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|affiliation= Harvest Parliament

'''Governor Nils Thune''' was the jolly and enthusiastically optimistic Governor of [[Harvest]]<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 238''</ref> until the planet's fall in [[2525]].

Thune was born in [[Minnesota]] and raised as a [[Lutheran]]. As a young boy, he was part of the colonisation of Harvest. As Governor, he later kept a [[holo-still]] of [[Utgard]] in the early days of colonization in his office. As a child, he was tall, yet already overweight. <ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 222''</ref>

By 2524, he had risen to the position of Governor of Harvest, with [[Rol Pedersen]] was his Attorney General. He had the misfortune of serving his planet during both the [[Insurrection]] and later the first contact with [[the Covenant]]. To provide security against rebels, he approved the formation of a [[Harvest militia|Harvest branch]] of the [[Colonial Militia]]. He was later furious to discover that the detachment he had approved was actually meant to be a covert counter-insurgency unit.

He later presided over the disastrous first contact with the Covenant. Ignoring the near-inevitable future hostilities between the human colonists and the [[Covenant]] emissaries, blindly hoping for a peaceful and prosperous relationship with the Covenant, he was nearly killed during a meeting with [[Jiralhanae]] representatives of the Covenant. His foolishness eventually resulted in [[Jilan al-Cygni]] being forced to remove him from power by paralyzing him with [[TTR|TTR rounds]].

 

It is unknown what happened to him after the [[First Battle of Harvest]]. Whether or not he was imprisoned for his insubordinate actions on Harvest, or if he even survived the escape from the planet is unknown.