Catherine Halsey: Difference between revisions

[[Task Force Yama]] reached the [[Kolaqoa system]] and the planet [[Biko]]'s third moon, Seoba, on March 18.<ref name="HSS7"/> Seeing as Biko lay right in the path of the enemy's current invasion route, it had been picked as the perfect spot to lie in wait for the Covenant.<ref name="HSS5"/> The task force was soon met with resistance from insurrectionists working in concert with the [[Biko Independence Army]] during its [[Operation: ICE DANCE|insertion]] of Spartans and ODSTs to an abandoned ice quarry on the moon.<ref name="HSS8"/> The following day, Halsey was present at 0816 hours for an impromptu after action debriefing held around a folding conference table within Assembly Chamber 4L430 in one of the quarry's abandoned habitats.<ref name="HSS11">''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'', ''Chapter 11''</ref> She was seated between Captain Ascot and Colonel Crowther; also present were Captain [[Nelly Hamm]], Sergeant Johnson, Lieutenant Commander Nyeto, and John-117, who the debriefing principally concerned. During [[Ghost Flight]]'s insertion [[Alpha Company (Black Daggers)|Alpha Company]] had taken on an inordinate amount of casualties, and the unorthodox manner in which John had partially led that drop was being questioned. Halsey pushed back against the very notion that anything had gone wrong with the drop, seeing as the dockyards had been captured in less than an hour. She was surprised to hear, however, that it appeared the enemy had been expecting them. Regardless, Captain Hamm claimed that while still in the {{UNSCShip|Ghost Song}} John had dumped a wounded trooper in her lap for the sole purpose of keeping her preoccupied so he could do things as he saw fit. Halsey was quick to defend him, but John confirmed the captain's accusation.