Beowulf
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| Beowulf | |
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Began service: |
September 2525 or earlier |
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Ended service: |
August 30, 2552 (presumed) |
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Gender: |
Male programming |
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Description: |
A man wearing a hooded cloak |
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Affiliation: |
Office of Naval Intelligence |
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Functionality: |
Guardian of the UNSC personnel and planning database; attaché to Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth |
Beowulf was a "dumb" artificial intelligence of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He served as the attaché to Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth, the head of the Office of Naval Intelligence's Section Three and safeguarded the United Nations Space Command's personnel and planning database.[1]
Background
He was thorough, methodical and paranoid. His avatar depicted a man in a hooded cloak.
Beowulf was present during the SPARTAN-IIs' original briefing about the Covenant on September 12, 2525.[2]
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.[3]
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 August 30, 2552.
Trivia
- Beowulf is named after the titular character of the famous heroic poem Beowulf, the only surviving piece of ancient Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry.
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: Fall of Reach
Sources
