HAZMAT
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HAZMAT (short for Hazardous Materials) teams are personnel tasked with handling or cleaning up potentially dangerous material or operating in areas which would be unsafe for non-specialized personnel.
Overview[edit]
Responsibilities[edit]
HAZMAT teams might specialize in investigating damaged and dangerous Forerunner facilities, operating within toxic water and air, exploring sites left scarred by chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons from various conflicts, and even facing pockets of Flood infestation.[2]
Following naval engagements in proximity to surviving human colonies, HAZMAT teams are typically deployed to sweep the debris field, cleaning up and collecting detritus which would threaten space travel.[3] This may involve removing hazardous objects like broken and leaking Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engines.[4] When HAZMAT teams do not remove these problems directly, they may tag a space-borne hazard with HAZNAV (navigation hazard) satellites to warn other ships from straying too close to it.[5]
Personnel[edit]
UNSC Army and Marine combat engineers may be tasked with performing HAZMAT duties. Spartan combat engineers may also be called upon to perform HAZMAT duties as necessary, carrying out tasks which require super-human reactions, strength, and situational awareness.[6]
Imbrium Machine Complex operates their own dedicated HAZMAT corps.[7]
Equipment[edit]
Some HAZMAT teams utilize the OSTEO combat engineering suit,[8] an armor system compatible with a variety of HAZMAT-focused equipment.[2]
A Spartan utilizing the OSTEO suit in a HAZMAT scenario.
History[edit]
Imbrium Machine Complex had HAZMAT teams stationed stationed at Elvie, on asteroid LV-31, as of 2556. When BXR Mining Corporation personnel discovered a Forerunner starship buried at Site 22, IMC's HAZMAT corps were deployed via Pelican and equipped with OSTEO combat engineering suits. However, shortly after entering the vessel, they were attacked and infected by the Flood.[7]
At least one UNSC HAZMAT team was deployed to New Phoenix following the New Phoenix Incident in 2557.[1]
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First mentioned)
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (First appearance)
- Halo 4
- Halo Infinite
- Halo: Saturn Devouring His Son
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b Halo 4, campaign level Midnight
- ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - System Shocks (Retrieved on Jun 30, 2023) [archive]
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, chapter 23: "When there was time, a HazMat team would sweep the area and clean up. In the meantime, junk—ranging in size from microscopic up to thirty-meter sections of Cradle—still drifted in the system."
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, chapter 3
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, chapter 4
- ^ Halo Infinite, Armor Hall: Hazmat - Helmet Description "Spartan combat engineers work in close cooperation with their Army and Marine cousins in demolition and hazmat missions, in addition to carrying out specialist tasks which require super-human reactions, strength, and situational awarenes."
- ^ a b Halo: Saturn Devouring His Son
- ^ Halo Infinite, Armor Hall: Hazmat - Armor Core Description "Project: OSTEO combat engineering suits incorporate an array of contingency systems focused on surviving extended operations in extraordinarily harsh working and combat environments."
