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The [[Photographer (character)|protagonist]] travels on a [[MagLev Train|monorail train]] arriving at [[New Mombasa]]. He explains that his job is to edit and manipulate images coming from all over [[UNSC]] space and make them more "digestible" for the public to watch. He says [[ONI|his employers]] are making him rich, though he doesn't even know who he is working for. He feels both proud and guilty, because he is helping to hide the truth about how mankind is losing [[Human-Covenant War|the war]] against the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. He describes Mombasa as a cosmopolitan city before the Covenant [[Battle of Mombasa|attack]]. He remembers when his friends and families thought he was working on a new campaign for the [[Civilian Warthog]], but in reality was being put under pressure by his employers and his job was getting harder and harder, due to the continuous UNSC defeats. Then, he talks about when the Covenant [[Battle of Earth|found Earth]]: the war always seemed a distant problem to the planet's inhabitants, but soon after it was very present. The train on which he is traveling homebound gets hit by space-falling debris. | The [[Photographer (character)|protagonist]] travels on a [[MagLev Train|monorail train]] arriving at [[New Mombasa]]. He explains that his job is to edit and manipulate images coming from all over [[UNSC]] space and make them more "digestible" for the public to watch. He says [[ONI|his employers]] are making him rich, though he doesn't even know who he is working for. He feels both proud and guilty, because he is helping to hide the truth about how mankind is losing [[Human-Covenant War|the war]] against the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. He describes Mombasa as a cosmopolitan city before the Covenant [[Battle of Mombasa|attack]]. He remembers when his friends and families thought he was working on a new campaign for the [[Civilian Warthog]], but in reality was being put under pressure by his employers and his job was getting harder and harder, due to the continuous UNSC defeats. Then, he talks about when the Covenant [[Battle of Earth|found Earth]]: the war always seemed a distant problem to the planet's inhabitants, but soon after it was very present. The train on which he is traveling homebound gets hit by space-falling debris. | ||
He then awakes in a hospital when the enemy's ground assault has already begun. During the fight, he manages to translate a [[Sangheili]]'s message saying "''We need to clear this area before we can secure access to the [[Installation 00|Ark]]''"<ref>'''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''', page 95</ref>. He is then told to get the recording out of the city to the [[UNSC High Command]]. Arriving at the waterfront he finds the whole city's population trying to leave aboard "anything that floats": he realizes that the recording is too important and that he has to get on one of the remaining boats. In the end he gives the recording to a child who otherwise would've remained on the shore lonely, and hopes she will make it. | He then awakes in a hospital when the enemy's ground assault has already begun. During the fight, he manages to translate a [[Sangheili]]'s message saying "''We need to clear this area before we can secure access to the [[Installation 00|Ark]]''"<ref>'''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''', ''page 95''</ref>. He is then told to get the recording out of the city to the [[UNSC High Command]]. Arriving at the waterfront he finds the whole city's population trying to leave aboard "anything that floats": he realizes that the recording is too important and that he has to get on one of the remaining boats. In the end he gives the recording to a child who otherwise would've remained on the shore lonely, and hopes she will make it. | ||
The protagonist's fate is left ambiguous, as in the end he is seen in a monitoring room, with numerous screens surrounding him, while the Covenant overrun the city. The last words he says are: ''"What will it matter? This is the first day of the end of the world"''. | The protagonist's fate is left ambiguous, as in the end he is seen in a monitoring room, with numerous screens surrounding him, while the Covenant overrun the city. The last words he says are: ''"What will it matter? This is the first day of the end of the world"''. | ||