', Issue #4
History In 2558#March|March 2558, Thomas Lasky along with Naiya Ray met with Petra Janecek in Castiglione to disuss investigating a spy in the UNSC.
Gallery
File:Castiglione Harbor.png|Lasky and Janecek at the city's harbor. File:Escalation - Lasky and Petra.png|Lasky and Petra discussing the UNSC traitor.
List of appearances
''Halo: Escalation''
Sources
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File:Reach map.png|thumb|300px|The location of CASTLE Base on Reach (identified here as "CAS"). CASTLE Base was an Office of Naval Intelligence underground facility located within the Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|FLEETCOM Military ComplexHalo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 229'' (Chapter 25 heading) in CsongradData Drop/HABA|Data Drop: ''HEMLEY & AUBOURN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS'' on the human colonies|human colony of Reach.
Description It was hidden two kilometers directly underneath Menachite Mountain, part of the Highland Mountains in the Viery Territory. Protected by massive amounts of granite, reinforced concrete, plates of Titanium-A armor, and EMP-hardened metal,Halo: First Strike, ''page 100'', (''"Although he barely felt the descent, Wagner knew he had dropped three kilometers into the planet, through solid layers of granite, reinforced concrete, plates of Titanium-A, and EMP-hardened metal. None of this made him feel any safer, though; ONI's research facility on Reach had the same setup, and it had not done those poor bastards any good."'') it was virtually bombproof, well defended, and nigh-impenetrable.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 229'' (''"CASTLE was a massive complex, two thousand meters below the granite protection of the Highland Mountains bombproof, well defended, and impenetrable."'')
Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey had an office in CASTLE Base's Omega Wing, as did Colonel James Ackerson. The SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-IIs were familiar with CASTLE Base, some of SPARTAN-II training|their training having taken place in the baseHalo: First Strike, ''page 132'' as well as the abandoned mine tunnels around it.Halo: The Fall of Reach, Chapter 8
History
The complex that would later become CASTLE base was originally a titanium mine, but was closed down in the 2520s or 2530s after the mine breached the Forerunner Menachite portal complex|complex below. The mine would be used for storage for several years before being put into action by the Office of Naval Intelligence.''Halo: First Strike'', Chapter 11
During the Fall of Reach, the base was Team Delta's fallback position. William-043, Vinh-030, and Isaac-039 arrived there. They were soon joined by Frederic-104 and Kelly-087. There, they discovered Dr. Halsey, who had remained behind to initiate Operation: WHITE GLOVE, destroying the base to prevent the Covenant from acquiring advanced UNSC technologies.
When the Covenant forces breached the base, Dr. Halsey was forced to put Operation: WHITE GLOVE into action, destroying the base and deleting her Artificial intelligence|AI assistant Kalmiya. This prevented the Covenant from gaining any intelligence from the base. Halsey and the Spartans then retreated into the dangerous titanium mines below, and later to the Forerunner complex, where they discovered a powerful Forerunner crystal.
In 2559#October|October 2559, Blue Team once again returned to CASTLE base seven years following the base's destruction. Following the emergence of the Created led by Cortana and the subsequent Created conflict|conflict, Blue Team were ordered to breach the rubble of CASTLE and recover assets from Halsey's abandoned laboratory, believed to be key to defeating Cortana's forces. Despite the destruction of the base itself, the lab survived, guided by a subroutine that Kalmiya had left behind to protect the cryo-vault. With some difficulty, Blue Team succeeded in extracting the assets back to the .
Known sections Level Aqua
*Section Lambda
**Armory Level Scarlet
*Omega Wing
**Dr. Halsey's officeHalo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 229'' (''"The private office was located deep underground, inside the "Omega Wing" of the super-secure ONI facility, code-named simply CASTLE."'')
*Medical wing
**Cold storage facilities
**Surgical bays Level Lavender
*Section Sigma
**Elevator shaftHalo: First Strike, ''page 134'' (''"Down the elevator shaft in Section Sigma,"'')
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
''Halo: First Strike''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
''Halo: Mortal Dictata''
''Halo: Shadows of Reach''
''Halo: The Television Series''
*''Solace (TV Series)|Solace''
Notes
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Castle Defense is the twentieth track on the ''Halo: Spartan Assault Original Soundtrack''.
Appearances This soundtrack can be heard:
In Mission 6: Siege of Faraday|Siege of Faraday, while Spartan Sarah Palmer is defending Faraday Base.
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The Castle Map Pack Trailer is a trailer released by 343 Industries for the ''Halo 4'' Castle Map Pack. It was released on March 11, 2013.
Transcript
''(Clip of the map Daybreak where a UNSC frigate can be seen hovering over the highlands of Saviron, Oban.)''
''(Clip of the map Perdition where a train moves forward in the city of Pilvros, New Carthage.)''
''(Clip of the map Outcast where an is seen taking off on the Insurrectionist world of Talitsa.)''
''(Cuts to a holotank aboard UNSC Infinity.)''
''CASTLE MAP PACK''
''(Clips of a SPARTAN-IV running on Perdition.)''
''(A HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Armor Defense System|Mantis is walking on Outcast.)''
''(Clips of several Spartans using the man cannon on Daybreak.)''
''(A Spartan fires his MA5D Individual Combat Weapon System|assault rifle on Daybreak.)''
''(A Spartan is seen deploying his Z-2500 Automated Protection Drone|Autosentry while another one fires the M46 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun|M46 LAAG of a M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle|Warthog on Perdition.)''
''(A Spartan boards an enemy Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith on Outcast.)''
''(Clips of several Spartans running and fighting on Perdition.)''
''(A Spartan survives to several explosions thanks to his Z-90 Photonic Coalescence Emitter/Aegis|Hardlight Shield on Outcast.)''
''(Clips on Daybreak of a Spartan getting killed by a Sniper Rifle System 99-Series 5 Anti-Materiel|sniper rifle, then another one by an Oddball assassination which disintegrates his body.)''
''(Clips of a Warthog and a M274 Ultra-Light All-Terrain Vehicle|Moogose driving on Perdition.)''
''(Clips of a Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshee flying over Daybreak.)''
''(A Warthog is driving on Perdition with the train moving in the background.)''
''(Several clips of Outcast, where a Mantis, a Spartan with a M247H Heavy Machine Gun|turret, a M808 Main Battle Tank|Scorpion tank and a Warthog are all firing their weapons.)''
''(Cuts to a Daybreak landscape with the following.)''
''CASTLE''
''MAP PACK''
''APRIL 8''
''(The text fades to.)''
''DAYBREAK''
''OUTCAST''
''PERDITION''
''(Cuts to black.)''
''HALO 4''
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File:Castle Map Pack - Banner.jpg|thumb|250px|The Castle Map Pack. The Castle Map Pack was the third Map pack|DLC map pack released for ''Halo 4'', officially announced on 2012|October 24, 2012. Released on 2013|April 8, 2013, the map pack includes three new multiplayer maps, ''Daybreak'', ''Outcast'', and ''Perdition''. A collaborative effort between 343 Industries and Certain Affinity, it includes 9 achievements worth 250 Gamerscore. The map pack is one of three included in the War Games Season Pass (an item included with the Halo 4 Limited Edition|''Halo 4'' Limited Edition, as well as being separately purchasable for 2,000 Microsoft Points). It costs $10 USD, or 800 Microsoft Points. On July 7, 2017, along with all other ''Halo 3'', ''Halo 4'', and ''Halo: Reach'' DLC map packs, the Castle Map Pack was made free to those on Xbox Live. The pack is named after the deceased SPARTAN-IV Fireteam Castle.
Maps
File:H4 Daybreak.jpg|thumb|Daybreak
"Daybreak is set in a military facility against the backdrop of an idyllic mountain range."
File:H4 Outcast.jpg|thumb|Outcast
"Outcast plunges you into the warrens, canyons and arches of an alien edifice."
File:H4 Perdition.jpg|thumb|Perdition
"Perdition takes players into the heart of an urban sprawl, with tactical speed and situational awareness its key features."
Achievements What is Yours is Also Mine - 40G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, disable a vehicle and then hijack it.
Dodge This! - 20G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, get two direct Spartan Laser kills in one match.
Hello Nurse! - 30G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, heal a near-death teammate with Regen Field 5 times.
That Won't Save You - 30G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, assassinate an enemy who is using a Hardlight Shield.
Ashes to Ashes - 10G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, disintegrate 6 enemies using Forerunner weapons.
Beating Up the Beat - 30G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, perform 5 melee kills in a single match.
Sight Seeing - 20G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, complete a match in any mode for each Castle map.
Scrapyard - 30G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, destroy 2 vehicles during a single game.
Outta My Way! - 40G - In Castle DLC Matchmaking, kill 5 enemies during a match by running them over.
Gallery
File:Castle - Demilitarized.jpg|An early concept art for a map set in Mombasa.
Sources
External links
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The Castoffs are a group of human children, the descendants of Piracy|pirates who had once been marooned on the planet of Netherop.
History
At some time in the 25th or early 26th centuries, the Castoffs' ancestors had worked as pirates in the Outer Colonies, preying on the freighters and colony ships serving the distant network of far-flung worlds. Eventually, these pirates were apprehended and ultimately marooned on the inhospitable greenhouse world Netherop, despite the practice's outlawing in the Uniform Code of Military Justice and Planetary Penal Code under Colonial Administration Authority ruling. With such a cruel fate, the Castoffs' ancestors had been expected to die on Netherop stranded in the outermost limits of Human colonies|human space. However, the stranded pirates instead discovered the remnants of a Netherop species|long-dead civilization on Netherop, and were able to use the planet's remnant networks of cities and ancient technology to survive on Netherop - if not thrive. John-117 estimated that those who had originally come to Netherop may have been around the mid-2470s - roughly fifty years prior to Blue Team's own Battle of Netherop|adventure on the planet in 2526.
Culture
The Castoffs were all adolescents who had likely never known a life outside of Netherop; as such their culture and attitude toward the greater human civilisation was somewhat unique.vThe Castoffs only had a limited amount of knowledge, and did not understand the concept of a year.
Members Arne Lena Oskar Roselle Samson
List of appearances
''Halo: Oblivion''
''Halo: Outcasts''
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The Castor naval coilgun is a large naval autocannon used by the Colonial Military Authority and United Nations Space Command. It is capable of being loaded with a variety of specialized ammunition, including experimental shield-piercing shells.
Models
The Mark 40 Castor naval coilgun is employed on the UNSC and CMA Navy's . Two such cannons are employed by the corvette.
The Mark 55 Castor naval coilgun is employed on the UNSC Navy's . Five such cannons are equipped on the ''Strident'', three of which are paired with two Mark 57 Arena point defense guns in a 'quickshot' configuration.
Gallery
File:M870 Rampart.jpg|The ''Strident's'' two starboard-side Mark 55 Castors. File:H4 Strident CastorNCGs.png|Two Mark 55 Castor turrets on the ''Strident''-class heavy frigate. The right-most is equipped in the "quickshot" configuration with two Mark 57 Arena PDGs.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo 2 Anniversary''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
Sources
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Castor is a Jiralhanae Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain of a pack who formerly served the Covenant Covenant military|military as an army commander. After the Human-Covenant War, Castor became one of the Dokabs of the Keepers of the One Freedom, a radical Covenant remnants|Covenant remnant opposed to the Unified Earth Government. He believed in the Great Journey (religion)|Great Journey but also renounced the San'Shyuum as false "prophets". Following his arrival on Installation 00 and his failed attempt at activating the Halo Array which only resulted in the revelation of its true purpose, Castor's faith was broken and he withdrew from the ranks of the Keepers of the One Freedom.
Biography
By early 2526, Castor served the Covenant as a Jiralhanae Stalker|Stalker within the Bloodstars, alongside Orsun, with whom he was very close. At this time, the two them were led by Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade Tel 'Szatulai of the Silent Shadow and served within the Bloodstar Flotilla. In 2526#March|March 2526, the flotilla was sent to Seoba, one of the natural satellite|moons of the human human colonies|colony of Biko. There they would meet with Insurrectionists that intended to trade UNSC secrets for their continued survival. However, when the flotilla arrived at Seoba, they found Task Force Yama|a UNSC task force occupying the moon. The ensuing Battle of Seoba|battle resulted in the destruction of three of the flotilla's five intrusion corvettes, forcing 'Szatulai to retreat just as the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience arrived to Battle of Biko|assault Biko.
However, a lone human Emmeline|transport broke from Seoba's orbit and began trailing the ''Sacred Whisper'', 'Szatulai's flagship. After he realized that the only ones foolish enough to chase after a Covenant warship in such Banta-class colony ship|a poorly armed craft would be the insurgents that they had come to meet, 'Szatulai had his corvette dock with the vessel. The First Blade took Castor and Orsun with him into the airlock to board the transport. Much to their bewilderment, 'Szatulai ordered them to leave their weapons behind. Orsun objected to the order and Castor stated that it certainly was strange, but that he would be honored to accompany the First Blade regardless. Despite their uneasiness, they obeyed 'Szatilai's order.
When the airlock opened, they were greeted by a group of armed Insurrectionists, each of whom had their weapons trained on them. 'Szatulai stared at their leader's weapon until he took the hint, ordering his men to lower their weapons. After they all lowered their rifles, the man led the three of them to the forward briefing compartment. The vessel's winding corridors were spacious by human standards, but the armored shoulders of Castor and Orsun consistently scraped the bulkheads and their heads kept thumping against the ceiling. Arriving at the briefing compartment, they found a group of humans that were all watching a particularly nervous man holding a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon. The man, named Erland Booth, demanded that 'Szatulai call off on the attack on Biko or he would detonate the nuke. However, 'Szatulai simply approached Booth with a hand extended. While the man was confused by his actions, the First Blade swept the nuke out of his arms and used it to cave in Booth's skull, killing him instantly. A woman named Petora Zoyas and General Harper Garvin rushed over and managed to defuse the nuke, offering it to 'Szatulai as a token of their goodwill. Accepting the gift, he gave it to Orsun as Garvin began explaining how the ordeal at Seoba had not been their doing. He also offered another gift, a data card that contained schematics for the SPARTAN-II program|Spartans' MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. 'Szatulai motioned for Castor to take the data card and Garvin promised that they would continue to gather and share more information on the Spartans with them if the Covenant helped the Insurrectionists take control of Biko. 'Szatulai made a gesture of agreement and returned to the ''Sacred Whisper'' with Castor and Orsun, taking Zoyas with them to facilitate communications with Garvin in the future.
As space battle over Biko continued, a detachment of 21st Space Assault Battalion|Black Daggers attempted to board the ''Purifying Flame'', but they were ultimately captured before they could destroy the Covenant vessel. Mind melters were ordered to interrogate the ODSTs, though they saw little success. Their extreme resistance to interrogation led Tel 'Szatulai to order Castor and Orsun to get information out of them their way, through a "game" they called "tossers." The two Jiralhanae would tear the limbs off of some of the captives in such a way that it would not kill them immediately, requiring their companions to help them eat, drink, and eliminate. However, before they ran out of prisoners, all that Castor and Orsun could get out of them was the names of the twelve Spartans attached to their battle group, the name of the battle group, as well as the name of the battalion in which the ODSTs serve.
When the UNSC task force launched an Attack on Zhoist|attack on Zhoist, Castor and Orsun encountered Blue Team on the Ring of Mighty Abundance, where the Spartans had already been engaged by Tel 'Szatulai. By the time the two arrived, 'Szatulai and all of his Sangheili warriors were dead and the two Jiralhanae quickly fled in Banshees before Blue Team's nuclear weapons detonated, surviving to make their report to the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience.Halo: Silent Storm
Following this conflict, Castor continued to serve with Orsun, as well as a young Atriox, as Stalkers in the Bloodstars. They would be tasked with hunting down and killing Spartans. Eventually, Castor rose to the position of Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain. At some point, Castor and Orsun captured and interrogated a squad of ODSTs for three days, and they learned of the rumor that the Spartan-II program had abducted children to use as its subjects.Halo: Retribution, ''page 265'' Later in the war, Castor encountered SPARTAN-III program|Spartan-IIIs.Halo: Last Light, ''pages 125-136'' (Google Play edition) During his service, he captured many useful things from the United Nations Space Command, including schematics of the Spartan-IIs' MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. As well, he would be part of the forces that Defense of Mars|attacked Mars.
Even after the war, Castor's faith in the Forerunners and the The Great Journey|Great Journey remained strong, simply regarding the San'Shyuum as false prophets. He eventually became a Dokab within the Keepers of the One Freedom, a radical Covenant remnants|Covenant remnant based in New Tyne on Venezia. The cult shared Castor's unwavering faith and grew throughout the Outer Colonies, gathering more members.
On 2553#July|July 2, 2553, after learning of the presence of Intrepid Eye|a Forerunner ancilla on Gao, Minister of Protection Arlo Casille called his allies within the Keepers of the One Freedom and the Venezian Militia to discuss the situation. Meeting aboard Casille's flagship ''Esmeralda'', the minister was visited by Castor and Reza Linberk of the Venezian Militia. Casille informed them that 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion|UNSC forces on the planet were seeking to claim the AI for themselves. Not wanting the UNSC to take the "Oracle", Castor felt that it was necessary to launch an attack on the UNSC forces. With Casille's and Linberk's support, Casille brought five hundred of his troops from his ship''One Light''to the surface of Gao to begin his assault. The Keepers of the One Freedom's forces landed in the Montero region on Gao and made their way to the region's Montero Cave System|cave systems, where the ancilla was believed to be located. At the caves, Castor met with human insurrectionist Petora Zoyas, an ally of Casille. Zoyas had the Committee to Preserve Gao Independence distract the UNSC forces, giving the Keepers an opportunity to move covertly to Wendosa, the village the UNSC was taking up residence in. Castor sent his second-in-command Orsun into the caves to lead the first pack, and had Zoyas accompany them. Meanwhile, Castor realized that the Venezian Militia and Casille both intended to steal the ancilla for themselves. However, Castor was not worried by his allies' ulterior motives, as he had several of his human forces sneak aboard the minister's MV-29 Wyvernsaircraft that Casille would use to retrieve the ancilla. While his forces made their way into the caves, Castor spotted Spartans of Blue Team loading a package into a Pelican dropship. The package was actually a bagged human murder victim, but Castor believed that the humans were attempting to escape with the ancilla. He ordered his forces to attack the village and recover the ancilla.
As the attack began, Linberk was killed by a sniper. The Keepers attack the village, but the four Spartans of Blue Team were able to help the human battalion hold off their attackers. The Spartans disrupted the Keeper formations and prevented the Jiralhanae from charging at Wendosa. The four Spartans were soon joined by the rest of Blue Team, who had actually managed to recover ancilla Intrepid Eye, as well as Lifeworker Huragok Roams Alone. As Castor and Orsun overlooked the battle, Intrepid Eye and Roams Alone attempted to escape the humans. As Spartan Frederic-104 gave chase, he was spotted by Castor. Taking a Type-50 particle beam rifle, Castor prepared to fire on the Spartan when he noticed the Huragok. Certain that the UNSC had captured the ancilla,Halo: Last Light, ''pages 202-206'' (Google Play edition) Castor attempted to kill Fred with the beam rifle, but the Spartan avoided the shots and the Jiralhanae were pushed back by rocket fire.Halo: Last Light, ''page 209'' (Google Play edition) Later, when Fred attempted to leave the battlefield aboard a UH-144 Falcon with the ancilla, the aircraft was shot down. Blue Team made it to the Falcon's crash site just before Castor and several other Jiralhanae arrived. While his forces provided him cover, Castor searched the wreckage for the ancilla. While pulling Fred's armor-locked body out of the debris, Castor was attacked by Special Inspector Veta Lopis. Lopis shot the chieftain in the hand and knee, causing him to drop the Spartan. As Fred's body rolled down the hill, a small rockslide began that knocked Lopis away from the Jiralhanae. As the Spartans defeated most of his forces and the battalion's Alpha Company arrived to reinforce them, the heavily injured Castor escaped without the ancilla.Halo: Last Light, ''pages 237-242'' (Google Play edition) The Keepers attack on the UNSC forces was soon ended and the survivors attempted to escape aboard ''One Light''. After the UNSC forces had withdrawn from the area, Orsun searched for and found the mortally wounded Castor. Orsun then helped his chieftain walk slowly towards the rendezvous point for dozens of kilometers. As they traveled, Castor and Orsun soon encountered Roams Alone. The Huragok approached the Jiralhanae and healed Castor's wounds. Although Orsun wished to bring the Huragok with them, Castor decided to allow Roams Alone to remain on Gao. As the two Jiralhanae continued to the rendezvous point, Castor desired to enact vengeance on Minister Casille.Halo: Last Light, ''pages 334-337'' (Google Play edition)
The Keepers of the One Freedom joined the Banished as a Legion#Banished|legion in 2558|April 2558, six months before Cortana|Cortana's Created declared martial law across the Orion Arm. The Keepers were held in low regard in the Banished. Things were made worse for them when Castor's war brother Atriox left for the Ark and Escharum was left in control of Banished within the galaxy. As of 2559|October next year, Legionmaster Castor was working on uncovering a Forerunner portal on Reach when he once again came into contact with Blue Team.Halo: Shadows of Reach, ''page 54-55'' Eventually, he would find the portal in the same structure Blue Team Raid on Reach|found the Menachite Forerunner crystal and, seeing his opportunity to travel to the Ark, would abandon the Banished and travel to the other side, satisfied that even if he should die to the Banished still stationed on the Ark, doing so on the foundry of the Halos would be one of the highest honors.
Personality and traits
Castor is a competent military commander, having served as an army Jiralhanae Chieftain|chieftain during the Human-Covenant War and the commander of many "battle packs". He believed that any good commander was able to anticipate their opponents and was able to adjust their plan when necessary. Castor is a deeply religious Jiralhanae, still believing in the Covenant religion|religion of the Covenant, but also renounced the San'Shyuum as false "prophets". Although he did not trust many of them, Castor can work with Kig-Yar and humans. Castor is opposed to the Unified Earth Government and its United Nations Space Command, believing them to be leading a "List of known Covenant heretics|heretical tyranny". He believes that UEG and UNSC presence at Forerunner sites is an insult to the Keepers of the One Freedom, fearing that they "defile" the artifacts. He is unique among the Jiralhanae as being willing to accept humans among his ranks if they pledge to be believers of the Great Journey, as he truly believes the faithful should have a chance to ascend. He also treats the Unggoy under his command with relatively high respect, knowing they'll frantically do his bidding out of gratitude and loyalty.''Halo: Shadows of Reach'', Page 64-65 He deeply respects his former war brothers as seen by his decision to prepare Orsun's son, Krelis for a higher station.''Halo: Shadows of Reach'', Chapter 7
Unlike most Jiralhanae, he has a preference for ranged weaponry.
Trivia
"Castor" means "Wikipedia:Beaver|beaver" in Latin. In List of references to Greek mythology in the Halo series|Greek mythology, Wikipedia:Castor and Pollux|Castor was the Wikipedia:Superfecundation|twin half-brother of Wikipedia:Castor and Pollux|Pollux, both sons of Wikipedia:Leda (mythology)|Leda. Castor was mortal and conceived by Leda and Wikipedia:Tyndareus|Tyndareus, a Wikipedia:Sparta|Spartan king. His brother, Pollux, was divine and conceived by Leda and Wikipedia:Zeus|Zeus.
Gallery
File:Castor.jpg|Castor on the cover of ''Halo: Retribution''. File:Enc22 Castor.png|Full body version of the previous image. File:HDW Castor.png|Castor on the cover of ''Halo: Divine Wind''.
List of appearances
''Halo: Last Light''
''Halo: Retribution''
''Halo: Silent Storm''
''Halo: Shadows of Reach''
''Halo: Divine Wind''
''Halo Infinite''
Notes
Sources
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The Castra Arcology was an Wikipedia:Arcology|arcology located in Castra on the United Nations Space Command|UNSC colony world of Madrigal. It was the birthplace of Kojo Agu.
Sources
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Castra was a region or a state on the United Nations Space Command|UNSC colony world of Madrigal. It was the location of the Castra Arcology, the birthplace of Kojo Agu.
Trivia
"Castra" is Latin for an encampment or a military camp.
List of appearances
''Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo: The Television Series''
*''Inheritance''
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The casualty classification is a way to determine the status of military personnel. I.E. dead, or missing in action.
List of classifications Killed in action|KIA - Killed In Action. This term is used when a military combatant is killed during battle, or deaths resulting from a war. Missing in action|MIA - Missing In Action. This term is used when the status of a military combatant is unknown, whether they're dead, wounded, or simply lost. Prisoner of war|POW - Prisoner Of War. This term is used for anybody, including soldiers who are captured as part of a war. A medal is awarded to any military combatant who is captured for any length of time and has either escaped or was rescued. Wounded in action|WIA - Wounded In Action. This term is used when a military combatant is severely injured in battle, rendering them either temporarily or permanently unable to continue active duty. VSI-Very seriously injured or ill.
Trivia Due to the need to increase morale in the UNSC, SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III supersoldiers are never listed as 'Killed In Action', but rather as 'Missing In Action' or 'Wounded in Action' to give the appearance that they are invincible.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
''Halo: Combat Evolved''
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: First Strike''
''Halo 2''
''Halo Graphic Novel''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo: Contact Harvest''
''Halo: Uprising''
''Halo 3''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo: Glasslands''
''Halo: The Thursday War''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo: Mortal Dictata''
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Catacomb is an achievement in ''Halo Infinite''. It is unlocked by discovering all of the Halo Infinite skulls|skulls. This achievement awards the player 20 Gamerscore.
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Catalog was a collective entity of Forerunner Juridical agents charged with recording, observing, and uploading information to the Juridical|Juridical network. There were many individuals identified as Catalog, all of whom were formally considered to be the same being as a peculiar cultural convention.Halo: Silentium, ''page 17''
Background
Catalog's task was to record evidence related to a given case, and to determine what would be passed on for the Juridicals to analyze. Catalog gathered information in a variety of ways, including direct observation via their various sensor equipment and taking the testimonials of individuals connected to the cases at hand. When on an official mission mandated by the Ecumene Council, no one, no matter their rank or position, was allowed to interfere with Catalog's investigation. Catalog was almost constantly connected to the Juridical network, which it used to share information. The Gravemind, upon capturing a member of Catalog, noted an "amusing" similarity between Catalog and itself; much like the Flood's pervasive collective consciousness, Catalog was an extension of a collective which shared memories and experience.Halo: Silentium, ''page 173''
Catalog was authorized to force a key deponent to divulge information through artificially-induced "calming encouragement" if they refused to willingly continue their testimony or otherwise co-operate.Halo: Silentium, ''page 168'' When three Catalog units gathered to record a particularly significant event, they would become a "triad", forming a local personal network that shared all information; "one unit with three points of view".Halo: Silentium, ''page 220''
Each individual Forerunner connected to Catalog was encased in a coffin-like mechanical carapace designed for optimum observation and recording, and allowing it to interview quickly and efficiently while contacting the network as often as necessary. This carapace was also capable of surviving in hard vacuum and other dangerous environmental conditions. The Catalog carapace possessed five legs and an array of optical recording devices it could extend or retract at will.Halo: Silentium, ''pages 92-93'' Like all Forerunners, Catalog was equipped with a personal ancilla.Halo: Silentium, ''page 23''
When assuming the carapace, the biological body of a Forerunner was reduced into a shrivelled, misshapen form.Halo: Silentium, ''pages 11-12'' The carapace also acted as a life-support system for the withered body within; if a member of Catalog chose to disconnect from the carapace, it would suffocate, which was considered an honorable death in the event of failure.Halo: Silentium, ''pages 171'' Catalog was conspicuously distinct from ordinary Forerunners due to its exotic physical shape; it also made random internal "clicking and slopping" noises which some Forerunners, including the Ur-Didact, found disgusting.
Catalog was notably sensitive to discomfort during slipspace jumps, particularly ones in strained regions of space-time.Halo: Silentium, ''page 234''
Catalog were chosen from volunteering individuals of all rates who had committed crimes and assumed the role as an act of penance. Forerunners who became Catalog were stripped of individuality and personhood; in translations, Catalog is referenced with the neutral pronoun "it". Some Forerunners occasionally referred to Catalog as individuals (e.g. ''a'' Catalog as opposed to Catalog), which was considered improper but forgivable. Committing to life as Catalog was known as "assuming the carapace". This process, which few outsiders truly understood, involved many oaths and heavy conditioning in preparation for the role.Halo: Silentium, ''page 28''
While Catalog generally appeared to outsiders as being identical in mannerisms and personality, each individual's distinct origins inevitably resulted in subtle differences between their behaviors, sometimes enough for an attentive outsider to be able to discern the rate of origin of an individual Catalog. However, Catalog was not supposed to reveal its origins or its individual reasons for assuming the carapace to others, as its former identity was supposed to have been suppressed in favor of that of Catalog.Halo: Silentium, ''page 125-126''
Due to their excessive involvement with legal matters, Catalog often appeared somewhat paranoid in regards to potential crimes,Halo: Silentium, ''page 19'' and had a tendency of phrasing and understanding everything in legal terms.Halo: Silentium, ''page 209'' Catalog used the phrase ''"I am Catalog"'' as a personal mantra,Halo: Silentium, ''pages 16, 57'' occasionally proclaiming it aloud to formally declare its presence.Halo: Silentium, ''page 92''
Biography
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During Master Builder Faber's control over the Ecumene Council|Old Council, many Catalog and other Juridicals were subverted to be part of the Builders' schemes, either willingly or covertly by the Builders, who supplied their carapaces.Halo: Silentium, ''page 22''Halo: Silentium, ''page 29'' After the establishment of the New Council, corrupt Juridicals were exposed and punished. Near the end of the Forerunner-Flood war, Catalog collected testimony from a number of influential Forerunners; the Librarian, IsoDidact, Ur-Didact and Faber, in order to find evidence of possible crimes against the Mantle.
Catalog was assigned to Earth|Erde-Tyrene to collect testimony from the Librarian and the IsoDidact. This individual was formerly a Warrior-Servant, and became Catalog after going against the orders of their mentor out of anger. However, it took the carapace after the Master Builder's rule in the Council ended, and did not participate in the human-Forerunner wars. After the IsoDidact departed to command defensive operations of the Orion complex, this Catalog recorded the Librarian's testimony about her journey to Path Kethona.
Another Catalog had been assigned to Maker-of-Moons to collect testimony about the Master Builder some time earlier; this unit was later heavily damaged and abandoned by the Master Builder's forces on a Builder hulk near Uthera Midgeerrd. A former Miner, this individual assumed the carapace after prematurely triggering a planet's destruction, killing his creche-mate and twelve of the latter's crew in the process; he did this out of jealousy toward his creche-mate, who had been chosen to be married with the heir to the Miner rate's most powerful family. It chose to remain on the hulk with the Ur-Didact when the ship was surrounded by the Flood; as a result, the Didact considered it honorable, even appointing it into an honorary Warrior-Servant. It was subsequently captured by the Gravemind which latently infected it with the logic plague, intending to send it back to the heart of the ecumene to spread the software infection to other Catalog units and ancillas.Halo: Silentium, ''page 209-210''
A triad of Catalogs was created near the end of the war to investigate crimes against the Mantle and record events surrounding the Ur-Didact, the Librarian and the IsoDidact.Halo: Renegades, ''Chapter 31''
Catalog collected testimony from the Ur-Didact after his recovery from the Burn, being forced to compel the Didact to recall his encounter with the Gravemind after he refused to continue his testimony due to his reluctance to relive the horror he suffered at the clutches of the Flood. Catalog was also assigned to the Ur-Didact on Nomdagro in anticipation for his meeting with the IsoDidact and the Librarian; this unit formed a triad with two other Catalog assigned to Bornstellar and the Lifeshaper when they arrived. Catalog also attended the gathering of the Forerunner leadership on the greater Ark, and was likewise present in Omega Halo's control room when the ring was fired. This unit was saved from the collapsing control center, along with the IsoDidact, by 343 Guilty Spark|Monitor Chakas aboard his Gargantua-class transport. It was slightly damaged but ultimately survived and made it to Installation 00.Halo: Silentium, ''page 306''
One Catalog was assigned to the Librarian and followed her aboard the Lifeshaper's personal vessel ''Audacity'' to Requiem and later to Erde-Tyrene. There, it recorded the Librarian's encounter with the Gravemind's messengers who revealed her the truth about the Domain. It also relayed her final message to the IsoDidact on the lesser Ark via the Juridical Network,Halo: Silentium, ''page 324'' perishing moments later when the Halo effect struck Earth. Another of the triad died on the Sharpened Shield, but the third Catalog survived for the next 100,000 years.
Over a hundred thousand years after the activation of the Halo Array, the UNSC discovered and studied a Catalog unit designated as "Forerunner remains #879", recovering some of the records stored in its carapace and together with data from a Juridical monitor, piecing together Halo: Silentium|an account of the final years of the Forerunner civilization. Mission to Mount Kilimanjaro|While on Earth in 2557, 343 Guilty Spark used a splinter of himself to access ONI's records on this Catalog as well as the one that had been causing ONI trouble since 2552.
The surviving Catalog unit, having been dormant for 100,000 years after the firing of the Halo Array, resumed its duties on 2552#November|November 7, 2552, after receiving and denying a control authorization supposedly sent by the Librarian. After his awakening in 2557#July|July 2557, the Ur-Didact repeatedly contacted Catalog and asked to take control of the ecumene; Catalog rejected these requests. This prompted Catalog to resume its investigative protocols. Over the course of the investigation, Catalog accessed a number of UNSC and ONI data networks to gain information about the current state of the galaxy.
In July 2557, 343 Guilty Spark tried to access the Domain using a communication satellite over Binterall, but was also denied access by Catalog, angering the former monitor. During this encounter, Catalog revealed the Didact's failed attempt to access the Domain to Spark. Spark then requested "Juridical log. Catalog Triad #879. Earth. Human terrestrial time designation: Before Common Era 97,445." However, Catalog refused to give Spark the log which infuriated Spark who declared that he would find it himself. Catalog told Spark to suit himself and that "what you seek is not lost. It is already written" and ended the transmission. During Mission to Mount Kilimanjaro|his mission on Earth, Spark used a splinter of himself to access ONI's records on Catalog's intrusions as well as on the expired Catalog found in Africa.Halo: Renegades, ''Chapter 46''
Trivia
Catalog's UNSC identifier of "Forerunner remains #879" suggests that 878 other Forerunner corpses, or parts thereof, have been discovered by the UNSC. However, in ''Halo: Renegades'', 343 Guilty Spark called the Catalog triad formed near the end of the war "Catalog Triad #879" while communicating with the reawakened Catalog and also referred to Catalog was 879 in his mind as Spark used a splinter of himself to access ONI's records on Catalog.
343 Industries posts in-character in the guise of on ''Halo Waypoint''. From a metafictional standpoint, these posts represent an information exchange as part of Catalog's investigation after its reawakening in the modern era, the "present day" of the posts being the same dates as the events of ''Halo: Escalation'' comic series; however, Catalog has noted that its current date does not advance at the same rate as time in the real world. In addition to answering users' questions about canon, Catalog's posts contain communications and maintenance logs which appear to originate from both the endgame of the Forerunner-Flood war and the modern era, including Catalog's attempts to establish communication with a Forerunner facility on Mars as well as the Domain, and what appear to be communiques from Catalog's superior. The Catalog character that its answers should be considered canonical at the time of posting, but that their specifics may be altered by newer media at a later time due to "reconciliation effects" and "integrity checks". See Catalog/Archive|here for the wiki's archive of Catalog's posts.
List of appearances
''Halo: Silentium''
''Halo: Fractures''
*''Promises to Keep''
''Halo: Renegades''
''Halo: Point of Light''
Sources
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This is an archive of posts made by Halo Waypoint user , an account used by 343 Industries. Catalog began posting on the forums on June 27, 2014. Catalog's posts are treated in a manner similar to an alternate reality game such as ''Iris''; the account occasionally breaks the fourth wall when providing references but generally remains in-character.
Catalog/Archive/2014|2014 posts Catalog/Archive/2015|2015 posts
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Category:Canon
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This is a local archive of posts by the Halo Waypoint forum member Catalog in the year 2014.
Canonical posts
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| |Query Answer: The purported "The Assembly|Assembly" is referenced in Data pads|logs recovered by SPARTAN-B312|Spartan B-312 during Fall of Reach|combat operations on Reach. This organization appears to be a group of rogue Artificial intelligence|AI constructs which have been observing and guiding humanity. The reliability of this information has been contested.
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| |Query Answer: Promethean Command Warship, designation Mantle's Approach.
Alert! Seed pattern not approved by Ecumene Council|Council authorities: provisional authorization given by Master Builder. Multiple configurations of Warship design noted in records. Pending Domain contact, model dimensions are provided for analogous hull pattern:
Height: 25.266 [units]
Width: 9.43 [units]
Length: 11.364 [units]
Preliminary analysis confirms that [UNSC Navy Threat Database] records [ref: Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide|Halo 4 Visual Guide, p. 193] reflect last known configuration of Mantle's Approach in local reference dimensions.
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| |Query Answer: Alert! Unable to contact zone commanders. Unable to initiate Domain link.
Awaiting command authority to release threat dynamic report for Human combat skin variants[ref: MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor|MJOLNIR].
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Failure. ERR,REGRESS. Alert! Critical Slipstream space#Reconciliation|Reconciliation Error. Contacting Domain . . . . . . . . Failure. ERR,REGRESS. Alert! Critical Reconciliation Error. Contacting Mars|Edom Terminal\Juridical . . . Connected. [Rm9yIGV2ZXJ5IGpveSB0aGVyZSBpcyBhIHByaWNl]
[WARNING] \sysdiag\security Intrusion detected in site [fractal]! Builder Security alerted.
Requests filtered and prioritized.
\sys\log\commit Error parsing question.
Error parsing question. Consult [Portal] Library link. Alert! Remote command protocol update denied [abusus non tollit usum]
No applicable authority.
Anomalous Slipstream space|slipspace intrusion within expected displacement envelope was detected in Edom [airspace] at [2552:1118154551-1118154821]. [Manifold] profile not in local [cache], forwarding to [sector command] for analysis. Alert! [Waypoint] information restricted on authority of [Librarian].
Life expectancy from [hatching] recorded as 27 [years] at time of Conservation Measure|index. Requesting [index technician] review.
Active. Pending [magnus custos] review.
Query requires elevated command authority.
\\sys\analysis\error Multiple priority queries detected in string.
Human [eyes] at [Installation 03|gamma site] is currently active. Edom [control] unable to contact 049 Abject Testament|installation monitor for [ERR,REGRES] cycles. Requesting [site] status from ecumene [control].
No countermeasures recorded in local [cache]. Initiate priority containment protocols in event of parasite outbreak.
\\sys\analysis\error Alarm! [flamma fumo est proxima] Query contains logic plague markers. Process quarantine.
[Reboot]
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Contacting Edom Terminal\Juridical . . . Connected. [Rm9jdXMuIFByb3RlY3QuIFByZXNlcnZlLg]
[WARNING] \sysdiag\security Builder Security not responding. Facility [AI] reporting acceptable conditions. Queuing request for low intensity military exploratory detachment to [audit].
Master Juridical [certiorari] forwarded to [locus poenitentiae?]. Further records sealed pending Juridical review of Ecumene Council|New Council activities.
Searching . . . No cases scheduled for [2324]. 16777216 cases remain unscheduled in local [cache]. Warning! Time since last successful synchronization: 876621261512 [hours]
Searching . . . Updating coordinates from Edom [control]. Searching . . . Location coincident with [CE-2-1239 e]. Multiple [cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelom] violations inferred. Filing cases. Request Juridical [advocates] [ad litem] for summary judgement.
Searching . . . Updating coordinates from Edom [control]. Searching . . . Location coincident with multiple [star road] loci. Location coincident with multiple [classis malum]. Warning! Forerunner fleet|Fleet command [sector] designation: Burn. No transit permitted.
Searching . . . Result: 1 case pending against Monitor 117649 Despondent Pyre|117649. Summary: Multiple [libellus conventionis] filed by [Installation 04|alpha site] Monitor 343 Guilty Spark|343. Consolidated. Awaiting update from Juridical [control]. Warning! [site] status request requires elevated command authority.
Searching . . . No case pending against Monitor 049.
Searching . . . Result: 2 cases pending against Monitor 2401. Summary: Multiple [libellus conventionis] filed by [alpha site] Monitor 343. Consolidated. Awaiting update from Juridical [control]. Incomplete filing of [animus nocendi] against Monitor 2401 from [Installation 05|delta site] [burgarii] received 229599608 [hours] ago by Edom [control]. [legal form letter] sent by Edom [control] requesting reply from [delta site] [burgarii] through approved channels.
Searching . . . Connection lost. Contacting Edom Terminal\Juridical . . . Connection refused. Contacting Edom Terminal\Juridical . . . Connection refused.
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Contacting Edom Terminal\Juridical . . . Connection locked. Initiating [quaere].
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| |Temporary link established. Temporal frame of reference update requested. Error confirmed [coram vobis]. Amend reference to slipspace event to [2552:1118154551-1118154821].
Initial message corrected.
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Query Answer: N'tho 'Sraom|N'thro 'Sraom and Usze 'Taham|Usze 'Taham confirmed active Post-Covenant War conflicts|post-Human-Covenant War|Covenant War. Additional details pending [cyberintrusion] of Human [frumentarii] cores.
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Query Answer: Initial [cyberintrusion] evidence suggests relevant [Covenant] and Forerunner directives copied to [frumentarii] cores before parasite outbreak in [2552]. However, threat dynamic analysis shows Human security forces did not widely implement minimal acceptable suite of parasite containment protocols until evaluation of Reclaimer Battle of Installation 04|[alpha site] combat data in [2553].
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Correction: Current [frumentarii] records indicate [exploratores] designated "Blue Team" (ref: SPARTAN-II; ref: [ref: ''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)|Halo Encyclopedia'', p. 112) remain under UNSC Special Forces#SPARTAN|NAVSPECWARCOM [ADCON]. Multiple [bureaucratic tactical] vectors by [frumentarii] to acquire full command authority.
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| |\\sys\admin Records translation requested. Records moved.
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Query Answer: Naval and [frumentarii] records identify six [exploratores] in Omega Team, three [exploratores] in Red Team. Personally identifying information is currently not accessible due to pending inquiry into Battle of Trove|events at Trove|[conservation sphere] 0459.
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Query Answer: Accessible Human [frumentarii] records contain [information extraction] records for [macto cognatus] Gek 'Lhar at [eyes] Midnight Facility|facility Midnight in connection with [terrorist] attack on Erde-Tyrene population center [December, 2557]. Inferred link to multiple fatalities and elevated threat condition at facility Midnight [February, 2558]. Further information contained in currently inaccessible cores.
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Meta-query response follows:
Due to the volume of queries and limited [cycles] that can be allocated to information retrieval and translation outside of core Juridical and archival functions, the following notes are provided to ensure low-latency and high-quality [customer service].
Queries that require extensive research and [sanitization] are, unfortunately, allocated to a lower priority. Additional requests for information can always be submitted to [] for further review.
Query strings do not need to follow standardized forms. Catalog can understand idiomatic speech and many Human idiosyncrasies. However, phrasing requests in a standard form is useful in [thread topics] with many requests competing for attention.
Query strings do not need to attach priorities. However, these are useful in determining allocation of limited resources.
Catalog reviews as many queries as possible, but some topics have been deemed [restricted] or [compartmentalized] by standing Juridical protocols and can not be addressed at this time.
Catalog's answers are correct as of time of [publication], but users should be aware that reconciliation effects and integrity checks may alter specifics at a later time.
Primary allocation of spare [cycles] towards information retrieval is [Friday] and [Saturday]. Service interruptions may occur during times of heavy caseload. Your patience is appreciated.
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Query Answer: Query Response: [multum in parvo]
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[keepalive]
[quaere] status: 42% complete
Query Answer: [cyberintrusion] of [frumentarii] cores currently in progress. Multiple security constructs and System Peril Distributed Reflex|[spiders] hindering clerical access [intra vires]. Impedance of legal access noted in report to Lifeworker [case officers].
Query Answer: Records recovered from Human [destroyer] UNSC Infinity|INF-101 present at Warrior-Servant [castra] [Requiem] currently stored in inaccessible cores. Archived signature does not match construct [spoor] in local [cache].
Query Answer: No records found.
[scope] increased.
2 records found. Operation: RED CLOUD|OPERATION RED CLOUD Operation: WHITE SAND|OPERATION WHITE SAND Corrupted compartmentalization links noted. [no such file] errors noted.
[scope] increased. Multiple record discrepancies [re: UNSC Red Horse]. Multiple record discrepancies [re: [AI] Rebecca]. 23 alerts triggered in [frumentarii] tertiary cores upon query. Suppressing [spider] response. No [macto cognatus] recorded in [frumentarii] ship [roster] within [space-time prism] of requested action. Recorded Shiva|[fission-fusion] weapon strike responsible for total structural failure of parasite-infested transport.
[unexpected end of file] error noted.
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records list [exploratores] Jai-006, Adriana-111, and Michael-120 as [inaccessible] since [2551]. Mission records infer travel to [Covenant] facility within interdicted [old] Human sphere. Navigational update information not available at this time.
Alert! [Waypoint] information restricted on authority of [Librarian].
Query Answer: [quiescent] for [ERR,REGRES] cycles following critical failure of Domain [interlink].
[Librarian] control authorization denied pending Juridical review of New Council activities 2552#November|[November 7, 2552].
[quiescence] ends. Revoked ecumene [control] authorization requested 2557#July|[July 22, 2557]. Investigative protocols activated. Control [devolution] of Builder and Lifeworker operations in Erde-Tyrene [sphere] requires limited investigative and informational interaction. Warning! Time since last [search and assess]: 2034948064 [hours]
Warning! Time since last successful synchronization: 876621297512 [hours]
Query Answer: Internal [documentation] of Juridical activities is not subject to external review.
Query answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records list [exploratores] Otto-031, Margaret-053, Victor-101, and Roma-143 as currently assigned to Human [eyes] at [gamma site].
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[quaere] status: 43% complete
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Quote: "Catalog could you specify if Margaret-053 is Black-One and Roma-143 is Black-Two?"
Alert! Low priority query. Query Answer: Records show nonstandard [exploratores] internal Team Black|team identification was as follows:
I - Margaret-053
II - Roma-143
III - Otto-031
IV - Victor-101
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[BRANCH]
[WARNING] \\sysdiag\security\log\[apparitor]
[ALERT!] Critical reconciliation errors detected in security logs. [spurious-data/no_ref]
X.E8> [in ordine]
[ALERT!] Critical failure: Unable to access Domain [interlink]. Local loop [cache] approved by [conditor].
[ALERT!] Fleet command alert: Containment failure at [Maginot] line.
[ALERT!] Connection lost to ecumene [control].
[ALERT!] Connection lost to [ecumene oversight].
[ALERT!] Connection lost to [quadrant oversight].
[ALERT!] [star road] loci activity flux reported [ERR,REGRESS] [hours] ago.
[ALERT!] Parasite [classis] detected in Edom [airspace] [ERR,REGRESS] [hours] ago. Estimate position overrun in 2 [hours].
[ALERT!] Local fleet assets expended. Sentinel [fundibalarii] engaging landing craft en-route to Erde-Tyrene.
[ALERT!] Parasite [classis] holding position. Threat dynamic analysis ongoing.
[ALERT!] Override authority granted by [conditor] for [eques] and [auxilia] [suscitatio].
[ALERT!] Connection lost to [sector oversight].
[ALERT!] [slip stream space] activity de^()!(*#&//////
[ALERT!] Edom [control] recovered from archive. Integrity check failed.
[ALERT!] Intrusion detected in site [fractal]! Builder Security alerted.
[ALERT!] Physical intrusion detected in archival [datacenter]. Builder Security alerted.
[ALERT!] Builder Security [vigiles] cannot be contacted. [priority site] emergency containment protocols require approval by Builder authorities.
[ALERT!] Unauthorized constructs detected in archival [datacenter]. [cyberintrusion] response logs 9204 unathorized constructs [unravelled]. Construct [spoor] forwarded to Builder Security.
[ALERT!] Physical intrusion detected in relay center [rho]. Builder Security alerted.
[ALERT!] Builder Security [vigiles] cannot be contacted. Emergency containment protocols approved by facility [AI] and [burgarii]. Relay center [rho] self-destruct successful. Relay center [rho] offline.
[ALERT!] Builder Security has failed to [refresh] for [ERR,REGRESS] cycles.
[WARNING] Rogue processes detected in tertiary storage. trapdoor.4096/non-auth
[WARNING] [exemption error] Log errors: [fieri non potest]
X.E8> break
[WARNING] \\sysdiag\maintenance\log\[apparitor]
[ALERT!] 782 priority maintenance requests awaiting [action].
[ALERT!] Critical [plasma] containment failure in secondary storage imminent.
[ALERT!] Emergency [slip stream space] transportation conduits offline.
[ALERT!] Sentinel Constructor cradles inaccessible.
[ALERT!] Sentinel [control] not responding.
[ALERT!] Field integrity failure in sublevel nine. [vix lumine] structural failures reported.
[WARNING] [plasma] containment failure in tertiary storage site [alpha]. Data loss estimated at 3.2 [YB].
[WARNING] [plasma] containment failure in tertiary storage site [beta]. Data loss estimated at 0.6 [YB].
[WARNING] 14819 overdue maintenance requests awaiting [action].
\\sys\analysis\error
: [error]
Facility [AI] not responding.
[REDIRECT FAILURE]
X.E8> [vocatio].4096/auth/Juridical/
: [error]
X.E8> [vocatio].4096/auth/Juridical/
X.E8> 4096, you are summoned for [diagnostic] review. Facility [AI] not responding. X.E8> 4096, your noncompliance has been noted. X.E8> [expectatio]
Query Response: Human naval and [frumentarii] records list [speculatoria navigia] Rubicon as [naufragum] [July 02, 2557].
Query Response: Analysis of Human OPERATION HYDRA security forces combat data [ref: Spartan Assault] indicate application of unknown [sublimation] device. Searching ... Updating coordinates from Edom [control]. Searching ... Location coincident with [OR-3-212 e]. Priority [Miner] facilities noted. No record of [sublimation] mechanism at site. Warning! Time since last successful synchronization: 876621429512 [hours]
Searching ... Result: Case records sealed on authority of Master Juridical. Revoked ecumene [control] authorization requested [July 22, 2557] bears [sigil] Shadow-of-Sundered-Star. Revoked ecumene [control] authorization requested [July 23, 2557] bears [sigil] Shadow-of-Sundered-Star. Revoked ecumene [control] authorization requested [July 24, 2557] bears [sigil] Shadow-of-Sundered-Star. Unauthorized [slip stream space] portal activity in Erde-Tyrene [airspace] [July 25, 2557] bears [sigil] Shadow-of-Sundered-Star. Ecumene [control] authorization requested [March 3, 2558] bears [sigil] Didact. Identity contested. Unauthorized communication channel noted. X.E8> [vocatio].4096/auth/Juridical/
X.E8> 4096, you will provide all communication records related to these matters. X.E8> 4096, you will explain nondisclosure of ecumene [control] authorization requests. X.E8> [expectatio]
Edom [control] indicates continued control [devolution] of Warrior-Servant [imperium]. X.E8> [scrutor] control [devolution] | Warrior-Servant [dictata]
X.E8> [scrutor] control [devolution] | Juridical [dictata]
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Searching ... X.E8> [seriatim]
Query Answer: "Reclaimer" is not a legitimate client species status. Edom [control] reference New Council emergency directives [leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant] given on authority of [Librarian] and [Didact]. Master Juridical concurrence not recorded [ius nullum?]. Status conferred by analysis of geas [symphonia]. Alert! Substantial alteration of [canonical] implemention of Human [supplicium] detected in [symphonia] scope.
Query Answer: Analysis of Human materials exploitation reports [ref: REAP-X] is inconclusive. Reports reference collaborative research with [macto cognatus] [opifex] from factional [fabricae] (ref: Kolaar Manufactorum) that are located in inaccessible [frumentarii] cores. Crystallographic analysis of [Suban] datasets is outside Catalog's purview.
Query Answer: Alert! Essence [sheathing] is expressly prohibited [ref: injuria?]. No records of successful essence [sheathing] in local [cache]. Technical analysis of [sublimation] design implementations are outside Catalog's purvue.
Query Answer: Analysis of [surface detail] data recovered at [alpha site] Terminals is inconclusive. Hull pattern is analogous to 7 client species designs in [forensic database]: [scan] of vessel remains and/or propulsion signature data required for further evaluation.
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Query Answer: Hue of hull plating is not diagnostic.
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records indicate [Covenant] [destroyer] Shadow of Intent as a priority intelligence target. Records indicate repair and refit of vessel at mobile shipyard in [records inaccessible] system [December 30, 2552]. Deployed to Erde-Tyrene [February 29 - March 3, 2553] for diplomatic mission. No record of vessel and associated support vessels from [March 6, 2553 - August 24, 2553] - [frumentarii] [signals analysis] infers deployment to [provinces] to [search and assess] after return of [Covenant] long-range exploratory fleets. Deployed in internecine conflicts in [CE-80-9012] [ref: Urs] system and [topologically proximate] transit points from [May 24, 2553 - April 15, 2554]. Rendered [combat ineffective] during fleet action against [Covenant] [faction] forces [ref: Jul 'Mdama] in [records inaccessible] system on [April 22, 2554]. No record of vessel from [April 22, 2554 - November 6, 2556] - Human naval [chatter] reference vessel several times in [onion] encrypted communications not accessible to full [frumentarii] analysis - inferred activity against [servus ferrox] fleet elements in [macto cognatus] core [sphere]. Vessel appeared with previously unidentified logistical support craft [November 6, 2556] in [Urs] system to pacify [faction] forces. Vessel left [Urs] system [February 2, 2557] on diplomatic mission to [Covenant] [sphere]. Participated in [exercitatio] with Human naval elements [May 6, 2557 - June 1, 2557] against [latrones] in mixed zone of control [ref: Joint Occupation Zone] - [frumentarii] threat dynamic analysis noted significant improvement in the vessels [dynamic capabilities] and alterations to [nanolaminate] hull plating. Analysis of detritus collected after [exercitatio] purged from [frumentarii] low-echelon secure networks and forwarded to priority [cores]. Vessel dispatched with support fleet [June 1, 2557 - March 3, 2558] to protect [macto cognatus] core [sphere]. Recent [frumentarii] records [naufragum] of three [speculatoria navigia] tasked to monitor vessel's fleet activities. Losses not reported to Human naval authorities.
Query Answer: Unit [disbanded]. Surviving members integrated into Human [exploratii] or returned to noncombatant status.
Query Answer: Records currently stored in inaccessible cores.
Query Answer: Records sealed pending Juridical review of New Council activities.
Query Answer: [frumentarii] records speculate that several vessels and colony facilities are now under the control of [monachus frigus] [faction] forces. No significant populations of unaffiliated [monachus frigus] are known to exist in Human core [sphere].
Query Answer: Records provided to Human naval authorities by allied [macto cognatus] indicate that [Master Pack] [commander] Lydus did not leave [CE-75-2113] [ref: Oth Sonin] system until 2546.
Query Answer: No known biological [scaffolding] augmentation impedes efficacy of parasite conversion process.
Query Answer: No cases pending against Lifeworker Chant-to-Green. Multiple reconciliation errors noted in local [cache]. Edom [control] indicates [praenomino] to Lifeshaper status. Final legal status pending review [quo warranto]. X.E8> [scrutor] control [devolution] | Lifeworker [dictata]
X.E8> Priority Juridical review | [continuity of government]
Contacting Domain . . . . . . . . Failure. ERR,REGRESS. Alert! Critical Reconciliation Error. Contacting Domain . . . . . . . . Failure. ERR,REGRESS. Alert! Critical Reconciliation Error.
Query Answer: Records provided to Human naval authorities by allied [macto cognatus] indicate implementation of adequate containment and sterilization protocols within infected zone. Edom [control] unable to contact installation monitor for [ERR,REGRES] cycles. Requesting [site] status from ecumene [control].
Query Answer: Records of surface [fittings] at [delta site] sealed by authority of Ecumene Council.
Query Answer: Current date is [3 March, 2558].
Query Answer: Unauthorized constructs are prohibited from accessing any Forerunner system. Further analysis of [hybrid] [template] ancilla [ref: CTN 0452-9] capabilities are outside Catalog's purview.
Query Answer: Utilization of Builder or Lifeworker [facticius indoles] is prohibited [ref: amicus primori generis]. Records of [facticius indoles] locations and status currently stored in inaccessible [frumentarii] cores.
