Dr. Halsey Appliction For singularity_rpg
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Characters Played at Singularity: SPARTAN-B312 | Noble Six | hyperlethality
Character Information ;
Name: Catherine (Elizabeth) Halsey
Name of Canon: Halo
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: She's more from the Game's version with all the supplemental Book materials falling second.
Reference: Profile
Canon Point: After she sets off with Jun and being separated from the rest of the remaining Noble Team
Setting: You know how the trend goes: humanity makes huge leaps forward in the scientific department, and in the coming centuries, we'll be free to roam the stars and colonize what we can. In the Halo universe, this was achieved thanks to faster-than-light travel being discovered in the 23rd century. It wasn't easy, but eventually, humanity has colonized enough that there is an Outer and Inner sections of colonies, with Earth obviously being our most important settlement.
With this expansion, there has to be a force to maintain the peace, right? That's where the United Nations Space Command - UNSC for short - comes in. But of course, there's always one group that has to hugely disagree with how the UNSC governs things, and before long, the Insurrectionists rose up to that call. Humanity delved back into war, with colonies and ships being stolen with Insurrectionists making demands, and commiting horrible acts that placed the death toll to the hundreds of thousands at times.
Sometime during those tumultuous years, Catherine Elizabeth Halsey was born, and quickly proved her genius to universe... so much so that, even when she in her teens and writing up her first Doctoral Thesis paper, she caught the attention of the Office of Naval Intelligence - ONI. Due to the increasing acts of the Insurrectionists, however, Dr. Halsey had to come up with a solution to try and quell this conflict.
This is where the Spartans come in.
Genetically superior, hand picked by Halsey herself in fitting a certain genetic criteria, these super soldiers turned the tide of the battle. Though her ideas and actions saved a good number of lives, the act of taking these kids from their families and basically sacrificing themselves for the greater good still took a toll on the doctor. Especially when they died, and boy, did a lot of them start dying when a new alien threat emerged.
Calling themselves the Covenant, they decided, "hey, we'll fix your problems for you by dealing a major blow to the Insurrectionists with little to no effort. Then go after everyone else." Soon, all of humanity was under a genocidal threat from this alien invasion, and this was the setting Halsey had to thrive under, no matter what the cost. On Reach, deep underground as the Covenant warred on the surface with the UNSC, Halsey researched a way to give humanity the upper hand in the war.
With the arrival of Noble Team, however, she's given a glimmer of hope (and of irritation and indignation at discovering Spartans that aren't hers - but that's neither here or there yet) in the form of two things: the datapad Noble Two was carrying from her late colleague, Professor Sorvad, and Noble Team's newest addition, Noble Six to whom her AI, Cortana, would later pick to be carried off of Reach. With the pieces set, Halsey works even further to give humanity the chance to win, or at least survive, this war... even though Reach will have to be sacrificed.
Personality: Extremely smart, though it sometimes seems to be both a curse and a blessing to her. Even when she was young, she was noted to be smarter than her parents, "always reading, talking, and eager to share her knowledge with anyone who would listen." Halsey was so smart, in fact, that when she was in her teens and writing her Doctoral Thesis on archaic lines, and even challenged Dr. Elias Carver's algorithm implementations on "the matrix mechanics of the socio-and politico-economic vectors of human expansion." Though she beat him in that department, he later committed suicide. Halsey notes that, had she known he would have done that, she'd have been more lenient with her challenge.
Indeed, for all her smarts and ideas, they eventually seem to find some way to bite her back in the moral ethics' ass. Though they were a largely needed and necessary sacrifice, Halsey felt a great amount of guilt for all that she put the Spartan-IIs through. She helped in raising them, yes, became a mother figure to them, and in turn, she felt largely responsible and cared for them as her own. That did nothing to soften the blows when they actually did die, either during fights, or as early as when they were getting their augmentations in which a great deal of the children died or formed some malignancy in their bodies. Oh, and let's not also forget the added guilt of learning the original families' reactions when their flash-cloned children of the Spartans died out, too. She just can't take a break, that Halsey.
Speaking of taking breaks... or not, Halsey was pretty much a workaholic. Sure, she'd brew coffee in preparation of tackling all these documents, reports, budget reports, etc., but the coffee would largely remain untouched until hours or even days later. Genius she may be, Halsey often worked in a messy office setting, showing that she's far more dedicated into her work than any other normal person should healthily be.
