Professor Evan Phillips is a human scholar, xenoanthropologist and the foremost expert on the Sangheili culture and dialect from Wheatley University. He also seems to be able to complete puzzles, such as an arum, with ease, whereas almost all other Sangheili and humans cannot. Black Box seems to think he is intelligent enough for the AI program. In 2553, he arranged a meeting between Serin Osman and Avu Med 'Telcam. He was later recruited as a translator for an ONI based Op on board the UNSC Port Stanley and has proven to be an invaluable and crucial member of the crew. Philips was later placed in a risky reconnaissance op on Sanghelios by taking advantage of Thel Vadam's invitation to explore their planets richer archaeological sites, Philips's mission was merely to observe and if possibl