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===Leading the Banished=== | ===Leading the Banished=== | ||
Around [[2558#April|April 2558]], Atriox and [[Decimus]] departed for the [[Installation 00|Ark]] aboard the ''[[Enduring Conviction]]'', leaving Escharum in charge of all the Banished forces that remained in the [[Milky Way|galaxy]]. Shortly after Atriox left, Escharum assigned [[Blademaster]] [[Inslaan 'Gadogai]] to [[Castor]] as an advisor so that the [[dokab]] could thrive amongst the other Jiralhanae [[ | Around [[2558#April|April 2558]], Atriox and [[Decimus]] departed for the [[Installation 00|Ark]] aboard the ''[[Enduring Conviction]]'', leaving Escharum in charge of all the Banished forces that remained in the [[Milky Way|galaxy]]. Shortly after Atriox left, Escharum assigned [[Blademaster]] [[Inslaan 'Gadogai]] to [[Castor]] as an advisor so that the [[dokab]] could thrive amongst the other Jiralhanae [[Legionmaster]]s; Castor's faction, the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]], had joined the Banished just before the [[warmaster]] left for his [[Attack on Installation 00|mission]] to the Ark. The [[Sangheili]] consultant would also serve two other purposes: to act as a representative for Escharum and to punish Castor if he ever attempted to betray him.{{Ref/Reuse|SOR3}} | ||
Some time after the [[Guardian Custode]] on [[Laika III]] was activated on [[2558#October|October 28, 2558]], the Banished sent forces to the planet to investigate the crater left in the Guardian's wake. Escharum personally visited Laika III when Banished scientists began to inspect the ancient structure the Guardian rose from. Initially, Escharum was not pleased to find that [[Ilsa Zane]]—the sole survivor of the first phase of the [[SPARTAN-IV program]] and now an [[insurrectionist]] leader within the [[New Colonial Alliance]]—was alive. However, she offered the War Chief a chance to absorb the entirety of the NCA's resources into the Banished. Escharum accepted the offer; Zane later killed NCA's founder and leader [[Mattius Drake]] in front of Escharum, taking control of NCA and pledging its allegiance to the Banished. Escharum put the NCA to use almost immediately, sending Zane and his other newfound warriors on a mission to test them.{{Ref/Novel|Id=T3L|Halo: The Third Life}} | Some time after the [[Guardian Custode]] on [[Laika III]] was activated on [[2558#October|October 28, 2558]], the Banished sent forces to the planet to investigate the crater left in the Guardian's wake. Escharum personally visited Laika III when Banished scientists began to inspect the ancient structure the Guardian rose from. Initially, Escharum was not pleased to find that [[Ilsa Zane]]—the sole survivor of the first phase of the [[SPARTAN-IV program]] and now an [[insurrectionist]] leader within the [[New Colonial Alliance]]—was alive. However, she offered the War Chief a chance to absorb the entirety of the NCA's resources into the Banished. Escharum accepted the offer; Zane later killed NCA's founder and leader [[Mattius Drake]] in front of Escharum, taking control of NCA and pledging its allegiance to the Banished. Escharum put the NCA to use almost immediately, sending Zane and his other newfound warriors on a mission to test them.{{Ref/Novel|Id=T3L|Halo: The Third Life}} | ||
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Following the death of [[War Chief]] [[Decimus]], Atriox's original second-in-command, War Chief Escharum had become the next second-in-command of the Banished.{{Ref/Reuse|SOR17}} | Following the death of [[War Chief]] [[Decimus]], Atriox's original second-in-command, War Chief Escharum had become the next second-in-command of the Banished.{{Ref/Reuse|SOR17}} | ||
In the summer of [[2559]], Escharum received a transmission from Atriox informing the | In the summer of [[2559]], Escharum received a transmission from Atriox informing the War Chief of his [[Raid on Anodyne Spirit|possession]] of [[Menachite Forerunner crystal|a]] [[Forerunner]] [[slipspace]] [[slipspace flake|flake]] and his intention of using it to return to the galaxy via a [[slipspace portal]] [[Menachite portal complex|facility]] hidden on [[Reach]]. He instructed Escharum to find and activate this portal as soon as possible. Escharum sent the Keepers to Reach, along with the [[Legion of the Corpse-Moon]] and the [[Ravaged Tusks]]—two Jiralhanae [[clan]]s that had been absorbed into the Banished and reorganized into [[legion#Banished|legion]]s under the direction of Legionmasters [[Deukalion]] and [[Ballas]], respectively. Their mission was locate the portal facility and report its location back to Escharum before activating it so that they all might be there together to witness the return of Atriox.{{Ref/Reuse|SOR3}} | ||
On [[2559#October|October 12, 2559]], Escharum arrived at Reach aboard his personal [[intrusion corvette]] to visit Castor and scold him in person for his inability to locate the portal. It had been roughly three months since the Keepers and the other legions had been assigned to the task, and none of them had anything to show for it other than some [[human]] towns and hardware that they had managed to capture. While Escharum approved of the dokab's plan to follow the recently-arrived [[Blue Team|team]] of [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartans]] to the hidden portal, he was dissatisfied with the lack of results. Landing at [[Figyelő Point]], he confronted Castor and 'Gadogai, expressing his frustrations about both the still-missing portal and the fact that the UNSC was starting to gain a hold on Reach once again, putting pressure on their mission. However, the blademaster presented a plan—acting as if it had been the dokab's all along—that would buy them more time. If the Spartans did not lead them to the portal soon, they would use the human prisoners they had captured from the [[Viery Militia]] as hostages and force the rest off-world. This plan satiated the war chief's concerns until they were no longer relevant just moments later. The Keepers had detected a [[squadron]] of UNSC [[F-41 Broadsword|craft]] escorting a [[Pelican|dropship]] into the [[Highland Mountains]]. Inspecting their path, Castor deduced that their destination was the [[Menachite Mountain|"Missing Mountain"]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=SOR17|SoR|Chapter=17}} | On [[2559#October|October 12, 2559]], Escharum arrived at Reach aboard his personal [[intrusion corvette]] to visit Castor and scold him in person for his inability to locate the portal. It had been roughly three months since the Keepers and the other legions had been assigned to the task, and none of them had anything to show for it other than some [[human]] towns and hardware that they had managed to capture. While Escharum approved of the dokab's plan to follow the recently-arrived [[Blue Team|team]] of [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartans]] to the hidden portal, he was dissatisfied with the lack of results. Landing at [[Figyelő Point]], he confronted Castor and 'Gadogai, expressing his frustrations about both the still-missing portal and the fact that the UNSC was starting to gain a hold on Reach once again, putting pressure on their mission. However, the blademaster presented a plan—acting as if it had been the dokab's all along—that would buy them more time. If the Spartans did not lead them to the portal soon, they would use the human prisoners they had captured from the [[Viery Militia]] as hostages and force the rest off-world. This plan satiated the war chief's concerns until they were no longer relevant just moments later. The Keepers had detected a [[squadron]] of UNSC [[F-41 Broadsword|craft]] escorting a [[Pelican|dropship]] into the [[Highland Mountains]]. Inspecting their path, Castor deduced that their destination was the [[Menachite Mountain|"Missing Mountain"]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=SOR17|SoR|Chapter=17}} |