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{{Quote|no=three|q1=Mankind is outmatched. When [[Reach]] falls—and it will fall—our annihilation is all but certain. Unless we can glean from this artifact a defense against the Covenant. A game changer. On the level of the [[Wikipedia:Cylindro-conoidal bullet|conical bullet]] in the nineteenth century, or [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|faster-than-light]] travel in the twenty-third.|Catherine Halsey|q2=And what if we can't?|Carter-A259|q3=An apt question, if there were somewhere else to place our hope. There is not.|Catherine Halsey|Halsey makes clear the gravity of what she is entrusting NOBLE Team to do.}}<ref name="HRTP"/>

[[File:Halsey n' Six.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Halsey hands Cortana's fragment to SPARTAN-B312.]]

Doctor Halsey entered her [[SWORD Base]] office shortly after 0400 hours on August 30.<ref name="HTFOR28>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 28''</ref> At checkpoint three she was briefly [[Cortana|delayed]] by a reset of the verification system, which required her to speak that day's code phrase and undergo a retina scan twice in order to proceed. Unbeknownst to her, these interruptions were caused by Cortana, who the doctor had wrongly thought she could keep occupied at that moment with checking the systems on the ''Pillar of Autumn''.<ref name="HTFOR28"/> The doctor had sent an official protest against Ackerson to the {{UNSCShip|Burden of Proof}}, backed by Admiral Stanforth, but was still tracking his possible involvement with the missile incident from the previous day.<ref name="HJ83052">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''August 30, 2552''</ref> She had also suggested he may have suffered a mental breakdown and advised he be taken into custody, pending evaluation. She had received reports of either he or his agents investigating the area around [[CASTLE Base]]'s [[Xenoarchaeology|xenoarcheological]] site in addition to scattered ones which alleged increased [[Covenant]] activity in the vicinity as well. In her journal, she surmised that Ackerson was unlikely to find anything of interest there and cynically expressed hope that he might cross paths with the enemy. Before NOBLE Team's arrival Catherine had a number of tasks which she was determined to make sure were accomplished. She prepared [[Kalmiya]], finalized and compiled a firmware update for the part of [[Cortana]] which remained with her and upgraded that [[Armored matrix|package]] for transfer, sent a note to Miranda by way of the {{UNSCShip|Hopeful}}, enabled a network purge, and prepared all backups for an Umbra slipspace shot to Earth. The reports Halsey had seen made her confident Reach was surely lost, but having completed what she'd needed to she felt prepared in her lab as she waited for the Spartans.<ref name="HJ83052"/> [[NOBLE Team]] had arrived outside SWORD Base by 2616 hours on August 29 (local time).<ref name="HRTP">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref> Shortly before the team reached Doctor Halsey [[Jerrod]] let her know SWORD Base's perimeter had been compromised, despite assertions to the contrary being made by the base's own A.I. In case something were to happen to her, Halsey recorded a purge code and its override failsafe password in her journal.<ref name="HJ83052"/>

Doctor Halsey entered her [[SWORD Base]] office shortly after 0400 hours on August 30.<ref name="HTFOR28>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 28''</ref> At checkpoint three she was briefly [[Cortana|delayed]] by a reset of the verification system, which required her to speak that day's code phrase and undergo a retina scan twice in order to proceed. Unbeknownst to her, these interruptions were caused by Cortana, who the doctor had wrongly thought she could keep occupied at that moment with checking the systems on the ''Pillar of Autumn''.<ref name="HTFOR28"/> The doctor had sent an official protest against Ackerson to the {{UNSCShip|Burden of Proof}}, backed by Admiral Stanforth, but was still tracking his possible involvement with the missile incident from the previous day.<ref name="HJ83052">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''August 30, 2552''</ref> She had also suggested he may have suffered a mental breakdown and advised he be taken into custody, pending evaluation. She had received reports of either he or his agents investigating the area around [[CASTLE Base]]'s [[Xenoarchaeology|xenoarcheological]] site in addition to scattered ones which alleged increased [[Covenant]] activity in the vicinity as well. In her journal, she surmised that Ackerson was unlikely to find anything of interest there and cynically expressed hope that he might cross paths with the enemy. Before NOBLE Team's arrival Catherine had a number of tasks which she was determined to make sure were accomplished. She prepared [[Kalmiya]], finalized and compiled a firmware update for the part of [[Cortana]] which remained with her and upgraded that [[Armored matrix|package]] for transfer, sent a note to Miranda by way of the {{UNSCShip|Hopeful}}, enabled a network purge, and prepared all backups for an Umbra slipspace shot to Earth. The reports Halsey had seen made her confident Reach was surely lost, but having completed what she'd needed to she felt prepared in her lab as she waited for the Spartans.