001 | Unexpected Arrival | Voice Post

[tactical_loop]

[there is the soft sound of something being tapped against what is likely flesh; the noise is constant and repeating, with a faint pause in between several beats before continuing in a steady cadence]This is Captain Jacob Keyes, service number 01928-19912-JK, calling any and all UNSC forces in the area. I repeat, this is Captain Keyes of the UNSC

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[tactical_loop]

[soft, almost inaudible sigh] Master Chief.

Report--mission status.

[charlie_hotel]

[There's a silence before she speaks.]

Captain Keyes. So this place thought fit to call you.

[tactical_loop]

...Dr. Halsey? How did you get--what place? What is 'this place'?

[charlie_hotel]

Same way as you, old friend.

It's a compound located near Chernobyl, Earth -- Well, Earth from another universe. Save for those of us who have been drafted, the UNSC is inexistent in this universe.

[tactical_loop]

[almost taken aback by the term "old friend" but there is only a slight pause as he takes her words in and no indication in his tone of that would-be startle]

Earth. I wondered if I'd ever see it again. --How many of us are there? What's the purpose of our being here? [pause] Drafted for what?

[prophets_blade]

[speaks very slowly]
I am going to phrase this very, very carefully. If you see an Elite around the compound, do not shoot. Repeat. Do. Not. Shoot. Please.

I am It is an ally of the UNSC. I swear.

...Have you ever been a prisoner on the Covenant Battlecruiser Truth and Reconciliation?

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[tactical_loop]

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[tactical_loop]

Who--or what--the hell are you?

[prophets_blade]

I am Thel 'Vadam. I am the current Arbiter of the Covenant. Or rather, what is left of it. As for what, I am a Sangheili.

I really am an ally. Ask the Spartan; he is willing to tell you the same if you do not trust me.