Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/A New Commander

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Balkarus, Brute captain. Recorded Date: 4/1/2559

Forticus, we have received the Huragok you sent us and have already put them

to work around the operation site. I have tasked a Sangheili to look after them,

for I cannot stomach to be around them for long. Simply the sight of the

Sangheili communicating to those creatures with strange hand signals repulses

me. I often need to punt three or four short ones into a deep chasm before my

mind settles again!

I fear I would need to kick a thousand Unggoy into the depths to restore my

peace of mind after meeting our new commander. While stationed at the raid

camp, I heard utterings about a Lekgolo who had risen up the ranks to the

standing of actually having Atriox's ear! I know these rumors to be true, and

that it calls itself 'Colony'. I have only glimpsed its hulking form from a

distance, but the others swear they actually heard it speak, or something close

to a sound. I can tell many of the younger Brutes are nervous in its presence

and guard their conversations, for if they are truly a hive mind, then surely all

eels hear what one hears.

Atriox appears to have tasked Colony with investigating the ancient

technologies here and restoring them for our own use. He, they - whatever it

is - seems to have curbed its feasting habits and has already made progress in

establishing a cloaking field over the site. Such power makes me nervous. The

Lekgolo are formidable fighters, but sometimes I wish the Covenant had left

them burrowing away amongst the relics like the worms they are. Still, if it

gives us the chance to strike back at the humans, then I welcome it, but it is

not the natural way of things!

I must end my transmission now: I swear I heard something slithering behind

me.