Beowulf: Difference between revisions

{{Status|Canon}}

|image = [[File:Beowulf.jpg|300px]]

|began = [[2525#November|November 2525]] or earlier

|ended =  

|gender = Male programming

|color = Blue

|affiliation = [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]

|function = Attaché to ONI

'''Beowulf''' was a [[Dumb AI|"dumb" artificial intelligence]] of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-armory-amore '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Armory Amore'']</ref> He was thorough, methodical and paranoid. His [[avatar]] depicted a man in a hooded cloak. He served as the attaché to [[Vice Admiral]] [[Michael Stanforth]], the head of the Office of Naval Intelligence's [[Office of Naval Intelligence#Section Three|Section Three]]<ref name="hfor117">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''pages 117-122'' (2010 edition)</ref> and safeguarded the [[United Nations Space Command]]'s personnel and planning database.<ref name="Justice">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 267''</ref>

==Biography==

Beowulf was present during the [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-IIs']] original briefing about the [[Covenant]] in the [[Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex]]'s secure briefing room on [[2525#November|November 2, 2525]]. Upon the instruction of [[Vice Admiral]] [[Michael Stanforth]], Beowulf reluctantly presented the classified [[First Battle of Harvest|destruction]] of [[Harvest]] to the Spartans. He also broadcasted a message across the amphitheatre from the [[Prophet of Regret|High Prophet of Regret]], whom insisted that the destruction of [[human]]ity was the "will of the [[Forerunner|Gods]]". Afterwards, Beowulf left with Stanforth and Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]].{{Ref/Reuse|hfor117}}

He was later assigned to guard the UNSC's personnel and planning database. He knew [[Cortana]] well and knew that she was potentially dangerous. During her attempts to hack into the system, Beowulf foiled her attempts. However, Cortana quickly overcame his defenses and accessed SPARTAN [[John-117]]'s [[Career Service Vitae]].{{Ref/Reuse|Justice}}

As Beowulf served as Vice Admiral Stanforth's personal attaché, it is possible that the AI was destroyed when Stanforth was killed during the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]].

Beowulf is named after the titular character of the famous heroic poem ''[[Wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'', the only surviving piece of ancient Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry.

==Gallery==

File:HFoR-stanforth.png|Beowulf alongside Vice Admiral Stanforth.

File:HTFoR AS - Stanforth & Beowulf.jpg|Conceptual art depicting Beowulf.

File:HTFoR AS - Beowulf.png|

{{Ref/Sources}}