Irena Magnusson

"You can win wars any number of ways. You can carpet bomb, or send in ground troops, or shell a city, or detonate a nuke. You can lay seige, cut off water and power, or blackade their ports. But there's one universal Achilles' heel that every organism has. If they can't grow food, or can't eat what they've got, they die. It beats a shooting war."

- Dr. Irena Magnusson

Dr. Irena Magnusson is an ONI scientist assigned to ONI Research Facility Trevelyan.

Biography
In March 2553, she "welcomed" the captured Jul ‘Mdama to the facility.

At some point she visited Jul in his cell accompanied by an armed guard. She explained to him why the sky was blue in the shield world, about Rayleigh scattering. She informed him of the Jiralhanae uprising on Sanghelios and of how Avu Med 'Telcam knew who was dealing him arms and that they intended to wipe out the Sangheili. When Jul complained about the food, he asked her to get him Irukan, the Kig-Yar name for a Sangheili grain that the Kig-Yar grew. She noted that his children would miss him, when he corrected her by informing her that Sangheili didn't know their fathers, she countered that while the children didn’t know their father, the father must know children, if the bloodlines weren’t managed they’d be inbred. As she left she said he can be useful to her by just being himself. Magnusson in researching Jul was actually manufacturing bioweapons to make their food indigestable in order to starve them out. After Jul escaped she informed Adm. Parangosky, who quickly arrived on Trevelyan. When Admiral Margaret Parangosky arrived to remove Dr. Magnusson as director of Trevelyan, she was questioning Prone to Drift about the portals. Later, Dr. Magnusson was relieved of duty and detained at the Midnight Facility.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Glasslands
 * Halo: The Thursday War