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{{Quote|I'm playing along with your protocol here, Thel. If the [[SPARTAN-IV program|fours]] bring me an active Constructor, I can interface with the Guardian. It will receive Cortana's signal the moment it activates and initiates slipspace, but I think I can make sure it leaves the sea before it jumps. I'll get it in the skies over Sunaion, like you asked.|Catherine records a message for Thel 'Vadam, the Sangheili Arbiter.}}<ref name="H5GAMI"/> | {{Quote|I'm playing along with your protocol here, Thel. If the [[SPARTAN-IV program|fours]] bring me an active Constructor, I can interface with the Guardian. It will receive Cortana's signal the moment it activates and initiates slipspace, but I think I can make sure it leaves the sea before it jumps. I'll get it in the skies over Sunaion, like you asked.|Catherine records a message for Thel 'Vadam, the Sangheili Arbiter.}}<ref name="H5GAMI"/> | ||
After arriving in the [[Urs system|Urs-Fied-Joori system]] on [[2558#October|October 27]] Halsey accompanied Commander [[Sarah Palmer|Palmer]] to a waiting [[D79-TC Pelican]] in the process of being loaded up for travel to [[Sanghelios]].<ref name="H5GSOS"/> At the approach of Spartans [[Jameson Locke|Locke]] and [[Olympia Vale|Vale]] Palmer let it be known that the doctor was trying to find a way to communicate with the [[Guardian Custode]] on the planet. Halsey assured Locke she'd have a briefing for him once they were all planetside.<ref name="H5GSOS">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Swords of Sanghelios (level)|Swords of Sanghelios]]''</ref> [[Fireteam Osiris]] soon met up with [[Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter]] and following this Halsey and Palmer joined them at a camp the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] had set up in [[Nuusra]].<ref name="H5GA">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Alliance]]''</ref> Whilst Locke was treating with 'Vadam, [[Cortana]]'s voice suddenly rang out from within their meeting tent, prompting Halsey and Palmer to both rush inside. Halsey noted that she | After arriving in the [[Urs system|Urs-Fied-Joori system]] on [[2558#October|October 27]] Halsey accompanied Commander [[Sarah Palmer|Palmer]] to a waiting [[D79-TC Pelican]] in the process of being loaded up for travel to [[Sanghelios]].<ref name="H5GSOS"/> At the approach of Spartans [[Jameson Locke|Locke]] and [[Olympia Vale|Vale]] Palmer let it be known that the doctor was trying to find a way to communicate with the [[Guardian Custode]] on the planet. Halsey assured Locke she'd have a briefing for him once they were all planetside.<ref name="H5GSOS">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Swords of Sanghelios (level)|Swords of Sanghelios]]''</ref> [[Fireteam Osiris]] soon met up with [[Thel 'Vadam|the Arbiter]] and following this Halsey and Palmer joined them at a camp the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] had set up in [[Nuusra]].<ref name="H5GA">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Alliance]]''</ref> Whilst Locke was treating with 'Vadam, [[Cortana]]'s voice suddenly rang out from within their meeting tent, prompting Halsey and Palmer to both rush inside. Halsey noted that she'd touched every networked device in the camp just then and concluded she must know of the Guardian they were after. 'Vadam agreed to assist in the effort to get to it at [[Sunaion]] but only on the condition that victory would be assured when they finally moved on the city. Pledging they'd deploy within the hour, Locke told Halsey to have her plan ready by then.<ref name="H5GA"/> | ||
[[File:H5G HalseySanghelios.PNG|right|thumb|350px|While in the Arbiter's camp, Doctor Halsey's amputee status was taken by the [[Unggoy]] and self-proclaimed biologist [[Gribyam]] to support [[Kat-B320|theories]] that [[human]] females signal maturity by losing appendages.<ref name="H5GAMI"/> He further hypothesized that she would soon begin to release spores and spin a cocoon of "rich meat-silk".<ref name="H5GAMI"/>]] | |||
While she continued to devise a strategy Halsey recorded a status update for the [[Arbiter]], [[Thel 'Vadam]], in which she assured him the Guardian would be in the sky over Sunaion before it initiated a [[slipspace]] jump, as he had asked.<ref name="H5GAMI">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Alliance]]'' [[Mission Intel#Alliance|mission intel]]</ref> In return for her cooperation with his request she also made one of her own for more intelligent assistants to aid her and urged him to loosen the security placed on her.<ref name="H5GAMI"/> Sometime after this she contacted Locke over an open communications channel to let him know she'd prepared the briefing but preferred to discuss it in person to avoid being eavesdropped upon.