Lovik

Corporal Lovik was a Marine Corporal attached to an outfit in the UNSC Pillar of Autumn in 2552. When that ship crashed onto Installation 04, Lovik abandoned the ship and landed on Halo with the rest of the jumped crew. He then joined the rest of the survivors at the UNSC makeshift Alpha Base.

Corporal Lovik was a Marine NCO in the UNSC, and had been picked by Sergeant Johnson to lead the second squad in a recon mission on a believed Covenant base that included Private's Riley, Manuel Mendoza, Kappus, Bisenti, Private First Class Jenkins, and Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson.

Unbeknownst to the group, they were actually heading to the Flood Containment Facilities, where the Covenant had already accidentally released the Flood. He was among the first group of Humans attacked by the Flood, and desperately raised Sergeant Johnson and Captain Jacob Keyes over radio, though incoherently. "Sarge! Captain! Can you hear me? We’ve got contact! Lots of them! They’re not Covenant! They’re just tearing through us! What?!!…no!!!"

- Corporal Lovik’s distress call to Sergeant Johnson

Lovik and his men had then been attacked by a group of Flood, and took refuge in a structure. Based on his transmission to Johnson, it was likely he had been attacked by an Infection Form, and had either torn it off, or another Marine helped him. They were eventually joined by a few escaped survivors of the first squad, including Private Bisenti.

"Sir, thank God you're here! We've been lost out here for hours. After we lost contact with the rest of the mission, we headed for the RV point, and then these....these, things!...they ambushed us! We've gotta get out of here!"

- A frightened and confused Corporal Lovik reports to the Master Chief

"That's command thinking, Corporal"

- The Master Chief

When the Chief arrived at their position, Lovik and the remaining members of his squad followed him to a large tower where Foehammer was extracting them. Fighting through waves of Flood, it is unknown whether Lovik was turned into a Combat Form, or was picked up by Echo 419, but it is assumed he died when the Chief destroyed the Pillar of Autumn’s fusion reactors.