Dkani
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Captain Dkani is a commissioned officer the UNSC Navy, and the captain of the UNSC Phyllis Wheatley, a salvage ship in the service of the Office of Naval Intelligence.[3]
Biography[edit]
The UNSC Phyllis Wheatley was selected for service during the Human-Covenant War, following the chance downing of the Covenant frigate Steadfast Strike over Netherop. While selected by ONI Section Three for the task, the ship's security complement were not considered to have the expertise or equipment necessary to clear the frigate of its defenders - leading to SPARTAN-II Blue Team being recalled from the Battle of Mesra for the task.[4] The ship arrived in the Ephyra system on June 7, 2526, and was noticed by the intrusion corvettes of the Flotilla of Unsung Piety launching its twelve Baselard fighters to begin inspecting the moons and Lagrange points of Netherop for potentially hostile forces.[5] This was accompanied by the arrival of the Razor-class prowler UNSC Night Watch, who launched a Pelican dropship onto Netherop following Wheatley's successful insertion into the atmosphere. Unlike Wheatley, the Pelican was shot down by one of the intrusion corvettes, confirming to the prowler crew that the salvage ship had been permitted to enter the planet's atmosphere by their then-unknown attackers.[6]
Dkani sent a transmission warning all other UNSC forces that the ship was facing an imminent attack from one to two hundred Covenant with support vehicles and heavy weapons. However, Task Force Pantea revealed the approach of eight intrusion corvettes and a full Covenant fleet. John-117 informed Dkani that Blue Team would be there in thirty to forty minutes to help, but Dkani informed him that forty minutes would be too late and if the enemy crossed the canyon, he would have no choice but to scuttle the ship as Dkani didn't have the personnel to defend it. John also informed him about the Castoffs and their mountain runners. Dkani warned the Spartan that he was going to leave the Wheatley booby-trapped if he was forced to abandon ship.[3]
The Wheatley crew were forced to abandon ship, fleeing in eight Warthogs and on foot, chased by enemy forces. The crew lost a number of personnel and six Warthogs with the injured riding in the remaining two vehicles. However, Dkani's crew managed to inflict heavy casualties in the process[7] and the Covenant lost half of their forces to the UNSC counterattack and the planet's heat.[8] Nizat 'Kvarosee's intent had been to plant two Luminal Beacons aboard the ship for his plan to destroy ONI, but he realized that the ship was likely booby-trapped and shifted tactics.[7]
Dkani's crew took a break, apparently to contemplate passing through a tunnel which would give them an excellent defensible position where they could wait in comfort and pick off Nizat's forces at their leisure.[8] Dkani had his engineers set a landslide trap for the pursuing enemy, intending to lure the aliens into the kill zone by idling his forces.[1][2] Nizat ordered Tam 'Lakosee to launch an attack to plant the beacons on the Wheatley crew, directing Tam to retreat once the beacons had been planted.[8] Linda-058 spotted Stealth Sangheili marksman sneaking up on the crew and took them out. Inexperienced in infantry combat, Dkani sprang the landslide early, causing it to fail. Linda made contact with a grateful Dkani who informed her of the crew's weapons' status. Linda did her best to reassure him and ordered the captain to immediately open fire with his Warthogs' LAAGs and to dig belly scrapes in the talus for everyone to hide in and hold their fire until the Covenant were fifty paces away. Dkani himself manned one of the LAAGs, although Linda warned him to move away from the Warthogs as the commanding officer should not be so close to such high-priority targets.[1]
In the skirmish that followed, the Warthog gunners killed over a dozen Sangheili, but one was killed by three marksmen before Linda took them out and gave the Wheatley crew sniper cover. The Sangheili charged en masse, eventually using a barrage of plasma grenades to create a smokescreen that kept the remaining Warthog gunner from being able to see them. The second Warthog lasted seven minutes before it was destroyed with Dkani, who hadn't listened to Linda's warnings, being blown to pieces along with one of the Warthogs. The Covenant forces eventually retreated after successfully planting both beacons, leaving only twenty-eight survivors of the Wheatley crew.[1][2]
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo: Oblivion (First appearance)
