Walter Vickers (Earth-4001)

Walter Vickers was an officer cadet of the United Nations Space Command. He attended Corbulo Academy of Military Science as part of the class of 2529.

History
The history of Walter Vickers is the same as his mainstream counterpart.

Personality
A hawkish, aggressive figure, Vickers tended to favor direct, blunt solutions to problems. When asked what he thought of the Insurrection, Vickers replied; "From where I see what's going on, I don't think we're winning, and I think we need to do everything possible to win." During Hastati Squad's last field exercise of the 2526 term, Vickers did not understand Thomas Lasky's plan to engage the opposing force with feints, instead favoring an all-out attack that favored their equal numbers. During the Battle of Circinius IV, he attempted to gain access to locked ammunition lockers by using a fire extinguisher as a battering ram, and shortly afterwards, charged a Sangheili Zealot to give the rest of the squad a chance to escape.

Although some of the other cadets had difficulty with the academy's physical training, Vickers instead felt that it was not severe enough. In his time at Corbulo, he could often be found in his room doing handstand pushups. He was not particularly sociable and his aggressive demeanor did not earn him many friends. He was aware of this fact himself, but he viewed socialization as a distraction from the academy's focus of training people to work together professionally, and in terms of teamwork in the field he felt that he fit in perfectly. When asked what he would see himself doing in ten years, he stated that he might aim for a career similar to that of General Black, helping the UNSC prepare and train people fight the Insurrection.

Vickers felt that the UNSC was taking half-measures in its fight against Insurrectionists, and he despised Thomas Lasky as an "innie-lover." Vickers was much more cutting in his insults than the rest of Hastati Squad, going as far as to taunt Lasky over his older brother's death. After he led Hastati Squad to victory in a field exercise, however, Vickers and Lasky's respect for each other improved.