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Chapter 2
The notorious Halo Ring Installation 04…
The Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice, Blay'de Haulduur marched through the halls of Installation 04 in a rage. The massive eight foot nine elite wore blue and gold feild marshal armor. Blay'de cleched his personal communication tablet until the device cracked and splintered under the strain. Blay'de thought about his current 'predicament.' The Three Prophets had threatened to replace him with a backstabbing, hapless little Minor named Thel 'Vadamee if they kept getting reports of his 'unorthodox' behavior. So what he had been taking the occasional technology sample or so for study… all right a lot of technology samples.
The High Prophets apparently didn't like their Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice tampering with sacred Forerunner artifacts to find out more about them. Blay'de would just have to get them out of the way if he was going to continue his studies of Forerunner technology. And besides, Blay'de had found plenty of interesting items to play with. Extremely destructive items capable of killing a Hunter with a single shot.
Oh, right. The High Prophets were also mad at him for 'the needless execution of crew members.' Just one more thing to take care of.
Blay'de reached his private quarters, and marhced in the doorway past a huge chunk of machinery. Blay'de walked over to his desk and fiddled with a few experimental weapons on the top, still seething about the High Prophets orders. He put them down and pulled up a file program on his hologram-computer.
He flipped through a couple of old project plans until one old note caught his eye. It stated a strange similarity between a Forerunner weapon and a human weapon called a 'Spartan Laser.' The note said to look into it some more. Since Blay'de had nothing else to do but brood, he decided to follow the notes instructions.
He walked over to a cluttered corner of the quarters and pulled out the Forerunner weapon in question. He then searched around for a 'Spartan Laser' sample, finding one under the large thing beside the door.
Blay'de, once seated, began to dissect the two pieces of machinery. Once he was finished, he pulled up a program on his computer and scanned the two piles of metal. As he looked over the weapons on the computer, he realized that the two had more in common than he had realized; the power sources were almost the same, accuracy systems, and many other things.
Blay'de sat back and thought this over. Then he leaned forward and looked up the 'Spartan Laser.' When the file came up, Blay'de skimmed through it till he found what he was looking for; humans actually thought the weapon was advanced! Blay'de chewed on this mouthful for a moment. Then he re-examined the Forerunner weapon, and compared it to some of the others.
According to Forerunner technology, this was a primitive weapon! And the humans came up with it thousands of years later… Blay'de got an idea, but he didn't like it. Hopefully he would be able to disprove it.
Feverishly, Blay'de looked up the timelines of both the Forerunners and the humans, and compared them. It was just as he thought! The Forerunners disappear for a decade or so, then the humans appear. This ran through Blay'des head for a moment, before he came to the conclusion. Humans were somehow descended or connected to the Forerunners!
Blay'de thought back to an old rumor that had spread around for a while when the Covenant was still new. Some old kooky elite had said the humans were descended from Forerunners. The old elite had been killed, and the rumor squashed, but it was looking very plausible now.
Blay'de suddenly had an idea; revealing this to the Covenant might get him a higher foothold in the government, it might even help him get even with the High Prophets…
Blay'de marched up to the bridge of the Ring, smiling to himself. As he marched over to the captains seat, he called one of the Jackal tenants.
"Bring me the communications relay for the Installation." he said. The tenant nodded hurridly and fetched the relay device.
"Attention crew members!" Blay'de boomed into the tablet. "There has been a change of plans. You will strip the Installation of all useful technology and load it onto all availiable carriers."
Blay'de ignored the horrified looks of the bridge crew members and continued, "You will then evacuate the entire Installation, and seal it."
One of the General classes looked angrily at his fellows and stepped forwards. "But Supreme Commander, did the High Prophets order this 'change in plans?"
Blay'de looked calmly at the rebellious general, and stopped to think, as if uncertain. Suddenly Blay'de's fist shot out and crashed into the Elite's throat, instantly shattering spine and jugular.
"Do you think," Blay'de said as the dead general fell limply to the ground, "I need orders?"
To be continued...