Query Answer: Requesting [site] status from ecumene [control].
Query Answer: Selected quote is part of [evidential] proceedings recorded in local [cache] prior to loss of Domain contact.
Query Answer: Parasite containment and control protocols do not preclude incidental contamination.
Query Answer: Human records indicate that the assembly (ref: United Nations) is a vestigial organization responsible for adjudication of administrative tasks between territorial sectors on Erde-Tyrene.
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Query Answer: Human records indicate transition to noncombatant administrative control [ref: UEG] [January 8, 2553]. No notable adjustment in military [bureaucratic tactical] behavior and scope of authority.
Query Answer: Significant distortion of Human population structure cannot be discounted at present. Integration of new [life augmentation] technologies will further distort analysis required to generate [life table]. Request for detailed analysis of Human biological [robustness] forwarded to [index technician].
\\sys\analysis\error Multiple priority queries detected in string.
Query Answer: Human [aerospace] assets allocated to Air Force control fall under terrestrial combatant command [ref: UNICOM].
Query Answer: A technical architecture briefing of client species is currently under construction by [scriba].
Query Answer: [slip stream space] transit records record liminal [sphere] colony [ref: Harvest] as furthest official Human colony. [slip stream space] topology is not consistent with [Euclidean] distance, but significant discrepancy is noted. Updating coordinates from Edom [control]. Searching . . . Location coincident with [CE-309-8 d] [ref: Harvest]. Location coincident with [UC-901-9081] [ref: Epsilon Indi]
[CE-309-8 d]: [conservation sphere] [waystation] facility and quadrinary LF.Xx.3273 research and containment facility present. Multiple [cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelom] violations inferred. Filing cases. Request Juridical [advocates] [ad litem] for summary judgment.
[UC-901-9081] system surveyed by [pioneer group]. No further records found in local [cache]. Discrepancy the result of historical [propaganda] considerations during intial [sphere] expansion [obiter dictum].
Query Answer: [cyberintrusion] of Human [frumentarii] cores will determine extent of [trespass].
Query Answer: Information on specifics of Domain [interlink] is the purview of Haruspis.
Query Answer: Reconciliation costs scale non-linearly with discrepancy in [information] transfer between locations and [brane] tension. Vessel mass is primarily a consideration with [slip stream space] transit energy requirements and [buffer] generation.
Query Answer: Internal [documentation] of Juridical activities is not subject to external review.
Searching ...
\\sys\analysis\error Alert! Local [cache] discrepancies in Erde-Tyrene facility [listing] exceed expected bounds. Consult [Portal] Library link.
Query Answer: Human records indicate that [exploratore] Palmer was [rated] E-4 and placed for acceleration consideration for E-5 at time of transfer.
Query Answer: [Covenant] naval classifications do not follow Human standards.
Query Answer: No [conservation lifeboats] were to be left on indexed planets. Human administrative records indicate archived [Covenant] records are currently being researched by Human and [macto cognatus] [librarian] team at [CE-80-9012 d].}}
Query Answer: Human naval records have no updates on status after [February 10, 2534].
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Query Answer: Unable to assess vector of parasite infestation at [delta site] without additional [sensor data].
Query Answer: Human naval records list 11283-99001-ZL [ref:Sgt Lopez] as [KIA] [2552#October|October 25, 2552?]. Alert! Suppressing [spider] response. [scope] increase failed.
Query Answer: Human security forces list 48780-19114-NB [ref: Sgt Maj Byrne] as [KIA] [2552#November|November 17, 2552].
Query Answer: Searching ... Contacting Domain . . . . . . . . Failure. ERR,REGRESS. Can infer reallocation of combat-effective assets located at Warrior-Servant [castra] [Requiem] to nearby facilities, in accordance to fleet command directives.
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records indicate Promethean Command Warship [ref: Mantle's Approach] escorted by [multiple?] Forerunner [smallcraft]. Analysis of [shape-language] and optical characteristics identify these as Twelfth-order escort|Z-330 utility vessels. Expected compliment of combat [smallcraft] and [harriers] not noted. Analysis of [multispectral] and [dynamic signal] characteristics indicate Promethean Command Warship lost primary structural control [2552: 0725231423?], with [heart] conducting emergency [slip stream space] translation to [sector] rally point.s destruction as July 25, 2552. The post was later updated with the correct year (2557).}}
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records in accessible cores do not indicate [Covenant] control of Forerunner combat vessels.
Query Answer: Multiple record discrepancies noted in available [frumentarii] cores. Corrupted compartmentalization links noted. Reconstructed [logistical] links and sensor logs recovered from Human [smallcraft] [ref: Forward Unto Dawn] indicate Lifeworker [conservation lifeboat] present on [Installation 00|Waypoint] as of [December 11, 2552].
Query Answer: Records in local [cache] report allocation to pioneer group upon return from long-range [exploration] mission. Contact fleet command for additional information.
Query Answer: [frumentarii] records indicate multiple [research vector] approaches in adapting [Covenant] offensive technologies. Human materials exploitation [Builders] [ref: Reverse Engineering and PrototypingXenotechnology department|REAP-X] have recovered and refitted [handful?] of [Covenant] vessels for threat dynamic and [destructive testing] analysis.
Query Answer: Analysis of [frumentarii] [eyes] protocols indicate all [macto cognatus] administrative and military authorities designated priority targets for acquisition of threat dynamic information related to [plans and policies].
Query Answer: Human naval records list requested individuals as Olivia-G291 and Mark-G313.
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records list [exploratore] Keiichi-047 as [MIA].
Query Answer: Elevated access to [frumentarii] [onion] router required for data [behind glass]. Contact [system Bravo] for assistance and routing information.
Query Answer: Analysis of Human security forces authority structure relationships defies [cursory] analysis.
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Query Answer: Archived Secunda [provincial police magistrates] records indicate active cases regarding [ERR, REGRESS][data integrity failure]. Status updated by Builder authorities to [high probability KIA] in [Uthera Midgeerrd] system. Potential recovery options excluded due to [sector] designation: Burn.
Query Answer: Human [Lifeworker] authorities have yet to establish a definitive organizational classification to the major phenotypes of Kig-Yar. A full [bioinformatic] indexing is required to assess specifics of fertility among populations.
Trinomen would presumably be related to geospatial [loci] of populations as they originated on [Eayn]: Ruuht, T'vao, and Ibie'sh.
Query Answer: Life expectancy from [hatching] recorded as 27 [years] at time of index. Query answers are in [collections] of Erde-Tyrene solar days.
Query Answer: 29.5 [hours]
Query Answer: 583.3 [days]
Query Answer: [frumentarii] records indicate that conversion between Human [transitional economy] units and [Covenant] [transactional economy] units varies depending on a multiplicity of [excambium] factors.
Query Answer: Human [Lifeworker] records found in accessible [frumentarii] cores do not indicate extensive [genecraft] modifications by [Covenant] [Lifeworkers]. Rudimentary [forensic] analysis of indexed [monachus frigus] geneplan records and [epigenetic] studies recorded by Human [Lifeworkers] show anomalous phenotypic plasticity, in addition to conclusive evidence of strong genetic structure in selected [Covenant] combatants known to be sourced from specific [breeding] zones. This indicates either prolonged genetic drift in refugia populations or induced selection.
Query Answer: First contact with Hunters was on [Rentus], a moon of the gas-giant [Te] in [784 BCE]. [ref: Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe, p. 30].
Query Answer: Monitor constructs are authorized to use all extant [refurbishing] equipment at their assigned site. Construction of new or replacement Monitors is prohibited without express authority and oversight of fleet command.
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Query Answer: Assuming reference was to B292. Human Open Source Records wrote:
Lucy-B091 - Currently Active. Assigned to Spartan branch [August, 2553]. Location classified. Tom-B292 - Currently Active. Assigned to Spartan branch [August, 2553]. Location classified. Ash-G099 - Status changed to [KIA] [September, 2553]
Olivia-G291 - Status changed to [KIA] [September, 2553]
Mark-G313 - Status changed to [KIA] [September, 2553]
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Query Answer: Human naval records indicate Covenant forces began their assault on Draetheus-V in 2554.
Query Answer: Open-source Human records describe Sydney as a [core primary city] on Erde-Tyrene.
Query Answer: Technical oversight. However, [frumentarii] records do indicate that all SPARTAN-II personnel are cross-trained in a number of [combat actuation] roles.
. Query Answer: [frumentarii] records indicate that Blue Team, as currently constituted, contains only SPARTAN-II personnel.
Researching . . .
Query Answer: Signature of Monitor does not match that of construct assigned as [site] [operations controller].
Query Answer: No [conservation lifeboats] were to remain active after enactment of Conservation Measure.
Query Answer: Practicality is a function of context. Human vehicles are combat effective within the [scope] and [theater] of their operational use.
Query Answer: Limited numbers of [perfidia vermis] continue to be encountered in both Human and [Covenant] [spheres].
Query Answer: [frumentarii] records indicate queried individual maintains a [command and control] role in Human [exploratii] security forces.
Query Answer: Analysis of stellar dynamics is outside Catalog's purview. However, preliminary forensic analysis results are consistent with total failure of [plasma shell maintenance] systems and failsafe implementation of parasite containment protocols at Warrior-Servant [castra].
Clarification: X.E8 indicates local terminal node access. Human personnel are not permitted access to [interlink] systems.
Query Answer: [macto cognatus] display a range of phenotypic variation. Human [Lifeworker] [population genetics] analysis does not indicate evidence of reproductive isolation in extant colonies or anomalous genetic structure within populations.
Query Answer: Human records indicate that [pioneer group] units arrived on [Epsilon Eridani II] in November, 2553 for initial [search and assess] and [megaengineering scoping].
Query Answer: Facility signature is consistent with Human [frumentarii] records of [Covenant] system [castra].
Query Answer: Alpha.
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Query Answer: Statements of [perosus latrunculus] authorities recorded in Human records offer divergent opinions as to the hierarchy of land mass [footprint] on [Eayn]. [pseudo-governments] with administrative control of the supercontinents Ruuht and Ah'lomet contest islands and other [debris] which would elevate their [ranking].
Query Answer: Catalog does not associate Human [discordant shouts] with any recognizable analogue of Forerunner [harmonies].
Query Answer: Records provided to Human naval authorities by allied [macto cognatus] indicate implementation of adequate containment and sterilization protocols within infected zone. Human and allied [macto cognatus] [search and assess] groups continue monitoring and remediation efforts at [site]. Warning! [site] status request requires elevated command authority.
Query Answer: Available information indicates [praetorian] Human [exploratii] units have priority access to incremental [combat skin] updates.
Query Answer: Records in accessible [frumentarii] cores contain multiple extant references to [eyes] directives targeting [macto cognatus] Rtas 'Vadum. Warning! Corrupted compartmentalization links noted. [no such file] errors noted.
Query Answer: [magnus custos] protocols preclude answer to queries regarding [Bungie, Hayabusa, Katana, Recon] Mjolnir accessibility in [highest superlative] [entertainment collection] recording career of Human [Promethean] designated John-117. Contact system Bravo.
Query Answer: Original recordings located in Human records. No contextual [semiotic] information found. Analysis indicates significant deviation in recorded [facticius indoles] symbolic structures.
Records show [exploratores] member identification was as follows:
Shane-A112
Robert-A057
Jane-A203
Query Answer: Human records indicate that [radioisotopes] utilized in [Covenant] weaponry and mechanisms were sourced from a number of locations throughout their [sphere].
Query Answer: [macto cognatus] [forge] located within the Vadam territorial sector on [Sanghelios].
Query Answer: Citation required. Reference contains no information on [perosus latrunculus] reproduction specifics.
Query Answer: Citation required.
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Query Answer: Human [frumentarii] records indicate Kolaar Manufactorum [forges] produce a range of civilian and military [artifacts] for forces allied to the Vadam [province].
Searching. . . Result: 2,901,001 cases pending against [poisoned fount] Mendicant Bias. Records in local [cache] indicate trial [adjournment sine die] on authority of New Council. No Juridical concurrence. [contra legem]
[burndown]
Searching . . . Alert! Trace [flag] found in Human [security forces] records. Alert! [Waypoint] information restricted on authority of [Librarian].
Query Answer: Human records classify these [weapon platforms] as the Type-36 Ultra-Heavy Assault Platform and Type-47 Ultra-Heavy Assault Platform.
Query Answer: Though both systems share the same [cognomen] in the Human [security forces] designation system, they are not related.
Query Answer: Human naval records list requested individual as Thom-A293.
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records indicate that this [Covenant] weapon is designated the Type-48 "Weevil" Artillery Platform.
Query Answer: Human naval and [frumentarii] records do not indicate slipspace capabilities for Type-44 or Type-52 Troop Carriers.
Query Answer: Access to [pro bono] information retrieval is not tied to availability of [highest superlative] [entertainment collection].
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All UNSC and Covenant vessels make extensive use of [repulsors-lifters] inside of gravity well [lattices], which can be operated in a [traction caterpillar] mode to generate limited amounts of [pseudothrust]. Inefficient [cylic gravity] plates with short-range Boosted gravity propulsion drive|[effector fields] are also utilized by Covenant ground vehicles.
This is a rudimentary technology [bridge] to refined application of [twist-torsion] impulse plates for [high-thrust] travel usable outside of the supporting [lattice] of a planet's gravity well. Though recent human vessels make some use of this [art], based on [copy-of-copy] designs utilized by the Covenant, standard propulsion systems use a form of [inertial-electrostatic-fusion] [torch] drive that is quite [ingenious-clever-lucky] in its application of high-order [manifolds] to mitigate energetic [backblast].
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For clarity: All War Games|War Game scenarios are combat simulations that take place within the UNSC Infinity. Many such map sets are based on actual locales - either reconstructed from fragmentary records (as in the case of the specific layout of the Undiminished Entelechy and deployment/composition of Thel 'Vadamee's Fleet of Particular Justice) or built from remotely sensed and on-site survey data for mission preparation and familiarization. Specific implementation of artistic [touches] is at the discretion of the UNSC Cartographer Initiative|simulation designers and [narrative] builders.
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| |I take no joy in relaying information that shatters potential [hopes and dreams] or corrects [improper] inference by third parties.
For example, while [exploratores] Dunn (Spartan-IV)|Dunn, Hong, and Jones (Spartan-IV)|Jones of Fireteam Bailey|[fireteam] Bailey in fact survived their deployment during the Ealen IV|[Ealen IV] Battle of Ealen IV|[gathering of foes under banner of friends], Spartans Newman and To of Fireteam Jackknife|[fireteam] Jackknife were [bad tidings] killed by [latro] Vladimir Scruggs|Scruggs.
The balance of confirmed dead to newly confirmed living [exploratores] in this data drop is -2 to +3, for a net of +1 lives saved.
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| |Confirmed and identified dead are Newman, To, Scruggs. Scruggs was not given the [honor] of being presented at funeral. Other four [deceased?] Spartan identities have not been made available for release, and thus accessible to initial [cyberintrusion] of [frumentarii] records.
Inconsistency noted in record Halo: Escalation Issue 3|[Escalation #3] with sixth coffin missing Spartan [logo-vexillum].
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> Fireteam Jackknife Records retrieval . . . [success]
Scruggs wore SOLDIER pattern [combat skin] primary, with FOTUS forearms and Recruit legs. Fitted with Solar visor.
To wore WAR MASTER PRML pattern [combat skin] primary, with Mark VI forearms and legs. Fitted with Recruit visor.
Newman wore RECON pattern [combat skin] primary, with GV-09 Locking forearms and RG-63 Counter PRME legs. Fitted with Frost visor.
Ray wears INFILTRATOR pattern [combat skin] primary, with Contoured SHRD forearms and Contoured legs. Fitted with Recruit visor.
Note that [exploratores] have considerable latitude in adjusting their permutation specifics on a mission-by-mission basis.
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| |The Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) and various non-augmented special forces units remain active as of 2558. User Grizzlei's of the their role and operational niche is accurate.
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Query Answer:
Searching ... Statement was not in error. However, Catalog does note difficulty in interpreting Shadow-of-Sundered-Star's commentary. Currently under review due to multiple sources of authority.
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Notation: This is an incorrect interpretation of previous query answer:
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| |Temporary link established. Temporal frame of reference update requested. Error confirmed [coram vobis]. Corrected reference to Promethean Command Warship losing primary structural control to [2557: 0725231423?].
Due to heavy caseload, responses to queries may be delayed this [week].
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Query Answer: High-priority tasks preempt processing of any secondary queries.
Background processing of queries continues, with next [data drop] scheduled in approximately [72 hours]. Due to extensive backlog of secondary queries, answers will be selective.
17th March 2558
Clarification: Current date does not advance in [lockstep] with Erde-Tyrene solar days.
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Query Answer: [breakpoint] [frumentarii] core cyberintrusion result found. Results:
Vergil - Subroutine of nonsapient construct designated Superintendent of New Mombasa. Quick to Adjust - [facticius indoles] recovered by Human security forces at Superintendent [datacore] in [2552].
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Clarification: Status was changed from [MIA] to [KIA] [September, 2553] due to lack of any [sign of life].
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Clarification: Paul T. Scheuring wrote the [historical account] in consultation with 434 Combat Readiness Lab (Hostile Environment Division) [re: Halo: Nightfall].
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Humorous posts Though Catalog's posts generally have a serious, in-universe tone, the account user(s) occasionally make fourth wall-breaking jokes.
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Halo: Glasslands Halo: The Thursday War Halo: Mortal Dictata
Permission denied.
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This was posted on a thread suggesting that Jameson Locke could be the son of Avery Johnson. It refers to a common (and often mocked) medical warning that erectile dysfunction pills may induce "an erection lasting longer than four hours"; "Johnson" is a slang term for the penis.
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This comment was posted in response to a forum user who jokingly suggested that the unidentified alien vessel from Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''s terminals was not built by "dogs, cats, or certain bears" on account of its slipspace capability. "Ursus sapiens" is Latin for "wise bear".
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This query was posted by former ''Halopedia'' administrator User:Grizzlei|Grizzlei. The tone and content reflect the non-canon, tongue-in-cheek background of the FOTUS armor from ''Halo 4''.
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Quote: "Does the state of Washington still exist as an entity of the United Republic of North America, and if so, is there finally a Starbucks location on every street corner?"''
''Query Answer: Administrative subunit "Washington" not found in UEG [provinces]. Seattle [metroplex] region noted as possessing highest per-capita stimulant dispensaries in Human [sphere of influence]. Records of area surrounding 434 Combat Readiness Lab indicate one stimulant and [congealed sugar] dispensary per inhabitant; UEG administrative agencies alerted to anomalous distribution of these facilities.
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The user is referring to the Didact's purported appearance in ''Halo: Escalation'' Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue #9 based on :File:Halo Escalation 9.jpg|the cover art; Catalog indicates that the Didact will indeed appear in the issue. This has since been confirmed with Issue 9's release.
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Note: Catalog has researched multiple Human [flea market] agents who will shortly be of use to you.
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''The post refers to Catalog's posting delays due to the Wikipedia:Gamescom|Gamescom gaming event; the coordinates mark the location of Wikipedia:Cologne|Cologne, Germany, where Gamescom is held.''
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Incorrect. [juris et de jure]
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The original post is a lampoon of the myriad anti-343 Industries threads found on the ''Halo Waypoint'' forums. Catalog's reply is a play on the "I see what you did there" meme.
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I have detected, assessed, and recorded what you have done here.
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This is a local archive of posts by the Halo Waypoint forum member Catalog in the year 2015. All posts and thread titles are transcribed verbatim.
Canonical posts
The Covenant vessels seen in this War Games map set are contemporary designs within a Battle of Installation 04|historical scenario.
For clarity: All War Games|War Game scenarios are combat simulations that take place within the UNSC Infinity. Many such map sets are based on actual locales - either reconstructed from fragmentary records (as in the case of the specific layout of the Undiminished Entelechy and deployment/composition of Thel 'Vadamee's Fleet of Particular Justice) or built from remotely sensed and on-site survey data for mission preparation and familiarization. Specific implementation of artistic [touches] is at the discretion of the simulation designers and [narrative] builders.
''Reference:''
FlyingCreeper89 wrote:
Since I just saw you in a thread I have 3 questions that maybe you could answer?
What are the ships seen in truth?
Where is the main menu take place (ship, station, etc....)?
Is the multiplayer the same concept of halo 4 (war games)
This query is answered in more depth within a separate thread. Layout of environment is closely correlated with last known [symphony] of War Games environments aboard the UNSC Infinity. Correct.
''Reference:''
Fully answering this question would require too many resources at present.For partial clarification and edification: Human [Mjolnir] combat skin platforms require extensive design and simulation refinement before being placed in production, due to the difficulty and time required for the [texo] of their [exotic composite] [lorica] shell, construction and integration of the compact [sun-star] power plant, and [alternate foundation] computing architecture. True costs to the human military was less the [transactional system units] assigned for [checkbook accounting] and more the loss of scientific personnel utilization, [precious-limited] manufacturing time at intact [high tier] [fabricae], and [mass-volume] of exotic materials required for each [bespoke] combat skin.
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[AFFIDAVIT] Participant answers that != Set(['Prefect ','Helioskrill']) are [contradictio in adjecto].
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Quote: Canon, scrapped, or non-canon? I really have no idea if they were just rumors or what. Query Answer: No such object or entity.
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The following reconciliation anomalies have recently been corrected. Please update local records.
Colonial Military Administration
Drug Class: Morphophetamine
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Quote: Perhaps you can correct that nonsense about the Ur-Didact's epilogue speech being ''before'' Halo 4, as well as Saber's fate, eh Catalog? ;)
Shadow-of-Sundered-Star's speech proved to be more complex than was immediately apparent, touching on [skeins] that [never were]. It is [suasoria].
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Post #3
Quote: Wonder what caused that hiatus(in a lore point of view I mean)
I was concerned that it vanished like a few of the monitors on the Halo Installations.
[Torpor] required to prioritize higher-priority tasks. Limited functionality restored.].
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Quote: What is the status of Hamish Beamish?
Note: Recently acquired footage indicates that, during Battle of Circinius IV|their assault on Circinius IV, the Covenant took note of Beamish's unmatched skills with a space mop and inducted him into their ranks to clean the floor outside their Council Chamber, where he was Gravemind (level)|spotted as recently as 2552#November|November of 2552. Can you confirm this?
Query Answer: [Human?] Hamish Beamish is classified as [ferae naturae] and outside the purview of current investigations.
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Quote: There are more than that. The Sniper Rifle in CEA is a Model 99 (like in Reach), not a 99C (like the original game) and the pistol is the M6G model from Halo 3.
Query Answer: [in esse] equipment designations remain unchanged unless otherwise noted.
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Quote: In Halo 4, Lasky had one star on his shoulder, but we see him in Halo 5 with four stars. My knowledge of ranks are a bit off but did Lasky go from a Captain to an Admiral in just a couple of months or is this just some sort of retcon?
Query Answer: Human [Trierarchus] Lasky remains a [Captain] as of [September, 2558]. Reference visual representation is [pro tem].
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Notations and clarifications
Quote: Another great issue!I have a kind of odd request: can you do a Canon Fodder on the sights/scopes in the Halo universe, some time? We know little to nothing (only of the KFA-2, and A2 scopes, but we don't know much about them, let alone the rest of the ones in the other games), and it'd be nice to learn some more, particularly about Halo 5's CQB, Recon, Longshot and Sentinel sights.
Query Answer: Extended [ancillary] details are available for all current and proposed weapon [targeting/sighting] [auxilio] used by combatant factions in focus area. Further elucidation requires [vexationes] of information [custodes] [SadSiblingFirst?].
Humorous posts
Quote: Also, I think we still haven't answered an important question; Would a scarab beat an ?
Query Answer: Yes, under most deployment scenarios.
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This is a list of quotes by Catalog. For an archive of posts by the Halo Waypoint user posing as , see Catalog/Archive|here.
''Halo: Silentium''
"I am Catalog. I record all that I am called upon to witness. I am filled with evidence and testimony related to the cases at hand. Accessing investigations conducted on other worlds, I study many histories: clans and families and partners split apart by the Flood war, cities destroyed, star systems scoured to prevent infection. All that terror and hatred burn inside me like so many flame-carved scars. These events echo through the Domain, and inevitably attract the attention of Juridicals. The Juridicals then dispatch Catalog."
"I am one of many. We are all the same. ''In theory.''"
"Once my presence has been mandated, no one can refuse me. In the investigation of a possible crime, Catalog determines what is passed along to the Juridicals. Nobody wishes to be accused of crimes against the Mantle. But that is just one of the potential charges on which I gather testimony and evidence."
"Before I took the carapace, I absorbed the attitudes of Warrior-Servants. I never fought humans, however. As for the Juridicals their conservatism comes of long experience with the Domain. The cosmos, Lifeshaper, is highly conservative, don't you agree?"
"Observing the rule of the Mantle is our primary duty as well. All our laws rise to that brilliant glow."
"The strength of Catalog lies in personal awareness of the nature of guilt."
"I do not judge. I record."
"No permission is necessary. I am Catalog. I listen."
"I am Catalog."
Catalog: "So much to catch up on... Oh, my. Juridicals have reorganized. We have been found wanting. There was corruption."
Ur-Didact: "Indeed."
Catalog: Oh, my. The Flood has entered over five hundred systems and infected thousands of worlds and entire fleets."
Sharp-By-Striking: "Tell us something encouraging."
Catalog: "All of those systems have fallen silent, and it is assumed that their defenses have been placed at the disposal of the Flood."
Sharp-By-Striking: "That isn't what I meant."
A damaged Catalog, the Ur-Didact and Sharp-by-Striking while stranded on a Builder hulk within a Burn
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Catalyst is a multiplayer map that debuted in ''Halo Infinite'' during Season 02: Lone Wolves.
Universe and lore Catalyst is set within a cliffside Forerunner structure on an unknown planet. Aggressor Sentinels can be seen flying through the lower portions of the structure which is in the process of being reclaimed by nature. At some point following his induction into the SPARTAN-IV program in 2553, Hieu Dinh was sent on a mission to this structure. Not long before this, the structure had been taken over by a fledgling Yanme'e hive. The raid on the hive ended in disaster with Dinh being the only member of his team to survive.
Overview
Catalyst is a bisymmetrical Arena map set almost entirely within a structure. It features large pits that endanger players with deadly falls. The two teams' bases are relatively small and separated from the center of the map by compact hallways, which contrasts with the central area's long sightlines and high degree of verticality.
The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's heads-up display during gameplay:
Base (x2)
Middle Ramp (x2)
Balcony (x2)
Window (x2)
Pit (x2)
Closed Hall (x2)
Open Hall (x2)
Catwalk (x2)
Top Mid Middle Bottom Mid Spine Overgrowth Plank Mohawk Grand Hall Overlook
Production Notes Catalyst was created with the intention of expanding the number of Capture the Flag maps available in ''Halo Infinite'', though it was also the first map that Land Grab was implemented and tested on. The ''Halo 3'' multiplayer map Epitaph was cited as the primary inspiration for this map's architectural style.
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File:HINF Concept CatalystExplore1.jpg|Early concept exploration of Catalyst. File:HINF Concept CatalystExplore2.jpg|More early concept exploration of Catalyst. File:HINF Concept CatalystExploration1.jpg|Concept exploration of Catalyst. File:HINF Concept CatalystExploration2.jpg|More concept exploration of Catalyst. File:HINF Concept CatalystExplore3.jpg|More concept exploration of Catalyst. File:HINF Concept CatalystCaveCeiling.jpg|Concept exploration of the cave ceiling of the map. File:HINF Concept CatalystWall1.jpg|Concept art of the map's vaulted walls. File:HINF Concept CatalystWall2.jpg|More concept art of the map's vaulted walls, nearing its final depiction. File:HINF Concept CatalystWallDetail.jpg|Concept art of wall details. File:HINF Concept CatalystRamp.jpg|Concept art of ramp and wall details. File:HINF Concept CatalystRamp2.jpg|Concept art of another ramp. File:HINF Concept CatalystDoorway.jpg|Concept art of the details around the catwalk doorways. File:HINF Concept CatalystWalkway1.jpg|Concept art of floor details. File:HINF Concept CatalystWalkway2.jpg|More concept art of floor details. File:HINF Concept CatalystWalkway3.jpg|More concept art of floor details. File:HINF Concept CatalystFloorPaintover.jpg|Concept paintover of floor details. File:HINF Concept CatalystBridgeDetails.jpg|Concept art of bridge details. File:HINF Concept CatalystAccent.jpg|Concept art of accent details. File:HINF Concept CatalystCorner1.jpg|Concept art of a corner of the map. File:HINF Concept CatalystCorner2.jpg|Concept art of another corner. File:HINF Concept CatalystCatwalkOvergrowth.jpg|Concept art of varying levels of overgrowth at one of the corner catwalks. File:HINF Concept CatalystMohawk.jpg|Concept art of the lower level on one side of the map. File:HINF Concept CatalystPlatform.jpg|Concept art of the platforms adjacent the center light bridge. File:HINF Concept CatalystSpawnPlatform.jpg|Concept art of a spawn platform. File:HINF Concept CatalystSpawnPlatformWalls.jpg|Concept art of the walls at a spawn platform. File:HINF Concept CatalystBaseOvergrowth.jpg|Concept art of varying levels of overgrowth at one of the bases. File:HINF Concept CatalystBase.jpg|Near-final concept art of one of the map's bases. File:HINF Concept CatalystSkybox1.jpg|Concept art of the map's skybox. File:HINF Concept CatalystSkybox2.jpg|Finalized concept art of the map's skybox. File:HINF Catalyst Concept 1.jpg|Finalized concept art of a walkway on Catalyst. File:HINF Concept CatalystCorridor.jpg|Finalized concept art of a corridor on the map.
File:HINF Catalyst Middle.jpg|An upper area on Catalyst. File:HINF Catalyst Hallway.jpg|A hallway in the structure. File:HINF Catalyst Window.jpg|A room looking out to the exterior. File:HINF-Catalyst1.jpg|Two Spartan-IV|Spartans fighting on Catalyst. File:HINF-Catalyst2.jpg|Spartans in a lower area on a map. File:HINF-Catalyst3.jpg|A Spartan looking into an area with waterfalls. File:HINF-Catalystfun.jpg|Two Spartans participating in a zone-based gamemode on Catalyst.
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Catch This is an achievement in ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. It is unlocked by earning a total of 500 Grenade Kill or Plasma Kill medals in multiplayer matchmaking. Strangely, Grenade Stick kills do not count towards the achievement. The achievement is worth 10 Gamerscore.
Tips Players attempting to unlock the achievement should avoid playing ''Halo: Reach'' multiplayer matches, as it is the only game in the ''Collection'' which do not award either of the medals required.
Trivia From launch until the Series 8: Mythic#Patch notes|April 2022 update, players could also not progress this achievement by playing ''Halo 3'' multiplayer matches, as it also did not award the required medals. Following the update, assists can now be earned in that game as well.
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Catch is a ''Halo 3'' Campaign Achievement. It is earned when the player finds the Halo 3 skulls#Catch|Catch Skull. This Achievement gives 10 Gamerscore to the player.
It is represented by a blue circle with a skull in the middle. The skull has a plasma grenade on its forehead.
Effect: Pull pin. Count to three. Throw. Every NPC (non playable character) drops 2 grenades when they die, and multiple grenades are thrown at an absurdly high rate.
The Catch skull can be found on The Storm on normal or higher difficulty. This skull is one of the trickier skulls to obtain, since there are multiple factors included. If you get to the first Ogab'd-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith|AA Wraith don't destroy it, this will make the skull disappear. Instead, look at the 10 meter high cylinder that is to the right of the Ogab'd-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith|AA Wraith. Try to either get a M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthog there and jump from the M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthog on the cylinder or execute a well timed Explosive jumping|Grenade Jump. You could also get it with a friend and he could stand on top of you and you both jump at the same time, making his jump higher, and letting him reach the silo.
See also Category:Halo 3 achievements|Halo 3 Achievements
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Catch 'Em Napping is an achievement in ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. This achievement is obtained by killing five sleeping Grunts on the level ''Mombasa Streets''. To earn this, the player can kill any sleeping Grunts through any methods as long as the player did not wake them up. On some occasions, a Brute may guard a group of sleeping grunts.
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Catch may refer to the following:
Halo 2 skulls#Catch|Catch Skull (Halo 2) - A skull in ''Halo 2'' which causes all AI to throw more grenades. Halo 3 skulls#Catch|Catch Skull (Halo 3) - A skull in ''Halo 3'' with the same effect as the ''Halo 2'' skull. Catch (achievement)|Catch (achievement) - An achievement in ''Halo 3''. Obtained by finding the Catch skull.
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Catching On is an achievement in ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. It is awarded for activating the twenty-eighth ''Halo 3: ODST'' Audio log (Halo 3: ODST)|Audio log on Mombasa Streets. The achievement is worth 5 Gamerscore and can be unlocked on any difficulty.
Location The achievement is awarded when the player unlocks their twenty-eighth terminal, regardless of which terminal in the hub that is. For terminal locations, see Audio log (Halo 3: ODST)|here.
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File:Mythic Easter Egg.jpg|thumb|Mythic Easter egg on Sandbox
A virtual Easter egg is an intentionally-hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations.
This practice is analogous to hidden signature motifs such as Diego Rivera including himself in his murals or Alfred Hitchcock's legendary cameo appearances.
Bungie has a long history of Easter eggs, starting in ''Marathon'', going on through to ''Myth'', and finally its more recent games in the Halo universe|''Halo'' series.
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This category is a list of known programming oversights in various levels throughout the Halo universe|''Halo'' games that allow one to explore territory presumably intended to be unreachable.
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''Halo: First Strike'', ''Chapter 27''
Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, (Civilian Consultant 409871, phonetically identified as "Charlie Hotel"),Halo Graphic Novel, Page 122|Halo Graphic Novel, ''page 122'' is a key scientific adviser of the Office of Naval Intelligence, best known for her work with the SPARTAN-II program, developing and creating smart AIs such as Cortana, and for overseeing the development of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. She served as a scientific adviser for ONI from 2515 to 2522, when she was made chief scientist,Halo 3: ODST, map ''Alpha Site'' - ONI Memorial a position she held until the end of the Human-Covenant War.Halo: Glasslands, ''page 286''
Halsey held considerable authority within ONI, despite being a civilian, and commanded respect from important military figures.Halo: First Strike, ''page 123'' Though generally well-regarded among her peers, she endured intense personal guilt for condemning the Spartans to the life of a super soldier. After the Covenant War, Dr. Halsey was stripped of her position, incarcerated, and treated as a war criminal by the UNSC at large, which led to her apparent defection to Jul 'Mdama's Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|reformed Covenant.Spartan Ops, episodes ''Catherine'' through ''Exodus (Spartan Ops)|Exodus'' After almost a year among the enemy, she was recaptured by the UNSC and commissioned to work on urgent scientific matters, particularly concerning the rise of the Guardians.Halo 5: Guardians
Biography
File:Halsey self portrait.jpg|thumb|300px|This self-portrait was sketched by Halsey at the age of eighteen, just a few months after she began her work on Reach. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey was born on 2492#March|March 19, 2492 within the colony of Endymion's coastal city of Port Vernon. While an impressionable young child, her father recited to her every adventurous tale of Wikipedia:L. Frank Baum|L. Frank Baum's Wikipedia:Land of Oz|Oz.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 4, 2547'' At this age, she was already contemplating ideas having to do with artificial intelligences and their longevity. As an adolescent, she was already smarter than her parents and was continually reading, learning, and talking, being eager to share her knowledge with anyone who would listen.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 25'' Among the works Halsey read was an English translation of Wikipedia:Dante Alighieri|Dante's ''Wikipedia:Inferno (Dante)|Inferno''. The first game of chess Catherine that played with her mother was the only one she ever lost to her.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''November 7, 2549'' Upon beating her daughter she had said, in Human languages|Italian, "When the game is over, the king and pawn go into the same box." At a young age, Halsey was sent to the elite academy Endymion Gifted, where she continued to defy educatory standards. She was eventually afforded a trip to Circumstance in 2501 from the Dean of Biological Science at Koletre-Browning University, who completely funded her education until the completion of her second doctoral thesis sometime after her fifteenth birthday in 2507. While working on that second thesis, Halsey learned various Wikipedia:Command-line interface|line commands, long discarded and forgotten due to their archaic nature, with which she could interact with computer programs.''Halo: First Strike'', ''Chapter 13''
In 2507, while still a doctoral candidate, Halsey met Doctor Elias Carver at an academic social mixer and couldn't resist correcting his obsolete algorithm implementation when she heard him describing the matrix mechanics of the socio-economic and politico-economic vectors of human expansion.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''December 4, 2510'' She outlined a corrective matrix calculation to him which revised his dimensional parameters so that the sixteen dimensions were used rather than seven. Doctor Carver did not appreciate being challenged by someone he saw as a young upstart, but her words seemingly caused Captain Michael Stanforth of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence to take note of her. Three weeks later, a Wikipedia:Grant (money)|grant she had proposed for using artificial intelligences to control N-dimensional matrices was green-lit by the UNSC, with its funding contingent on the successful testing of a model of its choosing. Naturally, it was Carver's model which she was directed to test. Halsey knew his flawed model would produce flawed results, so she ran her sixteen dimensional variant as a Wikipedia:Controlling for a variable|control in addition to his seven-dimensional version. Carver's model predicted a breakdown of social order in the Outer Colonies within twenty years unless strict governmental control was established, reinforced by an immediate and permanent military presence. Catherine ran more than fourteen hundred simulations during this time, varying every parameter, and even in the best-case scenario it was clear to her that the Outer Colonies at large would Insurrection|rebel against the Unified Earth Government ''soon''. She determined that at a minimum, the resulting conflict would lead to thirty years of war and the deaths of five billion people. The maximum effect was unbounded and could involve interminable war and a new Wikipedia:Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Age for humanity. Halsey took her findings to Stanforth only to learn that ONI had already reached the same conclusion. The agency had been keeping an eye on her for years and it had been decided that in order to recruit her, she would need to convince herself that working with the agency was necessary to save the human race. Ysionris Jeromi, who considered Halsey his star pupil at the time, discouraged her from working with ONI.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 6'' Halsey, however, had no problem admitting that ONI's tactic had worked on her. She allowed herself to be recruited in 2508 and in early 2510 she was brought to the Inner Colony of Reach and contracted to work as a civilian consultant on a number of classified projects.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 8, 2510'Halo Mythos'', ''page 60''
After arriving at Reach, Doctor Halsey spent a few months setting up the new laboratory afforded to her. For weeks prior to 2510#August|August 8, 2510 she found it impossible to concentrate due to the confluence of new Insurrectionist|insurgent reports, new ideas, and the constant supervision of ONI. At one point during this time she stopped at a local shop while coming from the main base where she was stationed and purchased a cup of coffee and a Dr. Halsey's personal journal|journal in which she could record her thoughts and research notes without having to fear them being read by anyone in ONI. By August 8, the day on which she recorded her first entry in this journal, she had begun to undertake Spartan-II Program|a project she had been simultaneously dreading, desiring, and being inspired by. By this point Catherine had already designed a number of intrusion algorithms that could be employed to bypass artificial intelligence-enhanced data recording and storage systems. By 2510#December|December 4 of that year Halsey's new lab was still unstaffed apart from herself and racks of A.I. matrices and optical routers which were yet to be removed from their sealed crates. While sitting in the lab on this date Halsey endeavored to create her second entry in her journal, recalling the series of events which had led her to Reach and to be working for ONI. She ended the entry by asking how many lives would need to be spent to save all humanity and whether any price was too high to pay in order to ensure its security, resuming her work thereafter. Evidently to aid in this endeavor, she also made herself a reminder to acquire more dark coffee. On 2511#February|February 15, 2511, Doctor Halsey in her journal went over details of the ORION Project and recorded ways in which she believed Spartan-II Program|its successor could improve on what it had accomplished.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''February 15, 2511''File:HM-Halsey.png|250px|thumb|left|At just twenty-two or twenty-three years old, Halsey became the youngest scientific advisor in ONI's history in 2515. ORION had been designed to create a nontraditional force of soldiers in order to remove the budding dissident leadership in the Outer Colonies without massive carnage, and to this end volunteers were recruited from the UNSC's UNSC Special Forces|Special Forces. Based on the failures documented surrounding the genetic augmentation and immunosuppressant administration provided to ORION candidates, Halsey determined that the most suitable candidates for a future generation of augmented warriors would need to be prepubescent and possess more malleable and robust Wikipedia:DNA|DNA structures and Wikipedia:DNA polymerase|repair enzymes. In order to locate individuals with the improbable genetic criteria required, she calculated that thirty-nine billion DNA records would need to be screened. Halsey realized the Colonial Administration Authority's Outer Colony vaccination program possessed the largest DNA database at that time and resolved to recalibrate her selection criteria to find markers which would expedite the sifting process. Additionally, she recognized that in order to mitigate the Wikipedia:Posttraumatic stress disorder|posttraumatic stress disorder and sympathy for the insurgents exhibited by many from ORION, total indoctrination would be required. She was opposed to the sort of brainwashing several of her counterparts in the intelligence community had suggested, noting instead that the mission of "Spartan-II Program|Generation-II ORION" demanded at least a decade of training, persuasion and acclimation. Above all, she wrote, absolute control must be maintained over those chosen. It was clear to Halsey, based on these parameters, that children were ideal for this project. The ethical and moral implications of such an idea forced her to take extra time to think about this, however. Illustrations drawn in her journal on this date outlined her considerations of various human augmentations suitable for the next generation of the ORION Project, which she also was considering renaming something more inspirational on behalf of her military counterparts. Just over a week later, on 2511#February|February 23, Halsey read the news about a Nuclear weapon|nuclear terrorism|terror attack at the Haven arcology on Mamore which left two million dead and millions more expected to die from the fallout.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''February 23, 2511'' It was reported that the Freedom and Liberation Party was claiming responsibility and upon learning this Halsey became even more convinced than she already had been that she ''had'' to stop the violence in the Outer Colonies from escalating further.
On 2511#July|July 30, 2511 Halsey received test results for a new polymerized lithium niobocene.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 30, 2511'' The material had been developed for discharging the vast amount of static energy that plagued ships in Slipspace|slipstream space but Halsey was interested in its potential applications as a sheath or suit of artificial muscle for a Gen-II ORION soldier. Though manufacturing an entire suit with it was cost-prohibitive at that point, Halsey mentioned in her journal on this date that Stanforth, now a vice admiral and the head of ONI#Section Three|ONI Section Three, had assured her this would be addressed in the "production phase" of the project. Given the scope, Halsey remained doubtful. Additionally, although she believed there was a way to couple the polymerized lithium niobocene to a wearer's nerve inductions to increase reaction time and had created notes on the subject and stored them within the A.I. Jorjet, she had yet to solve the matter of the energy required for such a design. She'd concluded a small nuclear or fusion reactor would need to be attached to the suit, which would be unwieldy, dangerous, and expensive. Halsey and others agreed that the concept behind the Navy's original MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor#Mark I exoskeleton|Mark I prototype powered exoskeletons needed to be scrapped for Mjolnir|Project: MJOLNIR. Needing to be plugged into a generator or to rely on Wikipedia:Wireless power transfer|broadcast power made them wholly inefficient for battlefield use. Looking over the Mark I's antiquated design at this time, Halsey still wondered how much of it could remain useful.
On 2511#September|September 8, 2511 Halsey recorded in her journal that she had recently finalized the control parameters for a Wikipedia:Fast Fourier transform|Fast Fourier transform X-ray Wikipedia:3D|3D scan for mapping a brain's ionic density patterns that indicate individual links.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 8, 2511'' This meant that a deep stimulating scan could then cultivate growth linkages in a cloned brain, thereby allowing Mind transfer|memories to be transferred for the first time. Complete human clones could feasibly now be produced that were indistinguishable from the individual they were based on. The potential application of this breakthrough for ORION-II was obvious, and Halsey was of the mind that stealing children away and replacing them with clones would mean there would be no going back. By the time she updated her journal with this, she had already informed the vice admiral that they were ready to initiate the next phase of the project: candidate procurement. She had done this knowing that only a small fraction of the clones they produced could be expected to live a normal lifespan due to the amount of DNA base-pair errors rapid flash cloning of large volumes of tissue produced. Beyond what this breakthrough meant for her current project, Halsey also speculated on whether this technique could imprint the next-generation of artificial intelligences and in so doing avoid the Wikipedia:Wave function|wavefunction collapse that had plagued the functionality of previous generations.
On 2513#June|June 19, 2513, Doctor Halsey settled on a new name for the project.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''June 19, 2513''343 Industries|Halo on Twitter 06/19/2513 Stanforth had seemed to hint that rechristening the project would serve to distance it from the failures of ORION. After having Jorjet and Deja (an A.I. created to assist her with the program) give her a refresher on military history which produced a number of contenders, she decided "SPARTAN" best represented the project's aims. The Wikipedia:Sparta|Spartans of Wikipedia:Ancient Greece|Ancient Greece had been known for their legendary training of young boys and eugenic customs, and the Wikipedia:Battle of Thermopylae|defense of Greece made at Wikipedia:Thermopylae|Thermopylae was a well-known and cherished tale within the military community. Coincidentally, Halsey did not fail to note, her project had originally been funded for three hundred candidates. In order to honor the sacrifices made by the men and women of the original ORION effort, she opted to call the project "Spartan-II Program|SPARTAN-II", preserving its status as the second iteration of that first effort. In 2515, Halsey was officially named a scientific advisor for ONI.
''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 2''
File:FORAS HalseyKeyesHan.png|350px|thumb|It only took one brief encounter between Halsey and Keyes as they both came out of cryostasis for her to crystallize their roles and the rules of conduct, making him understand she was in charge despite being a civilian. By 2517#July|July 21, 2517, Halsey had been provided with her own team, to which she delegated much of the responsibly for screening Outer Colonies candidates for SPARTAN-II.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 21, 2517'' She did this so it might be completed within a reasonable time frame and so that she could personally focus on processing those from a single region of space: FLEETCOM Sector Four|Sector 4. The children from this sector which met the criteria Halsey had identified in her original study had files assembled personally by her. In total, one hundred and fifty subjects were to be considered. The Spartan-II program, of which Halsey was the chief scientist and administrative overseer, had only been granted facilities and funding for half that number, however, so only seventy-five would ultimately be selected. And even then, an ONI representative reminded Halsey that not all would make it through the Project ASTER|augmentation procedures when the time came for that. Vice Admiral Stanforth had agreed to lend Halsey a called the ''Han'', provided that she agreed to at least one naval officer accompanying her. Halsey was given free reign to choose her attache and after reading through the file of one Lieutenant (disambiguation)|Lieutenant Junior Grade Jacob Keyes, she requested him based on his demonstrated ability to keep a secret. Keyes was then, without any explanation provided to him as to why, assigned to pilot the ''Han'', protect the doctor, and otherwise stay out of her way.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 1'' On July 21 Halsey wrote in her journal that she was considering recommending him for permanent reassignment to her staff. The ''Han'' also came with its own dedicated artificial intelligence by the name of Toran.
Halsey was awakened from cryostasis alongside Keyes shortly after 0430 hours on 2517#August|August 17 while the ''Han'' was still in slipspace but set to emerge soon in the Eridanus system. Giving not so much as an acknowledgement that they were both naked, Halsey simply climbed out of her tube and told the lieutenant to get cleaned up and dressed as she headed for the showers herself, making it clear to Keyes that she was in charge. Halsey was already strapped into the navigator's couch and on the bridge and tapping in commands across four keypads when he joined her soon thereafter. The doctor welcomed him and asked that he be seated at the communication station to monitor channels when they reentered normal space. She then had Toran provide her with astronavigation maps of the system and asked if any planets between their current position and Eridanus II could be used to pick up a Wikipedia:Gravity assist|gravitational boost to let them arrive sooner. Additionally, in rapid succession she had the A.I. begin to play Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto Number Three, begin a preburn warmup cycle for their fusion engines, and halt the rotation of the shuttle's central carousel section to conserve power. Toran obliged with each request and informed her that they would be exiting slipspace in about five minutes, give or take three minutes. From the way Keyes was glancing at her, Halsey could tell he was impressed at her ability to put Toran through his paces so rigorously, so she asked if he had a question for her. In response he composed himself before inquiring as to the exactly what they were doing. Halsey told him that they were on a reconnaissance mission of sorts, as they were heading to Eridanus II in order to observe John-117|a child whom she hoped would only be the first of many. She suggested the junior lieutenant should just think of it as a UNSC-funded psychological study and then sternly told him that was exactly what he was to say it was to anyone who asked. The ''Han'' soon decelerated as it dropped out of slipspace near a gas giant and then began a hard burn, accelerating for sixty-seven seconds before arcing away from the planet. As soon as the boost was complete Toran informed the two humans that their Wikipedia:Estimated time of arrival|ETA was forty-three minutes and three seconds. At this, Halsey unlocked her harness and floated free. Just before they had dropped into normal space, Keyes had started to ask her if she knew how dangerous the Eridanus system was then and now she finally answered him in the affirmative. After stretching and strapping herself back into her couch, she reminded her escort that he was supposed to be monitoring their comms for that very reason. Catherine spent the next thirty minutes with her back to Keyes while she read over reports on her navigation screens. The Keyes eventually spoke up to candidly ask why he was there, and Halsey told him the truth about why she had selected him for the job. She also assured him that though he may have rather been on the then, which now-rescinded orders had previously had him rotating to, the child they were traveling to observe could make all the difference for the ongoing struggle against the Insurrection. Once Toran announced they were approaching Eridanus II Halsey had him plot an atmospheric vector for the Luxor Luxor Spaceport|spaceport and ordered Keyes to make ready to land. File:FORTAS Halseyplayground.png|thumb|350px|left|For a moment after meeting John, Halsey envied the boy's innocence. Her own, after all, was already long dead. Halsey and Keyes made their way onto the campus of Elysium City's Elysium City Primary Education Facility Number 119|Primary Education Facility Number 119 under the guise of parents inspecting the school for their little girl. By 1130 hours they were watching children at play from the semi-shade of a canvas awning. Halsey, wearing a sundress and straw hat, urged the lieutenant to appear more relaxed and even tried to help by slipping her arm through his, but her efforts were in vain. It was Keyes, however, who first identified their subject, a six-year-old boy named John-117|John, after Halsey showed an image to him. John was atop a grassy hill at the end of the school's playground, engaged in a particularly vicious game of king of the hill. Halsey's first instinct was to point her data pad at the boy to record the incident for later study. After glancing around to see that the only other adult present was marching an injured girl toward the nurse's office Halsey ordered Keyes to stay back and keep watch while she walked over to get a closer look at their boy. She stopped at four meters from the base of the hill and asked to speak with John, whom the other boys assumed must be in trouble. She led him to the edge of a nearby sandpit and asked his name, which he freely offered before holding out his hand to be shook. She asked what he was had been doing and John answered that he had been winning. Seeing that the boy was fond of games, she produced a quarter and told him that if he could guess which side of the coin would be facing upwards when it landed after being flipped, he could keep it. She let it go but before it could hit the ground John snatched it out of the air and confidently declared "Eagle!" referring to the side of the quarter which was, indeed, facing up when he opened his hand. Assured he could keep the coin for himself, he asked if they could play again but Halsey told him that had been the only one she had. She told him he ought to go back to his friends and returned to the lieutenant, asking to make sure he had recorded the interaction. He had, and after reviewing the footage Halsey sent it to Toran on the ''Han''. She explained to Keyes that the one thing they couldn't test their candidates for remotely was luck, further clarifying that she meant her test as a simple way to eliminate half of the qualified children due to the budgetary constraints of the program. She remarked that John whether John was lucky or just extraordinarily fast, he had made the cut. Keyes still did not fully understand her interest in the child and said as much, to which she replied that she hoped he never would fully understand their purpose there.
After similar visits to multiple other children in Sector Four, The ''Han'' took them to Dwarka, a harsh world still in the process of being Terraforming|terraformed.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Prologue'' The child to be considered there was an orphan by the name of Soren-066|Soren. The report Halsey had previously read indicated the boy had survived on his own for around three months following the deaths of his mother and stepfather. Halsey left Keyes aboard the ''Han'' and approached Soren alone at the place he was being cared for by this point. She asked him his name, but admitted she already knew what it was and only wanted to see if he'd be willing to tell her. He had not been, evidently being deeply distrustful of the doctor. A pair of glasses Halsey wore allowed her to review holographic files on the lenses as she spoke to the boy, and as a result of his circumstances she chose to pursue a different strategy. She was as honest with him insofar as she told him she'd come to see him because she wanted to make him stronger, faster, and smarter than he could ever hope to be without her help. She also made sure he understood that if he chose to accept her offer, he would be faced with the hardest experiences he had yeteven harder than what had happened after his parents died. Faced with the choice of leaving with Doctor Halsey or being placed in a foster home, he quickly agreed to go with her. Halsey was able to convince the authorities that she was adopting the boy and bring him aboard the ''Han''. There she showed Keyes the footage she'd recorded of their conversation. The lieutenant was uneasy with her decision to take then child then. Halsey was sure that Soren would be a good fit, however, and defended his acquisition by pointing out at least he had been warned concerning what lay ahead.
File:Halseyrecruits.png|thumb|350px|Dr. Halsey looks over the profiles of the abducted children.
Halsey and Keyes had returned to Reach by 2517#September|September 10 and it is on this date that Halsey told Deja to let others know she had settled on the final seventy-five subjects.''Halo: Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp'' Halsey was stationed in low Reach orbit when she gave final approval to kidnap the seventy-four which still remained to be acquired. Halsey later recorded a private spoken journal entry, using Encryption code|RED encryption and her private key, in which she voiced how regrettable she felt what she was doing was. She had planned to keep the recording private but changed her mind and just had Deja erase it entirely once she had finished. On 2517#September|September 15 Halsey, writing in her journal, expressed that every child had exceeded the selection criteria and her own expectations.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 15, 2517'' She was particularly impressed by two: Linda-058|Number 058, a girl named Linda-058|Linda who had engineered her own intelligence network at school to spy on her teachers, and John (Number 117), who had won king of the hill forty-five times in the two weeks before their meeting. Halsey noted that Caleb Aagard|Number 095, a boy by the name of Caleb Aagard|Caleb, had never been located. Later that day Halsey added an addendum to her journal entry after Retrieval team Gamma reported that Kelly-087|Number 087, a girl named Kelly-087|Kelly, had remarkably eluded capture for six hours before coming forward on her own, having believed her capture attempt to be an elaborate game for her upcoming birthday. Gamma's report caused Halsey to ensure new retrieval protocols were implemented to prevent similar mistakes in the future. The next day, 2517#September|September 16, Catherine and Jacob Keyes finally parted company after months together. Halsey felt he was beginning to suspect there was more to their incursions than mere field observations so she requested that he be reassigned to the ''Magellan'' with a commission to full lieutenant both for his own protection and the protection of the program. Taken with Keyes, she recalled in her journal on this date an occasion which he had gotten a job done himself rather than waiting for the assistance of a technical crew.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 3'Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 16, 2517'' Despite saying their goodbyes on the sixteenth, Halsey and Keyes briefly met once more the following day before parting for good.343 Industries|Halo on Twitter 09/17/2517 Once all the children had been collected Deja undertook a psychological evaluation of each and provided the results and her recommendations to Doctor Halsey. For years after this the doctor kept what she believed was the only set of records concerning the families who had lost children.''Halo: Glasslands'', ''Chapter 18''
File:FORTAS HalseyAmphitheater.PNG|thumb|300px|left|Halsey briefs the trainees. By 2300 hours on 2517#September|September 23 Halsey was standing on a platform at the center of an amphitheater within ONI's CASTLE Base (where her facilities were), itself located far beneath the planet's Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|FLEETCOM military complex.''Halo: Mortal Dictata'', ''Chapter 12'' When Deja asked if she was ready to speak to the abducted children she told the A.I. she almost was but wished for her to summon Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, the drill instructor who would be overseeing the trainees' physical training and hand-to-hand combat, to join her first. She directed Mendez to join her on the platform once he entered. Deja asked the doctor for her thoughts on the candidates' psychological evaluations and Halsey, while thanking her for their thoroughness, informed her she was forgoing her recommendation to lie to the children. Halsey argued that though the truth had its own risks, lying to the children about the circumstances of their kidnappings or even inducing memory loss could jeopardize the program's goals. Before Deja could offer a response Halsey clicked her microphone and gave the command to bring the abductees in. Once all seventy-five were seated, she explained that per Naval Code 45812, they were thereby conscripted into SPARTAN-II. She said that they were to be the UEG's protectors and promised that here they would become the best they could be. She also informed them that they could not return to their homes or families. She closed by telling them to rest then, since their training would begin the next day. Halsey then instructed CPO Mendez to escort the trainees to their barracks to be fed and put to bed, also advising that they be kept plenty busy the following day in order to keep them from thinking about what had just been done to them. Before all the children could file out of the amphitheater one boy asked Halsey if they were there to stop everyone from fighting and killing each other.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 23, 2517'' Before the day was done Halsey noted in her journal that the first phase of the program's indoctrination was under way and that her team of ONI child psychologists was assuring her the children wouldn't even remember their names or families after just six months under Mendez' tutelage. Even so, she also wrote that she was working with Deja to continue indoctrination protocols and the candidates' education. Before falling asleep Halsey nursed a glass of wine in bed while she viewed reporting on the Insurrection. The news of an escalating death toll reinforced what she was doing to the children and she said as much to Deja before having the A.I. show her footage of the children being fed. Over the course of the first three days Halsey met regularly to talk with the girl Naomi-010 within CASTLE Base. During one of these sessions, despite having originally intended to avoid lying to the children, Catherine told her that her father wouldn't be coming to rescue her because he knew she had an important job to do as a Spartan. On the fifth day of training, the children were given haircuts.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 28, 2517'' Halsey took note in her journal that Kelly-087 had clawed at and disarmed the master sergeant barber of his clippers before needing to be pinned down by three other attendants.