<ref name="HJ83052"/> [[NOBLE Team]] had arrived outside SWORD Base by 2616 hours on August 29 (local time).<ref name="HRTP">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref> Shortly before the team reached Doctor Halsey [[Jerrod]] let her know SWORD Base's perimeter had been compromised, despite assertions to the contrary being made by the base's own A.I. In case something were to happen to her, Halsey recorded a purge code and its override failsafe password in her journal.<ref name="HJ83052"/> At some point prior to the Spartans' arrival Halsey was one of only three friendly personnel registering with the base's security system.<ref name="HRG">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[Glacier]]''</ref>

[[File:HR_HalseyJun.png|thumb|right|300px|After delivering the doctor to CASTLE Base Jun headed elsewhere, somehow making it off Reach alive.]]

Upon entering SWORD Base the surviving members of NOBLE were led at [[Cortana]]'s direction to a tram which would carry them one-and-a-half kilometers east and around two thousand feet underground, where Halsey's laboratory was.<ref name="HRTP"/> Once the four of them had climbed aboard she appeared on a monitor and apologized to [[Carter-A259]] for the unusual security measures which had kept them from fully knowing what to expect at the base. He started to remark on the fact that she'd been listed as having died, but the doctor dismissed the casualty reports relating to her as false before he could finish and said she only wished the same could be said for the rest of his team, both [[Jorge-052]] and [[Kat-B320]] having been killed within the last few weeks. She offered what might have been a small comfort in sharing that the [[data module]] delivered by Kat had unlocked the secrets of her nearby [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|excavation]]. She then explained that their orders to destroy all sensitive material at the base had been overridden, as they had always been nothing more than a pretext to bring them to her so that they could take possession of this vital data and deliver it elsewhere. Carter argued that he would need to confirm this change with Colonel [[Urban Holland|Holland]], but Halsey assured him he would be briefed and said that they belonged to [[ONI]] now. As soon as NOBLE team first laid eyes on the [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|massive ship]] Halsey explained that it was [[Forerunner|alien]] but not Covenant in origin and that thanks to Kat's data its decryption was nearly complete. Carter urged her to have it ready when they reached her but the doctor insisted the decryption was still underway and, should they allow any of it to be left buried there, they'd be burying [[Human|mankind]]'s [[Installation 04|best chance]] for survival. Covenant attackers soon began encroaching on her lab and she implored the Spartans to defend it in order to buy her all they time they could. As NOBLE Team fought off successive waves of enemies Halsey occasionally updated them on the progress of the data's final decryption, and as soon as it was complete she let them know she was opening the laboratory's door. Within, she explained to them that [[Cortana]] was the important data's custodian and had been the one to choose them as her couriers. [[Emile-A239]] found the notion strange, and at that Halsey made it known that ''this'' A.I. was special. She then told them they were to carry her to the [[Asźod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards]] in [[Asźod]], where they would find the {{Class|Halcyon|light cruiser}} {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} waiting to spirit her away. Carter indicated his understanding of the mission, but Halsey made sure he understood the importance of it, claiming that humanity's annihilation was all but certain unless they could gleam some way to stop the Covenant from the information the ancient ship had provided. With that, she removed the [[armored matrix]] holding Cortana from where it had been plugged in and handed it to [[SPARTAN-B312]]. She said that Cortana had chosen him specifically to carry her and made him confirm he'd taken secure possession of the matrix before finally letting go.<ref name="HRTP"/>

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 {{Quote|no=three|q1=Mankind is outmatched. When [[Reach]] falls—and it will fall—our annihilation is all but certain. Unless we can glean from this artifact a defense against the Covenant. A game changer. On the level of the [[Wikipedia:Cylindro-conoidal bullet|conical bullet]] in the nineteenth century, or [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|faster-than-light]] travel in the twenty-third.|Catherine Halsey|q2=And what if we can't?|Carter-A259|q3=An apt question, if there were somewhere else to place our hope. There is not.|Catherine Halsey|Halsey makes clear the gravity of what she is entrusting NOBLE Team to do.}}<ref name="HRTP"/>
 [[File:Halsey n' Six.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Halsey hands Cortana's fragment to SPARTAN-B312.]]