Notably, Halsey hates to be beaten. In almost anything, in fact. Which is understandable; she's a smart woman, it'd take a lot of effort for something to slip pass her or to just get her to lose. Unless you're her Spartans in a round of Twenty Questions with her, or any of her AIs, which are smarter than others by default, but she enjoyed both companies, nonetheless. But she really doesn't like it when people are playing her either as a fool or something other, and even more so if she catches wind of people stealing her plans or messing around with any of her Spartans. In fact, her negative attitude upon first meeting Noble Team (sans Jorge, of course, who is one of her own raised Spartans), is largely from the indignation of finding out that someone dared to do what she did, and most likely not following any of the protocols she herself followed when she went with the Spartan-II program.
When she's not all of this, Halsey is very much capable of kindness. If she's capable of guilt, she's capable of kindness... which she doesn't seem to show often, but it's really there. She even pays respect to those of the Orion Project, the predecessor to her Spartan idea, by naming her Spartans Spartan-IIs. Halsey eventually warms up to the Spartan-IIIs as well, especially those of Noble Team, and though they aren't her own, they're still Spartans, people willing to lay down their lives for humanity. She shows an occasional fondness for John-117, her "favorite Spartan," whom she also entrusted Cortana with, an AI flash-cloned from her own brain to watch over him in his campaigns. Though they had a falling out, Halsey even goes out of her way to try and assign Miranda, her daughter with Jacob Keyes, to a quiet, remote post in the UNSC, In Amber Clad. So much for that idea, but really, if it weren't for the circumstances (AKA genocidal threat from the Covenant + ONI and their shady dealings), and Halsey being Halsey, she'd actually be a pretty amiable person to talk with... she'd just still be smarter than you.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: Unlike her heavily augmented Spartans, Halsey's your pretty average human, but is above and beyond in the intellectual department. She can, though, type 140 words per minute! But in all seriousness, despite being a civilian in all technical sense of the word, Halsey does command a certain amount of respect and admiration from her peers, her Spartans even more so.
Her sense of right and wrong has been pretty screwed since her time working on the Spartan-II Project, however, but she does mean well. She can get pretty irritated at times, even thinking of vengeance on those who slight her in any way. Hey, she's dedicated to her job, but holy hell should you ever try to interfere with her work...
But other than that? Still a 60-year old human woman who's become nearly world weary, but still tries her best to make solutions to any situation she's in.
Inventory: A few documents, a few datapads... I should say she's also come equipped with an M6 sidearm, just in case. Desperate times call for desperate measures, of course! Might also come with her AI, Kalmiya, as she was on her way to CASTLE Base before arriving here.
Appearance: Portrait | Another
Age: 60 by the time Reach rolls over.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample: The place was falling around her. Honestly, she was starting to get used to things falling around her - be they people, buildings, maybe even a Covenant dropship. Maybe it was a curse that most of her offices were built somewhere underground. Maybe it was an indirect act of spite from ONI for all the trouble she liked to put them through. Oh, well, two can play at that game.
But this wasn't a game. It was real, and the Covenant were incessantly banging on her door, and the only thing stopping them was the timely arrival of Noble Team. Or what was left of them.
A sharp pang struck her in the chest at the thought, old and familiar, even hitting the same spot that had plagued her since she started working on the Spartan-II Project. Jorge was now gone, sacrificed his life in a bid that, maybe, he was finally saving Reach from the Covenant's clutches. How... ironic. How frustrating. How heartbreaking. Then Kat... Catherine. Oh, how similar the two of them were, now that Halsey thought about it. Curiosity did, indeed, killed the Kat, and at the moment, Halsey wondered if this was where her end would be met.
No, no. She had to believe in the rest of Noble Team. Thinking like that now would certainly slow down her work, and every second wasted is a blow to those Spartans fighting outside her door.
Her hands worked nimbly and swiftly. She was almost done, she just had to make sure of one thing...
"So, you made your choice? ... Yes, well, great minds do think alike," Halsey replied to Cortana. Noble Six, was it? In a way, if it was in her own hands and in her own choice, Halsey would choose the same. Never mind the uncanny similarity in combat rating, but there was something about SPARTAN-B312 that clicked something in Halsey's mind when she was reading the Spartan's records.
Once she finished the last minute preparations on Cortana's chip and the "carriage" that she'd be carried off with, Halsey gave the go-ahead for Noble Team to enter her office.
Please. Let this all work.
Network Sample: If this is an afterlife, then it's not far from what I've envisioned, ironically enough.
Surrounded by metal and stuck under what could have been the Pelican Jun and I were on... Yet unscathed. Curious. Speaking of which... Jun?
[ She frowns at the device she found around her wrist and issues a protocol anyone in the UNSC would recognize. Search and rescue. Anyone. She wondered who would be here. Which raises the bigger question... ]
Just where is here?