Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/The Healing of Old Wounds I

Journal of Nathaniel J. Palmer, Archaeologist, Henry Lamb Research Outpost.

Personal Diary Date: 03/16/2558

The will and resilience of life never ceases to amaze me. Infinite permutations of

bacteria, animals, and plants all exist as a direct result of the endless struggle

and adaptation against a hostile universe. This installation, light years from the

galactic center, is a paragon of that fact. When we first arrived here, the Ark

had suffered great wounds from our war against the Covenant, and so we

activated dormant retriever sentinels and deployed them to strip-mine lifeless

planets for the materials needed to repair the installation. Like watching a

sleeping giant nudged into wakefulness, the reconstruction slowly reached full

automation until we were no longer needed to guide the sentinels and could

simply sit back and record the wonder of a world being reborn. [1/3]