User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Sean Haas

"Oh God! My world...its gone, its all gone. Its not coming back, its gone...its gone."

- Commander Haas during his mental breakdown

Commander Sean Haas (born: June 11th 2456) is a senior officer in the UNSC Navy from the Outer Colony Jericho VII. Haas was assigned to the UNSC Destroyer Hell Have No Wrath (DD-987), where he served for the majority of his career. He slowly worked his way up the ranks until he was the Executive Officer (XO) to Captain Richard Yulopel.

Naval Career
Commander Haas served through the Insurrection, however, Haas nor did Hell Have No Wrath ever engage the Insurrectionists. Instead the were put on patrol in the Sol System and a particular heist stole cR.300,000 worth of fruit and grain heading towards Earth from the manned freighter Inspired. They were also left out of Admiral Cole's Fleet but later joined Cole at the Battle of Alpha Aurigae where they were part of the rare naval victories that the UNSC desperately needed more of. Haas along with the crew of Hell Have No Wrath continued to serve with Cole during his campaign against the Covenant Empire, defending many worlds but ultimately retreating from the superior Covenant Navy.

It was only until the Battle of Jericho VII, that Haas lost something personal in the war. He was on the bridge when the Covenant started using energy projectors to incinerate cities and military bases still present on the ground. His ship was hit by a plasma torpedo during an exchange and vapourising the 34 crewmembers in the general area, killed 6 more and injured 104 more from the massive shockwave. Amongst the dead were Captain Richard Yulopel. Haas only slighty injured across the forehead, scared by the sight of his own blood and the broken neck of Captain Yulopel had mental breakdown in the midst of his junior officers. First Lieutenant Martin Howard's tried to convince the Commander to take control of the ship but when he couldn't avail, he took command of the ship himself and ordered a retreat - following the Cole Protocol, of course.

When upon returning to Reach three weeks later, Haas had been detrimentally affected by the entire ordeal and still refused to speak to anyone. Haas was taken off the destroyer he had served on for his entire career and was ordered to the Bella Remote Scanning Outpost a small station with a crew of fourteen, who Haas was to take command of. The crew of the Bella were not enthusiastic about receiving a new Commander, to them they saw Haas as a coward trying to escape the war, while they were trying desperately to join it. While he had recovered from his mental breakdown, Haas had developed a stutter - one that was constantly rediculed by his crew to their amusement. The crew disobeyed his orders, which were far and few inbetween as he relegated most of his work to his second-in-command Lieutenant Junior Grade Caroline Warren.

Haas took to drinking, alcohol smuggled in through the stations three month resupply freighter and wouldn't leave his personel quarters for days on end. Despite disliking their new Commander, the crew became seriously worried for his safety - strong alcohol and the endless vacuum was never a good mix. However on the July 23rd 2552, Commander Sean Haas was found in the stations airlock by Ensign David Pole. Commander Sean Haas commited suicide by airlock.

Afterword
To the UNSC Navy, the suicide of Commander Haas was a minor issue as the Battle of Reach commenced the very next day. However, Haas was part of a growing number of suicides amongst the UNSC military personnel as many had seen their worlds glassed or their entire companies eradicated after engaging the Covenant on the planet's surface. After the Great War, there were hundreds of thousands of service-men and -women who were diagnosed with survivors guilt.