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{{Quote|Life is too short. I will never learn all that exists in our own tiny galaxy, let alone the rest of the universe. And I so desperately want to know ''everything''. But the UNSC acts like children at play in a sandbox. Mistaking its edges for the limits of the world.|Catherine Halsey to Captain Thomas Lasky regarding her subterfuge.}} | {{Quote|Life is too short. I will never learn all that exists in our own tiny galaxy, let alone the rest of the universe. And I so desperately want to know ''everything''. But the UNSC acts like children at play in a sandbox. Mistaking its edges for the limits of the world.|Catherine Halsey to Captain Thomas Lasky regarding her subterfuge.}} | ||
[[File:Halsey Infinity.png|thumb|300px|Halsey examines the recovered Forerunner artifact.]] | [[File:Halsey Infinity.png|thumb|300px|Halsey examines the recovered Forerunner artifact.]] | ||
In mid-[[2558#February|February 2558]] Doctor Halsey arrived at the [[shield world]] [[Requiem]] in the [[Epoloch system]] aboard the {{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}} {{UNSCShip|Aladdin}}.<ref name="H4SOC">''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'', ''[[Catherine]]''</ref> There, she was delivered to the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}, which had arrived just days earlier for its [[ | In mid-[[2558#February|February 2558]] Doctor Halsey arrived at the [[shield world]] [[Requiem]] in the [[Epoloch system]] aboard the {{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}} {{UNSCShip|Aladdin}}.<ref name="H4SOC">''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'', ''[[Catherine]]''</ref> There, she was delivered to the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}, which had arrived just days earlier for its [[Requiem Campaign|second]] excursion to the massive [[Forerunner]] planetoid. Four marines turned her over to Captain [[Thomas Lasky]], to whom Catherine demanded that she be freed from her restraints on the grounds that she would not walk around the ship ''she'' built with her hands cuffed. The captain consented and [[Spartan]] [[Paul DeMarco]] proceeded to undo them, at which point the doctor told Lasky to take her to an [[Requiem translocation artifact|artifact]] which had been brought aboard the ship on February 10 and unexpectedly caused a number of problems for it.<ref name="H4SOA">''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'', ''[[Artifact (Spartan Ops)|Artifact]]''</ref>{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOA}} Among these was the disappearance of [[Henry Glassman]], the ''Infinity''{{'}}s chief engineer, who had been unwillingly [[Slipspace translocation|teleported]] by the artifact to an unknown location.{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOC}}{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOA}} Lasky had been forced to request Halsey's aid following the loss of Glassman.<ref name="HM179">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', ''page 179''</ref> As she approached the artifact in question she asked if any other unexplained reactions had followed.{{Ref/Reuse|H4SOC}} She was told that none had, but Lasky still cautioned her once she touched it, fearing the same could happen to her. | ||
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Halsey's projects and the results they yielded gained her widespread acclaim and sympathies among many high-ranking members of the UNSC military, such as [[Admiral]] [[Michael Stanforth|Stanforth]], her most powerful ally within ONI, and [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Terrence Hood|Hood]], who deeply respected Halsey and her Spartans who had saved his own life twice, to the extent that he verbally rebuked Colonel Ackerson for detracting the Spartan-IIs.<ref name="hood">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 104'' (2003)</ref> However, she also garnered a number of competitors and opponents over the decades. The most notable of her rivals was [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson|Ackerson]], who constantly tried to spy on her and co-opted her work while attempting to sabotage the SPARTAN-II program. Her former student [[Ellen Anders]] also resented Halsey, saying "She hated me and I hated her."<ref>'''[[Halo Wars]]''' ''manual, character profiles''</ref> ONI Commander-in-Chief, [[Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]], was resentful of Halsey, perceiving the doctor's aversion for control and her general lack of loyalty to ONI as a threat. The Admiral only tolerated Halsey because she was so crucial to the war effort,<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 48''</ref> but had her detained immediately after the end of the war. Parangosky's antipathy for Halsey was passed on to [[Serin Osman]], a Spartan-II washout whom the Admiral specifically indoctrinated and groomed to become her successor to secure her personal legacy within ONI, and ultimately culminated in Osman ordering Halsey's assassination after the Covenant abducted the doctor during the [[ | Halsey's projects and the results they yielded gained her widespread acclaim and sympathies among many high-ranking members of the UNSC military, such as [[Admiral]] [[Michael Stanforth|Stanforth]], her most powerful ally within ONI, and [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Terrence Hood|Hood]], who deeply respected Halsey and her Spartans who had saved his own life twice, to the extent that he verbally rebuked Colonel Ackerson for detracting the Spartan-IIs.