Mary Murphy

Technical Officer (First Class) Mary Murphy was a technician who worked with Petty Officer Third Class Cho and Petty Officer Third Class Pauley in Alpha Base on Installation 04. Murphy led the Navy Team. All three survived the attacks and subsequent failed landing on the Pillar of Autumn She monitored air traffic and told AI Wellsley when there was a problem. She let Pelicans and other airships land if they needed to resupply or drop off troops, or just stop flying for the day. She was killed when Lieutenant Rick Hale landed his Pelican in the base, dropping off thirty SpecOps Elites who were led by Commando Zuka 'Zamamee. Once the base commanders knew what was happening, the marines banded together and killed most of the elites. Zuka and a few other survivors fled underground, killing many of the technicians, including Murphy, Cho, and Pauley. Murphy took the iniatitive to take the safeties off of the base's 50mm defensive turrets, to stop the Covenant Dropships who were soon going to attack. Luckily for the base, she did this before she was slain. The rest of Zuka's elites were slain by three-man search teams, but Zuka lived to free his Grunt friend Yayap and a few other captured grunts, who, aside from Yayap, were soon recaptured or killed, since they were weak, fearful, and without weapons.

Mary's work helped Wellsley stop part of the Covenant invasion force, destroying one of the dropships and killing countless enemy passengers.