Editing Graham Alban

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{{Character infobox|variant=Human
|name = Graham Alban
|image=
|death = March, 2532<ref group="note">According to ''Halo: Mortal Dictata'', Dr. Alban's suicide occurred in [[2523]]. However, the [[2019]] edition of the novel corrected this to 2532.</ref>
|species = [[Human]] 
|gender = Male 
|notable = *Neurosurgeon and psychologist for the [[SPARTAN-II program]]
*Brain donor for AI [[Black-Box]]
|affiliation = [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]
}}
{{Quote|I have taken my own life because the SPARTAN-II program is a crime against humanity, and I should have had the moral courage to refuse to work on it. I did not. I complied.|Graham Alban on his reason for committing suicide.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 489''</ref>}}

'''Graham J. Alban, MD, MCNS, MCPP''' was a neuroscientist and psychologist who worked in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s Special Projects division. He became disillusioned with the perceived injustices he found himself willingly committing through the [[SPARTAN-II program]], leading to his suicide sometime after the year 2525 in the month of March. His brain was later used in the creation of the AI [[Black-Box]].<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 490''</ref>

==Biography==
===Suicide and brain donation===
Dr. Alban expressed severe remorse for his actions in the SPARTAN-II program, calling the entire project "morally indefensible". He considered his actions (or rather, inaction) to be more reprehensible than [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]]'s, on the basis of his insistence that unlike himself, Halsey was devoid of a sense of morality and that the guilt she displayed was only a facade. In March, [[2532]] Alban committed suicide in a way that he was confident would cause little damage to his brain. He asked [[Vice Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]] to preserve his brain and use it to create an [[artificial intelligence]] that would be used to support and protect SPARTAN-IIs.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 491''</ref>

Parangosky granted Alban's wish. In [[2552|August 2552]], over 20 years after his death, Alban's brain was used as the template for an AI: [[Black-Box|Black-Box (BBX-8995-1)]].<ref name="pg492">'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 492''</ref> Black-Box would retain elements of his donor's personality, such as his hatred of Catherine Halsey and a deferential, apologetic demeanor toward [[Staffan Sentzke]], the father of [[Naomi-010|one of the abductees]].

==Personality and traits==
Dr. Alban and then-Vice Admiral Parangosky regarded each other as friends, a sympathy the latter extended toward Black-Box. Alban was an atheist or agnostic, and believed that if God did exist, then He was an extremely neglectful father to have allowed humanity to behave in the way it does. He expressed in his suicide note that if he were surprised by the existence of either Heaven or Hell, then he would put in a good word for Parangosky at whichever gate he arrived in front of.<ref name="pg492">'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 492''</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:HtT-protoBB1.jpg|File with Alban's name on it of an image of an unidentified person's skeleton
File:HtT-protoBB2.jpg|A scan of someone's brain with Alban's name on it
File:HtT-protoBB3.jpg|Someone's spinal cord with Alban's name
File:HtT-protoBB4.jpg|More scans with Alban's name on it
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Hunt the Truth]]''
**''[[Hunt the Signal]]''

==Note==
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==Sources==
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