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On October 22, 2552, Laurette Agryna's dying father Holden gave her his pendant to be delivered to a contact of his at Waterloo Station along with a message that the man still owed Holden twenty quid. Amidst the chaos of the Battle for Earth, the Office of Naval Intelligence had contacted Holden to smuggle a classified package out of the city, his courier service the Beekeepers being ideal to "slip through the net" of the Covenant invasion despite Holden living off of the grid to get away from ONI. Holden and his daughter had been trying to make their way through the "upper city" by leaping from building to building, but were caught in an explosion when a Covenant dropship fired on the skyscraper that they were traveling through.
Left to finish the job by herself, Agryna descended to the ground where she was confused to see Jiralhanae dragging someone who wasn't human. A UNSC squad shot down a Phantom, but Agryna pressed on, ignoring the Covenant survivors beyond flipping them off and the UNSC troops. Agryna was forced to hide a Jiralhanae pack coming to investigate the downed dropship where she encountered a Sangheili who was also hiding. To Agryna's surprise, the Sangheili simply signaled her to be quiet, but they were found by a Jiralhanae who sadistically tore the Sangheili limb from limb, providing a distraction for Agryna to continue on. Attempting to sneak across Westminster Bridge, the strap of Agryna's bag got caught on the treads of a wrecked Scorpion and broke.
As a pack of six Jiralhanae closed in on her, Agryna was suddenly saved by a UNSC drop pod landing right in front of her followed by three others. Each pod carried a Spartan from the Delta-6 Division and the fireteam quickly eliminated the Covenant forces. The leader, Evelyn Rousseau, confirmed that Agryna had the package while Dorian Nguyen suffered two Spiker rounds to the leg. As Victor Gallardo supported Dorian, Saskia Nazari called for exfiltration and Evie explained that Holden's pendant contained a hidden tracking device that had led the Spartans to Agryna.
As dawn rose, the fighting in London seemed to have ceased for the time being and UNSC Medical Corps transports moved in to help the injured while firefighting teams set to work extinguishing the raging fires throughout the city. However, it was only a matter of time before the Covenant regrouped, struck again harder than before and brought a fleet of reinforcements to glass the planet.
On the roof of Waterloo Station, Agryna and the Spartans rendezvoused with the Pale Horse from which their commanding officer, a Sergeant Major, emerged in power armor far older than the Spartans' sleek MJOLNIR armor. Agryna was unable to tell if the man was a Spartan or some other kind of super soldier, but recognized the Shoulder Angel as something that her father possessed from days he had never liked to talk about. From Agryna's bag, the CO removed a box with a javelin insignia on it possibly large enough to hold a data crystal chip.
The CO announced that Project OUROBOROS was underway and key personnel were being evacuated to the Oort cloud, meaning they needed to get off of the planet. Dorian objected and while the CO didn't like it any better than him, there was always a bigger picture. The Spartans filed onto the ship while Agryna, realizing that this must be her father's contact, passed on Holden's message. Removing his helmet, the CO wistfully recalled serving with Holden during Operation: TREBUCHET where Holden had always insisted that he looked better in the armor than the other man. The CO offered Agryna a choice to stay in London or to come with him, warning that it was a death sentence either way as official records would mark them as killed in action where they were going. Agyrna agreed to the offer and the CO welcomed her aboard, introducing himself as Nolan Byrne.
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- The four Spartans are Evelyn Rousseau, Dorian Nguyen, Victor Gallardo and Saskia Nazari, although only Evelyn and Dorian are identified by name. They previously appeared in Halo: Battle Born and Halo: Meridian Divide.
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In 2560, in unknown space, as the artificial sun of the graveworld set over the horizion, it was time for the faithful to cast their gaze outward and contemplate the infinite expanse beyond them. Much of the graveworld's outer wall had been riven, letting in shafts of starlight that illuminated many blessed areas in darkness that would become places of pilgramage and prayer. The graveworld's construction was such that one could see through multiple layers of the concentric circles making up the installation with the most significant site of damage being a large maw-like opening in the outer shell.
While the the battle that had gripped the graveworld was long ceased, many secrets and treasures were still held within. Only Ryn 'Alun and the most faithful like him remained on the graveworld, the rest having fled in terror when the Didact's Hand had tried to destroy it and enacted designs grander than even he could grasp. Ryn and the faithful had been reforged into beings of machine cells and hard light that could be reconfigured at will, including to resemble their original organic forms.
The faithful residing on the graveworld understood the true meaning of the Great Journey, that it wasn't transcendence delivered by the Halo Array to reach the false paradise promised by the San'Shyuum, but rather through sublimation to attain a new divine form on this warrior-keep. Now and forevermore, the graveworld of Requiem was their home.
