Ameigh Broley
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- "On a field sable, the letter A gules"
- ―A passage from The Scarlet Letter
Ameigh Broley - also referred to as The Hybrid, The Herald, the Holy Commander, and its' full form, the Holy Commander of the Covenant - is a Sangheili-San'Shyuum hybrid being that was created by the Prophet of Trust's reverse-engineered Forerunner technology as ordered by the High Prophet of Tolerance. She served as the High Prophets secret warrior and commander for a time before coming to lead a black ops Special Operations Lance, the Lance of Unrelenting Reparation: she served with them till all the other members deaths at the Battle of Ignito Prime, and then led the second Lance of Unrelenting Reparation before and during the Necros War.
[edit] Biography
[edit] The Legend
- "'"
- ―Excerpt from Covenant of Lies, Vol II.
According to legend, the war between the Sangheili and the San'Shyuum had been raging for quite some time when at last it seemed like the two would obliterated themselves in a final battle. This final battle continued to rage for days and days, until at last, as the leaders of the two sides fought between themselves in a duel, the heavens split asunder with a great light and from the gash in space descended a sole figure: when the figure was seen by the dueling pair, they saw that she was unlike anything they had ever seen, a hybrid of San'Shyuum and Sangheili in form. This figure, calling herself Ameigh Broley, said that she was a messenger from “The Gods”, and that she had come to deliver the message that they were meant to cease their pointless war and band together, in order that they might seek out the Holy Rings and gain Ascension via the Great Journey.
[edit] Pre-Great War
[edit] Creation
- High Prophet of Tolerance: "We've need of something more than an Arbiter, Trust. We need a symbol, something that will bring more hope than even the Will of the Prophets can."
- Prophet of Trust: "You've no idea how difficult this is: there are so many risk involved, and the chances of it working are inconceivable."
- High Prophet of Tolerance: "If you succeed, Trust, you will be rewarded beyond your wildest imaginations. If you fail.... pray that the gods are more merciful than I"
- — The High Prophet of Tolerance requesting that the Prophet of Trust create a special warrior with his experimental Forerunner equipment
At the turn of the 26th century, the Covenant had just discovered a very large though inoperable Forerunner installation: scavenging all that they could from its' ruins, they began to investigate and reverse-engineer the new technology. However, a large part of what they had found was a Forerunner library, filled with books and other forms of information: two Sangheili, Fleet Master Nakai 'Volaree and Ship Master Eko 'Vokanee, raided the holding bay on High Charity where all of these things were stored, managing to take a single piece of the massive library for personal investigation, as they had begun to doubt the Prophets' belief in the Forerunners, not being able to fully place their faith fully in the prophecies of the Ascension.
Looking through this index of knowledge, Nakai discovered records of the Halo's construction, purpose, and firing. Horrified, he went to tell Eko only to find that an Honor Guard had murdered him for “attempting” to steal sacred artifacts, as he had tried to go back for more of the scavenged artifacts. Nakai fled quickly, hiding in the suburbs of High Charity while he planned what he would do: deciding that he could not keep this terrifying information to himself, Nakai announced his discovery to the Covenant, causing both his fleet and several others to break away as Heretics, comprised of Sangheili, Unggoy, and Lekgolo. The High Prophets of the time – Restraint, Tolerance, and Obligation – created an Arbiter of Veri 'Onroalee, a former Imperial Admiral disgraced and stripped of his rank for having slaughtered an entire colony world of Jiralhanae after their Chieftain had angered him, who was then sent to quell this Heretic and his forces. However, Nakai so managed to inspire and embolden his forces that not even a fleet viewing themselves as carrying out the will of the Prophets could defeat them: combating Nakai single-handedly, the aged Veri was killed, and the SpecOps Commander of the mission, Oseri 'Nephtyree, was severely wounded as well.
