Nogard
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- Nogard: "We are not so different, you and I. Both of us were made into what we are for war; my people looked upon me though and deemed me a monster, sentencing me to death after I had given all for all of their lives. SO I retaliated, and for that I was given a sentence I did not deserve. Join me; have vengeance."
- Riker: "We are not alike; we're as different as day and night. The difference between you and me is that you rotted in your self-pity, but I take my fate into my hands instead."
- ―Nogard to Riker-012 during the Battle of Ignito Prime
Nogard, originally born a normal Precursor named Lucifel-Nogard and later dubbed the Necros Demon during the Necros War, is a monstrous creature, created during the Precursor-Hydra War as an attempt at a perfect anti-Hydra soldier; instead, the Precursors deemed him a monster and a failure, and after a struggle they locked him up within Facility-03, the Beacon.
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[edit] History
[edit] Ancient History
[edit] Tragic Soul
- "I had a life, a true existence, once....."
- ―Nogard
Born 502,351 BC as a Precursor named Lucifel, he had a very normal childhood; after graduating from the educational system, he became a scientist, and was deemed a young genius by the top researchers of the Precursor Sovereign Dominion. After a short, century-long stint as a researcher, he entered the military, fighting in the very end of the Precursor-Elder War before becoming a member of a military reconnaissance team, scouting out worlds that were either suitable for being the site for a new colony or were of sufficient interest to be deemed worthy of sending in scientists to research it's unique ecosystem.
During these years, Lucifel met his wife-to-be, Mithriel, another member of his team. Married after what was considered an inappropriately short time of courtship – only 60 years – the two worked together for quite some time, which they considered the happiest years of their lives. But it would not last for long.....
- "Those that survived the Massacre at Station Alpha-19 would never forget the events that had taken place there: the screams of death, the terror as the dead rose once more, the utter confusion and horror as the events unfolded. None would forget that they had survived, but none would ever cease to ask if they really were alive."
- ―Librarian-8-Intuitive
It was during this happy time, some 110 years after their marriage, that their team was sent to investigate a new system on the far side of the galaxy. The planet seemed rather devoid of life, despite initial readings of a small biomass signatures, and in the end the search of it proved futile, and the planet was declared barren, devoid of life. However, unbeknownst to the team, their ship had a stowaway: a small Hydra cell form, the last of a dying parasitic species... but it would not be so for long.
Upon arriving back at Quasar-class Station Alpha-19, the sole Hydra cell managed to infect a Precursor and secretly hide itself; from there, it was only a short time before it had used the Precursor's biomass to create several more Cell forms. Taking out several more Precursors, the process was repeated, and then once again; soon, there was a small army of Hydra in hiding... at least, temporarily. Sure enough, they soon attacked, causing mass mayhem on the space station, managing to infect half the Precursors before they could escape, and managing to infect another quarter of those that did escape on the ships.
Lucifel managed to escape, but Mithriel did not: as they had attempted to flee, Mithriel had been infected right before Lucifel's eyes. Unable to bring himself to kill her, hoping in a sorrow-fuel insanity that he could bring her back, Lucifel merely dodged the former Mithriel's attacks until, in the end, Lucifel's second-in-command Joshuel shot her and dragged the grief-struck Lucifel onto the ship to escape.
Lucifel was devastated by Mithriel's death; for nigh on twenty-five years he was in a state of shock, not responding to anything anyone did or said. After this period though, Lucifel finally managed to come out of his depression and joined the Precursor-Hydra War, fighting against the Hydra with a personal vengeance. For the next two centuries he fought valiantly against the Hydra, until, during the Battle of Zeban, he was crippled in a Hydra attack, left completely paralyzed from the chest down.
