Editing Luther Mann

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Luther Mann was born on the [[human]] [[Outer Colony]] of [[Verent]]{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HitDP}}. His mother was a doctor and his father was a scientist. When he was four years old, Mann was forced to flee his homeworld, alongside his parents, when the [[Covenant]] arrived at Verent and attacked the planet. His father managed to convince a [[pilot]] to allow the Mann family aboard a ship that was fleeing the world. As the ship prepared to leave the system, Luther noted that the Covenant's [[glassing]] of Verent was "pretty", much to his mother's chagrin. The family relocated to the city of [[London]] on [[Earth]], where Mann enrolled in school. He became fascinated with the Covenant and frequently studied the empire. In school, Mann got into arguments and fights with other children and was known as the "alien lover" for believing peace could be maintained with the Covenant. The school administration attempted to have his parents convince him to stop voicing his opinions about the Covenant, though Mann's parents sided with their son and eventually pulled him out of school.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HitDP}}

Homeschooled, Mann's mother taught him personally, although she refused to talk about the Covenant. However, on his fifteenth birthday, his mother committed suicide. Mann reluctantly returned to his school, though he ensured to no longer mention the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HitDP}} As a teenager, Mann's father often brought him to a local shooting range, where he learned basic gun training and instruction in marksmanship, much to his displeasure. After his father's death, Mann vowed to never use a gun again.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HitD10|HitD|Chapter=10}} Mann later resided in an apartment in [[Seattle]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]], on [[Earth]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HitD1|HitD|Chapter=1}} Sometime between [[2545]] and [[2546]], during his time in college, Mann would become the father of [[Theresa]] as the result of an intense six-week relationship with his classmate, [[Ramona]]. Unfortunately, he was unable to be a part of her life due to his work. During his academic career, Mann became a [[Xenoanthropology|xenoanthropologist]] and [[Xenoarchaeology|xenoarchaeologist]], having gained significant knowledge on [[Sangheili]] and [[Forerunner]] culture and language. Becoming a well-regarded scientist within his field, Mann served as a researcher on both [[Installation 03|Installations 03]] and [[Installation 05|05]].{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HitD1}}

On [[2555|March 8, 2555]], while exploring what they believed to be the ring's environment and atmosphere control room, Mann and Lamb discovered a console counting down from approximately three million—a process that would take approximately five standard weeks. After examining the countdown, the two scientists speculated that the installation was counting down to the activation of the entire {{Ref/Reuse|Id=HitD1}} Afterwards, Mann and Lamb reported their findings directly to Casper, who in turn reported the situation to ONI. After verifying that a countdown had appeared on the other Halo installations, Lamb traced the countdown's origins to Installation 07's [[control room]] and concluded that the countdown would indeed lead to the Halo Array's firing. Several days later, Casper met with a council of scientists and high-ranking UNSC officers—including [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Terrence Hood]] and [[Admiral]] [[Serin Osman]]. The council agreed that sending a team to [[Installation 00]] to cancel the Array's firing was the best course of action, and Hood contacted the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] for assistance. Mann, Lamb, and numerous other scientists were sent to [[Portal at Voi|the slipspace portal]] at [[Voi]], [[Kenya]] on Earth in an attempt to reactivate the portal that led to the Ark.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HitD2}}

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