Erik Halden

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Erik Halden

Role

Response team officer; field team leader; head of the response team; the warden

Years

Years 29 to 48

First file

T-027 Statue

Last file

T-055 Warden

Erik Halden was an officer of the response team by year 29, when he proposed that the statue's cell be watched by camera as well as by the window (T-027). He went out with the searches for the lost expedition. On the ridge where the third search met Petr Lask's gear walking, it was Halden who said the face was wrong, and Halden who fired first (T-031). On the fourth search he shot the cache mimic, and then each of the four crates the search passed in the town, from twenty paces (T-032). The next day he and Tomas Rehn fired into the shard swarm until there was no cloud left (T-033).

When the pollution came he led the field team under Mara Okafor. He filed the report from the town nearest the launch site, where the first infected were found (T-048). His team was moved to the forests of the main island, where it shot the first of the wolves that glowed (T-049) and was charged by a toxic boar (T-050). In year 46 he took the team into the nuclear plant. A mutant brute broke two of his ribs in the turbine hall, and a man was lost from the rear of his line on the way out (T-051). On the second trip Halden walked at the rear himself, and a crawler was on his back before he heard it. Sami Lehto shot it off him (T-052).

He took the response team when Okafor retired (T-052, T-054). In year 47 he led the team that went through the rift on the Directorate's order, along the route of the lost expedition, and came back with the mask (T-054).

When the widening failed in year 48, Halden took his team down in containment suits to seal the lower levels and hold them while the staff above got out (T-055). The doors of the sealed level closed behind them on the fourth day. His last radio message was one word, three times: "Lockdown. Lockdown. Lockdown." (T-055). On the ninth day of month 2 the camera in the anteroom showed one figure in a containment suit walking Halden's old round, closing each door it passed and calling the lockdown in Halden's voice. The Institute numbered it as the warden (T-055). None of the nine who went down with him came out (T-055).

Papers under their name

• Addendum T-050-2: Survivors' talk, collected by Halden's team, Year 45, month 9, in T-050 Toxic boar
• Addendum T-051-2: Medical note on Erik Halden, Year 46, month 4, day 4, in T-051 Mutant brute
• Addendum T-052-4: Halden's plan for the third trip, Year 46, month 9, in T-052 Mutant crawler
• Addendum T-055-1: Halden's last radio messages, Year 48, month 2, days 2 to 3, in T-055 Warden

In the case files

Erik Halden is named in 13 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-027 Statue	Year 29, month 3, day 27	Addendum T-027-3
T-031 Hollow	Year 32, month 9, day 30	Addendum T-031-1
T-032 Cache mimic	Year 33, month 2, day 14	Discovery, Addendum T-032-1
T-033 Shard swarm	Year 33, month 2, day 15	Discovery

Part III: Going through (the objects)

File	Found	Where named
T-041 Skeleton Key	Year 39, month 5, day 22	Addendum T-041-B

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

File	Found	Where named
T-048 Infected	Year 44, month 2, day 11	Addendum T-048-1, What followed
T-049 Toxic wolf	Year 45, month 5, day 8	Discovery, Addendum T-049-1, Addendum T-049-3
T-050 Toxic boar	Year 45, month 8, day 30	Discovery, Addendum T-050-1, Addendum T-050-2, Addendum T-050-4
T-051 Mutant brute	Year 46, month 4, day 3	Discovery, Addendum T-051-1, Addendum T-051-2, What followed
T-052 Mutant crawler	Year 46, month 6, day 17	Discovery, Addendum T-052-1, Addendum T-052-2, Addendum T-052-3, Addendum T-052-4
T-053 Mutant sludger	Year 46, month 10, day 2	Discovery, Addendum T-053-1

Part V: The widening

File	Found	Where named
T-054 Porcelain Mask	Year 47, month 6, day 21	Discovery
T-055 Warden	Year 48, month 2, day 9	Description, Discovery, Addendum T-055-1, Addendum T-055-2, Addendum T-055-3