-Doctor Halsey entered her [[SWORD Base]] office shortly after 0400 hours on August 30.<ref name="HTFOR28>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 28''</ref> At checkpoint three she was briefly [[Cortana|delayed]] by a reset of the verification system, which required her to speak that day's code phrase and undergo a retina scan twice in order to proceed. Unbeknownst to her, these interruptions were caused by Cortana, who the doctor had wrongly thought she could keep occupied at that moment with checking the systems on the ''Pillar of Autumn''.<ref name="HTFOR28"/> The doctor had sent an official protest against Ackerson to the {{UNSCShip|Burden of Proof}}, backed by Admiral Stanforth, but was still tracking his possible involvement with the missile incident from the previous day.<ref name="HJ83052">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''August 30, 2552''</ref> She had also suggested he may have suffered a mental breakdown and advised he be taken into custody, pending evaluation. She had received reports of either he or his agents investigating the area around [[CASTLE Base]]'s [[Xenoarchaeology|xenoarcheological]] site in addition to scattered ones which alleged increased [[Covenant]] activity in the vicinity as well. In her journal, she surmised that Ackerson was unlikely to find anything of interest there and cynically expressed hope that he might cross paths with the enemy. Before NOBLE Team's arrival Catherine had a number of tasks which she was determined to make sure were accomplished. She prepared [[Kalmiya]], finalized and compiled a firmware update for the part of [[Cortana]] which remained with her and upgraded that [[Armored matrix|package]] for transfer, sent a note to Miranda by way of the {{UNSCShip|Hopeful}}, enabled a network purge, and prepared all backups for an Umbra slipspace shot to Earth. The reports Halsey had seen made her confident Reach was surely lost, but having completed what she'd needed to she felt prepared in her lab as she waited for the Spartans.<ref name="HJ83052"/> [[NOBLE Team]] had arrived outside SWORD Base by 2616 hours on August 29 (local time).<ref name="HRTP">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref> Shortly before the team reached Doctor Halsey [[Jerrod]] let her know SWORD Base's perimeter had been compromised, despite assertions to the contrary being made by the base's own A.I. In case something were to happen to her, Halsey recorded a purge code and its override failsafe password in her journal.<ref name="HJ83052"/>
+Doctor Halsey entered her [[SWORD Base]] office shortly after 0400 hours on August 30.<ref name="HTFOR28>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 28''</ref> At checkpoint three she was briefly [[Cortana|delayed]] by a reset of the verification system, which required her to speak that day's code phrase and undergo a retina scan twice in order to proceed. Unbeknownst to her, these interruptions were caused by Cortana, who the doctor had wrongly thought she could keep occupied at that moment with checking the systems on the ''Pillar of Autumn''.<ref name="HTFOR28"/> The doctor had sent an official protest against Ackerson to the {{UNSCShip|Burden of Proof}}, backed by Admiral Stanforth, but was still tracking his possible involvement with the missile incident from the previous day.<ref name="HJ83052">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''August 30, 2552''</ref> She had also suggested he may have suffered a mental breakdown and advised he be taken into custody, pending evaluation. She had received reports of either he or his agents investigating the area around [[CASTLE Base]]'s [[Xenoarchaeology|xenoarcheological]] site in addition to scattered ones which alleged increased [[Covenant]] activity in the vicinity as well. In her journal, she surmised that Ackerson was unlikely to find anything of interest there and cynically expressed hope that he might cross paths with the enemy. Before NOBLE Team's arrival Catherine had a number of tasks which she was determined to make sure were accomplished. She prepared [[Kalmiya]], finalized and compiled a firmware update for the part of [[Cortana]] which remained with her and upgraded that [[Armored matrix|package]] for transfer, sent a note to Miranda by way of the {{UNSCShip|Hopeful}}, enabled a network purge, and prepared all backups for an Umbra slipspace shot to Earth. The reports Halsey had seen made her confident Reach was surely lost, but having completed what she'd needed to she felt prepared in her lab as she waited for the Spartans.