Connor Brien

Connor Brien is a xeno-linguistic expert within ONI. He has worked on multiple operations dealing with the Covenant, but focused most of his research on the Jiralhanae.

Biography
Learning of the Jiralhanae invasion of Beta Gabriel, Brien is granted permission to land on the planet and study their behavior. It is said that he has had interactions with them before within the Covenant capital High Charity, but how he accomplished this is currently unknown. He is caught by the a group of Brute hunters while he watches from a tree, and is brought back to their encampment around a landed Covenant vessel. While there he witnesses the slow breakdown of the pack's unity and creates a diversion that allows for the escape of himself and the remaining prisoners. While at the camp he meets a prominent religious figure Dasc who had hidden away on Beta Gabriel to increase the devotion of his followers. This leads to Brien's death, as Dasc shoots him before help can arrive, preferring that one man die so that the faith of millions can be preserved.