Martinez: (nods)
A few years after the war started we had two Spartans on Corin. Their Pelican had crashed and after dealing with the Covie forces sent to deal with whatever might still be alive they were- well, how should I put this- rescued by an Elite.
They were ambushed, trying to reach one of the few still-operational bases we had there. A large Elite, wielding an energy sword, came out and saved one of their asses from certain death. Then he disappeared with only a short message.
Since then we've been getting all kinds of reports about UNSC troops being saved by this famous Elite. We know there's only one because most of them come back with their helmets intact... and we can just get the vid off that.
And everytime he leaves the same message. (sighs) We've been hunting him for about five years now... hoping we could find him and form some kind of alliance. According to what information we do have on him he was of very high rank within the Covenant military... and that could come in handy in a lot of ways.
Em: But he's killing his own kind to save humans... I mean, something just isn't right.
Martinez: Well, we'll just have to ask him about that when he wakes up won't we?
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Meanwhile
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Vali: Ardo had been... captured (she growled at the word) and was on the ship. We went to rescue him but the damn humans activated the ship's self-destruct sequence. We barely made it out alive.
The Prophets, however, reported to the Council that he along with Rgis and two of my other men had disappeared in the explosion... persumed dead. It was a mask.
(she looks out one of the windows) Some of the humans did things, he told me afterwards, that still make him scream in his sleep. He wears that armor (she looks back at Thell) to remind him not to let them take him alive again.
(she sighs) I have spoken too much. I must leave.
*Vali crosses her arm ovre her chest, in a Sangheili war salute, turns and leaves.*