Jul 'Mdama: Difference between revisions

Over six months after the Didact's [[Battle of Earth (2557)|attack]] on [[Earth]] and after the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} returned to Requiem, 'Mdama still led the Covenant forces on Requiem. A [[Requiem translocation artifact|Forerunner artifact]] secured by [[SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan]] [[Fireteam Crimson]] and brought aboard the ''Infinity'' [[Slipspace translocation|translocated]] Dr. [[Henry Glassman]] to a Covenant base on Requiem. 'Mdama came to oversee his soldiers when Glassman, alive but injured, was brought before to him by several other Sangheili.<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Catherine|S1E3 ''Catherine'']]</ref> 'Mdama put Glassman to work at a Forerunner "shrine," which he believed contained the remnants of the [[Librarian]]'s consciousness in AI form. He intended to use Glassman to reactivate the shrine, allowing him to communicate with the Librarian and ask for her aid in reclaiming the Forerunners' technological wonders.<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Didact's Hand|S1E4 ''Didact's Hand'']]</ref>

After [[Fireteam Castle]] was shot down and killed by Covenant forces under 'Mdama, UNSC forces began searching for the "Didact's Hand". [[Fireteam Crimson]] was sent to [[Two Giants]], 'Mdama's location; however, soon after Crimson engaged [[Promethean]] forces 'Mdama escaped through a [[slipspace]] portal. When Crimson followed him to the [[Fortress]], he escaped through yet another portal to [[the Cauldron]]. When Crimson tracked 'Mdama through the Cauldron he tried to escape again, but not before Commander [[Sarah Palmer]] called in an airstrike on 'Mdama's location. He managed to escape, but not before dropping a [[Didact's Gift|another Forerunner device]].<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Didact's Hand|S1E4 ''Didact's Hand'']]</ref> 'Mdama oversaw the Covenant's attempt to retrieve the device from [[Galileo Base]] with his lieutenant, [[Gek]], but was only creating a show for the humans. It was later revealed that 'Mdama was using the artifact recovered by Fireteam Crimson as a form of communication terminal, allowing Jul to anonymously communicate with Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] via her datapad and to spy on the UNSC ''Infinity''.<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Memento Mori|S1E5 ''Memento Mori'']]</ref> After Halsey was removed from the room by Palmer and Lasky, Glassman managed to activate something in the shrine, prompting all the present Sangheili (save him) to bow before the artifact. With his captors distracted, Glassman escaped from the antechamber. After the artifact's energy sphere rejected Jul, the Sangheili Commander directed his fury at a now-gone Glassman; half-dozen Sangheili went to pursue the scientist in the tunnels but Jul held Gek back. Stating that Glassman's escape was unacceptable, Gek reassured Jul that he would deal with the matter personally, leaving Jul and his two guards alone with the artifact.<ref>'''[[Spartan Ops]]''' — [[S1/Scattered|S1E6 ''Scattered'']]</ref>