Ensign William Lovell

Summary
Instead of being conscripted right into the UNSC, Lovell volunteered his services. He was granted imediate admission to the OCS Academy on Luna due to his high grades, but only finished his second year before he moved on.

He served aboard the UNSC Gorgon for four years and was promoted all the way up to First Lieutenant, but was subsequently busted down to Second Lieutenant and finally to Ensign for insubordination and gross incompotence.

He was finally reassigned aboard the UNSC Archimedes Remote Scanning Outpost on the fringes of the Sigma Octanus star system.

He encountered the silhouette of the Covenant battle cruisers that attacked the system in 2552. Although he did not identify the threat immediately, his report about the silhouette did alert the UNSC to the Covenant's prescence and thus turned the tide of what would have been a massacre.

After the battle at Sigma Octanus IV, he was reassigned by Captain Keyes to the Pillar of Autumn as navigator. He died during the events on Installation 04.