Catherine Halsey
Catherine Halsey is a female video game character who features in Halo.
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Biography
Catherine Elizabeth Halsey was a female human born on March 19, 2492 on the colony world of Endymion in the coastal city of Port Vernon. When she was young, she was sent to an elite academy called Endymion Gifted where she outperformed education standards.
This led to her being sent on a trip to Circumstance in 2501 from the Dean of Biological Science at Koletre-Browning University who completely funded her education until 2507. In 2507, while still a doctoral candidate, Halsey met Doctor Elias Carver at an academic social mixer and couldn't resist correcting his obsolete algorithm implementation when she heard him describing the matrix mechanics of the socio-economic and politico-economic vectors of human expansion.
When she was 15 years old, she had already completed two doctoral thesis papers and was noted for her bright mind.
The young prodigy cam to be recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) where she was to spearhead the top-secret SPARTAN-I and MJOLNIR Projects. This saw her being brought to the planet Reach in 2510 to operate as a civilian consultant on these classified projects. In 2515, Dr. Halsey became the youngest scientific advisor in ONI’s history and eventually came to be the agency’s Chief Scientist in 2522.
During this time, she came to be involved in the creation of a remarkable A.I. that she made called Cortana.
The moral ambiguities involved in her research caused many questions to be raised about the doctor's ethics. This eventually led to her arrest on the Forerunner world of Onyx.
Despite her arrest, ONI continued to use Halsey and consulted her expertise in integrating the Forerunner engines into the UNSC Infinity. In addition, she was asked to help in the analysis of a number of Forerunner artifacts.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Within the UNSC, she was referred to as Civilian Consultant 409871 that was phonetically identified as "Charlie Hotel". Her UNSC Service Number was CC-409871.
Halsey was almost entirely devoted to her work and the pursuit of knowledge to advance humankind. She has little regard for rules, authority or bureaucracy, in most cases viewing them as little more than obstacles to her work. While her single-minded dedication and seemingly detached personality have led to many perceiving her as devoid of morals or emotions, she has nonetheless shown to care about the few people close to her and has been deeply affected on a personal level by the moral implications of her work.
She tended to be professional and authoritative when speaking to people, which she rarely does outside of meetings and briefings. She has little patience for extraneous detail, wanting the important facts out of them and then concluding their meeting. Considered extremely difficult to read, she rarely voices her current emotions, and often observes people while speaking to them to discern hidden details. Having grown accustomed to keeping secrets, she may appear enigmatic and manipulative at times; while she despises efforts to withhold information from herself, she has a tendency of laying her own plans in advance and only divulging information when it becomes relevant. She prefers to work with her authority unchallenged, and does not appreciate being bogged down by having to explain herself, especially in a hurry.
Powers and abilities
Catherine Halsey was born a normal human being with no inherent special abilities though she came to be noted for her high intelligence. Even at a young age, she was noted for being a prodigy.
She was shown as being quite capable of holding her own against smart AIs using her expertise to exploit secret programming backdoors or philosophical puzzles to control or manipulate constructs as advanced as fifth-generation smart AI.
As a UNSC consultant, she used to be attached to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and was involved in research overseen by them.
Notes
- Catherine Halsey created by Bungie Studios where she featured in the setting of the Halo universe.
In other media
Television
- In Halo, Catherine Halsey appeared in the setting of the live-action television series set in an alternate timeline known as the Silver Timeline where she was portrayed by actress Natascha McElhone.
Appearances
- Halo: Reach:
- Halo 4:
- Halo 5: Guardians:
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