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After arriving at ONI's [[CASTLE Base]], Halsey volunteered to remain behind to ensure that all UNSC technology was secured from possible capture.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 125''</ref> She initiated [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]], destroying several [[Artificial intelligence|AIs]] to keep the Covenant from accessing UNSC databases. With expectations that the Covenant would glass the planet and knowledge that even if they didn't, she would be facing an entire army of Covenant ground forces, it was clearly an offer of sacrifice. | After arriving at ONI's [[CASTLE Base]], Halsey volunteered to remain behind to ensure that all UNSC technology was secured from possible capture.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 125''</ref> She initiated [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]], destroying several [[Artificial intelligence|AIs]] to keep the Covenant from accessing UNSC databases. With expectations that the Covenant would glass the planet and knowledge that even if they didn't, she would be facing an entire army of Covenant ground forces, it was clearly an offer of sacrifice. | ||
However, this changed when Spartans [[Frederic-104]], [[Kelly-087]], [[Vinh-030]], [[Isaac-039]], and [[ | However, this changed when Spartans [[Frederic-104]], [[Kelly-087]], [[Vinh-030]], [[Isaac-039]], and [[Will-043]] appeared at the entrance to CASTLE Base. With the firepower to potentially fight their way out, the possibility of surviving CASTLE Base's destruction became available. She gave emergency aid to the Spartans for their injuries, but a data anomaly detected by her accompanying AI, [[Cortana]]'s "older sister" [[Kalmiya]], attracted Dr. Halsey's attention. | ||
The data had been accessed by [[Araqiel]], an AI that worked for [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson|Ackerson]], one of Dr. Halsey's main competitors within ONI. After tracing the data access, Dr. Halsey stumbled across the AI, left behind by its master. Alerted by Halsey's intrusion, Araqiel began to threaten her; he went as far as telling her he would pressurize the room, or fill it with [[narcozine gas]] if she did not cease. Instead, however, she typed in archaic line commands to access Araqiel's code directory and personal fail-safe, which she used to shut him down.<ref name="Combo">'''Halo: First Strike''' ''pages 127-128''</ref> With Araqiel terminated, Halsey proceeded to read through [[S-III|Ackerson's files]] and discovered a number of things including the location of [[Onyx]], evidence of the [[SPARTAN-III program]] and a map of the mining tunnels CASTLE base had been built upon. The latter particularly interested the Doctor as the file had been classified at X-Ray level, making the file abnormally important for ancient maps. From this, she deduced that there was something of importance under the mountain. | The data had been accessed by [[Araqiel]], an AI that worked for [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson|Ackerson]], one of Dr. Halsey's main competitors within ONI. After tracing the data access, Dr. Halsey stumbled across the AI, left behind by its master. Alerted by Halsey's intrusion, Araqiel began to threaten her; he went as far as telling her he would pressurize the room, or fill it with [[narcozine gas]] if she did not cease. Instead, however, she typed in archaic line commands to access Araqiel's code directory and personal fail-safe, which she used to shut him down.<ref name="Combo">'''Halo: First Strike''' ''pages 127-128''</ref> With Araqiel terminated, Halsey proceeded to read through [[S-III|Ackerson's files]] and discovered a number of things including the location of [[Onyx]], evidence of the [[SPARTAN-III program]] and a map of the mining tunnels CASTLE base had been built upon. The latter particularly interested the Doctor as the file had been classified at X-Ray level, making the file abnormally important for ancient maps. From this, she deduced that there was something of importance under the mountain. |