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 While still speaking with Cortana that August 25 morning, Doctor Halsey let on that the final phase of MJOLNIR had been approved.<ref name="HTFOR25"/> Her creation asked when she would be leaving for RED FLAG, to which Halsey answered "Soon." There were still a few final modifications she needed to make to the Mark V systems which the Spartan-IIs would be using. Cortana inquired as to which of the Spartans would be carrying her so Halsey asked which one she would like to. Cortana immediately gravitated toward an image of [[John-117]] but Halsey suggested she make a different choice, citing compatibility issues. At this Cortana swiftly developed a custom interface buffer that, once a new [[neural interface]] was installed, would allow her and John's neural patterns to synchronize within 0.081%. Catherine asked if she'd read his [[Career Service Vitae|career service vitae]] and learned she was looking it over again right that moment. Both of them agreed that he was the bravest, the luckiest, and the best of the Spartans. The doctor asked if Cortana would be willing to sacrifice him in order to complete the mission, and once she'd assented to this, gave her permission to make him her carrier. Next, they discussed the ''Pillar of Autumn'' and determined refit operations needed to begin at once. Halsey had chosen Jacob Keyes to captain the [[UNSC Cruiser|cruiser]] so she forwarded Cortana his CSV so she could look it over as well. She was not immediately convinced the doctor had made the right choice, but Catherine pointed out his ability to keep a secret made him superbly qualified for the mission.<ref name="HTFOR25"/>
-On [[2552#August|August 27]] Catherine Halsey and Jacob Keyes met with twenty-five of the remaining Spartan-IIs at 0800 hours underneath the Highland Mountains [[Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|FLEETCOM complex]] to brief them on [[Operation: RED FLAG]], as Admiral Stanforth had requested she do.<ref name="HTFOR26"/> There, in the same amphitheater in which they had been brought as children thirty-five years prior, she asked them to disregard normal protocol and ask any questions they may have during her presentation. She explained that RED FLAG was to be executed in four phases. First, a Covenant ship would be disabled. Then, the Spartans would board it and crack its navigation database. John interrupted her at this point to ask if mission specialist personnel would help with the Covenant computers and she assured him that would be addressed soon. The mission's third phase was to involve taking the captured ship to the Covenant "[[High Charity|home world]]", and its fourth would see one of its leaders captured and brought to UNSC space. John spoke up again to question the wisdom of capturing a [[San'Shyuum|prophet]] rather than killing them, so Halsey addressed his concern by pointing out that killing one could trigger an escalation. Taking a [[hierarch]] prisoner might allow the UNSC to force a truce. Intelligence indicated that the three hierarchs at the apex of the Covenant spent their time either at the hegemony's mobile capital city ''[[High Charity]]'' or aboard either {{Class|CSO|supercarrier}}s or {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}}s.<ref name="DD5"/> Capturing an assault carrier or supercarrier would be preferable because with luck one of the [[San'Shyuum]] High Prophets would be aboard and a trip to ''High Charity'' would be unnecessary.<ref name="DD5"/> Hesitantly, the doctor shared that ONI was predicting only months remained before the enemy found [[Earth]] and moved against it. Even so, she had persuaded Stanforth and FLEETCOM to not order any of them to join this operation—all would be volunteers. Without a second through every Spartan present stood upon hearing this, and Catherine thanked them. As she stepped away from the podium she'd been addressing them from she said she and Keyes would meet with each of them individually within a few days to continue their briefing. Each of them needed to be given Mark V Mjolnir and shown how to get their "[[Cortana|computer experts]]" on board the alien ship, after all.<ref name="HTFOR26">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 26''</ref>
