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Following the end of the conflict, Casille was applauded by many Gao citizens for forcing the UNSC away from the planet. Casille oversaw the crater that had once been the Well of Echoes and the destroyed Forerunner installation from ''[[Independence]]'', a [[Basilisk|Basilisk forward command-and-control craft]]. Casille spoke with Aponte loyalist Minister Baez, who made it clear that Casille would have difficulty keeping his failed hunt for the ancilla and his machinations secret from the public. Casille additionally intended to keep the HAVOK's detonation a secret, as he knew that if it became public, his backers would push him to retaliate against the UNSC in a fight that Gao could not win. Seeking an experienced commander to keep Gao's soldiers quiet on the events that transpired, Casille agreed to have Baez on his cabinet with the minister explaining the crater as the result of a UNSC [[prowler]] that exploded after being brought down by GMoP corvettes.<ref name="ll380"/> While Casille had hoped that Castor had died in the conflict, the Jiralhanae [[Jiralhanae Chieftain|chieftain]] had actually survived and now sought revenge on the president for his treachery.<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', ''page 393''</ref> | Following the end of the conflict, Casille was applauded by many Gao citizens for forcing the UNSC away from the planet. Casille oversaw the crater that had once been the Well of Echoes and the destroyed Forerunner installation from ''[[Independence]]'', a [[Basilisk|Basilisk forward command-and-control craft]]. Casille spoke with Aponte loyalist Minister Baez, who made it clear that Casille would have difficulty keeping his failed hunt for the ancilla and his machinations secret from the public. Casille additionally intended to keep the HAVOK's detonation a secret, as he knew that if it became public, his backers would push him to retaliate against the UNSC in a fight that Gao could not win. Seeking an experienced commander to keep Gao's soldiers quiet on the events that transpired, Casille agreed to have Baez on his cabinet with the minister explaining the crater as the result of a UNSC [[prowler]] that exploded after being brought down by GMoP corvettes.<ref name="ll380"/> While Casille had hoped that Castor had died in the conflict, the Jiralhanae [[Jiralhanae Chieftain|chieftain]] had actually survived and now sought revenge on the president for his treachery.<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', ''page 393''</ref> | ||
Over the next six months, Castor and the Keepers hit Gao hard with acts of piracy. Eventually, Casille was approached by [[Dark Moon Enterprises]] who offered to get the UNSC to take care of the Keeper problem if he would allow them use of one of Gao's laboratories for their own purposes. Desperate, Casille accepted the deal and later signed a Warrant of Sanction after learning that the Dark Moon operatives were using the lab to experiment upon Admiral [[Tuwa]]'s family as he saw the only other option as admitting to Admiral [[Margaret Parangosky]] what he had allowed and thus bringing down a war that he did not want. | |||
Two weeks after the Tuwa's arrived, Dark Moon killed them and extracted their organs. Keeping their deal with Casille, they dumped the bodies on the Keppers' [[Salvation Base]] to draw the UNSC's ire towards the Keepers, resulting in the destruction of Salvation Base. However, Castor survived and tracked the operatives back to Gao where he attacked and destroyed the base. Casille traveled to the base in secret to see the devastation for himself, but by that time the UNSC had tracked the murder scene to Gao and realized that Casille had to be involved in some way. Both Blue Team and the [[Ferret]]s ambushed Casille's convoy and he ordered his men to surrender, recognizing that the Spartans didn't want a fight and they would lose anyway. To his surprise, Casille was interrogated by [[Veta Lopis]], now the leader of the Ferrets. Lopis demanded answers from Casille, threatening him with non-existent regulations to get him to cooperate. After learning of the threat of a [[Hydra (code)|Code Hydra]] [[bioweapon]], Casille finally admitted his minimal involvement in the plot and realized that both he and the Keepers had been set up to cover up the truth. Casille was genuinely horrified to learn the extent of what Dark Moon had been up to and realized that Lopis didn't have any other clues than him and Dark Moon. | |||
As Casille insisted that Gao had been set up to take the fall, he realized that he might know a place the UNSC could start looking and asked for them to deal with Castor in return, pointing out that Castor was most likely going to the same place as Casille was worried that Castor would eventually be back for revenge. Lopis believed Casille, knowing that he didn't steal the presidency by being stupid and accepted the deal. Casille pointed Lopis to [[Pinnacle Station]] at [[Meridian]] and [[Sloan|Administrator Sloan]], the [[smart AI]] in charge who had recommended Dark Moon to Casille. Casille stated he was only telling them about Sloan because he had helped set Casille up though Casille didn't know how Sloan got involved with Dark Moon.<ref>'''[[Halo: Retribution]]''', ''Chapter 19''</ref> | |||
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