Catherine Halsey: Difference between revisions

By 2300 hours on [[2517#September|September 23]] Halsey was standing on a platform at the center of an amphitheater far beneath the [[Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|FLEETCOM military complex]] where her facilities were located.<ref name="HTFOR3"/> When Déjà asked if she was ready to speak to the abducted children she told the A.I. she almost was but wished for her to summon [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[Franklin Mendez]], the [[drill instructor]] who would be overseeing the trainees' physical training and hand-to-hand combat, to join her first. She directed Mendez to join her on the platform once he entered. Déjà asked the doctor for her thoughts on the candidates' psychological evaluations and Halsey, while thanking her for their thoroughness, informed her she was forgoing her recommendation to lie to the children. Halsey argued that though the truth had its own risks, lying to the children about the circumstances of their kidnappings or even inducing memory loss could jeopardize the program's goals. Before Déjà could offer a response Halsey clicked her microphone and gave the command to bring the abductees in. Once all seventy-five were seated, she explained that per [[Naval Code 45812]], they were thereby conscripted into SPARTAN-II. She said that they were to be the [[UEG]]'s protectors and promised that here they would become the best they could be. She also informed them that they could not return to their homes or families. She closed by telling them to rest then, since their training would begin the next day. Halsey then instructed CPO Mendez to escort the trainees to their barracks to be fed and put to bed, also advising that they be kept plenty busy the following day in order to keep them from thinking about what had just been done to them.<ref name="HTFOR3"/> Before all the children could file out of the amphitheater one boy asked Halsey if they were there to stop everyone from fighting and killing each other.<ref name="HTFOR3"/><ref name="HJ92317">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''September 23, 2517''</ref> Before the day was done Halsey noted in her journal that the first phase of the program's indoctrination was under way and that her team of ONI child psychologists was assuring her the children wouldn't even remember their names or families after just six months under Mendez' tutelage. Even so, she also wrote that she was working with Déjà to continue indoctrination protocols and the candidates' education.<ref name="HJ92317"/> Before falling asleep Halsey nursed a glass of wine in bed while she viewed reporting on the [[Insurrection]].<ref name="HFORBC"/> The news of an escalating death toll reinforced what she doing to the children and she said as much to Déjà before having the A.I. show her footage of the children being fed.<ref name="HFORBC"/> On the fifth day of training, the children were given haircuts.<ref name="HJ92817">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''September 28, 2517''</ref> Halsey took note in her journal that [[Kelly-087]] had clawed at and disarmed the master sergeant barber of his clippers before needing to be pinned down by three other attendants.<ref name="HJ92817"/>

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