Carol Rawley

This article is about the Flight Captain with the callsign Foehammer. For the GEN2 MJOLNIR Armor, see FOEHAMMER-class Mjolnir.

Carol Rawley
Biographical information
Homeworld:	Unidentified outer colony
Died:	September 22, 2552
Cause of death:	Killed either in combat or in Halo's destruction
Parents:	Jan Rawley (mother)
Personal details
Species:	Human
Gender:	Female
Height:	Tall
Political and military information
Affiliation:	United Nations Space Command Navy
Rank:	Flight Officer Captain

Frye: "Jeez, boss, maybe this wasn't such a good idea..."

Rawley: "If you've got a better idea, bring it up at the next staff meeting. Until then, shut the hell up and let me fly this thing."

— Conversation between Flight Captain Rawley and Lieutenant Frye.

Flight Officer Captain Carol Rawley, better known by her call sign Foehammer, was a pilot in the UNSC's 23rd Naval Air Squadron. During the Battle of Installation 04, she piloted Pelican Echo 419 and served as a crucial asset to the Master Chief by delivering Warthogs, allies, and transportation to and from different points on Installation 04.

Biography

Early life

Carol Rawley was born to Jan Rawley on an outer colony planet near the edge of human-controlled space in the Orion Arm. As a child, Rawley displayed symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder. Since her family could not afford specialist treatment or medical interventions, Rawley learned to hide her behavior: she went to school early to scrub her study station, and left later to clean the station before she left. At home, she learned to be as quiet as possible in the middle of the night to double-check the locks on all the windows and doors of the apartment. As she grew older, Rawley's symptoms escalated, but when the Covenant attacked the solar system of her homeworld and glassed it, the fear of danger gave her mind a different focus. Rawley would later reflect that battlefield fear brought "clarity", and that in battle, her brain no longer had the energy for the "useless, unnecessary thoughts" that previously dominated her life. She even thought that amid combat there was "only blessed silence."

Early UNSC career

Rawley enlisted in the UNSC, but struggled to connect with her peers, who tend to hail from the Inner Colonies. Instead, Rawley befriended Frye, who also grew up in an outer colony. The two bonded over their shared origins and shared perception that the outer colonies have often been neglected or mistreated by the Unified Earth Government. They went on to pilot the D77 Pelican Echo 419 together, with Rawley being granted the dropship by her then-XO Commander Samira Hashem. Rawley developed a deep attachment to Echo 419, seeing it as both a responsibility and a home. Her bond with Frye—now her co-pilot—also deepened over the course of the war. During a mission, Frye confided in her that he had lost hope for the future and feared humanity will eventually return to fighting itself. When Frye asked if she often felt alone like he did, Rawley responded by telling him that she did not feel alone when she was with him.

Battle of Installation 04

Carol Rawley and Frye piloting Echo 419.

After the UNSC Pillar of Autumn made a "blind" slipspace jump to the Soell system, Covenant forces boarded the ship. Rawley and many other members of her squadron, including Frye and her crew chief, Cullen, escaped during the ensuing battle and descended to the surface of Installation 04 where UNSC forces had landed. While the rest of the ship's crew and complement were escaping in lifeboats, Rawley led the pilots in flying their Pelicans off the vessel, feeling that they would soon prove useful.

On the surface of Installation 04, she helped SPARTAN John-117 and Cortana gather scattered Marines and transported them to Alpha Base. Shortly after, Cortana hacked into the Covenant battlenet and discovered that Captain Jacob Keyes had been taken prisoner by the Covenant, a rare thing for the Covenant to do to a human. That night, Rawley was called upon to transport John, Cortana, and Fireteam Charlie during a mission to rescue Captain Keyes in a raid on the Ket-pattern battlecruiser Truth and Reconciliation.

The next day, Rawley deployed the pair and a squad of Marines on a beach to secure the Silent Cartographer, delivering an M12 Warthog in the process, and later ferried John and Cortana to the Control Room. On the night of September 20th, Rawley carried John-117 to the installation's Flood containment facility and would attempt to rendezvous with John following the Flood outbreak and his escape into the surrounding swamp. Rawley and her crew ultimately survived the outbreak by remaining airborne.

