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Catherine Elizabeth Halsey was a brilliant Scientist and employee of ONI, best known for her work with the Spartan-II Super-soldier and MJOLNIR Armor programs. Despite being a civilian, she held considerable authority within ONI and commanded considerable respect from many military figures. Publicly, she was well regarded, in particular because of her evident compassion for and guilt about the Spartan-IIs.

Early Life
Not much is known about Dr. Halsey's early life, but what little is known gives a glimpse of what would be a promising career. By the age of 15, Dr. Halsey was already writing her second Doctoral Thesis paper. It is also known that at some time in her early life, she supervised the creation of the template for third-generation Smart AIs.

Spartan Rescue
In 2552, the Covenant attacked Reach. Dr. Halsey was working in CASTLE Base at the time and volunteered to remain behind to ensure that all UNSC technology was secured from possible capture. With expectations that the Covenant would glass the planet and knowledge that even if they didn't glass it, she would be facing an entire army of Covenant ground forces, it was clearly an offer of sacrifice.

However, this changed with Spartans Fred-104, Kelly-087, Vinh-030, Isaac-039, and Will-043 appeared at the entrance to CASTLE base. With the firepower to possibly fight their way out, the possibility of surviving CASTLE base's destruction became available. She did what she could for their injuries, but a data anomaly detected by her accompanying AI, Kalmiya, attracted Dr. Halsey's attention.

Ackerson
The data had been accessed by Araqiel, an AI that worked for Colonel 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. After shutting it down, she proceeded to read through 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.

Deducing that, at the very least, these maps provided a back door, she chose to move the Spartans out of the base and into the mine shafts. She triggered CASTLE base's self-destruct mechanism and activated the failsafe on Kalmiya. With the Spartans in tow, they moved into the mine shafts and found themselves in a Forerunner base.

The Crystal
Over the course of the next five days, the Spartans and Dr Halsey searched the base, looking for either an exit or what Dr Halsey would dub "The most important discovery of the millenium." On the fifth day, Fred discovered an entrance into the main section of the base where they found a Forerunner Crystal. However, the acquiring of the crystal sent a spike of neutrino radiation, attracting the attention of the Covenant.

Halsey and her team retreated into a hallway and sealed off the entrance, losing Vinh and Issac in the process. However, the quickly discovered that the hallway was a dead end.

Appearances
Halo: Fall of Reach (first appearance) Halo: First Strike Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

Development Notes

 * Worked extensively with AIs. Base for Cortana, build Kalmiya, supervised template for third gen
 * Knows all Spartans even in their MJOLNIR armor. Always calls them by their names
 * Particular affection for John
 * Determined nature of Covenant Crystal
 * Deleted Araqiel, got data from Ackerson's systems.
 * Competed directly with Ackerson, funds and power