Kwassass

Kwassass was a Covenant Grunt stationed on the Covenant supercarrier Sublime Transcendence in 2552. He was in charge of the maintenance on Subdeck K. He had training in the interpretation of human speech.

Ghosts of Onyx
After The Battle of Reach, the Sublime Transcendence extracted mining equipment from Reach after the Covenant tried to excavate CASTLE Base. The equipment was then placed on Subdeck K; it became Kwassass' responsibility to repair and refit it.

Several months later, as the ship was over Joyous Exultation with the rest of the Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose, Kwassass discovered a NOVA bomb that has been taken aboard along with the rest of the equipment for study by the Engineers. The control panel for it became detached, but Kwassass managed to activate a recording of a threat from Admiral Whitcomb without any harm to the vessel or the fleet. After listening to it several times, he had a vague understanding of what it meant, but not the specifics of the message. However, the Control Panel's power went out, sparking an interest in the nearby Engineers to fix it and give it power.

Kwassass was the only individual near the NOVA bomb to recognize the threat and tried to remove the panel to deactivate the bomb again, but was unable to get past the Engineers that had clustered around it before the bomb detonated. This destroyed the Sublime Transcendence and may or may not have killed Xytan 'Jar Wattinree.

"There was a beautiful light, and more glorious heat than he'd ever felt before..."

Appearances

 * Halo: Ghosts of Onyx