Ernst Hood (Earth-5875)

"For twenty-eight years we have battled the Covenant. And yet again they loom against us. We have called these attacks "raids" or "skirmishes" or "incursions." But I am here to tell you that we are at war! Shanxi, Biko... Reach... once human colonies... all but destroyed in the face of the enemy. The enemies are at our home, weapons speared, while we... we hide and cower; retreating as they glass everything around us. This will not be an easy fight. It will cost us—in resources, in credits, in lives. Some of you may be asking, "Why undertake such a thing?" and I can tell you in one word: victory! For if there is one thing the these aliens have taught us, it's that without victory there can be no survival!"

- - Fleet Admiral Sir Ernst Bishop

Fleet Admiral Sir Ernst Hood (service number 07960-48392-EB) is the chairman of the UNSC High Command and a war veteran of both the Secession and the First Contact War. Having won and survived each encounter with humanity's enemies, Hood served as the de facto leader of the UEG's last effort against the Covenant's attack on Earth in 2552. When the war ended, Ernst was of prime importance into signing the Treaty of 2552, which ceased fire between the the UNSC and the sangheili, bringing relative peace in the years to come.

Early Life
Ernst Bishop was born on September 4th, 2490, in England, on Earth, to a nurse and flight mechanic respectively, being the last of three children by his parents' second marriage.

After becoming a British noble by his acts on the Secession, Bishop served as James Cutter's executive officer onboard the UNSC Spirit of Fire until November 2530, when Ernst took command of his own vessel, the UNSC Roman Blue.