Harper Garvin (Earth-4001)

"Then it looks like we have a plan, folks. And the UNSC be damned."

- Harper Garvin

General Harper Garvin was a human military commander and insurrectionist of the United Rebel Front. Garvin once served the UNSC Marine Corps as a major general, but defected to the United Rebel Front after a humble assignment to Corbulo Academy of Military Science. He soon rose to become a leader within the faction and was a member of the URF's High Command.

With the start of the Human-Covenant War, Garvin unified various rebel cells under the Front and attempted to save Outer Colonies by making a truce with the Covenant Empire.

History
The history of Harper Garvin is the same as his mainstream counterpart.

Personality
Harper Garvin was a disciplined military officer and a well-trained soldier. After joining the Front, he found initial difficulty earning the respect of other rebel leaders, who viewed his discipline and soldierly manner with disdain. However, his intelligence and agents within the United Nations Space Command, as well as his competence, garnered him some respect. Garvin cared about those who served under him and, following his defeat at Seoba, willingly stepped forward for capture when the Spartan-IIs threatened to execute rebels interfering with his arrest. Despite this, Garvin was a prideful man, allegedly defecting from the UNSC Marine Corps after being assigned a humble billet at the Corbulo Academy of Military Science. After his defection, he grew to detest the UNSC, and was willing to ally with the Covenant to destroy the Unified Earth Government to protect the Outer Colonies, but he was unwilling to provide the Covenant the location of Earth and only agreed to do so if the Covenant could be trusted to allow the rebels to live.

Trivia

 * Originally, Garvin's role in the novel Halo: Silent Storm was to be filled by Howard Graves, a general of the United Rebel Front introduced in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. However, as Denning neared completion of the novel, Graves was removed when Denning decided that his appearance in Silent Storm would create continuity problems and Garvin was created as a substitute for Graves' role.