Editing Elias Haverson

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{{Human Character Infobox
|name=Elias Haverson
|image=
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|birth=
|death=[[2552#September's Anomaly|September 13, 2552]] (revised Slipspace date)
|rank=[[Lieutenant (UNSC)|Lieutenant]]
|species=[[Human]]
|gender=Male
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|weapons=*[[MA5B Assault Rifle]]
*[[M6D Pistol]]
*[[Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol]]
|equipment=[[Moray Space Mines]]
|vehicles=[[Longsword]], ''[[Ascendant Justice]]/[[Gettysburg]]''
|hair=Red<ref name="red">''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 49</ref>
|eyes=
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|types=Intelligence officer
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|affiliation=[[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Navy]]
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'''Elias Haverson''' was a [[Lieutenant (UNSC)|Lieutenant]]<ref>[[Letter - Re:Haverson]]</ref> of the [[UNSC]] [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] and a Navy Officer. 

==Background==
===Wreckage of Halo===
Haverson was an [[ONI]] officer, attached to the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]]'' When it crashed on [[Installation 04]]. Haverson was among those evacuated via [[Bumblebee|lifeboats]] and managed to survive until the destruction of [[Alpha Halo]], when he fled in a [[D77-TC|Pelican]] with [[Petty Officer Second Class]] [[Polaski]], and [[Corporal (UNSC)|Corporal]] [[Locklear]]. They hid in the debris field of [[Installation 04]] until they made contact with [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] and the [[Master Chief]] who was in a [[Longsword]] fighter.<ref name="red"/>

===Reach===
The Pelican and Longsword were not capable of a [[Slipspace]] jump, so the group managed to capture the [[Covenant]] ship ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' and [[Haverson]] gave tactical command to the Chief, despite his superior rank. Master Chief captured the ship by engaging in hand to hand with a Special Operations [[Elite]], injuring it, and ejecting it in an escape pod. They then were forced to travel to [[Reach]] because of the [[Cole Protocol]] which prevented them from traveling back into [[UNSC]] territory, even with a captured [[Covenant]] ship.

Haverson journeyed with them to the surface of Reach, where the [[Master Chief]] collected the surviving [[SPARTAN-II|Spartans]] and [[Doctor Catherine Halsey]]. While trying to flee the Covenant ships through slipspace, the [[Forerunner Crystal]] that the surviving Spartans collected from the planet warped the space and time around their slipstream. Haverson and the others were then forced to battle a small [[Covenant]] battle group, within the strange dimension before dropping out near [[Eridanus Secundus]]. Haverson also accompanied [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]]'s team to the rebel-held asteroid-colony of [[Eridanus II]] to talk with [[Governor Jacob Jiles]] of the [[Eridanus Rebels]]; however, they were forced to flee from overwhelming Covenant forces that came later on.

===Death===
The Master Chief and his team of [[SPARTAN-II]]'s, then returned to the {{UNSCShip|Gettysburg}} after crippling the reactors of the [[Covenant]] city ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. The Chief and his team were then informed by Johnson that Haverson and Admiral Whitcomb had taken the crippled [[Flagship]] and attempted a one-ship attack on the Covenant fleet, gathered around the ''Unyielding Hierophant'', destroying a single Covenant carrier and sending a video-feed to all ships in system of the Forerunner crystal, which was in actuality a hologram. The overzealous [[Sangheili|Elite]] commanders swarmed the ship, all of them wanting to recover the artifact. This plan effectively drew most Covenant ships in the system close to the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' just before it exploded, destroying the Covenant city, the ''Ascendant Justice'', and over five hundred Covenant ships. Needless to say, it also killed Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson. Haverson and Whitcomb's sacrifice temporarily but effectively delayed the [[First Battle of Earth]] as the Covenant's fleet was mostly destroyed. After his sacrifice, the Master Chief lists him as KIA.

==Trivia==
*He had short-cropped, red hair<ref name="red"/> and was hesitant on many matters and situations. Vice Admiral Whitcomb once commented that he wouldn't like to have him as a leader because of this.
*[[Haverson]] is one of the few Naval officers to use an [[Assault Rifle]].
*He was mentioned once in [[Halo: The Flood]] as "the shipboard scuttlebutt".
*The [[Master Chief]] was suspicious as to why an ONI Officer accompanied him to [[Alpha Halo]]. He was most likely sent by [[ONI]] on the Chief's mission to capture a [[Prophet]].

==References==
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