"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars, it will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses, more confident, far-seeing, capable, and prudent. For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."-Carl Sagan
Posted by: Plasma Prestige
Posted by: I Nebula I
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Why not? Spartans respected her because they saw her as a mother, Carter never interacted with her before, to him, she's just another civilian/non-military personnel trying to abuse her authority.
But she definitely would have known of Winter Contingency not to put herself in that hole anyway.
Halsey knew from the moment the Covenant found Reach that the planet was gone, period. She wasn't naive enough to believe that it could be saved/fought for. Her top concern was keeping potentially invaluable data safe and secret. She could care less about Winter Contingency.
Since you put it like that........