No argument with her in that setting, I don't imagine women like her got very far under Clark's rule without being at least somewhat morally bankrupt.

>(Also, goddamit, did I get her name wrong? Shit. I did.)

Don't worry, first few times I heard the voice, I thought the "ah" there in the middle was due to her accent.

>I'd like to note that I always saw Halsey as pretty damn evil. The
>SPARTAN-II program wasn't developed to fight the Covenant; it was
>developed in order to keep Earth's bootheel on the neck of the colony
>worlds. The fact that it ended up saving everyone was a happy
>coincidence; absent the Covenant showing up, John-117 spends his
>career killing other humans in dubious, deniable circumstances.

"Evil" implies intentional malice, except Halsey never seemed to care enough about other people to ever rise to that level. In some ways, she's like Von Braun or Heisenberg, so wrapped up in her own research that she cares little for how it's used by others. She wasn't working the SPARTAN-II program because she believed in the goals or the ideals behind it, she just saw a problem in need of a solution and bent her genius to solving it.

>Really, the UNSC is... not a nice government, and the people
>who work for it aren't nice people.

Yeah, unified Earth governments in fiction seem to fall into one of two categories: Benevolent alliance created with the intention of bringing the best parts of humanity to the stars...or a power-hungry conglomerate which embodies the worst qualities of past empires and sees the stars as a ready source of resources to plunder.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject