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*[[Minister (title)|Minister]] of [[Ministry of Relic Safety|Relic Safety]]<br>

Mken 'Scre'ah'ben served as the [[Minister]] of [[Ministry of Relic Safety]] in the [[Covenant High Council]]. Throughout his career he led the [[Mission to Janjur Qom]] and oversaw the [[Rending]] to deal with [[Ussans|Sangheili rebels]] who opposed the [[Writ of Union]], all the while being confronted with much internal political opposition within the Covenant. As a [[High Lord]], a founding member of the Covenant High Council, and a friend of a former [[Hierarch]], Mken 'Scre'ah'ben proved to be a very powerful figure in the face of adversity.  

Mken was born on the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] occupied by the [[Reformists]]. Early on, Mken 'Scre'ah'ben dreamed of a career as a relic historian and spent a significant amount of time studying [[Forerunner]] designs and [[holography|holographic]] imagery of the San'Shyuum homeworld [[Janjur Qom]].<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''page 4''</ref> He attained the title of the Prophet of Inner Conviction because he was known for holding sermons emphasizing intrinsic purity.{{Ref/Reuse|HBC 1}} At some point, the [[Prophet of Excellent Redolence|High Prophet of Excellent Redolence]] and [[R'Noh Custo]] had planned to kidnap females from Janjur Qom to help prevent inbreeding on the Dreadnought. However, Mken informed the other two [[Hierarchs]] and Excellent Redolence was overruled. Excellent Redolence and R'Noh Custo pretended to shrug off the matter, but both conspired against Mken.<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''page 51''</ref> Mken was once unfairly placed on the [[Roll of Celibates]], but he managed to remove himself from it by speaking to the San'Shyuum that headed the Roll.<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''page 54''</ref>

During the [[San'Shyuum-Sangheili War]], [[High Lord]] Mken 'Scre'ah'ben was present on the [[Planet of Blue and Red]] overseeing [[Skirmish of the Planet of Blue and Red|a battle]] against the [[Sangheili]] based there in [[860 BCE]]. Mken and his military advisor, a [[Steward]], personally descended on the planet's surface in a [[Covenant drop pod|drop pod]]; the High Lord had insisted that they land on the planet's "purple line", a narrow band where the light of the blue and red stars that illuminated the world mixed. Mken consulted one of the [[Eye]]s—San'Shyuum battlefield intelligence drones—to observe Sangheili movements in the area. As he was organizing a counterattack against the Sangheili forces using [[Aggressor Sentinel|Sentinels]] appropriated by the San'Shyuum, Sangheili assassins struck against the two San'Shyuum from an underground tunnel. The Steward was killed while 'Scre'ah'ben was able to retreat into his pod and to orbit where he ordered the Forerunner Dreadnought to fire upon the Sangheili forces on the ground, quelling them for the time being. Mken saw potential in [[Ussa 'Xellus]], the innovative commander of the Sangheili troops in the region, and hoped he might be able to convince 'Xellus to act as a liaison for peace between the San'Shyuum and the Sangheili.<ref name="HBC pro">'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''Prologue''</ref>

Mken contacted Ussa through a holographic transmission, while alone in his personal quarters. Mken gave him an offer: if Ussa and Sooln turned themselves in, the rest of the Ussans will be free to live on Sanghelios. Knowing that his people would still likely be killed, Ussa instead offered to hand over relics to the Covenant each [[cycle|solar cycle]] if the fleet withdrew. Mken told Ussa that the Covenant would not agree, and insisted that he surrendered for the sake of his people. Again, Ussa declined and the transmission ended.<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''pages 172-176''</ref> As the [[Covenant military]] invaded the shield world, Mken received one final transmission from Ussa. The Sangheili warned Mken that he was about to destroy the shield world, and suggested for him to pull his troops off of the shield world or they would die. Mken, trusting Ussa, complied and all Covenant forces returned to the fleet in orbit around the world. Moments later, the shield world appeared to explode as Ussa initiated its "Disassembler process"; unbeknownst to the Covenant, the Ussans survived aboard large freight movers as the shield world fragmented itself into habitable sections hidden by the explosion's debris. Although Mken believed he spotted the freighters within the debris of the world, but chose to ignore as he knew Ussa would not present a threat to the Covenant. Mken then ordered for the Covenant fleet to return to ''High Charity''.<ref>'''Halo: Broken Circle''', ''pages 178-181''</ref>

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