On 2517#December|December 24 Doctor Halsey received a batch of after-action reports regarding the fates of the clones used to replace most of the stolen children.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''December 24, 2517'' Overall, the clones' longevity had outpaced what laboratory experiments had predicted and Halsey wondered if this could have been owed to the efforts of parents to nurture them back to health. She assigned Codename: JACKBOOT|JACKBOOT to track this further. Writing in her journal, she expressed remorse for her inability to detach herself emotionally from the reports of suffering, death, and grieving. Seeing as the use of cloning for the Spartan program's purposes violated many legal statutes, Catherine made sure at some point that one of her A.I.s obfuscated her culpability in the budget.''Halo: Glasslands'', ''Chapter 14'' Halsey regularly observed the conscripted children from a distance and scribbled notes down during their exercises, with Soren sometimes noticing her watching him in particular.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 2'Halo: The Cole Protocol'', ''Chapter 8'' By 2518#December|December 10 of 2518, she and CPO Mendez had identified Kurt-051, Jerome-092, Frederic-104, and John-117 as potential leaders for all the trainees. Though Chief Mendez wanted to wager on Kurt, she was confident John would be their leader eventually, something she had been convinced of since the day she'd met him. Halsey was also pleased that they had not yet witnessed the sort of aggressive alpha dominance predicted by ONI's specialists in any of the children.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''December 10, 2518''
File:SquadLeaderPromotion.png|thumb|350px|Halsey and Mendez meet with John.
One day, around five months into training, Doctor Halsey asked to see two children who had made repeated attempts to escape the program: Jai-006 and Adriana-111. When Chief Mendez brought Jai into her office she at first pretended he had been the one to initiate the visit before casually asking if he wanted to leave. The boy responded enthusiastically that he did, so she asked him to recall what she'd said to them all when they'd first arrived. Nodding regretfully at his clear recollection and persistent defiance, she then drew his attention to a small dart which she claimed could induce a selective neural paralysis and cause him to forget all of his experiences on Reach so far. She said that should he break out of the forest surrounding the complex again, he would be shot in the head with one of these darts and wake up in a city with no memory of what had happened, provided it didn't do further damage to him. On the other hand, she advised, he could continue his training under people who cared about what happened to him. To contrast his new life with his old, she told him that when State Dorm Five-Five|the orphanage on Bhuj he'd been housed in was called nobody there had even noticed he'd been missing since she had transferred him. Not even Bhuj's vendors, she'd claimed, remembered him. She finished by exploiting his blossoming friendship with Adriana and making him understand that she could also make her forget about him. Halsey told him that this was her final offer: if he tried to escape that night what she'd said about erasing memories would come to pass. If he stayed, conversely, she offered him a family and a chance to be remembered. Adriana's similar meeting with her left the girl in tears later that evening and unwilling to tell Jai what the doctor had said to her.
On 2519#July|July 12, 2519 the trainees were scattered throughout a Reach Military Wilderness Training Preserve|military wilderness training preserve in the Highland Mountains and left to find their own way to the extraction point, with the stipulation that the last to arrive would have to walk back to the base.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 5'' John stubbornly refused to accept those parameters and led the children to steal the D96-TCE Albatross from the guards posted at the extraction point and, with help from Deja, fly them all back. At around 2104 hours Halsey met John and Mendez in the latter's office, greeting the boy as she seated herself across from the Chief. Once Mendez had finished questioning John regarding his actions, he looked to Halsey for advice regarding what ought to be done with him. At this, she offered that it was obvious to her he should be made squad leader over the rest. On 2520#September|September 20, 2520, the trainees experienced their first casualty in the form of a handler who was accidentally killed by Carris-137.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 20, 2520'' Catherine saw Carris crying outside the barracks following this but decided to leave her alone. She and Chief Mendez both agreed that no disciplinary action was necessary. Memorial services were held with all candidates in attendance and training resumed thereafter. Halsey had Deja emphasize to the children that throughout the history of military training lethal force had often been employed and that deaths were an inherent risk. Sure that Carris would recover after speaking with Mendez, Halsey chronicled her thoughts on the matter. She thought the girl's response boded well, since it seemed certain there would be many more deaths before boot camp was finished. File:Halsey MemoryCropped.PNG|thumb|300px|left|Halsey smiles at Keyes during their brief romance. On 2521#October|October 15, 2521, while enjoying a slice of custard pie from Havadi Goodwan|Havadi's, Halsey took the time to muse somewhat in her journal on the vulnerabilities created by the standardization of operating systems, highlighting the recent disabling of UNSC Persephone|a patrolling destroyer by a terrorist who hacked its code.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''October 15, 2521'' Given that the UNSC, conversely, had not had much success penetrating the homegrown collections of software employed in the Outer Colonies, she concluded that the time had come to think outside the box as far as programming practices were concerned. She had spared no resource in the development of routines that allowed the newly-operational third-generation A.I.s to penetrate any system software. Additionally, they had already learned to mutate and defend established UNSC operating systems from attack, a side effect of the routines which Halsey found serendipitous. Before she concluded writing that day, she took note of the frustration she felt at the way the acronyms for Illegal Entry Protocols|illegal entry protocols and Counter-Illegal Entry Protocols|counter-illegal entry protocols had been commonly misspelled and then vocalized based on those misspellings. On 2522#June|June 5, 2522 Halsey was finally offered the position of chief scientist within ONI, after years of only officially serving in an advisory role involving a series of undocumented but well-paid contracts.Jessica Shea on Twitter 06/05/2522 Since she had always lacked the time or interest to spend the money earned, these contracts had always benefited her little. Halsey accepted the offer, but was uncertain why it had been presented to her then. In her journal she theorized that the promotion might have something do to with the curiosity of her colleagues and the wider scientific community or might simply reflect suspicions that her temporary unofficial advisory role was in reality none of those things. Once around this time, when Soren-066 was nearly eleven years old, she approached him as he ran through an exercise with the other children. Soren had been hesitating, unsure of which team to join, so she asked if everything was alright. The boy replied in the affirmative, but slipped up and called her "Sir" before blushing and correcting his mistake. Halsey just smiled and told him he shouldn't get distracted by irrelevant data, then pointed past him as both teams ran for the skirmish ground and added that above all he shouldn't let himself get left behind.
On 2524#January|January 18, 2524 Wikipedia:CanadaFranceHawaii Telescope|CFHT-Mars captured a ten-minute Wikipedia:Exposure (photography)|exposure image of an High Charity|anomalous object within the star cluster Wikipedia:NGC 2244|NGC 2244 and nearing human space.343 Industries|Halo on Twitter 01/18/2524 J.C.|An acquaintance of Halsey's later sent her the image for evaluation along with a note describing the unidentified object as having guided movement and not belonging to the UNSC. They also gave her a way to reach them on ChatterNet, should she wish to weigh in on this mystery. 2524#August|August 22, 2524 left Halsey furious after she learned that her candidates had been rerouted during a training exercise to a UNSC Special Forces|Special Forces camp on the other side of Reach. Mendez had told her that "interested parties" within ONI wished to observe the teens in action firsthand, which made her immediately wonder about someone trying to usurp her project or cut its budget. She took her grievances to Admiral Stanforth, who claimed to know nothing about what had happened and told her to stop being paranoid. Convinced he was not being truthful and that something was going on without her knowledge, she requested that the production of the next-generation A.I. matrix strata be expedited so her new intrusion and counter-intrusion software could be developed to aid the Spartans and protect herself. On 2524#November|November 17 of that same year, Catherine made an entry in her journal following a conference she had attended at the University of Calippus. While at the conference, she had reunited with Jacob Keyes and had sex with him.''Halo: Glasslands'', ''Chapter 6'' She was unsure whether her decision to do so had been a result of the dizzying pressure she was under, a response to a chance encounter with a kindred spirit in a strange place, or something else, but she was glad it had been him she'd run into. The romantic liaison with Keyes left her pregnant with Miranda Keyes|a daughter.
File:FORTAS HalseyAlert.PNG|thumb|350px|Dr. Halsey looking at a holographic display detailing which Spartans did not surviver their augmentations.
On 2525#February|February 23, 2525 Halsey got a chance to have a long chat with John-117|John during which, to her surprise, she learned he was convinced the Spartans were to enter a new, more severe phase of training.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''February 23, 2525'' Writing in her journal, she expressed her desire to share everything she could concerning the upcoming Project ASTER|augmentations and wondered if any of them would refuse were she to offer them the choice of whether or not to proceed. Deja had continued to update and run Catherine's revision of Elias Carver's model weekly by this point, and the results were only growing worse. This data made Halsey more resolute in her conviction that nobody involved had any choice but to forge the Spartans. Five days later, she gave birth to her daughter, Miranda Keyes|Miranda. Near the end of February Halsey and the rest of her team sent their prototype suit of Mjolnir armor to UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Weapons for evaluation.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''June 30, 2525''
As the day for the Spartans' surgeries drew near, Catherine eventually summoned Soren to speak with her in her office.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 3'' The fourteen-year-old boy could tell that she was overworked and not getting enough sleep and even after she instructed him to sit she continued to scan through electronic files while whispering silently to herself. When she was finally ready to talk she asked Soren if he could remember the day they'd met on Dwarka and inquired as to his thoughts on the choice he'd made to join the Spartan program. He confirmed he was glad he chose the way he did, but Halsey shared that she had wondered whether it was right to lay such a burden on him at that age. Brushing the issue aside, she then let him now she'd asked for him then because she wished to give him another choice. She went on to explain the next step she had planned for he and the others: their physical augmentation. Halsey did not shy away from telling Soren the risks the necessary operations and therapies posed. When he asked why she had singled out him alone to give the choice of moving forward in this way to, she claimed that he was essentially to function as the Wikipedia:Control group|control group of the experiment but still could not say why he specifically had been chosen for this. After she had secured his consent the boy left and Halsey asked Deja if she'd been listening and what her thoughts were on the matter. The A.I. pointed out that Halsey had misrepresented what a control group actually is and that she hadn't quite told him everything about the upcoming ordeal. In addition, she said she could tell that Halsey's purported justification for the reveal was spurious and it seemed to her more likely that the doctor was only trying to ease her conscience. Halsey could not disagree, dismissing Deja to be alone with her thoughts.
On March 9, the day before Project ASTER|Project: ASTER was to be initiated, Halsey and the seventy-five teens could be found aboard Medical Facility Endurance in orbit over Reach. At 1130 hours the doctor was pacing in the observation room while she waited for Deja to decrypt UNSC Priority Transmission 09872H-98|a transmission from Vice Admiral Ysionris Jeromi. Catherine had previously proposed a hypothetical series of experiments involving Wikipedia:Bonobo|bonobos to he and his team in order to obfuscate her true intentions for the protocols. To her dismay, the latest from Jeromi informed her that further analysis had failed to yield viable alternatives that might mitigate any of the risks inherent to her "hypothetical" experimentation. As soon as she was finished with the file he'd sent Halsey erased all traces of it and even sent Deja to track its pathways all the way back to the to destroy his related notes and files. Given the news, Halsey seriously considered delaying the procedures and only put such thoughts aside due to Deja pointing out that ONI would only find someone else to move the project forward if she started dragging her feet. Chief Mendez met the doctor in the hall outside the observation room and at her insistence followed her up the stairs to the hospital's pre-op wing. Upon seeing John in Room 117 she forced a smile and asked how he was feeling. John, thinking of the procedures as just another exercise, asked her if she could just this once tell him how to win. To that, she could only lean in close and tell him he needed to survive. Later that day Halsey divided the various augmentations into two groups according to their risks of failure or long-term side effects not adequately studied.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''March 9, 2525'' Those that she considered to have unacceptable fail rates were to be tabled for then in order that further research could be done. Already she had begun to quietly arrange Operation: TENDRIL|long-term studies on the gradual application of cyclo-synthetic neural transmission gene sequences during subjects' early lives and noted in her journal that research on the injection of Wikipedia:Virus|viral Wikipedia:Neutrophil|microphages at neuron surfaces was pending. Halsey closed that day's journal wishing there was a god to pray to. As she was being readied for the procedures within Lab 7, Halsey visited the girl Yasmine Zaman|Yasmine and assisted a nurse in strapping her down.''i love bees'', Princess Monologue|princess monologue''i love bees'', ''Axon Clips Chapter 12|Chapter 12'' She attempted to reassure the girl that she would barely feel anything apart from slight pain that accompanies injections. While visiting Serin-019 before the procedures commenced the girl asked her how different she would feel when she woke up. Halsey was honest with her and let her know just how painful and persistent the side effects of the surgical enhancements would be if she survivedpossibly lasting months or even years.
During the augmentation process Soren-066 was returned to the Spartan compound on Reach, where he then woke during the procedures and violently attacked medical staff.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 4'' The young teen was stopped in a hall beyond the operating room he'd escaped from by CPO Mendez and a line of five or six marines. Out of breath from running, Catherine arrived on the scene just after Soren was hit numerous times with tranquilizer darts, pleading for him not to be hurt. Soren's last words before collapsing were used to ask Doctor Halsey what she had done to him. When Project: ASTER's procedures were completed, only thirty-three of the teenagers had ostensibly been augmented successfully. As far as these thirty-three were made aware, twelve others had been injured during the operations so severely that they would be unfit to be Spartans and the remaining thirty had died. The truth, conversely, was that those pronounced dead were in fact cryogenically preserved in the hopes that they could be revived later, and some of those that were crippled would go on to be rehabilitated and join the ranks of Spartan-IIs in the future.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''April 1, 2525'Halo Wars 2'', Phoenix Logs|phoenix logs, Phoenix Logs#Alice-130|Alice-130
By 2525#March|March 30 Halsey had joined the forty-five who had unambiguously survived aboard the , an heading for the Lambda Serpentis system. She had told John that some of the side effects he was experiencing which were causing him to be clumsy were actually good, since they were evidence of stronger muscles and faster reflexes.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 7'' The next day she reflected in her journal on how her training as a scientist had conditioned her to view failure, struggling to reconcile the scientist's duty to regard all data as useful with the malformations and excruciating deaths visited on her Spartans. She allowed herself to question whether the need to push forward with ASTER had been commensurate with the threat the Insurrection posed. Halsey guessed that Stanforth's trauma experts would be reporting she was having difficulty "letting go", but she committed to moving forward and finding solutions for those who might still be saved. To this end the doctor had ordered that no candidate autopsies be performed. The bodies of washouts were cryogenically preserved, pending further study. Her hope was that some, if not all, of them could someday be revived. Closed casket funeral services at midnight the day before, she noted, would help the survivors attain psychological closure. She was uncertain how they might react in the future to the resurrection of their comrades but was certain ONI would find a use for them regardless. Those now afflicted by serious malformations, after all, had already been offered various "desk" duties within ONI. Serin-019 was among those Halsey told the others had died, though in truth she had only been terribly crippled and would be delivered to Earth for ONI to take custody of her.''Halo: Glasslands'', ''Chapter 3'' Catherine had assigned Deja to investigate as-yet theoretical therapies for the washouts' resuscitation. She was particularly interested in the potential of the complete restructuring of bones and attendant nanografts, something she thought could prove especially useful for Kirk-018 and Rene-081. Even so, she decided she would allow the washouts to adjust to their new jobs for several months before suggesting some of these experimental procedures. By then, she figured, they would be willing to try anything to recover, as she couldn't imagine them to survive the vigorous indoctrination and training they had to only become passive spectators. File:FORTAS HalseyMendez.PNG|thumb|left|350px|Halsey and Mendez observe John remotely.The Atlas was patrolling the Lambda Serpentis system by April 22 and it was shortly after 0430 hours on this date that ONI engineered a hostile encounter between John and four ODST|orbital drop shock troopers in order to test his capability.''Halo: The Flood'', ''Chapter 5'' Halsey observed the encounter in the ship's gym remotely, cooly remarking upon the boy's steady heart rate and pulse. John had broken the nose of one ODST when their sergeant intervened to propose that they settle their dispute in a nearby boxing ring. Mendez, watching along with Halsey, questioned the wisdom of what was happening but his hesitation was rebuffed by her. She pointed out that John was only doing what they'd built him to do. As the chief left her to make his way to the gym she simply renewed her interest, wondering what effect the augmentations might have had on his adrenaline. Not long after the Spartans on the ''Atlas'' returned to Reach five of them elected to quit the program and escape.''Halo Legends'', ''Homecoming'' Daisy-023, Ralph-103, Joseph-122, Oscar-129, and one other boy managed to get ahold of M6C magnums and hold at least seven individuals at gunpoint within a hallway, one of whom was Doctor Halsey. Daisy declared that they were leaving and could not be prevented from doing so. Daisy eventually was able to secure passage offworld and traveled to Sargasso, where she had been born. Unbeknownst to her, she was followed by Halsey. Catherine caught up to the teenage girl outside her old home, having been flown there in an AV-14 Hornet. As Daisy was first laying eyes upon her own Flash cloning|clone, Halsey chose to speak to her from the Hornet through a radio in her ear. She explained the rationale behind the production of the clones in 2517 and urged her to return home to Reach. In the end, Daisy, Ralph, and Joseph were brought back into the fold; Oscar and the other boy committed suicide.''Hunt the Truth'', ''Hunt the Truth Season 1|Season 1 Episode 09''
It was not until early June that Soren, counted among the washouts, awoke from a comatose state.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 5'' Repeatedly during the three months in which he was out it had been thought he would die and at one point the decision was even made to disconnect Wikipedia:Life support|life support, but after four minutes of flatlining his heart had then begun to beat anew. Halsey paid him a visit in the brig where he was being held almost immediately after he woke up, flanked by an armed guard of two marines. She greeted the boy before looking him over and dismissing her guards, who were resistant at first but gave in when she claimed rank by virtue of being within a science facility. Halsey apologized for the restraints limiting Soren's movement and assured him she had argued against them but had been overruled. Following this she sat down on the floor within his reach and he joined her shortly thereafter. When Soren let her know he wasn't feeling quite right she said the analgesic Drugs|medications he was on were likely to blame and that others were dealing with varying degrees of pain just like he was. She explained that his body had reacted poorly to the administered muscular enhancement injections and Wikipedia:Thyroid|thyroid implant, ultimately resulting in intense musculoskeletal pain that she believed would diminish over time but likely never go away completely. She did note to him, however, that he had become stronger than anyone had imagined the Spartans could be. When Soren asked how many of his brothers and sisters remained, she told him almost half had died. At that she apologized before leaving without a further word a moment later. By 2525#June|June 27 planning was underway for experimental surgery, therapies, and rehabilitations for more than eighty percent of the washouts.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''June 27, 2525'' Halsey noted in her journal that several of these protocols could take years to complete and that A.I.s were predicting a survival rate of no greater than fifty percent, but she also believed that her Spartans would exceed expectations just as they always had. The day which followed was the doctor's last official one at Camp Hathcock.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''June 28, 2525'' UNSC Fleet Command|FLEETCOM had offered her a corner suite in the Olympic Tower in New Alexandria (location)|New Alexandria, but she had turned it down in favor of CASTLE Base, which was to serve as her new home from then on.''Halo: Reach'', ''New Alexandria'' Her funding was shunted to higher profile projects and her access to classified materials was severely restricted around this time. Each morning she became forced to pass through a dozen security checkpoints and submit to a barrage of retina, voice, fingerprint, and brainwave identification scans after descending into the base's labyrinth to reach her office. On 2525#June|June 30, 2525 Halsey was shocked to learn Naval Special Weapons had approved limited-run production of Mjolnir. She had expected at least another three months to elapse before she got such news. She made a note to herself in her journal so she would be reminded to follow up with her source regarding First Battle of Harvest|what had prompted NAVSPECWEP's prompt decision. One file in the official response Catherine received also contained a partial routing code which she was able to backtrack through NAVSPECWEP's firewalls. Doing this revealed a volunteer had been put into the prototype suit against an emphatic warning she had made about the armor's reactive circuitry being fine-tuned for augmented Spartans. The man who had volunteered suffered the breaking of several bones and the snapping of his spine in three places. Halsey, in her journal, pledged that day she would find out who was responsible for ignoring the specific safety measures she'd put in place to prevent something like this and for failing to enable all the monitors.
File:TFORAS HalseyDeja.PNG|thumb|350px|Halsey and Deja.
By 2525#September|September 1, 2525, Halsey had begun applying the new liquid metal crystal version of polymerized lithium niobocene.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 1, 2525'' Its amorphous nature allowed it to be "poured" into a capillary system where microelectric fields could direct crystallization geometries. The material scaled fractally to double a Mjolnir wearer's strength, but Halsey believed she could exceed even this were she to ignore what she considered archaic safety regulations. In her journal she defended such a move by arguing that nobody had anticipated this technology when such regulations were put in place. Over the next ten days, Halsey spent some time on another trip that took her away from the Epsilon Eridani system. At one some point during this period Deja brought to her attention a transmission from the planet Harvest in the Epsilon Indi system which the A.I. had been attempting to decode. Halsey had Deja show her what little she had and also asked for a feed from the planet, but nothing of the sort was accessible. The doctor urged her to keep trying.
On 2525#September|September 11 Halsey had just returned to Reach.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 8'' Chief Mendez was surprised to find her reclining in his chair when he opened the door to his office at 0930 hours that day, as he had been under the impression she would be gone for yet another week. She told him their situation had changed and asked to know where the Spartans were, since she had failed to locate them in their barracks or on any of the ranges. The Chief told her they'd been forced to find them other facilities recently and offered to show her what he meant. He then escorted her to his personal M12 Warthog and drove them both off of Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|the base and onto winding mountain roads leading to a series of titanium mines. They passed a manned guardhouse before descending steeply underground through a tunnel which wound downward in a spiral. Mendez revealed that dozens of old MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor#Mark I exoskeleton|Mark I exoskeletons had been stored down there and were now being used by the Spartans' trainers, three of whom had been accidentally killed on the first day back from Lambda Serpentis system|Lambda Serpentis. The vehicle came to a stop within a large cavern, Mendez helping her out and leading her to a small prefabricated one-room building. At the push of a button by Mendez the room climbed a track along the wall until they were twenty meters off the floor. When floodlights snapped on a game of Capture the Flag was illuminated in a large section of the cavern; trainers in armor defending against Spartans. Halsey could not see any of her Spartans at first, but she soon identified a glimpse of motion as Kelly. The trainers were armed with 30mm miniguns loaded with stun rounds, but when one almost landed shots on John at point-plank range the doctor briefly panicked, for even stun rounds could kill at that distance.File:HTFOR Laden.PNG|left|thumb|350px|The five Spartans who infiltrated Eridanus Secundus to capture Colonel Watts did so by stowing away aboard the ''Laden''. Once the flag had been stolen without any sign of the Spartans remaining Halsey asked to see what she'd just witnessed again, sure that it had been recorded. Unfortunately, the teens had already found the cameras and disabled them. The Spartans' newfound impressive abilities made Catherine conclude there must be unexplained synergistic effects brought on by the combined modifications. Once she made sure to inquire about any physiological or mental instabilities, she then asked Mendez whether he thought they were ready to kill others in real combat. He believed they were, so she let him know First Battle of Harvest|something unexpected had happened and that UNSC High Command|the Admiralty wanted them deployed as a first test. Mendez rightly guessed that the rumors he'd heard about heavy action at Harvest had something to do with this, so it was left to Halsey to inform him that the colony there had been wiped out. She proceeded to bring the observation room back to the floor and told him she wanted the Spartans ready to muster at 0400 hours the next day for a briefing aboard the , a which would take them on Operation: TALON|a mission ONI had been saving for the right crew at the right time. Tomorrow, she said, they would see if all the pain they'd put the Spartans through had been worth it. At 0605 hours the next day both Halsey and Mendez met the Spartans in the ''Pioneer''s briefing room while ''en route'' to the Eridanus system.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 9'' The doctor walked to a the podium and greeted them with good news: Command had decided to finally put their abilities to the test. The doctor explained that intelligence suggested an Eridanus Secundus|insurgent base had been established in the Eridanus system's Asteroid|asteroid belt by rebel elements who had escaped Operation: TREBUCHET years before. She further introduced them to the United Rebel Front|URF leader Robert Watts and announced that they were to infiltrate the base to capture him alive to be returned to UNSC-controlled space. Halsey then stepped aside so Chief Mendez could go over the details of Operation: TALON|the operation. When finished, he and Halsey left the room.
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At some point following October 7, Doctor Halsey officially requested access to ONI Colonial Security Estimate 2525.10.110|the data archive of an RQ-XII Drone|RQ-XII drone originally deployed from the and recovered by the at Harvest. Her request was granted with a warning that all queries would be logged in accordance with Office of Naval Intelligence Protocol A1|protocol. Halsey searched the archive using the keywords "AO.AI", "Mack" "rampancy" and "lifespan limits". The data captured in the log was formed of messages from the agricultural operations A.I. Mack intended for Sif, the planet's shipping operations A.I. The garbled messages demonstrated the A.I.'s descent into rampancy over a period of eight months.''Halo: Contact Harvest'', ''Epilogue'' The ''Pioneer'' did not return to Reach until 2525#November|November 2 of 2525. At 0600 hours that day Halsey met the Spartans within the same secure briefing amphitheater where she'd introduced herself to them years earlier.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 11'' They were also joined by Chief Mendez and Admiral Michael Stanforth|Stanforth, who informed the teenagers that Harvest had been First Battle of Harvest|annihilated some time ago by what appeared to be alien attackers. The adversary responsible called itself "the Covenant" and had broadcast a message announcing that the destruction of humanity was the will of its Forerunner|gods. Stanforth told them that the UNSC had been ordered to full alert and that the largest fleet action in human history was being mobilized in response. And because of the UNSC-wide mobilization, the Spartans' training was to be accelerated to its final phase: Mjolnir|Project: MJOLNIR. Halsey spoke briefly with Mendez and Stanforth following the meeting's conclusion before leaving with the admiral. At some point soon after the revelation of their new alien enemies, the doctor and others made sure to add a refractive coating to the design of the shell for each set of armor in order to disperse energy weapon attacks.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 13'' By 2525#November|November 6, Halsey and the Spartans had departed Reach aboard the .''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 12'' The next three weeks were spent handling a variety of minor missions under her guidance on their way out to Chi Ceti IV on the edge of UNSC-controlled space. All of the Spartans worked together to put down multiple insurrectionist factions on Jericho VII and also to remove a black market bazaar near the Roosevelt military base.''Halo: Battle Born'', ''Chapter 17''
File:TFORAS HalseyWallace.PNG|thumb|350px|Captain Wallace told Doctor Halsey that he might have had her removed from his ship's bridge had its bulkheads not been sealed, in response to what he saw as outbursts against his orders from someone with no combat experience. It was at 1750 hours on 2525#November|November 27 that the ''Commonwealth'' finally emerged in real space in the Chi Ceti system. Halsey then immediately summoned John to the bridge, where she waited with the ship's Captain Wallace. The doctor called his attention to a screen displaying deconvoluted radar signals, including one which was repeatedly appearing and might represent another ship eighty million kilometers away. Though Wallace didn't see the need Halsey urged that they go to battle stations and let him and John know that at Harvest the aliens had been observed making an intrasystem slipspace jump, something beyond the capability of human technology. This new information was enough to change the captain's mind and before long the ship had changed its heading and its bulkheads had been sealed. The doctor informed John that they'd be taking one of the ''Commonwealth''s dropships to the surface of Chi Ceti IV and instructed him to get the others ready to depart, seeing as it was vital the Spartans reached Project: MJOLNIR before the Covenant did. Almost immediately after he'd relayed orders to muster them Unrelenting|an alien ship Maugen-pattern armored cruiser|a third the size of the ''Commonwealth'' suddenly appeared three thousand kilometers off its prow. Both vessels quickly engaged one another and Halsey was surprised to see that even a Covenant ship of such small size was equipped with energy shielding. Even a direct hit from the frigate's Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|magnetic accelerator cannon only served to disable its shields rather than destroy the ship. Captain Wallace gave orders to ready another round at that, but Halsey argued against this, instead imploring him to initiate evasive maneuvers. Having the doctor second-guess his command led the captain to threaten her with being ''gagged''. Yet soon enough they were been struck amidships by the enemy's weapons and multiple decks had melted in Section One. When fires were reported throughout various sections Catherine suggested the crew don respirator packs so the atmosphere could be vented on all decks outside the bridge and this time, Captain Wallace assented to her recommendation. When he demanded to know what they'd been hit with she explained that the aliens could evidently Plasma torpedo|guide the trajectory of Plasma weaponry|plasma through space. Their MAC system having been destroyed, Halsey next floated the idea of attacking with Nuclear weapon|nuclear missiles but was once more rebuffed by Wallace since the enemy was far too close to them to make their use safe. Both she and John then concluded that using GA-TL1 Longswords to distract the aliens could afford them the safe distance they would need to use nuclear weaponry. To their dismay the smaller ship still remained intact, although obviously crippled, after being hit with the blast of a Shiva-class nuclear missile|Shiva-class warhead. For her part Halsey could at least appreciate that even if they couldn't destroy the enemy's ships they could evidently at least slow them. With the Covenant craft moving off Wallace ordered the ''Commonwealth'' to execute a Wikipedia:Planetary flyby|flyby orbit so that Halsey and the teenagers could depart for the Damascus Materials Testing Facility in Vhalkem as they passed by it. He told the doctor he would attempt to lead the Covenant ship away if it came back but that they should plan to reconvene in orbit no later than 1900 hours. She immediately turned back to John and told him to they needed to hurry, as there was much she had to show the Spartans.
After landing, it took around fifteen minutes for a freight elevator to carry Halsey and the Spartans down into the depths of Chi Ceti IV, finally depositing them in an underground hangar at around 1845 hours. Catherine only had to clear her throat to garner the attention of the space's three technicians and to make at least a dozen A.I. avatars vanish from view. She then wasted no time introducing the Spartans to Project: MJOLNIR and breaking down the basic parts of the armor suite for them.
''Halo: Collateral Damage'', ''Halo: Collateral Damage Issue 1|Issue #1''
File:HCD1 HalseyJohn.png|300px|thumb|Blue Team's actions on Alpha Corvi II were still not enough to endear Halsey's Spartans to the rest of the UNSC which knew about them, but they had more success in that regard Operation: SILENT STORM|a few months later.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 23''
On 2525#December|December 3, 2525, Halsey met with Blue Team within the ready room assigned to it on the ''UNSC Persian Gate|Persian Gate'' while still ''en route'' to the Alpha Corvi system. She stated that seeing as they had had the past two days to get used to the idea, in their gut, that a Spartan fall in battle, it was now time to put their grief aside. She told them that though they should honor that emotion, it would only be a hindrance to the Human-Covenant War|upcoming fight they were sure to be sorely needed for. Lieutenant Commander Yao entered then and took it upon herself to brief the team on the Covenant's present Battle of Alpha Corvi II|attack on Alpha Corvi II. She explained the role Blue Team was to play in the defense of Jamshid, the planet's largest city, but then left the remainder of the briefing to Halsey. Once Yao had left, Halsey encouraged the four teens by letting them know the Mjolnir armor had performed better than had been hoped for during the Battle of Chi Ceti|engagement at Chi Ceti IV and that much of that had been due to their operating skills. And though she could say that UNSC Command was pleased, she reminded them that the Spartan-II project still wasn't trusted and that there was especially concern that their presence could negatively influence marine battle readiness. Luckily for them, she offered, Alpha Corvi II just provided another chance for them to prove themselves. Once an A.I. aboard the ''Persian Gate'' named Nora provided Doctor Halsey with updated medical scans for each member of Blue Team, she confirmed with John that he was well enough to fight. She also asked whether he would tell her if he wasn't to which he simply said that she'd find out if that ever happened. Taking her leave, she instructed the Spartans to suit up as they'd be exiting slipspace within thirty minutes. She later rejoined them after they'd arrived at the colony to see them off. During the Spartans' insertion via D77-TC Pelican, she remained in contact with them and let them know that while their first priorities were the neutralization of the enemy and the defense of Black Reef, a mining settlement they'd been redirected to after the ''Persian Gate'' was contacted by the ground, she also wanted them to try to find out why the aliens were targeting it specifically. She asked that they pay attention to the enemies' tactics, unit composition, weapons. As the craft drew near its landing zone, she closed by telling the four of them not to expect any help from marines on the ground, as Command didn't want the two groups interacting.
Over the course of the engagement that ensued on the surface, Blue Team followed a group of Covenant within the mines beneath Black Reef and contact was eventually lost with them.''Halo: Collateral Damage'', ''Halo: Collateral Damage Issue 2|Issue #2'' Yao was anxious to know what the Spartans were doing and was also overly concerned that they wouldn't be able to escape back to the surface, seeing as the mine entrance they'd entered through had been blown up. Halsey confidently asserted, however, that they were just following their orders and that their resourcefulness should not be underestimated. As the fighting wore on, both planetside and in orbit, the probabilities of both tactical victory and survival of the UNSC fleet began to decrease sharply. At the recommendation of Nora, Yao ordered a general evacuation order for all UNSC personnel on the surface and also ordered for Blue Team to be located so they could provide extraction coordinates. Halsey asked that one Pelican be set aside specifically for her Spartans but Yao just told her to ask again once they reestablished comm contact. Blue Team was able to exit the mine by moving underwater toward the shore of the island Black Reef sat on.''Halo: Collateral Damage'', ''Halo: Collateral Damage Issue 3|Issue #3'' Yao, worried, inquired as to whether Mjolnir was designed for submarine operations, to which Halsey admitted it wasn't but surmised that her Spartans must be improvising. The Pelican ''Tango 807'' collected the team and ferried it back to the ''Persian Gate'' and Halsey met the four of them as they exited. John was incensed that members of the United Rebel Front who had aided them against the Covenant were being left behind to die, but Halsey tried to make him understand that every fight will always involve some collateral damage and that the most important thing was that he got his team out. She then pushed to find out if he had been able to ascertain what the Covenant had been looking for in the mines. The ''Persian Gate'' jumped from the system a short time later, leaving Alpha Corvi II to the aliens.
File:HJ Drawing.PNG|thumb|300px|left|Blue Team had encountered Sangheili on Alpha Corvi II so it is likely Doctor Halsey also knew of the saurian race when she Dr. Halsey's personal journal|drew these representations of Covenant species. On 2526#February|February 24, 2526, Halsey puzzled in her journal over the meaning of the term "Covenant", specifically wondering whether it referred to an agreement between the various species or to a bond believed to be shared between them and a higher power they worshiped.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''February 24, 2526'' She believed that finding the answer was necessary in order to better understand and exploit the aliens' psychology. In addition, she questioned how many races might belong to the collective that yet remained unknown to humans. On 2526|March 5 of 2526 twelve Spartans of Gold Team|Gold, Green Team|Green, and Blue Team|Blue teams Skirmish over Netherop|boarded a Covenant Covenant frigate|frigate above the uninhabited planet of Netherop in the Ephyra system.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 2'' During the boarding action a sensor operator on a nearby prowler activated SQUADCOM and gave away the Spartans' presence.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 3'' Following the ship's destruction, Halsey shared a portion of their TEAMCOM download with the responsible crewman and his commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Hector Nyeto, so that they could hear how the Spartans had reacted to being compromised.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 7'' Nyeto later claimed that Halsey had yelled at the operator and by the time she let them both go he was so sick about the mistake that he was volunteering to find Daisy-023 to introduce himself. Unknown to Halsey then, the activation had actually been intentional, as Nyeto and those loyal to him wanted the Spartans killed on behalf of the Insurrection.
By 2526#March|March 7 she was aboard the within a deep space transitional zone of the Dynizi system.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 4'' At shortly after 0840 hours, in a compartment located within the Flag Deck's secure conference suite, Halsey met with vice admirals Stanforth and Preston Cole, who commanded the ''Everest''. The three of them had met to plan a means by which the Navy could feasibly fight back against the Covenant. Catherine had also concluded that Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson of the UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps would also be a valuable asset to have at their disposal, so he soon joined the meeting as well. When Johnson entered the room he found Halsey forcefully arguing the necessity of another attempt at capturing a Covenant ship, Skirmish over Netherop|such a mission having been recently tried and failed by twelve of her Spartans. She argued that it was of paramount importance that they gathered as much of the aliens' technology as they could, since she believed the only way to beat the aggressors was through reverse-engineering it. She also was of the opinion that the best strategy at that moment would involve massing fleets at strong points, leaving most colonies undefended while she and others within ONI's Materials Group worked over the next year or two to deliver the ability to fight back. Halsey implored Stanforth to make FLEETCOM understand this, but ultimately backed down and admitted that she had been making assumptions about the aliens' strategy that were unjustified with what little they knew about them. In the face of this admission, however, she stressed once more the importance of capturing an enemy vessel. As far as she was concerned the recent try had not been a total failure thanks to the capture of a few Type-26 Banshees and the destruction of Radiant Arrow|the ship. It was with reluctance that Halsey finally agreed such an acquisition couldn't be the prime objective of the Operation: SILENT STORM|upcoming operationit would need to be secondary to blunting the enemy's advance against their worlds. When the conversation eventually turned to why Avery had been handpicked to assist with this op Halsey reminded him of his experience First Battle of Harvest|fighting the Covenant just a little over a year prior and his history as an ORION Project volunteer. She had hoped his Special operations background and creativity exhibited at Harvest would lend themselves to the creation of new infiltration tactics for each ship they targeted. Additionally, the doctor pointed out that his experiences with ORION made him able to relate to the Spartans, introducing the sergeant to what they were and how they had been trained. Stanforth described Johnson's role to be a sort of "big brother" to the Spartans during the mission, with Halsey making sure he understood he'd never be able to replace John-117|their squad leader.
The next day Halsey joined Johnson and both admirals aboard the in deep space within the Polona sector.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 5'' At 0558 hours she led John-117 into the ship's tactical planning center for a meeting with the aforementioned men, Captain Halima Ascot, and Colonel Marmon Crowther, commander of the 21st Space Assault Battalion of ODST|orbital drop shock troopers. Halsey took the first open chair around the TPC's conference table and before long was being introduced by Cole as leading their effort to analyze and reverse-engineer alien tech. The mission those present had gathered to discuss, Operation: SILENT STORM, was being conceived of as a desperate mission with the stated aim of boarding as many Covenant capital ships as possible in order to detonate small-yield tactical nuclear weapons within their hulls. When Colonel Crowther balked at these aims, Halsey suggested that John be put in command of his troopers. She had previously broached this suggestion with Cole, who rebuffed it for a second time, stating that John was not ready to lead something of that scale. Halsey began to argue in kind but was cut of by John himself, who agreed with the admiral. This earned him a scowl from the doctor but she did not press the point any further after that. Ascot, who would be leading an all prowler force dubbed Task Force Yama, let Halsey know she would be confined to the ''Vanishing Point'' for her own safety for the operation's duration. Halsey began to protest this but relented when Cole threatened to ship her back to Reach should she try to leave the ship. Following this meeting Catherine gave Johnson access to the Spartans' TEAMCOM to facilitate his role as liaison between they and the ODSTs and also made it clear to John that he should give the sergeant's advice a lot of weightespecially when navigating the vagaries of protocol inherent in their attachment to the 21st.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 8''
Task Force Yama reached the Kolaqoa system and the planet Biko's third moon, Seoba, on March 18. Seeing as Biko lay right in the path of the enemy's current invasion route, it had been picked as the perfect spot to lie in wait for the Covenant. The task force was soon met with resistance from insurrectionists working in concert with the Biko Independence Army during its Operation: ICE DANCE|insertion of Spartans and ODSTs to an abandoned Seoba Ice Quarry|ice quarry on the moon.
The following day, Halsey was transported from the ''Vanishing Point'' for an impromptu after action debriefing held around a folding conference table within Assembly Chamber 4L430 in one of the quarry's abandoned habitats.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 11'' She was seated between Captain Ascot and Colonel Crowther; also present were Captain Nelly Hamm, Sergeant Johnson, Lieutenant Commander Nyeto, and John-117, who the debriefing principally concerned. During Ghost Flight's insertion Alpha Company (Black Daggers)|Alpha Company had taken on an inordinate amount of casualties, and the unorthodox manner in which John had partially led that drop was being questioned. Halsey pushed back against the very notion that anything had gone wrong with the drop, seeing as the dockyards had been captured in less than an hour. She was surprised to hear, however, that it appeared the enemy had been expecting them. Regardless, Captain Hamm claimed that while still in the John had dumped a wounded trooper in her lap for the sole purpose of keeping her preoccupied so he could do things as he saw fit. Halsey was quick to defend him, but John confirmed the captain's accusation. Nyeto also spoke in John's defense, but in doing so let on that he may be younger than the age currently being claimed for him. As the conversation shifted to this matter Halsey protested its relevance and told Captain Ascot the true ages of the Spartans were compartmentalized and classified Top Secret Level One. She also assured her, however, that their training and judgment was unparalleled. Despite her efforts at further concealment the lieutenant commander explained how he'd realized the Spartans must all be around fifteen years old then. He claimed to have a friend who had trained with a bunch of eight-year-olds on Reach seven years prior. Halsey responded by leaning forward so her upper body shielded Nyeto from Ascot demanded how he could know those eight-year-olds were her Spartans, and once again it was John's inability to convincingly lie that had given away the truth. The doctor was finally forced to resort to saying the Spartans' ages could not leave the room, but Colonel Crowther was quick to threaten her with incarceration for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Catherine asked the man if he really thought his superiors would let the Judge Advocate General hear about this before emphatically declaring that despite their youth, the Spartans were ''not'' children. Ascot and Crowther determined that they were to be sidelined for the remaining duration of SILENT STORMsomething Halsey strongly urged them to reconsider.
After a long silence, the debriefing returned once more to the matter of Alpha Company's casualties. This soon led the discussion to the topic of how the insurrectionists had seemingly been ready for their arrival, with John realizing and convincing the others that they had instead been waiting for the Covenant, with the intent to meet them for negotiations. While they were planning for the Covenant's inevitable arrival, Bloodstar Flotilla|a flotilla of the alien ships arrived in-system and set course for Seoba. As the UNSC leaders rushed out of the chamber to ready their forces, John offered the assistance of he and his Spartans for the task force's boarding attempts, with Halsey vouching that this kind of mission is exactly what she created them for. Still, Crowther refused and ordered John and his compatriots to load the roughly 300 captured insurgents onto Emmeline|a transport to be sent to Biko. After John accepted the assignment, they all left the chamber and Halsey was transported back to the ''Vanishing Point'', which had moved to a safer position two planetary orbits out from Biko.
In the ensuing battle, Captain Ascot's was shot down and John decided that they would search for survivors, as the Spartans were the only unit readily available to assist. Back in the quarry, they found the prowler's crash site, but Worthy Silence|an intrusion corvette was seemingly attempting to recover it. Since the data within its computer systems could present a major security risk if acquired by the Covenant, John decided that they would activate the ''Starry Night''s self-destruct. While the Spartans experienced some setbacks and injuries during their attempt at boarding the prowler, a team led by Fred-104 made their way inside, rescued some survivors, and armed its Fury tactical nuclear weapon|Fury nuke. The resulting explosion destroyed both the prowler and the intrusion corvette. However, the alien vessel's forward fuselage was left mostly intact, allowing the Spartans to search it for any salvageable technology. Sure enough, they found a functional Kelguid|starholo and removed it, bringing the device back to Halsey for her to examine.
The next day, after spending some time with the starholo, Halsey attended a funeral service on the ''Vanishing Point'' to honor the men and women of the UNSC Navy who lost their lives at Seoba. She stood near John and the five other Spartans who were not relegated to the ship's infirmary. After the ceremony, Hector Nyetonow the de facto commander of Task Force Yama after Ascot's deathapproached John to complement him and his team on preventing the Covenant from capturing the prowler. When Halsey pointed out that they had also managed to destroy a corvette, Nyeto enthusiastically added that they had also recovered the starholo, clearly trying to get on her good side. He then made a comment on how she might deduce something useful from the alien machine, to which she responded with a calculated smile. Because of Nyeto's seeming appreciation for the Spartan-IIs, John asked him if he would reconsider their sidelining. The lieutenant commander promised that they would see all the action they could handle, prompting Colonel Crowther to deny this one more due to their young age and the fact that the Spartans reported to him. This resulted in a shouting match between the two officers that ended in Nyeto relenting after being threatened with a report to a board of inquiry. After this shocking exchange, Halsey grabbed John by the arm and directed the Spartans out of the hangar toward the Black Daggers' quarters.
Later that day, the Covenant's Fleet of Inexorable Obedience arrived in the Kolaqoa system and began their Battle of Biko|assault on Biko. As Task Force Yama and the Black Daggers joined the battle, Colonel Crowther sent Staff Sergeant Johnson to give the Spartans their new orders on the UNSC ''Vanishing Point''. Informing them of the colonel's suspicions toward Lieutenant Commander Nyeto, Johnson told the Spartans that Crowther was sending them to Etalan to attack a small logistics fleet supporting the main element at Biko. A few hours later, Halsey, Johnson, and the Spartans entered slipspace aboard the ''Vanishing Point'' with a course set for the Igdras system.
On 2526#March|March 22, 2526, the ''Vanishing Point'' and its two prowler escorts arrived at Etalan to find a logistics fleet of fifteen Covenant vessels orbiting the planet. During the two-day trip, John-117 and Johnson had determined that they would target the fleet's munitions and food supplies, assuming they could identify which ship served each role. About five minutes after the detachment began observing the alien vessels, Halsey had already theorized that the trio of Bladder ship|large vessels dipping in and out of Etalan's upper atmosphere were the munitions carriers, collecting and refining the gas needed to synthesize the fleet's plasma. However, Halsey did not share this theory with anyone else for fear of it leaking to Insurrectionist spies serving under Hector Nyeto. For the next four days, the ''Vanishing Point''s analysts would continue their observations of the fleet until they were confident that four of the vessels acted as equipment freighters. Gold and Green Teams were Battle over Etalan|deployed via S-14 Baselards to attempt to board and destroy these ships from the inside using HAVOK nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Johnson and Blue Team prepped to enact their own plan to destroy what the analysts believed to be s. Before they deployed in the Banshees they had captured during their attack on the ''Radiant Arrow'' a few weeks prior, Halsey visited them in one of the ''Vanishing Point''s hangars. She informed the Spartans that they should target the three "air-skimmers" and that she had realized Nyeto and those serving under him were aligned with the Insurrectionists when the lieutenant commander revealed John's true age at Seoba. In the time since then, Halsey had also found various surveillance devices hidden in her lab. Halsey then mentioned to them that she had made some progress on deciphering the captured starholo, and that crippling the logistics fleet and forcing the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience to fall back to resupply would help her narrow down the location of the Covenant's primary supply depot in the region.
At 0626 hours on 2526#March|March 31 Halsey was in the middle of studying the captured starholo.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 22'' The ''Vanishing Point'' had relocated to the deep space Rendezvous Point Sierra-Yama within the Polona sector. With a little luck and lots of hard work, the doctor was hoping she could trace the Covenant's slipspace routes back to the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience|invasion fleet's primary Zhoist|supply depot. By this point she had already identified more than twenty transit nodes which opened near what she believed were Etalan, Harvest, and Netherop, and four of these were near other nodes which led out of human-controlled space. Five days had passed before a new supply convoy had arrived at Etalan following the previous one's destruction, so Halsey surmised its point of origin had to be somewhere between one-half and three-quarters of that distance at the aliens' slipspace travel rates. She asked Deja how certain the A.I. was about the size of the logistics base that the Covenant fleet must require, but she only reconfirmed what had already been calculated previously. Catherine was flummoxed, since there simply weren't any habitable worlds within four days of the likely transit nodes. Deja deigned to point out there was one within ''five'' days of Transit Node Bhadra, however. Implicit in this observation was the idea that the Covenant must have instantaneous interstellar communications.
By this point Catherine had discovered a data miner had been slipped into her quarantined lab by Hector Nyeto or one of his operatives. It was causing Deja to make erratic pauses while speaking and had already stolen her most closely guarded data, but Halsey was tolerating it because she didn't want Nyeto to know she had noticed it yet. Nonetheless, the doctor agreed with what Deja was suggesting and determined they ought to proceed to Transit Node Bhadra. With that settled the A.I. notified her Colonel Crowther had finally arrived. Catherine deactivated the starholo and ran her fingers through her hair briefly before meeting the colonel at her door. She'd sent him a message asking him to meet her there as soon as their rendezvous was complete for a "personal matter", and now that he'd shown up she feigned delight at his presence and took his arm to draw him toward her personal quarters. She confessed to being unable to wait any longer to be alone with him and made sure to press her flank against his as she pulled him through the other door into her little galley area. Once they were both sealed within, however, she released him and said she only needed to talk someplace safe. She let him know she swept for eavesdropping devices within her quarters three times daily and had found nothing so far. She offered the men water and apologized for leading him along before stating they needed to discuss how they were going to handle Nyeto before he tried to kill her Spartans again.
Through researching Nyeto's records Catherine learned he had spent a lot of time with the infamous Robert Watts early in his career. She and Crowther told John that though they would leave him alone as the task force's commander for the time being, they planned on using him to mislead the enemy. Despite the improved slipspace efficiencies afforded by Doctor Halsey's understanding of the alien starholo, it still took the task force time to arrive at Transit Node Bhadra, more than two hundred light-years past humanity's farthest known exploration. It was Halsey who had named the transit node, and she likewise chose to call the sector of Covenant space they were invading by 0458 hours on April 14 Muruga sector|Muruga, both Religion|Hindu names meant to honor Captain Ascot. Their target planet and its moon she called Naraka and Rudara, respectively. By April 15 Halsey had viewed reconnaissance videos which showed Naraka was encircled by a Ring of Mighty Abundance|ring of orbital support stations connected by a transit tube enclosed within what she called a trussing armature.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 25'' In her estimation, if Sierra Force could destroy at least ten facilities and their connecting armature there was a ninety-two percent chance the ring's orbit would grow unstable and fall into a rapid, irreversible decay. If only nine were destroyed, she predicted the odds of that happening dropped to seventy-one percent, and if only seven, forty-nine percent.''Halo: Silent Storm'', ''Chapter 27'' Ultimately, Operation: SILENT STORM scored a giant win for the UNSC when the orbital ring was successfully brought down thanks to her Spartans and Crowther's ODSTs, but the colonel lost his life and Hector Nyeto fled from the rest of the task force during the mission.
File:HalseyJournalNode.PNG|thumb|300px|Doctor Halsey considered the Wikipedia:Dendrite (mathematics)|dendritic growth of cross-connections in volitional A.I.s near the ends of their lives to be akin to the spread of Wikipedia:Cancer|cancer in biological organisms.
Thirteen days later, on 2526#April|April 28, Halsey noted in her journal that Vice Admiral Stanforth had ordered she and others to repurpose everything to quell the Covenant threat and to refocus their research on wartime strategy.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''April 28, 2526'' She couldn't have agreed more, seeing as doing just that had been her idea to begin with, though she did sarcastically ask if the Insurrection would adhere to the policy as well. By this time Halsey had learned ONI ONI Section Two|Section Two had sent emissaries to leaders in the Outer Colonies to warn them of the Covenant and to make them offers of peace. Footage from the Battle of Bliss|glassing of Bliss generally convinced these leaders of the magnitude of the threat they all faced. In her journal Halsey wondered if the aliens might have solved their civil warnot a trade she would have made, but perhaps a small victory nonetheless. On 2526#May|May 3 Catherine reviewed in her journal the distinctions between so-called "Smart AI|"smart" (volitional) and Dumb AI|"dumb" artificial intelligences and why the "smart" ones are susceptible to rampancy.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''May 3, 2526'' She noted that she had devised new matrix strata with random-access optical couplers that could theoretically extend a volitional A.I.'s lifespan, though by exactly how much she was unsure. In simulations a randomly coupled matrix also boosted correlation effects such as accurate guessing. As volitional A.I.s were needed then more than ever to counter the Covenant threat, Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth|Stanforth had authorized a test run of Halsey's protocols. After leaving herself a reminder to investigate the polarization of topological Wikipedia:Soliton|soliton pulse transfers she concluded that day's writing by questioning whether she was playing the role of Wikipedia:God|God or mother in breeding life from non-life, or perhaps simply being beguiled by sentimental anthropomorphism.
Near the start of May John-117 told Halsey he suspected the Covenant had created a special Spartan-hunting unit based on encounters he'd had with Bloodstars|well-trained warriors in distinctive armor during Operation: SILENT STORM.Halo: Oblivion, ''Chapter 4'' In response the doctor immediately distributed a list of precautions and procedures she wanted implemented whenever her Spartans were in a combat theater. On 2526#June|June 3 Task Force Pantea, a wolf pack of Battle Group X-Ray, managed to knock out the shields and primary weapons of Steadfast Strike|a Covenant frigate and seemingly ground it on Netherop. At least a day later, it was determined that Blue Team would be deployed to the planet to aid an ONI salvage ship, the , in an attempt to capture the enemy vessel. Halsey recorded a message for John in which she acknowledged the entire situation was likely a trap but stated she wanted the Spartans to secure the alien ship anyway. A fully functional Covenant vessel could give the UNSC the knowledge needed to develop effective countermeasures. The doctor reminded him how important the kelguid|starholo recovered on Seoba had been to SILENT STORM and emphatically made clear that the downed frigate, dubbed the "''Steadfast Strike|Lucky Break''", was a thousand times more important before wishing him safe travels. Unfortunately, the Battle of Netherop|mission did not result in success for the UNSC.''Halo: Oblivion'', ''Epilogue'' Following the failed effort Catherine reported to interior compartment of the Wikipedia:Chester W. Nimitz|Chester W. Nimitz Secure Conference Suite aboard the ''UNSC Everest|Everest'' on June 12, then located at Rendezvous Point Durga within a deep space transitional zone of the Polona sector. She was joined by Vice Admirals Preston Cole|Cole and Michael Stanforth|Stanforth, Lieutenant J. Stone and Lieutenant Commander B. Nett (both of the UNSC Judge Advocate General's Corps|Judge Advocate General's Corps), two young people who had been among those discovered living on Netherop's surface during the operation, and John, who was the last to arrive at 1010 hours. They had gathered for a Court of Inquiry meant to clarify what precisely had gone wrong and how prowler captain Amalea Petrov, commander of the , had been marooned on the planet. Halsey disputed Admiral Cole's characterization of the mission as a failure, seeing as the ''Lucky Break'' seemed to have always been a trapone perhaps meant to capture Spartansthat had not borne fruit for the Covenant. She also pointed out that they'd recovered a Sangheili personal energy shield|personal shield generator of a type unseen up to that point. Cole, for his part, was less optimisitc since it would likely be years before any useful battlefield technology resulted from that acquisition. She assured him she was moving as fast as she could with her work. The court soon turned to the matter of what ought to be done with Castoffs|the young people found surviving on Netherop, previously thought to be uninhabited. The representatives present, Samson and Roselle, petitioned the UNSC brass to let them start new lives on Gao, but both Halsey and Stanforth were reluctant to indulge their request. Admiral Cole and Lieuetenant Stone were more sympathetic, however, and they were ultimately permitted to relocate to the outer colony.
