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Blue Team's missions eventually took them back to the [[Epsilon Eridani system]] and the glassed remains of [[Reach]] in particular.<ref name="HTFORTAS"/> The Spartans split up but eventually came back together at a certain location for a reason entirely personal to all of them that Command had permitted them to indulge in. John and Linda approached Kelly and Fred in a Warthog and upon exiting asked if the place they stood was really what remained of they were looking for: the spot in the [[Highland Mountains]]' [[Reach Military Wilderness Training Preserve|military wilderness training preserve]] where [[Sam-034]] had carved a symbol into a tree so many years before. In his honor, John, Kelly, and Fred looked on as Linda carved a similar symbol, now used to represent Blue Team, into a large outcropping of [[lechatelierite]]. John verbally reflected on what Sam had meant to each of them and recalled that they last time they were all together in the preserve, he had asked them to trust him when he said he could get everyone home. As such, he pointedly asked if each of them was willing to continue trusting him and to keep following his lead.<ref name="HTFORTAS"/> | Blue Team's missions eventually took them back to the [[Epsilon Eridani system]] and the glassed remains of [[Reach]] in particular.<ref name="HTFORTAS"/> The Spartans split up but eventually came back together at a certain location for a reason entirely personal to all of them that Command had permitted them to indulge in. John and Linda approached Kelly and Fred in a Warthog and upon exiting asked if the place they stood was really what remained of they were looking for: the spot in the [[Highland Mountains]]' [[Reach Military Wilderness Training Preserve|military wilderness training preserve]] where [[Sam-034]] had carved a symbol into a tree so many years before. In his honor, John, Kelly, and Fred looked on as Linda carved a similar symbol, now used to represent Blue Team, into a large outcropping of [[lechatelierite]]. John verbally reflected on what Sam had meant to each of them and recalled that they last time they were all together in the preserve, he had asked them to trust him when he said he could get everyone home. As such, he pointedly asked if each of them was willing to continue trusting him and to keep following his lead.<ref name="HTFORTAS"/> | ||
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{{Quote|Every statue of him is a monument to be treasured|Senator Andrew Del Rio, referring to John-117 after his innocence at the Biko massacre was proven<ref name="htt13">'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 13: IN THE BAG''</ref>}} | {{Quote|Every statue of him is a monument to be treasured|Senator Andrew Del Rio, referring to John-117 after his innocence at the Biko massacre was proven<ref name="htt13">'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 13: IN THE BAG''</ref>}} | ||
[[File:Master Chief leaks.jpg|thumb|250px|John-117 during the Raid on Biko.]] | [[File:Master Chief leaks.jpg|thumb|250px|John-117 during the Raid on Biko.]] | ||
At some point in the latter half of [[2558]], peace talks between [[human]]s and [[Sangheili]] were scheduled to be held at the [[Outer Colonies]] regional embassy on [[Biko]]. Around a week before the meeting was to be held, the ambassador and peace activist [[Richard Sekibo]] uncovered a serious threat that could disrupt the talks and petitioned the [[Unified Earth Government]] for support. The [[UEG Senate]] disregarded his request, but when the day came, John landed in the densely populated city where the talks were being held. Sekibo's intelligence had been correct, for the extremist group known as [[Sapien Sunrise]] had managed to infiltrate the embassy and were plotting to assassinate Sekibo and frame the Sangheili for his death. The ship John used to enter the planet's atmosphere was moving so fast that it registered as a fireball to the air traffic [[artificial intelligence]] monitoring it. John charged toward the embassy at a dead sprint. He burst into the chamber where the delegates were gathered and without a moment's hesitation, shot the Sapien Sunrise operative acting as Sekibo's bodyguard with a handgun at point-blank range. This provocation started a firefight that ultimately cost the lives of nineteen humans and three of the Sangheili. John took possession of Sekibo and fought his way out of the embassy with the Sangheili survivors. In addition to Sekibo's bodyguard, eight of the other humans present had been part of Sapien Sunrise: four embassy guards and four civilians. Of the civilians, two were janitors that had been collectively armed with a rocket launcher and the other two were couriers with fragmentation grenades. John killed them all, including the bodyguard, with only twelve shots from his firearm. They all boarded the ship he had arrived on and fled the planet thereafter. | |||
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Unfortunately, Sekibo was killed and John was unable to save him.<ref name="htt10">'''[[Hunt the Truth]]''', ''Episode 10: GAG ORDER''</ref> His corpse was left behind in a field near the embassy on Biko. The next day, local officials discovered a signal beacon that led them to the body of Sekibo.<ref name="htt8">'''[[Hunt the Truth]]''', ''Episode 08: DRIP, DRIP, DRIP''</ref> After this event, the [[Unified Earth Government|UEG]] and Biko government covered it up by making it appear that John had killed authorized bodyguards and Sekibo.<ref name="htt10"/> This false story was spread throughout the [[Inner Colonies|inner colonies]]. The media started referring to John as "'''The Fallen Spartan'''".<ref name="htt8"/> As [[Benjamin Giraud]] prepared to expose the cover up, and reveal the atrocities committed by the people behind the SPARTAN-II program, the UEG and Biko undercut him by radically reversing their claims, admitting and denouncing the involvement of Sapien Sunrise in the attack, utterly discrediting Giraud. Even Senator [[Andrew Del Rio]], who had condemned the Master Chief in an official statement, reversed his position and took some immediate leave.<ref name="htt13"/> | |||
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===Argent Moon=== | ===Argent Moon=== | ||