Seeing that an Arbiter would not be enough, the High Prophets turned to a different method of inspiring their troops: with the help of the Prophet of Trust, the new Forerunner technology was used to create and grow a Sangheili-San'Shyuum hybrid, whom they named Ameigh Broley in reference to an ancient Covenant myth; fabricating a story that the Forerunners had sent Ameigh Broley to help them find their way once again, the High Prophets then sent Ameigh, Oseri and a larger fleet to deal with Nakai and his Heretics. After a long and arduous battle over the fortress moon of Suban, Ameigh and Oseri managed to infiltrate Nakai's main fortress and duel with him, as well as his Heretic Honor Guards: in the end, Oseri, who had been seemingly killed by one of the Honor Guards, took his Energy Sword and, in his dying breath, cut Nakai's legs out from under him. Ameigh, killing the rest of the Honor Guards, then walked up to Nakai, ignited her two Energy Sabres and placed them across his throat like scissors: saying “Now you can teach your heresy to all who writhe forever in the torment of the Shadow World”, she proceeded to decapitate him, ending his Heretic movement.[1]
[edit] Disappearance and Training
After the incidents surrounding her creation, Ameigh was taken under the care of several Prophets and Elites, keeping her existence a constant secret. She was trained by the Elites in the ways of war, and her knowledge and mind were strengthened by the teachings of the Prophets. By 2510, though only 10 years old chronologically, she had gained a mind that stored knowledge a common Human would have taken a lifetime to gather. It was then that she was finally allowed to come out into the public, though where she truly came from was never revealed, save to a select few. Instead of stating that the Prophet of Trust had created her, the Prophets and Sangheili that knew the truth told everyone else that she was a messenger sent from the Forerunners to assist the Prophets and Sangheili in the Great Journey.
[edit] A Mentor to Many
Once she had returned and was proclaimed as a gift from the Forerunners, nearly all of the Covenant tried to know her, so that they could claim a connection to the gods. In the end, Ameigh joined the best of the training academies on High Charity, and would become a mentor to the best of the students. One of her best students, Dyr 'Refosee would later become an Imperial Admiral, though she disliked the hate for Humans that he later gained during the Human-Covenant War.
[edit] The War Begins
In time, the High Prophets of Truth, Mercy and Regret came to power, and they declared war on the newly discovered Humans, claiming such a thing to be the will of the gods. Ameigh did not like this though, and found it rather questionable: she had no faith that the Forerunners were gods, as she knew of the Prophet’s lies, and such a genocidal war seemed a waste and of no point. But she could do nothing to stop it, and begrudgingly fought in this pointless war, serving as one of the Covenant’s greatest commanders.
Her first order of business in the war was not a battle, but was instead the placing and maneuvering of vast invasion fleets: working alongside some of the Covenant's greatest tactical minds, they assigned the routes for scout ships that would discover UNSC colonies, and these would be quickly followed by at-the-ready fleets that would then catch the Humans unawares.
[edit] Second Battle of Harvest
[edit] Battle of Jericho VII
Ameigh’s first truly major conflict to command during the Human-Covenant War, the mission to Jericho VII was a simple enough assignment: leading a large fleet, Ameigh would conduct her space forces in a manner so that the fleet could annihilate Human ships, or at the least disable them long enough for the ground operations to begin; once space was essentially theirs, Ameigh would lead a small force down to where a Luminary had discovered a Forerunner artifact, which upon unearthing would be retrieved and taken to High Charity.
Moving her fleet into the system, Ameigh demonstrated the fact that despite her relatively young age she was a brilliant tactician: Ameigh ordered merely three ships to attack the Human fleet immediately, while half of her fleet would maneuver to the far side of the planet and the other half would flank the Human fleet, which would then be promptly surrounded. With most of the Human ships together in one, single group, the plan worked brilliantly, with the entire fleet being destroyed and the remaining Human ships being of little defensive use.
Once ground operations began, Ameigh led the assault on the area around the artifact’s location: hidden within a network of valleys, the site had but three approaches into the area, all ground based, as the valleys acted as wind funnels, making it impossible for wind funnels to maneuver in them. One of these three entrances was guarded by a large UNSC base: completely against suggestions of her Sangheili generals, Ameigh decided on a plan that did not place their troops anywhere near the base, a fact that angered the honor-hungry, battle-driven generals. Instead, Ameigh divided her forces and sent them in through the other two entrances, with only one of the groups encountering a very small resistance: the UNSC base quickly mobilized it’s forces into the valley network, as Ameigh had anticipated; giving the order, the Humans were promptly bombed by atmospheric bomber craft flying high above the valleys and therefore unaffected by the winds.
Midway through the excavation, Ameigh soon ordered a large force of Unggoy to assault the nearby UNSC base, to ensure that it would not cause any further troubles. This, however, was a strategy that was quickly and effectively stopped: the SPARTAN-II group Red Team had been moved to defend the base, and the entire area leading up to the base had been filled with Ant-Lion Mines. This, combined with personal attacks, managed to eliminate the enormous group of Unggoy with very little incident; unfortunately, by the time the operation took place, the artifact had been retrieved, so Red Team was pulled out as the Covenant began to glass the planet.