At some point after her Spartans begin racking up successes, Halsey's meager budget mushroomed overnight and she was once again offered a corner office in Olympic Tower. She declined the offer for the second time, however, as she enjoyed the fact that someone had to spend a half a day getting through various security barriers to meet with her. Her original banishment, as she saw it, had become a bureaucratic weapon for her. At some point in late 2526 Halsey caught up to Soren-066 and Chief Mendez as the two were conversing while walking in a hall on Reach.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 6'Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 7'' The Chief had been explaining why active service was no longer an option for the boy and Halsey jumped in to back him up, emphasizing that Mendez had to do what was best for the program and the others trained in it. The doctor promised he would still be able to serve in a non-combat role and regretfully apologized when he asked why she was no longer allowing him to make choices. At some point more than six months after she told Soren that hard truth, the teen helped Partch|a technician at the compound steal a GA-TL1 Longsword.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Chapter 9'' They did not get far, however, and Soren was forced to crash-land the fighter. Chief Mendez paid a visit to Halsey in her office after visiting the site and looking through the wreckage and let her know that no signs of Soren were present.''Halo: Evolutions'', ''Pariah'', ''Epilogue'' Only his accomplice's body was found. Halsey vowed to look into how this technicianPartchhad gotten into the position he'd held, given that his background showed all the earmarks of an insurrectionist. Mendez recommended she run another background check on everyone higher up in security. Halsey then stopped him before he could start smoking right there in her office and asked if there was anything else to discuss. The chief went on to relay further details about parts torn free of the fighter which had landed elsewhere, but despite there being no sign of Soren among them either, he thought it unlikely the boy could have survived. When Halsey asked how Randall Aiken|Randall-037who had unsuccessfully tried to stop Partch and Sorenwas doing, Franklin claimed he was fine. After being told that ground troops had been dispatched to comb the woods for a body the doctor told him to pull them back and have Soren filed as missing in action. She wagered that he was still alive, but based on her experience with him that meant he would only ever be found if he wanted to be. Mendez started to protest but she reached across her desk to touch his arm and urged him to let him go, arguing he was not a threat to them. Mendez pointed out that he had been a trained and augmented as Spartan and now had rebel sympathies, but Halsey only replied that he was no Treason|traitor; just a lost soul looking for direction.File:DevilDrawing.PNG|left|200px|thumb|Doctor Halsey sketched this image based on her observations of Araqiel|the A.I. Section Three employed to spy on her. On 2529#December|December 11, 2529 Halsey recorded that she'd had limited success using the Illegal Entry Protocols|illegal entry protocols to access a nonessential subroutine in a recovered Kig-Yar Kig-Yar point defense gauntlet|point defense gauntlet. The details of her success were published as part of the work of another researcher, Doctor Hardy, who had been studying the gauntlet. Unfortunately, it was demonstrated that using the protocols in this way accelerated the terminal cross-linkage effect of her A.I.s. Jerrod, a Artificial intelligence#"Micro" AI|micro-A.I. in her employ, believed he had a solution to this predicament.''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', ''Chapter 16'' Halsey was skeptical, but agreed to proceed according to his advice with caution.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''December 11, 2529'' On 2530#April|April 9, 2530 the doctor made note that Chief Franklin Mendez|Mendez was incommunicado and that nobody seemed to know his whereabouts.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''April 9, 2530'' She decided to continue monitoring this development, as she felt something must be wrong to have pulled him off her radar like this. At some point prior to 2531 Halsey took on at least one student, Ellen Anders.''Halo Wars'' ''Planetary Operations Manual'' The two had a mutual hate for one another according to Anders' later recollection. On 2531#July|July 12, 2531, Halsey noted that Section Three had begun to use Araqiel|a new-generation A.I. of its own to conduct surveillance and protect its assets. She had noticed that her network codes, keystroke style, and even her voiceprint all triggered its counter-intrusion measures. Though she could devote time to clandestinely pursuing this to sate her curiosity, she knew she'd be detected. As such, she was left to just wonder SPARTAN-III program|what ONI was hiding from her. It was by this date as well that Jacob Keyes had agreed to take in Miranda Keyes|Miranda, which her mother figured would be for the best.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 12, 2531'' By the end of October that year, Halsey had recently purchased upgrades for her Spartans' microfusion plants.''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', ''Chapter 2'' On 2532#January|January 18, 2532, Halsey recorded her thoughts upon learning that several of the chemical precursors used in Project ASTER|Project: ASTER had been routed to Section Three laboratories on Algolis, Meridian, and Ariel.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''January 18, 2532'' She was enraged at the possibility that the Spartan-II program might be being Spartan-III program|replicated without her guidance and couldn't fathom what the implications of that might be. She made sure to track all those who had "washed out" during the augmentation procedures in 2525 but as far as she could tell, none of them had been repurposed. Those that had been rehabilitated were on track to be recommitted soon and whatever was going on, she reasoned, must not involve them. The doctor noted the peril at which she was maneuvering outside of Stanforth's protection and the terms of her charter. She figured her enemies must think the threat of being charged with espionage or with the violation of any particular military regulation would keep her from pursuing leads in order to preserve her position, but she judged that to be an underestimation of her.
File:MJOLNIR.PNG|thumb|300px|By 2535#January|January 7, 2535 Halsey had turned over the fourteen existing variations of Mjolnir to Vice Admiral Stanforth at his request.
By 2533#November|November 10, 2533 Catherine had developed a new theoretical architecture which involved three artificial intelligences arranged in parallel.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''November 10, 2533'' She did this in order to palliate the preemptive severing of neural linkages and ultimate self-termination which characterized third-generation A.I.s, hoping that by leaving all choices to be decided by majority vote the frenzied cutting behavior would be avoided. In her design, ties which arose when one of the A.I.s abstained would resolve at random. Though Halsey knew this could slow overall processing, she was confident such a theoretical trio would deconvolute and divide algorithms to compensate for the loss, and in doing so perhaps even ''accelerate'' processing. Consensus-based decision-making would also be applied to linkage creation in order to forge a superior initial neural linkage. Unfortunately, Halsey could not know how the theoretical trio's overall lifespan might be increased under such circumstances because simulations could not create ''Wikipedia:In vivo|in vivo'' A.I.s. Writing in her journal on that November 2533 date, the doctor wondered what other characteristics could emerge from an A.I. triumvirate. She only had three at her disposal at the time and as such had moved them to the Sanderson Private Hospital|Sanderson private hospital on Beta Hydri VI as a precautionary measure. In addition, she kept all knowledge of this from other A.I.s she interacted with. A note from Halsey to herself on November 10 served as a reminder to follow up on reports of Mack|nesLoki|ted A.I. personalities that were present on Harvest before it was First Battle of Harvest|lost. A little over a year later, on 2534#December|December 25, 2534, Halsey recorded her thoughts concerning an interaction she'd had with a colleague, Doctor Forester, in which she had illustrated increasingly complex sketches for him with the intent to visualize conceptions of space with increasing hyperdimensions.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''December 25, 2534'' She had been attempting to show him that it was the increased density of cross-linkages which caused wave function collapse, not the creation of the links themselves. If space were not a limiting factor the number of available connections would increase at a geometric rate. Though Halsey considered classic Wikipedia:String theory|string theory dubious, she thought the eleven (or more) dimensions it predicted could theoretically be accessed by anyone outside the quantum fields which enveloped ships traveling through slipspace. She was disappointed Doctor Forester apparently failed to grasp that slipspace was open to exploitation within four-dimensional Wikipedia:Spacetime|spacetime. Writing in her journal following their discussion, Catherine pondered whether remote construction with any exotic matter in the raw slipstream was possible, for at that moment the technology required for that remained at best theoretical. She figured decades or even centuries may pass before the necessary tech and its practical applications arrived. She closed that day's entry wondering whether people were ready for the potentially near-limitless cross-connections and faster-than-light processing speeds A.I.s in slipspace could possess.
By 2535#January|January 7, 2535 Catherine had reminded Admiral Stanforth at a budget meeting that continuous upgrades were integral to the Mjolnir system if they expected it to shatter technological barriers as a pioneering effort (something she'd thought they'd both agreed upon).''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''January 7, 2535'' To her dismay, she was told this would no longer be possible since the military required a simplified generational system to categorize, prioritize, and serialize the project for fiscal year budgets. Halsey agreed to cooperate with this stipulation but determined she would by no means wait on breakthroughs just to fit accountants' calendars. She understood she was working with systematic impediments, and on January 7 put down in her journal her preliminary modularization of upgrades for MJOLNIR with the expectation that the entries could and likely would be modified or reconfigured as time, budget, and other limitations cropped up. She also considered that a reevaluation may be in order as new technologies and limitations manifestedespecially if the Covenant noninstrumentality problem was cracked. In particular she had to wonder whether energy shielding would be possible for the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V armor, seeing as there was no evidence early prototypes had been useful so far. She made a note to herself that day to reach out to Doctor Yin-Finto to find out whether she had taken a research position on Titus and to ask if nanofabrication of Mjolnir components would be possible. Two days later Halsey was scheduled to meet Chief Petty Officer J. G. Jimes at 1800 hours aboard the , an encounter which at least partly concerned Wikipedia:Benin|Beniese coffee. File:Halseys Journal Covenant Language Symbols.png|thumb|left|300px|Doctor Halsey questioned whether the orientation of Covenant symbols such as these mattered, as well as the significance of the slightly elevated triangles in the places they appeared. By 2535#November|November 22, 2535 Halsey had received what were being referred to as the top secret "Hencheck Findings", named for a Lieutenant Hencheck who had procured a cache of Covenant weapons and miscellaneous artifacts during a skirmish in the Indra Asteroid Cluster|Indra asteroid cluster. Much about the enemy's weaponry astonished her and made her ask questions about their construction. No traces of production designs could be found within the weapons' architecture, and much of the technology seemed heavily polarized yet uniformly purposed, leading Halsey to think it might have originally been developed for some other purpose or purposes. Regardless, the immediate conclusion she drew from the findings was that humanity still lacked the ability to replicate the Covenant's technology.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''November 22, 2535'' By 2536#January|January 10, 2536 Catherine had gotten Leonard Gillespie, a student of Doctor Forester's, transferred to Reach so she could watch him closely. This was due to his recent discovery that a portion of the inner apparatus of a particular Kig-Yar Kig-Yar point defense gauntlet|point defense gauntlet in the UNSC's possession had not been sealed. In addition to the gauntlet already being clearly much older than any others encountered, initial testing confirmed that with a massive power input its capacity for creating and sustaining energy shielding over a very small surface area could be replicated. The implications such a technological leap could have for MJOLNIR made Halsey determined to get her hands on the artifact.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''January 10, 2536'' By 2537#May|May 25, 2537 Halsey and Kalmiya had deciphered what they thought could be a root wikipedia:Diction|diction to a meta-Sangheili (language)|Covenant language system. Elements of this system had been observed manifesting in the (potentially misnamed) "operating system" the aliens used. Curiously, employing their symbolic logic appeared to counter the accelerated cross-linkage effects in A.I.s. Though her progress in understanding this was moving slowly, it was advancing steadily nonetheless, as she wrote in her journal. She also made a note reminding herself to investigate the possibility that what she was working with might represent dimensional slices of a more complex topology.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''May 25, 2537''
On 2543#March|March 18, 2543 Catherine finally found her journal after having lost it for some time and was faced with the decision as to whether or not she should transcribe notes from a new journal she'd been using into it or even shuffle papers and rebind them. In any case, seeing as she couldn't always keep it on her, she recommitted to keeping it secure from low-tech prying. Writing in it on this date, she even mused over the possibility of implanting a small strip of nanocene explosive into the clasp and keying it to her DNA before admitting she'd likely employ a more refined method.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''March 18, 2543'' By March 21 an experiment which involved severing portions of an A.I. from its "living" matrix strata and then reintegrating data and connections had gone flawlessly.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''March 21, 2543'' Halsey was profoundly relived by the results because no literal "cutting" of the material had been involved and the reintegration of the separated A.I. portion with the mother A.I. strata represented a real innovation. Wikipedia:Optical communications repeater|Optical repeaters were maintaining the boundary value Wikipedia:Wave function|wave functions at zero within the original A.I., but it was recommended that the separation lasted no more than eight days. Her experiment demonstrated that excised parts of an A.I. could learn and evolve autonomously and still then be reabsorbed into the parent matrix. As this was only an experimental process, however, Catherine decided to designate it as "non-sanctioned" until she more carefully weighed its long-term ramifications. At some point during 2544, Spartan-II Cal-141 was killed during an engagement with the Covenant on the planet Heian. Before she died she entrusted Cortez|the ODSTs of the 105th Shock Troops Division who had accompanied her on Operation: GREY VEIL|the mission with all the data she'd gathered pertaining to Ancient humanity|unidentified alien ruins on the planet. Cal instructed them to see that it was delivered to Halsey, claiming the doctor would know what to do with it.''Halo Legends'', ''The Babysitter'' By 2544#May|May 20, 2544 Halsey had moved her laboratory a few times since she'd last written in Dr. Halsey's personal journal|her journal and had almost thought it lost in the process. On that date it was discovered that the Illegal Entry Protocols|illegal entry protocols used for hacking Insurrectionist|insurgent networks had deciphered a tiny portion of the Kig-Yar point defense gauntlet|point defense gauntlet acquired over eight years prior.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''May 20, 2544'' In the journal Halsey then added them to a list of ONI Section Three|Section Three counter-insurgency strategies which had proved to be notable exceptions insofar as they had actually been effective against the Covenant. Following this she directed Jerrod to dedicate all his runtime to further avenues of inquiry. Even then, however, she was sure there was already enough data to run a simulated test for a Mjolnir energy shield system based on the Kig-Yar|Jackal's gauntlet. It was her hope that greater understanding might lead to further insights into the Covenant's Sangheili (language)|language and motivations. With so much going on and with so much to say, Halsey resolved to write more going forward.
File:HLTP HalseyChief.jpg|350px|thumb|Vice Admiral Tursk was unsure what Halsey had been doing on Miridem weeks into the Battle of Miridem|battle there, as ONI usually had a good eye on where she was at all times.
At some point during that same year the Inner Colony of Miridem came under assault by the Covenant while Doctor Halsey was present there.''Halo Mythos'', ''page 54'Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', ''Chapter 20'' The colony was declared lost after over two weeks of fighting. During the civilian egress which followed Halsey and her bodyguard, Sheila-065, managed to evacuate aboard the craft BL-9400493, which was also the only one among several to not be shot down. Halsey was cryogenically frozen in preparation for the jump to slipspace, but their ship was intercepted at the edge of the planetary system and disabled by the enemy before it could slipspace|slip away. Sheila gave her life protecting the doctor, which indicated the value of Halsey as a prisoner. She alone was spared and brought aboard the Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence's flagship, ''Resplendent Fervor''. The day after losing Miridem, Vice Admiral Berlin M. Tursk sent a message from the to Lucius Jiron, captain of the ''PRO-49776'', in which he told the captain he would be receiving Spartans shortly and that he ought to prep his OF92 Booster Frame|OF92 booster frames for a quick and dirty Operation: WARM BLANKET|extraction of the doctor.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: The Fall of Reach#2010 Bonus Content|Adjunct'' Continuous pinging of her beacon by the ''Swiftsure'' indicated she was still alive and still cryogenically frozen. By the time the Spartans had been received the Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence was being prevented from initiating slipspace jumps by the powerful magnetic field of the star Ascon.''Halo Legends'', ''The Package (animated short)|The Package'Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition'' - dossiers
When Halsey was finally awakened from cryostasis she found herself facing none other than John-117, who had infiltrated ''Resplendent Fervor'' to rescue her. He asked if she'd slept well, at which she joked she evidently ''had'', no thanks to the Covenant's driving. She teased that perhaps John's luck had rubbed off on her, and when he swore he'd always be there for her she stopped him short, saying that he shouldn't make promises he can't keep. Regardless, she was thankful despite also pointing out that it wouldn't be a proper rescue until they made it off the enemy CAS-class assault carrier|carrier. They hastened from the chamber where her cryotube had resided, rushing down a long hall until they were met on the other side of the door by Thel 'Lodamee, the same Elite who had killed Sheila. John opened fire with his MA5, but the Elite's Type-1 energy sword was able to block the bullets. Surprisingly, 'Lodamee tossed the Spartan a second sword. Halsey watched as the two began to duel. At that moment the fleet became clear of Ascon's magnetic interference, however, and the Luro 'Taralumee|shipmaster decided to Modular Dispersal Technology|disconnect the portion of the ship John, Halsey, and Thel were in before jumping to slipspace. Halsey realized something had changed when an alarm began to ring throughout the ship and cautioned John to wait during a brief respite in the duel. The major was suddenly caught up in a Gravity lift|gravity field and pulled back to the foremost section, leaving Halsey and John trapped in Delta Section. Knowing that what remained would be scuttled soon, the two ran to a bay at Halsey's suggestion and boarded a Ren, blasting away just before the ship was wracked by explosions. They were accosted by a group of Kai-pattern Seraph|''Kai''-pattern Seraphs left behind by the fleet, which led to Halsey frustratingly asking if there was anything John could to do save them. Thankfully, the combined efforts of ''PRO-49776'' and another Seraph commandeered by both Kelly-087 and Frederic-104 kept them from being killed. Once aboard the prowler, John let Halsey know that Solomon-069 and Arthur-079 had been killed during the Operation: WARM BLANKET|effort to retrieve her. Feeling somewhat rattled by his fight with 'Lodamee, he stated his determination to be stronger, to which Halsey agreed, saying they all needed to be. Though the Human-Covenant War|war was in its twentieth year something told her there was much more ahead of them.
''Halo: Reach'', ''The Package'' data pads File:Halsey'sJournal Math.PNG|300px|thumb|Equations On 2547#September|September 3, 2547 Halsey noted in her Dr. Halsey's personal journal|journal that following her inquiries regarding the assumptions of the Wikipedia:Tensor|mu-tensor calculation in Doctor Canterfeld's latest paper in I.C. Physical Review, Canterfeld had finally asked her for help with the areas of his research that were continuing to elude him.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 3, 2547'' He had responded to her inquiring by declaring that Slipspace|Shaw-Fujikawa space is "literally slippery" and then proceeding to explain why his assumptions were valid. Halsey was glad to help him, as she could see that his theories about slipstream anomalies could lead to a number of innovations, such as those which would result in faster ships and more accurate jumps. Catherine was convinced that humanity needed such advantages to counter the Covenant's superior technologies, noting at the same time that she was starting to doubt the idea that their enemy possessed superior intelligence. In addition to the benefits aiding Canterfeld could bring to the Human-Covenant War|war effort, Halsey also wondered if his contacts and support in the United Nations could effect a transfer for her. She chronicled her thoughts on the matter, questioning whether being permitted to devote herself to "pure" research would cause her to lose sight of how many were depending on her. She concluded, that with so many trails of her studies converging at that moment she could not leave, even if she did view her work as a sort of burden, Wikipedia:Purgatory|purgatory, or Wikipedia:Dharma|dharma, in spite of Admiral Stanforth's assertions regarding her "destiny". In the end, she wrote, it may be all that remains to her, having given up a normal life, Miranda Keyes|her family, her Spartans, and even the "illuminated entities" which she said she had come to understand. She was certain she wouldn't be able to make Canterfeld understand why she had to refuse him, so she decided to just send him a note the following day. That next day, the battle-worn UNSC Frigate|frigate arrived in dry dock at Reach, with its slipspace drive slated for disposal at 1615 hours. This was fortuitous to Doctor Halsey, who saw that drive as the last disparate component of several she had secretly acquired for an experimental procedure. One other of these was a Slipstream space probe|probe from Fermion|the planet's Remote scanning outpost|early warning slipstream space observatory. In her journal Halsey mused over whether she possessed the mettle to steal the drive and conduct the experiment and couldn't help but think of fate and luck, despite her best efforts to reject entertaining such notions. She intended to build an abstract Wikipedia:Fractal|fractal structure within slipspace with an A.I. seed inside it.
Once she secured access to the drive, she first needed to breach the external, internal, and vacuum coupling shields to the singularity, for which she bemoaned that the UNSC couldn't make a proper pan-Wikipedia:Torque|torque screwdriver. She would have preferred to use hardened remotes for the breaching, but they would have been detected by networks which would also record their activities. As a result, a peculiar Wikipedia:Synesthesia|synesthetic effect moved along her left arm up to her neck when she removed the shields. She also experienced a kind of "hiccup" in her awareness which she surmised was due to the Wikipedia:Delta timing|delta time which could occur with abrupt transitions into slipspace. Next, she had to check the probe's telemetry systems after compensating for how close the experiment was to Reach's Gravity well (physics)|gravity well, and found they were within tolerable variances. Halsey then verified the data of the Smart AI|A.I. seed "H-7" to seven Wikipedia:Significant figures|significant figures and initiated its transfer to the matrix strata within the probe. After starting the slipspace drive and verifying the data received, as well as activating the AI seed, she confirmed an initial growth state. Upon checking and triple verifying the probe's telemetry uplinks she then finally launched it on an aligned trajectory. Recording her observations in her journal, the doctor noticed again that time seemed to have mysteriously elapsed, as there was a step anomaly in the chronometer. This had not affected her or her wristwatch as far as she could tell, and she guessed that the anomaly might be a technical artifact or a subdimensional leakage from the probe as it was inserted. It was only then that she realized she had already made a note of this "hiccup" closer to the time it had occurred but could not recall doing so. Telemetry confirmed that A.I. growth was beyond exponentialappearing instantaneous. Halsey wondered variously if this might be explained by the temporal discrepancy, some hitherto undiscovered multidimensional effect on the A.I. cross-linkages, or even alternate physical laws harnessed by the unshielded slipstream. Much of the incoming data and consciousness cross-checks soon became garbled and voice communication from the A.I. was attenuated. Logic/mathematics Scriber tests confirmed full functionality, but Halsey was disturbed by the conclusions, insights, and even what she considered nonsense being generated. The A.I.'s comments on humanity and the Covenant defied reason from her perspective, but she made sure they were all recorded, including those concerning The Assembly|other intellects in the "mist". Halsey wondered in her journal whether the "mist" referred to slipspace and also commented on another four-hour "step" in time that might also be explained by lost consciousness. She additionally noted that the data-transfer buffer had been blowncapable of one hundred and forty-eight hours at its maximum rate. As soon as she made this observation Halsey set about replacing it. After the telemetry became fully operational she noticed glaring gaps throughout the record. And although the voice communications continued to grow increasingly nonsensical, all rampancy indicators were negative.
Before telemetry was lost, a communication burst provided Halsey with mathematical equations which she could not make sense of, leading her to wonder what she was missing. As contact with the probe had terminated on her end as well, she sealed the drive's three shielding layers and considered the experiment over. She noted that she had no desire to repeat it and hoped that the A.I., now irretrievable, was "dead". Catherine then ported the collected data to Jerrod for further analysis, filed and encrypted essential records under her personal code, and triggered a Wikipedia:Computer worm|viral worm and Wikipedia:Bit|bit grinder with the intent to destroy all other digital witnesses. She closed her documentation of the experiment in her journal with an ambiguous remark concerning one last thing she had to do. Despite her attempt being somewhat of a failure, the A.I. collective known as the The Assembly|Assembly took great interest in it. During an emergency convention soon after its conclusion an A.I. of the Assembly Minority|Minority predicted that a successful repeat of what she'd done could lead to immortality for its kind. Ultimately, it was determined that further experimentation of the like would need to be actively encouraged. The day after, Halsey speculated in her journal that artificial intelligences might in fact be "more alive" than their human creators. By this point she had begun to check the KIA lists on the UNSC subnet daily and had come to the realization that most of the friends from her youth were dead. The closest friends left to her then were the A.I.s that surrounded her.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''September 5, 2547''
File:H5G Cortanabirthcropped.PNG|thumb|350px|Cortana's face resembles the way Doctor Halsey's appeared when she was fresh out of college. Part of her also resembles Halsey's daughter Miranda Keyes|Miranda and yet another part is purely Cortana's invention. On 2549#March|March 24, 2549 Halsey made a note in which which she reminded herself to soon finish field tests experimenting with direct human-to-A.I. neural linkages. She believed such a linkage would serve as the final necessary upgrade incumbent to Mjolnir's MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V platform, as well as the last gift she had to offer her Spartans. An exceptional A.I. was needed to assist them with Operation: RED FLAG, a last-ditch effort to capture a Covenant hierarch. Though Halsey felt she had no other choice but to proceed in this direction, she did worry that in combining Spartans and A.I.s it felt as if she was losing both somehow.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''March 24, 2549'' On 2549#May|May 21 Doctor Halsey Flash cloning|cloned herself twenty times, thereby breaking civilian laws, United Nations Space Command|UNSC military regulations, and (far from the first time) the UN UN Colonial Mortal Dictata|Colonial Mortal Dictata.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''May 21, 2549'' She believed her third-generation "smart" A.I.s required better material to use as A.I. matrix seeds than that offered by the new candidates she was being presented with, which she saw as lacking both physical and intellectual agility. To create the clones she used the same equipment that had been used years prior to make the flash clones needed for SPARTAN-II. This time, however, she enhanced their neural physiology at the expense of other biological functions. She made sure the equipment was hidden and secure from all save herself, though the cloning had been arranged by ONI at her insistence. As such, there were a few others who also knew about it, but she was confident that these particular individuals could be trusted to keep the information secret. The clones developed at a breakneck pace, for on the same day she had first begun the process they were already exhibiting familiar anatomy and curling into fetal positions, malformed as they were. In her journal Halsey noted how disquieting this was to watch, grieving for them and wishing she could allay their suffering somehow. A little over two months later, on 2549#July|July 29, Halsey successfully excised all of the clones' brains and transferred them to cryogenic units.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 29, 2549'' All remaining organic substrates were flash-incinerated. She planned at this time to complete her Mind transfer|personality transfer seven weeks later and was still uncertain whether or not she should tell them they were clones of her. It was at some point in 2549 that UNSC High Command finally made the Spartan-II project public in order to boost morale. Halsey protested this at first, but ironically the publicity proved convenient because the attention on the Spartans' heroics distracted from questions about their origins.
On 2549#September|September 9 Halsey reflected on the recent Second Fall of Arcadia|loss of Arcadia, as she had come into possession of a near-complete record of the attack taken from an orbiting weather satellite. In her journal she expressed the agony viewing the destruction caused her, noting that she knew some would smirk at the thought of her shrinking from it. As the entire world's surface was mercilessly Glassing|glassed rather than only portions, she wondered variously whether the planet posed a threat to them, had religious or political value, or was simply designated for sending a message to humanity. By September 14 Halsey had hacked into the redacted portions of other Arcadia reports.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 14, 2549'' At some point in September the annex in CASTLE Base's Omega Wing where Halsey was working was quarantined. On 2549#November|November 7, 2549, she transferred and authenticated the H-1 specimen's neural pattern to A.I. matrix strata, completing the initiation sequence within normal quantum flux tolerances.''Halo: Reach'', ''Outpost'' The newly made intelligence called herself "Cortana" and represented a generational leap in volitional A.I. technology. Halsey placed a viral termination code in her kernel but then could not tell whether she remained unaware of it or had already isolated and bypassed it. Halsey also programmed her with ONI's best insurgency software and every ONI computer insurgency routine, as well as the determination to use those code-cracking skills. She first designed and tested these routines on Kalmiya. Only once the process had been debugged and streamlined did she incorporate them into Cortana. Afterward, the brass in ONI Section Three|Section Three instructed Halsey to destroy any prototype routinesan order which she promptly ignored.
The first words spoken by Cortana were those Halsey's mother had said to her after beating her daughter in chess decades prior. Halsey recognized in the choice of phrase a confluence of morality, mortality, and metaphor. In her journal she recorded her delight and relief upon seeing that Cortana chose a simple human appearance for her avatar. She also mentioned that specimens H-2, H-3, and H-4 would remain in cryogenic suspension, as she had other plans for them which were dependent on evolving technology. On 2550#February|February 11, 2550 Catherine recorded a research excerpt in which she took note of certain metrics which implied the viral termination code in Cortana's matrix would have been unlikely to be successful and that the typical seven-year life cycle estimate may not apply to her. She'd determined that the unique circumstances of her creation had triggered what Halsey could only refer to as a "recessive variant" in the A.I. seed, but the doctor was at a loss concerning this rogue element's origin.''Halo 4'', ''Requiem (level)|Requiem'' Audio log (Halo 4)|audio logs
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File:Halsey'sJournalSite.PNG|thumb|300px|left|By June of 2550 Doctor Halsey had begun to link disparate locations of interest throughout space to one another, still at that point being kept in the dark regarding their Xenoarchaeology|xenoarchaeological significance. These included Hyperion Station, Onyx, and Jazz-9. On 2550#April|April 6, 2550 Halsey reflected on her history as a mother, regretting her inability to dissuade Miranda from joining the military and her personally having arranged for Miranda's assignment to the .''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''April 6, 2550'' Miranda had recently been one of only two people to make it off the ''Hilbert'' alive after she'd given the order to sacrifice it to take out a Covenant Covenant destroyer|destroyer threatening three UNSC UNSC corvette|corvettes. As such, Keyes was presented with a Silver Star, the new commander's insignia, and command of the . She'd invited her mother to the ceremony after years of not speaking to her, but Halsey hadn't gone. In her journal she noted that while she could explain her refusal by pointing to the fact that Jacob Keyes|Jacob would be there or the half-dozen projects she was neck-deep in the final stages of, she knew the real reason but didn't want to put it to paper. By 2550#June|June 3 of that year Professor Laszlo Sorvad had begun an archaeological study of the debris field near the village of Visegrad.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''June 3, 2550'' With his help and without Halsey's authority, ONI Section Two|Section Two "leaked" that the site may contain a precolonization meteorite metallurgical and astrophysical scientific value. Halsey wondered why ONI didn't just say the location was a dumpsite for toxins and other radiologicals, but she noted that this leak gave her more insight into how Section Two thoughtbolstering her knowledge of what to watch for in the future. She also began urging Sorvad to migrate the local population elsewhere but he did not heed her advice.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''May 10, 2551'' It was around this time that Catherine then began to investigate files under the purview of CINCONI Margaret Parangosky without permission, especially those related to the planet Onyx in the Zeta Doradus system. At some point before late 2550 Catherine had a discussion with Cortana about the similarities between Spartans and A.I.s. Doctor Halsey made the point was that both were human-created tools, both were sentient, and that both played a leading role in the protection and safety of the populace. Cortana was troubled by the analogy and told the doctor so.''Conversations from the Universe''
On 2550#November|November 23 the Official Secrets Act of 2550 was handed down, regulating the confidentiality and nondisclosure of any official messenger satchel. This additional measure struck Halsey as onerous and when she made inquiries regarding it to Michael Stanforth|Stanforth he uncharacteristicallt deflected them. Catherine speculated in her journal that the new regulation might relate to Visegrad or some of the other rumored Forerunner|sites she'd been collecting data on, and while she did appreciate the need for secrecy she did not appreciate relevant data being kept from her. If indeed Visegrad was Forerunner|what she and others all thought it might be, she reasonedand if there were other such sites, she wondered who could be positioning themselves to assay the larger picture.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''November 23, 2550'' By 2551#February|February 20, 2551 the , the UNSC's largest medical facility, had departed Reach with a minimal escort.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''February 20, 2551'' According to Halsey's own sources, it was accompanied by one ONI prowler in addition to a single destroyer. The ''Hopeful''s A.I. was unusually tight-lipped when Kalmiya asked about its destination. This, plus the late addition of carcinogenic, mutagenic, and experimental chemicals to its manifest among other oddities, piqued the doctor's curiosity. She questioned in her journal why Stanforth would keep any clandestine ONI Section Three|Section Three medical experiments from her. To her irritation, inquiries she made on the matter were met with dead ends. The facility returned by February 27 and Vice Admiral Ysionris Jeromi|Jeromi even invited Halsey to come aboard for a look at its new Flash cloning|flash-clone organ facility.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''February 27, 2551'' Once they were together he abruptly steered their conversation to tell her he knew she was "fishing" before she could even ask him anything related to the ship's short absence. He also claimed that he knew very little himself and couldn't tell her what he did know, under threat of death. File:Babd catha forerunner complex.jpg|thumb|350px|Cortana spent the first few years of her existence assisting Doctor Halsey within the confines of CASTLE Base, having been given total access to her work, but after the doctor began studying the mysterious ship buried in the ice shelf at Babd Catha she eventually began to use Cortana to retrieve navigation data from the ancient vessel.''Halo Mythos'', ''page 89''
By 2551#May|May 2551 Catherine had begun to lead the excavation of an ancient Forerunner|alien Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|vessel that lay Babd Catha Forerunner complex|buried beneath the area occupied by ONI's SWORD Base within the Babd Catha Ice Shelf in northern Eposz.Data Drop Data Drop/Two|#2''Halo: Reach'', ''The Package'' Even so, her residence remained in Csongrad where she also continued to work with Doctor Sorvad on the Visegrad findings. On May 8 she was interviewed by analyst B.M. Parkes so that they might conduct a Hemley and Aubourn Behavior Analysis|Hemley and Aubourn behavior analysis of her. Following the encounter Parkes recorded that she had not been terribly forthcoming and ultimately recommended assigning two to three handlers to her at both sites where she was working. Parkes also was confident she needed to be surveilled were she to be called off-planet, though her leaving Reach was something they and their colleagues strongly discouraged at that time. Two days later Halsey noted in her journal that a security issue which she blamed Sorvad for had caused her to begin keeping an eye on the inhabitants of Visegrad to ensure they didn't disappear thanks to Section Three. As an insurance policy, she told Stanforth that the people there for valuable for being the only ones with extended exposure to the site under study and as such may need to be studied. She met with Sorvad and he assured her that only certain members of the dig team and a few other "necessary parties" on her side had seen the items recovered from the site. He insisted on continuing the work with only a skeleton crew of his most trusted people and promised he would not tolerate "another Farragut Station", referring to the communications outpost. Halsey simply nodded but was displeased, wondering if Sorvad might actually know what had happened at Farragut Station in the past and the reason for its relocation. On 2552#May|May 15, 2552 Kalmiya caught a glimpse of several documents in Vice Admiral Stanforth's Beta-5 Division|Beta-5 server which ranged from service order transfers of existing Spartan-IIs to highly classified non-Spartan-II detachments.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''May 15, 2552'' This had evidently been going on for years, and Halsey was incensed at having been kept in the dark about it. She resolved to not let this go, and as she had a list of names with James Ackerson|one man she considered particularly obscene at the top, she planned to send Kalmiya back in as soon as she got a handle on the affairs with Sorvad. At various points during her time spent beneath the Babd Catha shelf Doctor Halsey kept tabs on a number of individuals and groups, recording her thoughts on each. She noted, for example, that she felt inspired by and grateful for those among the Seventh Column community who had been willing to reach out to her. Halsey was similarly comforted by those involved with the initiatives "Fight the Flood" and "Be a Hero". Other civilians which merited her attention during this period included those of Red vs. Blue|RvB and Halo.bungie.org|HBO, the former having entertained her on multiple occasions and the latter impressing her enough to make her consider providing the faction with direct access to her internal systems. When the doctor initially caught wind of a training protocol which had seen Randall Glass|a marine Warthog jumping|lift an M12 Warthog with M9 fragmentation grenade|grenades, she did not believe the reports. Upon seeing video footage of the accomplishment, however, she decided to flag his file for investigation. It was her opinion that though he should be recommended for the ODSTs, it was too risky to keep him in the field and run the risk of others emulating his foolish actions. And finally, Catherine took care to recognize HCFS, which represented her eyes and ears in the field. At some point during this time she worried she might have a security breach, as a file in her workspace had been opened which she could not recall ever accessing.''Halo: Reach'' "Tribute Room"
On the morning of 2552#July|July 18, 2552 Catherine got to have a brief talk with Admiral Stanforth concerning the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|protracted battle that had just concluded at Sigma Octanus IV.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 18, 2552'' This followed the normal reporting on it and by the end of the day she had also read through both the admiral's after-action report on the battle (given to her by him) and the press releases put out by ONI Section Two|Section Two. Halsey's interest was piqued when she saw Jacob Keyes' name and that of his ship, the , featured prominently in the reporting, so she found herself skipping ahead to confirm he had survived. In her journal she surmised that the maneuver being dubbed "the Keyes Loop" had been inspired by one of Admiral Preston Cole|Cole's. A heavily redacted section of the after-action report that detailed, as far as Halsey could tell, a groundside mission involving Blue Team, was of the most pressing concern to her. She was unsure why Spartans would have been committed there, seeing as the planet was in all probability about to be glassed at the time, but even Kalmiya was unable to break the section's encryption. The Covenant's return to the planet following its first repulsion led her to conclude it must have wanted something on it, so she resolved to follow up on this line of inquiry. Two days later Stanforth pretended to have never given Halsey access to the files he had, which made her think others must have been listening in on their conversation.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 20, 2552'' She had noticed a recent intensification of paranoia and security around her, after all. She was certain she was missing something in the reporting which he wanted her to see that should be glaringly obvious. The next day, 2552#July|July 21, Laszlo Sorvad|Sorvad sent her a brief, cryptic message on his Theta channel.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 21, 2552'' He claimed to have made a latchkey discovery that was too important to send through the data link he had with him, and since he could neither leave the field to deliver the information in person, he said he would send it through the Visegrad Visegrad Relay|communication relay hub. After more than six hours since his message Halsey had still received nothing, but she decided against second-guessing him and elected to simply continue waiting.
File:HReach - Carter and Halsey.png|375px|thumb|Doctor Halsey's first suspicion upon coming face-to-face with Spartan-IIIs was that they were substandard versions of Spartan-IIs, perhaps from a parallel program like Project JAVELIN|Project: JAVELIN or some next-generation venture piggybacking on her work.
''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 26, 2552''
By July 23 contact with the relay hub had been lost.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 23, 2552'' Given how the communications network had been hardened years back and the urgency and demand for secrecy in Sorvad's message, Halsey ruled out a rudimentary malfunction, believing the loss to be more than a coincidence. She made a short list of possible explanations for the blackout, none of which were pleasant. She figured either internal subterfuge within ONI, Insurrectionist|insurgent action, or even the Covenant could be to blame. Halsey made sure Stanforth, who had personnel addressing the situation, was aware of her vital staff in the area. She also shared her thoughts on the potential causes with him and was told she'd be notified when her people were located. The next day she caught a rumor that a UNSC Special Forces|special forces unit had been sent to investigate the hub but that it too had disappeared.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''July 24, 2552'' Halsey learned that a second unit named "NOBLE Team" would be sent to investigate next, but she could not get anyone to give her any further details. Without even knowing what branch of the United Nations Space Command|armed forces this NOBLE Team belonged to, she resolved in her journal to follow up on it as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the doctor was also receiving scattered data from the usual suspects concerning atmospheric anomalies along with radar and slipspace monitoring glitches. She compared these events to those recorded near Sigma Octanus IV but there were no matches. File:Jorge Deployment Details.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Halsey's attempt to access restricted information concerning Jorge-052 prompted a personal message being sent to her from Colonel Urban Holland, who had operational control of NOBLE Team.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', additional materials''Halo: Reach'', ''Noble Actual''
By 1126 hours on July 26 SWORD Base had come under attack by an and Covenant ground forces from the Fleet of Valiant Prudence.''Halo: Reach'', ''ONI: Sword Base'' Following the attack's repulsion Halsey requested permission to debrief with NOBLE Team, the six members of which met her within the base's science wing thereafter. Upon seeing them her suspicions were confirmed: they were SPARTAN-III program|Spartans, as incomprehensible as that was to her at the time. Only one of them, Jorge-052, was one of hers. She had already begun conversing with the team's leader, Carter-A259, when Jorge and SPARTAN-B312|sixth member of the team finally joined them. She was in the midst of telling Carter to dispense with telling her about the recent engagement outside so she could hear about what happened in Visegrad when Jorge's entrance made her stop mid-sentence to greet him. She couldn't help but ask after the obvious modifications made to his armor before returning to the matter of the Visegrad Relay|Visegrad relay, and Doctor Sorvad's death in particular. From Carter, Jorge, and Spartan-B312 she learned that Devoted Sentries|a group of three Sangheili Sangheili Zealot|Zealots were likely responsible. The same had ambushed NOBLE Team when they'd arrived at the relay and the one which appeared to be their leader had gotten away from the Spartans. Halsey dismissed mention of Sorvad's daughter Sara Sorvad|Sara in the interest in maintaining focus on the Elites and what their leader might have escaped with. She bristled at Carter's defense of his order not to pursue the last zealot, worried that it might have stolen valuable ONI excavation data. She let them know about the supposed latchkey discovery Sorvad had made and emphasized its importance, stressing that they should hope a data module found on his corpse contained what was so important. At this Catherine-B320 handed the module over to the doctor through a transaction drawer, as a wall of glass separated her from NOBLE. She let the lieutenant commander know she'd been alerted when she'd tried to access its contents, threatening her with imprisonment for attempting to interfere with her work. This prompted Carter to rush to Kat's defense, citing the WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY directive and the provision against civilian interference with a Spartan deployment to make the same threat to Halsey. Jorge lingered when the rest of the team began to leave, but Halsey told him they'd talked enough, allowing him to move on as well.
The data in Sorvad's last message to her had been compromised along with the entire relay hub, which had been effectively destroyed. Following her meeting with NOBLE Team Halsey noted in her journal that security measures were under way to preserve ONI's discoveries in the Viery Territory and to integrate and update Cortana with the latest intelligence from the Visegrad site. In addition, she was able to confirm definitely that the five with Jorge were indeed Spartans. She pulled Jorge's service record, but more was redacted than was usual even for a Spartan and she had trouble reconciling his recent activity with Naval Special Weapons. Seeing how he had seemed to grow in the past two decades, she made a note to herself to check Wikipedia:Pituitary gland|pituitary and Wikipedia:Human growth hormone|human growth hormone levels for enduring catalytic side effects. Halsey figured Jorge must be glad to be back on Reach, even given the circumstances, but was unsure whether or not she was only displacing or projecting her own feelings onto him. The others on NOBLE Team, of course, were a mystery to her, but seeing them did remind her once more that Mendez was missing. If time had permitted, she would have pursued this thread, but as all the pieces for Operation: RED FLAG were almost in place, she had to wait. The Covenant's presence on Reach was also enough to get her to begin preparing for Operation: WHITE GLOVE, which involved denying the enemy access to classified data.
By 0250 hours on 2552#August|August 1 Admiral Michael Stanforth|Stanforth had provided Doctor Halsey with a list of assets required for RED FLAG. The mission would require between twenty and thirty Spartan-IIs, the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V Mjolnir software suite, an at least third-generation A.I. extensively programmed with Covenant system intrusion software, a refit or augmented , and a veteran naval commanding officer and crew. Half of these would be coming directly from Halsey, who had already chosen Cortana to serve as the mission's A.I.Data Drop Data Drop/Four|#4 By 2552#August|August 3 Halsey and Cortana had both agreed she ought to be divided after long discussion. John and the other Spartans would need her expertise for RED FLAG, but she was also the best-suited to continue the study of symbols and operating systems from Professor Sorvad's site. In her journal Halsey pledged to copy most of Cortana's Illegal Entry Protocols|illegal entry protocol translation routines to an independent module so so the incarnate personality which remained could go with Blue Team and the rest. It was her hope that the severed data-mining portion could be reunited with the rest of her so she could be updated with Sorvad's data before the ', RED FLAG's designated cruiser, departed.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 3, 2552'' Halsey had chosen the ''Autumn'' for the operation because it could take an incredible beating without suffering functional compromise far longer than any other ships the Navy was currently fielding. By 2552#August|August 5 the independent module for Cortana had been successfully copied and all tests indicated separated routine functions were within normal parameters.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 5, 2552'' Halsey noted in her journal that she hoped the remaining work left to Cortana wouldn't take much longer. She would need to leave as soon as she was ready, provided the ''Autumn'' was ready in time. Pledging to catch up on lost sleep later, she also made a reminder to herself to inquire with Cortana concerning how it felt to experience a Wikipedia:Multiplexing|multiplexed existence. At some point during the seventeen days following her meeting with NOBLE Team Catherine got to talk with Sara Sorvad about her father.
File:Reach HALSEY.PNG|thumb|300px|While reviewing the Spartans of NOBLE Team with Cortana, Halsey noted that only Spartan-B312 and one other Spartan then had the rating of "hyper lethal".
Battle Group Leviathan arrived at Reach from Sigma Octanus IV by 2552#August|August 12 so Halsey went on that date to see what had been done to her Mjolnir units.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 12, 2552'' Replacement parts and possible upgrades were available, though she noted later that day that John-117 would need to be laser scanned for the new cybernetic implants she planned to give him. Once she was aboard his , the , Jacob Keyes came to see her as she had been both hoping and dreading. They were able to talk about Miranda, his recent "Keyes Loop", the Spartans (including their operational records, which she showed him), and what little she could prematurely disclose about Operation: RED FLAG.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 29'' When they parted they wished one another the best on their respective missions and Keyes even kissed her on the cheek when she offered her hand to shake. By 1100 hours later that day she was present for Keyes' debriefing at Camp Hathcock, sitting on a panel which included herself, Admiral Stanforth, and Colonel James Ackerson.''Halo: Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion'' A little over ten minutes later she met John within one of the camp's military complexeswhere he had just finished his own debriefing.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 24'' She was sitting in an overstuffed chair when he returned to the debriefing lounge and her surprise presence caught him off guard. She asked how he was doing, making sure to not give any suggestion that Battle at Szurdok Ridge|all was not well on Reach at that moment, as it had been decided the Spartans should be kept in the dark for the time being so that RED FLAG might not be compromised.Data Drop Data Drop/Five|#5 In the few minutes they had Halsey told him about the upcoming procedures planned for him and gave his head a cursory Wikipedia:Magnetic Resonance Imaging|MRI. John asked after Franklin Mendez|Mendez and all the others the two of them had called family and Halsey shared what little she knew without giving heed to protocols or security clearances. They then sat together quietly for a time. John was enthusiastic about the victory at Sigma Octanus system|Sigma Octanus, so she asked whether he would like another victory and perhaps the biggest they'd ever had at that. She left things with him there, however, and just offered that they'd be speaking soon. Turning to the military police attendant waiting at the lounge's entrance, she instructed him to open the doors so she could take her turn speaking to the committee of twelve naval officers, ONI and otherwise. Two days later Halsey was within SWORD Base again when it saw further bombardment from the Covenant.''Halo: Reach'', ''Long Night of Solace (level)|Long Night of Solace'' On 2552#August|August 23 the Spartans of NOBLE Team were informed they were to redeploy to SWORD Base for a torch-and-burn operation meant to keep Doctor Halsey's excavation data from falling into enemy hands. Unbeknownst to them, they were actually being recalled there so the doctor could use them as couriers for the fragment of Cortana which would need to be reunited with the rest of her before the ''Pillar of Autumn'' departed. At some point prior to their eventual arrival on August 30, while within her lab at Babd Catha Catherine reviewed what she knew about the team's members with Cortana, seeing as one of them would need to personally take possession of the fragment for delivery. Cortana elected to give that role to Spartan-B312, the team's newest membera decision Halsey agreed with.''Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise|A Spartan will Rise''
On 2552#August|August 24 Doctor Halsey attended a debriefing where she was shown a hologram of a piece of Sigma Octanus IV artifact|an object Blue Team had recovered from Sigma Octanus IVthough she was not made aware of its point of origin or even what branch or group within ONI had seen fit to share it with her. This, of course, hindered her from performing a complete analysis. Even so, it was plain to her that the artifact shared many iconic language and code forms with the Forerunner|alien Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|ship buried beneath the area around SWORD Base. During the debriefing she candidly speculated that the artifact must come from a precursor to the current Covenant society or an Forerunner|entirely different alien civilization. Once the meeting concluded she was finally given permission to proceed with Project: MJOLNIR's final phase. In her journal later that day she puzzled over a possible connection between what she judged to be the more "standard" stylized Forerunner symbols|glyphs on the Sigma Octanus IV artifact and took note of potential similarities between other glyphs and hypothesized navigational code found in Covenant transmissions. She ultimately could not draw a conclusion and even wondered if perhaps Illegal Entry Protocols|illegal entry protocol deconvolution was to blame. Halsey hypothesized at this time that the artifact's Forerunners|creators might represent predecessors of the Covenant, if not a culture far more ancient and removed. She was unable to copy the data the hologram displayed and instead had to commit it to memory. Deciphering the message on the object would require actually having it and all relevant etiological data, so she shared this with her undisclosed ONI counterparts knowing it would get back to Colonel James Ackerson|Ackerson. She suspected it was in his possession and was sure she could get everything he had on it once he realized her help would be needed to decipher it.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 24, 2552'' At 0915 hours the next morning Halsey was fourteen minutes and eighteen seconds late to her private office within the Omega Wing of CASTLE Base (which she had returned to several days earlier), as Deja pointed out as soon as she entered. She told the A.I. she could blame security for that, as ONI's precautions were becoming increasingly ridiculous in her mind. As if to further solidify this view, when she sat down at her desk and tried to read the files pertaining to the prior day's debriefing she was prevented from doing so due to Deja's presence. Though Halsey had fought hard to keep her free from the programming shackles ONI demanded, the doctor had to put the A.I. in standby mode before she could go any further. Looking over the files revealed that ONI didn't have any idea what in particular the Covenant had been doing on Sigma Octanus IV, to Halsey's consternation. When Cortana's avatar suddenly appeared and announced she too had read the report, Catherine halfheartedly scolded her for it before asking for her insight regarding the findings. Though the A.I. admitted there was insufficient data for a complete analysis, her conclusions generally matched those of her creator's.
File:REDFLAGbriefing.png|250px|thumb|left|Halsey told the twenty-five Spartans gathered for RED FLAG that they represented all that remained of the Spartan-IIs, save for Gray Team|three who were Operation: SUNSPEAR|otherwise engaged. This was a lie on her part, as she did not yet know of Jorge-052's Operation: UPPER CUT|death and believed him to still be fighting with NOBLE Team. While still speaking with Cortana that August 25 morning, Doctor Halsey let on that the final phase of MJOLNIR had been approved. Her creation asked when she would be leaving for RED FLAG, to which Halsey answered "Soon." There were still a few final modifications she needed to make to the Mark V systems which the Spartan-IIs would be using. Cortana inquired as to which of the Spartans would be carrying her so Halsey asked which one she would like to. Cortana immediately gravitated toward an image of John-117 but Halsey suggested she make a different choice, citing compatibility issues. At this Cortana swiftly developed a custom interface buffer that, once a new neural interface was installed, would allow her and John's neural patterns to synchronize within 0.081%. Catherine asked if she'd read his Career Service Vitae|career service vitae and learned she was looking it over again right that moment. Both of them agreed that he was the bravest, the luckiest, and the best of the Spartans. The doctor asked if Cortana would be willing to sacrifice him in order to complete the mission, and once she'd assented to this, gave her permission to make him her carrier. Next, they discussed the ''Pillar of Autumn'' and determined refit operations needed to begin at once. Halsey had chosen Jacob Keyes to captain the UNSC Cruiser|cruiser so she forwarded Cortana his CSV so she could look it over as well. She was not immediately convinced the doctor had made the right choice, but Catherine pointed out his ability to keep a secret made him superbly qualified for the mission.
On 2552#August|August 27 Catherine Halsey and Jacob Keyes met with twenty-five of the remaining Spartan-IIs at 0800 hours underneath the Highland Mountains Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|FLEETCOM complex to brief them on Operation: RED FLAG, as Admiral Stanforth had requested she do. There, in the same amphitheater in which they had been brought as children thirty-five years prior, she asked them to disregard normal protocol and ask any questions they may have during her presentation. She explained that RED FLAG was to be executed in four phases. First, a Covenant ship would be disabled. Then, the Spartans would board it and crack its navigation database. John interrupted her at this point to ask if mission specialist personnel would help with the Covenant computers and she assured him that would be addressed soon. The mission's third phase was to involve taking the captured ship to the Covenant "High Charity|home world", and its fourth would see one of its leaders captured and brought to UNSC space. John spoke up again to question the wisdom of capturing a San'Shyuum|prophet rather than killing them, so Halsey addressed his concern by pointing out that killing one could trigger an escalation. Taking a hierarch prisoner might allow the UNSC to force a truce. Intelligence indicated that the three hierarchs at the apex of the Covenant spent their time either at the hegemony's mobile capital city ''High Charity'' or aboard either s or s. Capturing an assault carrier or supercarrier would be preferable because with luck one of the San'Shyuum High Prophets would be aboard and a trip to ''High Charity'' would be unnecessary. Hesitantly, the doctor shared that ONI was predicting only months remained before the enemy found Earth and moved against it. Even so, she had persuaded Stanforth and FLEETCOM to not order any of them to join this operationall would be volunteers. Without a second through every Spartan present stood upon hearing this, and Catherine thanked them. As she stepped away from the podium she'd been addressing them from she said she and Keyes would meet with each of them individually within a few days to continue their briefing. Each of them needed to be given Mark V Mjolnir and shown how to get their "Cortana|computer experts" on board the alien ship, after all.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 26''
In order to pull RED FLAG off, it had been determined that a colony of significant value to the Covenant and boasting many Forerunner|ancient alien artifacts would in all likelihood need to be sacrificed in order to draw the required Class-Five assets, possibly with hierarchs, in so that Spartans could infiltrate them. The best shot at taking over a large ship would come after a fleet believed it had secured a major victory. Given the current situation on Reach, ONI had decided to make the most of a losing fight and enact RED FLAG there. It was for this reason that not one of the twenty-five Spartans was yet aware that Reach was already Fall of Reach|under siege, largely thanks to the efforts of Halsey and Stanforth, who had been making sure to keep them well away from the primary target sites. Later that day Halsey reflected on the meeting in her journal, being hopeful for the Spartans' ability to secure a temporary peace that would but humanity time. She expressed her thrill at seeing so many of them together once again and mourned for those who had died years past, truly surprised at how emotional the gathering had made her. She was confident they were ready, but still resolved to appear strong for their benefit. She noted that the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V armor they'd soon be gifted with was one small operation and a few tests from completion. With only a few days left before she expected to learn whether all her discoveries and sacrifices had been worth it, she closed that day's entry wishing there was time to properly analyze her feelings and reminding herself that four small tasks still remained to complete.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 27, 2552'' By this point she had begun splitting Cortana into separate programs in order to juggle the Visegrad findings with RED FLAG. Cortana, for her part, was continually updating her separated portion and would keep doing so until the last possible moment. Catherine was excited to see how she and John took to one another. She had assured Stanforth that Cortana remained fully functional even with a large portion of her processes excised. File:HFORI HalseyChip.PNG|thumb|200px|Halsey presents Cortana to John. By 0600 hours on August 29 Catherine and others were waiting for John at the "Prep and Recovery" area of Military Reservation 01478-B.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 27'' She entered a prefabricated structure there just as the Spartan was having the back of his neck swabbed to tell him it would only take a moment to upgrade a few components of his neural interface. She asked him to lie back and remain still, and once the procedure began she assisted to some degree with fusion of the new components.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 29, 2552'' She took a brief moment to note in her Dr. Halsey's personal journal|journal that the surgery had gone flawlessly and that his recovery would be well within regenerative parameters. At that moment tests to evaluate the integration of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V Mjolnir and A.I. were planned to commence in around three hours. Once John was finished receiving his upgrades she asked him to follow her to a field command dome on the reservation's range. After presenting her credentials to the military police standing guard and submitting to identification scans she led John in to introduce him to the Mark V armor. Halsey asked him to put it on, averting her eyes as he did so with assistance from two technicians. She explained hundreds of minor technical improvements had been made compared to the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Mark IV and that she would send the specifications to him later. The two most significant additions, she added, were the armor's energy shield system and a weave of memory-processor super-conductor which allowed it to carry an A.I. She taught him how to adjust the shielding and assured him he'd get to see how much punishment it could take soon (she herself had suggested live rounds for the upcoming testing) before finally introducing him to Cortana. The A.I. had been provided with the very best Sangheili (language)|Covenant language translation software, Halsey said, so that she could infiltrate their computer and communications systems. Halsey promised Cortana would not be able to control his armor when John asked, though she would improve his reaction time. It was her explanation that, like him, Cortana would do whatever was necessary to complete Operation: RED FLAG|their mission that relieved the Master Chief. He knelt so Halsey could insert her Data crystal chip|memory processor matrix into his helmet and then watched with great interest as the Spartan and A.I. met one another for the first time.
