Lovik

"Captain? Sarge? Can you hear me? We’ve got contact! Lots of them! But they’re not Covenant! They’re just tearing through us! What the...?!! ...no!!!"

— Corporal Lovik’s distress call to SSgt Johnson

Corporal Lovik was a Marine Corporal attached to an outfit in the UNSC Pillar of Autumn in 2552. When the cruiser arrived at Threshold and crashed onto Installation 04, Lovik abandoned the ship and landed on Halo with the rest of the jumped crew. He then joined the rest of the survivors at the UNSC makeshift Alpha Base.

Corporal Lovik was a Marine NCO in the UNSC, and had been picked by Sergeant Johnson to lead the second squad in a recon mission on a believed Covenant base that included Privates Riley, Manuel Mendoza, Kappus, Bisenti, Private First Class Wallace A. Jenkins, and Staff Sergeant Avery J. Johnson.

Unknown to the group, they were actually heading to the Flood Containment Facilities, where the Covenant had already accidentally released the Flood. He was among the first group of Humans attacked by the Flood, and desperately raised Sergeant Johnson and Captain Jacob Keyes over radio, though incoherently.

Lovik and his men had then been attacked by a group of Flood, and made it to back to the surface and took refuge in a structure. Based on his transmission to Johnson, it was likely he had been attacked by an Infection Form, and had either torn it off, or another Marine helped him. They were eventually joined by a few escaped survivors of the first squad, including Private Bisenti.

"Sir, thank God you're here! We've been lost out here for hours. After we lost contact with the rest of the mission, we headed for the RV point, and then these... these things! ...they ambushed us! We've gotta get out of here!"

— A frightened and confused Corporal Lovik reports to the Master Chief

When the Chief arrived at their position, Lovik and the remaining members of his squad followed him to a large tower where Foe Hammer was extracting them. Fighting through waves of Flood, it is unknown whether Lovik was turned into a Combat Form, or was picked up by Echo 419, but his death was confirmed when the Chief destroyed the Pillar of Autumn’s fusion reactors.