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|gender = Male | |death=March, [[2532]]{{Ref/Note|According to ''Halo: Mortal Dictata'', Dr. Alban's suicide occurred in [[2523]]. However, the [[2019]] edition of the novel corrected this to 2532.}} | ||
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{{Quote|I have taken my own life because the SPARTAN-II program is a crime against humanity, and I should have had the moral courage to refuse to work on it. I did not. I complied.|Graham Alban on his reason for committing suicide.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 489''</ref>}} | {{Quote|I have taken my own life because the SPARTAN-II program is a crime against humanity, and I should have had the moral courage to refuse to work on it. I did not. I complied.|Graham Alban on his reason for committing suicide.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 489''</ref>}} | ||
'''Graham J. Alban, MD, MCNS, MCPP''' was a neuroscientist and psychologist who worked in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s Special Projects division. He became disillusioned with the perceived injustices he found himself willingly committing through the [[SPARTAN-II program]], leading to his suicide in | '''Graham J. Alban, MD, MCNS, MCPP''' was a neuroscientist and psychologist who worked in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s Special Projects division. He became disillusioned with the perceived injustices he found himself willingly committing through the [[SPARTAN-II program]], leading to his suicide sometime after the year 2525 in the month of March. His brain was later used in the creation of the AI [[Black-Box]].<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 490''</ref> | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Suicide and brain donation=== | ===Suicide and brain donation=== | ||
Dr. Alban expressed severe remorse for his actions in the SPARTAN-II program, calling the entire project "morally indefensible". He considered his actions (or rather, inaction) to be more reprehensible than [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]]'s, on the basis of his insistence that unlike himself, Halsey was devoid of a sense of morality and that the guilt she displayed was only a facade. In [[ | Dr. Alban expressed severe remorse for his actions in the SPARTAN-II program, calling the entire project "morally indefensible". He considered his actions (or rather, inaction) to be more reprehensible than [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]]'s, on the basis of his insistence that unlike himself, Halsey was devoid of a sense of morality and that the guilt she displayed was only a facade. In March, [[2532]] Alban committed suicide in a way that he was confident would cause little damage to his brain. He asked [[Vice Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]] to preserve his brain and use it to create an [[artificial intelligence]] that would be used to support and protect SPARTAN-IIs.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 491''</ref> | ||
Parangosky granted Alban's wish. In [[2552|August 2552]], over 20 years after his death, Alban's brain was used as the template for an AI: [[Black-Box|Black-Box (BBX-8995-1)]].<ref name="pg492">'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 492''</ref> Black-Box would retain elements of his donor's personality, such as his hatred of Catherine Halsey and a deferential, apologetic demeanor toward [[Staffan Sentzke]], the father of [[Naomi-010|one of the abductees]]. | Parangosky granted Alban's wish. In [[2552|August 2552]], over 20 years after his death, Alban's brain was used as the template for an AI: [[Black-Box|Black-Box (BBX-8995-1)]].<ref name="pg492">'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''page 492''</ref> Black-Box would retain elements of his donor's personality, such as his hatred of Catherine Halsey and a deferential, apologetic demeanor toward [[Staffan Sentzke]], the father of [[Naomi-010|one of the abductees]]. | ||
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