<ref name="HJ83052"/> [[NOBLE Team]] had arrived outside SWORD Base by 2616 hours on August 29 (local time).<ref name="HRTP">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref> Shortly before the team reached Doctor Halsey [[Jerrod]] let her know SWORD Base's perimeter had been compromised, despite assertions to the contrary being made by the base's own A.I. In case something were to happen to her, Halsey recorded a purge code and its override failsafe password in her journal.<ref name="HJ83052"/> At some point prior to the Spartans' arrival Halsey was one of only three friendly personnel registering with the base's security system.<ref name="HRG">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[Glacier]]''</ref>
 [[File:HR_HalseyJun.png|thumb|right|300px|After delivering the doctor to CASTLE Base Jun headed elsewhere, somehow making it off Reach alive.]]
 Upon entering SWORD Base the surviving members of NOBLE were led at [[Cortana]]'s direction to a tram which would carry them one-and-a-half kilometers east and around two thousand feet underground, where Halsey's laboratory was.<ref name="HRTP"/> Once the four of them had climbed aboard she appeared on a monitor and apologized to [[Carter-A259]] for the unusual security measures which had kept them from fully knowing what to expect at the base. He started to remark on the fact that she'd been listed as having died, but the doctor dismissed the casualty reports relating to her as false before he could finish and said she only wished the same could be said for the rest of his team, both [[Jorge-052]] and [[Kat-B320]] having been killed within the last few weeks. She offered what might have been a small comfort in sharing that the [[data module]] delivered by Kat had unlocked the secrets of her nearby [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|excavation]]. She then explained that their orders to destroy all sensitive material at the base had been overridden, as they had always been nothing more than a pretext to bring them to her so that they could take possession of this vital data and deliver it elsewhere. Carter argued that he would need to confirm this change with Colonel [[Urban Holland|Holland]], but Halsey assured him he would be briefed and said that they belonged to [[ONI]] now. As soon as NOBLE team first laid eyes on the [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|massive ship]] Halsey explained that it was [[Forerunner|alien]] but not Covenant in origin and that thanks to Kat's data its decryption was nearly complete. Carter urged her to have it ready when they reached her but the doctor insisted the decryption was still underway and, should they allow any of it to be left buried there, they'd be burying [[Human|mankind]]'s [[Installation 04|best chance]] for survival. Covenant attackers soon began encroaching on her lab and she implored the Spartans to defend it in order to buy her all they time they could. As NOBLE Team fought off successive waves of enemies Halsey occasionally updated them on the progress of the data's final decryption, and as soon as it was complete she let them know she was opening the laboratory's door. Within, she explained to them that [[Cortana]] was the important data's custodian and had been the one to choose them as her couriers. [[Emile-A239]] found the notion strange, and at that Halsey made it known that ''this'' A.I. was special. She then told them they were to carry her to the [[Asźod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards]] in [[Asźod]], where they would find the {{Class|Halcyon|light cruiser}} {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} waiting to spirit her away. Carter indicated his understanding of the mission, but Halsey made sure he understood the importance of it, claiming that humanity's annihilation was all but certain unless they could gleam some way to stop the Covenant from the information the ancient ship had provided. With that, she removed the [[armored matrix]] holding Cortana from where it had been plugged in and handed it to [[SPARTAN-B312]]. She said that Cortana had chosen him specifically to carry her and made him confirm he'd taken secure possession of the matrix before finally letting go.<ref name="HRTP"/>