When Steve shows himself to a be polite young man, Halsey's bearing softens. She hadn't realized how annoyed she'd become by anyone in the military who wasn't one of her own, and really, it would be absurd to hold the sins of the UNSC against someone who would have died centuries before it even existed.

"Nothing you can provide, I think...Captain?" She's not entirely certain of the branch of service, or if the rank insignia have changed in five centuries, but that seems safe enough.