Prior to Red Team’s battle and slightly concurrent to it, the Forerunner artifact was uncovered and its’ components made transportable, though the process was done under the constant and careful supervision of several Sangheili Oracle Masters. However, as the process was completed, the group was attacked: a lone SPARTAN sniper and several ONI spooks attacked the Covenant forces, attempting to eliminate the Covenant leader – Ameigh – and any seeming advisors. While several of Ameigh’s aids and friends fell around her, Ameigh suffered only several scrapes and a bullet to the leg: she would always state later that it was the grace of Fate that had saved her. Ameigh and her forces quickly evacuated, with the Forerunner artifact component’s, and it was then that Ameigh ordered the complete glassing of the planet.
[edit] Silencing Insanity
- "And should the Arbiter, the very "Arm of the Prophets" become deranged, who is there to stop it? None, no one!... or at least, so many have thought in the past. But I tell you, all of us have one that stands higher, and above the Arbiter stands the Herald herself: she is our greatest weapon, and she shall dismember our now-plagued arm permanently"
- ―High Prophet of Mercy
[edit] Battle of Osaka II
[edit] Battle of New Harmony
[edit] Battle of Susano
[edit] Battle of New Constantinople
[edit] Siege of New Istanbul
New Istanbul was an old UNSC colony, one that had repelled countless attacks by the URF. However, the Covenant were an entirely different enemy, and emerged to take the planet with a giant fleet.
[edit] The Lance of Unrelenting Reparation
As the war dragged on, Ameigh believed that a specially trained group of warriors would greatly aid them, preferrably a small and heavily trained commando team.
[edit] Second Battle of Tejas IV
[edit] Holy Commander of the Covenant
- "For your services to the Covenant for all these years, in war, in peace, in setting an example and training others, for upholding our ways and ensuring that others do the same..... I now pronounce you the Holy Commander of the Covenant"
- ―High Prophet of Truth
[edit] Hyperion Nebula Campaign
[edit] Siege of Paris IV
After the failed Hyperion Nebula Campaign, Ameigh’s severely crippled Combined Fleet of Indefinite Might made an emergency jump away from the Hyperion System and back to where they believed a Covenant repair facility to be: unfortunately, due to a wrong calculation transmitted to the entire fleet, instead of a repair station they found the UNSC colony of Paris IV. Quickly engaged by the large fleet that had been amassing there, five of the ships – one being Ameigh’s flagship – were forced to the planet’s surface for repairs, while all other Covenant ships were destroyed, but they had fortunately eliminated most of the UNSC fleet.
Ameigh was quick to realize the direness of the situation, and set out to quickly set up large controlled zones around each ship: despite this, one was still destroyed by a quickly made UNSC Air Force strike, but all others successfully held their against attacks after that. However, the UNSC managed to push the Covenant back at several locations, and when at last an enormous strike force attacked one of the ships, Ameigh was forced to divert many of her forces to hold it.
The attack was, however, a diversion, as small forces led by Riker-012 and Sgt. Avery Johnson were directed towards two other ships, one of them being Ameigh’s. During the assault on her ship, a contingent of Marines and Riker made it to the bridge of the ship, at which point Ameigh’s guards attacked the explosives-armed Marines while Ameigh personally dueled Riker; despite nearly killing him, Riker and the Marines damaged the control room to the point that it could no longer sustain itself, and they fled. Unfortunately for Ameigh, they managed to set their charges before they fled, so she was forced to abandon her ship quickly or face death; escaping in the nick of time, Ameigh managed to retreat to the fourth, unassaulted cruiser, where she forced the crew to finish repairs and escape the system.
The cruiser managed to jump back to Covenant space, where an infuriated Ameigh began to prepare a new invasion fleet, beginning with executing the foolish Sangheili that had gotten them into the mess in the first place (not before ensuring the exact coordinates of the Paris IV system, however). Once a sufficiently large fleet was amassed, Ameigh led the force back to Paris IV, where after a terribly short battle the Humans were defeated and the planet glassed; about 38% of the planet’s population managed to escape, however, thanks to the efforts of a large group of marines, led by Sgt. Avery Johnson.
