: I'd say it's pretty much all coincidental, especially since from what we know
: Eric Trautmann and Nylund came up with a lot of Halsey's
: characterizations, and Jones had little to nothing to do with it. It
: doesn't help that she states factual inaccuracies about the character
: (combat engineer? lovesick?)

I'm inclined to agree somewhat. It was pretty clear that Halo's story was broad and thin when Bungie was acquired by Microsoft, and others (Like Eric) helped expand it. As it was explained to me, Halo's entire story and universe was a 2 page unformatted text document the day they moved up to MS.