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On January 23, 2560, Kona Squadron, the primary element of the 22nd First Response Wing, prepared in their FSS-1000 Sabres for a Banished attack on Dormire III after the arrival of a capital ship between the planet and its shattered moon. Waiting to launch, Kona speculated on the Banished's motives, guessing that it had something to do with the fact that the moon had housed a Guardian Custode that shattered it upon activation. The moon shattering had wreaked havoc on the planet's tides while raining chunks of deadly debris onto its tides. While the moon's remains had since settled into a semblance of gravitational stability in orbit, the danger from them still remained and planetary defense artillery had been repurposed to fire upon any larger pieces that threatened to enter the atmosphere and cause a catastrophe. Kona Squadron launched, dodging debris as they headed for the Banished capital ship.
Two hours later, the Sabres arrived to discover a Banished flagship of an unknown design accompanied by two karves. Blackjack guessed that the ship likely contained a high-ranking Banished officer of importance, giving them the chance to stop the raid and eliminate a Banished leader. Kona Squadron engaged the Banished fleet, but their Medusa Missiles were shot down by pulse laser turrets or did no damage upon impact. Kona Squadron succeeded in taking down four Phantoms, but Kona Four took damage that left it dead in the water and a Phantom and a Spirit ganged up on it. Kona One took out the Phantom, but the Spirit confused their missiles by venting plasma streams like flares. Despite the other Sabres attempts to save their comrades, the Spirit collided with Kona Four, destroying both.
One of the karves disengaged and headed for the planet while the flagship and the other karve headed for the moon, suggesting that there was more Forerunner technology there than just the Guardian. Hex ordered that a long-range transmission be sent warning the UNSC forces on the ground of this development while Kona Squadron continued after the Banished flagship. For twelve minutes, the Sabres engaged the Banished, desperately trying every hit-and-run tactic in their arsenal to slow the Banished. Kona Three was disabled by fire from the two warships and Hex ordered Samba to go dark in the hopes that it would cause the Banished to ignore them.
Suddenly, dozens of Phaetons appeared and engaged both factions, forcing Kona Squadron to switch to evasion and survival in the hopes of surviving long enough for the Banished to take the biggest losses and hope that the Forerunner craft would then see them as insignificant. A Spirit gunship released proximity mines into the Sabres' path, blowing Kona One in half and forcing Blackjack and Hex to eject. A Phaeton pulled the two into its cockpit, recognizing them as Reclaimers and giving Hex control. Hex attacked the Banished fleet with fury while Blackjack discovered that he had full command of the entire force of Phaetons. Under Hex and Blackjack's command, the Phaetons targeted the Banished capital ships, destroying the nearest karve and causing the flagship to flee into slipspace. With all nearby Banished forces gone, Hex ordered Blackjack to find a way to contact the rest of Kona Squadron and then send a signal to the UNSC ground forces fighting the Banished that they had found reinforcements.
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On April 9, 2557, a researcher on the Huygens-class survey ship Anjin recorded a message to their daughter. The researcher apologized for being gone for three years, but wanted their daughter to understand the importance of their work for humanity. For many years, humanity was at war with the Covenant who destroyed many human worlds. Now that war was over and humanity needed new places to live, so the researcher was chosen by the UEG Cartographic Corps to be a part of that mission. The rest of the crew was a sixth-generation non-volitional AI named Clavell and the Kig-Yar siblings Viks and Maks Taa who had helped tremendously with mapping regions of space unexplored by humanity using the Covenant World Registry. The researcher then began telling their daughter about some of the things they had seen.
First was Funayūrei, a seemingly uninteresting sulfur-streaked ice giant. However, the Anjin crew discovered a lone derelict ship of archaic design on its moon Onryō. Viks told the crew a story from the end of the War of Beginnings about how a San'Shyuum naval commander, resenting that the war had ended in peace, disappeared into uncharted space, never to be seen again. The derelict ship bore the hallmarks of a San'Shyuum design pattern from that era. The moon had a settlement that was largely eroded away by time, but no sign of the San'Shyuum such as a grave, a body, or any sign that he had left the planet.
Next was LV-221B, a world described as being a few cosmic breaths away from becoming a garden world, bearing a similarity to a primordial Earth. Within a century or two, the planet would be ready for the initial terraforming process and held the potential to be the next Harvest or Reach for future generations, and the find reminded the researcher that their mission wasn't just about adventure and seeing the galaxy, but duty. There would be a debate about settling on LV-221B as indigenous sapient life could evolve there one day and they shouldn't do anything to interfere with that. For the time being, LV-221B was designated a protected world to safeguard its potential for future habitability -- whoever that ended up being for.
