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I guess there were two Ruuhtians in that bunch too.
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===Glassing of Minab=== | ===Glassing of Minab=== | ||
As the Human-Covenant War entered its final stages with the [[Covenant]] fully entrenched in the [[Inner Colonies]], Minab stood defenseless against the ensuing genocidal onslaught. Holly's mother was at home with her brothers, washing dishes and reminiscing on a picture of her family, as [[CPV-class heavy destroyer|Covenant destroyers]] rained down superheated plasma to glass their city. Holly and her father were spared from the indiscriminate Covenant attack that claimed their loved ones by being on the other side of Minab where their family business maintained a mining operation. For a year after the bombing, Holly, her father, and nine other colonists on the mining crew thrived without harassment by Covenant occupation forces and were able to gather resources in the snow-capped landscape caused by [[Wikipedia:Nuclear winter|nuclear winter]]. Holly became adept at hunting and setting traps for the local game, including a light brown-skinned species reminiscent of a [[Gúta]] from [[Reach]], and was relied upon by her father as his best engineer, able to construct and maintain [[Fusion reactor|fusion reactors]] for the mine. The two of them often debated if and when they should activate a distress beacon for rescue by the [[United Nations Space Command]] yet always concluding that anyone could pick up on it, such as the [[Kig-Yar | As the Human-Covenant War entered its final stages with the [[Covenant]] fully entrenched in the [[Inner Colonies]], Minab stood defenseless against the ensuing genocidal onslaught. Holly's mother was at home with her brothers, washing dishes and reminiscing on a picture of her family, as [[CPV-class heavy destroyer|Covenant destroyers]] rained down superheated plasma to glass their city. Holly and her father were spared from the indiscriminate Covenant attack that claimed their loved ones by being on the other side of Minab where their family business maintained a mining operation. For a year after the bombing, Holly, her father, and nine other colonists on the mining crew thrived without harassment by Covenant occupation forces and were able to gather resources in the snow-capped landscape caused by [[Wikipedia:Nuclear winter|nuclear winter]]. Holly became adept at hunting and setting traps for the local game, including a light brown-skinned species reminiscent of a [[Gúta]] from [[Reach]], and was relied upon by her father as his best engineer, able to construct and maintain [[Fusion reactor|fusion reactors]] for the mine. The two of them often debated if and when they should activate a distress beacon for rescue by the [[United Nations Space Command]] yet always concluding that anyone could pick up on it, such as the [[Kig-Yar]] scavengers roaming the surface of Minab.<ref name="HE17"/> | ||
Some time before Holly went out on a hunt, one of the crew members, a disturbed, aggressively violent man, had attacked and maimed another survivor blinding him in his left eye. The assailant was later subdued and tied down by the other crew who would continually argue about what they would do with this threat to their well-being. Some advocated for his immediate execution while others called for him to be kept and cared for under more hospitable conditions. In the morning after one of these disputes, unknown to his captors, the assailant became unrestrained and escaped into the night to the surrounding wilderness. After discovering that he was gone, the other survivors argued yet again, brandishing a variety of long guns to intimidate each other. Holly fired her [[Shotgun|shotgun]] into the air to take control of the volatile situation. Her father volunteered himself to sweep the mine for the assailant and ordered that no further action would be taken if he wasn't found in an effort to end the hostility that was plaguing the group of survivors.<ref name="HE17"/> | Some time before Holly went out on a hunt, one of the crew members, a disturbed, aggressively violent man, had attacked and maimed another survivor blinding him in his left eye. The assailant was later subdued and tied down by the other crew who would continually argue about what they would do with this threat to their well-being. Some advocated for his immediate execution while others called for him to be kept and cared for under more hospitable conditions. In the morning after one of these disputes, unknown to his captors, the assailant became unrestrained and escaped into the night to the surrounding wilderness. After discovering that he was gone, the other survivors argued yet again, brandishing a variety of long guns to intimidate each other. Holly fired her [[Shotgun|shotgun]] into the air to take control of the volatile situation. Her father volunteered himself to sweep the mine for the assailant and ordered that no further action would be taken if he wasn't found in an effort to end the hostility that was plaguing the group of survivors.<ref name="HE17"/> | ||
Holly questioned her father hours later about two of the people who continued to incite strife between the survivors, learning that the two of them were very private individuals that kept to themselves with attitudes typical of those living on the fringes of the [[Outer Colonies]]. Just then a call came through the radio to Holly's father from the mine's sentry that she had spotted the assailant amongst a group of at least thirteen Ibie'shan Kig-Yar equipped with small arms with two [[Type-26 Wraith]] tanks and a [[Phantom]] dropship supporting them.<ref name="HE17"/> | Holly questioned her father hours later about two of the people who continued to incite strife between the survivors, learning that the two of them were very private individuals that kept to themselves with attitudes typical of those living on the fringes of the [[Outer Colonies]]. Just then a call came through the radio to Holly's father from the mine's sentry that she had spotted the assailant amongst a group of at least thirteen [[Kig-Yar#Subtypes|Ibie'shan]] and two [[Kig-Yar#Subtypes|Ruuhtian Kig-Yar]] equipped with small arms with two [[Type-26 Wraith]] tanks and a [[Phantom]] dropship supporting them.<ref name="HE17"/> | ||
The survivors began to mount a defense against the Covenant, blocking off the large gate with a haul truck, when Ibie'shan blew through their impromptu barriers and assaulted the cavern in every direction. Holly stood on a large walkway with her father as a number of the Covenant attackers began climbing onto the structure to attack them. Holly's father ordered her daughter to retreat up to the upper levels of the facility to escape the attackers and she obeyed without question. As the ravenous aliens pressed their attack, Holly held them off for a short while with her shotgun, killing at least one of them, and destroyed a latter to prevent them from following. High atop a ledge she witnessed her father being captured by two Ibie'shan on one of the mine's other haul truck. Distracted by this sight, the two men she had inquired about just moments before snuck up and kidnapped her in the midst of the Covenant assault.<ref name="HE17"/> | The survivors began to mount a defense against the Covenant, blocking off the large gate with a haul truck, when Ibie'shan blew through their impromptu barriers and assaulted the cavern in every direction. Holly stood on a large walkway with her father as a number of the Covenant attackers began climbing onto the structure to attack them. Holly's father ordered her daughter to retreat up to the upper levels of the facility to escape the attackers and she obeyed without question. As the ravenous aliens pressed their attack, Holly held them off for a short while with her shotgun, killing at least one of them, and destroyed a latter to prevent them from following. High atop a ledge she witnessed her father being captured by two Ibie'shan on one of the mine's other haul truck. Distracted by this sight, the two men she had inquired about just moments before snuck up and kidnapped her in the midst of the Covenant assault.<ref name="HE17"/> | ||