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{{Quote|I'm Lieutenant Commander Coffey. Cargo Services. I'm sort of the engineer--when we need one.|Elaine to Major Kell Tanris.}} | {{Quote|I'm Lieutenant Commander Coffey. Cargo Services. I'm sort of the engineer--when we need one.|Elaine to Major Kell Tanris.}} | ||
'''Commander Elaine Coffey''' was an officer in the [[UNSC Navy]]. She was a Lieutenant Commander and the watch officer aboard the {{ | '''Commander Elaine Coffey''' was an officer in the [[UNSC Navy]]. She was a Lieutenant Commander and the watch officer aboard the {{UNSCShip|Nereid}}, a mixed cargo hauler, when it was attacked and stranded in space in 2558. The commander of the vessel died in the process, leaving Elaine to take over command.<ref name="TFSU"/> | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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{{Quote|I didn't want this. But nobody's going to be out of the action. We'll need everyone working together.|Elaine encourages the others stranded with her.}} | {{Quote|I didn't want this. But nobody's going to be out of the action. We'll need everyone working together.|Elaine encourages the others stranded with her.}} | ||
[[File:coffey2.png|200px|thumb|right|Elaine asserts herself to refocus those under her on known threats.]] | [[File:coffey2.png|200px|thumb|right|Elaine asserts herself to refocus those under her on known threats.]] | ||
A meeting was held between Coffey, Rasul, Tanris, [[Sergeant]] [[Chan]], and the head of the construction crews, [[Kalanga]]. Elaine explained to them that though they had exited slipspace, they were still on-course in normal space, albeit at a greatly reduced speed. They were decades or even centuries away from anywhere of significance. Major Tanris expressed a desire to begin planning for the ''Nereid'''s defense, should she be boarded, but Elaine reminded her and the others that they had other pressing matters to consider. The hauler was rapidly losing heat and without working carbon dioxide scrubbers, they would all be dead shortly if a solution wasn't reached for their energy crisis. Coffey proposed that everyone repurpose equipment in the ship's gymnasium and that belonging to Kalanga's construction crews to supply it with mechanical energy to keep them alive for the time being. Tanris was somewhat resistant to Coffey's strong display of leadership, owing to the unique situation and her inexperience in the command role, but she acquiesced to her wishes concerning immediate priorities. For the next few weeks, all personnel on the {{ | A meeting was held between Coffey, Rasul, Tanris, [[Sergeant]] [[Chan]], and the head of the construction crews, [[Kalanga]]. Elaine explained to them that though they had exited slipspace, they were still on-course in normal space, albeit at a greatly reduced speed. They were decades or even centuries away from anywhere of significance. Major Tanris expressed a desire to begin planning for the ''Nereid'''s defense, should she be boarded, but Elaine reminded her and the others that they had other pressing matters to consider. The hauler was rapidly losing heat and without working carbon dioxide scrubbers, they would all be dead shortly if a solution wasn't reached for their energy crisis. Coffey proposed that everyone repurpose equipment in the ship's gymnasium and that belonging to Kalanga's construction crews to supply it with mechanical energy to keep them alive for the time being. Tanris was somewhat resistant to Coffey's strong display of leadership, owing to the unique situation and her inexperience in the command role, but she acquiesced to her wishes concerning immediate priorities. For the next few weeks, all personnel on the {{UNSCShip|Nereid}} cooperated to keep air and water filtration operating at the necessary capacity. Commander Coffey and Lieutenant Rasul investigated drawing heat from their [[M441 Hornet Remote Explosive System|Hornet mines]] but found that the radioactivity that they'd be exposed to would be too great. Just as thy gave up on that pursuit, Tanris, Chan, and others entered the hold where they were, trailing a length of spare cabling. The marines proposed linking the [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|slipspace drive]] with the Hornet mines to create a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, but Coffey explained that she and Rasul had just looked into doing something similar and decided it was too dangerous. To this, Sergeant Chan replied that the mines could be towed behind the ship, which would protect those aboard from radiation. Rasul bristled at this since it would require committing the rest of the ship's good cabling to the endeavor. Coffey agreed with the Lieutenant and also said she didn't want to waste air and heat by having trips outside the ship. She also noted that they couldn't even know if the drive could even be reactivated if it had enough power. Her doubts frustrated Major Tanris, who stated that she had already talked to Kalanga about the plan and gotten the construction crews to get behind it. She asked for Elaine's help, seeing as her people were best suited to set up the makeshift generator. Commander Coffey reluctantly assented to the plan.<ref name="TFSU"/> | ||