<ref name="hood">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 104'' (2003)</ref> However, she also garnered a number of competitors and opponents over the decades. The most notable of her rivals was [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson|Ackerson]], who constantly tried to spy on her and co-opted her work while attempting to sabotage the SPARTAN-II program. Her former student [[Ellen Anders]] also resented Halsey, saying "She hated me and I hated her."<ref>'''[[Halo Wars]]''' ''manual, character profiles''</ref> ONI Commander-in-Chief, [[Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]], was resentful of Halsey, perceiving the doctor's aversion for control and her general lack of loyalty to ONI as a threat. The Admiral only tolerated Halsey because she was so crucial to the war effort,<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 48''</ref> but had her detained immediately after the end of the war. Parangosky's antipathy for Halsey was passed on to [[Serin Osman]], a Spartan-II washout whom the Admiral specifically indoctrinated and groomed to become her successor to secure her personal legacy within ONI, and ultimately culminated in Osman ordering Halsey's assassination after the Covenant abducted the doctor during the [[Requiem Campaign]]. Parangosky's, and later Osman's, AI attaché [[Black-Box]] also had an intense dislike of Halsey. This was, at least partly, passed on from his brain donor, [[Graham Alban|Dr. Graham Alban]], who worked with Halsey on the SPARTAN-II program and eventually committed suicide over his guilt. Both Alban and BB doubted the sincerity of Halsey's doubts about the ethics of her work and viewed her as genuinely amoral.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata''', ''pages 490-492''</ref> | ||
Many of those unfamiliar with the internal dynamics of ONI and the SPARTAN-II program have come to interpret Halsey and her work in a highly negative light. Despite the predominant role of ONI and the UNSC Naval leadership in the conception and execution of the SPARTAN-II program, Dr. Halsey is often perceived as the sole individual responsible, due to her conspicuous position as the project head.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 178''</ref> Taking advantage of this, ONI prefers to attribute some of the more controversial aspects of the project to their alleged lack of sufficient oversight.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=96218485&postcount=40 '''NeoGaf:''' ''Was Dr. Halsey justified, ultimately, in creating the Spartan-II program in Halo? — View Single Post''] ([[Frank O'Connor]]: ''"Other even less savory characters are trying to harm her legacy to boost their own careers. And they're doing it by illuminating her prior actions in an ugly way."'')</ref> [[Black-Box]] even privately acknowledges to Serin Osman that the main reason for Halsey's fall from grace is to conceal or minimize the responsibility of the many others who participated in the project.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata'''</ref> Although she was responsible for much of the program's scientific basis and harbored no illusions otherwise, Halsey was under ONI's constant supervision and was even repeatedly pressured by Section III to use more inhumane means for faster results.{{Ref/Reuse|for29}} Many have also interpreted her primary motivation as a supposed perverse scientific curiosity, ignoring—or unaware of—her sincere determination to prevent further excessive bloodshed in the Insurrection and her initial naiveté in failing to grasp the full moral ramifications of her work until witnessing it in practice.{{Ref/Reuse|HJ12410}} | Many of those unfamiliar with the internal dynamics of ONI and the SPARTAN-II program have come to interpret Halsey and her work in a highly negative light. Despite the predominant role of ONI and the UNSC Naval leadership in the conception and execution of the SPARTAN-II program, Dr. Halsey is often perceived as the sole individual responsible, due to her conspicuous position as the project head.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 178''</ref> Taking advantage of this, ONI prefers to attribute some of the more controversial aspects of the project to their alleged lack of sufficient oversight.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=96218485&postcount=40 '''NeoGaf:''' ''Was Dr. Halsey justified, ultimately, in creating the Spartan-II program in Halo? — View Single Post''] ([[Frank O'Connor]]: ''"Other even less savory characters are trying to harm her legacy to boost their own careers. And they're doing it by illuminating her prior actions in an ugly way."'')</ref> [[Black-Box]] even privately acknowledges to Serin Osman that the main reason for Halsey's fall from grace is to conceal or minimize the responsibility of the many others who participated in the project.<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata'''</ref> Although she was responsible for much of the program's scientific basis and harbored no illusions otherwise, Halsey was under ONI's constant supervision and was even repeatedly pressured by Section III to use more inhumane means for faster results.{{Ref/Reuse|for29}} Many have also interpreted her primary motivation as a supposed perverse scientific curiosity, ignoring—or unaware of—her sincere determination to prevent further excessive bloodshed in the Insurrection and her initial naiveté in failing to grasp the full moral ramifications of her work until witnessing it in practice.{{Ref/Reuse|HJ12410}} | ||