UserWiki:Morhek

"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 Tibetan 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 "For all things, there must be balance. For the darkness, there is light. For ignorance, there is wisdom. For truth, there is deceit. And for the Holy Ones, there is the Abomination."

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

- DoctorVerification Needed Peter Venkman "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 proper way."

- Sangheili martyr, executed by angry mob. ''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.''

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.

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?

ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. Your destruction is the will of the Gods. And We are Their instruments ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. You have brought nothing into this world, and we will ensure you bring nothing out. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. The Dissertation of R. Paul Butler  ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. Our conviction is like an arrow already in flight. Your life will only last until it reaches you. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. "...In my palace deep, Lyca lies asleep..." ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. You slave, toil, bleed and sweat for your food. And we shall eat it. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. HISTORY CIRCLING BACK UPON US. The gears of the Universe spin further and further apart. Ever greater grows the gulf between souls, And distance gives false hope of safety But for the grim tidings this messenger bears The enemy is almost upon us  Closing in from all sides, Moving faster than the light it snuffs with its passage, Time echoes with the news of destruction. History winding back upon itself. Waves of an army march this way in unison, Suffering and corruption are its battle cries. For I have known this darkness and felt its embrace once before- Horror best laid to rest Yet a Journey must commence  Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame. They will lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. You will not know where we have struck until you have fallen. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. What you have begun in anger you shall end in shame. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. None will exist to say whether you were defeated by valor or cruelty. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. Our conviction is like an arrow already in flight. Your life will only last until it reaches you. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. Through war we will teach your heresy. Through battle we will teach your frailty. Through death we will teach your fate. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. I have governed the unwilling. I have walked the edge of the Abyss. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. You live without discipline and will die without honor. ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED. It is said remorse is the pain of sin. We feel no remorse. 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 my Makers saw in you. The OVERSEER claims he does, but he says many things. I guess I never will now. ARES ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER

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"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

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 part of the honour and glory that is rightfully theirs?"

- Kora 'Morhek, Sangheili philosopher.

"It has been said that in the beginning of all things, there was life and light. The light of the Gods. The light of the Forerunners. And all was good. Yet for all, there must be a counter and an opposite: for warmth, there must be cold; For love, there must be hate; For light, there must be darkness; for good, there must be evil. And the darkness that was the Abomination engulfed the light, and threatened to extinguish all. The Forerunners, in their wisdom, ascended out of the reach of the darkness, and cast the demons down for the evil they are, embarking upon the Great Journey, and leaving us behind to follow in their footsteps."

- Ascendancy Codex, Minister of Acquisition, formal recitation.

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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