Next, the researcher spoke of how Anjin ended up in a weird situation due to a slipspace drive disruption. Upon being forced back to normal space, the ship encountered a small black hole that was closely orbited by a white dwarf. However, despite its proximity, the star showed no signs of being dragged into the black hole's accretion disk. Instead, the star's materials were being pulled away into a ring of matter that left a faint white-blue trail as it orbited the black hole at an incredible speed, completing its orbit every forty-nine days. The researcher predicted that if the white dwarf wasn't pulled into the black hole, it was likely that the black hole would keep eating away at the star's matter until it lost enough mass to evaporate.
Anjin made the rediscovery of a human colony on Danaïdes which was not on the ship's standard charts for former human colony positions, so the crew initially assumed that it was a new garden world. On closer inspection, Danaïdes' oxygen-rich atmosphere that appeared perfectly placid and agreeable was regularly disrupted by massive spontaneous storms. The crew found evidence of several small inland settlements, ruined farm structures and even the early construction of a city. Many of the colony's logs had been wiped, but what little data that could be recovered pointed to Danaïdes being a colonization candidate in 2371 before suddenly going dark less than a year later and seemingly being struck from the colonial record. The crew couldn't find any further indication of what happened to the colony on Danaïdes, but it felt strange to the researcher, like they had just stumbled into a crime scene.
Menoetius was a large barren moon that had two massive craters that were hundreds of kilometers in circumference. The craters appeared to be the result of impacts from Magnetic Accelerator Cannons and the crew were studying the data to determine whether they were caused by misfires from a UNSC vessel or possibly some other civilization in the distant past.
While attempting a slipspace jump after brief drive maintenance, the ship encountered a dark nebula which turned the viewports pitch black and made many of their instruments stop working. Maks in particular got jumpy, reporting shadows moving on the walls and locked himself in his quarters. Viks refused to explain her brother's behavior and the researcher was frustrated when, after nine hours and thirteen minutes, they emerged from the dark nebula, only to find no evidence of any kind of stellar formation when they attempted to scan the area.
Needing a few unconventional parts to modify Anjin, the Kig-Yar took the ship to a trading outpost hidden within a gas giant's massive circumplanetary ring system that held dozens and dozens of moons. After the ship departed, Viks awoke the researcher at 0400 to give them a "friendly warning" with a plasma pistol that the Kig-Yar had removed all information pertaining to the location from Anjin's navigation database. While the Kig-Yar were often thought of as merchants and pirates, the researcher realized in that moment that the Kig-Yar were also explorers and wondered what other incredible places they had seen that no one else knew about.
After three years together, the researcher finally earned the favor of their Kig-Yar crewmembers. As such, Viks wished to share an incredibly rare stellar phenomenon with them. The Kig-Yar took the ship to a trinary star system where they encountered what roughly translated from the Kig-Yar language as a "cosmic vampire": a white dwarf devouring stellar material from its two neighbors until it reached critical mass which caused something approximating a type one-A supernova. Viks revealed that this was something that had lived in Kig-Yar mythology for many millennia and her sharing it with the researcher was a symbol of their friendship.
The researcher last described an encounter with strange space debris. While performing a series of scans, the ship was hit by something. When the researcher put on a spacesuit to investigate, they found a strange sight: a cryo chamber just drifting through the void containing a man and a three-legged dog. While the researcher wanted to know the story behind this, the chamber was damaged in the collision, and the Anjin crew couldn't risk opening it themselves. They needed to take it to professionals who could safely repair the chamber so that the man and his dog could be revived. As such, the crew was going to finish off their last assigned system scan and return to Earth.
While that was all that the researcher had to tell their daughter, the researcher was sure that they would have more stories to tell when they were back on Earth for a little while in just a few months. After debriefing with their superiors for a day or two, the researcher would be heading straight to the New Phoenix Spaceport afterwards with the estimated date being August 3, 2557. The researcher said goodbye to their daughter to speak to their husband instead.
The researcher apologized for how difficult things had been and for not parting on good terms which they owned. However, the researcher wasn't coming home and this return to Earth would probably be their last visit for a very, very long time. The researcher wished that their husband could see the wonders of the galaxy the way that they had and humanity finally had the chance to explore it. The war was over and a new age of discovery was dawning. After being on the brink of extinction for so long, humans were citizens of the universe in so many new and exciting ways and the researcher needed to be a part of this new chapter of history. Their husband wanted to settle, and the researcher had gone along with it to make him happy, but they both knew that it wasn't for the researcher. A child didn't fix that, and their decisions just made the researcher an asshole to a whole other human being. While it was incredibly selfish, the researcher couldn't give up the opportunity to explore the galaxy on the Anjin. The researcher told their husband that he didn't have to forgive them and to move on with his life if he hadn't already. The researcher intended to continue sending messages to their daughter unless their husband thought that it would hurt the girl too much. The researcher closed out their message by admitting that while they weren't good at it, they had always loved their husband and always would. The researcher apologized that there couldn't be an easier way for them and promised to see their husband soon, unaware of what was to come for New Phoenix before Anjin's estimated return date.
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