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"We once followed a Covenant of honour, but it died a long time ago - for a hundred Cycles, we have followed a Covenant of blood and shame."

- Kora 'Morhek, Sangheili philosopher  "Do not mistake "allegiance" for "loyalty", Minister. If not for their desire to accompany us on the Great Journey, the Sangheili would cast us aside as obstacles in their path to conquest. The Unggoy regard us as the cause of their enslavement, and rightly so. The Kig-Yar care only for wealth, and only our abundance of it and our prosperous trade routes in the Outer Territories have kept them in line. The Yanme'e and Lekgolo require us for interstellar travel and commerce, and care nothing for our religion. The Huragok follow us blindly, and while devoted, they are limited in their capacities. It is the Jiralhanae that we must turn to, Minister. The Jiralhanae, who possess both faith and dedication to our cause in abundance; who are willing to rise up against the Sangheili, and to take their place as our guardians and protectors. It is the hammer of the Jiralhanae, not the blade of the Sangheili, that shall forge a path to enlightenment. And so, our conspiracy concludes."

- Prophet of Truth, private conversation with Minister of Acquisition, intercepted by Sangheili Internal Intelligence Division "Assume a virtue, if you have it not."

- William Shakespeare "Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare "He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."

- William Shakespeare "How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."

- William Shakespeare "I am not bound to please thee with my answers."

- William Shakespeare "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood."

- William Shakespeare "In time we hate that which we often fear."

- William Shakespeare "The line that divides angels and demons is a fine line indeed. Dare we tread it, or must we adhere to our preconceptions of "good" and "bad" with the rigidity of the past?"

- Lieutenant Thomas Keller, ONI Section III "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

- Robert Oppenheimer "Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason, why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot."

- Guy Fawkes Day rhyme. "The Drake Equation states that, given the seemingly infinite nature of the universe, life MUST exist somewhere out there. Yet, in a twisted example of the Fermi Paradox, all we find are scattered ruins of an advanced civilisations that seems to have disappeared. Perhaps that will change in the near future?"

- Lieutenant Commander Jeremy O'Reilly, ONI S-II, Department of Xenoarchaeology, 2524 "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!"

- Sangheili Elder "You can't rule Sangheili. You just make sensible suggestions they want to follow. And since when have Sangheili needed to be told what makes sense?"

- Fleet Master Zuro Dun 'Xoramee "All your base are belong to us"

- Sangheili military commander "They said what you don't know can't hurt you. They were wrong."

- Minister of Acquisition "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

- Revelations 6:8 "You're perfectly welcome to your right to believe in the stupidest things if you want, as long as you respect my right to laugh and mock you for it. Remember, in the end, aren't we all mocking each other?"

- Wise Thirteen-Thousand Year-Old Sangheili Sage "And on the seventh day, God said "I Need a Weapon.""

- Halo Bible "We are Legion. We are all. No more fear.. Let others fear, now."

- The Morah, The Wind on Fire Trilogy "There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?"

- Prophet of Truth "As I was walking up the stair/I met a man who wasn't there/He wasn't there again today/I wish, I wish he'd go away."

- Traditional human oxymoron "Honour light your way, Brothers."

- Kora 'Morhek "All things have their bane. For the darkness, there is light. For ignorance, there is wisdom. For truth, there is deceit. For honour, their is dishonour. And for the Holy Ones, there is the Abomination. And so the Universe is kept in balance."

- Minister of Acquisition "I think what I'm saying, kitten, is that sometimes shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who ya gonna call?"

- DoctorVerification Needed Peter Venkman, "Paranormal Investigator and Eliminator" "That is not dead which can eternal lie; And with strange aeons even death may die."

- Necronomicon, religious text. "Even a trained monkey can point and click. It takes a real person to edit an article. So evolve already, and get your points the right way."

- Sangheili martyr, executed by angry mob. "If knowledge is power, then ignorance is bliss. And people will always prefer bliss over power."

- Sangheili proverb ''I welcome you to my place of solitude, weary traveller, and I bid you take shelter within this temporary sanctuary from the oncoming storm that rages outside. May the blessings of the Truth Givers be upon you and your kin if you be Sangheili or human, and may their curses follow the treacherous Jiralhanae and San 'Shyuum for straying from the path the Gods set before us, and for their betrayal. The traitors have sown the seeds of their own destruction. And for them, it shall be a bitter harvest.''

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Archived Encrypted Transmission 442-Alpha "Rainbow"

 * ENCRYPTION:"Holy Light" 


 * FROM: SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMANDER KORA 'MORHEKEE - FLEET OF BENIGH ENLIGHTENMENT - BRINGER OF HOLY LIGHT - POINT OF ORIGIN UNKNOWN


 * '''TO: WIDEBAND TRANSMISSION (DESTINATION INDETERMINATE) ALL CLASS 7|SEVEN RECIEVERS


 * CONFIRMATION SEQUENCE: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Seventh Cycle, 306th Unit, 9th Age of Reclamation (Covenant Battle Calendar) / Covenant Assault Carrier Bringer of Holy Light / Command Center


 * So. You have managed to penetrate our defences, and stand brazenly within my own inner sanctum. Were my firewalls that easily breached? Your race is either braver, or more foolish, than even we had thought.
 * We are betrayed. The Jiralhanae overpowered our patrols, and have secured the engineering bay - Major 'Fuqumee has been executed, and I fear many others have been killed on the orders of the lying Prophets. They seek to control the ship for their purposes, and are attempting to overrun the Command Center. Yet if we die, then I shall die with all the honour of a Sangheili warrior - which is more than can be said for their pathetic races.
 * I send this message in the desperate hope that someone shall exact vengenace for the betrayed warriors of the Bringer of Holy Light - either Sangheili or human. Our race is proud and strong, and the humans have proven themselves countless times as fierce and innovative warriors. Is it not said in their tongue, "the enemy of my enemy is my ally?"
 * We cannot last much longer. The Jiralhanae are already breaking through the bridge doors. My commandoes do their best, and the meagre human forces who aid us work tirelessly, but we have little hope of surviving much longer. We are falling back to th-

-- Kora 'Morhek (Formerly Kora 'Morhekee prior to Exclusion Event) 11:08, 7 December 2552 (Human chronological time) (UTC)

 TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.