<ref name="H5GA"/> From atop a [[Forerunner]]-built structure overlooking the camp she waved the Spartans over to her as they neared and then proceeded to introduce them to what a [[Constructor]] [[sentinel]] was. She explained that if one could be acquired from the support stations which riddled the hills around them then she could use it to interface with the Guardian. She further informed them that Palmer had the location of one such station.<ref name="H5GA"/> In a supplemental status update for Thel, she pointed out that while making stubborn claims to not need her or the Guardian he ought to remember the [[ONI|organization]] she represented and its history.<ref name="H5GBTSMI">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Before the Storm]]'' [[Mission Intel#Before the Storm|mission intel]]</ref> She hoped that this would get him to show her some respect and signed off by claiming this was to be her last mandatory update.<ref name="H5GBTSMI"/> Osiris secured a Constructor before the suns had set and returned to the camp with it.<ref name="H5GBTS">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Before the Storm]]''</ref> Halsey observed that it seemed to be working as she had planned for it to but told Locke's team that it could take some time until she was finished calibrating it. She then let them know that Palmer wished to see them. When she was ready, she called Osiris back over to her spot on the Forerunner structure, which she informed them she was using to upload the coordinates recorded on [[Meridian]] into the sentinel. She wanted them to be ready to go as soon as she signaled it was time but admitted it might before hours until then. However, the Constructor suddenly took off just then, flying toward Sunaion. As Osiris and the Swords of Sanghelios prepared to follow it Halsey made sure Locke knew Cortana had been built from a matrix of her own mind, cautioning him that like her, she would take drastic measures if she thought they served the greater good. The [[Domain]], she added, would give her incredible power with which to enact those measures. As Locke walked away she called out to him again and pleaded with him to stop Cortana but to bring [[John-117|John]] home to her.<ref name="H5GBTS"/> | While she continued to devise a strategy Halsey recorded a status update for the [[Arbiter]], [[Thel 'Vadam]], in which she assured him the Guardian would be in the sky over Sunaion before it initiated a [[slipspace]] jump, as he had asked.<ref name="H5GAMI">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Alliance]]'' [[Mission Intel#Alliance|mission intel]]</ref> In return for her cooperation with his request she also made one of her own for more intelligent assistants to aid her and urged him to loosen the security placed on her.<ref name="H5GAMI"/> Sometime after this she contacted Locke over an open communications channel to let him know she'd prepared the briefing but preferred to discuss it in person to avoid being eavesdropped upon.<ref name="H5GA"/> From atop a [[Forerunner]]-built structure overlooking the camp she waved the Spartans over to her as they neared and then proceeded to introduce them to what a [[Constructor]] [[sentinel]] was. She explained that if one could be acquired from the support stations which riddled the hills around them then she could use it to interface with the Guardian. She further informed them that Palmer had the location of one such station.<ref name="H5GA"/> In a supplemental status update for Thel, she pointed out that while making stubborn claims to not need her or the Guardian he ought to remember the [[ONI|organization]] she represented and its history.<ref name="H5GBTSMI">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Before the Storm]]'' [[Mission Intel#Before the Storm|mission intel]]</ref> She hoped that this would get him to show her some respect and signed off by claiming this was to be her last mandatory update.<ref name="H5GBTSMI"/> Osiris secured a Constructor before the suns had set and returned to the camp with it.<ref name="H5GBTS">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Before the Storm]]''</ref> Halsey observed that it seemed to be working as she had planned for it to but told Locke's team that it could take some time until she was finished calibrating it. She then let them know that Palmer wished to see them. When she was ready, she called Osiris back over to her spot on the Forerunner structure, which she informed them she was using to upload the coordinates recorded on [[Meridian]] into the sentinel. She wanted them to be ready to go as soon as she signaled it was time but admitted it might before hours until then. However, the Constructor suddenly took off just then, flying toward Sunaion. As Osiris and the Swords of Sanghelios prepared to follow it Halsey made sure Locke knew Cortana had been built from a matrix of her own mind, cautioning him that like her, she would take drastic measures if she thought they served the greater good. The [[Domain]], she added, would give her incredible power with which to enact those measures. As Locke walked away she called out to him again and pleaded with him to stop Cortana but to bring [[John-117|John]] home to her.<ref name="H5GBTS"/> | ||