SGP: Dr. Catherine Halsey and the ONI Memorial

[odst glitcher]

it says dr halsey died in 2552
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=102904958

now in the loading screen of odst at the start it says the year is 2552 if i`m correct but she died on reach yet reach was glassed years ago

[Pulse Cloud]

Where does it say what you said it says?
If Bungie said whatever it said it's because what it said is what Bungie wanted to say, so what you said about it saying something Bungie said (because it was Bungie who said) must be wrong.

[odst glitcher]

Where does it say what you said it says?
If Bungie said whatever it said it's because what it said is what Bungie wanted to say, so what you said about it saying something Bungie said (because it was Bungie who said) must be wrong.

that was confusing but it is by the rocket spawn(FF alpha site) on both CM and FF above the bench

[Kenji]

Couldn't tell ya, but a lot of the books have continuity errors throughout them. Maybe it was just an oversight?

[The Arkaeologist]

Though playing the games leaves one with a very different impression – I would have to give it some thought to determine how exactly this is accomplished or whether it is (perhaps?) intentional on the part of the Halo story people – most of the main events depicted within the Halo games occur on a very compressed timeline.  The glassing of Reach occurs in late August 2552.  John-117 escapes Reach and goes to Threshold, the site of the first halo (Installation 04), where he initially encounters the Flood.  The events depicted in Halo 1 thus take place in September 2552, over what I believe is a three to four day period.  Halo 2 begins with John-117 on Cairo Station above Earth on October 20, 2552.  The events of ODST take place on October 20, 2552.  In this sense, ODST takes place before the events of Halo 3 (no surprise) but also, it appears, before many of the events depicted in Halo 2.  It is hard to give a timeframe to the Arbiter portion of Halo 2 (though we know it is after his September defeat at Installation 04), at least until he comes in contact with John-117, at which point we know it must be October 20 or later.  Events involving Colonel Ackerson’s Spartan-III’s and the aforementioned Dr. Halsey, who is rescued from Reach during the events of First Strike, are transpiring on Onyx around this time as the firing (later canceled) of Installation 05 (as depicted in Halo 2) appears to trigger the opening of the shield world on Onyx (as depicted in Ghosts of Onyx).

Suffice it to say, it is all very confusing.  To further complicate matters, the Halo novelists skip back and forth in time to provide back story.  This means that you may encounter a character in a “later” book at an earlier time in his life.  Plus, the story is told from the perspective of the characters (or you, the gamer, as the character).  There is no omniscient voice ushering us through events, correcting our misconceptions etc.  Much like in life, the misconceptions (She’s dead!) are allowed to play themselves out and to serve as later plot twists.  Who knows?  Maybe it’s cheating or poor planning, but it winds up being pretty entertaining.

SO…I say all this only to say Reach wasn’t glassed “years ago” – it just feels like that – and Halsey didn’t die on Reach, or if she did, she didn’t die at the time the planet was glassed.  The Covenant merely half-glassed it, as it were.  Unless she wound up back there at some point and it was glassed again and more thoroughly and I don’t know what the heck I’m talking about (entirely possible).  I’ve only sped through a few of the books at this point and played Halo 2 and 3 a little – and very badly.

Ah, the multi-media experience.  And howdy!

Also, here's the Halopedia page, which shows the whole of the Halsey ONI memorial plaque.  Odst Glitcher’s link seems to take us to a fragment of this plaque.  (Forgive me if I’m stating the obvious in any or all parts of this post.)  Since the Halopedia has a problem citing sources, I have no idea where you can see the whole plaque in-media though.

[ColdGlider]

Wow!  Great first post!  Welcome aboard, Ark!

The memorial "plaque" is inside of the ONI building in New Mombasa.  There is one campaign mission and one Firefight level which take place in this building (CM:OA and FF:AS).  The memorial is actually three five tall rectangular vidscreens side by side.  The memorial is comprised of five tall rectangular vidscreens: three along one wall (the "primary wall") and two around each corner of that wall (the "corner screens").  The center screen on the primary wall lists notable Reach casualties (Halsey is listed).  The side corner screens are a scrolling list of names.

I'll get pics from ODST if someone doesn't beat me to it first (please feel free to beat me to it!)

I'm glad to see we have a new topic in The Librarians!  Thanks for your contribution!

[The Arkaeologist]

Thanks for having me and for all your hard work in creating this great online community.   

