Unidentified shipmaster (Righteous Vigilance): Difference between revisions

From that day until at least [[2559]], he had been fighting the Jiralhanae in the ongoing [[Sangheili-Jiralhanae war]]. That year, the Shipmaster returned to Kholo so that he could atone for the sins he felt that he had committed. On Kholo, he discovered a human excavation operation among the ruins of a city. There, he observed humans in a firefight with a small group of [[Kig-Yar]] raiders, eventually fighting the Kig-Yar himself. Shortly thereafter he encountered two humans, one dead from multiple plasma shots in the legs and torso, and another who had been wounded. Thinking that the human would die from his wound, the Shipmaster moved on, but then stumbled upon pictures of humans observing [[Forerunner]] artifacts, including an [[Monitor|"Oracle"]]. He then returned to the wounded human; realizing that the [[Type-51 Carbine|carbine]] round had passed through the latter's body, the Shipmaster decided to try to save the human, calling in a medic from his ship, as well as a security squad, the ship's chief engineer, and a patrol of the surrounding area for Kig-Yar or human ships. It was his intention that once the human recovered, he would interrogate him in order to discover the reason for the excavations on the planet.<ref name="Return"/>

The Shipmaster of Rightous Vigilance was a firm believer of the Great Journey until the Great Schism began, but this did not stop him from  revering the Forerunners as gods. He vowed revenge on the San'Shyuum, whom he labelled as "deceivers", when he found out that the Great Journey was a lie, and that lie resulted in the "death of the Covenant". Fighting alongside his fellow Sangheili, he took it upon himself to hunt down as many Jiralhanae he could, for their role in the Covenant's sudden betrayal of his race. As a warrior, he respected humanity's prowess, claiming he saw the best of it during the [[Fall of Reach]]. While it is unknown whether he became a [[Swords of Sanghelios|Sword]], he evidently held high regard for [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]], once referring him as the "[Sangheili's] Champion". By the time of his walking on Kholo's surface, he felt great shame and sorrow for his role in the genocidal campaign he committed during the [[Human-Covenant War]], and wished to atone for his sins, believing his people are slowly declining as a people and as a society. Not wanting his race to lose their way, he vowed to find himself a new purpose in life, even it meant reaching out to his gods, but he did not know what his gods wanted him to do nor did he know if they were still out there.