User:Dab1001/RefStressTest
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Female[1] |
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170.2 centimeters (5 ft 7.0 in)[2] |
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Office of Naval Intelligence[1] (formerly) |
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MD, PhD |
- "For a long time I had thought that we had to sacrifice a few for the good of the entire human race. I have killed and maimed and caused a great deal of suffering to many people—all in the name of self-preservation. But now I'm not sure that philosophy has worked out too well. I should have been trying to save every single human life—no matter what it cost."
- — Catherine Halsey to John-117 regarding her changed views.[6]
Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, (Civilian Consultant 409871, phonetically identified as "Charlie Hotel"),[7] is a key scientific adviser of the Office of Naval Intelligence, best known for her work with the SPARTAN-II program, developing and creating smart AIs such as Cortana, and for overseeing the development of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. She served as a scientific adviser for ONI from 2515 to 2522, when she was made chief scientist,[8] a position she held until the end of the Human-Covenant War.[9]
Halsey held considerable authority within ONI, despite being a civilian, and commanded respect from important military figures.[10] Though generally well-regarded among her peers, she endured intense personal guilt for condemning the Spartans to the life of a super soldier. After the Covenant War, Dr. Halsey was stripped of her position, incarcerated, and treated as a war criminal by the UNSC at large, which led to her apparent defection to Jul 'Mdama's splinter Covenant faction.[11] After almost a year among the enemy, she was recaptured by the UNSC and commissioned to work on urgent scientific matters, particularly concerning the rise of the Guardians.[12]
Biography
Early life and education
- "The Office of Naval Intelligence had apparently had their eye on me for years and knew that the only way to convince me to join them was to get me to convince me. It worked. I joined."
- — Catherine Halsey recalls her recruitment by ONI in her journal.[13]
Catherine Elizabeth Halsey was born on March 19, 2492 within the colony of Endymion's coastal city of Port Vernon.[1] While an impressionable young child her father recited to her every adventurous tale of L. Frank Baum's Oz[15] At this age she was already contemplating ideas having to do with artificial intelligences and their longevity.[15] As an adolescent she was smarter than her parents and was continually reading, learning, and talking, being eager to share her knowledge with anyone who would listen.[16] Among the works Halsey read at some point was an English translation of Dante's Inferno.[17] The first game of chess Catherine played with her mother was the only one she ever lost to her.[18] Upon beating her daughter she had said, in Italian, "When the game is over, the king and pawn go into the same box."[18] At a young age, Halsey was sent to the elite academy Endymion Gifted, where she continued to defy educatory standards. She was eventually afforded a trip to Circumstance in 2501 from the Dean of Biological Science at Koletre-Browning University, who completely funded her education until the completion of her second doctoral thesis sometime after her fifteenth birthday in 2507.[1] While working on that second thesis, Halsey learned various line commands, long discarded and forgotten due to their archaic nature, with which she could interact with computer programs.[19]
In 2507, while still a doctoral candidate, Halsey met Doctor Elias Carver at an academic social mixer and couldn't resist correcting his obsolete algorithm implementation when she heard him describing the matrix mechanics of the socio-economic and politico-economic vectors of human expansion.[13] She outlined a corrective matrix calculation to him which revised his dimensional parameters so that the sixteen dimensions were used rather than seven. Doctor Carver did not appreciate being challenged by someone he saw as a young upstart, but her words seemingly caused Captain Michael Stanforth of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence to take note of her. Three weeks later, a