[Vigilnt sniper]

Cold glitcher. The only reason Halsey is on that plaque is because they did not know that she commandeered the Beatrice and traveled to Onyx. To all thier "knowledge" she was in fact dead to the entire galaxy. The fact that she us in a dysons sphere somewhere, posibly another galaxy or timeline, doesn't help that fact very much.

[Hornet 416 (Vandal)]

Cold Glitcher? The only reason Halsey is on that plaque is because they did not know that she commandeered the Beatrice and traveled to Onyx. To all thier "knowledge" she was in fact dead to the entire galaxy. The fact that she us in a dysons sphere somewhere, posibly another galaxy or timeline, doesn't help that fact very much.

You said Cold Glitcher, Who was it  ODST Glitcher or Cold Glider

[Imppa]

Cold Glitcher? The only reason Halsey is on that plaque is because they did not know that she commandeered the Beatrice and traveled to Onyx. To all thier "knowledge" she was in fact dead to the entire galaxy. The fact that she us in a dysons sphere somewhere, posibly another galaxy or timeline, doesn't help that fact very much.

You said Cold Glitcher, Who was it  ODST Glitcher or Cold Glider

[Hornet 416 (Vandal)]

Cold Glitcher? The only reason Halsey is on that plaque is because they did not know that she commandeered the Beatrice and traveled to Onyx. To all thier "knowledge" she was in fact dead to the entire galaxy. The fact that she us in a dysons sphere somewhere, posibly another galaxy or timeline, doesn't help that fact very much.

You said Cold Glitcher, Who was it  ODST Glitcher or Cold Glider

Who was it!

[ColdGlider]

(OP Subject changed to more clearly reflect the topic.)

I'm staring at the memorial now in ODST.  Along one wall are three screens, side by side, as I previously reported.  These are static displays.  Around each corner of this wall is another display.  Both of these two "corner" displays contain the scrolling list of names.  They appear to be identical.



So there are five screens, not only three.  I made a few mistakes in my previous post, which I have corrected.  My apologies.  This is what happens when you work from memory... at least in my case.

The three screens on the "primary wall" could be named "L", "R", and "C" for "left", "right", and "center".
The "corner screens" could be named "W" and "E" for "west" and "east" (which happen to correspond to left and right while you are facing the wall.)

Screen L



The text reads:

IN HONOR OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN
OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN SERVICE OF THE UNSC IN THE
WAR AGAINST THE COVENANT

Below this are three columns of forty-eight names, for a total of 144.

Below the names it reads:

THEIR BOLD INITIATIVE, INTREPID FIGHTING SPIRIT
AND UNWAVERING DEVOTION TO DUTY IN THE FACE
OF CERTAIN DEATH REFLECTED GREAT CREDIT UPON
THEMSELVES AND WERE IN KEEPING WITH THE
HIGHEST TRADITIONS OF U.N.S.C. NAVAL SERVICE.
THEY GALLANTLY GAVE THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF
THE HUMAN RACE.

Screen C



The display is adorned with the ONI Logo and then reads:

ADM COLE, PRESTON
SN: 03956-26127-PC
04/04/2484-04/18/2543
In 2525, then Vice Admiral Cole led a battle group to
Harvest following the unprovoked attack by the
Covenant on that peaceful agricultural colony.  After a
hard won battle, Cole and the battle group returned
to Earth only to learn that other colonies had been
destroyed as well.  After his promotion to Admiral,
Cole led a campaign against the enemy for the next
five years, culminating in a victory over a Covenant
fleet in 2531.

VADM STANFORTH, MICHAEL
SN: 00834-19223-HS
07/03/2486-08/30/2552
Vice Admiral Hieronymus Michael Stanforth was
the head of Section THREE of the Office of Naval
Intelligence from 2512-2530.  Section THREE was
at its busiest under his administration many projects
were leverage [sic] in order to boost support for the war
effort (including Projects SPARTAN, MJOLNIR and
GUNGNIR).  In August of 2530 he resigned as
head of Section THREE THREE [sic] to take a more
active role in the defense of UNSC space-leading
the UNSC Navy in the Battle of Sigma Octa[?]us IV
and directing the Defense of Reach during its final
days.


