This is an action report filed by Private Brill M Julian, this report has been documented and filed for further UNSC use.
On March 27, 2530 a small group of us, my companions included, escaped the colony of Eridanus II. The Covenant came out of nowhere and mercilessly attacked us. Unknown to us, there was a Spartan conducting a "secret" mission on the planet. He assisted us by driving a commercial vehicle into the side of a Wraith. When I first saw the Spartan, I was impressed. Then he took his helmet off and vomited on my standard issue armor. After cleaning my armor of the Spartan told me his tag and his name, it was Randal.
The evac point designated on my comm link was at least a mile and a half away, and my squad and I were no match for the Covenant's technology. We were the only squad at the outpost as well, all the others were in the Capitol, and that was glasses right when they arrived. Randal, however, had a plan. In his own words his plan to get to the evac point was, "Shoot at 'em until they can't shoot no more." He also said this in a mock cowboy accent, which was slightly amusing. We decided that it was pretty much the only plan offered, so we took it.
The first thing we did was secure a civilian vehicle. Randal drove a car around from one of the local farms he had visited in his "mission". This thing was ancient, I'm guessing at least 200 years old. I have no knowledge on how someone could get a vehicle originally made on Earth on to Eridanus, but Randal just smiled and said, "This here's a Firebird. I like watching old, and I mean old, programs on the tele-screens. This baby was in one of the ones I constantly watched." I don't know why it was called a Firebird, but it's probably because of the Phoenix decal on the front panel of the vehicle.
I got in the "Firebird" with the Spartan, and the rest of my squad took a commercial vehicle. As we were leaving, two squads of Grunts ambushed us. Randal just sighed, got out, and beat them to death with his bare hands. At that moment, I was incredibly thankful that my life was in the hands of a Spartan. We got in the vehicles and drove to the evac point, halfway there an Elite with his Plasma Sword bared jumped on the front of our vehicle trying to slice at Randal. He had bright red armor and a crack in the casing, right on the chest plate. Randal just smiled,"Ramo how nice to see you again. Still have that scar I gave you?" The Elite just yelled and hacked at the glass separating us from him. When he broke through I fired repeatedly, hitting his shield with a spray of bullets. Once his shield was down, Randal took a knife out of a pocket on his chest and flicked it at the Elite he called Ramo.
The Elite fell off of the vehicle with the knife sticking in his chest. When I looked back at him lying on the ground, I saw him pull the knife out and stagger towards us as we drove away. I think that Randal somehow knew this Elite, and that they might have fought in previous battles. We still made it to the evac point safely, and all of my squad survived because of that Spartan, I'm thankful that he was there to save my ass.
End of Report. Look into further information of Randal's encounters with Elite. Search for Ramo.