After the Chief caused the Pillar of Autumn's engines to destabilize, Rawley was called by Cortana to evacuate the Chief from the impending destruction. While flying over the two in their Warthog, Rawley was pursued by twin Banshees. Although she reached the designated evac point where the Chief and Cortana had been waiting at, her Pelican was hit and she was shot down, with Chief and Cortana hearing her final moments over their comms. Having survived the crash, Rawley regains consciousness to find that Frye has died. As the ring's destruction approaches, she reflected on their friendship. Despite believing she was about to die, Rawley refused to give up. Hearing the battle still raging outside, she decided that helping others is worthwhile even if only for a few remaining moments. She retrieved an MA5B assault rifle from the Pelican's weapons rack, and charged outside the wreckage of the Pelican, having declared that she will continue fighting until there is nothing left to fight for.

Rawley was most likely killed in combat, and if not, in the explosion from the Autumn that would have occurred shortly after. The normally stoic Master Chief was saddened by Rawley's death, having befriended the pilot during the short time they'd known each other.

Legacy

By October 20, 2552, Rawley was amongst those honored at a memorial for the UNSC Pillar of Autumn at Giza Memorial Park. Before splitting up, Blue Team visited the memorial to honor the fallen.

Personality and traits

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Rawley was considered one of the best crewmen of the Pillar of Autumn. She never expressed fear in her voice, and she was considered to have been a very efficient pilot. Foehammer put soldiers down on landing zones filled with hostile forces without hesitation, took heavy fire, ignored the odds and the consequences, and did not panic. In addition, she was known to joke around and have a sense of humor.

When Rawley first met the Master Chief, he unnerved her given Rawley's Outer Colony origins and the rumors about the Spartans being designed to put down the Insurrection. However, Rawley came to feel an odd sort of kinship with the Spartan for reasons she couldn't quite explain and found the fact that Cortana talked like she was just another one of the Marines oddly comforting. After seeing the Master Chief in action, Rawley was impressed by his fighting skill and especially the fact that the legendary Spartan fought for all of humanity, not just the core worlds.

Production notes

• In Halo: Combat Evolved, Rawley is voiced by Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, who reprised her role in Halo Infinite: Memory Agent 20 years later. Her performance from Halo: Combat Evolved was reused for Halo: Campaign Evolved.
• The call sign "Foehammer" is a reference to Glamdring, Gandalf's sword in the Middle-earth legendarium, which translated into English means "Foe-hammer." Rawley's call sign was spelled out as two words in the original game's credits, nearly matching its namesake. Later depictions have consistently rendered the name as "Foehammer". Foehammer was previously referenced in the eponymous fourteenth level of Marathon Infinity.
• Rawley is addressed by Cortana as a lieutenant in Halo: Combat Evolved, though she was actually a captain. However, it is possible that Cortana was addressing Lieutenant Frye, though this is unlikely, as Foehammer was the senior officer on board, and was thus in charge of Echo 419. Strangely, this presumed dialogue error continued into Halo: Campaign Evolved, despite Jen Taylor re-recording Cortana's lines in the game.
• In the original Halo: Combat Evolved, "Foehammer" is an unseen character, as she never leaves the cockpit of Echo 419, which has an opaque windshield. However, the Pelicans in the remaster, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, have transparent windshields, and Carol Rawley is depicted using the model of a generic Caucasian dropship pilot the same as Lieutenant Taylor, the pilot of the escape pod in the cutscene at the end of The Pillar of Autumn. In Halo: Campaign Evolved, Carol Rawley is given a unique model and several appearances within the cutscenes. In gameplay, however, she has no unique character model; instead, the lone pilot in Echo 419 tends to use a generic marine face model.

Gallery

Halo: Combat Evolved

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  Echo 419 is shot down by a pair of Banshees.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

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  Echo 419 and Bravo 022 approaching the Silent Cartographer.
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  Carol Rawley visible in the cockpit of her Pelican.
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  Carol Rawley visible in the cockpit of her Pelican.
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  Carol Rawley visible in the cockpit of her Pelican.

Halo: Campaign Evolved

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  Concept art of Carol.
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  Concept art of Carol's helmet.
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  More concept art of Carol's helmet.
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  Carol in the Pelican's cockpit while John-117 is in the troop bay.
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  Carol playfully gesturing to an Unggoy.
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  Carol during a deployment to the surface of Installation 04.

List of appearances

• Halo: Combat Evolved (First appearance)
• Halo: The Flood
• Halo: First Strike (Mentioned only)
  • The Parting of the Ways (Mentioned only)
• Halo Graphic Novel
  • The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor
• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
• Halo Infinite: Memory Agent
• Halo: Campaign Evolved
• Halo: Foehammer's Last Flight