Doctor Catherine Halsey, MD, PhD
CI: 10141-026-SRB4695
03/19/2492-2552
Doctor Catherine Halsey is a computer scientist and
medical doctor.  She has published papers on
cybernetics, genetic manipulation and artificial
intelligence.  Dr. Halsey served as scientific advisor
to the UNSC's Office of Naval Intelligence
from 2515 until 2522 when she was made Chief
Scientist, a position she held until the time of her
death in 2552.  Dr. Halsey was on Reach at the time of
its attack by the Covenant and though no body was
recovered she is presumed dead.

Screen R



The text reads:

IN HONOR OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN OF
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN SERVICE OF THE UNSC AT REACH
[25/07/2552-30/08/2552]

Below this it lists two columns of 48 names for a total of 96 names.
The names in the left column:

TIMEA AILLEBOUST
MILLA ÅKESSON
VICTORIA Y ALLEN
HERMENEGILDO GIL ARELLANO
FRANCESCA C ATKINSON
FREDERIC BANGADANG
LAZLO BANJUP
AMELIE BARNEY
EWEN BARTON
CALVIN BEAGLE
BORSALA BERKY
IVANO BREAN
LONDON BRIDGES
LOK BYRNE
JOY D CHAMPAGNE
LIANG ČEPERLI
LOWELL CLAUSEN
JONAH CASARES CORTÉS
TAO CHURCH
SHULINEN CUNNINGHAM
IRWIN DAOUST
HLENGIWE DAVIS
TIMOTHY DE GOVIA
MAXWELL D'MUT
FALLON DOWNE
GERLACH DURR
AMIE DURRETT
ALICIA ECHI
HORACE EKWUEME
ERIC C FERGUS
TSUYUHO FLISHINGHURST
CHRISTIN FRASER
MANDY FREI
TOBIAS FUGÉRE
BRUNO GAERTNER
WILLIAM GAULIN
IRENEUSZ GRENOBLE
NAME GRIFFITHS
LUTZ GRUNEWALD
ROWLEY GOTH
ALMA HASLEMERE
SARAH HAWLEY
ATSUSHI HELLAND
LORANT HERCZEGH
TAU HILL
MATHILDA JØRGENSEN
TZIGANE KANTOLA
ŠEVKIJA KAVRAN

The names in the right column:

LJUBINICA KLIEN
ALECKZANDER KLUMP
JOHN KNUT
MUNASHE KOWALCZYK
FLORKA KUEFER
MELKER KUNG
WOJCIECH KUROKI
WOLFGANG KUSTER
FULVIO LAMPEN
VALENTIN LANG
XAVIER LEAMON
SANNA LINTZ
RAFAŁ LITTLE
JIE LO
DIDI LÖCHGAU
WILSON LYNCH
COBUS MAI
FARRAU MARGAND
ANDRZEJ MERCIER
NECI MERIKANTO
KÖRBL MORIN
LOUISE MULTALA
DENNIS MUSCAT
AMELIE NARANJO
DAFINA PLEAS
PANNA SÁRI
ALACOQUE SAVARD
EROL SCHULTHEISS
JENIFER SELPH
MIEKE SKOV
MANYARA SUDA
CALLUM SUN
ARANKA SZARKA
ALBERT SZÔTS
LI TANG
NI TAO
DANIEL T'AO
KERSTIN THORNHILL
ALICIA THURGARTON
GUY TINY
MARIA TODD
LI TSENG
ÁDÁM VIRÁG
SZCZEOSNY WALCZAK
RIO WALDSCHMIDT
GERWAZY WALKER
DANFORTH WHITCOMB
KGOSI WOLOSZYN

Finally, it reads:

THEIR INDOMITABLE COURAGE, INSPIRING INITIATIVE,
AND SELFLESS DEVOTION TO DUTY IN THE FACE OF
CERTAIN DEATH REFLECTED GREAT CREDIT UPON
THEMSELVES AND THE U.N.S.C. NAVAL SERVICE.
THEY GALLANTLY GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE
OF THE U.N.S.C.

The list of names includes some which appear to be jokes, such as "London Bridges" and "Fallon Downe" (har har).


Screens E and W



Screens E and W are identical.  They maintain the exact same scroll position at the same time.   (To test, pause in Theater Mode and go visit them.)

