Thom Shephard

"Sam! Sam! Come on, we gotta' get the hell outta' here!"

- A panicked Thom urgently hurries the Chief out of Cryo Two

Tech Chief Thom Shephard was an Engineering Technician for the UNSC aboard the UNSC cruiser Pillar of Autumn in 2552. He, along with Tech Officer Sam Marcus, unsealed the Master Chief from the Cryo-chamber at the beginning of Halo: Combat Evolved. He runs the Chief through several diagnostics and tests his MJOLNIR Mark V armor. Soon after, Captain Keyes calls the Chief to the bridge of the ship. A single Elite enters the control center of Cryo-B, killing Sam. Thom then tells the Chief to follow him to the bridge and rushes out the door, where he is killed by a conduit explosion in the wall.



Trivia

 * If you restart the level or keep coming back to Reveille, Thom will have a different face than before.
 * If you control him using Halo: Custom Edition, he will die, no matter what you do.