Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox V


 * ONI Section Zero Board//Surveillance transcription of internal communications
 * between subjects 'D' and 'S'. 05.06.2555 1702 hrs//Full transcript available on
 * request//


 * ['D'] Play it back to me, let me hear what we got.


 * "You wish to know about Atriox and his Banished? The Covenant's dirty little
 * secret. The Jiralhanae they could not control. When I joined the Covenant I was
 * young and easily led. Even back then he had already passed into legends and
 * whispers. A monstrous savage who railed against those who would show us
 * the way to the Great Journey. What a fool I was.
 * I was there when they tried to execute him. Many have said the same but I
 * speak the truth. His crime was to question the Great Journey. To question the
 * Prophets as they sent wave after wave of his kind to die. With each battle he
 * became harder, his dissent louder until the Covenant had to silence him.


 * He was to be executed for heresy; for bringing shame upon the Covenant and
 * doubt to weak willed minds. I was working some menial task nearby when they
 * brought him in. Bloodied and fresh from the fight. He showed no fear—it was
 * as if there was too much rage inside him for any other emotion. As the executor
 * brought down his blade, Atriox rose, killing his would be killer. The other Brutes
 * fell upon the rest of the guards—such savagery. Years later I heard Atriox had
 * engaged the services of the Enduring Conviction.


 * I wonder, would the war have ended sooner had he led the Covenant? Or would
 * it still be raging? I say this—do not underestimate him. I know you humans.
 * There is honor in you, but there is equally deceit and I know how you nurture
 * your plots. If you try and harness his power. He will burn you. Atriox works for
 * no one. He may not be the Covenant, but he is not your tool."


 * ['S'] That was all we could get out of the Sangheili, sir. He wouldn't say any more
 * without us answering some uncomfortable questions so we let him go.