[[File:coffey3.png|300px|thumb|left|Commander Coffey and Major Tanris debate in the cargo hold.]] | [[File:coffey3.png|300px|thumb|left|Commander Coffey and Major Tanris debate in the cargo hold.]] | ||
After a few days of work, the generator was ready to be tested. Unfortunately, the slipspace drive was unresponsive to the influx of energy. Whatever had knocked it out initially had not been fixed, so power was not evidently the issue. The failure resulted in tempers flaring between some of the naval personnel and marines, notably [[Chan]] and [[Rasul]], but Coffey defused the situation before it got out of hand while they were all performing [[extra-vehicular activity]] outside the ship. Not long after this, a disheartened construction worker killed himself by evacuating an airlock. As more time passed, Commander Coffey shot down numerous other schemes that Tanris brought to her. Elaine also refused to allow the dead body to be retrieved as it floated alongside them, having lost too much air already setting up the failed generator. Kalanga came running to see her at one point to warn her that Tanris had begun sending her people all throughout the ship in an apparent attempt to take it over. In disbelief, Coffey ordered Rasul to get as many people as he could into the cargo hold. There, armed with weapons from a cache, the naval personnel that had not been locked up in the nascent mutiny waited for the marines to make the next move. Major Tanris boldly entered the hold and made an offer of peace to Coffey, saying that she was only trying to "streamline" the chain of command. Coffey floated over to a [[M4093 Hyperion nuclear delivery system|Hyperion nuclear missile]] and aimed her [[M6H magnum]] at its explosive primary, daring anyone to shoot at her. Tanris joined her at the warhead when asked, and the two argued about the merits of trying anything to get back to civilization versus focusing on simply staying alive for as long as possible. The Hyperion missile suddenly causes another idea to take hold in Tanris' head. She proposes that the missiles could be used to propel the ''Nereid'' through brute force. Coffey, surprisingly, didn't fight her on the proposal but instead added to it by suggesting the ship's shielded loading ramp and a housing they built could be used to focus the blast. Rasul spoke up to make his skepticism known, but this time Coffey made it clear that she fully supported the plan. She and Tanris parted peacefully, both seemingly committed fully to this latest attempt at salvation.<ref name="TFSU"/> | After a few days of work, the generator was ready to be tested. Unfortunately, the slipspace drive was unresponsive to the influx of energy. Whatever had knocked it out initially had not been fixed, so power was not evidently the issue. The failure resulted in tempers flaring between some of the naval personnel and marines, notably [[Chan]] and [[Rasul]], but Coffey defused the situation before it got out of hand while they were all performing [[extra-vehicular activity]] outside the ship. Not long after this, a disheartened construction worker killed himself by evacuating an airlock. As more time passed, Commander Coffey shot down numerous other schemes that Tanris brought to her. Elaine also refused to allow the dead body to be retrieved as it floated alongside them, having lost too much air already setting up the failed generator. Kalanga came running to see her at one point to warn her that Tanris had begun sending her people all throughout the ship in an apparent attempt to take it over. In disbelief, Coffey ordered Rasul to get as many people as he could into the cargo hold. There, armed with weapons from a cache, the naval personnel that had not been locked up in the nascent mutiny waited for the marines to make the next move. Major Tanris boldly entered the hold and made an offer of peace to Coffey, saying that she was only trying to "streamline" the chain of command. Coffey floated over to a [[M4093 Hyperion nuclear delivery system|Hyperion nuclear missile]] and aimed her [[M6H magnum]] at its explosive primary, daring anyone to shoot at her. Tanris joined her at the warhead when asked, and the two argued about the merits of trying anything to get back to civilization versus focusing on simply staying alive for as long as possible. The Hyperion missile suddenly causes another idea to take hold in Tanris' head. She proposes that the missiles could be used to propel the ''Nereid'' through brute force. Coffey, surprisingly, didn't fight her on the proposal but instead added to it by suggesting the ship's shielded loading ramp and a housing they built could be used to focus the blast. Rasul spoke up to make his skepticism known, but this time Coffey made it clear that she fully supported the plan. She and Tanris parted peacefully, both seemingly committed fully to this latest attempt at salvation.<ref name="TFSU"/> | ||