Terrence Hood (Earth-4343)

"Lasky, let me tell you something that I've learned the hard way. You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay him to charge the enemy and take a hill. But you can't pay him to believe."

- - Terrence Hood

Admiral Terrence Hood(service number 50981-27805-TH) is a flag officer of the UNSC Navy, and the commanding officer of the United Nations Space Command's Fifth Fleet during the post-war era. Based on Arcturus Station, Hood proved himself a tactical genius during the Insurrection and the First Contact War, the first in his adolescence, and the latter in which he fervently defended Reach and later Earth. His actions gained him the trust and friendship of Lord David Anderson, who, as of 2773, positioned Terrence in the command of the Fifth Fleet and several operations on Joint Occupation Zones.

Early Life
David Anderson was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Earth, to Clara Hood, a maid, in 2691. When Clara died in 2697, Terrence was placed in the Advanced Training Academy for Juveniles in Egypt. His love for science and great sense of leadership eventually become apparent for his teachers and colleagues. He graduated with honors from the Academy in late 2700.

Early Military Career
Hood enlisted to the UNSC Navy in 2705, where he voluntereed himself for high-dangerous missions of engagements against Insurrectionists in numerous Outer Colonies. His rare ascent from executive officer to admiral remains a legend through the UNSC.

First Battle of Harvest
Hood had an great ammount of participation during the Human-Covenant War, the genocidal campaign against Humanity instigated by the alien alliance and hegemony known as the Covenant. His first engagement against the aliens was in the Human colony of Harvest, during the Covenant's initial invasion. He warned Sergeant Major Avery Johnson and Nolan Byrne in the UNSC Normandy about the recent intels ONI gathered on the Covenant, and how badly Humanity was loosing the battle on the planet.

Anderson later provided orbital support during the battle in the UNSC Normandy, engaging against the Covenant carrier Fervent Believer. Sucessful on the destruction of the ship, his engagement with the carrier granted him the opportunity to analize the Covenant's fleet battle tactics, an information he later shared with the UNSC High Command and with the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Fall of Reach
Sometime prior to the Fall of Reach, Doctor Catherine Halsey noted on her journal that Hood's study over the Covenant battle tactics may have aided the UNSC in evaluating the deployement of it's ships against the alliance, but noted it did little on terms of a meaningfull aid to the Unified Earth Government put an end to the critical situation on the Outer Colonies.

Sangheili Civil War
Battle of Fehl Prime