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{{Quote|We lost. Lost everything. There's nothing left for us here. I don't even know where here is.| Esparza lets the Chief know about their present situation.}}{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} | {{Quote|We lost. Lost everything. There's nothing left for us here. I don't even know where here is.| Esparza lets the Chief know about their present situation.}}{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} | ||
At some point in early [[2560]] Esparza was asleep in the cockpit of [[Echo 216|his]] [[Pelican]] around [[Installation 07]] when a shaking of the craft and repeated warnings suddenly woke him.{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} Pressure was building in multiple lines but he managed to initiate a protocol which caused the warnings to cease. Just then, however, a piece of debris impacted ''[[Echo 216]]'s'' rear, creating a breach. Esparza rushed to seal it and was successful in doing so, but in the process, he slipped and fell from the box he had been standing on to reach it. When he hit the floor a recording device came out of his pocket and rolled away. This device—containing a recorded message from his wife and daughter—was a small comfort to him over the weeks which followed, during which time he remained stranded in the low-powered Pelican near the damaged ring.{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} | At some point in early [[2560]] Esparza was asleep in the cockpit of [[Echo 216|his]] [[Pelican]] around [[Installation 07]] when a shaking of the craft and repeated warnings suddenly woke him.{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} Pressure was building in multiple lines but he managed to initiate a protocol which caused the warnings to cease. Just then, however, a piece of debris impacted ''[[Echo 216]]'s'' rear, creating a breach. Esparza rushed to seal it and was successful in doing so, but in the process, he slipped and fell from the box he had been standing on to reach it. When he hit the floor [[holorecorder|a recording device]] came out of his pocket and rolled away. This device—containing a recorded message from his wife and daughter—was a small comfort to him over the weeks which followed, during which time he remained stranded in the low-powered Pelican near the damaged ring.{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} | ||
Eventually, after repeated viewings of the same message his recording device lost power.{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} It was almost immediately after this, however, that ''Echo 216'' alerted him to the presence of a signal with a [[Identification friend or foe|friendly]] designation. He raced to the cockpit and hailed the signal, but before he could identify himself twice he wiped away frost on the cockpit window to reveal an armored [[Spartan]] floating nearby: [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]]. Bringing the hulking warrior aboard revealed that [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|his armor]]'s survival mode had been triggered. To override it, Esparza rerouted what little power remained to ''Echo 216'' into the armor, and was thrilled when parts of the Pelican's interior which had gone dark from a lack of energy suddenly flared to life thanks to the suit's [[fusion reactor]] recharging the Pelican's depleted batteries. Esparza enthusiastically welcomed the Chief back after seeing that he'd reawakened. He also noticed that something appeared to be wrong with the [[Wikipedia:Servomechanism|servos]] the man's gauntleted hands, but before he could locate a tool to check his armor's diagnostics John approached him and asked for a status report. This caught Esparza off guard, but he then realized the Chief may not know about what had happened to the nearby ring and so turned his attention to the cockpit. As the Spartan laid eyes on what remained of it he explained that they had lost everything here—though he added that he didn't even know where "here" was. Then, without warning, ''Echo 216'' was hit by the ''[[Ghost of Gbraakon]]'' which generated electrical discharges within it and enveloped it in bright light. Esparza panicked at this and signaled to the Chief that he had witnessed this sort of attack before. He advised that they needed to flee, but John disagreed, insisting that he needed a weapon, being given a pistol with only a single bullet left. At that point, Esparza sealed himself within the cockpit while the Spartan took up a position in the troop bay. The Chief opened the rear hatch, lunging himself towards the warship and landing in one of it's many hangar bays. | Eventually, after repeated viewings of the same message his recording device lost power.{{Ref/Reuse|DH}} It was almost immediately after this, however, that ''Echo 216'' alerted him to the presence of a signal with a [[Identification friend or foe|friendly]] designation. He raced to the cockpit and hailed the signal, but before he could identify himself twice he wiped away frost on the cockpit window to reveal an armored [[Spartan]] floating nearby: [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]]. Bringing the hulking warrior aboard revealed that [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|his armor]]'s survival mode had been triggered. To override it, Esparza rerouted what little power remained to ''Echo 216'' into the armor, and was thrilled when parts of the Pelican's interior which had gone dark from a lack of energy suddenly flared to life thanks to the suit's [[fusion reactor]] recharging the Pelican's depleted batteries. Esparza enthusiastically welcomed the Chief back after seeing that he'd reawakened. He also noticed that something appeared to be wrong with the [[Wikipedia:Servomechanism|servos]] the man's gauntleted hands, but before he could locate a tool to check his armor's diagnostics John approached him and asked for a status report. This caught Esparza off guard, but he then realized the Chief may not know about what had happened to the nearby ring and so turned his attention to the cockpit. As the Spartan laid eyes on what remained of it he explained that they had lost everything here—though he added that he didn't even know where "here" was. Then, without warning, ''Echo 216'' was hit by the ''[[Ghost of Gbraakon]]'' which generated electrical discharges within it and enveloped it in bright light. Esparza panicked at this and signaled to the Chief that he had witnessed this sort of attack before. He advised that they needed to flee, but John disagreed, insisting that he needed a weapon, being given a pistol with only a single bullet left. At that point, Esparza sealed himself within the cockpit while the Spartan took up a position in the troop bay. The Chief opened the rear hatch, lunging himself towards the warship and landing in one of it's many hangar bays. | ||