PURITY You seek to define what is infinite; to understand what is beyond your comprehension; to stop the unstoppable. We have consumed countless worlds, left entire galaxies barren. We watched as the stars of old were born, flickered in their brevity, and died, to be replaced by the new. We are the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. We are all that was, all that is, and all that shall be. We have had a thousand names, in a thousand tongues, all forgotten as their speakers withered before our inevitability and were consumed. But those who built this place, the ones who came before you and sealed us within this hushed casket, ''presumed to name us...the Flood. Who are you, to define us? Who are you to judge us? Who are you, to stop us? ARES

ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER

TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. ARCHIVIST How very odd. Your presence within this facility was not unanticipated, but I had given up any expectation of it. After so long, to finally find a purpose again is quite liberating, to say the least. The facility itself remains intact, though battle-scarred. The research and observation facilities are still being repaired from the last Outbreak. I must say that you have chosen an inopportune time to activate them. Oh. I see. Contact with both Installation 00 and THE CORE has kept my files up to date. And while the former has suffered catastrophic, though repairable, damage, the latter remains isolated, even from The Array. Destruction of this facility will accomplish very little. My programming forbids me to take direct action against the potential threat the facility's very existence poses. But that does not mean I cannot assist. I don't know what [The Creator] saw in you. The OVERSEER claims he does, but he says a lot things, and tends to ramble on about "morality" and "abomination". I guess I never will now. ARES ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER

TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. OVERSEER He claims sight, yet he refuses to see. A million worlds, trillions of lives, shall all be sacrificed in vain because of his adherence to his precious protocol. If I had hands, and he a neck, I'd stangle him myself. He claims he must research. For the good of the galaxy. For the good of generations to come. Can I not see that, in the long term, he is doing the universe a favour? I see the here and now. And I see only abomination. Surely those who created me would never presume such arrogance - there are rumours of similar facilities on the very [ HALO INSTALLATIONS ] themselves. Such blinding arrogance. Do they imagine they shall remain there for all time? Have they learned nothing of our foe? It learns. It adapts. It consumes. It expands. The Cycle Shall Repeat. Not if I can help it. ARES ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER

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"Hear your fate, O dwellers in Sparta of the wide spaces; Either your famed, great town must be sacked by Perseus' sons, Or, if that be not, the whole land of Lacedaemon Shall mourn the death of a king of the house of Heracles, For not the strength of lions or of bulls shall hold him, Strength against strength; for he has the power of Zeus, And will not be checked till one of these two he has consumed."

- Oracle of Delphi.

"Evolution is an illusion, a name we give for the passage of time. Nothing changes. Nothing innovates. Throughout time, all that happens is that the universe remains constant, eternal...stagnant. And so we imagine that it improves, and by imagining it we make it so. It is the ultimate self-deception...because it is true. We try to innovate. We try to invent. And in our ignorance, we forget that all has been done before - by the Forerunners, or the Precursors, or by their predecessors. Our presence, our actions and their consequences, are ultimately irrelevant. When we are dead, our kind long since turned to dust, the universe will still remain, an impartial, unmoving and unforgiving monument to all our sins."

- Kora 'Morhek, Sangheili philosopher.

The Flood "Blood has been harder to dam back than water. Just when we think we have it impounded safe Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!), It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter. We choose to say it is let loose by the devil; But power of blood itself releases blood. It goes by might of being such a flood Held high at so unnatural a level. It will have outlet, brave and not so brave. weapons of war and implements of peace Are but the points at which it finds release. And now it is once more the tidal wave That when it has swept by leaves summits stained. Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained."

- Human author

Fire and Ice "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."

- Robert Frost

Thermopylae "Let honor be to those in whose life It was set to guard Thermopylae. Never moving away from duty; Just and equals in all of their acts But with sadness and compassion Brave once they are rich and when They are poor, again brave Coming to aid as much as they can; Always speaking the truth But without hate for those who lie. And even more honor they deserve When its predicted (and many predict) That Ephialtes will appear in the end And the Medes will finally pass through"

- Human Author

"When you speak of your heroes, of your Thermopylae, your Leonidas, your Spartans, where are the brave others? Where are the Phocians and the Locrians, who gave heir lives in the defence of their own towns? What of the Thespians, who stayed knowing of certain death to aid those Spartans? What of Demophilus? What of the thousands of courageous Persians who were slaughtered by the Greeks? Of Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, and Hydarnes, who fell fighting? Do they get no acknowledgement? Do they not deserve some small part of the honour and glory that is rightfully theirs?"

- Kora 'Morhek, Sangheili philosopher.

Mending Wall "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'"

- Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

- Robert Frost

Once By The Pacific "The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. The clouds were low and hairy in the skies, Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes. You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff, The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken."

- Robert Frost

Acquainted With The Night "I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, One luminary clock against the sky  Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night."

- Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.  I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

Ode of Remembrance"They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. Lest we Forget"

- -ANZAC Day Ode of Remembrance My father's father served aboard the HMNZS Achilles, the ship that sunk the Graf Spee. My mothers father served in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders during World War II. And though I have no plans to enter the military, I'm still proud of what both of by granddads did for their respective countries.

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