+On [[2552#August|August 27]] Catherine Halsey and Jacob Keyes met with twenty-five of the remaining Spartan-IIs at 0800 hours underneath the Highland Mountains [[Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex|FLEETCOM complex]] to brief them on [[Operation: RED FLAG]], as Admiral Stanforth had requested she do.<ref name="HTFOR26"/> There, in the same amphitheater in which they had been brought as children thirty-five years prior, she asked them to disregard normal protocol and ask any questions they may have during her presentation. She explained that RED FLAG was to be executed in four phases. First, a Covenant ship would be disabled. Then, the Spartans would board it and crack its navigation database. John interrupted her at this point to ask if mission specialist personnel would help with the Covenant computers and she assured him that would be addressed soon. The mission's third phase was to involve taking the captured ship to the Covenant "[[High Charity|home world]]", and its fourth would see one of its leaders captured and brought to UNSC space. John spoke up again to question the wisdom of capturing a [[San'Shyuum|prophet]] rather than killing them, so Halsey addressed his concern by pointing out that killing one could trigger an escalation. Taking a [[hierarch]] prisoner might allow the UNSC to force a truce. Intelligence indicated that the three hierarchs at the apex of the Covenant spent their time either at the hegemony's mobile capital city ''[[High Charity]]'' or aboard either {{Pattern|Sh'wada|supercarrier}}s or {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}}s.<ref name="DD5"/> Capturing an assault carrier or supercarrier would be preferable because with luck one of the [[San'Shyuum]] High Prophets would be aboard and a trip to ''High Charity'' would be unnecessary.<ref name="DD5"/> Hesitantly, the doctor shared that ONI was predicting only months remained before the enemy found [[Earth]] and moved against it. Even so, she had persuaded Stanforth and FLEETCOM to not order any of them to join this operation—all would be volunteers. Without a second through every Spartan present stood upon hearing this, and Catherine thanked them. As she stepped away from the podium she'd been addressing them from she said she and Keyes would meet with each of them individually within a few days to continue their briefing. Each of them needed to be given Mark V Mjolnir and shown how to get their "[[Cortana|computer experts]]" on board the alien ship, after all.<ref name="HTFOR26">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 26''</ref>
 In order to pull RED FLAG off, it had been determined that a colony of significant value to the Covenant and boasting many [[Forerunner|ancient alien]] artifacts would in all likelihood need to be sacrificed in order to draw the required Class-Five assets, possibly with hierarchs, in so that Spartans could infiltrate them. The best shot at taking over a large ship would come after a fleet believed it had secured a major victory.<ref name="DD5"/> Given the current situation on Reach, ONI had decided to make the most of a losing fight and enact RED FLAG there. It was for this reason that not one of the twenty-five Spartans was yet aware that [[Reach]] was already [[Fall of Reach|under siege]], largely thanks to the efforts of Halsey and Stanforth, who had been making sure to keep them well away from the primary target sites.<ref name="DD5"/> Later that day Halsey reflected on the meeting in her journal, being hopeful for the Spartans' ability to secure a temporary peace that would but humanity time.<ref name="HJ82752"/> She expressed her thrill at seeing so many of them together once again and mourned for those who had died years past, truly surprised at how emotional the gathering had made her. She was confident they were ready, but still resolved to appear strong for their benefit. She noted that the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V]] armor they'd soon be gifted with was one small operation and a few tests from completion. With only a few days left before she expected to learn whether all her discoveries and sacrifices had been worth it, she closed that day's entry wishing there was time to properly analyze her feelings and reminding herself that four small tasks still remained to complete.<ref name="HJ82752">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''August 27, 2552''</ref> By this point she had begun splitting Cortana into separate programs in order to juggle the [[Visegrád]] findings with RED FLAG.<ref name="DD5"/> Cortana, for her part, was continually updating her separated portion and would keep doing so until the last possible moment. Catherine was excited to see how she and John took to one another.<ref name="HJ82752"/> She had assured Stanforth that Cortana remained fully functional even with a large portion of her processes excised.<ref name="DD5"/>
