Dhas Bhasvod
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- "The Ark is still alive, and so is our faith.[2]"
Dhas Bhasvod is a San'Shyuum Prelate who served as an assassin for the Prophet of Truth during the reign of the Covenant empire.[3] He served under Truth during the battle of the Ark at the end of the Human-Covenant War and was left stranded on the installation at its conclusion, coming to lead a large cadre of troops to survive on the Ark inside the massive starship which had brought them there. In 2559 Bhasvod led his loyalist Covenant to join the ongoing war between the Banished and United Nations Space Command on the Ark, including a temporary alliance with the Keepers of the One Freedom in a brief but failed effort to fire the Halo Array.
Biography[edit]
Human-Covenant War[edit]
During the Human-Covenant War, Bhasvod served the Prophet of Truth as a Prelate assassin of the Silent Shadow.[3] He partook in front-line fighting in the war, and claimed to have fought two Spartan supersoldiers at once, a fight which he described as "intoxicating".[4]
During the Fall of High Charity, Bhasvod was part of a group organised with the task of ensuring the successful evacuation of a flotilla of San'Shyuum from the city, disguised by the launch of Anodyne Spirit. The flotilla intended to head to the shield world of Cloister, where they would await the firing of the Halo Array by the Prophet of Truth. Bhasvod did not join the flotilla, and instead remained in Truth's fleet as they joined the Battle for Earth and initiated the campaign on the Ark. Ultimately, the Prelate survived the battle, and rallied the surviving Covenant troops inside the grounded Anodyne Spirit, and hid for seven years as the Ark rebuilt itself - never renouncing his faith in the Covenant religion.[2]
Second Ark Conflict[edit]
Bhasvod and his troops were reawakened from their hiding in mid-2559, during a Banished raid on their keyship-turned-home. During the engagement, a Banished strike force were able to steal the shards of a Forerunner slipspace crystal from the Covenant,[5] which they used later in the year to open a portal connecting the Ark with a portal complex on Reach. Now-alerted to the fact that a broader war was being fought for control of the Ark between the UNSC and Banished, Dhas Bhasvod led his troops to join the conflict as a third party intent on retaking the slipspace crystal shards and reconnecting with their allies in the Milky Way. For Bhasvod in particular, this involved wanting to reconnect with the survivors of the refugee flotilla at Cloister.[2] After awakening, Bhasvod and his forces launched attacks on the Banished, with the Prelate becoming a legend among the Banished discussed in terms comparadable to a werewolf or gbahali.[6]
On October 12, Bhasvod led his forces in an attack on the Banished portal to the Milky Way, assaulting their lines concurrent with another assault by UNSC Spirit of Fire, also intent on capturing the portal. The Covenant and UNSC were not formal allies in the battle, but both remained mostly focused on destroying the Banished defences rather than fighting one another.[7] During the fighting, a Lich, Pegoras, emerged from the portal and crashed in a sector of the battle controlled by the Covenant. Bhasvod and his forces were the first to converge on the site,[8] and Bhasvod initially wanted to kill the survivors of the crash-a cadre of troops of the Keepers of the One Freedom led by Castor. Despite the Keepers' claims of belief in the Covenant religion and goal to fire the Halo Array, their arrival in a Banished craft left the Prelate skeptical of their motives. Upon first arriving at the site he engaged Saturnus in melee combat, though did not kill him, and released him with the announcement that the Keepers were now his prisoners and not his equals. Castor stayed off a fight during the tense negotiation by assuring Bhasvod that they shared the same gods and goals, though the Prelate did not believe him until a Forerunner ancilla, Intrepid Eye, intervened and encouraged Bhasvod to stand down. To do this, she hijacked the emitters of Bhasvod's hard light glaive such that when he activated the projectors, instead of a blade he encountered a hologram of a monitor. The Prelate reluctantly accepted the "oracle"'s orders and then invited the Keepers to join his forces as they attempted to activate the Halos, while transferring command of the ongoing battle to Idomenius.[3]
Bhasvod led the combined Covenant force to one of the Ark's Cartographers so that they could find out where the Clarion (the facility where the Halos could be fired from) was located. After realising that their air forces were being tailed by the Banished and UNSC, he ordered them to ground so that they could travel the remaining distance on foot, not wanting to draw attention from the Banished and UNSC.[2] As the Covenant and Keepers worked together, Bhasvod questioned Castor on his decision to admit humans in the Keepers of the One Freedom, believing that they would eventually betray them, and that they should simply kill most of the humans in Castor's cadre so that they could not do so. Castor refused to do this, believing that Veta Lopis and her "Ferrets" (in reality a team of double-agents working for the Office of Naval Intelligence) were loyalists to his cause. The two leaders eventually compromised on splitting the group up, with Veta permitted to ride in Castor's Phantom, while the Spartans were with Bhasvod.[4]
At the Cartographer, Bhasvod attempted to cut Lopis out of the search as much as possible despite using