Catherine Halsey: Difference between revisions

{{Quote|Even though this technology will save humanity in [[Human-Covenant War|the war to come]], I must remind myself: liquid crystal cannot rise on its own. [[Titanium]] alloy cannot prevail in the face of extinction. Armor cannot hope. It all means nothing until you step inside.|Halsey shares her thoughts with her Spartans.}}{{Ref/Reuse|BSI}}   

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.{{Ref/Reuse|HTFOR13}} 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.

===Alpha Corvi II===

[[File:Halsey Infinity.png|right|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 {{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}} {{UNSCShip|Aladdin}}.<ref name="H4SOC">''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'', ''[[Catherine]]''</ref> There, she was delivered to the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}, 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.<ref name="H4SOA">''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'', ''[[Artifact (Spartan Ops)|Artifact]]''</ref>{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOA}} 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.{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOC}}{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOA}} Lasky had been forced to request Halsey's aid following the loss of Glassman.<ref name="HM179">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', ''page 179''</ref> As she approached the artifact in question she asked if any other unexplained reactions had followed.{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOC}} 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.<ref>'''Halo 4''', ''Infinity Briefing Packet''</ref> 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]].<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Catherine|S1E3 ''Catherine'']]</ref>