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 By October 17 the UNSC had been keeping tabs on the consolidation of the bulk of Jul's fleet at Kamchatka for weeks.<ref name="HOSFM11"/><ref name="HOSFM92">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', ''page 92''</ref> Less than a week after that date (and at three weeks since Halsey contacted the ''Infinity'') a native defense system on Kamchatka was disabled, but Halsey was unable to bring its corresponding alert system down soon enough.<ref name="H5GOMI"/><ref name="HOSFM11">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', ''page 11''</ref> As a result, mechanical [[Promethean]] constructs arrived at Kamchatka within the hour and [[Battle of Kamchatka|attacked]] the Covenant.<ref name="H5GOMI"/> That same day, the [[Spartan-IV]]s of [[Fireteam Osiris]] were deployed to retrieve Halsey from Jul 'Mdama's custody.<ref name="H5GO"/> They found she and 'Mdama on a cliffside balcony of a temple structure. There Halsey claimed to be trying to access the [[Domain]] despite several problems, such as those relating to [[Slipstream space#Reconciliation|causal reconciliation]]. Jul made his impatience with her efforts clear and also demanded that she afford him respect, but this only elicited taunting on her part over his loss of the [[Promethean]]s. Finally, she declared that their current location was unsuitable for [[Wikipedia:Triangulation|triangulation]] should Cortana make another transmission. This enraged Jul, who scolded her for failing to deliver results after weeks of "chasing shadows", as he put it. It was at that moment that Osiris attacked Jul and his guards, killing them all. Spartan [[Jameson Locke]] approached the doctor after pulling his [[combat knife|knife]] from Jul's neck and let her know that Captain Lasky wanted to see her. To this she sarcastically replied that it had taken them long enough.<ref name="H5GO"/> Halsey accompanied Osiris back to the ''Infinity'' via Pelican.<ref name="H5GBT">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Blue Team (level)|Blue Team]]''</ref> Upon landing within Docking Bay 11 the five of them were met by Lasky and [[Sarah Palmer]]. Catherine chided the captain for not coming to get her sooner and had him assure her they would talk about that once they were somewhere with more privacy. Palmer took Halsey by the arm and began to lead her way but even as they went she couldn't help but ask Lasky for any information he had about Cortana's actions, which he flatly ignored.<ref name="H5GBT"/><ref group="note">At some point Halsey told Locke "Once this is over, after all I have done, [[ONI|they'll]] order you to kill us both." At what point she told him this, what ongoing event or events she was referring to, or who she was asserting he'd be ordered to kill in addition to her are presently unknown. This line plays during the opening cutscene of ''Halo 5: Guardians'' while both Halsey and Cortana are shown, suggesting Cortana may be the additional target referred to. In addition, Halsey is known to have at some point assisted a [[unidentified AI|"non-volitional" A.I.]] located within a secure ONI facility after it was tasked by Locke with determining vulnerabilities within Mjolnir armor.</ref>
 [[File:She's alive-.png|thumb|left|350px|Halsey, Palmer, Roland, and Lasky discuss Cortana and the Master Chief.]]
-By October 23 the ''Infinity'' had arrived in the [[Crow's Eye Nebula]].<ref name="H5GBT"/><ref name="WaypointLinda-058">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/linda-058 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Linda-058'']</ref><ref name="TD">[[Troy Denning]] on Twitter [https://twitter.com/TDenningauthor/status/932052034701942784]</ref> At 0630 hours that day [[Linda-058]], [[Kelly-087]], [[Frederic-104]], and [[John-117]] were declared absent without leave, having made an unsanctioned departure from the nebula in [[ONI Acrisius|a]] stolen {{Class|Winter|prowler}}.<ref name="H5GG"/><ref name="H5GBT"/> Spartan Palmer escorted Halsey to the ''Infinity'''s bridge later that day, where she immediately began pressing the matter of Cortana once more to the captain, stressing how dangerous she had become through accessing the Domain and taking control of [[Guardian Custode|devices]] which had begun to cause damage on a number of colonies.<ref name="H5GG"/> Lasky informed her that the Master Chief had reported being contacted by Cortana, which Halsey saw as potentially disastrous. She was then told that he'd gone in search of her and was shocked at the notion that Lasky would have let him go, but he explained that John was not acting independently. Halsey began to speak on why John was unequipped to deal with Cortana as a threat but was interrupted by [[Roland]], who until that point had been unaware of her continued survival. He questioned why the doctor was so quick, in his mind, to label Cortana a threat or a danger, seeing as she was the one who had created her to begin with.