Here is the "normal text" that appears on the corner screens:

Kgosi Woloszyn Timea Ailleboust Milla Åkesson Victoria Y Allen
Hermenegildo Gil Arellano Francesca C Atkinson
Frederic Bangadang Lazlo Banjup Emile Barney Ewen Barton
Calvin Beagle Borsala Berky Ivano Brean London Bridges
Lok Byrne Joy D Champagne Liang Čeperli Jonah Casares
Tao Church Irwin Daoust Hlengiwe Davis Timothy De Govia
Maxwell d'Mut Fallon Downe Gerlach Durr Amie Durrett
Alicia Echi Horace Ekwueme Eric C Fergus Christin Fraser
Mandy Frei Tobias Fugére Bruno Gaertner William Gaulin
Ireneusz Grenoble Jason Griffiths Lutz Grunewald
Rowley Goth Sarah Hawley Atsushi Helland Lorant Herczegh
Ševkija Kavran Ljubinica Klien Aleckzander Klump
Munashe Kowalczyk Florka Kuefer Wojciech Kuroki
Wolfgang Kuster Valentin Lang Rafał Little Didi Löchgau
Wilson Lynch Farrau Margand Neci Merikanto Körbl Morin
Louise Multala Dennis Muscat Amelie Naranjo Panna Sári
Alacoque Savard Manyara Suda Albert Szôts Alicia Thurgarton
Guy Tiny Ádám Virág Szczeosny Walczak Danforth Whitcomb

The same names organized one per line:

Timea Ailleboust
Milla Åkesson
Victoria Y Allen
Hermenegildo Gil Arellano
Francesca C Atkinson
Frederic Bangadang
Lazlo Banjup
Emile Barney
Ewen Barton
Calvin Beagle
Borsala Berky
Ivano Brean
London Bridges
Lok Byrne
Joy D Champagne
Liang Čeperli
Jonah Casares
Tao Church
Irwin Daoust
Hlengiwe Davis
Timothy De Govia
Maxwell d'Mut
Fallon Downe
Gerlach Durr
Amie Durrett
Alicia Echi
Horace Ekwueme
Eric C Fergus
Christin Fraser
Mandy Frei
Tobias Fugére
Bruno Gaertner
William Gaulin
Ireneusz Grenoble
Jason Griffiths
Lutz Grunewald
Rowley Goth
Sarah Hawley
Atsushi Helland
Lorant Herczegh
Ševkija Kavran
Ljubinica Klien
Aleckzander Klump
Munashe Kowalczyk
Florka Kuefer
Wojciech Kuroki
Wolfgang Kuster
Valentin Lang
Rafał Little
Didi Löchgau
Wilson Lynch
Farrau Margand
Neci Merikanto
Körbl Morin
Louise Multala
Dennis Muscat
Amelie Naranjo
Panna Sári
Alacoque Savard
Manyara Suda
Albert Szôts
Alicia Thurgarton
Guy Tiny
Ádám Virág
Szczeosny Walczak
Danforth Whitcomb
Kgosi Woloszyn

Here are some properties of the corner screens on FF:AS:

• They contain 67 of the 96 names from Screen R.
• There are 29 names from Screen R which were omitted.
• The names are converted to mixed-case from their upper case format on Screen R
• Diacritics are preserved
• The names are presented in alphabetical order by last name.
• There are three names which differ from their appearance on Screen R
• "AMELIE BARNEY" was changed to "Emile Barney"
• "JONAH CASARES CORTÉS" was changed to "Jonah Casares"
• "NAME GRIFFITHS" was changed to "Jason Griffiths"
• The names are listed in a block of (normally) 18 lines
• The (normal) pattern of names per line is: 4,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4
• There are four versions of the block of names which repeat in a set pattern.

Screen E/W Name Block Versions

There are four versions of the name block (A, B, C, and D.)
Version C is the "normal" version.
The versions appear in a set pattern (A, B, C, D) which repeats again from A and runs continuously.

Although the names appear alphabetically, the lines are grouped such a way that the first name on line one is the last name in the list.

Version C (normal version) with line numbers:

01 Kgosi Woloszyn Timea Ailleboust Milla Åkesson Victoria Y Allen
02 Hermenegildo Gil Arellano Francesca C Atkinson
03 Frederic Bangadang Lazlo Banjup Emile Barney Ewen Barton
04 Calvin Beagle Borsala Berky Ivano Brean London Bridges
05 Lok Byrne Joy D Champagne Liang Čeperli Jonah Casares
06 Tao Church Irwin Daoust Hlengiwe Davis Timothy De Govia
07 Maxwell d'Mut Fallon Downe Gerlach Durr Amie Durrett
08 Alicia Echi Horace Ekwueme Eric C Fergus Christin Fraser
09 Mandy Frei Tobias Fugére Bruno Gaertner William Gaulin
10 Ireneusz Grenoble Jason Griffiths Lutz Grunewald
11 Rowley Goth Sarah Hawley Atsushi Helland Lorant Herczegh
12 Ševkija Kavran Ljubinica Klien Aleckzander Klump
13 Munashe Kowalczyk Florka Kuefer Wojciech Kuroki
14 Wolfgang Kuster Valentin Lang Rafał Little Didi Löchgau
15 Wilson Lynch Farrau Margand Neci Merikanto Körbl Morin
16 Louise Multala Dennis Muscat Amelie Naranjo Panna Sári
17 Alacoque Savard Manyara Suda Albert Szôts Alicia Thurgarton
18 Guy Tiny Ádám Virág Szczeosny Walczak Danforth Whitcomb

Version A
Line 08:  the "r" in "Christin Fraser" has a block on it

Version B
Line 08:  the "C" in "Christin Fraser" has a block on it
Line 11:  the last name "Herczegh" is missing from "Lorant Herczegh"

Version C
This is the normal version.

Version D
Line 08:  there is a slight distortion in "e" of "Eric C Fergus"
Lines 11-13 of the normal version are omitted, leaving on 15 of the 18 lines.

The 29 names from Screen R which were omitted from E/W are:

LOWELL CLAUSEN
SHULINEN CUNNINGHAM
TSUYUHO FLISHINGHURST
ALMA HASLEMERE
TAU HILL
MATHILDA JØRGENSEN
TZIGANE KANTOLA
JOHN KNUT
MELKER KUNG
FULVIO LAMPEN
XAVIER LEAMON
SANNA LINTZ
JIE LO
COBUS MAI
ANDRZEJ MERCIER
DAFINA PLEAS
EROL SCHULTHEISS
JENIFER SELPH
MIEKE SKOV
CALLUM SUN
ARANKA SZARKA
LI TANG
NI TAO
DANIEL T'AO
KERSTIN THORNHILL
MARIA TODD
LI TSENG
RIO WALDSCHMIDT
GERWAZY WALKER

Anomalies


It's odd that there are two typos and a run-on sentence in Screen C's tribute to Michael Stanforth.  The word "leverage" should have been in the past tense ("leveraged") and Section THREE was misspelled "Section THREE THREE" when referenced the second time.  I deduce two possibilities:  the text slipped though with egregious errors due to ODST being a rush job, or the eagle-eyed player is meant to take note of "leverage THREE".

It's very strange that there are four versions of the name block on Screen E/W.  It's stranger still that three names were altered, especially "NAME GRIFFITHS" changing to "Jason Griffiths"


All of the images and more (available in full resolution) are available in the new ONI Memorial Album of our Image Gallery. 

Now who wants to help transcribe 240 144 names with diacritics in Unicode?  Hello?  Anyone?

[ColdGlider]

I have transcribed the names for Screen R, E, and W in FF:AS.  Screens E and W are identical.  Not only have a failed to find any difference between them, but also you can see that they maintain the exact same scroll position at the same time.   (To test, pause in Theater Mode and go visit them.)

Here are some properties of the corner screens on FF:AS:

• They contain 67 of the 96 names from Screen R.
• There are 29 names from Screen R which were omitted.
• The names are converted to mixed-case from their upper case format on Screen R
• Diacritics are preserved
• The names are presented in alphabetical order by last name.
• There are three names which differ from their appearance on Screen R
• "AMELIE BARNEY" was changed to "Emile Barney"
• "JONAH CASARES CORTÉS" was changed to "Jonah Casares"
• "NAME GRIFFITHS" was changed to "Jason Griffiths"
• The names are listed in a block of (normally) 18 lines
• The (normal) pattern of names per line is: 4,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4
• There are four versions of the block of names which repeat in a set pattern.

I have named the four different versions of the name blocks simply A, B, C, and D.
When you begin FF:AS, Version A scrolls first, followed by B, C, then D.  After D, the scrolling begins again at A.
Version C is the "normal" version.
Although the names are alphabetical, the lines are grouped such a way that the first name on line one is the last name in the list.

