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Maya Sankar

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"I'm not afraid to die. What we're doing is so much bigger than me, and I know there will always be people to continue the fight, people like you."
— FERO to Benjamin Giraud[1]

Commander Maya Sankar is a human operative of the UNSC Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, serving Section Three.[2] Sankar infiltrates insurrectionist organizations and, operating under the codename "FERO", pretends to be committed to revealing the atrocities of ONI using classified intelligence on the organization's tactics and assets.[3][4]

Biography

Post-war investigation

During the investigation of the Master Chief, Benjamin Giraud was contacted by conspiracy theorist Mshak Moradi, who revealed that someone nicknamed "FERO" was about to get into contact with him.[5] "FERO" would later contact Benjamin Giraud, using voice distortion software to cloud her true identity. "FERO" began to tell Ben to establish the truth surrounding the Master Chief, and release it to the public, thus creating havoc and attention in the colonies. Yet to really hinder and usurp the Office of Naval Intelligence, a more delicate plan would need to be set up, to which "FERO" told Ben to set up a burn meeting in which the Unified Earth Government senators and high-ranking ONI officials would attend.[3] After John-117 apparently attacked a peace conference between the UEG and an alien species on Biko, FERO leaked the news onto human public networks and news sites. This caused many people to denounce the Master Chief, with much of the public feeling betrayed by John's apparent disloyalty. FERO intended to also reveal the Office of Naval Intelligence was responsible for abducting children for the SPARTAN-II program and for ultimately psychologically transforming the Master Chief into a traitor.[6]

When a meeting was scheduled between the UEG senate and ONI to discuss the Biko event, FERO intended to help Giraud reveal ONI's Spartan-II conscription methods before the UEG senators. She hoped that the senators would realize that they had been kept unaware of ONI's controversial acts, and thus heavily reprimand the intelligence agency.[6] When the meeting occurred, FERO patched Giraud into the congressional chamber's main display. Giraud informed the senators of ONI's atrocities and blamed the directors of ONI responsible for the acts just before his feed was cut off. Before ending their call, FERO told Giraud that he had ignited a revolution and that he was now under her protection.[4] The senators ultimately did not believe Giraud's claims. Several days later, FERO contacted Giraud to warn him that ONI operatives had found him and told him to leave his apartment. As Giraud attempted to escape, the agents tracked him down and attacked him. However, FERO arrived at the scene and killed the agents. As they escaped the area, FERO gave Giraud access to her movement's funds and safehouses. Believing ONI to be vulnerable, FERO and her organization were making preparations to attack the agency before it recovered. However, Giraud revealed that he had knowledge of a lead on Bliss that would help them in their case against ONI and he convinced FERO to hold off on her plans. On Bliss, Giraud found an abandoned ONI facility with an active communications server that documented all of ONI's acts.[1] Some time before Giraud appeared in public with his info, ONI ordered FERO to kill Mshak Moradi because he was about to discover her real allegiances. After she had carried out the assassination mission, Sankar's handler Noah Reibach noted that her weapon had not registered as fired during the operation; she implied that she had killed Moradi without it in a particularly gruesome manner. Meanwhile, the UEG announced to the public that they had apparently discovered that FERO was an arms dealer that supplied Sapien Sunrise for their raid on the Biko embassy. When Giraud attempted to publicize his discovery on Barrier's ECB News, he was arrested by federal agents for treason against the UEG for working with FERO.[7]

After Benjamin Giraud's capture and imprisonment at ONI's Midnight Facility, Sankar continued her undercover work as FERO, gaining the trust of the insurrectionists. During one of her speeches to a group of over 100 people, a squad of ODSTs extracted Sankar, killing 26 and injuring 41 of the insurrectionists in the process, which angered her considerably. Noah Reibach contacted her inside the ship and told her that she is being brought to Midnight Facility to be briefed.

Upon reaching Midnight Facility, located inside an asteroid, Sankar decided to meet with Giraud in his Cube before being briefed. Upon reaching Cube-349, Sankar told the AI accompanying her to make the glass transparent. Upon meeting him, Giraud was relieved she was still alive, not knowing that she worked for ONI. Giraud told her about the apology letter he had been writing and that he would personally thank her for saving his life. Sankar was about to tell Giraud the truth of the two ONI agents sent to kill him but was cut of by Michael Sullivan on COM. When Sullivan referred to Sankar as Commander Sankar, Giraud realized she worked for ONI, which caused him to go into a fit of rage. This prompted Sullivan to administer a gaseous sedative on Giraud. Sankar headed straight for Sullivan's office and expressed her anger towards ONI's treatment of Giraud. Sullivan explained ONI were going to use Giraud as a PR asset and record a message for the public. Sullivan warned her to stay away from Giraud, and Sankar warned him to stay away from her. Sankar left to be briefed by Reibach who informed her of attacks that had happened on several Human colonies. One of the colonies had a large New Colonial Alliance presence, and to prevent whatever destroyed the colonies from falling into the NCA's hands, Sankar was tasked with gathering intel on the situation by infiltrating the NCA, with help from the AI Black-Box.

Production note

FERO is portrayed by American actress Janina Gavankar in Hunt the Truth.[8]

Gallery

  • Fero script.jpg

    FERO's Script cover for Hunt the Truth Season 1.

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b Hunt the Truth, Episode 11: DOWN TO THE BONE
  2. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named s2e2
  3. ^ a b Hunt the Truth, Episode 07: WHO'S LISTENING
  4. ^ a b Hunt the Truth, Episode 09: PHANTOMS
  5. ^ Hunt the Truth, Episode 06: BOXING STORY
  6. ^ a b Hunt the Truth, Episode 08: DRIP, DRIP, DRIP
  7. ^ Hunt the Truth, Episode 13: IN THE BAG
  8. ^ Xbox Wire: Halo 5: Guardians #HuntTheTruth - Has the Master Chief Gone AWOL?
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