[edit] Second Battle of the Sol System
[edit] Battle of Mars
[edit] Second Battle of Earth
[edit] Rebuild Era
[edit] Last Battle of Ceres
[edit] Battle of the Mirror
[edit] Battle of Eriador
[edit] The Many Hearts of the Hydra
[edit] Covenant of Lies
- "History is the polemics of the victor"
- ―Ameigh Broley
During the years after the Human-Covenant War when life was mostly peaceful and quite, Ameigh managed to write and release a book entitled Covenant of Lies, detailing all the known lies that the High Prophets throughout Covenant history had told and committed, starting with the two major ones of Ameigh Broley's origins and the truth behind the Human-Covenant War's start. Detailing over a hundred lies committed by over two dozen trios of Prophets, the book was very informative, well thought out and revealing of the lies that the Covenant had been fed for years and years without a single question.
[edit] Battle of Ignito Prime
[edit] Necros War
[edit] Advent of the Necros
[edit] Second Battle of the Necros War
- Bemsaj 'Emvadson: "I must admit that without the Spartans it would not have been a victory"
- Ameigh Broley: "Victory? No, this was not a victory. The Necros War has only just begun."
- ―Ameigh Broley immediately after the Third Battle of Linna[3]
[edit] Appearance
Ameigh's body is almost identical to that of a Sangheili. The only physical identification that she is part Prophet is that her fingers are Prophet-like and she misses the Sangheili's second thumb, along with the hybrid form of her head, which sports the same look at the back as a Prophet and the same lobes of skin on the sides.
Ameigh's armor was specially created by the Prophet of Trust. Made of the same material as that of a regular Sangheili's armor, it was carefully crafted by Ameigh herself to ensure it was perfect in her own eyes. Several large Forerunner words such as "victory", "power", and "honor" adorned the armor in places, with very small ones covering the entire armor. In formal occasions, Ameigh wore a large green and gold cape as well, though this was rarely used in any other situations.
[edit] Mental Report
Ameigh had a complex psyche, forged from a century of lies, hardships, combat and many other events. She was authoritative, commanding with no tolerance for disrespect, mistakes or stupidity, and yet she was very considerate of her troops and comrades. Ameigh always possessed a good sense of humor, laughing at others jokes and mistakes, but her own ability to be funny was rather lacking. She was very intelligent, always reading books (especially historical documents), and was in tip-top physical condition due to constant training and exercise. Ameigh preferred hand-to-hand combat over ranged, and would not die or be captured without a very difficult fight. Speaks to self occasionally. She always attempted to avoid repeating her mistakes, and hid the evidence of them from others.
[edit] Religion and Beliefs
[edit] Life Span
- "You don’t know what it is to reach my age, look back, and realize that you don’t remember much of what happened back there; then to look forward and see that far too many years still lie ahead of you..."
- ―Ameigh Broley, commenting on her age[4]
Ameigh's genetic makeup made her appearance and personality mostly like a Sangheili's, but her lifespan was one of the traits that resembled that of a San'Shyuum. Her lifespan was remarkably long, destined to be much longer than that of a normal San'Shyuum even, likely to exceed the 200 year mark. But while many would be grateful for this, she was not. Her nature and personality were Sangheili-like, and she had a deep since of comradery with her friends. But when she was the sole survivor of Operation: E PLURIBUS UNUM, it had a devastating effect on her: though she would mentor the children of her fallen friends, she would never be the same. She would be in a state of constant grief till she died. When the Necros appeared, she was happy to have someone to take out her hatred on once more.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Strengths and Weaknesses
[edit] Quotes
- "Never surrender! Hold fast, though death breathes down your back: stand firm, and stab the heart of death itself till it must breath its' own foul fumes"
- ―Ameigh Broley trying to embolden her forces
[edit] Gallery
[edit] Trivia
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ↑ This is an alternative version of Halo: Covenant Broken's planned ending: the story was originally planned to be written between myself and Spartan G-23 to explain Ameigh Broley's creation and his character Nakai 'Volaree's breaking away from the Covenant; as such Nakai would have had to survive at the end, and exactly how he would break away was never discussed. However, seeing as the story will likely never be finished, I've taken “artistic liberty” and changed the story as I wished. This was actually a rather simple task, as only two very short chapters were written.
- ↑ Obviously, a reference to the phrase said by Cortana in Halo 3 Announcement Trailer and the level in the game The Storm, which in turn was a reference to T.S. Elliot's poem The Hollow Men
- ↑ This quote is said between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- ↑ This quote is said by Brom in the book Eragon
