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==Monitor Report: Age of Doubt== | ==Monitor Report: Age of Doubt== | ||
{{Article Quote|From leaders to martyrs.}} | {{Article Quote|From leaders to martyrs.}} | ||
''Fade in on 343 Guilty Spark.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "I'm starting to fear that you're not very smart." | |||
''Close up of Sesa 'Refumee.'' | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': "...Mind your tongue, Oracle!" | |||
''Cut back to Guilty Spark.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Oh. I mean no offense. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about your species. How long have these Prophets been anointing Arbiters?" | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': "Since the fall of Fal 'Chavamee. The first disgraced Arbiter. Roughly four hundred years ago." | |||
''He starts walking down the hallway. Guilty Spark follows.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Incredible! And in all this time it never occurred to you how convenient it was that your Prophets were able to find a powerful capable leader among your people..." | |||
'''Refumee stops at another terminal. Guilty Spark hovers nearby.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "...who suddenly happened to commit a terrible blasphemy every time the power structure of your Covenant was threatened?" | |||
'''Refumee stares down at the terminal.'' | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': "I do not understand." | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Hmmm. You do little to dissuade my fears." | |||
'''Refumee turns back to Guilty Spark.'' | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': "Then teach me." | |||
''Guilty Spark brings up a series of holographic images of previous Arbiters (including [[Ripa 'Moramee]]).'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Looking back at the record of the Arbiters you've discussed, was it not surprising to anyone that those chosen to become Arbiter were more than simple warriors?" | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': "How so?" | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Each of them had significant political influence amongst your people." | |||
''Scene starts to circle around Guilty Spark and that holographic images around him.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "In some cases, that influence was already being used to question the decisions of your Hierarchs." | |||
''Scene stops and zooms in on a holographic image of a Hierarch. Scene transitions to High Charity where the Hierarch sits in his gravity throne, watching.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': ''(voiceover)'' "In fact, that very questioning often gave rise to the charges of heresy that so neatly removed the challenger from the Hierarchs' concern." | |||
''Cut to a distant shot of the Hierarch, along with two other Hierarchs. Two Elites drag a condemned Sangheili into the chamber and throw him onto the floor before the three Hierarchs.'' | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': ''(voiceover)'' "...and once they were branded Arbiter..." | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': ''(voiceover)'' "They promptly and quite cheerfully ran to meet their deaths." | |||
''Fade to black.'' | |||
''Fade in on a pair of Sangheili escorting a floating casket through the Mausoleum of the Arbiter. Inside the casket is the body of the condemned Sangheili, now fully dressed in the armor of the Arbiter. A single Hierarch watches as one of the Elites taps a control on the casket, which floats up to join the dozens of other caskets aligning the Mausoleum walls.'' | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': ''(voiceover)'' "All our lives we looked down at the Path. Put our feet where the Prophets tell us. All our lives spent convincing ourselves of the truth of our Covenant..." | |||
''Cut back to the gas mine.'' | |||
'''Refumee slams his fist down on the terminal. He stares down in despair.'' | |||
*'''Sesa 'Refumee''': "Could all of it truly have been wasted?" | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Let's hope not all of it. For we have a great deal of work to do." | |||
''Close up of a side view of Guilty Spark.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "The Flood ''is'' still out there. So I require a cooperative Reclaimer to enact proper containment procedures.'' | |||
''Cut to a shot of both Guilty Spark and 'Refumee at the terminal.'' | |||
*'''343 Guilty Spark''': "But your Covenant keep trying to kill all the Reclaimers I can find. All this bickering is quite a deadly waste of time. Right now, the most important question we can ask is this: Who could break this hold the Prophets have over you?" | |||
''Camera pans down to the lower levels of the mine. A single Flood Infection Form crawls along the floor.'' | |||
''Fade to black.'' |
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