Gek 'Lhar
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Late February 2558[2] (aged 58) |
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Shot from behind by Spartan Paul DeMarco |
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240 centimeters (8 ft)[1] |
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148 kilograms (327 lb)[1] |
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Bald |
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- "Faster! Move as if the Didact himself were watching!"
- — Gek 'Lhar ordering his fellow Sangheili into action
Gek 'Lhar was a Sangheili Commander serving in the reformed Covenant. In 2557, Gek became a personal enemy of the crew of the salvage ship Ace of Spades, particularly after an encounter with them in the debris field of Trove shield world.[3] Gek and the salvage crew subsequently worked to hinder each other's efforts over the following months, leading to Gek putting a substantial bounty upon their heads.[4] Gek later took part in the Requiem Campaign as Jul 'Mdama's second-in-command where he met his end at the hands of Spartan Paul DeMarco.[5]
Biography[edit]
Early career[edit]
Gek 'Lhar was born October 19, 2499 on the island of Alytcos on Sanghelios. 'Lhar served ruthlessly in the Covenant during the Human-Covenant War up until the Great Schism.
By 2556, he led an unruly group of salvagers. By this time, Gek had also come to work for Jul 'Mdama and his new sect based out of Hesduros.[1] Gek was tasked by Jul with securing weapons and ships for the new Covenant. In January of 2557, Gek and his crew ambushed the salvage crew of Ram Chalva as it was returning from a fortuitous trip to Mesa. Ram was captured and kept as a prisoner on Gek's war-freighter.[6]
The Radiant Perception[edit]
After the capture of Chalva, Gek directed his crew to make for the world of Laconia, where a Sinaris-pattern heavy destroyer named Radiant Perception lay untouched since the war due to the rumored presence of many Mgalekgolo still aboard it. Gek's crew arrived at the scene just before the human salvagers of the Ace of Spades did, who had the aim of finding a certain log buoy that must be on the ship. Gek had readied eight of his Sangheili to explore the downed Covenant vessel, but they had still only gathered outside of it by the time the humans arrived and sent two of their own to covertly explore it themselves.[7] The two just managed to miss Gek's crew, leaving after the eight finally entered. By then, Gek was well aware of the humans presence and in order to make them reveal themselves, he released Ram Chalva but personally pursued him across the flats, all the while firing shots in his direction. The human captain, Rion Forge, directed her ship to swoop in to collect Chalva and this exposed them to plasma fire from Gek's war freighter. In addition, the Sangheili secured three dropships from the Radiant Perception and sent these to bear on it as well. The humans managed to rescue Ram and escape the system regardless.[8]
Skirmish amidst the ruins[edit]
Gek ordered a pursuit of the human Mariner-class transport ship. The war freighter followed it to Arcadia, where it then jumped to slipspace once more based on the record of the log buoy taken from Radiant Perception. The Sangheili followed them in this as well but arrived at the destination - a debris field in the Korinth Prior system — before his prey. A large piece of rock with sufficient gravity and an apparent atmosphere formed from still-active Forerunner technology on it drew his attention and he ordered to set down on it, where he then disembarked. Gek hid within the dark interior of an ancient structure and waited for the humans to arrive and come to explore the same site. Rion and an ex-Marine named Cade were ambushed by Gek, who threw Rion against a console while Cade was forced to deal with his underlings outside. Rion eyed a luminary behind Gek that he must have come by either on Laconia or there. She had been holding out for a luminary as well, but her translation software in her earpiece did not give her much hope of trying to make Gek and offer for it, as he was incensed at her very presence within a holy relic. Suddenly, a voice from the console drew his attention, as it had seemed to address the human, making him both awed and furious. He dodged a shot from the human, which pinged off his armor, and missed a swing of his energy sword at her as well. He ordered two of his crew with him to make for the entryway to deal with Cade, but he had enough warning to lay a thermite trap for them. Cade turned to come back where Rion was, however, and before he knew what was happening Gek had turned and plunged his sword into the human's chest. Horrified, Forge jumped on Gek's back and fired her M6 series magnum at his skull at the same time as Gek struck her across the head with his forearm. Her shot only sliced across his left eye, but it blinded him permanently in that eye. Roaring in pain, he slung her over his head and slammed her against a wall. He was going to finish her off, but she readied a grenade threateningly, signaling she was willing to kill the both of them if he approached. At this, Gek opted to leave her as is. He took the luminary and exited the structure, but not before ripping Cade's dog tags from his corpse.[3]
Scavenging the ruins[edit]
Using the data from the Ace of Spades and Little Bit, the prowler UNSC Taurokado embarked upon a mission to the debris field where it encountered a Covenant battlegroup led by Gek. The Taurokado retreated from the system following the encounter while the Covenant forces began harvesting the remnants for their own usage.[9][10] A transmission intercepted by the Ace of Spades suggested that Gek intended to use whatever he found in the debris field to attack Earth. Ram Chalva theorized that Gek might have help in getting to Earth from the refugee settlements on the planet.[11]
On June 29, in order to complete his mission, Spark brought the Ace of Spades back to Trove to get an upgrade seed for the ship, unaware that the planet had been destroyed. As the salvage ship struggled to evade the Covenant, a massive UNSC fleet emerged from slipspace and opened fire on the debris field with nuclear weapons to deny its assets to the Covenant. The nuclear weapons would blow the debris to bits and disrupt its gravity around the system's dwarf star. Whatever survived would likely be pulled into the star itself, completely eradicating the shield world. The Covenant fleet retreated into slipspace to avoid being destroyed while Spark managed to get the Ace of Spades into slipspace in time to avoid destruction as well.[12]
Capture and escape[edit]
In December 2557, Gek carried out a terrorist attack on Earth. Fireteam Apollo was warned ahead of time of where Gek would be by Rion Forge who was hoping that the Spartans could stop Gek for good and thus end his bounty upon the Ace of Spades crew.