Terrence Hood

Fleet Admiral Lord Terrence Hood is a character from the Halo games.

The Chief of Naval Operations and commander of the Earth Home Fleet and de facto leader of humanity.

In the XP4 fics, Terrence is allies with the Heroes Coalitions.

Appearance
Terrence is an old man with a thin-white hair and has blue eyes. He wears a white navy uniform jacket with various medals and badges decorated on it, white trousers, white leather shoes and a white navy cap.

Personality
Although a sensible individual, Hood also made dangerous decisions during the Human-Covenant War, such as allowing John-117 and Miranda Keyes cross the Portal at Voi with the Swords of Sanghelios even though it could mean the extinction of humanity and the loss of Earth to the Flood, or when he destroyed a Covenant ship on Arcadia instead of retrieving the Spirit of Fire 's black box and discover the fate of his friend, James Cutter, and the rest of its crew. After the disappearance of Cutter, Hood grew more mature inside the UNSC, as well as aiding James' family as he felt shameful for his disappearance.

Hood tends to speak in hyperbolic form, such as when he stated the Fleet of Sacred Consecration was fifty times smaller than the Fleet of Particular Justice, or when Rtas 'Vadum was forced to glass the city of Voi in order to stop the Flood from taking over Earth, where he remarked 'Vadum "glassed half a continent", despite Voi being the only glassed part of Kenya.

Terrence is a public supporter of Human-Sangheili military and political relations, and despite still holding resentment over the Human-Covenant War, like Thel 'Vadam and Rtas 'Vadum he believes peaceful relations between the species would drive them to a better future, going to the point he considers Thel 'Vadam a friend. After the Voi Memorial, Hood told Thel that while he couldn't forget and forgive what the Sangheili did to humanity, he extended a hand of friendship to him.

Hood has a great deal of respect towards the Master Chief as shown with his interactions with the Spartan. Hood is shown to be somewhat more informal with the Master Chief than the disparity between their ranks requires as a result. When the Master Chief apparently died in the Battle of Installation 00, Hood sorrowfully commented that it was hard to believe that he was dead. It was partly because of the fact that Thel 'Vadam stood by the Master Chief "to the end" that Hood extended his hand to Thel at the Voi Memorial. After the Master Chief returned years later, Hood half-jokingly offered to get the Master Chief promoted as far as Admiral if the Master Chief wished, but the Master Chief declined the offer.

Trivia

 * Hood's command neural interface port is clearly visible at the back of his head.
 * In Halo: First Strike, Hood is erroneously titled "Sir Terrence Hood", despite lordship superseding knighthood in the British system of peerages. This oversight was not fixed in the 2010 Definitive Edition.