Thom Shephard

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"Sam! Sam! Come on, we gotta' get the hell outta' here!"

— A panicked Thom urgently hurries the Chief out of Cryo Two

Tech Chief Thom Shephard was a Engineering Technician for the UNSC aboard the UNSC cruiser Pillar of Autumn in 2552. He, along with Tech Officer Sam Marcus, unsealed the Master Chief from the Cryo-chamber at the beginning of Halo: Combat Evolved. He runs the Chief through several diagnostics and tests his MJOLNIR Mark V armor. Soon after, Captain Keyes calls the Chief to the bridge of the ship. A single Elite enters the control center of Cryo-B, killing Sam. Thom then tells the Chief to follow him to the bridge and rushes out the door, where he is killed by a conduit explosion in the wall.

Thom is engulfed by a conduit explosion

Trivia

• If you restart the level or keep coming back to Reveille, Thom will have a different face than before. Also his uniform may have a different color.
• If you control him using Halo: Custom Edition, he will die anyway.
• When the explosion goes off and Thom dies he does not make an attempt to run away he just stands still.