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|birth=[[2527]]<ref name="wp horrigan"/>

|rank=[[UNSC rank structure|Lieutenant]]

'''Lieutenant Michael Bradley Horrigan''' was an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] agent who served under ONI's Section III in [[Locke's team|a unit]] led by [[Jameson Locke|Lieutenant Commander Jameson Locke]].<ref name="wp horrigan"/>

Michael Bradley Horrigan was born in the city of [[Ganymede (city)|Ganymede]] on [[Mars]] in [[2527]]. He hailed from a prominent political family and his parents wished that he follow in their footsteps; instead, Horrigan was determined from a young age to pursue an action-oriented career, eventually ending up as a field operative in the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref name="wp horrigan"/>

On [[2556|February 7th, 2556]], Horrigan and his unit, led by [[Jameson Locke|Lieutenant Commander Jameson Locke]] were deployed to the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Sedra]] to investigate local [[terrorism|terrorist]] activity, only to uncover a plot to unleash a [[bioweapon]] which specifically targeted [[human]]s.<ref name="xbox wire SDCC">[http://news.xbox.com/2014/07/ent-halo-nightfall-sdcc-announcement '''Xbox Wire''': ''SDCC 14: 343 Industries and Scott Free Productions Offer First-Look of Halo: Nightfall'']</ref> While patrolling the outskirts of [[Sedra City]], the team spotted a [[Yonhet]] smuggler named [[Axl]] supplying a [[Sangheili Zealot]] with a [[stasis refrigerant]]. While [[Gregory Ramos]] apprehended Axl, Horrigan, Locke, and [[Alistair Estrin]] pursued the Sangheili. Locke chased after the Sangheili into a city access tunnel, while Horrigan and the rest of the unit headed directly to the city. Locke pursued the Zealot into a Sedran mall, where Horrigan arrived in time to watch the Sangheili jump off a ledge and activate the device, killing himself in the process. Many humans throughout the city began showing signs of infection, including operatives [[Jordan Gaines]] and [[Mason Hundley]]. The unit went to the [[Sedran Colonial Guard Hospital]], where Horrigan and the uninfected members of his unit went through a decontamination process. After searching the [[Bactrian-class freighter|tug]] used to transport the bioweapon to Sedra, the unit learned that the core ingredient of the weapon—an all-new element—originated from [[Alpha Shard|a fragment]] of [[Installation 04]] in orbit around a red giant. The team discovered a second tug was traveling to the shard.<ref name="nightfall1">'''[[Halo: Nightfall]]''', ''Chapter 1''</ref>

After getting the approval of [[Goodwin|Rear Admiral Goodwin]], the team was forced to cooperate with the [[Sedran Colonial Guard]] to uncover the origin of the bioweapon. Taking a [[D81-LRT Condor]] to the partially functioning fragment, eleven ONI and Colonial Guard personnel traveled to Alpha Shard.<ref name="nightfall1"/>

Horrigan was superficially very loyal but also compulsive, arrogant and over-confident. When faced with a life-and-death situation, he cared little for the lives of others and considered his own survival paramount. In contrast to his parents' wishes, Horrigan valued the ability to rise up on the merits of his own strength and ability, not influence. In the long term, Horrigan viewed the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] as [[human]]ity's best option for reconstruction and unity in the volatile post-[[Covenant War]] era galaxy.<ref name="wp horrigan"/>

He believed ONI to be superior to the [[Sedran Colonial Guard]] and was particularly vocal about his low opinion on the Sedrans during their joint mission.<ref name="nightfall1"/> Horrigan insisted that the [[Mission to Alpha Shard|mission]] to [[Alpha Shard]] was ONI's mission, which resulted in Sedran [[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]] berating him. Horrigan was very loyal to his commanding officer [[Jameson Locke|Lieutenant Commander Jameson Locke]]; during the mission with the Sedrans, Horrigan informed Locke that he would follow the orders of Locke over those of Aiken—who had taken tactical control of the operation. Despite this, his stress and fear of being left behind eventually caused him to abandon his loyalties and mutiny against Locke.<ref name="nightfall4"/>

Horrigan was left-handed. He had a [[tattoo]] of a wolf's head on his left bicep.<ref name="nightfall1"/> He enjoyed watching the explosion of [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|HAVOK nukes]] in real-time.<ref name="nightfall2"/>

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