Man In The Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask is a novel of human origin written by Alexander Dumas in 1850. The novel is a part of the larger novel set The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, which in turn is a part of the d'Artagnan Romances.

At some point in her life before the Battle of Reach, Catherine Halsey had read the novel. Remembering the terror she had felt as the noble prisoner had been encased in a metal shell, Halsey wondered how the Master Chief coped with the constant enclosure of his suit.