Halsey, or to kill off the most well-known Spartan alive. Ackerson's purpose was to either disgrace the SPARTAN-IIs and Dr. ĭuring the test of John-117's Mjolnir Armor, he tried to make the SPARTAN fail by authorizing the use of Lotus anti-tank mines, a squad of ODSTs, three 30mm chain-guns, and even an air strike with a AV-19 SkyHawk against the SPARTAN, severely jeopardizing his life and causing him moderate injury. Halsey and her supposed-to-be-confidential SPARTAN-II project. He had a private AI named Araqiel, whom he tasked with spying on Dr. He was also a part of the UNSC Security Committee and Special Weapons Development at HIGHCOM. Catherine Halsey's projects for funds, he had a long-standing rivalry with Halsey and her SPARTAN-IIs. Because his projects were often competing with Dr. He was arrogant and condescending to most other people in ONI, even top-ranking brass such as Major General Nicolas Strauss.Īckerson headed several high-profile projects at ONI. With the concurrent project underway, he focused all of his efforts on political maneuvers, rather than battlefield tactics. It was Ackerson who chose Kurt-051 to serve as the commanding officer of the remaining SPARTAN-IIIs.

At first he was upset by this, but apparently grew to prefer it as opposed to his dangerous but more exciting job as a field officer. They approved and Ackerson went from field officer to a desk job. Gibson, Rear Admiral Ned Rich, and Vice Admiral Margaret Parangosky. In 2531, he presented the concept of the SPARTAN-III Program to the ONI senior brass Captain Aaron G.

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