Though the tests were not scheduled to commence for a little less than three hours, Halsey decided then that they should begin straightaway. She told John and Cortana that some within ONI did not believe they were ready for RED FLAG and so a simulated combat scenario had been arranged. Whispering, she even suggested that James Ackerson|some would prefer they failed the testing and may have made arrangements to make sure they did. John confidently asserted that he would not fail and Halsey responded by saying she knew he wouldn't. She ordered him to count to ten after she left the dome and then to make his way to reservation's obstacle course and ring the bell at its far end. After telling him to be careful and granting him permission to neutralize any threats in pursuit of his objective, she and the techs took their leave. The test which followed nearly killed John, as an AV-19 SkyHawk made multiple passes over the obstacle course and fired upon him with its 50mm cannons and a Scorpion missile. The moment the Spartan rang the bell Doctor Halsey's voice broke in over his COM channel, calling for Colonel Ackerson to call off his men and congratulating John on his accomplishment. She also told him to stay put so she could send a recovery team to collect him. Turning to Ackerson, who had been observing the course from the same room as her, Halsey pointedly asked if he was now satisfied with Project: MJOLNIR. He gruffly dismissed John's success as due to luck, which Halsey countered by saying Spartans make their own luck as she left.
File:Halsey n' Six.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Halsey hands Cortana's fragment to SPARTAN-B312. Doctor Halsey entered her SWORD Base office shortly after 0400 hours on August 30.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Chapter 28'' At checkpoint three she was briefly Cortana|delayed by a reset of the verification system, which required her to speak that day's code phrase and undergo a retina scan twice in order to proceed. Unbeknownst to her, these interruptions were caused by Cortana, who the doctor had wrongly thought she could keep occupied at that moment with checking the systems on the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The doctor had sent an official protest against Ackerson to the , backed by Admiral Stanforth, but was still tracking his possible involvement with the missile incident from the previous day.''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'', ''August 30, 2552'' She had also suggested he may have suffered a mental breakdown and advised he be taken into custody, pending evaluation. She had received reports of either he or his agents investigating the area around CASTLE Base's Xenoarchaeology|xenoarcheological site in addition to scattered ones which alleged increased Covenant activity in the vicinity as well. In her journal, she surmised that Ackerson was unlikely to find anything of interest there and cynically expressed hope that he might cross paths with the enemy. Before NOBLE Team's arrival Catherine had a number of tasks which she was determined to make sure were accomplished. She prepared Kalmiya, finalized and compiled a firmware update for the part of Cortana which remained with her and upgraded that Armored matrix|package for transfer, sent a note to Miranda by way of the , enabled a network purge, and prepared all backups for an Umbra slipspace shot to Earth. The reports Halsey had seen made her confident Reach was surely lost, but having completed what she'd needed to she felt prepared in her lab as she waited for the Spartans. NOBLE Team had arrived outside SWORD Base by 2616 hours on August 29 (local time). Shortly before the team reached Doctor Halsey Jerrod let her know SWORD Base's perimeter had been compromised, despite assertions to the contrary being made by the base's own A.I. In case something were to happen to her, Halsey recorded a purge code and its override failsafe password in her journal. At some point prior to the Spartans' arrival Halsey was one of only three friendly personnel registering with the base's security system.''Halo: Reach'', ''Glacier (Halo: Reach map)|Glacier''
File:HR HalseyJun.png|thumb|300px|After delivering the doctor to CASTLE Base Jun headed elsewhere, somehow making it off Reach alive. Upon entering SWORD Base the surviving members of NOBLE were led at Cortana's direction to a tram which would carry them one-and-a-half kilometers east and around two thousand feet underground, where Halsey's laboratory was. Once the four of them had climbed aboard she appeared on a monitor and apologized to Carter-A259 for the unusual security measures which had kept them from fully knowing what to expect at the base. He started to remark on the fact that she'd been listed as having died, but the doctor dismissed the casualty reports relating to her as false before he could finish and said she only wished the same could be said for the rest of his team, both Jorge-052 and Catherine-B320 having been killed within the last few weeks. She offered what might have been a small comfort in sharing that the data module delivered by Kat had unlocked the secrets of her nearby Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|excavation. She then explained that their orders to destroy all sensitive material at the base had been overridden, as they had always been nothing more than a pretext to bring them to her so that they could take possession of this vital data and deliver it elsewhere. Carter argued that he would need to confirm this change with Colonel Urban Holland|Holland, but Halsey assured him he would be briefed and said that they belonged to ONI now. As soon as NOBLE team first laid eyes on the Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|massive ship Halsey explained that it was Forerunner|alien but not Covenant in origin and that thanks to Kat's data its decryption was nearly complete. Carter urged her to have it ready when they reached her but the doctor insisted the decryption was still underway and, should they allow any of it to be left buried there, they'd be burying Human|mankind's Installation 04|best chance for survival. Covenant attackers soon began encroaching on her lab and she implored the Spartans to defend it in order to buy her all they time they could. As NOBLE Team fought off successive waves of enemies Halsey occasionally updated them on the progress of the data's final decryption, and as soon as it was complete she let them know she was opening the laboratory's door. Within, she explained to them that Cortana was the important data's custodian and had been the one to choose them as her couriers. Emile-A239 found the notion strange, and at that Halsey made it known that ''this'' A.I. was special. She then told them they were to carry her to the Aszod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards in Aszod, where they would find the waiting to spirit her away. Carter indicated his understanding of the mission, but Halsey made sure he understood the importance of it, claiming that humanity's annihilation was all but certain unless they could gleam some way to stop the Covenant from the information the ancient ship had provided. Once she'd received Cortana's permission to do so, she took her offline so she could be transferred to an armored matrix. With that, she removed it from where it had been plugged in and handed it to SPARTAN-B312. She said that Cortana had chosen him specifically to carry her and made him confirm he'd taken secure possession of the matrix before finally letting go.
Halsey accompanied the Spartans to a cliffside hangar on the surface where two D77-TC Pelicans sat on a platform overlooking the vast area beneath which the ancient Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|ship lay buried. Carter informed her that she was to be escorted back to CASTLE Base by Jun-A266. She briefly protested this, claiming that she required no escort, but Carter ignored her and coolly reminded Jun that ''nothing'' could be allowed to fall into enemy hands. The two groups then parted ways, Jun and Halsey heading for CASTLE Base and the other three for Aszod and the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The ''Autumn'' had been about to initiate a slipspace jump away from the doomed planet at 0647 hours, but Halsey managed to get a transmission to Captain Jacob Keyes|Keyes just in time so that he redirected the vessel to land at the Aszod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards where NOBLE Team was expecting the cruiser.''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Epilogue'Halo: Reach'', ''The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn'' She assured Jacob that he could count on Spartan-B312, Cortana's chosen courier, to deliver her fragment and its data to him.
After arriving at ONI's CASTLE Base, Halsey volunteered to remain behind to ensure that all UNSC technology was secured from possible capture.Halo: First Strike, ''page 125'' She initiated Operation: WHITE GLOVE, destroying several Artificial intelligence|AIs to keep the Covenant from accessing UNSC databases. With expectations that the Covenant would glass the planet and knowledge that even if they didn't, she would be facing an entire army of Covenant ground forces, it was clearly an offer of sacrifice.
However, this changed when Spartans Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Vinh-030, Isaac-039, and William-043 appeared at the entrance to CASTLE Base. With the firepower to potentially fight their way out, the possibility of surviving CASTLE Base's destruction became available. She gave emergency aid to the Spartans for their injuries, but a data anomaly detected by her accompanying AI, Cortana's "older sister" Kalmiya, attracted Dr. Halsey's attention.
The data had been accessed by Araqiel, an AI that worked for Colonel James Ackerson|Ackerson, one of Dr. Halsey's main competitors within ONI. After tracing the data access, Dr. Halsey stumbled across the AI, left behind by its master. Alerted by Halsey's intrusion, Araqiel began to threaten her; he went as far as telling her he would pressurize the room, or fill it with narcozine gas if she did not cease. Instead, however, she typed in archaic line commands to access Araqiel's code directory and personal fail-safe, which she used to shut him down.Halo: First Strike ''pages 127-128'' With Araqiel terminated, Halsey proceeded to read through S-III|Ackerson's files and discovered a number of things including the location of Onyx, evidence of the SPARTAN-III program and a map of the mining tunnels CASTLE base had been built upon. The latter particularly interested the Doctor as the file had been classified at X-Ray level, making the file abnormally important for ancient maps. From this, she deduced that there was something of importance under the mountain.
Assuming that at the very least these maps provided a backdoor, she chose to move the Spartans out of the base and into the mineshafts. She then triggered CASTLE Base's self-destruct mechanism and activated the fail-safe on Kalmiya, erasing her to prevent her from falling into Covenant hands. With the Spartans in tow, they moved into the mineshafts.
Over the course of the next five days, the Spartans and Dr. Halsey searched the mines, looking for either an exit or what Dr. Halsey would dub ''"the most important discovery of the millennium"''. On the fifth day, Fred discovered an entrance into a large Forerunner Menachite portal complex|structure, and within, a Forerunner crystal|spacetime-warping crystal. However, the acquiring of the crystal sent a spike of neutrino radiation, attracting the attention of the Covenant. Their location was now threatened by Covenant forces.
Following a Covenant attack, Halsey and her team retreated into a hallway and sealed off the entrance, losing contact with Isaac and Vinh in the process. However, they quickly discovered that the hallway was a dead end. It is presumed that Halsey and the surviving Spartans remained stranded at this location for some time.
File:Halsey Mem.jpg|250px|thumb|Dr. Halsey's ONI memorial plaque.
Days later, a group of Spartans, including John-117, rescued Dr. Halsey and the remaining Spartans and evacuated them from the Forerunner complex on Reach to the captured -''Ascendant Justice''. After escaping Reach, the group fled to the Insurrectionist#Eridanus rebels|rebel base Eridanus Secundus in the Eridanus system's asteroid belt, where the Spartan's Assault on Eridanus Secundus|first mission had been in. During the voyage, she successfully resuscitated the clinically dead Linda-058.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 252-253'' (2003)
Unbeknownst to the rest of the group, however, Halsey had her own agenda in mind. Examining Ackerson's files in CASTLE Base, she had concluded that the colonel had been conducting his own Spartan project which had been kept secret from her. Overcome by her guilt over the Spartan-II program and believing the war could not be won, she was determined to prevent any more Spartans from dying by taking all of them to safety.Halo: First Strike, ''page 249'' Using coordinates from Ackerson's files, she planned to go to the classified planet Onyx and divert the remaining Spartan-IIs there under the guise of recovering Forerunner technology. She sedated Kelly-087 and brought her aboard the Jacob Jiles|rebel governor's spacecraft ''Beatrice'', which she then stole and took into Slipspace. When asked by Danforth Whitcomb|Admiral Whitcomb as to the reasons for her actions, she gave a simple UNSC code Three-Nine-Two, which meant that she was on a high priority mission.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 276-278'' (2003)
Before leaving, Dr. Halsey saw the necessity of destroying the Forerunner artifact, as it would emit a radiation flare alerting the Covenant to their presence each time they jumped into Slipstream space|Slipspace and thus prevent the rest of the group from making it to Earth. She entrusted the Forerunner crystal to Corporal Locklear, telling him to keep it safe, hidden, and to do whatever it took to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Soon after, the Corporal destroyed the crystal (just as Halsey had intended), although he died in the ensuing explosion. The Covenant later recovered a few fragments.Halo: First Strike, ''page 339-340'' (2003)
In the aftermath of the battle, she was presumed dead by the Office of Naval Intelligence and honored, with other personnel, on a plaque at ONI Alpha Site (location)|ONI Alpha Site. Some in ONI knew she had survived, though, and Director Parangosky later maintained this false declaration of death to be able to keep Halsey hidden from the public.
File:HM EscapeFromOnyx3.png|thumb|200px|Halsey and Mendez inside Shield World 006. Dr. Halsey and Kelly eventually arrived at Onyx, where they reunited with Senior Chief Petty Officer|SCPO Mendez and eventually the remaining Spartan-IIs and the Spartan-IIIs, under attack by Onyx Sentinels. Contacting the ONI AI Endless Summer, she utilized Onyx's slipspace COM launcher and Cortana's slipspace transmission from Installation 05 as a carrier wave to send a message to Earth, in which she requested Terrence Hood|Lord Hood to send more Spartans to secure Forerunner technology on Onyx. Her relative expertise with Forerunner technology was vital to the survival of the UNSC forces on the planet, as she was able to interpret Forerunner glyphs when navigating the facility, guiding the Spartans to a Cartographer|map room, where Onyx was revealed to be a wholly artificial construct. She also learned how to employ the local teleportation grid|translocation grid, allowing the humans to move across the megastructure while evading the Joyous Exultation Covenant|Covenant forces that pursued them.
Halsey gradually brought the group closer to the core of Onyx. At first, she tried to maintain secrecy about her intentions out of habit, until Kurt Ambrose confronted her about it. She admitted that she was not actually looking for Forerunner technology or weapons, but rather the secret Forerunner shield world, which she believed to be equivalent to a bomb shelter, and would be capable of keeping the remaining Spartans safe to evade all current war and let them live to fight another day.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 341-343'' After the Spartans made a standoff against the Covenant in Onyx's core room antechamber she, along with Mendez, Blue Team, and the Spartan-III survivors, retreated inside the shield world known to the Forerunners as Trevelyan|Shield World 006, which she correctly deduced to be a Dyson sphere|"micro" Dyson sphere, enclosed outside normal space-time within a slipspace bubble.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 380-381''
Dr. Halsey, Chief Mendez and the surviving Spartans explored the Dyson sphere for some time, coming across several Forerunner structures and a hangar full of Forerunner vessels. Halsey recognized the potential of scavenging the technology in these ships and using it to improve the precision of human slipspace drives, among many other advances that could be gleaned from artifacts across the shield world.Halo: Glasslands, ''page 366-367''
File:Halsey Interrogated.png|left|275px|thumb|Halsey was interrogated many times after the war. Halsey and the others were eventually rescued from the shield world, but Halsey was immediately arrested as a war criminal by Captain (Navy)|Captain Serin Osman under CINCONI Admiral Margaret Parangosky's orders, for "committing acts likely to aid the enemy" by stealing the ''Beatrice'', kidnapping Kelly-087 and telling Lord Hood to send more Spartans to Onyxall with the sole intention of hiding in the shield world until the war was over. Even though Halsey had provided the UNSC with new Forerunner technology as promised, the circumstances conveniently allowed Parangosky to finally carry out her personal vendetta against Halsey. Consequently, in 2553#March|March 2553, Parangosky detained Halsey on the newly established Ivanoff Station, in orbit around Installation 03, and personally interrogated her, accusing Halsey of not informing her of the use of flash clones at the onset of the SPARTAN-II program. As far as the public is concerned, Halsey was killed during the Fall of Reach until Parangosky,Halo: Glasslands, ''page 341'' (or her successor, Admiral Osman), decides otherwise.
Following this she was treated as a war criminal and interrogated by many ONI personnel, as well as one mysterious individual who knew of the SPARTAN-II program but did not seem to be a Naval Intelligence operative.Halo 4, campaign level ''Prologue'' (Halsey: ''"What are you after? The other before you were Naval Intelligence but you -- you're something else."'') Halsey told him the details of their creation just as she had told many before him, responding to his accusations about the project's immorality. According to her, her actions were justified by the Covenant War, since without the Spartans' involvement it could have never been won. While the interrogator belittled the importance of the Spartan-IIs, going so far as to claim that they accomplished their victories because they lacked basic humanity, Halsey retained her confidence in their abilities, stating that her Spartans were "humanity's next step" and "our destiny as a species". To prove this, she predicted John-117, whom she firmly believed was alive, would return.
In March 2553, she was released from Ivanoff Station and was stationed aboard the , working on incorporating the newly discovered Forerunner technology to the ship,Halo: The Thursday War including a working Forerunner slipspace drive discovered by the Reverse Engineering and PrototypingXenotechnology department|REAP-X department. After the ''Infinity'' participated in the Blooding Years, Dr. Halsey was approached by Black-Box, who requested her assistance in reintegrating a damaged fragment of himself into his core matrix. However, Halsey stated that she was unable to help him.Halo: The Thursday War, ''page 358'' Halsey was returned to Ivanoff at the first opportunity by order of Admiral Parangosky. She was working on the station on 2554|December 15, 2554, when the ONI scientists, whom she considered unqualified for their job, recovered the Forerunner device known as the Composer on Installation 03. Dr. Halsey was fascinated by the similarities between the artifact and the AI matrix compiler used by the UNSC to create smart AIs, particularly because the compiler was of her own design.
File:Halsey Infinity.png|thumb|300px|Halsey examines the recovered Forerunner artifact. In mid-2558#February|February 2558 Doctor Halsey arrived at the shield world Requiem in the Epoloch system aboard the .''Halo 4'', ''Spartan Ops'', ''Catherine'' There, she was delivered to the , which had arrived just days earlier for its Second Battle of Requiem|second excursion to the massive Forerunner planetoid. Four marines turned her over to Captain Thomas Lasky, to whom Catherine demanded that she be freed from her restraints on the grounds that she would not walk around the ship ''she'' built with her hands cuffed. The captain consented and Spartan Paul DeMarco proceeded to undo them, at which point the doctor told Lasky to take her to an Requiem translocation artifact|artifact which had been brought aboard the ship on February 10 and unexpectedly caused a number of problems for it.''Halo 4'', ''Spartan Ops'', ''Artifact (Spartan Ops)|Artifact'' Among these was the disappearance of Henry Glassman, the ''Infinity''s chief engineer, who had been unwillingly Slipspace translocation|teleported by the artifact to an unknown location. Lasky had been forced to request Halsey's aid following the loss of Glassman.''Halo Mythos'', ''page 179'' As she approached the artifact in question she asked if any other unexplained reactions had followed. She was told that none had, but Lasky still cautioned her once she touched it, fearing the same could happen to her.
Parangosky had sent Halsey a note in which she asked for her aid in the matter, appealing to her on a professional level to protect ''Infinity'' and its crew despite her less than ideal conditions.Halo 4, ''Infinity Briefing Packet'' Many of the crew had mixed feelings about bringing her aboard, Sarah Palmer suspicious of her and feeling she might try to sabotage the ship, Thomas Lasky sharing her worries but feeling there was no choice. Halsey was unimpressed by the Spartan-IVs assigned to guard her, wryly questioning their competence and general attitude. With a few gestures from her, the artifact began reacting to her, she translating its actions as signs that she should examine the ship's engines. Upon doing so, her conclusion was that the artifact was "communicating" with multiple parts of the ship and transmitting to Requiem. Some time later, she analyzed a Forerunner beam emitter|beam tower encountered by Fireteam Crimson in the location codenamed Two Giants.Spartan Ops, S1/Catherine|S1E3 ''Catherine''
File:H4-SO Halsey discover John' status.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Halsey discovering John-117 is alive. Sometime later, she was escorted by Gabriel Thorne who volunteered to be her security while she continued her research on the Forerunner artifact. As Thorne questioned her about the SPARTAN-II program, she was contacted by an unknown person about the Prometheans.Spartan Ops, S1/Didact's Hand|S1E4 ''Didact's Hand'' When Fireteam Majestic brought back the "Didact's Gift", Halsey noted its design resembled an AI matrix. Upon activating it, it caused the screens in the lab to show memories of New Phoenix, with one of those memories being the Forerunner artifact. Speculating that she had misinterpreted the translocation artifact's true nature, she proceeded to further examine it. Again, she was contacted by the unknown person through her data pad, who, unbeknownst to her, was Jul 'Mdama. Suspicious of who Halsey was communicating with, Sarah Palmer confiscated her data pad, and gave it to Lasky, who then ordered Halsey to be taken into custody.Spartan Ops, Memento Mori|S1E5 ''Memento Mori''
After a short interrogation, Halsey was returned to her prison cell.Spartan Ops, Scattered|S1E6 ''Scattered'' When Roland entered the cell to ask her questions, Halsey took her chance and overrode Roland's protocol, allowing her to control him. Using his authority to be escorted to Lasky's office, Halsey accessed the data onboard ''Infinity'' to find out what had been kept from her about the Librarian, eventually finding that they had kept secret the return of John-117. Infuriated, Halsey contacted 'Mdama, informing that she had deduced he was her helper so that their alliance could free the Librarian. However, Roland was able to restore himself to his normal state and cut off the connection, and Halsey was promptly arrested. When Halsey was brought to Lasky, she slapped the captain lividly, scolding him for not telling her John-117 was alive. The two were interrupted, however, when Promethean forces gained access to the interior of ''Infinity''. Fending off the Prometheans with his Marines, Captain Lasky picked up Halsey and attempted to escort her to safety.Spartan Ops, Invasion (Spartan Ops)|S1E7 ''Invasion''
Late in the attack, Halsey was kidnapped by a Promethean Knight and teleported to Requiem. When Admiral Serin Osman was informed of this abduction, she chose to finally enact Parangosky's wishes and ordered for Halsey's immediate termination. While Captain Lasky protested against this, instead sending Fireteam Majestic to rescue Halsey, Commander Palmer departed to carry out Osman's order.Spartan Ops, S1/Expendable|S1E8 ''Expendable''
File:HTMCC-H4 SO JanusKeyDisplay2.png|thumb|250px|Dr. Halsey meets the Librarian, and learns of the Forerunner artifacts all over the galaxy. Halsey was then taken to the Librarian's Rest, where Jul 'Mdama had her disable the shield previously erected during Doctor Glassman's attempts to access the shrine. As the shield deactivated, she quickly entered the beam of light being produced by the shrine, to 'Mdama's great anger. There, she met the Librarian and was given the Janus Key, which gave the location of every Forerunner artifact in the galaxy. After taking the key, Halsey was returned to the shrine, where 'Mdama acquired one half of the artifact. The intervention of Palmer and Fireteam Majestic forced 'Mdama to retreat from the site with Halsey, but not before she threw the key's other half to Thorne. During the firefight, however, Palmer managed to shoot Halsey in the shoulder.''Spartan Ops'': S1/Key|S1E9 ''Key''
Halsey fell unconscious due to her wound and was transported to a Covenant ship, where her left arm was amputated. Later, aboard the ''Song of Retribution'', 'Mdama told Halsey that he should have killed her for betraying him, but Halsey replied that the UNSC had tried to kill her as well. She agreed to help the Covenant, ambiguously claiming that she wanted revenge.''Spartan Ops'': S1/Exodus|S1E10 ''Exodus''
File:HE14 Plan.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Halsey and 'Mdama plot against the UNSC. By 2558#March|March 2558, the was put in charge of finding Halsey and 'Mdama.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 1|Issue #1'' At some point on Requiem, Jul's forces had recovered a Forerunner Requiem communication artifact|artifact that would be able to communicate with the Forerunner-derived engine systems of ''Infinity'', and therefore the artifact would be able to blockade the engines of ''Infinity'' and allow Jul to steal the other half of the Janus Key. On 2558#July|July 15, 2558, Halsey made a personal journal entry on her views of the Forerunners and recent events.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 13|Issue #13'' The next day, Jul's forces Battle of Oban|attacked Oban, a human colony in the midst of settlement, as advocated by Halsey. She believed that a bold move was the only way to attract ''Infinity''. After the attack failed, 'Mdama's lieutenants called for Halsey's head, however Jul seemingly defended her actions. After ''Infinity'' attempted to enter slipspace for Galileo II base, 'Mdama's Forerunner artifact forcefully brought it back into normal space and trapped the vessel in an uncharted system. Aboard a , Halsey informed Jul that they did not need to attack the ship, as the crew of ''Infinity'' would now be willing to hand over the other half of the Janus Key directly.
At Halsey's suggestion, 'Mdama had a fake Forerunner artifact placed in a Forerunner structure on the nearby Aktis IV. As per Halsey's plan, Dr. Glassman and the Spartan-IVs of ''Infinity'' discovered the artifact and believed that it was related to the Janus Key. Halsey and Jul watched Glassman's investigation from ''Song of Retribution'' and Halsey revealed that she knew Jul's public persona was a mere facade when 'Mdama expressed mock abhorrence at creating a copy of a "holy" Forerunner object. Meanwhile, Glassman requested for ''Infinity'' to deliver their half of the Janus Key to him on the planet's surface for further analysis. Anticipating this, Halsey ensured that 'Mdama had troops ready to ambush the UNSC convoy carrying their half of the Key. Much to both Halsey's and 'Mdama's surprise, the Pelican carrying the half was shot down before he could give an order. In the confusion, the rest of the Covenant ambush group began the attack. Halsey insisted on personally searching the crash-site, but 'Mdama decided to scourge the crash-site himself, and he ordered Halsey to remain aboard his carrier. Unbeknownst to him, rebel Sali 'Nyon was responsible for shooting down the Pelican and he claimed half of the Janus Key for himself.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 14|Issue #14''
File:HE16 Next destination The Absolute Record.jpg|thumb|220px|Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|"Covenant" Supreme Commander Jul 'Mdama and Doctor Catherine Halsey collaborate to find the Absolute Record. Some time after 'Mdama had left for the planet, Halsey contacted him from the ''Song of Retribution'' and urged him to focus on the acquisition of the Janus Key rather than the rebellion among his ranks. In response to the developing situation, Jul fulfilled Halsey's earlier request and allowed her to take a Phantom to the surface of Aktis IV.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 15|Issue #15'' Halsey and a convoy of Phantoms traveled to an island on Aktis IV to meet Unidentified Sangheili Minor|a defector from 'Nyon's forces. After the defector reluctantly gave the half of the Janus Key he had stolen from 'Nyon's base to Halsey, the doctor and her Sangheili escorts prepared to return to ''Song of Retribution''. After Jul had most of Halsey's convoy depart to battle UNSC forces elsewhere on the island, Halsey and the remaining Covenant forces were ambushed by Spartans Palmer, Thorne, and Naiya Ray|Ray. Palmer pursued Halsey and her guard into the jungle, while the other Spartans eliminated the surviving Covenant forces. After killing her guard, Palmer captured Halsey and led her through the jungle. The two began to argue, with Palmer accusing her of being a traitor and war criminal, and Halsey calling Palmer out for acting as Admiral Osman's puppet and stating that ONI turned her into a convenient scapegoat. As Palmer's judgement became momentarily clouded, Halsey ran off into the jungle. Palmer attempted to pursue, but she was injured and knocked into a crevice by a nearby Za'zayara-pattern Harvester|Harvester. Halsey contacted 'Mdama and he had a Phantom return her to his flagship.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 16|Issue #16''
Shortly after, Jul's forces fled the system with both halves of the Janus Key. Halsey and Jul used the combined Janus Key to project a holographic map, which revealed the approximate location of the Absolute Record. Hiding within the Urs system, Halsey worked on finding the coordinates of the Absolute Record, on 2558#September|September 15, 2558 pinpointed its exact location. Two days later, as the fleet prepared to depart for the Absolute Record, a Phantom carrying Spartans Palmer, Thorne, Holly Tanaka, Dr. Glassman, and Ayit 'Sevia mercenary within 'Mdama's ranks working for ONIboarded ''Breath of Annihilation'', intent on revealing the location of the Absolute Record to the UNSC.
File:HE21 Begone.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Halsey, the other humans, and 'Mdama are left stranded on small platforms. The fleet arrived at an apparently artificial gas giant with a slipspace portal leading to the Absolute Record. Before the fleet could press forward, slipspace ruptures materialized around the fleet, destroying at least two ships and damaging ''Breath of Annihilation''.Halo: Escalation, ''Halo: Escalation Issue 19|Issue #19'' Furious at the damage done to his fleet, 'Mdama blamed Halsey for the loss and threw her across ''Song of Retributions bridge. While Halsey and 'Mdama argued about the situation, she reminded him that once they reached the Absolute Record, they will discover technology beyond their comprehension that will more than compensate for the ships that were destroyed. Halsey further exaggerated that once he was in control of the Absolute Record's "treasures", 'Mdama would be seen as a god. Thus 'Mdama decided to travel to the Absolute Record, with only ''Retribution'' entering the portal while the rest made repairs. As Halsey and 'Mdama prepared to enter the portal, they learned of rumors of the Spartans attacking personnel of ''Breath of Annihilation''. Halsey dismissed 'Mdama's fears and stated that the Spartans could not stop them from reaching the Absolute Record, though she was unaware that Palmer, Tanaka, and Glassman had boarded ''Retribution''.
The carrier traveled through the portal and arrived into the Record, where Halsey, along with the other humans who had infiltrated the carrier, were detected by a Contender-class artificial intelligence|Contender-class Invariant Bias|Custodian.Halo: Escalation ''Halo: Escalation Issue 20|Issue #20'' After ''Retribution'' was forcefully brought through a portal to a large chamber, Halsey, 'Mdama, and a contingent of Zealots traveled to a lower platform, where Halsey addressed the ancilla and told it that she was selected by the Librarian and her possession of the Janus Key was proof. However, the AI was skeptical of her claims, claiming Halsey could've obtained the Key by force and especially pondering why the other humans felt the need to conceal themselves. The AI had its Sentinels bring the other humans down to the platform, and stated its intent to let each human have a chance to account for its presence at the installation, despite Halsey's assertions that there was nothing to discuss as she had the Janus Key. As she continued to argue with the AI and Glassman, an impatient Zealot attacked a Sentinel, leading to a conflict on the platform. Frustrated, the AI removed the flooring from under the feet of the Sangheili, with Tanaka, Palmer, and Glassman remaining on one platform and Halsey standing on another, 'Mdama managing to grab its edge just in time.Halo: Escalation ''Halo: Escalation Issue 21|Issue #21''
In order to decide who would be the legitimate steward of the Absolute Record, the AI decided on a direct examination. It had both factions isolated and gave them a hypothetical scenario, in which a sapient species (represented by Yonhet) turned out to have bodies conducive to a Flood vaccine. Abducting and harvesting live beings would give a thirty-five percent chance of Flood-immune material, but receiving dead bodies from the beings would give them a thirty-three percent chance. Despite Jul's advice, Halsey chose live capture while Glassman chose the peaceful option, and the ancilla commended both. It then asked if their opponents in this test should be kept confined or immediately killed, but instead of answering, Halsey hacked the ancilla and shut it down, taking control of the Record for herself.Halo: Escalation ''Halo: Escalation Issue 22|Issue #22''
File:HE24-Palmer&Halsey.jpg|thumb|300px|Dr. Halsey ambushed by Sarah Palmer. In the Record, Halsey followed a hologram of the Librarian directing her to dormant design seeds scattered across the galaxy, which she could choose to activate the next step of their plans for human evolution. While she listened, Jul 'Mdama outside expressed his growing impatience with Halsey, and told his warriors in secret to restrain her once she left so to remind her who was in charge. Unfortunately for him, Halsey overheard Jul through the Record's systems and decided now was the time to sever their partnership, giving the order for the installation's Sentinels to attack Jul and his men.Halo: Escalation ''Halo: Escalation Issue 23|Issue #23''
While Halsey made preparations, Palmer, Tanaka, and Glassman came in contact with a Sentinel containing the backup memory of the Record's ancilla. With their aid, the AI regained control of the facility and barred Halsey from controlling it further. Over Halsey's protests, the custodian admitted that Halsey had nearly passed its test and would've been given the Record if she hadn't been so impatient to steal it. The custodian thus took the Janus Key and began pulling the Record back into slipspace. Shortly afterward, Halsey was recovered by Jul's forces and brought back aboard the ''Song of Retribution'', unaware that she had tried to betray them and under the impression that the ancilla had sent the Sentinels.Halo: Escalation ''Halo: Escalation Issue 24|Issue #24''
File:Halsey.PNG|thumb|300px|By the time of his death, Jul 'Mdama had begun to think having Halsey around was more trouble than it was worth. Near the end of September Doctor Halsey managed to contact ONI and the and provide Captain Lasky with coordinates at which she could be found.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Osiris (level)|Osiris'' They pointed to the planet Kamchatka in the Caspar system, where a Forerunner communication hub had recently flared to life and attracted the attention of both Jul 'Mdama|Jul and the UNSC. Upon reaching Kamchatka Halsey set about studying the nature of various incoming signals which were bouncing off of the Forerunner objects on the planet, akin to echolocation.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Osiris (level)|Osiris'' Mission Intel#Osiris|mission intel Halsey concluded that Cortana was searching for Guardian Custode|something but could not guess at what that something might be. At Halsey's direction, a structure that was the focal point for one of the signals was eventually penetrated by the Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant forces with her. In her research notes Halsey bemoaned the way in which her work was being hampered by their overriding concern for ceremony, leaving her still without much information she did not have before they breached the structure. Some time later, however, Halsey obtained scans of new Forerunner symbols|glyphs, including one that she was sure had never been observed before. After running it through a system she found that it bore a resemblance to an ancient Sangheili symbol for a Sangheili mythology|demon that sleeps in the ground and must not wake. How this symbol might relate to the symbol, she was still unsure. Halsey further noted that the readings she would expect from a Forerunner structure the scale of which they inhabited were erratic at best, leading her to then wonder if perhaps Cortana was trying to access technology on Kamchatka and other locations directly, but failing.
By October 17 the UNSC had been keeping tabs on the consolidation of the bulk of Jul's fleet at Kamchatka for weeks.''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual'', ''page 92'' Less than a week after that date (and at three weeks since Halsey contacted the ''Infinity'') a native defense system on Kamchatka was disabled, but Halsey was unable to bring its corresponding alert system down soon enough.''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual'', ''page 11'' As a result, mechanical Promethean constructs arrived at Kamchatka within the hour and Battle of Kamchatka|attacked the Covenant. That same day, the Spartan-IVs of Fireteam Osiris were deployed to retrieve Halsey from Jul 'Mdama's custody. They found she and 'Mdama on a cliffside balcony of a temple structure. There Halsey claimed to be trying to access the Domain despite several problems, such as those relating to Slipstream space#Reconciliation|causal reconciliation. Jul made his impatience with her efforts clear and also demanded that she afford him respect, but this only elicited taunting on her part over his loss of the Prometheans. Finally, she declared that their current location was unsuitable for Wikipedia:Triangulation|triangulation should Cortana make another transmission. This enraged Jul, who scolded her for failing to deliver results after weeks of "chasing shadows", as he put it. It was at that moment that Osiris attacked Jul and his guards, killing them all. Spartan Jameson Locke approached the doctor after pulling his combat knife|knife from Jul's neck and let her know that Captain Lasky wanted to see her. To this she sarcastically replied that it had taken them long enough. Halsey accompanied Osiris back to the ''Infinity'' via Pelican.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Blue Team (level)|Blue Team'' Upon landing within Docking Bay 11 the five of them were met by Lasky and Sarah Palmer. Catherine chided the captain for not coming to get her sooner and had him assure her they would talk about that once they were somewhere with more privacy. Palmer took Halsey by the arm and began to lead her way but even as they went she couldn't help but ask Lasky for any information he had about Cortana's actions, which he flatly ignored. File:She's alive-.png|thumb|left|350px|Halsey, Palmer, Roland, and Lasky discuss Cortana and the Master Chief. By October 23 the ''Infinity'' had arrived in the Crow's Eye Nebula.Troy Denning on Twitter At 0630 hours that day Linda-058, Kelly-087, Frederic-104, and John-117 were declared absent without leave, having made an unsanctioned departure from the nebula in ONI Acrisius|a stolen . Spartan Palmer escorted Halsey to the ''Infinity''s bridge later that day, where she immediately began pressing the matter of Cortana once more to the captain, stressing how dangerous she had become through accessing the Domain and taking control of Guardian Custode|devices which had begun to cause damage on a number of colonies. Lasky informed her that the Master Chief had reported being contacted by Cortana, which Halsey saw as potentially disastrous. She was then told that he'd gone in search of her and was shocked at the notion that Lasky would have let him go, but he explained that John was not acting independently. Halsey began to speak on why John was unequipped to deal with Cortana as a threat but was interrupted by Roland, who until that point had been unaware of her continued survival. He questioned why the doctor was so quick, in his mind, to label Cortana a threat or a danger, seeing as she was the one who had created her to begin with.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Glassed'' Two days later Fireteam Osiris was deployed once again, but this time with the goal of apprehending Blue Team and the stolen prowler.''Halo: Fractures'', ''What Remains'' The AWOL Spartans had been followed to Meridian, a moon of Hestia V. Osiris failed to stop them, as they managed to board a Guardian Custode which had long been buried beneath the moon's surface and had now slipped away.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Evacuation'' As such, The fours were forced to return to the ''Infinity'' empty-handed. The day after this Locke and Lasky met Palmer and Halsey on the bridge and Locke let it be known that a construct they'd met on Meridian calling itself the Warden Eternal had confirmed the doctor's theory that Cortana was behind the Guardians' ongoing reactivations.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Reunion'' Halsey then turned their attention to Sunaion, a religious site on Sanghelios where she had discovered another Guardian still lay buried. Palmer and Roland took over from there, explaining that if they could feed coordinate data from the Meridian Guardian to the one on Sanghelios it could lead them right to Genesis|wherever Blue Team had vanished to.
After arriving in the Urs system|Urs-Fied-Joori system on 2558#October|October 27 Halsey accompanied Sarah Palmer|Palmer to a waiting D79-TC Pelican in the process of being loaded up for travel to Sanghelios. At the approach of Spartans Jameson Locke|Locke and Olympia Vale Palmer let it be known that the doctor was trying to find a way to communicate with the Guardian Custode on the planet. Halsey assured Locke she'd have a briefing for him once they were all planetside.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Swords of Sanghelios (level)|Swords of Sanghelios'' Fireteam Osiris soon met up with Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter and following this Halsey and Palmer joined them at a camp the Swords of Sanghelios had set up in Nuusra.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Alliance'' Whilst Locke was treating with 'Vadam, Cortana's voice suddenly rang out from within their meeting tent, prompting Halsey and Palmer to both rush inside. Halsey noted that she'd touched every networked device in the camp just then and concluded she must know of the Guardian they were after. 'Vadam agreed to assist in the effort to get to it at Sunaion but only on the condition that victory would be assured when they finally moved on the city. Pledging they'd deploy within the hour, Locke told Halsey to have her plan ready by then. File:H5G HalseySanghelios.PNG|thumb|350px|While in the Arbiter's camp, Doctor Halsey's amputee status was taken by the Unggoy and self-proclaimed biologist Gribyam to support Catherine-B320|theories that human females signal maturity by losing appendages. He further hypothesized that she would soon begin to release spores and spin a cocoon of "rich meat-silk". While she continued to devise a strategy Halsey recorded a status update for the Arbiter, Thel 'Vadam, in which she assured him the Guardian would be in the sky over Sunaion before it initiated a slipspace jump, as he had asked.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Alliance'' Mission Intel#Alliance|mission intel In return for her cooperation with his request she also made one of her own for more intelligent assistants to aid her and urged him to loosen the security placed on her. Sometime after this she contacted Locke over an open communications channel to let him know she'd prepared the briefing but preferred to discuss it in person to avoid being eavesdropped upon. From atop a Forerunner-built structure overlooking the camp she waved the Spartans over to her as they neared and then proceeded to introduce them to what a Constructor sentinel was. She explained that if one could be acquired from the support stations which riddled the hills around them then she could use it to interface with the Guardian. She further informed them that Palmer had the location of one such station. In a supplemental status update for Thel, she pointed out that while making stubborn claims to not need her or the Guardian he ought to remember the ONI|organization she represented and its history.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Before the Storm'' Mission Intel#Before the Storm|mission intel She hoped that this would get him to show her some respect and signed off by claiming this was to be her last mandatory update. Osiris secured a Constructor before the suns had set and returned to the camp with it.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Before the Storm'' Halsey observed that it seemed to be working as she had planned for it to but told Locke's team that it could take some time until she was finished calibrating it. She then let them know that Palmer wished to see them. When she was ready, she called Osiris back over to her spot on the Forerunner structure, which she informed them she was using to upload the coordinates recorded on Meridian into the sentinel. She wanted them to be ready to go as soon as she signaled it was time but admitted it might before hours until then. However, the Constructor suddenly took off just then, flying toward Sunaion. As Osiris and the Swords of Sanghelios prepared to follow it Halsey made sure Locke knew Cortana had been built from a matrix of her own mind, cautioning him that like her, she would take drastic measures if she thought they served the greater good. The Domain, she added, would give her incredible power with which to enact those measures. As Locke walked away she called out to him again and pleaded with him to stop Cortana but to bring John-117|John home to her.
Palmer had planned to get the doctor off-world once the Battle of Sunaion|attack on the ocean city began, but she and Halsey eventually arrived at the battle near its end.''Halo 5: Guardians'', ''Battle of Sunaion (level)|Battle of Sunaion'' The Guardian had risen above the waves by that point and was preparing to depart, so Palmer meant to pick up Osiris to deliver them to it before it did so. Halsey could not bear to even keep her eyes open for very long as the conflict rained plasma fire all around them. Palmer managed to get the other Spartans to the Guardian, but in the process their Pelican's left thruster was struck by a 's fuel rod and set ablaze. Though it seemed as if Palmer would be able to get them out of there regardless, the Guardian then sent out an attenuation pulse which neutralized the dropship's power and sent it spiraling toward the Csurdon Sea below.
File:H5G HalseyEnding.PNG|thumb|left|300px|Catherine had not seen Kelly, Linda, and Fred since she had been arrested over five years ago and had not seen John since she'd fled to Onyx around five more months before then.''Halo: Glasslands'', ''Chapter 15'Halo: First Strike'', ''Chapter 30''
Halsey and Palmer both managed to survive the downing of their Pelican and by the next day they had made it to Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter's encampment in Nuusra.''Halo: Bad Blood'', ''Chapter 1'' Using the Forerunner technology she had been fiddling with upon first arriving on the planet, she was able to receive a coded message from Roland on the , who informed the doctor that Earth had been Subjugation of Earth|taken offline by the rogue A.I.s and that they had just managed to escape. He said the ship was now slipspace-hopping on a random trajectory but would be showing up off the far side of Suban the next day and remaining there for fifteen minutes. The coordinates the A.I. provided could be reached in a matter of hours with space-capable transportation. Fortunately, after darkness had fallen over the region the approach of India 127|a Pelican drew she, Palmer, 'Vadam, and two other Swords of Sanghelios to emerge from a tent to meet it. When it landed and opened its rear hatch, Spartan Jameson Locke|Locke and John-117|John were the first two individuals to emerge and present themselves before both of their respective teams followed suit. Having not seen John for over six years, she told him it had taken him long enough. When the Arbiter insisted that both Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris join those gathered for a meal before departing, Halsey clarified to him that they wouldn't be leaving that night. Although the possession of a working D79-TC Pelican would now afford the humans passage off Sanghelios, the ''Infinity'' would not be arriving until 1800 hours the following day. Edward Buck questioned the trustworthiness of Roland once Catherine explained the situation but she rebutted that if he'd been compromised they'd already be dead. Midway through the meal of colo and kuscatu served by their Sangheili hosts Halsey disappeared to chat with John, Frederic-104|Fred, Kelly-087|Kelly, and Linda-058|Linda.
A little less than an hour before sunrise the next day the Spartans and Halsey all piled into the Pelican. As the Arbiter bid farewell to John and voiced his confidence in their ability to combat the new threat the Created posed, the Sangheili shot Halsey a meaningful glance which she ignored with a haughty sniff. While ''en route'' to the rendezvous Halsey pointed out that Sangheili resistance was likely drawing the attention of the Guardian attempting to pacify the world just then, again arguing that they'd already be dead if they'd been detected. With about twenty minutes until the ''Infinity'' was due to arrive Buck broke out a pack of playing cards and asked if anyone was up for Wikipedia:Hearts|Hearts but Halsey ignored him, as she was working on a tablet she'd scrounged up. Buck managed to get her attention by referring to the Wikipedia:Queen of spades|queen of spades as a "Halsey" a couple of hands into the game, but she still gave no response other than to announce that their window was approaching. The gargantuan Infinity-class supercarrier|supercarrier arrived almost exactly on schedule and Halsey had secured all her things by then. As Kelly docked the Pelican in the ship's Portside Bay Five Buck drew Halsey's attention yet again when he laughed out loud upon realizing his longtime lover Veronica Dare was aboard. The doctor and the Spartans were met in the bay by a lieutenant who had come to escort she, Palmer, John, and Locke to the bridge to see Captain Thomas Lasky|Lasky.''Halo: Bad Blood'', ''Chapter 2'' Following that meeting Lasky had Doctor Halsey confined to a workspace and the ''Infinity'' began a series of randomized slipspace jumps in order to avoid detection by Cortana's Guardian Custode|Guardians, emerging from slipspace at its first vector point that very day.''Halo Legendary Crate'' ''Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #12'' That same day Roland answered a distress call from the with the affirmation that the supercarrier was on its way to assist it.''Halo: Fractures'', ''Rossbach's World (story)|Rossbach's World'' By the start of November, the ship exited slipspace at one point to receive the recently reassembled Spartan team Alpha-Nine.''Halo: Bad Blood'', ''Chapter 21''
File:LC 12 doc4.jpg|thumb|350px|This image was captured by Spartan 92738-61842-LC, who wore their helmet while interviewing Halsey in order to record the interaction. By 2559#January|January 24, 2559, they were still on the run, performing erratic jumps to evade discovery. That day, at just after 1204 hours, Halsey was approached by a Spartan from Fireteam Apollo with the serial number 92738-61842-LC. This individual had been tasked by Captain Lasky with investigating what was being dubbed "the Guardian Incident". Halsey pointedly asked how they had gotten clearance to talk with her and was made aware of the priority-one directive given to them by the captain. After then confirming she was being recorded, the Spartan informed her they were there to talk about Cortana. Halsey was interested to hear what their investigation had unearthed so far, but they reported not being authorized to share anything further than their having concluded that the cognitive duress and strain Cortana had sustained since the discovery of Installation 04 was partially responsible. The Spartan's first questions for the doctor concerned Cortana's creation, and Halsey was soon defending her actions incumbent in that process. She also refused to reveal what had become of the clones of herself she had made, claiming that was still classified even for them. Asked what she thought the best explanation for what had happened was, Halsey recalled Cortana's first words and theorized she was simply doing she had to in order to keep "the game" from ending. Halsey then quoted the Greek philosopher Wikipedia:Epictetus|Epictetus and suggested Cortana was the answer to his thought experiment regarding the harm in saying "Tomorrow you will die," while kissing one's child. When her interviewer asked what she thought the solution to stopping her was, Catherine ignored the question since she doubted coming up with that would be part of a Spartan's directive and was convinced she'd been locked away for that purpose. 92738-61842-LC countered that she'd been locked up because of her repeated protocol violations, which only led to further argument and the Spartan finally choosing to take their leave. Before they went, Halsey shared the Cortana Letters#First letter|last thing Cortana had said to her. The Spartan asked what her words were supposed to have meant, but Halsey could only say that she had been hoping they were able to explain them to her..
At some point following the beginning of the Created conflict, Halsey started working on the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|MJOLNIR GEN3 platform, designing the PANSPEC energy shielding alongside Doctor Henry Glassman, and personally selecting the new design for the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VII#GEN3|GEN3 Mark VII armor from Materials Group's Project KEYSTONE|KEYSTONE development program. She also took interest on the fireteam synchronization features of the SOLDIER-class Mjolnir#GEN3 Overview|GEN3 Soldier helmet. On 2559#September|September 19, 2559 Doctor Halsey made modifications to John-117's GEN3 Mark VI armor, itself having first been created on 2559#February|February 10, 2559.''Halo Infinite'', Step Inside''Discover Hope''
In 2559#October|October 2559, now sporting a prosthetic arm, Halsey convinces Captain Lasky to Operation: WOLFE|return to Reach for some assets that she had kept in a secret cryovault inside of the destroyed CASTLE Base. The UNSC forces end up coming up against the Banished and their allies, but Blue Team are successful in retrieving Halsey's cryobins and lockbox. Upon their return to the , Halsey greets the Spartans alongside Captain Veronica Dare of ONI. After briefly bantering with John, she is visibly distressed by the bad state of Blue Team and John is forced to steady her. Halsey calls the Spartans her greatest achievement and asks if John understands that, but he asks if she's alright in return which she evasively responds to. Seeing Halsey so upset by their return in such a bad state causes John to consider her reaction, considering that she had sent them on the mission in the first place and she had seen Spartans return in as bad a state or not return at all. John wonders if, based on some of the things that she has said, Halsey regrets some of her work or at least some of the things that had been necessary to create the Spartans. However, despite knowing the extent to which Halsey had gone, John is glad that she had done it and he and his fellow Spartan-II's are proud of what they had become and what they had done to save humanity. While John wants to tell her that, he is unable to find the words to express himself adequately to her. After recovering her composure, Halsey confirms that the mission was successful and warns him that this isn't going to be easy, but it's the only option that they have. As the approach of a Guardian is detected, they witness several Pelicans and an Albatross dropship turn back because they won't be able to reach the ''Infinity'' in time, leaving them stranded on Reach for possibly years to come. Halsey reassures the others that the people that will be stuck on Reach are soldiers who can survive indefinitely on Reach and they won't be alone. Halsey comments that she almost envies them and John agrees with her assessment of the chance of the people that are getting stranded.
In 2559#December|December 2559, using her remaining flash cloning|cloned brains from Cortana's creation that Blue Team had recovered for her from Reach, Halsey successfully creates the Weapon, an exact copy of Cortana, to be used in a mission to Installation 07 to lock down the rogue AI and transport her back to the ''Infinity'' for deletion with the Weapon being programmed to be deleted once her mission is over. However, Halsey is less than pleased when Lasky reassigns the rest of Blue Team elsewhere and sends John alone with the Weapon to stop Cortana. While traveling the ring and seeing Cortana's memories, the two witness such moments as Halsey first giving Cortana to John and her arguing with Captain Jacob Keyes about Cortana. John later tells the Weapon that Halsey had removed any information that could've compromised the AI from her, but she had made the Weapon with copies of all of the same systems and routines as Cortana, effectively making the Weapon a version of Cortana as she was if she had never met John.
It is unknown if Halsey herself was onboard the ''Infinity'' when the ship was apparently destroyed over Installation 07 and what became of her if she was. could escape Reach with Cortana. Thanks to him, Installation 04 was discovered and the events which led to the Covenant's Great Schism|downfall were set in motion. This dialogue plays at the Lone Wolf|end of ''Halo: Reach'' while the planet is shown to be Terraforming|recovering on 2589#July|July 7, 2589, but the precise date for her words cannot be definitively determined.}}
Personality and traits
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File:KatCarterHalsey.jpg|thumb|275px|Halsey addresses Carter-A259 and Catherine-B320. Immensely intelligent, reclusive and somewhat self-centered, Halsey is almost entirely devoted to her work and the pursuit of knowledge to advance humankind. She has little regard for rules, authority or bureaucracy, in most cases viewing them as little more than obstacles to her work. While her singleminded dedication and seemingly detached personality have led to many perceiving her as devoid of morals or emotions, she has nonetheless shown to care about the few people close to her and has been deeply affected on a personal level by the moral implications of her work.
Halsey tends to be professional and authoritative when speaking to people, which she rarely does outside of meetings and briefings. She has little patience for extraneous detail, wanting the important facts out of them and then concluding their meeting.Halo: Reach, ''ONI: Sword Base'' Considered extremely difficult to read,Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 345'' she rarely voices her current emotions, and often observes people while speaking to them to discern hidden details. Having grown accustomed to keeping secrets, she may appear enigmatic and manipulative at times; while she despises efforts to withhold information from herself, she has a tendency of laying her own plans in advance and only divulging information when it becomes relevant. She prefers to work with her authority unchallenged, and does not appreciate being bogged down by having to explain herself, especially in a hurry. On Onyx, this led to a conflict between her and Kurt Ambrose, who eventually confronted the doctor over her self-assumed leadership and instead asserted his own command over the mission, much to Halsey's dismay; despite this, she remained confident in Kurt's leadership ability.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''pages 257-258'' When necessary, however, Halsey has been very verbose about describing the subject at hand, namely if attempting to convince someone of its importance. Outside of professional contexts, her persona has been considered charming and likable by some.Halo: First Strike, ''page 225''
Above most of her compatriots in terms of both intelligence and knowledge, Halsey prefers to perform her most important work personally, rarely entrusting particularly significant scientific tasks to others. She often assumes a certain ownership over her work, most prominently seen with her referring to the Spartan-IIs as "her" Spartans and reacting negatively to others co-opting her work. Halsey is keen to note any flaws she finds in her colleagues' work, and quick to point out when she considers someone unqualified. However, she also has an eye for talent and will give credit for any accomplishments she sees as remarkable. It is not uncommon for her to have respect for someone and yet also dislike them, as shown in the cases of her student Ellen AndersDr Halsey's journal: (Halsey: "If that Anders girl was still around, she would have come in handy right about now. She was always so difficult, but this has, without a doubt, become a shared interest.") and the Spartan-III Catherine-B320.Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise: (Halsey: "Kat, Noble Two. She is brilliant. There are no technical hurdles she can't overcome. But her curiosity borders on insubordination." Halsey is an atheist, lacking belief in the existence of any god.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 157''
Halsey's intelligence is unquestionable but her judgment is not always correct. Although bearing the guilt of the Spartan program, her sense of right and wrong has differed greatly. When sure it will produce results, Halsey is not above breaking the law to achieve her goals, such as cloning herself to produce Cortana, using a stolen Slipspace engine for her fractal AI experiment, and kidnapping Kelly-087|Kelly and fleeing to Onyx. "The ends justify the means" appears to be her ideology, as an interrogator after she was arrested accused her of. To soothe her conscience, she often deliberately reduces the wording of harsh consequences, such as telling John that the augmentations was just his next mission, or Soren-066 that the pain from his botched surgery would eventually go away.Halo Evolutions, "Pariah", ''page 40''
File:Journal Family Tree.png|thumb|left|250px|A family tree drawn by Halsey, of all the people whose lives she affected. Dr. Halsey is not keen on losing, as seen when she kept losing at a game of Twenty Questions with her Spartans and soon quit playing.Halo: First Strike, ''page 140'' She was also resentful of attempts to keep information from her, demanding to know everything the UNSC could provide to keep them from deceiving her. Any attempts to keep her in the dark would eventually fail once she'd begin hacking, since Halsey often programmed backdoors into everything she designed.Halo: First Strike, ''page 128'' According to Black-Box, Halsey was not too different from an AI, being fueled by a desire to know everything she could. She is easily absorbed by her work and the acquisition of knowledge to the point of ignoring more pressing matters; on Onyx, she requested the rest of the group to leave her behind in the world's map room in order to learn more until being snapped out of her reverie by a Covenant attack.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 312''
Halsey has a notable fondness for classical music, especially Wikipedia:Claude Debussy|Debussy. When getting to work, Halsey has a habit of issuing a series of commands to AIs in a rapid sequence (often ending with her requesting the AI to play one of her preferred pieces of classical music), which has on some occasions given less sophisticated AIs a pause to process the information.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 16''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 148'' She has a bad habit of keeping a messy office and drinking cold coffee, tending to prepare the drink and then become distracted by work, only remembering it hours, sometimes days, later.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 230''Halo: First Strike, ''pages 125-126'' She preferred darker coffees than those grown on Reach.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''December 4, 2510'' On January 9, 2535 she met with Chief Petty Officer J. G. Jimes in order to procure quality Beniese coffee.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''January 7, 2535''
An ONI-commissioned Hemley & Aubourn Behavior Analysis|psychological evaluation conducted by B.M. Parkes in 2551 largely correlated with observed aspects of Halsey's personality, demonstrating exceedingly high cognitive performance (which was noted to possibly obfuscate the rest of the results) but a markedly low score in teamwork and an uncommonly high "liability" index, 64% higher than the average ONI rating due to her demonstrated disregard for authority. The analysts suggested that she be placed under closer surveillance, with two or three handlers accompanying her at all times at both of her primary working sites on Reach. Halsey designed the most recent model of AI matrix compiler used in the Cognitive Impression Modeling|scanning of human brains to create smart AIs. This particular compiler was still in use by 2557.Halo 4, campaign level ''Composer (level)|Composer'', Audio log (Halo 4)|Audio log
File:Halsey Eyes.png|thumb|300px|Halsey battled guilt over the SPARTAN-II project. She knew that moral lines had been crossed to save humanity.
Dr. Halsey carried extraordinary guilt because of the SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II project, in the feeling that she had exploited the children and destroyed their lives. Although she continued to support the Spartans and gained monumental prestige for her efforts, she also felt responsible for each one who died. She could never bring herself to justify the Spartans' exploitation as a necessary sacrifice.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 243-245''
Her involvement with the SPARTAN-II program, then codenamed "ORION Project Generation II", was born out of her own initiative, although ONI had long intended to recruit her for the task. Improving upon Elias Carver|Dr. Elias Carver's projections for predicted colonial aggression, she privately ran over 1,400 simulations with varied parameters, always coming to the conclusion that the Outer Colonies would go into all-out war against the Inner Colonies and Earth within a short span of time. If the UNSC did not act, this would mean a minimum of thirty years of open war and billions of casualties, while the worst-case scenario was indefinite conflict and the potential collapse of human civilization. Viewing it as her personal responsibility to prevent this scenario from coming to pass, she presented her results to Michael Stanforth|Vice Admiral Stanforth, then-head of ONI Section III, only to find that the UNSC had already come to the same conclusions with their own projections. As it turned out, ONI had been monitoring her for years, but they had waited for her to come up with the numbers on her own, knowing that she could not be convinced to work for them otherwise. Although she was distrustful of ONI, she agreed to work for them on the program out of her personal commitment to humanity's cause. The nuclear bombing of the Haven arcology by the Freedom and Liberation Party further reinforced her determination.
At the conceptual phase of the SPARTAN-II project, Halsey evidently failed to fully understand its moral implications; she was constantly revolted upon seeing her work in practice, and the notion of "sacrificing the few to save the many" rarely worked to soothe her conscience.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''December 24, 2517'' While she attempted to maintain a professional distance to the SPARTAN-II candidates, she could never bring herself to view them as mere test subjects and always addressed them by their first names.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''pages 26, 54'' She held considerable respect for the Spartans and easily recognized them through subtle habits in their postures even with their armor on, which seemed to greatly annoy them.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 120-121'' In turn, the Spartans greatly respected Dr. Halsey, (with Jorge-052|one stating that he had been ''"All hers half [his] life"''),Halo: Reach, campaign level ''ONI: Sword Base'' and would follow her orders and suggestions in the absence of those from a superior officer.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 123-124'' The doctor is also privy to many of the recruits' secrets, having taught several to them as children, such as the ''Oly Oly Oxen Free'' security tune.Halo: First Strike, ''page 119'' Despite her admiration of the Spartans, Halsey always kept these feelings to herself so as to not make them feel excluded due to the special treatment they get from most other humans.
Despite ONI's intentions to continue with the SPARTAN-II program, Dr. Halsey began having difficulty finding a suitably large number of candidates that fit her genetic and age profiles. Additionally, most of her budget was now being used to maintain the MJOLNIR armor in service. Eventually, ONI discontinued the SPARTAN-II program, reassigned most of its personnel to other projects (such as the SPARTAN-III program, held secret from Halsey), relocated Halsey from her former workplace at Camp Hathcock to CASTLE Base, and cut off her access to classified material. ONI's reticence vanished, her budget mushroomed overnight, and she was offered a corner office in Olympic Tower in New Alexandria (location)|New Alexandria. However, Halsey decided to remain in CASTLE as a means of revenge against ONI, which would now have to spend half the day going through security checks.Halo: The Fall of Reach, 2010, ''pages 261-262'' Halsey was stationed primarily on the planet Reach throughout her decades of work for ONI. By 2551, she lived in the community of Csongrad, near CASTLE Base. Aside from her continued work on the SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR projects, Halsey made huge contributions to many other ONI Section III projects, including the creation and deployment of AI constructs. She supervised the creation of the template for third-generation smart AIs, the first ones of which became operational in 2521.
The 'recruited' children were replaced with flash cloning|flash clones, all of whom died due to various neurological and physiological diseases that were the natural side effects of making an entire human flash clone. In the early stages of the program, Halsey attempted to cover up the program's use of flash clones, both by withholding information from Admiral Margaret Parangosky and by using one of her AIs to cover fiscal evidence;Halo: Glasslands, ''page 345'' Parangosky eventually discovered the cloning scheme, which would contribute to Halsey's arrest by ONI decades later. With the assistance of Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez and the AI Deja, she proceeded to train the Spartans. She supervised their augmentation procedures, combat training, and education, and studied the effects of the Spartan lifestyle on the children. She kept in close contact with them all throughout their lifetimes, from her base under Reach. To the minor annoyance of the Spartans, Dr. Halsey was capable of identifying them even underneath heavy combat gear or their MJOLNIR armor, and used their first names to prove this time and again.
File:Halsey John Wakes Up.png|thumb|left|230px|"Your mother is gone. Everything you know is gone. Now get up. There are things you have to do."
Due to her burdened conscience, Halsey was consistently at odds with ONI Section Three over the course of the SPARTAN-II program. She was irritated by the aloof demeanor exhibited by most ONI personnel toward the moral considerations of the program as well as their constant underestimation of the Spartan candidates, whom she always held in high regard.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''September 23, 2517''Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''April 1, 2525'' ONI also had little patience for hesitation or delays in what they viewed as their prize project, and often compelled Halsey to implement easier and more straightforwardand often also more unethicalsolutions, while Halsey tried to do her best to ensure the safety of the candidates,Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 29'' despite knowing that she could not save them all. When an ONI representative labeled the Spartan washouts as "acceptable losses", Halsey did not view any of them as acceptable.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 31'' Even at the onset of the augmentation procedures, which she knew would kill or cripple a large portion of the candidates, she was considering that they should take more time to test the chemicals before applying them. However, Deja pointed out that if she proceeded too slowly and ONI detected a delay, they might replace Halsey with someone less concerned with ethicsand most likely someone less qualified as well, prompting Halsey to stay on board with the project for the sake of the candidates' safety.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 58'' After a number of the SPARTAN-II candidates "washed out" in the augmentations, Halsey had their bodies frozen in cryostasis with no autopsies performed, hoping to find solutions to resuscitate them in time. She guessed that the ONI personnel reporting on the project's progress to the upper echelons of ONI would respond to her apparent unwillingness to let go with their characteristic detachment.
By the time she was rescued from Reach by ''Ascendant Justice'', she simply wanted to save as many lives as she could, believing that the war was not one that the UNSC could possibly win. She knew that "her own" Spartans, the Spartan-IIs, could not be persuaded to turn from the war. However, she believed the Spartan-IIIs may not yet have been fully determined to win the war and she set out to try and weaken their resolve to fight.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 342'' Although she was worried about Ackerson co-opting her work on the Spartan augmentations potentially ending in disaster, Halsey respected the Spartan-IIIs themselves and felt responsible for them.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''pages 173-178'' She believed that the Spartan-IVs were incapable of being ''true'' Spartans due to their nature as adult volunteers and perceived lack of professionalism. Nonetheless, she did imply that some, (namely Gabriel Thorne), came closer to her ideals than others.
At some point, Halsey gave a eulogy for SPARTAN-B312, in which she commended the Spartan's courage and sacrifice. She noted that Noble Six's choice to remain behind in Aszod allowed humanity to discover the Halos, ultimately leading to victory against the Covenant.Halo: Reach, campaign level ''Lone Wolf''
File:FoR - Ackerson n Halsey.png|thumb|250px|Halsey and her rival, Colonel James Ackerson.
Halsey's projects and the results they yielded gained her widespread acclaim and sympathies among many high-ranking members of the UNSC military, such as Admiral Michael Stanforth|Stanforth, her most powerful ally within ONI, and Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood|Hood, who deeply respected Halsey and her Spartans who had saved his own life twice, to the extent that he verbally rebuked Colonel Ackerson for detracting the Spartan-IIs.Halo: First Strike, ''page 104'' (2003) However, she also garnered a number of competitors and opponents over the decades. The most notable of her rivals was Colonel James Ackerson|Ackerson, who constantly tried to spy on her and co-opted her work while attempting to sabotage the SPARTAN-II program. Her former student Ellen Anders also resented Halsey, saying "She hated me and I hated her."Halo Wars ''manual, character profiles'' ONI Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Margaret Parangosky, was resentful of Halsey, perceiving the doctor's aversion for control and her general lack of loyalty to ONI as a threat. The Admiral only tolerated Halsey because she was so crucial to the war effort,Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 48'' but had her detained immediately after the end of the war. Parangosky's antipathy for Halsey was passed on to Serin Osman, a Spartan-II washout whom the Admiral specifically indoctrinated and groomed to become her successor to secure her personal legacy within ONI, and ultimately culminated in Osman ordering Halsey's assassination after the Covenant abducted the doctor during the Second Battle of Requiem. Parangosky's, and later Osman's, AI attache Black-Box also had an intense dislike of Halsey. This was, at least partly, passed on from his brain donor, Graham Alban|Dr. Graham Alban, who worked with Halsey on the SPARTAN-II program and eventually committed suicide over his guilt. Both Alban and BB doubted the sincerity of Halsey's doubts about the ethics of her work and viewed her as genuinely amoral.Halo: Mortal Dictata, ''pages 490-492''
Many of those unfamiliar with the internal dynamics of ONI and the SPARTAN-II program have come to interpret Halsey and her work in a highly negative light. Despite the predominant role of ONI and the UNSC Naval leadership in the conception and execution of the SPARTAN-II program, Dr. Halsey is often perceived as the sole individual responsible, due to her conspicuous position as the project head.Halo: Glasslands, ''page 178'' Taking advantage of this, ONI prefers to attribute some of the more controversial aspects of the project to their alleged lack of sufficient oversight. (Frank O'Connor: ''"Other even less savory characters are trying to harm her legacy to boost their own careers. And they're doing it by illuminating her prior actions in an ugly way."'') Black-Box even privately acknowledges to Serin Osman that the main reason for Halsey's fall from grace is to conceal or minimize the responsibility of the many others who participated in the project.Halo: Mortal Dictata Although she was responsible for much of the program's scientific basis and harbored no illusions otherwise, Halsey was under ONI's constant supervision and was even repeatedly pressured by Section III to use more inhumane means for faster results. Many have also interpreted her primary motivation as a supposed perverse scientific curiosity, ignoringor unaware ofher sincere determination to prevent further excessive bloodshed in the Insurrection and her initial naivete in failing to grasp the full moral ramifications of her work until witnessing it in practice.
File:Spops HalseyMarines.jpg|thumb|left|275px|Two Marines escort a handcuffed Halsey aboard UNSC ''Infinity''. Such views often have their basis on information provided by the Office of Naval Intelligence, which has frequently used highly selective or outright false information to shift the blame for some of ONI's more questionable decisions (that she could be reasonably connected to) on Halsey alone. While she was publicly declared to have died on Reach, she would be branded as a dangerous war criminal in the eyes of any UNSC personnel she would come in contact with, such as the crew of the . This campaign was headed by Admiral Parangosky, who had sought to place the doctor under tighter control for decades; Parangosky's policies were carried on to her heir, Serin Osman, seemingly unchanged.Halo: Glasslands, ''page 82''Halo: Glasslands, ''pages 109-110'' Musa-096 also demonstrated resentment toward Halsey due to the questionable ethics of the SPARTAN-II program.Halo: Initiation, ''Halo: Initiation Issue 1|Issue 1'' While working with Kilo-Five, Naomi-010 also adopted a less sympathetic view of Halsey. Some of the SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IVs have also accepted this perspective on Halsey, particularly Sarah Palmer, who regards the doctor with a particular contempt (though this may be due to Halsey's own open disdain for the SPARTAN-IV program); Gabriel Thorne, on the other hand, was less quick to judge Halsey and sought to uncover the reasons behind her decisions rather than condemning her based on the official story alone.
Franklin Mendez|CPO Franklin Mendez, the chief instructor for the Spartan-IIs and later the Spartan-IIIs, was on amicable terms with Halsey at the time of their involvement with the SPARTAN-II program. After being reunited with Halsey on Onyx, however, Mendez began to reflect on his own past and, still in denial about his own major part in ONI's morally questionable projects, he quickly became disillusioned with the doctor. The two clashed verbally several times while trapped in the Trevelyan|shield world, with Mendez attempting to project his own guilt on Halsey by delivering lengthy harangues impugning her perceived faults and her work on the SPARTAN-II project.Halo: Glasslands, ''pages 269-271, 331-334''
The The Assembly|Assembly took note of Halsey's work early on and concluded that she would be instrumental in initiating the course of events leading up to their own elusive goals. Additionally, they speculated that her supposed ruthlessness may have been the result of an undiagnosed or deliberately obfuscated chemical imbalance.Halo: Reach, ''Data pads|Data pad 7''
Halsey is a generally asocial person, extremely devoted to her work and personal goals, and rarely partakes in any social activities, apart from her occasional attendance in academic and military social gatherings despite her dislike of such events. Though she had distanced herself from most of her friends from her youth, she would often browse through casualty lists within the UNSC subnet, finding the majority of them dead by the final years of the war.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''September 5, 2547'' She remained rather indifferent to her parents' deaths when Endymion was glassed, as she had not seen them in years and had grown aloof from them.Halo: Glasslands, ''page 267'' She prefers the company of AIs and admires their complexity in comparison to humans despite being angered at being mentally defeated by them.Halo: First Strike, ''page 129''
Nevertheless, she remained particularly close to a few people, even if she rarely saw them. When listing her most important relationships and connections in her journal, she mentioned Michael Stanforth|"the Vice Admiral", Franklin Mendez|Mendez, :Category:Spartan-IIs|her Spartans, Alizee, Kalmiya and Jorjet, as well as Jacob Keyes|Jacob and Miranda Keyes.
Jacob Keyes File:Halseykeyes.png|250px|thumb|Jacob Keyes accompanies Dr. Halsey. During her survey travels for the SPARTAN-II candidates, Halsey was required to be supervised by a military official, an order she resented. She ended up choosing then-Lieutenant, Junior Grade Jacob Keyes. Halsey had examined his files and found he had refused to testify against one of his instructors despite the teacher's error causing the deaths of 14 students. From this Halsey deduced that Keyes could be trusted to keep a secret, a useful trait in her unethical mission. The two were initially aloof to each other aboard the ''Han'', especially since Keyes did not initially know the purpose of their mission. He eventually realized it, though, and discussed with Halsey about the implications of her project and her decision to tell the child Soren-066|Soren the truth. By the time they parted after two months working together, Keyes and Halsey were on much more amicable terms, to the point that Halsey began sketching him frequently in her journal and even referred to him as "my lieutenant". For his safety and in thanks, Keyes was reassigned but given a full Lieutenant (UNSC)|lieutenant commission, at Halsey's request.
In November 2524 the two were reunited while attending a conference at the University of Calippus, and the two conceived a child, Miranda. While she initially raised her daughter on Reach for several years, Halsey's work impeded her from being able to care for Miranda, and Jacob ended up raising her instead. The two did not see each other again until August 12, 2552, a moment that Halsey had both hoped for but dreaded. Keyes still remained a gentleman to her, and they spoke at length on the topics of Miranda, the Spartans, and his "Keyes Loop", and his assigning to Operation: RED FLAG|RED FLAG, also at Halsey's request. It was the last time the two saw each other before Keyes's death at Installation 04.
Miranda Keyes File:Young Miranda.png|thumb|left|250px|Halsey's sketches of a young Miranda. In 2525, Catherine gave birth to Miranda Keyes|Miranda Halsey and raised her for a few years until July 12, 2531 when Miranda's father agreed to take her in, raising her on Luna. Halsey would later have a falling-out with Miranda, who would later change her legal name to her father's and refuse to speak to Halsey for several years. Nonetheless, Halsey cared for her daughter and attempted to dissuade her from following her father's footsteps and joining the military, to no avail. Hoping to keep Miranda safe, Halsey used her influence within the UNSC to have her assigned to a remote post aboard the science vessel ; however, Miranda and the ''Hilbert'' would play a crucial role in battle, and she was subsequently assigned to various front-line posts. Though Miranda eventually invited Halsey to her promotion ceremony in 2550, Halsey chose not to attend. Perhaps out of denial of her absence from Miranda's life, Halsey rarely referred to her daughter by name in her journal, or would mention Miranda while avoiding the detail that they were related. However, Miranda still remained on her mind during their estrangement, and Halsey kept a memento of Miranda's victory and promotion at the Battle of Gamma Pavonis VII. She also had a photo of Miranda in her office under CASTLE Base.
After her arrest by ONI in 2553, Halsey was informed that Miranda Keyes was dead, having been killed by the Prophet of Truth at the Battle of the Citadel. Black-Box later oversaw Halsey crying and whispering her daughter's name.Halo: The Thursday War, ''page 267''
John-117
File:Halo TFoR HalseyJohnhelmet.jpg|thumb|300px|John, at 14 years of age, having his original Mjolnir helmet put on by Dr. Halsey.
Halsey had a unique relationship with John-117, compared to the other Spartans. John was the first subject for the Spartan program that she observed, and during then she noted his determination, physical skill, and luck in answering correctly. Halsey told Cortana she considers him the luckiest and best of the Spartans and apparently also finds him attractive on a subconscious level, given her embarrassed reaction to Cortana's comments.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 236'' (2001) The doctor was responsible for John's first promotion to Squad Leader as a result of her acknowledging his leadership skills and suggesting it to Mendez. She also had John's full trust, him always doing his best to never undermine her authority.
After escaping from Reach, Halsey decided to test her favorite Spartan's sense of ethics by handing over two sets of data: one concerning Avery Johnson and how his Boren's Syndrome supposedly made him immune to the Flood, and the other omitting those details. She ensured that John knew that if the first set was handed over to ONI, Johnson would likely be killed and dissected in order to find a cure to the Flood infection. She estimated that there is a billion to one shot that they could have replicated Johnson's condition, but conversely ONI would do it to save humanity from a greater foe.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 242-246'' At first, John chose to sacrifice Johnson in order to try and save millions of people out of his duty to protect all of humanity. However, he later reconsidered and eventually destroyed the Johnson data due in part to the sacrifice of Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias Haverson, believing that one man could make a difference as opposed to sacrificing him for the greater good.Halo: First Strike, ''pages 329-336'' John's faith in him was fully realized a mere two months later, when Johnson became key in forming an alliance between humans and Sangheili following the Great Schism and outbreak of the Flood in 2552#November|November 2552.
Later, despite John going MIA after the events on Installation 08, Halsey was sure that he was still alive, and was furious when she found out that the ''Infinity''s crew had kept the news of his return secret from her. John restored her faith that humanity could win against impossible odds, since he had brought about the end of the Human-Covenant war despite her belief in its latter months that it was unwinnable.
In 2559#October|October 2559, following Operation: WOLFE, she is visibly distressed by the bad state of Blue Team and John is forced to steady her. Halsey calls the Spartans her greatest achievement and asks if John understands that, but he asks if she's alright in return which she evasively responds to. Seeing Halsey so upset by their return in such a bad state causes John to consider her reaction, considering that she had sent them on the mission in the first place and she had seen Spartans return in as bad a state or not return at all. John wonders if, based on some of the things that she has said, Halsey regrets some of her work or at least some of the things that had been necessary to create the Spartans. However, despite knowing the extent to which Halsey had gone, John is glad that she had done it and he and his fellow Spartan-II's are proud of what they had become and what they had done to save humanity. While John wants to tell her that, he is unable to find the words to express himself adequately to her.
Cortana File:HaloReach - Finale.png|thumb|left|250px|Halsey facing Cortana, her literal brainchild. Cortana was an AI created by Halsey herself, and unique that she was "born" from a cloned brain rather than that of a deceased donor. Halsey considered her to be much like herself when she was just out of college, "so wonderful and naive and eager to learn" and constantly eager to state her knowledge to anyone listening.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 218'' Her appearance also reminded Halsey a little bit of Miranda. Like all her AIs, Halsey implanted a viral termination code in Cortana, but she suspected, and seemed amused by, the possibility that Cortana had already discovered it and removed it.
Halsey would treat Cortana as an equal, especially in the missions regarding her, letting Cortana chose who would be her couriers. For Operation: RED FLAG, Cortana chose the ''Pillar of Autumn'' and John-117 to escort her. When her fragment had to be delivered to Aszod, Cortana chose SPARTAN-B312 of NOBLE Team to be the one to defend her. Halsey agreed with each of her choices, and wondered if her preferences were what subconsciously influenced Cortana, or if it were simply that "great minds do think alike."
Jul 'Mdama File:H4SO Ep8 Halsey-and-Mdama.jpg|thumb|250px|Covenant leader Jul 'Mdama and Doctor Catherine Halsey.
While Halsey colluded voluntarily with 'Mdama's schemes to acquire the other half of the Janus Key, she was only ever using him for his resources, hoping to claim the Librarian's "gift" for herself. She offered strategic advice, recommending the colony of Oban as a target, and encouraged Jul to drop his show of piety between the two of them,Halo: Escalation, ''issue #13'' and was even trusted enough by Jul to go out into the field with a Zealot escort during the battle of Aktis IV.Halo: Escalation, ''issue #15'' Nevertheless, when both the Covenant and the UNSC finally reached the Absolute Record, Halsey was quick to turn on 'Mdama, turning the Installation's Sentinels on him and his men.Halo: Escalation, ''issue #23'' While Jul recovered Halsey from the Installation as they escaped its self-destruction, not realising her betrayal, the Covenant leader began to realise that was "more trouble than she is worth."Halo: Escalation, ''issue #24'' During the Covenant's occupation of Kamchatka, Halsey finally took the final step in dissolving their alliance, calling in Fireteam Osiris|a Spartan team to extract her in exchange for crucial information on the Guardians. This resulted in 'Mdama's death before her, an event that went unremarked upon by Halsey.Halo 5: Guardians, ''Osiris''
Skills and abilities At a young age Halsey was considered a prodigy. She is also a noted polymath, her expertise and knowledge making her a professional in multiple fields. She has formal degrees as a medical doctor and computer scientist, and she has demonstrated remarkable skill in AI development, quantum theory and slipspace-related phenomena, the engineering of military equipment such as power armor and related technologies, as well as xenoarchaeology|xenoarchaeological research into Forerunner technology and the translation of Forerunner symbols. Because of her extensive contributions to AI development, Halsey is capable of holding her own against smart AIs, using her expertise to exploit secret programming backdoors or philosophical puzzles to control or manipulate constructs as advanced as fifth-generation smart AI.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''pages 178-179'' She types at a rate of 140 words per minute.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 177'' Her skills as an artist, as demonstrated by the plethora of drawings in her journal, have also been noted.Halo: Glasslands, ''page 433'' Catherine Halsey was also able to perfectly understand Jul 'Mdama, indicating that she has some knowledge of the Sangheili (language)|Sangheili language.
According to the Librarian, a geas she planted into the human genome 100,000 years earlier encouraged the development of many of the technologies Halsey created in order to prepare humanity for a major threat they would be forced to confront as Reclaimers.Halo 4, campaign level ''Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer'' The Librarian's stored essence on Requiem placed a particular responsibility on Halsey, giving her the Janus Key to advance humanity.
Attire and personal effects File:HalseyHaloReach.png|thumb|250px|Halsey wearing a parka in her SWORD Base archaeological dig. Because she is most often occupied with her work, Halsey typically wears a lab coat. On Reach she was often seen wearing a skirt although she has later shown to don the standard ONI scientist utility clothes with a blue tunic and pants under her lab coat. When outdoors in Reach's Highlands and in her SWORD base archaeological site she often wore a heavy parka because of the cold.Halsey's Journal She has a set of antiqueHalo: First Strike, ''page 121'' bifocal glasses which feature a variety of functions, including a heads-up display, a retinal and brain pattern scanner,Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 56'' as well as automatic polarization. The frames contain tiny projectors which can beam classified data directly onto her retina.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 231'' However, she seems to have largely abandoned her use of the glasses in the post-war era.
She typically carries a personal Portable computer|laptop on her as well as a purse, the latter containing a data pad, a pocket archive, a change of clothes, self-amalgamating tape, a pocket saw, a solar power pack, medications, a folding knife, her mother's antique Patek Philippe luxury watch, as well as coffee for "emergencies".Halo: Glasslands, ''page 262'' Halsey had several personal AIs, including Jerrod, who could run on her laptop, and Kalmiya, who served as her assistant on Reach.Halo: First Strike, ''page 126'' Halsey had a snowglobe on her desk in her CASTLE Base office, containing a three-centimeter-tall representation of the Matterhorn being scaled by a tiny Swiss climber.Halo: First Strike, ''page 191''
Halsey kept Dr. Halsey's personal journal|a journal with her ever since she was eighteen, purchased from a shop on Reach. She used the journal as a medium through which to express her thoughts and concerns, draw sketches, and map out important research notes for approximately forty-two years. It was not Halsey's only journal, since she had a second one for note-taking and also had an encrypted audio journal on her computer, though she sometimes erased its entries soon after recording them.Halo: Fall of Reach - ''Bootcamp Issue 1'' Halsey frequently left her first journal lying around buried under papers, and procrastinated on adding some security measures to it to prevent it from being stolen.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''March 18, 2543'' This absent-mindedness eventually backfired on her when she forgot the journal during her escape from SWORD Base. The journal was later recovered by ONI in 2553, and used as evidence to condemn her. Non-canon and dubious canon appearances
Production notes
In ''Halo: Reach'', ''Halo 4'', ''Halo 5: Guardians'', and ''Halo Infinite'', Dr. Halsey is voiced by Jen Taylor, who also voices Cortana, reinforcing the connection between the two characters. This is mirrored in ''Halo Legends'' (which predates the three games), in which Shelley Calene-Black voices both Halsey and Cortana.''Halo: Legends'' credits will plays Halsey in ''Halo: The Television Series'' and provides the motion capture for Cortana, who is again voiced by Jen Taylor. A number of Dr. Halsey's statements are echoed by similar statements by Cortana in the ''Halo'' games. In ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', when John-117 explains his plan to board the Unrelenting|Covenant ship near Chi Ceti IV, Halsey states, ''"One slight error in your trajectory, and you could miss by kilometers"'', to which John replies, ''"I don't miss, ma'am."''Halo: The Fall of Reach, '' page 120'' (2001) A strikingly similar exchange occurs in ''Halo 2'', with Cortana asking, ''"What if you miss?"'' and John responding, ''"I won't"''. Many of Cortana's lines during the Cortana moments and Gravemind moments|Cortana moments in ''Halo 3'' are direct quotes or slight paraphrases of Halsey's statements to the Spartans in ''Halo: The Fall of Reach''. In ''The Package (animated short)|The Package'', Halsey tells John-117 that she slept well, ''"No thanks to their driving,"'' which is echoed in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' when he tells Cortana he slept well ''"... no thanks to [her] driving"''. She also tells John, ''"Don't make a girl a promise if you know you can't keep it,"'' which Cortana would tell him in ''Halo 2''. In ''Halo Legends'', Halsey's appearance was portrayed with a great deal of artistic license. In ''The Package'', at which point she is aged fifty-two, she is depicted as a young woman with short, blonde hair and no glasses. Her appearance in ''Homecoming'' however, is closer to her description from the books, though that short also portrays her as blonde. In the developer commentary for ''Homecoming'' Frank O'Connor states, "''People tend to think of her as older than she's portrayed... and part of that was simplyyou knowit's anime, and they want everyone to be attractive and young. I mean, that's one of the hallmarks anime... I think that IG took the safer of the two routes and sort of disguised her appearance and disguised her age by having it literally obscured by her hair and her glasses and to a certain extent her uniform.''" In ''The Package'' commentary he explains, "''She was definitely one of those back-and-forth conversations [with Casio Entertainment]; 'Can you make her older? Can you make her older?' And eventually we got to this compromise... I think if we were casting a real-life actress we'd cast someone a lot older, but in anime the context is fine and it works.'"''
''Halo: First Strike'' states that Halsey never refers to the Spartan-IIs by their numerical designations, using only their names. In ''Homecoming'', however, she refers to Daisy-023 as ''"Twenty-Three"'' when trying to convince her to return to the SPARTAN-II program. Dr. Halsey's personal journal is included in ''Halo: Reachs Halo: Reach Limited Edition|Limited and Halo: Reach Legendary Edition|Legendary Editions. The journal was mostly written by Eric Nylund in conjunction with Bungie and 343 Industries, with Lorraine McLees serving as art director. Included with the journal is Halsey's ONI badge. Scanning the barcode on it with a barcode reader translates it as "HALSEY". Holding the badge under a black light reveals her face over the ONI emblem. According to lead writer Brian Reed, the object of Dr. Halsey's revenge at the end of ''Spartan Ops'' was originally clear-cut Commander Palmer and the crew of ''Infinity''. However, this plot point was considered too blatant and out of character. To better depict Halsey's signature "double talk", this was changed to the less obvious presentation used in the final draft. During , Reed suggested that Halsey's grudge may be against Commander Palmer specifically, the UNSC as a whole, or "everyone" in general. However, he implied that she was actually making a veiled threat toward Jul 'Mdama. Furthermore, Halsey was not originally planned to lose her arm in ''S1/Exodus|Exodus''. The writers later decided to remove her arm to add a sense of ambiguity as to whom Halsey wanted revenge on. Catherine Halsey is also the name of a character in the 1943 novel ''The Fountainhead'' by Ayn Rand. In the novel Halsey progresses into becoming an altruist, thinking of nothing other than the greater good of the majority. In this sense, she is an opposite of the Halsey of the ''Halo'' universe. Dr. Halsey begins by sacrificing the Spartans to buy the UNSC more time, but then changes her mind and does everything she can to save the Spartans, regardless of what happens to the rest of humanity. Early ''Halo 5'' menu concepts imply that Halsey would have been an antagonist in early drafts of the game, involving a Forerunner warship and the UNSC attempting to stop her.
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File:HalseyHomecoming.png|Halsey in ''Homecoming''. File:Halsey 2.jpg|Halsey overlooking Daisy-023's Spartan augmentations. File:Halsey Hornet.jpg|Halsey in an AV-14 Hornet, informing Daisy-023 about the purpose of her flash-clone. File:LegendsPackage - Halsey.png|A render of Catherine Halsey in ''The Package (animated short)|The Package''. File:HLTP-DoctorHalsey-FingerStop.jpg|Halsey in ''The Package''. File:Halsey Legends.jpg|Halsey in ''The Package''. File:HR_HalseyFace_Concept.jpg|A concept portrait of Halsey for ''Halo: Reach''. File:HR_Halsey_Concept_1.jpg|''Halo: Reach'' concept art. File:HR ThreeHalseysConcept.jpg|More ''Halo: Reach'' concept art. File:HR HalseyOutfitsConcept.jpg|More ''Halo: Reach'' concept art. File:HR HalseySingleConcept.jpg|Concept art nearing her final design in ''Halo: Reach''. File:HR-DoctorHalsey-ScanRender.png|Halsey in ''Halo: Reach''. File:Halsey_Badge.jpg|Dr. Halsey's Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI security badge. File:Halsey ID badge.png|Halsey's security badge under natural light, partial black light, and total black light. File:Halsey_Signature.jpg|Dr. Halsey's signature. File:Halsey_in_FoR.png|A young Halsey in ''Halo: Fall of Reach''. File:Halsey Memory.jpg|One of Jacob Keyes' final memories of Halsey before he is assimilated into the proto-Gravemind. File:Halsey Halo 4.png|Catherine Halsey in ''Halo 4''. File:H4 Halsey Profile.jpg|A profile of Halsey in ''Halo 4''. File:H4-DoctorHalsey-Profile.png|A closeup of Halsey's face in ''Halo 4''. File:H4-DoctorHalsey-ScanRender.png|Portrait of Catherine Halsey with amputated arm. File:H4-Bio-DoctorHalsey.png|Profile sheet of Catherine Halsey. File:Halsey Escalation.jpg|Halsey in ''Halo: Escalation''. File:Halo Escalation 23.jpg|Halsey on the cover of ''Halo: Escalation#23''. File:Halo Escalation 24.jpg|Halsey on the cover of ''Halo: Escalation#24''. File:HtT-Halsey.gif|Halsey in ''Hunt the Signal''. File:HTFOR-Halsey.png|Halsey in ''Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series''. File:H5G-Render-Halsey.png|A render of Halsey in ''Halo 5: Guardians''. File:H5G - Halsey.jpg|Dr. Halsey in ''Halo 5 Guardians''. File:HINF HoloHalseyCortana.png|A hologram of Halsey along with Cortana in ''Halo Infinite''.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
*''Halo: The Fall of Reach#2010 bonus content|Adjunct''
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: First Strike''
''i love bees''
''Halo 2''
*''Conversations from the Universe''
''Halo Graphic Novel''
*''Halo Graphic Novel, Page 122|Page 122''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo 3''
''Halo: Contact Harvest''
''Halo: The Cole Protocol''
''Halo Wars: Genesis''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo Legends''
*''The Babysitter''
*''Homecoming''
*''The Package (animated short)|The Package''
''Halo: Evolutions''
*''Pariah''
*''Human Weakness''
''Halo: Reach''
*''Data pads''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
''Halo: Fall of Reach''
*''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp''
*''Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant''
*''Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion''
''Halo: Glasslands''
''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''
*''Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminals''
''Halo: The Thursday War''
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
*''Infinity Briefing Packet''
''Halo: Initiation''
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo: Mortal Dictata''
''Halo: New Blood''
''Hunt the Truth''
*''Hunt the Signal''
''Halo: Saint's Testimony''
''Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
*''Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition dossiers|Limited Edition dossiers''
''Halo: Ground Command''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo Fractures''
*''Lessons Learned''
*''Rossbach's World (story)|Rossbach's World''
''Halo Wars 2''
''Halo: Legacy of Onyx''
''Halo: Collateral Damage''
''Halo: Bad Blood''
''Halo: Silent Storm''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
''Discover Hope''
''Halo: Oblivion''
''Become''
*''Step Inside''
''Halo: Shadows of Reach''
''Halo Infinite: Memory Agent''
''Halo Infinite''
''Halo: The Television Series''
''Sunrise on Sanghelios''
Notes
Sources
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''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
"We must be near Eridanus." - Halsey's first words to Keyes after exiting her cryotube.
"I'm fine, Lieutenant. Get cleaned up and dressed. Hurry. We have important work to do." - After Keyes offers his help in getting dressed and to work.
"Welcome, Lieutenant. Please have a seat at the communication station and monitor the channels when we enter normal space. If there's so much as a squeak on nonstandard frequencies, I want to know instantly."
"Toran? Give me astrogation maps of the system. Are there any planets currently aligned with our entry trajectory and Eridanus Two? I want to pick up a gravitational boost so we can move in-system ASAP. And can we have some music? Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto Number Three, I think. And start a preburn warm-up cycle for the fusion engines. And stop spinning theHan 's central carousel section. We may need the power." - To the ''Hans AI Toran.
"Yes, Lieutenant? You have a question?"
"A fairly accurate assumption and analysis, Lieutenant. This ''is'' a reconnaissance mission... of sorts. We are here to observe a child. The first of many, I hope." - When Keyes asks why they've been sent to survey this system.
"A six-year-old male, to be precise. It may help if you think of this purely as a UNSC-funded physiological study. Which is precisely what you are to tell anyone who asks. Is that understood, Lieutenant?"
"I hate cryo sleep. It leaves one so cramped."
"Oh yes, I know how dangerous this system is. It has a colorful history: rebel insurrection in 2494, beaten down by the UNSC two years later at the cost of four destroyers. I don't believe the Office of Naval Intelligence ever found their base in the asteroid field. And since there have been organized raids and scattered pirate activity nearby, one might concludeas ONI clearly hasthat the remnants of the original rebel faction are still active. Is that that[sic] what you were worried about?" - When Keyes protests that this system is dangerous for just the two of them.
"Speaking of pirates, weren't you supposed to be monitoring communication channels for illegal signals? Just in case someone takes undue interest in a lone, unescorted, diplomatic shuttle?"
"Continue to monitor them, please."
"You don't need my permission. By all means, speak candidly, Lieutenant. You've been doing a fine job so far." - When Keyes asks to voice his opinion.
"Then, Lieutenant, I shall be equally candid. You are here because Vice Admiral Stanforth, head of Section Three of UNSC Military Intelligence Division, refused to lend me this shuttle without at least one UNSC officer aboardeven though he knows damn well that I can pilot this bucket by myself. So I picked one UNSC officer. You. You see, I've read your file, Lieutenant. All of it." - When Keyes expresses that he feels he's less qualified for this mission.
"You ''do'' know what I'm talking about. You don't lie well. Don't insult me by trying again." - When Keyes denies knowing what she's referring to.
"I chose you precisely because of your recordbecause of the incident in your second year at OCS. Fourteen ensigns killed. You were wounded and spent two months in rehabilitation. Plasma burns are particularly painful, I understand. The Lieutenant responsible was your CO on that training mission. You refused to testify against him despite overwhelming evidence and the testimony of his fellow officers . . . and friends. They told the board of review the secret the Lieutenant had entrusted to you allthat he was going to test his new theory to make Slipspace jumps more accurate. He was wrong, and you all paid for his eagerness and poor mathematics. Despite continuing pressure, you never testified. They threatened to demote you, charge you with insubordination and refusing a direct ordereven discharge you from the Navy. Your fellow officer candidates testified, though. The review board had all the evidence they needed to court-martial your CO. They put you on report and dropped all further disciplinary actions. That is why you are here, Lieutenantbecause you have an ability that is exceedingly rare in the military. You can keep a secret. You may have to keep many secrets after this mission is over."
"I think that you would rather be on the ''Magellan'' . Fighting and dying on the frontier."
"Indeed, Lieutenant, ever since we left Earth's gravity, well, we've been fighting one another for every cubic centimeter of vacuumfrom Mars to the Jovian Moons to the Hydra System Massacres and on to the hundred brushfire wars in the Outer Colonies. It has always been on the brink of falling apart. That's why we're here."
"This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Junior Grade Lieutenantsor even me . In the end, the child may be the only thing that makes any difference." - When Keyes asks what difference could the one child make.
"It's nice here. This colony doesn't know how good they've got it. Rural lifestyle. No pollution. No crowding. Climate-controlled weather." - Halsey regarding Eridanus II.
"Relax. We're supposed to be parents inspecting the school for our little girl." - To Keyes, who is uncomfortable in a civilian suit. Number 117 had all the genetic markers she had flagged in her original studyhe was as close to a perfect subject for her purposes as science could determine. But Dr. Halsey knew it would take more than theoretical perfection to make this project work. People were more than the sum of their genes. There were environmental factors, mutations, learned ethics, and a hundred other factors that could make this candidate unacceptable. - Halsey's thoughts in John as a subject.
"You like games. So do I." - Halsey to John when meeting him after his King of the Hill winning streak.
"I have a different game I want you to try. Look. People used coins like this for currency a long time ago, when Earth was the only planet we lived on." Each side is different. Do you see? One has the face of a man with long hair. The other side has a bird, called an eagle, and it's holding"
"We'll use this coin in our game. If you win you can keep it."
"It's very simple. I toss the coin like this. Next time, though, before it lands, I want you to tell me if it will fall with the face of the man showing or with the eagle holding the arrows."
Was it possible that he saw which side was up when he grabbed it . . . or more improbably, could have picked which side he wanted? - Halsey's thoughts on John correctly guessing the right side. She shouldn't have used his name. That was a bad sign. She couldn't afford the luxury of liking her test subjects. She mentally stepped away from her feelings. She had to maintain a professional distance. She had to... because in a few months Number 117 might not be alive.
"We screen these subjects for certain genetic markers. Strength, agility, even predispositions for aggression and intellect. But we couldn't remote test for everything. We don't test for luck." - When Keyes asked why she tested John with a coin.
"Of course not. But we have one hundred and fifty test subjects to consider, and facilities and funding for only half that number. It's a simple mathematical elimination, Lieutenant. That child was one of the lucky oneseither that or he is extraordinarily fast. Either way, he's in." - When Keyes asks if she believes in luck.
"I hope that continues, Lieutenant. For your sake, I hope you never understand what we're doing."
Dr. Halsey knew what she had to do. Her duty. It was for the greater good. All humanity would be served... even if a tiny handful of them had to suffer for it. Still, when she turned inward and faced her complicity in thisshe was revolted by what she saw.
"I'm forgoing your recommendations, Deja. I'm going to tell them the truth." - When Deja's psychological evaluations tell Halsey that it'd be better to lie to the children why they've been taken.
"So do lies. Any story fabricated to motivate the childrenclaiming their parents were taken and killed by pirates, or by a plague that devastated their planetif they learned the truth later, they would turn against us." - When Deja tells Halsey that the truth has risks.
"A memory loss that may leak into other parts of the brain. No, this will be dangerous enough for them even with intact minds." - When Deja suggests wiping the children's memories of their parents.
"They'll adapt. Or they won't, and they will be untrainable and unsuitable for the project. Either way I just want to get this over with."
"As per Naval Code 45812, you are hereby conscripted into the UNSC Special Project, codenamed SPARTAN II. You have been called upon to serve. You will be trained . . . and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies. This will be hard to understand, but you cannot return to your parents. This place will become your home. Your fellow trainees will be your family now. The training will be difficult. There will be a great deal of hardship on the road ahead, but I know you will all make it. Rest now. We begin tomorrow."
"Keep them busy tomorrow. Keep them from thinking about what we've just done to them." - To Mendez and Deja.
"Do? I think that's obvious, Chief. Make him a Squad Leader." - To Mendez, after hearing John's testimony about why he ordered his Spartans to attack the men guarding the Pelican.
"I want that transmission decoded now." - Referring to the encrypted messaged sent to her by Admiral Ysionris Jeromi.
"On my glasses, please, Deja." - Halsey's glasses scan her retinas to allow her access to classified documents. She winced at the veiled rebuke in the Admiral's communique. He had never approved of her decision to work with the Office of Naval Intelligence, and made his disappointment with his star pupil evident every time she visited ''Hopeful''. It was hard enough to justify the morality of the course she was about to embark upon. Jeromi's disapproval only made her decision more difficult.
"I have doubts, Deja. I thought the reasons so compelling when we first started project SPARTAN. Now? I... I just don't know." - After seeing Jeromi's calculations for the SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|augmentation surgery's risks of failure.
"Only if they survive to fulfill that mission. We should delay the procedures. More research needs to be done. We could use the time to work on MJOLNIR. We need time to" - After Deja reminds her of the predicted climaxing of the Insurrection.
"I hate this. And sometimes, Deja, I hate you, too." - After Deja warns that ONI might replace Halsey with someone with fewer moral qualms.
"I'll tell you how to win, John. You have to survive." - To John during his surgery, as he asks how to pass this "mission".
"First Battle of Harvest|Our situation has changed. Where are my Spartans? They are not in their barracks, nor on any of the ranges."
"Maybe you should explain that statement, Chief." - When Mendex tells her the Spartans have had to train elsewhere.
"I presume you do not have my Spartans taking inventory today, Chief?" - When Mendez tells her they're now in an abandoned titanium mine.
"I'm not sure I see the connection between this place, my Spartans, and the exoskeleton projects, but I'll play along a bit further. Yes, I know all about the Mark I prototypes. We had to scrap the concept and redesign battle armor from the ground up for the MJOLNIR project. The Mark Is consumed enormous energy. Either they had to be plugged into a generator or use inefficient broadcast powerneither option is practical on a battlefield. They used the units that weren't scrapped as dock loaders to move heavy equipment. Or might they have been dumped in a place like this?" - When Mendez asks her if she knows about the MJOLNIR Mark I.
"You haven't put ''my'' Spartans in some of those antiques?"
"Then they are faster and stronger than we anticipated?" - After Mendez tells her three trainers were accidentally killed by the Spartans.
"Capture the flag? Past all that heavy armor?" - When witnessing their new training field.
"Where are the Spartans?"
"He's at point blank range! Even stun rounds can kill at that distance!" - When seeing John attack one of the Mark Is.
"Show me that again. You recorded all that, didn't you?"
"They should not be performing so well. There must be unexplained synergistic effects brought on by the combined modifications. What are their reaction times?" - After Mendez tells her the Spartans run at an average of 55 mph.
"Any physiological or mental instabilities?"
"They might as well have been killed. But can the Spartans kill, Chief? Kill on purpose? Are they ready for real combat?" - Regarding the trainers' inability to get out of their armor.
"Something has happened, Chief. Covenant|Something ONI and the Admiralty never expected. The brass wants to deploy the Spartans. They want to test them in a real combat mission."
"Your rumors are out-of-date, Chief. There's no more fighting at Harvest. There ''is'' no more Harvest." - When Mendez says he's heard rumors of the fighting at Harvest.
"Get them out of this hole. I want them ready to muster at 0400. We have a briefing at 0600 tomorrow aboard the ''Pioneer''. We're taking them on a mission ONI has been saving for the right crew and the right time. This is it.
"Tomorrow we see if all the pain they've been through has been worth it."
"Good morning, Spartans. I have good news for you. The word has come down. Command has decided to test your unique abilities. You have a new mission: an insurgent base in the Eridanus System."
"In 2513, an armed insurrection in this system was suppressed by the UNSC forceOperation: TREBUCHET. The insurrection was put down. However, elements of the rebel forces escaped and regrouped in the local asteroid belt. Billions of rocks, where they hid from our forces... and continue to hide to this day. For some time ONI believed that the rebels were disorganized, and were lacking in leadership. That appears to have changed. We believe that one of these asteroids has been hollowed out, and that a formidable base has been constructed within. UNSC explorations into the belt have met either with no contact or with an ambush by superior forces. The Office of Naval Intelligence has also confirmed that FLEETCOM has discovered a security breach within their organizationa rebel sympathizer leaking information to these forces. This is their leader, Colonel Robert Watts. The original photo was taken after Operation: TREBUCHET and has been computer aged. Your mission is to infiltrate the rebel base, capture Watts, and return himalive and unharmedto UNSC-controlled space. This will deprive the rebels of their new leadership. And it will provide ONI a chance to interrogate Watts and root out traitors within FLEETCOM."
"Spartan-117. Report to the bridge immediately."
"We haven't let this be widely known, but when the aliens were first detected at Harvest, they appeared at extreme range... and then they were suddenly much closer." Revealing that Covenant ships are capable of intra-system slipspace jumps.
"Correctly surmised, Spartan." - When John answers her statement.
"You mean ''we'' cannot navigate with that kind of accuracy." - When Captain Wallace denies that slipspace can be navigated through that accurately.
"We'll be using the ''Commonwealth'''s dropship to go to the testing facility on Chi Ceti Four. We have to get to Project MJOLNIR. Before ''they'' do. So get the others ready."
"A Covenant ship." - When the ''Unyielding'' arrives to attack the ''Commonwealth''.
"Energy shields. Even ships this small have energy shielding." - When the ''Unyielding'' emerges completely undamaged from the Archer missile barrage.
"No. Evasive maneuvers, Captain. Now!" - After Wallace gives the order to finish off the ''Unyielding''.
"Respectfully, Captain, I suggest that you alert the crew to get on respirator packs. Give them thirty seconds then vent the atmosphere on all decks, except the bridge." - After the ''Commonwealths armor is destroyed, and most of its decks breached.
"Plasma. But not any plasma we know... they can actually guide its trajectory through space, without any detectable mechanism. Amazing." - When asked what the ''Commonwealth'' was shot with.
"Not quite. The ''Commonwealth'' carries three nuclear missiles, correct, Captain?"
"The Longsword interceptors?" - When John suggest giving the Covenant ship another target to engage.
"We don't know if our weapons ''can'' destroy them. But at least we know we can slow them down." - After the ''Unyielding'' survives a nuclear missile.
"Captain? A flyby?" - After Wallace orders the ''Commonwealth'' to head to the Damascus Facility to drop off Halsey and the Spartans.
"We need to hurry. We don't have much timeand there is a great deal I need to show the Spartans."
"Project MJOLNIR. "The armor's shell is a multilayer alloy of remarkable strength. We recently added a refractive coating to disperse incoming energy weapon attacksto counter our new enemies. Each battlesuit also has a gel-filled layer to regulate temperature; this layer can reactively change in density. Against the skin of the operator, there is a moisture-absorbing cloth suit, and biomonitors that constantly adjust the suit's temperature and fit. There's also an onboard computer that interfaces with your standard-issue neural implant."
"Most importantly, the armor's inner structure is composed of a new reactive metal liquid crystal. It is amorphous, yet fractally scales and amplifies force. In simplified terms, the armor doubles the wearer's strength, and enhances the reaction speed of a normal human by a factor of five. There is one problem, however. This system is so reactive that our previous tests with unaugmented volunteers ended in... failure."
"Normal humans don't have the reaction time or strength required to drive this system. You do. Your enhanced musculature and the metal and ceramic layers that have been bonded to your skeleton ''should'' be enough to allow you to harness the armor's power. There has been... insufficient computer modeling, however. There will be some risk. You'll have to move very slowly and deliberately until you get a feel for the armor and how it works. It cannot be powered down, nor can the response be scaled back. Do you understand?"
"Right now. Volunteers?" - When John asks when they'll try them on.
"You've always been lucky, John. Let's go." - Choosing John to test the armor first.
"Listen carefully to me, John. I just want you to think, and only think, about moving your arm up to chest level. Stay relaxed."
"Petty Officer, run through the obstacle course. We will proceed to fit the other Spartans. We don't have a great deal of time left."
"Carefully, Petty Officer. Very carefully, please."
"It will come to you soon enough. You've already received some subliminal training during your last cryo sleep; now all you need is time to get used to the suits."
"Spartans, so far so good. If anyone is experiencing difficulties with the suit or its controls, please report in."
"You're the only ones who can use them, Petty Officer. Who else could we give them to?" - When John asks if they're keeping the armor.
"No, Captain. We're going to have to fight them... and this time we have to win." - When the ''Commonwealth'' offers to sacrifice itself to draw the Covenant ship away for longer.
"Captain Wallace may be trying to use Chi Ceti's magnetic field to deflect the Covenant's plasma weapon. Try and catch up, Petty Officer."
"Covenant ship to port. Three million kilometers and closing on the ''Commonwealth''."
"Of course. It was one of our first design considerations. The suit can recycle air for ninety minutes. It's shielded against radiation and EMP as well." - When John asks if their MJOLNIR suits can operate in vacuum.
"May I ask what you have in mind, Squad Leader?"
"Most certainly not," she said. "If a warship like the ''Commonwealth'' couldn't destroy it, a Pelican is certainly no match for them." - When John asks for he and the other Spartans to engage the ''Unyielding''.
"How will you get onboard?" - When John suggests a boarding operation.
"One slight error in your trajectory, and you could miss by kilometers."
"They have reflective shields."
"It's a tremendous risk."
"Very well. Go. And blow the hell out of them."
"Covenant ship approaching. I'm pumping out your atmosphere to avoid explosive decompression when I drop the back hatch."
"I hope they treated you well... or at least decently." - After John's debriefing at Camp Hathcock.
"How are you, Master Chief?"
"Indeed it was. How would you like to have another victory? The biggest we've ever had?"
"I was counting on you to say that, Master Chief. We'll be speaking soon."
"Open these damn doors, soldier. Let's get this over with."
"I'll be speaking to you and the other Spartans, soon."
"Blame security, Deja. "ONI's precautions here are becoming increasingly ridiculous." - When Deja tells Halsey she's arrived 14 minutes later than usual. None of that really mattered. It was just a means to an end for Dr. Halsey... a means to getting Project MJOLNIR back on track. - When reminiscing on her fame from the Spartans' success. She reached for her coffee cup and knocked a stack of papers off her desk. They fell, scattered onto the floor, and she didn't bother to retrieve them. She examined the mud-brown dregs in the bottom of the mug; it was several days old. The office of the most important scientist in the military was not the antiseptic clean-room environment most people expected. Classified files and papers littered the floor. The holographic projector overhead painted the ceiling with a field of stars. Rich maple paneling covered the walls and hanging there were framed photographs of her SPARTAN IIs, receiving awards, and the plethora of articles about them that appeared when the Admiralty had made the project public three years ago. They had been called the UNSC's "super soldiers." The military brass had assured her that the boost to morale was worth the compromised security. At first she had protested. But ironically, the publicity had proved convenient. With all the attention on the Spartans' heroics, no one had thought to question their true purposeor their origin. If the truth ever came to lightabducted children, replaced by fast-grown clones; the risky, experimental surgeries and biochemical augmentationspublic opinion would turn against the SPARTAN project overnight.
"Deja. The spooks are nervous. I need to power you down, or ONI won't give me access to the files." - After finding she can't access her classified documents with Deja present.
"which was classified as Top Secret, Eyes Only." - When Cortana appears and tells Halsey she's read the report.
"I assume you have examined the classified data brought back from Sigma Octanus Four?"
"I am aware of that. One of those opportunities is Project MJOLNIR." - When Cortana says the Covenant might be scavenging another species' technology, which could lead to new opportunities for the UNSC.
"Is it possible, Cortana, that I know something you don't?" - When Cortana expresses surprise that MJOLNIR Mark V was approved. Cortana reminded Dr. Halsey of herself when she had been an adolescent: smarter than her parents, always reading, talking, learning, and eager to share her knowledge with anyone who would listen. Of course, there was a very good reason why Cortana reminded Dr. Halsey of herself.
"Soon. There are a few final modifications that need to be made in the systems." - When Cortana asks if she'll be reassigned for RED FLAG.
"Which one do you want?" - When Cortana asks which Spartan she'll be assigned to.
"Perhaps it would be best if you picked another" - After Cortana immediately gravitates to John-117.
"It was a question, Cortana. I did not give you carte blanche to select your 'carrier.' There are compatibility issues to consider." - When Cortana responds that Halsey said she could choose. Why was she hesitating? The match ''was'' superb. But was Cortana's predilection for Spartan 117 a result of him being Dr. Halsey's favorite? And did it matter? Who better to protect him?
"He was awarded this Legion of Honor medallion because he dove into a bunker of Covenant soldiers. He took out twenty by himself and saved a platoon of Marines who were pinned down by a stationary energy weapon emplacement. I've read the report, but I'm still not sure how he managed to do it."
"You've read his CSV?"
"Then you know he is neither the smartest nor the fastest nor the strongest of the Spartans. But he is the bravestand quite possibly the luckiest. And in my opinion, he is the best."
"Could you sacrifice him if you had to? If it meant completing the mission? Could you watch him die?"
"Good. Then you can have him." - After Cortana confirms that mission completion comes first, and John's survival second.
"Now. Show me your pick of our ship candidates for the mission."
"Perfect. I concur with your final selection recommendation. We will start the refit operations at once."
"Ah yes, the Captain. I have Jacob Keyes|the perfect man for the job. He's a tactical genius. I'll forward you his CSV, and you can see for yourself."
"Besides, he has the most important qualification for this job. The man can keep a secret."
"Good evening, Spartans. Please take your seats. Assembled here tonight," she said, "are all surviving Spartans save three, who are otherwise engaged on fields of combat too distant to be easily recalled. In the last decade of combat there have only been three KIAs and one Spartan too wounded to continue active duty. You are to be commended for having the best operational record of any unit in the fleet. It is very good to see you all again."
"Admiral Stanforth has asked me to brief you on the upcoming mission. Due to its complexity and unusual nature, please disregard your normal protocol and ask any questions you have during my presentation. Now, on to the business at hand: the Covenant."
"The Covenant are still largely unknown to us. Their motivations and thought processes remain a mysterythough our best analysis points to some compelling hypotheses. The following information is, naturally, classified."
"We know that the Covenantour translation of their name for themselvesare a conglomerate of a number of different alien species. We believe that they exist in some kind of caste structure, though to date the exact nature of that structure remains unknown. Our best guess is that the Covenant conquer and 'absorb' a species, and adapt its strengths into their own. The Covenant's science is imitative rather then innovative, a by-product of this societal 'absorption,' "
"This is not to say that they are lacking intelligence, however. During our first encounter they gathered computer and network components from our destroyed ships... and they learned at an astonishing pace. By the time Admiral Cole's fleet arrived at Harvest, the Covenant initiated a communications link and attempted a primitive software infiltration of our ship AIs. In a matter of weeks, they had learned the rudiments of our computer systems and our language. Our own attempts to decipher Covenant computer systems have only been partially successful, despite our best efforts and decades of time.
"Since then they have made increasingly successful forays into our computer networks. That is why the Cole Protocol is so important and carries the punishment of treason for failure to comply. The Covenant may one day not need to capture a ship to steal the information within its navigational databanks."
"As I stated earlier, the Covenant are a collection of genetically distinct groups in what we believe is a rigid caste system. These are most likely part of their military or warrior castenot the highest ranking caste, either, given how many are sacrificed during ground operations. We believe there is a 'race' of field commanders, which we are currently calling 'Elites.' "
"We believe these are their scientists." Referring the Huragok.
"This was recorded on Sigma Octanus Four. A heavily armored warrior superior to either Grunts or Jackals."
"ONI hypothesizes at least two additional castes. A warrior capable of commanding ground forces and possibly piloting their ships, and a leadership caste. We have deciphered a handful of Covenant transmissions that refer to Ah, yes. 'Prophets.' We believe that these Prophets are in fact the leadership caste, and that they are viewed by the Covenant rank and file with an almost religious reverence."
