Elias Haverson

Elias Haverson was a Lieutenant of the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence.

Wreckage of Halo
Haverson was the ONI officer attached to the Pillar of Autumn. When that vessel crashed on Installation 04, Haverson was among those evacuated via lifeboats and managed to survive until the destruction of Alpha Halo, when he fled in a Pelican with Petty Officer Second Class Polaski, Staff Sergeant Avery J. Johnson, and Corporal Locklear. They hid in the debris field of the Halo until they made contact with Cortana and the Master Chief. As soon as they met on the Longsword, he recognized the Spartan as John-117, unusual given the near-identical appearance of Spartans in MJOLNIR..

Reach
The Pelican and Longsword were not capable of a Slipspace jump, so the group managed to capture the Covenant ship Ascendant Justice and Haverson gave tactical command to the Chief, despite his superior rank. Master Chief captured the ship by fighting hand on hand with a Special Operations Elite, injuring it and ejecting it in an escape pod. They then were forced to travel to Reach because the Cole Protocol prevented them from heading back into UNSC territory that is not known by the Covenant with a captured Covenant ship, especially Earth.

Haverson journeyed with them to the surface of Reach, where the Chief collected the survivng Spartans and Doctor Halsey. After trying to flee the Covenant ships through slipspace, the crystal opened an alternate slipstream dimension instead, and Haverson and the others were forced to battle a small Covenant battle group within the strange dimension before dropping out near Eridanus Secundus. Haverson also accompanied Vice Admiral Whitcomb's team to the rebel-held asteroid-colony of Eridanus II to talk with Governor Jacob Jiles of the Eridanus Rebels, before they were forced to flee in the face of overwhelming Covenant forces.

Death
Haverson's death came when he and Admiral Whitcomb took the wounded Flagship and crashed it into the Unyielding Hierophant. This distracted the five hundred other ships, and they all converged to try and recover the Forerunner crystal used as bait - long-destroyed already, but imitated via hologram. The Chief then returned to the UNSC Gettysburg, after crippling the reactors of the Unyielding Hierophant. It exploded, killing the Admiral and Haverson and destroying over five hundred Covenant ships. The sacrifice of Haverson and Whitcomb delayed the First Battle of Earth.

Trivia

 * He had short cropped red hair and was hesitant on many matters and situations. Admiral Whitcomb had once commented that he wouldn't like to have him as a leader because of this.
 * Haverson is one of the few Naval officers to use an Assault Rifle.