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|name=Maribeau Veredi | |name=Maribeau Veredi | ||
|image=[[ | |image=[[Image:Captain Veredi.png|300px]] | ||
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|species=[[Human]] | |species=[[Human]] | ||
|gender=Male | |gender=Male | ||
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|notable=Led the battle group that first encountered the Covenant. | |notable=Led the battle group that first encountered the Covenant. | ||
|affiliation=Colonial Military Administration | |||
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'''Captain Maribeau Veredi''' was a [[Colonial Military Administration]] officer during the beginning of the [[Human-Covenant War]]. He was the commanding officer of the [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] [[CMA Heracles|CMA ''Heracles'']] and the commander of [[Battlegroup 4]]. He had the dubious honor of making the first recorded contact with the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Harvest=== | ===Harvest=== | ||
In [[2525#October|October 2525]], Captain Veredi led CMA | In [[2525#October|October 2525]], Captain Veredi led CMA Battlegroup 4. The battle group consisted of his own ship, the destroyer UNSC ''Heracles'' and two frigates, the [[CMA Arabia|''Arabia'']] and the [[CMA Vostok|''Vostok'']]. They were deployed to discover why contact had been lost with the planet [[Harvest]] and the scout ship [[CMA Argo|''Argo'']], which had been deployed six months earlier.<ref name="TFoR">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 96-98''</ref> | ||
On October 7, the battle group entered the [[Epsilon Indi system]] only to discover that the planet had been rendered a wasteland, with what left that was not incinerated into molten glass undergoing a nuclear winter. This high-temperature bombardment would later become known as "[[glassing]]". | On October 7, the battle group entered the [[Epsilon Indi system]] only to discover that the planet had been rendered a wasteland, with what left that was not incinerated into molten glass undergoing a nuclear winter. This high-temperature bombardment would later become known as "[[glassing]]". | ||
===First contact=== | ===First contact=== | ||
In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship, which proceeded to attack the battle group; within one minute, it destroyed both the ''Arabia'' and the ''Vostok'' and badly damaged the ''Heracles''.<ref group="Note">According to ''Halo Wars: Genesis'', | In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship, which proceeded to attack the battle group; within one minute, it destroyed both the ''Arabia'' and the ''Vostok'' and badly damaged the ''Heracles''.<ref group="Note">According to ''Halo Wars: Genesis'', Battlegroup 4 was attacked by a [[Covenant super-destroyer]]. However, according to ''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp'', the battlegroup encountered the cruiser ''[[Rapid Conversion]]''.</ref> Before the ship attacked the battlegroup, Veredi attempted to follow the UNSC's first contact protocol to no avail.<ref name="Genesis">'''Halo Wars: Genesis'''</ref><ref name="Boot Camp">''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp''</ref> | ||
The aliens tranmitted a message to the ''Heracles'', which had already been translated into [[English]] The message stated, ''"Your destruction is the will of the [[Forerunner|Gods]], and we are their instrument."''<ref name="TFoR"/><ref name="Genesis"/><ref name="Boot Camp"/> | |||
===Second Battle of Harvest=== | |||
Captain Veredi later served during the [[Second Battle of Harvest]]. There, he commanded the repaired ''Heracles'' and accompanied [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Jeremiah Cole|Preston Cole]] into the system, successfully retaking it from the Covenant.<ref name="Genesis"/><ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''</ref> | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
Despite the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia | Despite the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'' establishing Battlegroup 4 as a CMA fleet element, Veredi's uniform tunic has a UNSC patch. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{ | *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{First mentioned}} | ||
*''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' | *''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' | ||
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp]]'' | **''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp]]'' | ||
== | ==Note== | ||
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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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