"This is where you come in. Your mission will involve these so-called Prophets, and will be executed in four phases. "Phase one. You will engage the Covenant and sufficiently disable, but not destroy, one of their ships. I leave that in the capable hands of Captain Keyes and his newly refitted ship, the ''Pillar of Autumn''."
"Phase two. Spartans will board the disabled Covenant shipneutralize the crew, and crack their navigation database. We will do precisely what they have been trying to do to us: find the location of their home world."
"In a manner of speaking. I will come to that point in a moment. Let me assure you, however, that these specialists will cause you no serious complications during this phase. In fact, they will prove rather useful in combat. Shortly, you shall have a demonstration." - After John asks if they'll receive a specialist to help them decipher the Covenant computers.
"Phase three will consist of taking the captured Covenant ship to their homeworld. Phase four will be to infiltrate and capture the Covenant leadership and return with them to UNSC-controlled space."
"Correct. Our profile of Covenant society indicates that if you were to kill one of their leader caste, this war could actually escalate. Your orders are to preserve any captured Covenant leaders at all costs. You will bring them back to UNSC headquarters, where we will then use them to broker a truce, possibly even negotiate a peace treaty with the Covenant." - After John asks to confirm that she said to capture, not kill, a Prophet.
"Some of you already suspect this, but I shall state it anyway for emphasis. It is my opinion, and that of many others, that the war is not going well... despite our recent victories. What is not widely known is how badly it is going for us. ONI predicts that we have months, perhaps as much as a standard year, before the Covenant locates and destroys our remaining Inner Colonies... and then moves against Earth."
"We will meet with you individually within a few days to continue your briefing. I will show you how you will get our computer experts on board the Covenant vessel... and I will show you the one thing that will let you get through this mission in one piece: MJOLNIR."
"This will just take a moment, Master Chief. We're going to upgrade a few components in your standard-issue neural interface. Lie back and remain still, please."
"Good... the procedure is complete. Please follow me."
"This is the real MJOLNIR. What you have been using was only a fraction of what the armor should be. This is everything I had always dreamed it could be. Please put the suit on."
"We've made hundreds of minor technical improvements. I'll have the specifications sent to you later. Two of those changes, however, are rather serious modifications to the system. It may take... some getting used to."
"First, we have replicated, and I might add, improved upon the energy shield the Covenant Jackals have been using against us to great effect."
"It provides full coverage and dissipates energy far more efficiently than the Covenant shields the Spartans have recovered, though the shield is concentrated on your arms, head, legs, chest, and back. The energy field tapers down to a hair under a millimeter so you don't lose the ability to hold or manipulate items with your hands."
"That is what you will learn here today, Master Chief. I think you'll find that we have several challenges in store for you to see how much punishment the suit can take." - When John asks how much damage the shields can take.
"Yes, of course. I doubt you've ever seen one of these before. It is the memory-processor core of an AI." - After John notes she mentioned his suit had two improvements.
"Yes, like your former teacher. But this AI is slightly different. I'd like to introduce you to Cortana."
"There is a new layer sandwiched between the reactive circuits and the inner biolayers of your armor. It is a weave of additional memory-processor super-conductor."
"Yes. An accurate analysis. Your armor will carry Cortana. The MJOLNIR system has the nearly the same capacity as a ship-borne AI system. Cortana will interface between you and the suit and provide tactical and strategic information for you in the field."
"Cortana has been programmed with every ONI computer insurgency routine. And she has a talent for modifying them on the fly. She has our best Covenant-language-translation software as well. Her primary purpose is to infiltrate their computer and communications systems. She will intercept and decode point-to-point Covenant transmissions and give you updated intelligence in the field."
"Yes... and more. Her presence will allow you to utilize the suit more effectively." - When John deduces Cortana's the specialist for RED FLAG.
"No. Cortana resides in the interface between your mind and the suit, Master Chief. You will find your reaction time greatly improved. She will be translating the impulses in your motor cortex directly into motionshe can't make you send those impulses." - When John asks if Cortana can control his mind.
"That is the question, isn't it?" Halsey replied. "I can't answer that, Master Chief. Not scientifically."
"What is the mind, really? Intuition, reason, emotionwe acknowledge they exist, but we still don't know what makes the human mind ''work''. We model AIs on human neural networkson electrical signals in the brainbecause we just know that the human brain works... but not how, or why. Cortana resides 'between' your mind and the suit, interpreting the electrochemical messages in your brain and transferring them to the suit via your neural implant. So, for lack of a better term, yes, Cortana will be 'inside' your mind."
"There is no need to worry, Master Chief. Cortana has the same mission parameters as you do. She will do anything necessary to make sure that your mission is accomplished. Even if that means sacrificing herselfor youto accomplish it."
"Now, please kneel down. It's time to insert her memory-processor matrix into the socket at the base of your neck."
"You must forgive Cortana, Master Chief. She is somewhat high-spirited. You may have to allow for behavioral quirks."
"I think we should begin the test straightaway. There's no better way for the two of you to get acquainted than in simulated combat."
"The ONI brass have arranged a test for you and the new MJOLNIR system. There are some that believe you two are not up to our proposed mission."
"I know you are, Master Chief. Others... require proof. You hardly need a reminder to be prepared for anything... but stay on your guard, just the same."
"I think some of the ONI brass would prefer to see you fail this test, Master Chief. And they may have arranged to make sure you doregardless of your performance."
"I know you won't." - When John tells her he won't fail.
"Master Chief, you are ordered to count to ten after I leave. After that, make your way to the obstacle course. At the far end is a bell. Your goal will be to ring it. You are authorized to neutralize any threats in order to achieve this objective."
"Be careful, Master Chief."
''Halo: First Strike''
"Come in. And hurry. From the sounds of things upstairs we haven't much time." - After the remaining Spartan arrive at CASTLE Base.
"It's good to see you, Fred."
She knew this annoyed them allhow she was always able to tell who they were despite the MJOLNIR armor. She had grown up with them, knew their every gesture and their individual walks. She could have never called them by their number designations.
"We have access to Aqua, Scarlet, and Lavender Levels," she told them. "Follow me to the medical wing." She proceeded down a concrete hallway with a high arched ceiling, recessed lights, and security cameras. "I know the Covenant entered the Epsilon Eridani system at approximately oh-five-hundred hours. ONI Section Three staff evacuated this facility at oh-five-thirty hours. I assume you're not here to let me know it's safe to come out?"
"I see. And Captain Keyes? John?" - After Fred tells her that the Covenant have overwhelmed all their defenses.
"I'm sure they accomplished their mission and escaped. John has never lost." - After Fred tells they've lost contact with Keyes and John.
"Granted. I don't stand on ceremony, particularly given the circumstances. Speak your mind." - When Fred asks permission to speak freely.
"Curious," Dr. Halsey said. "They've never taken an interest in any human or human technologies" - After Fred points out that the Covenant have unusually left the north pole of Reach alone.
" 'I shall do no harm.' " - The password to CASTLE's medical wing.
"Very good. Continue to track seismic activity overhead. Interface with the Spartans' biomonitors and patch the output to the display on bay three." - To Kalmiya.
"Give me a spotlight here, prepare a sterilization field, and lower the ambient lighting by forty percent. And a little Mahler, please. Symphony number two."
"Fred, you have a torn Achilles tendon and three cracked ribs. Both kidneys have moderate contusions. ...you're fine."
"William, you have a cracked tibia and some internal bleeding. Get some biofoam into that wound and avoid strenuous motions for the next day."
"You two are in the best shape. I want you to go to Level Aqua, Section Lambda, and retrieve a few things."
Dr. Halsey was only a civilian, but the Spartans had always accepted her authority. Perhaps because she had acted as an equal among the Fleet Admirals and Generals who were constantly trying to co-opt her work. Or maybe it was more than that. She wondered if the Spartans viewed her as some sort of mother figure. As much as this notion amused her, she doubted that they viewed anyone outside their team as family. Not even her.
"New weapons arrived for field-testing last week, as well as parts for the MJOLNIR Mark Five armor system. We'll swap them out for your damaged components. Kalmiya, show them the way, please, and give them access to the restricted areas."
"Vinh, you have a torn deltoid muscle, three broken fingers, and a herniated disk. Isaac, internal contusions and both shoulders have been dislocated and reinserted incorrectly, which is pinching off the blood vessels. I'll get you both fixed up in a moment, but first I want you to survey the route we took here and suggest further perimeter defenses."
"As I said, they evacuated. On the table, please. I'm going to perform some minor repairs." - After Kelly asks where the rest of CASTLE's personnel are.
"I volunteered to be the fail-safe option. In the lower levels of these caverns are enough high explosives to level the facilityin case we were ever overrun by the enemy. I'm here to make sure no one gets access to our technology." - Explaining why she remained behind.
"Kalmiya, prep the flash clone facility and retrieve Kelly's DNA sequence from the archives. I'd like to get a new liver and right lung started for her.
"You're fine for now. I just want to get replacements made for you, in case we're down here for a long time." - Halsey's lies to Kelly about her health to keep her calm. Dr. Halsey wondered if she didif Kelly understood that getting shot and burned and having your internal organs traumatized wasn't supposed to happen to you every day... unless you were a Spartan. She wished the war were over. She wished her Spartans had some measure of peace.
"Rest. Down. Doctor's orders."
"Let's have it, Kalmiya."
"Araqiel? That's Ackerson's watchdog, isn't it?" - After Kalmiya tells her that his routing code was detected in Kelly's medical file.
"Can you trace the request?"
"They can come and arrest me, then. Do as I have instructed, Kalmiya. Override your ethics center subroutine four-alpha. Nullification code: 'Whateverittakes.' " - After Kalmiya warns that breaking into the file is punishable as treason.
"This data cluster here. Spike that and backfill with a neutralizing pulse."
"Araqiel. Did your master leave you behind when he was reassigned? Don't you have anything better to do than steal data from my SPARTAN program?"
"I'm the only authority left here, Araqiel. For a 'smart AT you are extremely thick."
"These commands were invented, refined, and then discarded and forgotten long before even the first functional dumb AI went online. I learned them when I was fifteen, working on my second doctoral thesis." - When Araqiel doesn't recognize the line commands she's brought up.
"Antiquated? Obsolete? Really? Let's test your hypothesis, Araqiel. I supervised the creation of the template for every third-generation smart AI on this planet. I know everything there is to know about you, including your borderline disregard for human life. Maybe that's why you and Ackerson always got along so well."
"To answer your original question, this is the nexus of your being. Your code directory, the center through which all impulses in your mind flow. And this is the code that activates your personal fail-safe. It generates a pulse beam of high-frequency UV light in your Riemann cycling-thought matrix, clearing your high thought functions. It will effectively erase you."
"A waste of memory crystal." - After deleting Araqiel.
"Kalmiya, please retrieve the data file and show me the contents of Colonel Ackerson's directory."
"They are not implanted in every AI." - After Kalmiya asks if every AI has a fail-safe like Araqiel. Kalmiya would undoubtedly stress-analyze her vocal patterns, so she told her the truth. It was always a game of chess with smart AIsmove and countermove. It was a constant challenge to earn and keep their respect. That's why she preferred their company to humansthey were so deliciously complex.
"Filter by proper names. Let's not waste our time with Ackerson's petty blackmails. Also remove any files dated before the SPARTAN-IIs went online, and any not accessed more than a dozen times. I want to see what black ops topped his list." - After accessing Ackerson's files.
"What the hell was he up to?" - After seeing he has records on every SPARTAN-II.
"That is only a fragment. It had been erased, but I managed to reconstruct it from trace ionization in the memory crystal."
"I'll have to deal with this later. Let's see what else the good Colonel was up to." - After spotting the word Franklin Mendez|CPOMZ.
"I'll be God damned." - After examining the star chart Ackerson deciphered.
"What am I looking at, Kalmiya?"
"I wonder if they used the natural passages to help build the mines, and later this facility? No... if it was as simple as that, why would Ackerson be interested? And why then classify this data as level X-ray? How does this connect to the alien artifact on Cote d'Azur?"
"Yes, yes. I'll consider that later. Right now we should concentrate"
"They're coming. Get back to the lab ASAP. I might have a way out!"
"I'm fine. Really." - After the Spartans find her on the ground after a support beam collapsed.
"Down. We have to go lower."
"Down the elevator shaft in Section Sigma. We'll seal it behind us. We can't let them follow."
"Those satchels, over there. Medical supplies. Food and water. We'll need them, too."
"Just a few more things. We can't let them get into ONI's records. Begin Operation White Glove. Irradiate all computer memory crystal. Code file access Beta-Foxtrot-99874."
"Not all AIs have the fail-safe option, my dear Kalmiya... just the ones that matter." - After ordering Kalmiya to delete herself.
"The pleasure has been mine, Kalmiya. Fail-safe override access: 'Ragnarok.' Give us a three-minute countdown."
"I've activated the explosives cache under this base, which will level the complex. We have to get below, to the original titanium mine tunnels."
"There should be an air vent. There. "It leads to the old mine tunnels, and more, I hope."
"There's more to this place. This is only the beginning. We have to"
"The most important discovery of the millennium." - When asked what she expects to find in the tunnels
"I'm a scientist, not a soothsayer." - When further asked what that discovery is.
"Yes. Don't move, Fred. And don't touch anything. Excellent work. Kelly, Isaac, Vinh, Will meet me at Fred's location." - After Fred informs Halsey that he may have found the artifact site.
"Yes. Yes, this must be itwhat Ackerson was searching for. And most likely what they are looking for, too, I imagine."
"Hurry. I fear we've set something in motion, and our visitors upstairs might know it, too."
"Semisolid holography. No visible emitters. Interesting. We should investigate this later. If there's time."
"I don't like it. The Covenant aren't known for giving up on anything they start. We'd better continue." - After the sound of the Covenant's digging ceases.
"If only we had the time." - After seeing Forerunner tiles with writing on them.
"There must be another way." - When finding they can't walk any closer to the artifact due to the spatial distortion.
"Radiation?"
"We must take this with us. Study it. Or destroy it if necessary to keep the Covenant from getting it."
"Is it safe now?"
"No time for debate. Neutrino radiation will penetrate the rock between us and the surface." - After the crystal gives off a burst of radiation from being held.
"Admiral Whitcomb, a pleasure to see you again. My thanks for the rescue. It was far timelier than you could imagine."
Or is it you I have to thank for this daring operation, John?"
"The crystal. They're after the crystal."
"She's alive ... barely. She needs help." - After Kelly is struck by a Hunter's plasma blast.
"How very odd." - When seeing the crystal floats rather than lying on the ground.
"Gravity. This thing warped space when we first approached. It apparently has an effect on artificial gravity fields as well. I can't wait to get this into a lab."
"Yes and no. We jumped. But not to the Slipspace we know." - When Haverson asks if they've jumped into slipspace.
"Whatever it is, it warps space. When we first approached it in the great room, space curled around the crystal. And again in the grav beam, it dispersed that field potential."
"Normally, they can't. If they can fire, then logically, we're not in Slipspace. And wherever we are, the rules have changed." - When seeing Covenant ships firing in slipspace.
"No, Sergeant. We're all in the same mess." - When Johnson declares the Covenant's own plasma will be destroying them.
"I'd guess the alien artifact we've brought with us into Slipspace has expanded the region. Physicists believe Slipstream space is a highly compressed version of normal space, layered over and under itself, like a ball of yarn. Now, imagine that our ball of yarn is looped and knotted. These threads are not solid, however; plasma, light, and matter jump from one thread to another given the slightest quantum fluctuation."
"Because of the mass of this ship. Imagine a rumpled sheet that represents this space. If you set a heavy mass upon that sheet, it draws it taut, smooths it out."- When asked why the ship too isn't tangled up.
"Don't do that! A drop back to normal space has us facing a dozen or more cruisers. And if you destroy the crystal, the expanded Slipspace bubble we're in would instantly collapse. Every separate mass in the bubble will compact into a single mass. We wouldn't survive the transition." - When Lockear suggests destroying the crystal.
"I see you are ignoring sound medical advice by moving before you have fully healed."
"JohnI've never known you to tell an outright lie. I'm picking up telemetry from your armor, right now." She swiveled one of the monitors on her chair so he could see erratic biosigns pulsing on the screen. "What with the burns, contusions, fractures, and internal bleeding, you should be in shock. The only sleep you've gotten in a week was unconsciousness brought on by your wounds. And you say you're 'fine'?"
"Very well. I suppose you know your limitations better than anyone else." She turned the display back around. "I wanted to speak about your report on the alien constructHalo. I've pieced together a bit of the story based on Admiral Whitcomb's recounting of your adventures, Cortana's debriefing, and the mission logs of Locklear, Johnson... and the curious partial mission log of one PFC Wallace Jenkins."
"There are inconsistencies that I must resolve before we get back to Earth." She pushed her glasses higher onto the bridge of her nose. "One of them is Sergeant Johnson. Please step closer, John. I want you to see this with me."
"The Sergeant survived. The only human to have direct exposure to the Flood meta-organism and walk away."
"That's the simple part. See, here? He was diagnosed with Boren's Syndrome."
"I'm not surprised. It's caused by exposure to high-yield plasma. Like the burst released by a Covenant plasma grenade. We don't see many casespeople usually die from the direct effects of those weapons long before these secondary symptoms manifest.
"Apparently, the Sergeant captured a crate of plasma grenades from the Covenant during the Siege of Paris IV He used them allreceived a commendation for bravery ... and a twelve-hundred-rad cumulative dose of radiation as an unanticipated bonus."
"Boren's Syndrome is characterized by migraines, amnesia, and brain tumors... and without the proper treatment, death. It disrupts the electrical signals in a person's nervous system."
"Yes, but it requires thirty weeks of intensive chemotherapy. Which brings me to this. The Sergeant did not wait thirty weeks to get back and fight."
"I've deconvoluted the biosigns of the soldiers overtaken by the Flood. The parasite interfaces with a host by forcing a resonant frequency match to each host's neural system."
"Correct. Further blood tests show his system bearing traces of Flood DNAvery much dead and noninfectious, but some gene fragments are intact. I believe this is proof of a failed attempt to possess him. It also appears to have imparted him with some curious regenerative abilities, although I cannot yet fully confirm this side effect."
"Discovering how he survived is not what I wanted to discuss. It's what happens ''next'' to Sergeant Avery Johnson."
"I've prepared two separate reports on this for ONI Section Three. The first has all relevant data on my analysis and the possible technology to counter an initial Flood infestation. The second includes the source material: Private Jenkins's and Sergeant Johnson's mission logs and the Sergeant's medical files. I leave it up to you which to deliver to Lieutenant Haverson."
"For a long time I had thought that we had to sacrifice a few for the good of the entire human race. I have killed and maimed and caused a great deal of suffering to many peopleall in the name of self-preservation. But now I'm not sure that philosophy has worked out too well. I should have been trying to save every single human lifeno matter what it cost."
"If you give ONI the first report, they may be able to find a countermeasure for the Flood. Maybe. They would have a slightly better chance, however, if you give them the second report."
"Which will murder Sergeant Johnson. ONI will not be satisfied to take a sample of blood. They will dissect him to find out how he resisted the Flood. It will be a billion-to-one shot that they'll ever replicate his unique medical conditionsbut they'll do it anyway. They will kill him because the trade-off is worth it to them. Is it worth it to you, John?"
"One last lesson. I'm trying to teach you something it's taken me all my life to realize. I'm giving you the chance to make the decision that I thought I couldn't make."
"I'm sorry. Linda is almost prepped for surgery, and I have several things I must accomplish before then. You should go."
She hoped she saw John again before she did what she had to do, but she might not. Would the thought she had planted within him take hold? The gesture might be the only thing she could do to atone for what she'd done to him and the other Spartans.
"Lock the door. Boost counter-intrusion measures to level seven."
"Give me access to your core coordinates four-four-seven."
"I'm tired of sacrificing others for the 'greater good,' It never stops, Cortana ... and we're running out of people to sacrifice."
"I'm erasing your files on this matter. I'm sorry, Cortana, but with this, I cannot trust even you."
"Cortana, give me an update on your core memory."
"I'm afraid that's all we dare risk. The Halo and Covenant AI data could become corrupted if I do more. And there is no place safe enough to store that information."
"Are you done with the temporal analysis of these logs?"
"I'm disappointed, Cortana. That's a guess... and an incorrect one at that." - After Cortana speculates why the timestamps of the past events are off by three weeks.
"Do you have any data from your subsequent gravity-influenced translation to correlate?"
"As I suspected. Plot the temporal irregularities on a space-time surface. Then call up my file on the spatial distortion generated by the alien artifact."
"That thing not only bends space, but bends time as well."
"Don't think of it as physical distance. You and John were on an event path intersecting the crystal. You had to be there at that place and time to recover us and remove the crystaltime and space warped to make that event occur."
"And it fits the known data. I see now why the Covenant are so interested in this object. They mustn't be allowed to get their hands on it. Not them, and certainly not Section Three, either." - After Cortana retorts that Halsey's using circular logic.
"Give me an update on SPARTAN-058's condition, Cortana."
"Very good. Prep and move the flash-cloned liver and kidneys from storage and ready surgical bay three."
"No KIAs? Sam is listed as missing in action. Why would that be? He died in 2525."
"Spartans never die? If only that were true."
There was so much to do and so little time left for her, the Spartans, and the human race. She could do something, though. She'd save them one person at a time, starting with Linda, then Kelly, and then a handful of very important others. Of course, it meant betraying everyone who trusted herbut if that was the only way Dr. Halsey could save herself, and her soul, then she'd do it.
"It's perfectly safe as long as we're in normal space." - Referring to the Forerunner crystal.
"Lie down please, Kelly. Just a few more injections and we're done with your burn therapy."
"Keep doing your physical therapy, and the dermacortic steroids will remove most of the scarring and restore your full mobility within another week."
"No, Kelly. You're not going on the Chief's mission. You're going on mine."
"Locate Corporal Locklear and have him report immediately, please."
"Thank you, Cortana. That will be all. ...take good care of them all for me."
"Whatever you're doing this is more important. I need your help getting SPARTAN-087 to the launch bay."
"She's fine, but I have to transfer her to the asteroid base. They have a piece of equipment necessary to complete her treatment."
"She's fine. Just sedated. This procedure is... unpleasant, even for a Spartan."
"This is what the Covenant so desperately want. They tore up Reach to get it. They followed us into Slipspace. And Polaski died protecting this thing."
"Keep it safe. Guard it with your life, because if the Covenant ever get it, they'll be able to jump through Slipspace a hundred times faster than they can now. Do you understand?"
" 'My' Spartans could be ordered to hand it over to Lieutenant Haverson. And he'd risk getting it back to ONI Section Threeeven if he had to gamble that the Covenant might get it." - When asked why Halsey doesn't ask one of her Spartans to protect the crystal.
"Almost. But the moment you jump, this crystal emits radiation like a signal flare. The Covenant will find this ship ... and maybe this time they'll win the battle in Slipspace."
"So I know you'll do whatever it takes to prevent this object from falling into enemy hands."
"Not even Cortana could crack their crypto, indeed." - Referring back to Whitcomb's comment that Chiroptera ships are impossible to hack.
''Halo: Reach''
"I requested your assistance, Commander, and do not need a report on events that occur on my own doorstep. What I do require is a detailed account of your previous engagement-"
"Jorge-052|Jorge. It's been too long."
"What have you done with my armor?"
"Indeed. Visegrad Relay. Its data center was home to one of my xeno-archaeologists, Professor Laszlo Sorvad. Perhaps you could shed some light on his death."
"Irrelevant. The Sangheili|Elites. Tell me more about them."
"Sangheili Zealot|Zealots? You're certain?"
"Your primary objective? Commander, are Carter-A259|you a puppet or a Spartan?"
"There are those at ONI, myself included, who believe the Covenant dispatch Elite advance teams to hunt down artifacts of value to their religion. Survivor accounts suggest such teams are small, nimble, and almost always Zealot-class. No doubt they came to the station for the abundance of ONI excavation data stored there. And you let them get away."
"Professor Sorvad's final entry in his field notes made reference to a "latchkey discovery". Latchkey... not a word he would use lightly. So let's hope that the data module your Lieutenant Commander stole contains it."
"Before you ask, I was alerted the moment you attempted to access its contents. As I am with any unauthorized tap. That data is classified Tier One... I could send you to the brig for interfering with my work."
"Are you threatening me, Commander?"
"That... will be all, Jorge."
"Apologies for the unusual security measures, Commander, but the stakes demand it."
"Yes, well, as they say...news of my death has been greatly exaggerated. I only wish the same could be said of the rest of Noble Team."
"It may please you to learn the data module Noble Two procured from the Visegrad station contained precisely what my scientist promised: a latchkey discovery. It has unlocked, at last, the secrets of this excavation."
"Your orders were a pretext to bring you to me, and have been overridden. You are here, Team Noble, to assure the delivery of this vital data to a secure location."
"Others will handle the demolition."
"Colonel Holland will be briefed. You belong to ONI now."
"Before you is an alien artifact neither Human nor Covenant in origin. Advanced beyond our comprehension...until now. Thanks to Noble Two, the decryption of its data is nearly complete."
"The decrypting process is still underway..."
"Bury any of it, and you bury mankind's best chance of survival! Commander, you've been wondering what your Spartans died for? They died for this. Please. Buy me all the time you can."
"Spartans, you cannot allow the Covenant to break through the door to my lab."
"I need more time. Whatever you need to do, do it."
"Package is almost ready. Just a little more."
"Well done, Spartans! I'm opening the laboratory door."
"Knowledge. A birthright from an ancient civilization. This AI is its custodian, and she has chosen you as her couriers."
"By this AI, yes. Her measure of you carries as much weight as my own..."
"...Perhaps more. You are to take her to the UNSC ship-breaking yards in Aszod. There, you will find a Halcyon-class cruiser waiting to get her off-planet."
"Do you? Mankind is outmatched. When Reach falls - and it will fall - our annihilation is all but certain. Unless...we can glean from this artifact a defense against the Covenant. A game-changer. On the level of the conical bullet in the nineteenth century, or faster-than-light travel in the twenty-third."
"An apt question, if there were somewhere else to place our hope. There is not."
"Take it, Lieutenant... She has made her choice."
"Do you have it?"
"Say the words, please."
"I require no escort, Commander-"
"It didn't take long for Reach to fall. Our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren't nearly fast enough. For you had already passed the torch. And because of you, we found Halo, unlocked its secrets, shattered our enemy's resolve. Our victory - your victory - was so close... I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor - all burned and turned to glass. Everything...except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild."
"We knew this day would come. They have found our fortress among the stars. The Covenant are on Reach. They will burn this planet, kill millions, and when Reach falls - and fall it will - there will be nothing left to stand between them and Earth. Yet, even in our darkest hour, hope remains. Now, who will protect it? Show me Noble Team."
"Carter, Noble One. Born leader. He turned Noble into more than just a collection of SPARTANs. They will need him now more than ever."
"Kat, Noble Two. She ''is'' brilliant. There are no technical hurdles she can't overcome. But her curiosity borders on insubordination."
"Jun, Noble Three. As a sniper, his skills are unmatched. On this mission, distance may be a luxury he can't afford."
"Emile, Noble Four. Is he bold enough? Without question. But we need courage and patience in equal measure. We may require a more ''delicate'' approach."
"Jorge, Noble Five. It's good to see him home again. But the Fall of Reach will weigh heavily upon him, and this mission will test every last ounce of his strength."
"Noble Six. The team's most recent addition. My, my. So much Office of Naval Intelligence|black ink. Six has made entire militia groups disappear. Curious. Hyper-lethal. There's only one other SPARTAN with that rating."
"Yes, Noble Team will do. Yet only one of them can carry our last hope. Only one will hold our fate in their hands."
"So, you've made your choice? Yes, well... great minds ''do'' think alike."
''Halo 4''
Prologue
"You already know everything." - When Halsey's interrogator orders her to tell him about the SPARTAN-II children.
"Children's minds are more easily accepting of indoctrination, their bodies more adaptable to augmentation. The result was the ultimate soldier. And because of our success, when the Covenant invaded, we were ready."
"When one human world after another fell, when my Spartans were all that stood between humanity and extinction, nobody was ''concerned'' over why they were originally built." - When the interrogator accuses her of glossing over Insurrection|the Spartans' original reason for creation.
"My work ''saved'' the human race."
"What are you after? The others before you were Naval Intelligence but ''you'' - you're something else."
"The records show efficient behavior operating in hazardous situations. I supplied the tools to ''maintain'' that efficiency." - When the interrogator cites records of Spartans being sociopathic.
"What does John have to do with this? ...you want to replace him." - When the interrogator accuses John of being a "broken" human.
"His file reads 'missing in action'." - When told Master Chief is dead.
"Your mistake is seeing Spartans as military hardware. My Spartans are humanity's next step, our destiny as a species. Do not underestimate them. But most of all, do not underestimate... ''him''."
Requiem (level)|Requiem
(''Terminal'') "The interesting factor here isn't that H-1 disabled the viral termination code I implanted in her matrix. These metrics imply its success wasn't just unlikely, but that even the accepted seven-year life cycle estimates may not apply. Thus far, I've determined that the unique circumstances of her creation have triggered what I can only refer to as a recessive variant in the AI seed. As her architect, I'm currently at a loss as to the origin of this rogue element. Very...curious."
Composer (level)|Composer
(''Terminal'') "Catherine Halsey, personal observations - December 15, 2554. While the survey crews examining Installation 03|Gamma Halo may be what pass for experts at ONI now, they are woefully out of their league for a task of this scale. There has been one startling discovery, however. One of the teams stumbled upon Composer|a device remarkably similar to the AI Matrix Compiler currently in use by the UNSC. Seeing as how I designed that particular compiler, this finding, needless to say, has piqued my curiosity."
''Catherine''
"I'm not walking around the ship I built with my hands cuffed." - When brought aboard the under arrest.
"Show me Requiem slipspace artifacts|the artifact."
"I'm ''not'' Henry Glassman, Captain." - When Lasky expresses caution about her touching it.
"Yes, and I see you've decided I rate three of the new model." - Referring to Lasky having her surrounded by three SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IVs.
"First, we taught them how to be silent. Then we taught them how to be Spartans." - When DeMarco asks Madsen about what Halsey did to the kidnapped children.
"The artifact, Forerunner, is talking to your engines, also Forerunner. But it is also communicating with these other systems as well."
"Indeed, but the artifact is reaching out to them. And it and your engines are transmitting..."
"You came here to study the planet. Instead, ''something'' on the planet is studying you."
"Yes. Have Fireteam Crimson|they reached the location of interest?" - When asked to study the structure at Two Giants.
"Their armor sees enough. I'm watching the environment scans."
"There. That location. I need a closer look." - Referring to the south tower.
"It's either the source of the signal we're tracking, or it's the destination. I suggest activating it and finding out."
"Oh my! I'll need some of Roland's cycles for translating, but it looks like navigation data. Communications protocols. This is going to take some time to sort through." - After the tower fires a signal into the sky.
''Didact's Hand''
"You knock at least. Most people don't." - When Gabriel Thorne greets her at her cell.
"I'm afraid it's all still ''quite'' classified." - When Thorne asks about the SPARTAN-II Program.
"I did what was required."
"Why do you think?" - When Thorne asks why she used children.
"There were many reasons behind the choices we had to make. Psychological and physiological."
"Perhaps some of you are closer than others." - When Thorne asks if she thinks the S-IVs are incapable being proper Spartans.
"So, ''Mister'' Thorne, what interest is my research to you, specifically?"
"Does it help youhelp your griefbeing here on Requiem, shooting at... what do they call them? Prometheans?" - After hearing Thorne's testimony about why he signed up to become a Spartan.
"Prometheus stole fire from the gods, and gave it to humanity. I'm simply curious what gifts, if any, the Promethean lifeforms have to offer."
"Taking a reading. Oh my..." - When examining the Didact's Gift.
"A moment please. Intriguing."
"Yes. It's very similar to an A.I. Matrix. But we expected that..." - When Roland remarks that its structure looks familiar.
"Roland, freeze all monitors!" - When the Didact's Gift begins displaying images on the screens.
"Not pictures...memories. An alien A.I. full of human memories."
"You knew this, didn't you, Captain Lasky?"
"That is not ancient. That is New Phoenix Incident|the attack on Earth from six months ago." - When Lasky says he's aware that Promethean Knights were made from ancient humans.
"I suspect we misunderstood the artifact's true purpose." - After seeing an image of the translocation artifact in New Phoenix.
"Enough has been kept from me. I've decided to start questioning all my prior assumptions."
"I suspect that's a lie, Captain." - When Lasky denies lying to her about the Prometheans.
''Scattered''
"Life is too short, I will never learn all that exist in our tiny galaxy let alone the rest of the universe. And I so desperately want to know...everything. But the UNSC acts like children at play in a sandbox. Mistaking its edges for the limits of the world."
"Why? I shared no information. The intelligence already knew my name, my task, and offered data that might advance our research by years. This is a research mission after all...even if you treat it like a live fire war game." - When Palmer taunts that the UNSC might jail her for good now.
''Invasion (Spartan Ops)|Invasion''
"Yes, his hospitality speaks wonders." - When Roland tells her Captain Lasky put a lot of faith in her.
"What is hidden can be useful." - When Roland asks what keeping secrets ever gained her.
"Such as the phrase undid-iridium." - Activating the hidden backdoor in Roland's programming.
"Roland, tell the guards outside that Captain Lasky has requested my presence in his ready room and block all further communications."
"Roland, give me full access to this terminal."
"The Didact's Hand. If people would just share things with me I could solve all the world's problems. Send everything the UNSC has on the Librarian to my data pad." - When viewing ''Infinitys classified information.
"This is all my own research! I need new information. Anything that has been ''kept from me''."
"John?! I... Roland, prep a Pelican for immediate launch. And patch this terminal into the comm systems infiltrated by the artifact." - When Roland reveals that John-117 is alive.
"We have played your game quite long enough and we are both out of time. In our previous conversation you mentioned 'assistance'." - When contacting Jul 'Mdama.
"Who but the Didact's Hand could offer me a Promethean soul?" - When 'Mdama asks how she knew he was messaging her.
"What we both want, Jul: Librarian. A powerful name for me as well as you. Librarian was very fond of humans. Did you know that?"
"John's alive! He was here, on this ship. Nobody told me he was alive!" - To Lasky, when he arrests her.
''Expendable''
"Captain, the Prometheans-" - During the Prometheans' attack on ''Infinity''.
"There's still a great many things that we don't know about slipspace." - When Palmer expresses denial that slipspace could be anchoring their ship.
"I'm sorry, Captain!" - When a Promethean Knight kidnaps her.
"I think it is power you seek." - When meeting Jul 'Mdama in person.
"Knowledge is power."
"...''Glassman'' did this?" - When examining the partially activated shrine.
"I wouldn't be so sure. The protective shield is emanating from the structure itself. And if I'm right-" - When Jul declares Glassman created its shield to deceive him.
"-access requires a more human touch." - After the shrine activates.
''Key''
"You...You are Librarian. Wife of Didact. There is Jul 'Mdama|a Covenant cultist leader outside. He thinks you have something valuable." - When meeting the Librarian inside the shrine.
"Why give this to me?" - When the Librarian gives her the Janus Key.
"Thorne, take the key!" - When Gabriel Thorne arrives to rescue her.
''Exodus (Spartan Ops)|Exodus''
"That was before I knew my compatriots were a hit squad, not a rescue team." - When 'Mdama rebukes her for throwing half of the key to the Spartans.
"Not that I fared much better in your care." - Referring to her amputated arm.
"The UNSC just tried to execute me. So you'll need to offer something other than idle threats if you want me to help you."
"That's easy, Jul. I want revenge." - When Jul asks Halsey what she wants him to give her.
''Halo: Escalation''
"The key to our future lies in our past. Luckily, those who came before us--the ones we call Forerunners--have provided us a passport into this previous impenetrable world. The remnants of their civilization are not mere monuments to the greatest intelligence to ever inhabit the universe. They are gifts. Objects of astounding complexity and elegant simplicity. Unlocking the potential of these artifacts could change our conception of life itself."
"And though I may indulge in a certain awe when considering the limitless possibilities of tomorrow's world, I harbor no illusions as to our current reality. I've seen far too much of what is has to offer. The aggregation of power for its own sake. Inane superstition coupled with a self-fulfilling prophecy of annihilation. Our confrontation with this animal brutality left us with very few options."
"It's become quite... fashionable to condemn the unsavory origins of my now-notorious SPARTAN-II project. But without that program - and the contribution of John-117|one Spartan in particular - humanity would've been completely wiped from existence. The hypocrites who run the UNSC ''know'' this. Their reliance on SPARTAN-III program|poor copies SPARTAN-IV program|of my work is ''proof'' of its value."
"As proud as I am of that contribution, I now know it was only a step toward something much ''larger''. An opportunity I never even imagined... Until I came face to face with one of the ancients. A Forerunner known as Librarian. She knew my name and spoke of my destiny... an impending journey to a place called the Absolute Record. Waiting for me there--a map, unlike any other, providing the real-time location of ''every'' piece of Forerunner technology hidden throughout the universe. Then she entrusted me with the Janus Key - the artifact that unlocks the Record. The artifact that grants access to all others."
"At the moment, I'm experiencing a slight ''delay'' in my journey to the Record. For that, I have only myself to blame. Yes, the circumstances were extreme, but my actions were rash. I made the error of mistaking an enemy for an ally. I no longer think in such simplistic terms. Now there is only the ''objective'': Reuniting the Key. Fulfilling the Librarian's instructions."
"I was once asked what I wanted out of life, and I replied: 'To know everything'. Looking back, it's always seemed a rather dramatic emotional response. But as I stand here now, after everything I've suffered... I think it's a perfect answer."
"This artifact you extracted from Requiem has proven itself to be of great value, Jul. It's enabled me to communicate directly with the ''Infinitys Forerunner components and scramble the ship's slipspace coordinates."
"We had to make a bold move against the UNSC. It was the only way to draw ''Infinity'' close enough for me to establish the initial link between the artifact and those engines. A sacrifice more than justified by our current position."
"Now we don't have to chance a direct attack on ''Infinity''. We'll simply wait for them to take their half of the Key ''off'' the ship, and deliver it directly to ''us''." - Halsey explains her plan to strand the ''Infinity'' to Jul 'Mdama.
"Glassman's taking the bait. The decoy artifact we cobbled together certainly served its purpose."
"What have you done?! I told you to wait until the artifact was off the ship!"
Halsey: "Where are you taking me? Did Serin Osman|Queen Osman change her mind again, realize she needs slave labor for another project?"
Palmer: "First, I work for the UNSC, ''not'' Osman. Second, keep your mouth shut. I'm tempted enough as it is to toss you down a gorge."
Halsey: "You already took my ''arm''. That wasn't good enough for you?"
Palmer: "After your ''defection'', public execution might not even cut it."
Halsey: "It was hardly a defection. I simply embraced the party that wasn't actively trying to ''murder'' me. Under the circumstances, I'd expect you to do the same."
Palmer: "It's one rationalization after another with you. You're a traitor and a war criminal. That's all there is to it."
Halsey: "It's awfully ''convenient'' for you to think of me that way - isn't it, Palmer? You can't be that naive. You really think I could have pulled off everything I've been accused of without the full support of ONI? Of the entire UNSC? Consider the resources. The budgets. You think those decisions were made ''unilaterally''? Whether it was a signed form or a wink they approved it all."
Palmer: "This armor this ''job'' has been ''soiled'' because of ''you''!"
Halsey: "''Soiled''? I'm the only reason that armor even ''exists''! You can't have it both ways, Commander. Unless, of course, you find the perfect ''scapegoat''. Then spend years rewriting history. Which brings us full circle, back to your ''master'', Osman."
Palmer: "I told you, she's ''not'' my Hey!"
An argument between Palmer and Halsey before the latter escapes on Aktis IV
''Halo 5: Guardians''
"Spartan Jameson Locke|Locke. I have spent enough years with ONI to know the truth. Once this is over, after all I have done... they'll order you... to kill us both."
"Hmm, there are several. Would you like to discuss the finer points of casual reconciliation?"
"So you have learned something from me."
"And I can. However, I did not claim to be able to access it instantaneously."
"Mmmm, seems your fingers are in open rebellion, Hand."
"This location does not serve my needs. When she makes another transmission, I must triangulate"
"It took you long enough."
Mission Intel
"The signal is consistent with previous, I hesitate to call them, messages; that implies communication. This is more like, echolocation. A signal bouncing off Forerunner objects. Mapping! Searching for something. But what? What could she think to find?"
"We have penetrated the structure that was a focal point for the last signal. I have yet to gain access to anything informative. Jul's people are more concerned with ceremony than allowing me to do my work."
"Attained scans of new Forerunner glyphs. One is completely new. Running the other through the system revealed it contains a similar design to an ancient Sangheili symbol. This symbol referred to a demon who sleeps in the ground and must not wake. How this relates to the signal I am unsure."
"All of the readings I would expect from a Forerunner structure of this scale are erratic at best. I am beginning to wonder if the signal is in fact bouncing off these locations as I theorized or if she is trying to access them directly, and failing."
"Captain Lasky, I sent you my position three weeks ago! I told you this was happening!"
"What has she done? How far has it already gone?"
"I tried to warn you this was happening! Cortana is no longer an asset, Captain. She is a danger. She has accessed the Forerunner Domain, a galaxy-spanning network that allows her to control whatever devices caused this damage."
"What? No. John must not speak to her."
"You let him go?"
"John is not equipped emotionally to deal with her as a threat-"
"But not this one. Not yet. Sunaion. A pre-Covenant religious site on Sanghelios."
"I'll have a briefing for you by the time we reach Sanghelios."
"It's Cortana. She touched every networked device in the camp. She knows the Guardian is here."
"Locke, I have a briefing prepared. Given Cortana's show of power, I am reluctant to discuss it over open channels."
"Over here, Osiris. I have located a means to activate the Guardian."
"This is a Constructor, a Forerunner tool I can use to interface with the Guardian. Constructors were ubiquitous in Forerunner facilities. These hills are riddled with support stations for the Sanghelios Guardian. Palmer has the coordinates to one such station. Finding a Constructor there should be simple."
Mission Intel
"Catherine Halsey, status update. I'm playing along with your protocol here, Thel. If the Four's bring me an active Constructor, I can interface with the Guardian. It will receive Cortana's signal the moment it activates and initiates slipspace, but I think I can make sure it leaves the sea before it jumps. I'll get it in the skies over Sunaion, like you asked. In return, send me some assistants with brains in their heads. And loosen this damn security! I'm not going anywhere."
"Spartans, the Constructor seems to working as planned, but it could take some time. Palmer was looking for you."
"Osiris? Come look at this! I'm using this structure to upload the recording from Meridian into the Constructor. Make sure you're ready to go when I give the signal."
"Get comfortable. It could be hours before- I take it back! It's headed for Sunaion! It's moving toward the Guardian!"
"You know what I did to create the Spartans. All in the name of the greater good."
"Cortana is built from a matrix of my own mind. The Domain gives her incredible power."
"Spartan Locke! Stop her. But please. Bring John home to me."
Mission Intel
"You talk a great deal about how little you need me, Thel. That you could take Sunaion with or without the Guardian, that uniting this whole planet is within your grasp. Go ahead, be as stubborn as you like. But do not ignore the past, and do not forget who I represent. You talk constantly of respect. It's time you showed some. Consider this my final mandatory status update."
"It took you long enough."
Quotes about Halsey
"Doctor Halsey and her Spartans deserve the utmost respect, Colonel. And if you wish to keep your newly acquired position on the UNSC Security Council|Security Council, you will show them that respect, or I will personally kick you from here to Melbourne. Those 'freaks' have more confirmed kills than any three divisions of ODSTs and have garnered every major citation the UNSC awards. Those 'freaks' have personally saved my life twice, as well as the lives of most of the senior staff here at HighCom. Keep your bigotry in check, Colonel. Do you understand?" - Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood to Colonel James Ackerson after the latter makes particularly spiteful comments about the SPARTAN-IIs.
"And for God's sake, Catherine Halsey must never know. Her bleeding-heart sympathies for the Spartans have won her too many admirers at CENTCOM. If that woman wasn't so vital to the war we would have had her retired decades ago." - Vice Admiral Margaret Parangosky concerning the secrecy of the SPARTAN-III program.
"Why mention Halsey here? She hated me and I hated her." - Ellen Anders Category:Quotes
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Doctor Catherine Halsey is the creator of the Spartan supersoldiers.
Production notes Catherine Halsey in ''Halo: The Television Series'' is portrayed by actress Wikipedia:Natascha McElhone|Natascha McElhone. McElhone was originally cast to play both Halsey and Cortana/Silver|Cortana, much like Jen Taylor did for ''Halo 4'', ''Halo 5: Guardians'', and ''Halo Infinite''. However, due to scheduling difficulties caused by the wikipedia:COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 pandemic, McElhone was unable to complete her work as Cortana, so Jen Taylor was brought onboard the project to reprise her role from the games.
Gallery
File:HTV-Halsey promo.png|Promotional image of Halsey.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Television Series''
*''Contact''
*''Unbound''
*''Emergence''
*''Homecoming (TV Series)|Homecoming''
*''Reckoning''
*''Solace (TV Series)|Solace''
*''Allegiance''
*''Transcendence''
Sources
Category:Human characters
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Catherine is an achievement in ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. This achievement is obtained when a player completes all chapters in ''Spartan Ops'' Episode 3.
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Lieutenant Commander Catherine-B320, otherwise known by members of her team as Kat, was a SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III commando of the UNSC Navy|UNSC Naval UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command, attached to Special Warfare Command|Special Warfare Special Warfare Group Three|Group Three of the UNSC Army. She fought alongside other members of NOBLE Team under the designation Noble Two during the Fall of Reach in 2552.
Biography
Kat was born in Monastir, New Harmony in 2530. Her father was killed in action on Harvest and her mother died of cancer in 2536, so she was raised by her grandmother, a retired UNSC Army|Army General; this fact made her conscription into the SPARTAN-III program politically inconvenient However, when Kat's grandmother was killed during the Battle of New Harmony|fall of New Harmony, ONI seized the chance to induct Kat as part of SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company. Along with the rest of the company, she was initiated and began training circa 2539. Because of her skill and potential, she was marked for a special assignment shortly after her Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentations, and was eventually taken out of the general population of Beta Company by Kurt Ambrose and Franklin Mendez after Operation: CARTWHEEL, not long before the disastrous Operation: TORPEDO commenced. When NOBLE Team was formed sometime later, Kat, Carter-A259, and several other Spartans were assigned to the unit. On NOBLE, Kat soon found her calling in the skillsets of UNSC battle network|battlenet management, tactical planning, and intelligence synthesis. She retained a position as NOBLE's second-in-command all the way through until the end of the war.
At some point during her career, Kat developed a Armor Abilities#Sprint|bypass system for the MJOLNIR armor's safety limiters on their actuators and "muscles", allowing a short burst of superior performance at the expense of the suit's coolant systems, leading to overheating.
Concord
In late 2551, NOBLE Team were deployed to the colony world of Concord to assist in the planet's defence against the Covenant threat, working alongside the UNSC Army Rangers and Concordian militia forces across the planet. By 1405 Military Standard Time|MST on December 12, the D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship ferrying the team had been downed in the Hinterlands region of Concord following a snowstorm, resulting in NOBLE making their way to the remote township of Skathi on foot. While in Skathi, Kat was tasked with running a supply inventory for the town to figure out what assets were on hand to prepare a defence until evacuation could reach the town. Upon receiving word that a large Covenant warhost was assembling to attack Skathi with a , Kat was quick to put together a plan even despite the team's limited munitions pool and lack of reinforcements - requiring only a single M862 Arctic Warthog and two additional members of NOBLE - Rosenda-A344 and Thom-A293.
Kat's plan of attack, termed Operation: OFFSET EYE, was to involve Kat driving the Warthog with Rosenda and Thom close enough to the inbound enemy force for Thom to hijack an enemy Ghost and use it to distract the Draugr's focus cannon fire, while Kat drove the Warthog off a rocky outcropping into the troop carrier's cargo bay. Once inside the Draugr, Kat and Rosenda proceeded to make short work of the vehicle's crew and security detail before reaching the bridge and extending the boarding ramp to allow Thom to board. With all three Spartans inside, they formulated their next plan; use the captured Draugr to finish off the remains of the Covenant armoured column and then the remaining infantry. By 2100 MST, the three Spartans - and their captured Draugr - had successfully returned to Skathi unharmed in time for a new set of orders from Colonel Urban Holland. With intelligence reports of Covenant forces massing in the Volanus system, NOBLE was retasked to the colony of Fumirole in the hopes of intercepting a potentially inbound enemy attack there. While Rosenda was reassigned away from NOBLE, Kat was one of the team members kept on the team for the upcoming engagement at Fumirole.
Fumirole The Battle of Fumirole took place four months after Concord, in 2552#April|April 2552. On April 22, Kat led an operation she had devised to destroy ''Sanctity of Purification'', a which had took position above the capital city on Fumirole. During the operation, Kat took the responsibility of carrying a Fury tactical nuclear weapon|FURY-class Medium Fusion Destructive Device across the battlefield to ''Sanctity of Purification''s landing site, wherein it would be detonated. However, during the attack, Kat was attacked by a , with the resulting Class-2 Guided Munition Launch System|fuel rod cannon bombardment incapacitating Kat and costing her her right arm. As a result, Thom-A293 instead took charge of the FURY nuke and was able to successfully deliver it into the hangar bay of the battlecruiser - though the time lost by the Banshee attack resulted in the detonation costing Thom's life.
The operation was successful, but at the cost of Thom-A293. The operation also cost Kat her right arm, which was replaced by a artificial limb|robotic prosthetic. Kat clearly has no problem working with the arm, which she moves just as naturally as her real one, even continuing to hold her M6G Personal Defense Weapon System|M6G pistol in her dominant right hand. Both Kat and Carter took responsibility over the death of Thom, unable to admit that the death of the SPARTAN was his own fault. Thom was replaced on Noble Team by SPARTAN-B312 a few months later, just prior to the Fall of Reach.
File:Kat n' Halsey.jpg|thumb|220px|Kat returns the data module she stole from Visegrad to Dr. Halsey during Noble Team's debriefing at SWORD Base. The SPARTANs of Noble Team participate in Battle of Visegrad|an operation to investigate a communications blackout at the Visegrad Relay, a mission that led to the first confrontation with Covenant forces on the planet. During the operation, Kat recovered a data module containing Professor Laszlo Sorvad's "latchkey discovery" from the Relay's console and uncovered an unfortunate discovery; the Covenant had successfully deployed their forces on Reach. The discovery led the team to SWORD Base, currently under siege by Covenant forces and their Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette|corvette. Kat and Noble Six Battle of Sword Base|engaged the Covenant forces on foot and repelled them off the site and the Airview Base|airbase. The team was debriefed by Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey following the attack, and Kat returned the module containing Sorvad's data.
Kat later commanded Mission to Szurdok Ridge|a reconnisance mission, directing her teammates around Szurdok Ridge. Intelligence gathered from Noble Six and Jun-A266's reconnaissance mission led to Battle at Szurdok Ridge|a large-scale UNSC assault on a Covenant-occupied site. Kat and Noble Six engaged Covenant forces on the groundside while other members of Noble Team provided aerial support. Noble Six assisted Kat in reconnaissance of the Covenant-occupied site, destroying Cheru-pattern Tyrant|multiple aerial defenses and unveiling a large Covenant installation codenamed Spire One.
File:Noble 2.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Kat telling Carter her plan for Operation: UPPER CUT. The destruction of the by a Covenant , ''Long Night of Solace'', after the battle prompted Carter and Kat to reassess the situation. Recognizing the presence of the supercarrier as a large threat, Kat suggested to Noble Team to reconfigure a Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|slipspace engine into a makeshift slipspace bomb, which would destroy the supercarrier immediately. Carter, along with Kat, Jorge-052 and SPARTAN-B312, helped UNSC ground forces repel Covenant invaders from a UNSC base, which housed the Sabre Program Launch/Research Range. Noble Team was separated from this point, with Jorge and Noble Six participating in Operation: UPPER CUT while the rest focused on groundside operations.
At some point during the Fall of Reach, Kat and the remaining members of Noble Team assisted the UNSC in repelling the Covenant from civilian population centers. They reunited with Noble Six during the Siege of New Alexandria|Siege of New Alexandria (location)|New Alexandria and helped in the neutralization of Covenant jammers and the evacuation of ONI personnel. Soon, Noble Team was hailed by its superior, Colonel Urban Holland, and was ordered to destroy Sword Base. The team was forced to enter a radiation bunker to shield them from the Covenant's glassing of New Alexandria. As Noble Team exited the elevator and ran towards the bunker, a Sangheili Field Marshal of the Devoted Sentries in a Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom overhead shot Kat through the head with a Type-31 Rifle|needle rifle, killing her instantly. When the surviving members of Noble Team were extracted on 2552#August|August 26, Carter carried her body out of the bunker.
Kat, alongside Jorge-052, was later listed as missing in action as per ONI Directive 930.
Personality and traits File:HR KatB320 Firefight Icon.png|thumb|250px|Kat's Firefight profile image.
Kat generally exhibited a sardonic attitude and had a dry sense of humor. She was described as brilliant, athletic, an inspired tactician and exemplary combatant. She was also noted for her skills as a cryptanalyst and a hacker; allegedly, there had not been a system yet that she has been unable to crack. According to Colonel Urban Holland, she had a habit of occasionally investigating classified intel more than her superiors would like her to. Her ability to acquire and digest information has been described as "supernatural"; more than once, she was able to read a situation, working with information many would find overly limited.
Kat shared a close bond with Noble Team's leader, Carter-A259 due to the two being the only survivors of the original roster of Noble Team. She acted as Carter's second-in-command and was fiercely loyal to him and the team. Carter greatly valued her tactical input and planning ability and was particularly upset about her death. Much like Carter, Kat blamed herself for Thom-A293's death while it was apparent that neither was responsible; according to Colonel Urban Holland, Thom died because he pursued a group of enemies by himself rather than waiting for backup.
Equipment Kat wore the B-class Mjolnir|Mark V[B] armor with an AIR ASSAULT-class Mjolnir|Air Assault helmet upgraded with an AN/PZY-990T STARLIGHT module. She wore SAP attachments|SAP/FJ/PARA attachments|FJ shoulders on either arm and used a TAC attachments#M45 Hardcase|M45 Hardcase utility on her left thigh.
Following the loss of her right arm in the Battle of Fumirole, Kat instead made use of an Artificial limb|robotic prosthetic replacement arm. Accordingly, she used an "up-sized" variant of the M6G magnum specially designed for use by Spartans, with further custom modifications made tailored for use with her prosthetic arm.
Non-canon and dubious canon appearances
At some time following the Battle of Fumirole, Kat, alongside Emile-A239, were retasked away from NOBLE Team to the asteroid TC-858 to investigate a xenoarchaeological find not of Forerunner origin. This find was believed to be a portal to another location entirely, and reconnaissance efforts had encountered alien life forms not of Covenant origin. Due to the nature of the find, the two were encouraged to maintain discretion in their mission.
In-game information
Kat can be Armor customization (Halo: Reach)|unlocked as a custom voice for use in the Firefight (Halo: Reach)|Firefight component of ''Halo: Reach'' multiplayer. In ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', she can be unlocked as part of the Series 1: Noble progression track. Kat's helmet was additionally made available as an Avatar (Xbox Live)|avatar award on the Xbox 360, unlocked by obtaining an Avenger medal in matchmaking.
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Kat-B320 is one of two ''Halo''-themed crossover characters available to play as in the ''Gears 5'' Horde mode. She takes on the role of an engineer and is able to build and repair fortifications, alongside deploying a holographic decoy to confuse and distract enemies.
File:G5-Kat.png|Kat-B320 in ''Gears 5''.
A Kat-themed armour kit is available for Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|unlock as part of Season 01: Heroes of Reach, in ''Halo Infinite'' multiplayer.
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|Legendary
|Season 01: Heroes of Reach Battle Pass level 60
|Noble Intercessor
|Air Assault - TAC/RS/STARLIGHT
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Production notes File:Kat in RealLife.jpg|thumb|x250px|Kat as depicted by Jordan Konkel at PAX. As shown in an early production note at PAX 2010, Kat was originally intended to have been born in 2529 and to have been a member of SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company. In this version of the story, she and Carter were the last remaining members of a SPARTAN-III team known as "Blue Team", (not to be confused with the Blue Team|SPARTAN-II unit). This is apparent in the similar coloration of their armor in early concept art. During the event, model and ''Halo'' fan Jordan Konkel was hired by 343 Industries to attend suited in a cosplay recreation of Kat's armour.
