Berryler, Last Refuge
Prologue: Intercepted Messages
File Type: Personal
File Name: Banks Journal 71
File Creator: Banks, George
They're coming. Every human here can feel them coming. They can sense them. The Covenant took Earth. They destroyed it. Completely. The humans who survived ran aboard any space-faring vehicle available. Theirs or no, they took them. The survivors gathered behind Pluto, where they together made a blind jump to somewhere. There they found a planet, which they named Berryler. There they settled, thinking about rebuilding their civilization. After a month, they came. The number one enemy of human civilization. The Covenant. They landed far away from us, but then they searched. And they found us. Berryler is a planet with a queer environment. At one place there are plains of snow, at another a huge jungle. Deserts can be found, as can be seas. And basic, woodlands and grass plains. This gave us many places to hide. Very many. The Covenant destroyed pretty much of the main settlement, The Refuge. We don't know all the survivor locations. This is due the fact of the huge, bizarre "whirlwind" that hit us when we arrived near Berryler. It threw some hundreds of survivor ships across Berryler. Covenant may have destroyed them. Some marines are alive too, still fighting the Covenant to last man. Many can hear them sometimes muttering, "I wish the Master Chief would be here," during watches. All of us do. Some pray during the nights that Maser Chief would magically come here and save us. Maybe he will. Maybe he wont. Who knows? End of file. Open attached file.
File Type: Note
File Name: Message
File Creator: Banks George
I sent this message along with my journal 71 to space, in childish hope that someone would pick us up. This file has the coordinates to Berryler. I can only hope this file is found and read by someone who isn't craving to kill all of humanity.
Master Chief stretched a little in front of the computer screen, then studied the coordinates to Berryler.
"What does my AI protector think of all this?" he asked.
"Oh. Am I your AI protector?" Cortana asked good-humoredly. "Yes."
"Oh goodie."
"I still didn't hear your opinion." Cortana pondered a moment.
"I think we should go. This Berryler place isn't far from here. The last of humanity is there after all."
"So you don't at all suspect this is a Covenant trap?"
"No."
"That does it for me," Master Chief replied. Cortana went to work, and soon their ship blasted off towards Berryler.