Here are the 18 lines as they normally appear in Version C:

01 Kgosi Woloszyn Timea Ailleboust Milla Ã…kesson Victoria Y Allen
02 Hermenegildo Gil Arellano Francesca C Atkinson
03 Frederic Bangadang Lazlo Banjup Emile Barney Ewen Barton
04 Calvin Beagle Borsala Berky Ivano Brean London Bridges
05 Lok Byrne Joy D Champagne Liang ÄŒeperli Jonah Casares
06 Tao Church Irwin Daoust Hlengiwe Davis Timothy De Govia
07 Maxwell d'Mut Fallon Downe Gerlach Durr Amie Durrett
08 Alicia Echi Horace Ekwueme Eric C Fergus Christin Fraser
09 Mandy Frei Tobias Fugére Bruno Gaertner William Gaulin
10 Ireneusz Grenoble Jason Griffiths Lutz Grunewald
11 Rowley Goth Sarah Hawley Atsushi Helland Lorant Herczegh
12 Å evkija Kavran Ljubinica Klien Aleckzander Klump
13 Munashe Kowalczyk Florka Kuefer Wojciech Kuroki
14 Wolfgang Kuster Valentin Lang Rafał Little Didi Löchgau
15 Wilson Lynch Farrau Margand Neci Merikanto Körbl Morin
16 Louise Multala Dennis Muscat Amelie Naranjo Panna Sári
17 Alacoque Savard Manyara Suda Albert Szôts Alicia Thurgarton
18 Guy Tiny Ádám Virág Szczeosny Walczak Danforth Whitcomb

Here are descriptions of the four versions:

Version A
Line 08:  the "r" in "Christin Fraser" has a block on it

Version B
Line 08:  the "C" in "Christin Fraser" has a block on it
Line 11:  the last name "Herczegh" is missing from "Lorant Herczegh"

Version C
This is the normal version.

Version D
Line 08:  there is a slight distortion in "e" of "Eric C Fergus"
Lines 11-13 of the normal version are omitted, leaving on 15 of the 18 lines.

I can see this growing into a FAQ.  I have updated my previous post with the full list of names from Screen R and Screen E/W.

The Halopedia has an article on this memorial:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/ONI_Memorial

Please note that the Halopedia does not list the names of Screen R (they call it "Plaque R") in the exact format that they appear in-game.  All of their names are missing diacritics.  All of the names are presented in mixed case rather than upper case.  They added punctuation to names with middle initials.  I corrected all of these errors in my lists.

[The Arkaeologist]

Additional discrepancies:

Preston Cole's DOB on Screen C is given as 04/04/2484 while his DOB in "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole" (Halo Evolutions) is 11/3/2470.

Furthermore, on Screen C, Cole's SN is listed as 03956-26127-PC.  In the story, his UNSC SN is 00814-13094-BQ.

I would question whether the number on the panel is an ONI service number, if there is such a thing - Cole's a bit of a mysterious creature - BUT Stanforth's SN is consistent across both sources and he was ONI (Section Three) at the time of some of the communiques in the short story.

Hmmmmmmmm...Stanforth's birthdate on Screen C doesn't make sense either.  According to the story, he was an admiral in June 2503 (p. 454).  If you juxtapose the info from the ONI memorial and Evolutions, that would make him a sixteen year old admiral.  That hardly seems likely.

I would hypothesize that there are two Stanforths (a son perhaps?) but the SN's are the same.  For the record, his name is curious as well.  He is referred to in the story as 'Harold Stanforth,' but on the panel, we see his full name is 'Hieronymus Michael Stanforth' and he appears to go by 'Michael.'  So either 'Harold' is short for 'Hieronymus' or we're talking two different people with the same SN such that SN's are assigned by...family perhaps?  In my opinion, the former seems more likely than the latter, which casts suspicion on his Screen C DOB.

I want to say Halsey's DOB appears in one of the novels but I can't locate it at the moment.  Hers may be correct.

Finally, Danforth Whitcomb is listed on panel R and on the scrolling panels but did not die on Reach.  As with Halsey, that is the presumption.  In reality, Whitcomb died during Operation First Strike (approx. 9/13/2552) when he and ONI's Lt. Haverson used the Ascendant Justice to lure covenant ships near the Unyielding Hierophant, which John-117, Blue Team, and Cortana had rigged for explosion.

[leveneleven]

Cold glitcher. The only reason Halsey is on that plaque is because they did not know that she commandeered the Beatrice and traveled to Onyx.

whoa, whoa, whoa, did she really take the Beatrice? as in THE Beatrice? as in the one that guided Dante through Heaven because Virgil wasn't allowed in? another interesting Dante reference. I doubt it was intentional, but who knows with these guys