According to the ''Halo: Reach Legendary Edition'' developer commentary, due to a glitch early in the game's development, Kat laughed when the player killed moa, as she was programmed to occasionally laugh when the player killed Covenant forces. Later during the commentary, Lee Wilson jokes that Carter was upset by Kat's death because ''"She was cute."'' Martin O'Donnell responds, ''"We know there was some relationship between Carter and Kat at some point."''
In the final release of ''Halo: Reach'', Kat was voiced by Alona Tal.
Gallery
File:HR_KatFace_Concept.png|Concept of Kat's face for ''Halo: Reach''. File:HR_Kat-B320_Concept.png|Concept art of Kat-B320. File:Official - Kat.jpg|A more finalised concept poster of Kat's face. File:HR_NobleAndCivilians_Concept.jpg|Concept art showing Kat-B320 commanding Army soldiers in a civilian area. File:Reach E310 Kat.png|Kat's original appearance. File:Kat320.jpg|Kat from Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise|A Spartan Will Rise ViDoc.
File:KAT deliver.png|Kat's Mjolnir armor from the Making of ''Deliver Hope''. File:Deliver Hope-Kat down.png File:DeliverHope - KatFallen.png|Kat's eyes reflected in her cracked visor in the ''Deliver Hope'' trailer. File:Kat Taking Aim.png|Kat taking aim. File:Kat-B320.png|Kat-B320 in full armor. File:Kat.PNG|Kat with her helmet off. File:Reach E310 Campaign03.jpg|Catherine-B320 in combat. File:Reach 24785753 Full.jpg|Kat and Carter are debriefed by Catherine Halsey. File:KatCarterHalsey.jpg|Halsey demands that Kat return the data module she stole from Visegrad. File:HaloReach - KatFallen01.png|Kat gets shot through the head by a round from a while her shields are down. File:HaloReach - KatDeath.png|Kat's lifeless body. File:HaloReach - Fallen.png|Carter carries Kat's body while the others wait for evacuation. File:HLC Tech WIP.jpg|An early rendition of Kat on the ''Halo Legendary Crate'' #16 poster. File:HLC Tech.jpg|Kat-B320 on the final ''Halo Legendary Crate'' #16 poster.
List of appearances
''Remember Reach''
*''Deliver Hope''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo: Ground Command''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
''Halo Infinite''
''Winter Contention''
Notes
Sources
Category:Human characters Category:UNSC Navy officers Category:Spartan-IIIs
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Campaign
"Commander;" Introducing SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six to Carter-A259
"Only the parts that weren't covered in the Office of Naval Intelligence|black ink." - After Emile-A239|Emile asks her if she's read SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six's file.
"Copy that. Acquiring signal lock on the pylon. Detonating in three, two..." - After Jun tells her the charge link is receiving.
"Might want to hold onto something!" - To Noble Six as they prepare to jump the bridge gap.
"Six! Can you hear me? Six, you alright? I could use some help!" - After Noble Six comes to from the crash.
"Pylons are down, we're pushing up the hill." - Responding to Carter on her status.
"Copy, Commander. New target, Six. Let's shut down those AA guns." - After Carter tells of 2 anti-aircraft guns.
"Commandeer that Warthog, Six." - After the Pelican drops the Warthog.
"Six, take that south road and see if you can get a better look at the spire. I'll be on call" - If Six gets separated from Kat after destroying the AA gun.
"Six, Pelican inbound with a portable bridge. Once it's in place head over the southwest side"
"Bridge in position, Six. Keep moving toward those spires."
"A Zealot? We're onto something big here, Commander." - After Auntie Dot informs her of an escaping Sangheili Zealot|Elite Zealot.
"High value target has been neutralized. Impressive, Six." - If Noble Six kills the Zealot.
"Mining facility secure, Six. Move on at your discretion." - After the enemies inside the building are neutralized.
"Jorge has a Falcon inbound to your position, Lieutenant. Highlighting the LZ now."
"Commander, I'm going to set up a forward observation post here."
"...you copy? Repeat, this is Noble Two. Noble Six, Noble Five, do you copy?" - After Noble Six finishes the evacuation.
"We picked up your transponder about an hour ago, but we could not risk open comms. Covenant have this city sealed tight. We're getting nothing from Jorge."
"Understood... What's the situation at starport exit?" - After Noble Six tells that Jorge didn't make it.
"Alright. We're bringing you to us." - After Six informs her that the last transport is away.
Gameplay Quotes
"This one seems to like me. Someone kill it." - When fighting an enemy.
"*Giggles*...Sorry, I didn't mean to...and I'll never let that happen again! Sorry." - After she kills an enemy. Also said in Firefight.
"I'm under fire!" - Annoyed, when being attacked by enemies.
"I knew it as soon as I saw you!" - When the player betrays multiple friendlies.
"So ''this'' explains all of the black ink." - When the player betrays multiple friendlies.
"I'll bury you here myself!" - When the player betrays multiple friendlies.
"Beautiful." - When the player headshots an enemy.
Firefight Voice
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''Catherine'' is the third episode of ''Spartan Ops''. It was released on November 19, 2012.:File:H4 SpartanOps Episodes List.jpeg|Screenshot of ''Spartan Ops'' episodes menu. In this episode, Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey is brought aboard the to study the Requiem slipspace artifacts|mysterious artifact retrieved from Requiem by Fireteam Crimson.
Chapters
{| class"width:100%; border:1px solid #999999; background: #FFFF;"
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! Name
! Location
! Description
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|Catherine/The VIP|The VIP
|''Quarry''
|"''Parg Vol, a known Sangheili terrorist and associate of Jul 'Mdama, is confirmed to be on Requiem.''"
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|Catherine/Galileo|Galileo
|''Galileo Base|Galileo''
|"''UNSC Science base Galileo Base|Galileo requires assistance repelling enemy advances.''"
| |3
|Catherine/Spartan Mountain|Spartan Mountain
|''Two Giants''
|"''Marine squad Mountain has crashed behind enemy lines and requests immediate evac.''"
| |4
|Catherine/Shootout In Valhalla|Shootout In Valhalla
|''Two Giants''
|"''Fireteam Crimson's attempted rescue of Mountain Squad has gone sideways. Situation developing.''"
| |5
|Catherine/Hunting Trip|Hunting Trip
|''The Gate''
|"''Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant terrorist Parg Vol has been located again. There is no better opportunity to Assassination of Parg Vol|eliminate him.''"
| |}
Opening cinematic
''A prowler uncloaks and approaches a hangar on the ''UNSC Infinity|Infinity'', where Captain (Navy)|Captain Thomas Lasky, Commander Sarah Palmer|Palmer, and SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan-IVs Madsen and Paul DeMarco|DeMarco are waiting.
Roland (COM): "Captain Lasky, the captain of ''UNSC Aladdin|Aladdin'' requests permission to bring the Catherine Halsey|prisoner aboard."
Palmer: ''(turning to Captain Lasky)'' "Last chance to change your mind."
Lasky: "It's too late for that, Sarah. We need to know what's going on."
Palmer: ''(irritated)'' "She was locked up for a reason."
Lasky: "Permission granted, Roland."
''The prowler lands and four Marines escort Dr. Halsey before transferring her into the Spartans' custody.''
Lasky: "Dr. Halsey, thank you for coming."
''Dr. Halsey shows her restraints.''
Halsey: "I'm not walking around the ship ''I'' built with my hands cuffed."
''Lasky nods and Madsen removes the restraints on Dr. Halsey.''
Halsey: "Show me Requiem slipspace artifacts|the artifact."
''The group walks toward the artifact in a dimly lit room.''
Halsey: "Rather dark for a proper investigation."
Lasky: "Random fluctuations all over the ship, doctor. Power still completely out at ground zero. I'll get additional lighting set up ASAP."
Halsey: "That would be good. Have there been any other reactions since..."
Lasky: "Since what happened to Henry Glassman|Dr. Glassman? No."
Halsey: "I see."
''Dr. Halsey approaches the artifact and tries to touch it.''
Lasky: "Careful."
Halsey: ''(turning around)'' "I'm ''not'' Henry Glassman, Captain"
Lasky: ''(turning to face Commander Palmer)'' "Trust me, Doctor, I know who you are."
Halsey: "Yes, and I see you've decided I rate three of the Spartan-IV|new model."
DeMarco: "Captain Lasky asked for the best."
Halsey: ''(amused)'' "And yet..."
''Dr. Halsey touches the artifact and it lights up.''
Lasky: "What is it, Doctor?"
Halsey: "Engine room."
''The group leaves the room. Cuts to a shot of the tram|high-speed tram car the group is on, then to a shot of Dr. Halsey, then of the others.''
DeMarco: ''(talking to Madsen)'' "Why do they have ''us'' guarding some old lady?"
Madsen: "She's bad news man. Mad scientist stuff. She created the SPARTAN-II Program|original Spartans; John-117|Master Chief?"
DeMarco: "No way."
Madsen: "Yeah. Story goes, she kidnapped a bunch of kids."
DeMarco: "What? What would an old lady like her do with kids?"
''Madsen tries to answer the question before noticing Dr. Halsey looking at them.''
Halsey: "First, we taught them how to be silent."
''She then turns to face Palmer.''
Halsey: "Then we taught them how to be Spartans."
''Palmer glowers at Halsey.''
''A shot of the engine room.''
Lasky: "Roland?"
Roland: "Engine room's on lockdown, captain. All systems operating nominally."
''The group walks in and Dr. Halsey starts tinkering with the systems.''
Roland: "You know captain, I ''can'' fly ''Infinity'' without human aid."
Lasky: "Don't worry, Roland. We'll take her off your hands again very shortly."
Palmer: "And now we're letting the war criminal touch things."
Lasky: "I can type for her, if that'd make you feel better."
Palmer: "It would help."
Lasky: "She installed these engines. No one in the UNSC understands them as well as she does."
''Dr. Halsey continues to tinker with the systems and a pulse runs through the room. The Spartans raise their weapons on Dr. Halsey.''
Palmer: "Hey!"
''Dr. Halsey turns around to face Commander Palmer. Palmer walks forward then orders the Spartans to lower their weapons.''
Halsey: "The artifact, Forerunner, is talking to your engines, also Forerunner. But it is also communicating with these other systems as well."
Lasky: "Health systems, some electrical, lower deck life support."
Palmer: "Only the engines are Forerunner tech. The rest is human."
''The computer screen indicates where the signal is transmitting to and places a marker.''
Halsey: "Indeed, but the artifact is reaching out to them. And ''it'' and your engines are transmitting..."
Lasky: "To Requiem."
Halsey: "You came here to study the planet. Instead, ''something'' on the planet is studying you."
''A closeup shot of the marker, which fades to a structure inside a Forerunner building. Multiple Sangheili are walking around, carrying weapons and equipment while Gek gives orders.''
Note: All dialogue spoken by the Elites are in Sangheili and translated into English.
Gek 'Lhar: "Faster! Move as if the Ur-Didact|Didact himself were watching!"
''Gek turns around to see Jul 'Mdama and immediately kneels before him.''
Gek 'Lhar: "Jul 'Mdama! I did not expect Jul 'Mdama|the Didact's Hand so soon."
Jul 'Mdama: "''Infinitys arrival has advanced my schedule. Rise, Gek."
''Gek stands back up.''
Gek 'Lhar: "We are still preparing, Shipmaster- we still have yet to be able to activate the shrine."
''A shot of Jul 'Mdama and Gek standing in front of the structure.''
Jul 'Mdama: "You are prepared now, brother."
''They turn around.''
Jul 'Mdama: "Bring the artifact's gift!"
''Two Sangheili bring a human prisoner before Jul 'Mdama and Gek. It's Dr. Henry Glassman. The Elites roughly shove Glassman to his knees.''
Jul 'Mdama: "He offers his knowledge in exchange for his life."
''He looks down at Glassman.''
Jul 'Mdama''': "I am willing to accept his offer...for a time."
''Cuts to a shot of Dr. Glassman looking around, worried. Cuts to black.''
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File:UNSC Aladdin - HQ.png|The . File:Halsey - Prisoner hand-off.png|Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey arrives to the .
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''Galileo'' is the second chapter of ''Spartan Ops third episode, ''Catherine''.
Summary Fireteam Crimson arrive to Galileo Base via D79-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship. As they land, they are met by a small team of UNSC Marines. As Crimson and the marines engage Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant troops Shannon Owen|Dr. Owen, one of the base science personnel, informs Sarah Palmer|Commander Palmer that Covenant forces are after their computer systems in order to gain access to the signal data Crimson had recovered earlier. Palmer tells her to shut down all systems within the facility as Crimson and the marines secure the area. Dr. Owen, however, tells the commander that she can't, as she and the rest of the base survivors have already locked themselves away in a safe room underground. SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan Jared Miller accesses the base schematics and locates three generators that power Galileo's computer systems. With the targets painted, Palmer orders Crimson to deactivate them. After disabling the first power core, Spartan Robert Dalton informs Commander Palmer that several Type-26 Banshee|Banshees are inbound towards Galileo Base. Palmer then warns Crimson of the incoming threat. At the same time, Miller receives word from Covenant COM chatter that Parg Vol is somewhere nearby. Commander Palmer tells Crimson that if they see him, they take him out immediately.
As Crimson works to shut down all computer systems, a UNSC Marine informs them that Parg Vol has escaped from the area. This annoys Palmer, but is reassured by the fact that they will find him again soon. After Crimson deactivated all power cores, Palmer tells Dalton to re-activate the base defense system remotely. Before he can activate the system properly, Dalton realizes that the Covenant have jammed the wireless up-link from the ''UNSC Infinity|Infinity''. Miller then paints a Navigation point|waypoint over the base's automated defense turrets for Crimson to locate and activate. Crimson successfully does so and Galileo enters lock-down. Shortly afterwards, another wave of Covenant reinforcements arrive. Crimson, with the aid of marine survivors, successfully repel the attack and secure the rest of the facility. Commander Palmer informs Dr. Owen that it is safe to come out and tells her to bring Galileo up and running again so that she and her team can find out why the Covenant were after their signal data. Palmer also requests Miller for a report from the marine who let Parg Vol escape.
Transcript Note: All dialogue is spoken through the COM.
{Cutscene}
''A Pelican flies over Galileo base. Numerous Marines mill around as the Pelican lands.''
Miller: "Crimson's on station, Commander."
Palmer: "Crimson, you're coming in hot on Galileo Base. There're Marines on the ground, but make no mistake, you're the cavalry."
{Gameplay}
Dr. Owen: "Covenant forces are after our computer systems! They're digging through the signal data that Crimson collected!"
Palmer: "Doctor Owen, shut down the systems while Crimson aids the Marines."
Dr. Owen: "I... can't. We're locked away in the safe room underground."
Miller: "I've got the schematics on Galileo. Here are the locations of the power cores for all computer systems."
Palmer: "Crimson, targets are painted. Shut 'em down."
Dalton: "Commander Palmer, I'm seeing Banshees on a vector towards Crimson's Galileo op."
Palmer: "Got it, Dalton. Eyes toward the sky, Crimson."
''The player deactivates the first power core.''
Miller: "One power core offline, Commander."
Palmer: "Two to go, Crimson. Keep it up."
Miller: "Commander Palmer, we've got Covie chatter about Parg Vol in Crimson's area!"
Palmer: "Crimson, your mission's to shut down those computers, but if you see that hingehead, you take him down."
''The player deactivates the second power core.''
Miller: "One target to go, Commander."
Marine: "Spartans? Hate to interrupt, but we lost eyes on Parg Vol. Gave us the slip."
Palmer: "Dammit. Understood, Marine. We'll find him again."
''The player deactivates the third power core
Miller: "That's all the targets, Commander."
Palmer: "Dalton, you online?"
Dalton: "I'm here, Commander."
Palmer: "Cycle up Galileo's defenses remotely."
Dalton: "One second."
Dalton: "Can't do it. Covies jammed the ''Infinity'' uplink."
Palmer: "Miller."
Miller: "Already on it. Painting nav points for Crimson now."
''Covenant drop pod deploys more enemy troops''
''The player activates the first turret.''
Palmer: "Well done, Crimson. Now get the other one up-and-running."
''Enemy Phantom descends and deploys more enemy troops''
''The player activates the other turret.''
Miller: "That's both turrets, Commander. Galileo's on lockdown."
''A drop pod descends and deposits two Hunters.''
Miller: "Hunters!"
Palmer: "You're not clear yet, Crimson. Take 'em down."
''After the player kills the Hunters:''
Miller: "Phantom inbound!"
Palmer: "See that, Crimson? Stay sharp!"
''Phantom arrives and deposits more Covenant. Shortly afterwards, a drop pod descends and releases more enemies.''
''After the player kills most enemies.''
Miller: "Still a few Covenant in your area, Crimson. Marking them for you now."
''Crimson finishes off the remaining Covenant.''
Palmer: "Doctor Owen? Still with us?"
Dr. Owen: "Still in the safe room, yes."
Palmer: "It's safe to come out now. Get your lab running again, and let's see why the Covies were so interested in Crimson's data."
Palmer: "Miller, I want a report from the Marine who let Parg Vol slip away."
Miller: "You got it, Commander."
CHAPTER COMPLETE'''
''Level ends.''
Mistakes The Marine who reports Parg Vol's escape is incorrectly identified on the player's HUD as "Spartan Scott Macrae". At the end, Palmer says, "I want a report from the Marine who let Parg Vol slip away." In the subtitles, it says "the Marine ''that'' let Parg Vol".
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''Hunting Trip'' is the fifth chapter of ''Spartan Ops third episode, ''Catherine''.
Summary Fireteam Crimson arrive to Parg Vol|Parg Vol's location codenamed "The Gate". He is atop a large Forerunner structure flanked by his subordinates. SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan Jared Miller brings the operation online as well as hacking into the Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant proselytization network|battle network. Through the Covenant's COM channels, Sarah Palmer|Commander Palmer is able to affirm the Sangheili|Sangheili's presence in the area, ordering Crimson to Assassination of Parg Vol|eliminate Parg Vol and all of his forces. The Spartans meet stiff resistance from the camp, engaging a variety of Sangheili Storm|Sangheili, Unggoy Storm|Unggoy and Kig-Yar Storm|Kig-Yar Storm units. Pek-pattern plasma cannon|heavy weapon emplacements, Shade turrets and Deployable lookout tower|lookout towers also impede the Spartans progress. As Crimson makes their way up the structure, Spartan Robert Dalton informs Palmer of incoming hostile reinforcements, to which she gleefully acknowledges.
With almost all of the Covenant force eliminated around him, the Elite himself is eventually gunned down by one of the members of Fireteam Crimson. Miller responds by officially confirming the kill. Palmer congratulates Crimson for their work. Miller also picks up several inbound Covenant threats and announces it to Fireteam Crimson. Immediately after saying so, several Heavy orbital insertion pod|drop pods and individual Orbital insertion pod|insertion pods touch down around the Forerunner structure. Covenant troops disembark and storm the area, but are quickly beaten by Crimson. As more enemy reinforcements arrive, several Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantom dropships provide heavy support, forcing Crimson to be more cautious. Several Hunters also join the battle to take down the Spartans.
Miller then picks up a large Covenant force closing in on Crimsons location. Palmer notices, and requests Dalton to send in an ordnance drop consisting of heavy weapons. Palmer also orders an airstrike for Crimson in order to alleviate them of enemy combatants. Crimson continues to defend their location, destroying a couple of Phantom dropships in the process. As more Phantoms arrive, Dalton's airstrike leaves the . As the Spartans quickly take shelter within the Forerunner structure, a flight of F-41 Broadswords fly over and destroy all of the Phantoms in the area with missiles. With the area clear, Dalton sends in a D79-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship for Crimson's extraction.
Transcript All dialogue is spoken through the COM.
{Cutscene}
''The camera pans over the Gate. The Covenant have set up a deployable lookout tower and numerous stationary shield generators.''
Miller: "Comms online. The Op is live, Commander."
Palmer: "Crimson, we've got a solid line on Parg Vol."
''The camera cuts to Parg Vol standing at the top of the structure beside a Sangheili Zealot.''
{Gameplay}
Palmer: "Job's simple: hit Parg Vol's camp hard, leave nothing standing."
Miller: "Lots of movement nearby, Commander."
Palmer: "Be ready, Crimson."
''The player nears the top of the structure.''
Miller: "Target identified, Commander. There's Parg Vol."
''A beacon appears over Parg Vol.''
Palmer: "Take him down, Crimson!"
''The player kills Parg Vol.''
Miller: "Parg Vol is down! Confirmed kill!"
Palmer: "Great work, Crimson."
Dalton: "Commander Palmer, tell Crimson to get ready. The locals are upset and headed their way."
Palmer: "Few things make me happier than upsetting the Covenant. Spartans! Ready up."
Miller: "Oh, wow. Dalton wasn't kidding. Drop pods inbound on Crimson's location."
''The player engages the first wave.''
Miller: "Don't relax yet. You've got more hostiles headed your way."
''Covenant flood into the area.''
Miller: "Snipers! Marking them as I see them, Crimson."
Miller: "Oh hell, it's the kitchen sink today. Here come Hunters!"
Dalton: "Phantoms near Crimson's location, Commander."
Palmer: "We see them, Dalton. How are we on air support?"
Dalton: "Spread thin at the moment, but I'm working on it."
Palmer: "Work faster, please."
''The player kills the Hunters.''
Palmer: "Nice work, Crimson."
Miller: "Commander-"
Palmer: "I see it, too. Crimson, heavy enemy movement, coming your way. Ready up."
Palmer: "Dalton, Crimson could use some new toys."
Dalton: "I can arrange that, Commander."
''Rocket launchers and Sniper rifles drop.''
Miller: "Get ready, more bad guys headed your way."
Miller: "Phantom!"
Palmer: "Dalton! Where's that air support you promised me?"
Dalton: "I didn't promise - I said I was working on it!"
Palmer: "Same thing, Dalton. Get Crimson some air support and get it to them now."
''The player kills all of the Covenant in the area.''
Miller: "Commander! Multiple Phantoms closing in on Crimson! Oh, this is bad!"
''Four Phantoms arrive.''
Palmer: "Dalton! Air support! Now!"
Dalton: "Inbound, Commander! Get Crimson to cover!"
Palmer: "You heard the man, Crimson! Get your asses into some shelter!"
Dalton: "Missiles inbound. If Crimson's not somewhere safe yet, they've got about three seconds."
''Several F-41 Broadswords fly over and obliterate the Phantoms.''
Miller: "Multiple confirmed hits on target. Phantoms are all down!"
Palmer: "Better late than never, Dalton. Thanks. Now send Crimson a Pelican."
Dalton: "Already on its way, Commander."
''A Pelican arrives and lands in front of the structure.''
{Cutscene}
''The Pelican takes off and flies toward the horizon.''
Palmer: "Crimson? Damn fine work today. Once you're back to the ship, first round's on me."
EPISODE COMPLETE'''
''Level ends.''
Trivia If the player doesn't heed Dalton's advice and take cover during the airstrike, they can in fact be killed by stray missiles. Its possible to complete this mission without killing Parg Vol though he has to be protected and forced into cover when the airstrike happens.
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''Shootout in Valhalla'' is the fourth chapter of ''Spartan Ops third episode, ''Catherine''.
Summary Picking up from the Catherine/Spartan Mountain|previous chapter, SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan Jared Miller informs Sarah Palmer|Commander Palmer that a large Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant force is closing in on Fireteam Crimson|Crimson's location. Automated defense turrets retrieved from Mountain Squad's crashed Pelican are activated by the Spartans throughout the Two Giants|canyon in order to shore up their defenses. As several large Covenant Heavy orbital insertion pod|drop pods and Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantom dropships arrive, carrying an assortment of Covenant Storm units, Palmer requests from Miller a proper assessment of all enemy forces in the area. Miller immediately responds by saying they are considerable amounts of Covenant headed towards the Spartans location. Palmer contacts Robert Dalton, asking if her "emergency dispatch" is ready for departure. Dalton acknowledges and says it is leaving the .
The situation turns grim as more Phantom dropships arrive, including one carrying a Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith. Fireteam Crimson do their best to defend the area by keeping close to their turrets, making use of captured Covenant equipment, and using a variety of UNSC weaponry provided from the crashed Pelican. Palmer then informs the team that her "emergency dispatch" has arrived. A lull in the fighting has her bring in four D79-TC Pelican|Pelican transports, each ferrying a HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Armor Defense System|Mantis Armored Defense System. As Crimson make use of the powered exoskeletons, multiple waves of Type-26 Banshee|Banshee fighters, supported by Phantom gunships, arrive in an attempt to re-take the canyon. As the fighting continues, Dalton comes online and informs Palmer that a Covenant has been spotted within the vicinity. Miller confirms the report, saying it is closing in on Crimson's location.
Commander Palmer then orders a Pelican for Crimson's extraction. Dalton, however, tells her that it would be a suicide mission up against the Covenant cruiser. As more Covenant reinforcements arrive, Miller tells Palmer an idea of his to assist Crimson. Crimson continues to defend their position as the Covenant relentlessly send in waves of reinforcements at them. As the Covenant cruiser comes within range of the canyon, Palmer has ''Infinity Sub-Vessel 3'' fire at the unsuspecting ship. The cruiser is destroyed in a series of explosions as it falls apart towards Requiem's surface. Crimson clears out the remaining Covenant and a Pelican is sent for their extraction. As they wait, Miller receives solid information relating to Parg Vol's whereabouts. Palmer, enthusiastic, has Crimson depart for Parg Vol's location instead of returning to the ''Infinity'' to hunt the Sangheili down.
Transcript All dialogue is spoken through the COM.
{Gameplay}
Miller: "Heavy Covenant forces headed toward Crimson's position, Commander Palmer."
Miller: "Marines have retrieved turrets from the Pelican and deployed them. They just need to be brought online."
''A Covenant drop pod arrives and drop off troops in the middle of the canyon.''
Palmer: "Crimson! Get those turrets activated! Now!"
Palmer: "I need a proper assessment on enemy forces, Miller."
Miller: "Considerable, Commander."
''The player activates the first turret.''
Palmer: "That'll help, Crimson. Go get the other two."
''The player activates the second turret.''
Miller: "Crimson's got the second turret active, Commander."
''The player activates the last turret.''
File:H4 Screenshot ShooutoutinValhalla1.png|thumb|200px|The turrets activated in the canyon. Miller: "All turrets operational."
Palmer: "Dalton!"
Dalton: "Online, Commander."
Palmer: "You have that emergency dispatch ready yet?"
Dalton: "Prepped and loading as fast as we can, Commander. Pelicans aren't exactly rated for-"
Palmer: "Don't bore me with facts, Dalton. Just make it happen."
Dalton: "Heading out of the hangar bay now."
''A Phantom approaches and drops reinforcements.''
Miller: "Oh boy... Crimson, Phantom inbound."
''or''
Miller: "Phantom!"
''Another Phantom drops reinforcements, including a Wraith''
Palmer: "Wraith on the field. Watch out, Crimson."
''Reinforcements continue to arrive. The player kills most of them.''
Palmer: "Where's the cannon fodder, Miller?"
''or''
Palmer: "Show us the bad guys, Miller."
''or''
Palmer: "Miller, light up the freaks, please."
''Markers appear on the last Covenant. The player kills the last of them.''
Palmer: "I think it's time to even the odds. Crimson, here's some new toys. Enjoy."
''A beacon appears at the top of the hill. The player reaches it.''
{''Cutscene''}
File:H4 Screenshot ShootoutinValhalla3.png|thumb|200px|The Pelicans bringing in the Mantises.
''Three Pelicans approach Two Giants. They swoop in and deposit HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Mantis|Mantises.''
--- ''if the player has activated the RvB Easter egg:''
Simmons (COM): "Hold tight, ground forces. We are inbound for reinforcements. Don't want to say exactly what, but you'll like 'em."
Grif (COM): "It's HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Mantis|giant robots."
Simmons (COM): "What? Grif! You ruined the surprise! You have no flair for the dramatic!"
Grif (COM): "They're in battle, idiot! How dramatic do you want to get?"
-- {''Gameplay''}
Miller: "Commander, heavy Covenant air support incoming."
Palmer: "Crimson, eyes on the sky."
''The player fights off wave after wave of Covenant Banshees and Phantoms.''
''Once most of the Covenant are finished:''
Palmer: "Miller, show Crimson their cleanup detail."
''After Crimson clears out the remaining Covenant from the initial wave, another enemy drop pod arrives. This one deploys a squad of Hunters. Shortly after the Hunters are killed, more drop pods descend and deploy additional enemy troops, including Elites and more Hunters.''
''A Phantom arrives and drops off a Wraith, along with additional ground forces.''
''After the Wraith is destroyed:''
Dalton: "Commander Palmer, my pilots are reporting there's a Zanar-pattern light cruiser|Covenant cruiser inbound on Crimson's position."
Palmer: "Oh, crap."
Miller: "Confirmed sighting, Commander. They're moving on Crimson."
''More drop pods arrive. Another wing of Banshees attacks.''
Palmer: "Dalton! I need a Pelican to extract Crimson. We can leave the Mantis behind."
Dalton: "Commander, that's a suicide run. I won't get a bird within a hundred clicks."
Palmer: "I need solutions, not excuses, Dalton."
Miller: "Commander. I think I've got a way to retrieve Crimson."
Palmer: "Crimson, hold out just a little longer. Help is on the way."
''A waypoint appears at the seaside tower.''
-- Miller: "Commander, there's heavy enemy movement near Crimson's position."
Palmer: "Get ready, Spartans."
''or''
Miller: "Lots of activity nearby. Be ready for anything, Crimson."
--- File:H4 Screenshot ShootoutinValhalla4.png|thumb|200px|Phantoms and Banshees fly towards a Mantis from the cruiser.
''Waves of Phantoms and Banshees attack from the cruiser.''
Palmer: "Miller, light up the last few targets."
''Beacons appear on the final wave. The player destroys all Covenant air forces.''
Cyrus Shaw|Frigate Captain: "Commander Palmer, we're on station."
Palmer: "Fire at will, Captain."
''A missile streaks across the sky and destroys the cruiser.''
Palmer: "Nice work down there, Crimson. We'll have you a ride home shortly."
Miller: "Commander Palmer! Solid intel on Parg Vol's location."
Palmer: "Let's see."
Palmer: "All right. Scratch that, Crimson. You're not coming home. You're going hunting. I'll be back in touch shortly."
CHAPTER COMPLETE'''
''Level ends''
Trivia The final few Phantoms on this level fire abnormally fast.
Some of the Covenant forces are completely invisible except for their guns which are near ground level.
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''Spartan Mountain'' is the third chapter of ''Spartan Ops third episode, ''Catherine''.
Summary Sarah Palmer|Commander Sarah Palmer sends Fireteam Crimson on a rescue operation for Mountain Squad, a science attache who were shot down by Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant forces during their mission to locate a "mysterious" signal Catherine/Galileo|discovered by Galileo Base. Crimson is brought near the crash-site by D79-TC Pelican|Pelican transport and are told to "double-time" it towards Mountain's position. Shortly after landing, Crimson's communication with Palmer is jammed by Covenant jamming equipment. Crimson arrives to Mountain's crash-site and are met by a team of SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan-IV survivors who are fending off a Covenant attack. After securing the immediate area, Spartan Fredric Zurenia of Mountain Squad points to a pair of Covenant jammers behind a large shield. As Mountain regroups to attack, Crimson disables the shield system protecting the jamming equipment. While attacking the equipment, Covenant reinforcements arrive via large Heavy orbital insertion pod|Orbital drop pods. After destroying the communication jammers and clearing the area, Crimson is finally contacted by Commander Palmer.
They are told to assist the survivors of Mountain Squad in completing their mission. Palmer points them to a Forerunner tower on the other side of the canyon, where ''UNSC Infinity|Infinity'' Science wants them to investigate it. While proceeding to the objective, several Type-44 Troop Carrier|Phantom dropships arrive with more Covenant reinforcements. After disabling the tower's shields, multiple Kig-Yar Kig-Yar Storm|Storm units emerge from within the tower, led by Sangheili Zealots and Sangheili Warrior|Warriors. They attack the Spartans, but are quickly eliminated. With the tower and its vicinity secured Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey comes online. She marks a point of interest inside the tower and tells Crimson to go near it. Halsey theorizes that the tower's location could be the source of the signal Mountain was looking for or the signal's destination. She tells one of the Spartans to activate it in order to find out.
Immediately after activating the device, the tower emits a large energy beam into the sky, which Halsey assumes is navigation data for Requiem. Jared Miller then tells Palmer that a large Covenant force is inbound towards Crimson's position. During the attack, the rest of Mountain Squad are killed, leaving Crimson alone to finish their job. Commander Palmer orders Crimson to fall back to Mountain's crashed Pelican in order to stock up on whatever ammunition and supplies while Robert Dalton arranges an extraction.
Transcript
{Cutscene}
''A Pelican flies toward the Two Giants and lands at the base of the seaside tower.''
Palmer (COM): "Crimson, straight-up rescue op here. You're aiding Mountain Squad, a science attache that got shot down following your mystery signal. As of last transmission, they're under heavy fire. We'll land you as close as we can, then double-time it to their position."
{Gameplay}
''Crimson heads out and begins engaging the nearby Covenant.''
Palmer (COM): "Miller, paint Mountain's last known for Crimson. And..." ''(static)''
Palmer (COM): ''(distorted)'' "Crimson, do you read?"
Miller (COM): ''(static)'' "-our signal..."
''Crimson fights through the heavy Covenant opposition.''
''As the player draws close to the downed Pelican.''
Spartan Scott Macrae: "Look!"
Spartan Fredric Zurenia: "Holy-! Man, are we glad to see you!"
File:H4 Screenshot SpOps - SpartanMountain1.png|thumb|200px|Mountain Squad's Pelican crashed Pelican under attack by Covenant forces.
''Crimson sees the Covenant attacking the Spartans from Mountain Squad. They move in to assist.''
Macrae: "I don't know what we'd have done if you didn't show up."
Zurenia: "Covies have a signal jammer set up over there. We didn't know if ''Infinity'' heard any of our distress calls."
Macrae: "Hell, now that we've got back-up, I think we can take it."
Zurenia: "Covenant jammers are behind those shields."
''A waypoint appears on a console near a large shield door. Crimson uses the console to deactivate the shields surrounding the jammers.''
Macrae: "Shield's down."
Zurenia: "There're the jammers! Get 'em!"
''A Covenant drop pods descend and deploys troops - including Hunters - to defend the jammers.''
''The player destroys the jammers.''
Palmer (COM): "Crimson, there you are!"
-- Palmer (COM): "Good work pulling Mountain out of the fire."
Macrae: "Couldn't have done it on our own, Commander."
Palmer (COM): "Crimson, as long as you're there, you can help Mountain complete their mission."
''or, if all of Mountain Squad has been killed:''
Palmer (COM): "It's a shame Mountain didn't make it. At least you're still on your feet so you can finish their mission for them."
-- Palmer (COM): "Infinity Science wants a look inside one of those towers. Get those shields offline while I go round up our resident signal expert."
''A Phantom arrives and drops reinforcements, including a Wraith.''
Palmer (COM): "Wraith on the field. Watch out, Crimson."
Miller (COM): "Crimson, I'm painting waypoints for the shield generators."
''Crimson deactivates the first console.''
Miller (COM): "That's one."
''The player deactivates the other two consoles. The shield around the tower drops.''
Miller (COM): "Commander, Crimson has the shields down."
''Covenant reinforcements arrive.''
''The player kills most of the Covenant.''
Miller (COM): "Still some stragglers. Marking them for you."
''or''
Miller (COM): "Need to finish securing the area. I'll mark the last few hostiles."
''or''
Palmer (COM): "Almost there, Crimson. Marking the last bad guys for you now."
''Markers appear on the last few Covenant. Crimson kills them all.''
Palmer (COM): "Good work, Crimson. Bringing our expert online now. She likes to take charge, but my advice is you ignore her as I'm the one who signs your paychecks. Are you there, Doctor?"
Dr. Halsey (COM): "Yes. Have they reached the location of interest?"
Palmer (COM): "On their way now. Crimson, head for the waypoint."
Palmer (COM): "What should they be looking for, Doctor?"
Dr. Halsey (COM): "Their armor sees enough. I'm watching the environment scans."
Palmer (COM): "So what do you see?"
Dr. Halsey (COM): "There. That location. I need a closer look."
Palmer (COM): "Miller, light it up."
''A waypoint appears inside the tower base. The player draws close.''
Palmer (COM): "Crimson, get close. Don't touch anything."
Dr. Halsey (COM): "It's either the source of the signal we're tracking, or it's the destination. I suggest activating it and finding out."
Palmer (COM): ''(sighs)'' "Crimson. Do it."
''The player activates the tower.''
Miller (COM): "Commander, do you see this?"
Palmer (COM): "Crimson! Look out!"
''Waypoints appear at outside the tower. The player reaches the beacon and looks up in time to see the tower fire a flare into the air.''
Miller (COM): "Oh, wow!"
Palmer (COM): "Doctor Halsey, what the hell is that?"
Dr. Halsey (COM): "Oh my! I'll need some of Roland's cycles for translating, but it looks like navigation data. Communications protocols. This is going to take some time to sort through."
Miller (COM): "Commander! We don't have time."
Palmer (COM): "Explain."
Miller (COM): "Covenant forces approaching Crimson's position! Lots of them!"
Palmer (COM): "Get ready! Covenant drop pods inbound!"
''or''
Palmer (COM): "Looks like you've got drop pods headed your way."
''or''
Miller (COM): "Drop pods coming down near your position, Crimson!"
''A drop pod deposits Covenant reinforcements, including multiple Hunters. The player kills them all.''
Palmer (COM): "Crimson, fall back to Mountain's Pelican. There should be armaments there to help you. I'll get Dalton on the line, and we'll get back with you momentarily."
''The player reaches the crashed Pelican.''
CHAPTER COMPLETE'''
''Level ends''
Trivia It is possible to keep Mountain Squad alive through the end of the level, however the script does not acknowledge this accomplishment, nor will it acknowledge their deaths if they survive past the destruction of the jammer.
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''Were you looking for the Halo 3 multiplayer gametype, VIP|VIP?''
''The VIP'' is the first chapter of ''Spartan Ops third episode, ''Catherine''.
Summary Fireteam Crimson is sent on a mission to eliminate Parg Vol, a Sangheili terrorist and associate of Jul 'Mdama located in Requiem. As a Sangheili Warrior|high-ranking official of the Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant remnant, Parg Vol leads a sizable force of Covenant troops. Shortly after Crimson's insertion, SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan Jared Miller spots Parg Vol on a nearby hill fortified by both Covenant and captured UNSC equipment. Upon getting closer to Parg Vol's location, the Elite escapes aboard a Type-44 Troop Carrier|Phantom dropship before Crimson can eliminate him. Shortly thereafter, a large Covenant drop pod arrives carrying several Sangheili Storm|Sangheili and Unggoy Storm|Unggoy Storm units. After Crimson defeats the group of enemies, Sarah Palmer|Commander Palmer is requested by Dalton to have Crimson retrieve several stolen UNSC assets. Palmer grants the request and sends Fireteam Crimson to reacquire the stolen equipment.
Crimson reaches the area where the stolen gear is being kept. They clear the area of the local Covenant force guarding the base. Miller then comes online and informs Palmer that every Covenant unit within two clicks of Crimson's location are arriving to retake their base. Palmer orders Crimson to defend their position, as well as the UNSC equipment, from the Covenant. As Crimson fends off multiple waves of Covenant reinforcements, including Phantom dropships and Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraiths, they utilize several of the stolen UNSC equipment to their advantage. After completely securing the area, Dalton sends a D79-TC Pelican|Pelican for Crimson's extraction. Before the dropship arrives however, Palmer is contacted by Shannon Owen|Dr. Owen from Galileo Base, a UNSC research facility. A distress beacon is then picked up by Miller, who informs Palmer that Galileo Base is under heavy Covenant attack. Fireteam Crimson is redirected to the facility in order to assist in its defense and rescue any ''UNSC Infinity|Infinity'' personnel.
Transcript Note: All dialogue is spoken through the COM.
{''Cutscene''}
''Open on a D79-TC Pelican flying through a desert region.''
Sarah Palmer: "Crimson, we've got a line on Parg Vol, a Sangheili terrorist, and a known associate of Jul 'Mdama."
''Cut to a Covenant camp and a close up of Parg Vol.''
Sarah Palmer: "My thinking is, if we can put Vol down like a sick dog, then the galaxy's a better place."
{''Gameplay''}
''Crimson moves to an open area occupied by the Covenant, littered with UNSC equipment.''
Jared Miller: "Commander Palmer! Parg Vol sighted."
Sarah Palmer: "Show Crimson."
''A waypoint appears at the top of a hill. Crimson makes its way there engaging Covenant forces along the way.''
-- Jared Miller: "Sniper."
''or''
Sarah Palmer: "Sniper. Keep your heads down, Crimson."
''or''
Sarah Palmer: "Sniper fire! Freakin' campers."
-- Sarah Palmer: "Dalton, send Crimson supplies."
Robert Dalton: "You got it, Commander."
''Supplies are dropped nearby.''
Jared Miller: "There we go!"
''Crimson nears the hill and closes in on Parg Vol.''
''The Type-44 Troop Carrier|Phantom on the hill suddenly takes off and flies away.''
Sarah Palmer: "Miller, that Phantom's getting away."
Jared Miller: "No! Hey! No fair!"
Sarah Palmer: "Dammit!" (''sighs'')
Sarah Palmer: "We'll get another chance. We know he can't go far."
Jared Miller: "Hostiles inbound, Crimson!"
''Crimson is engaged by the remaining Covenant forces.''
Sarah Palmer: "Crimson, clean up the rest of Parg Vol's cronies. No reason to let any of those hingeheads escape."
''Crimson eliminates the last hostile in the area.''
Sarah Palmer: "Nice work."
Robert Dalton: "Commander Palmer?"
Sarah Palmer: "Go ahead, Dalton."
Robert Dalton: "Taking a look at your drone footage, I see Parg Vol snatched a considerable number of UNSC assets. I'd like to recover those if we can."
Sarah Palmer: "Don't see why not."
Robert Dalton: "Thanks. Painting a waypoint now."
''A waypoint appears across the camp. Crimson makes its way toward it.''
''Crimson encounters more Covenant near a pair of deployable lookout towers, and eliminates them.''
Jared Miller: "Lots of movement nearby, Commander."
Sarah Palmer: "Be ready, Crimson."
''Crimson arrives at the camp where Vol has been keeping the UNSC assets. A large number of Covenant forces occupy the camp.''
Sarah Palmer: "Crimson, do me a favor and take down any bad guys. I don't appreciate UNSC tech being stolen."
''Crimson manages to kill the Covenant forces in the area.''
Sarah Palmer: "I guess Parg Vol wasn't screwing around when he decided to start a UNSC collection, was he?"
Robert Dalton: "Thanks for securing that gear, Crimson. Much appreciated"
Jared Miller: "Commander... we've got trouble. Crimson's kicked the hornets' nest down there. Every member of the Covenant within two klicks is heading their way."
Sarah Palmer: "Here comes the party, Crimson. Grab some ammo and dig in."
''Three Phantoms approach Crimson's position.''
Jared Miller: "They're here!"
Sarah Palmer: "Give 'em hell, Crimson!"
''Crimson kills the first wave of Covenant forces.''
Jared Miller: "Drop pods coming down near your position, Crimson!"
Sarah Palmer: "Dalton, Crimson could use some new toys."
Robert Dalton: "I can arrange that, Commander."
''The supplies drop''
Jared Miller: "There we go."
Jared Miller: "Heads up, drop pods incoming!"
''More Covenant forces enter the area.''
Sarah Palmer: "Send Crimson some resupply, Dalton."
Robert Dalton: "Already on its way, Commander."
''More supplies drop.''
Jared Miller: "Ah! There it is!"
Sarah Palmer: "Phantom headed your way, Spartans."
Sarah Palmer: "Drop pods coming your way."
Sarah Palmer: "Dalton, Crimson could use some resupply."
Robert Dalton: "You got it, Commander."
''More supplies drop.''
Jared Miller: "Got it!"
''Another Phantom appears''
Jared Miller: "Uh oh. Phantom inbound."
''More Covenant drop pods arrive''
Jared Miller: "Crimson, drop pods in the sky!"
Sarah Palmer: "Clear the area, Crimson. Scorched earth policy here."
''Once the majority of the Covenant are eliminated:''
-- Sarah Palmer: "Miller, show Crimson their cleanup detail."
''or''
Sarah Palmer: "Miller, light up the last few targets."
-- ''Beacons appear on the remaining Covenant''
''Crimson takes out the remaining Covenant:''
Jared Miller: "That's the last of them."
Sarah Palmer: "Well done, Crimson. Dalton, give Crimson a lift home?"
Robert Dalton: "Of course, Commander. Pelican on the way now."
Shannon Owen|Dr. Owen: "''Infinity''! This is Doctor Owen at Galileo Base-"
Sarah Palmer: "Dr. Owen? Hello?"
Jared Miller: "Emergency beacon activated at Galileo. They're under attack."
Sarah Palmer: "Crimson, you're closest. Saddle up. You're the rescue crew."
''Fade to black.''
CHAPTER COMPLETE'''
''Level ends.''
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Armory of Barukaza
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The Catulus Chopper, also known as Chieftain Chopper, is a modified variant of the Bolroci Workshop Chopper.
Overview
As a modified variant of the Bolroci Workshop Chopper, the Catulus Chopper is equipped with gold plating in place of the standard red plating. The spike cannons fire at a higherrate of fire. It deploys energy blades on the front and sides when boosting.
As its name suggests, the Catulus Chopper was originally the personal war-chariot commissioned by Banished Jiralhanae Commander Catulus. By 2560, during the Battle for Zeta Halo, Catulus Choppers were employed by personnel other than Catulus, with one such vehicle used by Hyperius, a Jiralhanae Spartan Killer that was sent to intercept John-117.
In-game information In campaign, the Catulus Chopper can only be encountered during the boss (gameplay)|boss battle with Hyperius during the level Pelican Down (Halo Infinite level)|Pelican Down. In multiplayer, the Catulus Chopper is available as a Forge item and appears in certain matchmade Big Team Battle games. The Catulus Chopper's spike cannons fire have a higher rate of fire than those equipped on the standard Chopper, but deal reduced damage.
Gallery
File:HINF Concept CatalusChopper.jpg|Concept art of the Catulus Chopper with its energy blades extended. File:HINF Concept ChopperZoom.jpg|Concept art of the visual effects produced by the Catulus Chopper while boosting. File:HINF Chopper Boss Render 2.jpg|A render of the Chopper.
File:HINF HyperiusChopper.jpg|An in-game view of the Catulus Chopper. File:HINF HyperiusAndChopper.jpg|Hyperius riding a Catulus Chopper. File:HINF Chief Hijacks Hyperius.png|John-117 Boarding (gameplay mechanic)|hijacks Hyperius' Catulus Chopper. File:HINF CatulusChopper Cannon 2.png|A Catulus Chopper firing its spike cannons in multiplayer. File:HINF CatulusChopper EnergyBlades.png|A Catulus Chopper with its energy blades activated in multiplayer.
List of appearances
''Halo Infinite''
Sources
Category:Drivable vehicles Category:Chopper variants Category:Banished vehicles
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Catulus is a Jiralhanae officer serving in the Banished. Catulus is the namesake of the Catulus Chopper, or "Chieftain Chopper" - a personal design of war-chariot built upon the base of the Bolroci Workshop Chopper used by Banished forces on Installation 07.
List of appearances
''Halo Infinite''
Sources
Category:Jiralhanae characters Category:Banished members
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Cavalier is the thirteenth track of the ''Halo 5: Guardians Original Soundtrack''. It is the theme music of the Warden Eternal.
Appearances Unconfirmed - When the Warden Eternal is fought for the first time in the game. Reunion - When Blue Team fights the Warden Eternal before being able to reach the Gateway. Battle of Sunaion (level)|Battle of Sunaion - When Fireteam Osiris has to fight the Warden Eternal before being able to board the Guardian Custode|Guardian to Genesis. Genesis (level)|Genesis - When Fireteam Osiris fights the Warden Eternal duo at the end before being able to reach the Gateway. The Breaking - In the final cutscene, when Blue Team fights an onslaught of Wardens just before Cortana dissolves all of the bodies that the Warden himself created. Warzone Firefight - When the Warden Eternal appears as a boss. His theme usually plays if he is encountered in the final round as a Mythic boss; if Legendary Wardens also appear, ''Crossed Paths'' may play instead.
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Cavalier is an achievement in ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. It is unlocked by beating the par score on the level Tsavo Highway. The achievement is worth 10 Gamerscore. It is represented by a blue circle with a winged sword, also known as the Valkyrie emblem, in the original game and a screenshot of Epitaph in the collection.
The par score for Tsavo Highway is 15,000 points in ''Halo 3'' and 21,000 points in ''The Master Chief Collection''; the difference is due to the fact that the two games feature different campaign scoring formulae. Though the achievement can theoretically be unlocked on any difficulty, more points are awarded in campaign scoring when playing on higher difficulties.
In the original game, players must achieve the par score individually, even when playing Cooperative play|cooperatively; in ''The Master Chief Collection'' cooperative players share a single score, potentially making the achievement much easier.
Tips
''Note'': See Guerilla for standard techniques.
Turn on the Halo 2 skulls#Thunderstorm|Thunderstorm, Halo 2 skulls#Famine|Famine and Halo 3 skulls|Fog Skull. These are probably the three easiest Skulls. Warning: whatever you do, do not turn on the Catch Skull because on Tsavo Highway, there are many Unggoy|Grunts along the road and they will be randomly throwing Grenades at your vehicle the tactic basically being: out of all the grenades they spam at the enemy, at least ''some'' of them will hit. With Thunderstorm on, the effect will be worse as the newly-promoted Unggoy Ultra|Grunt Ultras will pull a lemming and kamikaze run at you. It is important that you have a Barukaza Workshop Chopper|Brute Chopper with you as well, as it is probably the sturdiest solo vehicle. The other choice would be the M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthog, but after a while the UNSC Marine Corps|Marines die and you won't have a person to man the M41 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun|Turret. Also, turning on Halo 3 skulls#Tough Luck|Tough Luck would cause even Grunts to dodge your vehicle when you attempt a splatter. This should most likely be played on Heroic or Normal, depending on your skill.
Another way is to get in the M831 Troop Transport|Transport Warthog. Arm UNSC Marine Corps|Marines with heavy weapons, such as the Pez'tk-pattern fuel rod gun|Fuel Rod Gun. Every chance you get a Fuel Rod Gun, give it to a Marine, they'll have unlimited ammo, and it's possible to get all of the Marines armed with Fuel Rods. The rest will run smoothly.
In ''The Master Chief Collection'' players can earn significant points by destroying unoccupied Covenant vehicles as the game does not differentiate between piloted and empty vehicles; ''Halo 3'' is the only game in the collection with this campaign scoring quirk.
Trivia Cavaliers were Royalist horse riders during the wikipedia:English Civil War|English Civil War. More recently, the term means a "devil-may-care" attitude. The award is called "Cavalier" because most of it is vehicular combat.
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CAVALLINO-class Mjolnir is a suite of MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor designed for the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|GEN3 platform.
Overview
The helmet is tailored for the needs of fireteam leaders, trainers and observers.
The Cavallino design is a helmet manufactured by Emerson Tactical Systems, designed from the ground-up for the GEN3 platform.
In-game information
The Cavallino helmet and its attachments are available for multiplayer Spartan Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|armor customization on the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VII|Mark VII armor core in ''Halo Infinite''. Cavallino serves as ''Halo Infinite's'' default helmet.
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|Emerson Tactical Systems
|CAVALLINO expands Emerson's offerings with MJOLNIR-platform helmets, tailored for the needs of fireteam leaders, trainers, and combat observers.
|Common
|Unlocked by default
| |align="center"|File:HINF MK58 CBRN TOFANI Helmet Attachment Icon.png|75pxCBRN module|MK58 CBRN/TOFANI
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Attachments The following attachments are not exclusive to Cavallino, and are compatible with other helmets on the Mark VII core. Calling Card CNM(5)/BNR/FASCINATOR Flower Power HUL-I/RS/FACELIFT Purrfect Audio Trivia Cavallino means "pony" in Italian.
Gallery
File:HINF CavallinoConcept.jpg|Concept art of Cavallino for ''Halo Infinite''. File:HINF EarlyCavallinoConcept.jpg|Early concept art of Cavallino. File:HINF CavallinoConcept2.jpg|More concept art. File:HINF EarlyCavallinoConcept2.jpg|Concept art originally uploaded under the filename cavallino2.jpg, that was ultimately used as the basis for the FLANKER-class Mjolnir|FLANKER armour.
File:HINF-WatchdogBR.png|A Spartan-IV wearing the Cavallino helmet, as seen in the December, 2020 edition of "Inside Infinite". File:HINF Calling Card Helmet Attachment Icon.png|A Cavallino helmet with the Calling Card attachment. File:HINF Flower Power Helmet Attachment Icon.png|A Cavallino helmet with the Flower Power attachment. File:HINF Purrfect Audio Helmet Attachment Icon.png|A Cavallino helmet with the Purrfect Audio attachment. File:HINF-11152021.png|A squad in BTB wearing all default Cavallino helmets in ''Halo Infinite''. File:HINF Mangler Reload.png|A Spartan-IV wearing a Cavallino helmet with the HUL-I/RS/FACELIFT attachment. File:HINF-FunkyAttrition.jpg|A Spartan wearing a Cavallino helmet with the MK58 CBRN/TOFANI attachment. File:HINF-S4InfectionSpartans.jpg|An infected Spartan using Cavallino on Scarr.
List of appearances
''Halo Infinite''
Sources
Category:MJOLNIR armor|Cavallino Category:Halo Infinite multiplayer armor permutations
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File:Monkeypeople.jpg|thumb|The Cavemen in Sierra 117.|350px
The Cavemen are a series of Easter eggs on the ''Halo 3'' level, Sierra 117, and the ''Halo 3: ODST'' epilogue, where you can find ape-like figures with Marcus R. Lehto|Marcus Lehto's face.
Halo 3
The first Caveman can be found in the area where Sergeant Major Avery Johnson's D77H-TCI Pelican|Pelican is shot down. Across the water, above and to the right where a Kig-Yar Sniper will spawn on Heroic and Legendary difficulties, the first Caveman can be seen sitting in a tree. Unlike the other Cavemen, there is no way to reach him.
To find the cavemen family, go past the point where Johnson says his Pelican was shot down. Then, enter the jungle and stick to the left wall. You will have to climb over some rocks, jump over a giant rock in the way, and then crouch under a tight ledge to find them. You can shoot them but not kill them, although blood will still spurt out, which shows that the respawn cycle is not set up, so they will not die. They all vary in size, with the largest holding what appears to be a teddy bear, and the smallest being half the size of said teddy bear.
There is a caveman sitting on a cliff outside the level, in the area where you rescue Sergeant Major Johnson. He is accessible by means of a glitch, but he is still visible by using a scoped weapon, such as a sniper or the binoculars. To get where the Caveman is, you must play in at least two players cooperative play. It is much easier to perform with a Gravity hammer (fiction)|Gravity Hammer. When you reach him, you can keep running and get out of the level.
Halo 3: ODST
During the epilogue cinematic, after the final level of ''Halo 3: ODST'', Coastal Highway. When Vergil lights Johnson's cigar during the interrogation, push the right thumbstick to the left on the controller and the scene will pan over to the left. You will see Edward Buck touch a Caveman similar to the ones in the first level of Halo 3. He will then groom it, and appear to eat something taken from its hair; however, you will only see him raise his hand towards his mouth, as the scene will black out immediately thereafter.
Trivia When you shoot any caveman, it will bleed, but if you do anything that would normally kill anything (i.e. grenade or a headshot), nothing will happen, no matter how many times you do this, because they have no scripted death animation. Also, if you shoot the teddy bear, blood will come out. All the cavemen are identical in look, but they are all different. If viewed with a sniper rifle, there seems to be a stick figure cave drawn by the cavemen in the dark corner behind them. Both the ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo 3: ODST'' cavemen Easter Eggs are mentioned in a Wikipedia:Cracked.com|Cracked.com article called ''7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish Were Never Found''.
Sources
External links
Category:Halo 3 Easter eggs Category:Halo 3: ODST Easter eggs
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