Allison Spurgeon

"This peace is a five-year intermission at best. The Covenant's successors are varied and far-reaching; we need to be ready for when they come for us again."

- Spurgeon was vital to the UNSC's rapid remilitarization of its Navy immediately after the war.

Allison Spurgeon ( 00681-30422-AS) is a and current  (DCNO) succeeding  after he was  in the final months of the war. Spurgeon is a veteran of both the and, earning a reputation for commanding battle groups with brutal efficiency and cunning that was prone to strife among her fellow Navy officers. Spurgeon's unpopular, yet effective strategies caught the ire of leadership in 2544. For most of the war, she had become an irremovable thorn in the Covenant's war effort. Their frustrations in failing to eliminate her finally reached the tipping point in the aftermath of the Battle of 19 Caelum in which she was denoted the Butcher of Ardent Valiance after causing the complete destruction of the fleet of the same name. The Covenant prepared to launch an overwhelming force to annihilate her fleet, but fortunately for Spurgeon she was recalled to in 2545 to aid in the organization of the.

Battle of 19 Caelum
"Humans - soulless creatures made of deceit and dishonor. These blasphemous pests have destroyed one of our most distinguished fleets! Find this nishum and crush her! I want her head paraded through the streets of the holy city!"

- Supreme Commander Moro 'Yaasanee enraged after learning of the Fleet of Ardent Valiance's destruction.