<ref name="H5GG">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Glassed|Glassed]]''</ref> Two days later Fireteam Osiris was deployed once again, but this time with the goal of apprehending Blue Team and the stolen [[prowler]].<ref name="H5GG"/><ref name="HFWR">''[[Halo: Fractures]]'', ''[[What Remains]]''</ref> The AWOL Spartans had been followed to [[Meridian]], a moon of [[Hestia V]].<ref name="H5GG"/> Osiris failed to stop them, as they managed to board a [[Guardian Custode]] which had long been buried beneath the moon's surface and had now slipped away.<ref name="H5GE">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Evacuation]]''</ref> As such, The fours were forced to return to the ''Infinity'' empty-handed.<ref name="H5GE"/> The day after this Locke and Lasky met Palmer and Halsey on the bridge and Locke let it be known that a construct they'd met on Meridian calling itself the [[Warden Eternal]] had confirmed the doctor's theory that Cortana was behind the Guardians' ongoing reactivations.<ref name="H5GR">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Reunion]]''</ref> Halsey then turned their attention to [[Sunaion]], a religious site on [[Sanghelios]] where she had discovered another Guardian still lay buried. Palmer and Roland took over from there, explaining that if they could feed coordinate data from the Meridian Guardian to the one on Sanghelios it could lead them right to [[Genesis|wherever]] Blue Team had vanished to.<ref name="H5GR"/>
+By October 23 the ''Infinity'' had arrived in the [[Crow's Eye Nebula]].<ref name="H5GBT"/><ref name="WaypointLinda-058">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/linda-058 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Linda-058'']</ref><ref name="TD">[[Troy Denning]] on Twitter [https://twitter.com/TDenningauthor/status/932052034701942784]</ref> At 0630 hours that day [[Linda-058]], [[Kelly-087]], [[Frederic-104]], and [[John-117]] were declared absent without leave, having made an unsanctioned departure from the nebula in [[ONI Acrisius|a]] stolen {{Class|Winter|prowler}}.<ref name="H5GG"/><ref name="H5GBT"/> Spartan Palmer escorted Halsey to the ''Infinity'''s bridge later that day, where she immediately began pressing the matter of Cortana once more to the captain, stressing how dangerous she had become through accessing the Domain and taking control of [[Guardian Custode|devices]] which had begun to cause damage on a number of colonies.<ref name="H5GG"/> Lasky informed her that the Master Chief had reported being contacted by Cortana, which Halsey saw as potentially disastrous. She was then told that he'd gone in search of her and was shocked at the notion that Lasky would have let him go, but he explained that John was not acting independently. Halsey began to speak on why John was unequipped to deal with Cortana as a threat but was interrupted by [[Roland]], who until that point had been unaware of her continued survival. He questioned why the doctor was so quick, in his mind, to label Cortana a threat or a danger, seeing as she was the one who had created her to begin with.<ref name="H5GG">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Glassed]]''</ref> Two days later Fireteam Osiris was deployed once again, but this time with the goal of apprehending Blue Team and the stolen [[prowler]].<ref name="H5GG"/><ref name="HFWR">''[[Halo: Fractures]]'', ''[[What Remains]]''</ref> The AWOL Spartans had been followed to [[Meridian]], a moon of [[Hestia V]].<ref name="H5GG"/> Osiris failed to stop them, as they managed to board a [[Guardian Custode]] which had long been buried beneath the moon's surface and had now slipped away.<ref name="H5GE">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Evacuation]]''</ref> As such, The fours were forced to return to the ''Infinity'' empty-handed.<ref name="H5GE"/> The day after this Locke and Lasky met Palmer and Halsey on the bridge and Locke let it be known that a construct they'd met on Meridian calling itself the [[Warden Eternal]] had confirmed the doctor's theory that Cortana was behind the Guardians' ongoing reactivations.<ref name="H5GR">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Reunion]]''</ref> Halsey then turned their attention to [[Sunaion]], a religious site on [[Sanghelios]] where she had discovered another Guardian still lay buried. Palmer and Roland took over from there, explaining that if they could feed coordinate data from the Meridian Guardian to the one on Sanghelios it could lead them right to [[Genesis|wherever]] Blue Team had vanished to.<ref name="H5GR"/>
 ===Sanghelios===