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<span class="mu-s">COVENANT:</span> <span class="mu-i">We waited with bated breath...</span>
<span class="mu-s">EMPIRE:</span> <span class="mu-i">So we began to transmit our hailing message and flagged the ship.</span>
<span class="mu-s">ACTION:</span> <span class="mu-i">His voice was like gravel, speaking no short volume to the career his life had a tenor for as he stared with a passive, yet aggressive gleam at the monitor's screen. It was that kind of glazed over look that saw these instruments and their usage, in all the places among this ship, as something that was deeply tired and frozen. His years just continued to stack and this entire event was no more than one of the potholes in the road to him. "I am Admiral Van Leuwenhoek of the Imperial Navy. I speak on behalf of the First Galactic Empire. I am asking for you to divulge your identity and appellation, as well as your origin and purpose in this system. I am transmitting visual data now, unknown vessel."</span>
<span class="mu-s">ACTION:</span> <span class="mu-i">"You trespass upon a holy vicinity."</span>
<span class="mu-s">ACTION:</span> <span class="mu-i">"I beg your pardon, unknown vessel?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">COVENANT:</span> <span class="mu-i">They had shown their face and so now we showed ours. The Supreme Commander took to the interface without hesitation. He was the soul of action that captured our sacred Covenant. He was the honor of the Covenant, for us to be escort to the holy ones as they searched for Halo's radiance.</span>
<span class="mu-s">ACTION:</span> <span class="mu-i">His mind was on the edge, and he was without hesitation in his measured approach, swiftly engaging in the conversation. "You speak to Supreme Commander Qu 'Esiit, backed by the fleet of rapturous scale, <span class="mu-s">humans</span>. You have violated the very air of the sacred ring with your poisonous presence. Heretics will burn."</span>
<span class="mu-s">ACTION:</span> <span class="mu-i">"Heretics? What do you mean by that?" He comes, his confusion manifest; "I've never seen a species like you before in my life, yet you act as if you know us."</span>
<span class="mu-s">ACTION:</span> <span class="mu-i">"I know that your frail kind are flammable. Allow me to show you."</span>
<span class="mu-s">COVENANT:</span> <span class="mu-i">Spurn us yet, the hour had come and now we fight. They, filthy and most pungent, had to be purged. Cleansed away. Our crew were in righteous uproar.</span>
<span class="mu-s">EMPIRE:</span> <span class="mu-i">Our crew was stirring under the all too familiar ringing of the ship's alarm. We had no choice but to make a stand, it seemed.</span>
<span class="mu-s">COVENANT:</span> <span class="mu-i">We'll take our offense here against the heart of corruption and strike at the source with blinding might and resounding rage.</span>
<span class="mu-s">EMPIRE:</span> <span class="mu-i">We'll let them know they made the greatest mistake of their life charging weapons against the venerable line of the Star Destroyer.</span>