[edit] The Transformation
- "I have no life now; take me, and make me into a savior for our people.... whatever the cost"
- ―Lucifel
After the Battle of Zeban, Lucifel was a cripple, unable to move himself; stubbornly refusing any way of recovery, he refused cybernetic replacements due to his hatred for such things, and he would neither allow himself to be cloned on the claim that it would not really be himself. So, he was assigned to the military strategies division, where he work for a moderate period of 50 years, planning out some of the Precursor's greatest defensive and offensive maneuvers of the entire war.
[edit] Lust for Blood
[edit] Defense of Athna
[edit] Final Destination
- "The trap has been set; the bait has been laid; the last stand prepared; now all that remains is the prey"
- ―Steadfast-9-Whim
- "I gave all my life for the Precursors! You took from me any semblance of normalcy, turned me into a weapon of war, and now you wish to simply push me aside, call me a monster, and leave me to rot like a piece of outdated weaponry? I will not allow it! The only way I shall be thrown aside is when I am a lifeless corpse, laying dead upon the carcasses of thousands of fallen foes!"
- ―Nogard, upon discovering that Precusor Sovereign Council had ordered his confinement
[edit] Present Era
[edit] Battle of the Beacon
Nogard was not awakened for countless years, first seen in the modern era at the Battle of the Beacon. He was awakened by accident at the time as the Beacon fired its' signal. He broke free of his stasis tube and began wreaking havoc on all forces, whether they be the Hydra or the UNSC forces. He soon escaped into one of the hangars, but escaped in a Precursor fighter. He disappeared into space, as he waited for the return of his true enemies, traveling through space to Ceres.
[edit] Paradise Lost
[edit] Last Battle of Ceres
Nogard appeared once again at the Battle of Ceres, fulfilling his duties of killing out the Hydra, but also seeking revenge against the children of Team Alpha and Dragon Squadron, realizing them to be the children of those that had nearly killed him. Over the course of the battle he was responsible for the deaths of many Hydra, UNSC, USR, Remnants and Flood forces, and nearly stopped the detonation of the Ceres Installation, but in the end he allowed the planet and the surrounding enemy forces to be destroyed while he fled into the nether regions of space.
[edit] Battle of Facility 13
During a routine check on Covenant Pirate activity, the UNSC ?? went missing. After two weeks, the AUR sent out a commando team of war veterans composed of Delta Team, Justin Davis and Queris 'Nephtyr; arriving at the last known co-ordinates, they discovered the ruined bulk of the ship orbiting an unknown planet. Upon investigating the ship logs, the cause of its' state was discovered: the planet housed the presumed dead monstrosity known as Nogard. Nogard had somehow survived the Battle of Ceres, and had come to this planet (which housed Precursor Facility 13) to build an army with which he would carry out his galactic domination. The commando group waged a short guerilla war, sabotaging countless pieces of the planet's robot-manufacturing plants, as well as Nogard's personal cloning facility. It was futile however, as in an attempt to stop Nogard from fleeing, the commando group attacked Nogard, only to be brutally murdered by the power-hungry renegades of Team Beta. The AUR arrived shortly after, Team Alpha attempting to kill the beast, but were stopped and almost killed by Team Beta; Team Beta found a final redemption in the end however, as they were inspired by Fleet Admiral Jim Wilson's noble death at the hands of Nogard, a sacrifice that saved Team Beta's lives. In the end, an orbital strike was called in, from which an escape could barely be made: in the last moments, Team Beta gave up their chance of escape to save Team Alpha and Dragon Squadron's lives, then gave Nogard a deadly wound before his escape, going out with honor as the facility was destroyed by the AUR fleets' fire.
Though Nogard and his forces had escaped, they had not done so before a tracking device could be placed on one of their ships......
[edit] Death....
Assembling one of the largest fleets in recent history, the AUR launched a final assault to kill this abomination from the past. Arriving at the volcanic world of Ignito Prime, the combined forces took on Nogard's clone-led, robot-composed army. Difficulties soon arose however as the Hydra appeared (the parasite race had also disappeared after the Battle of Ceres), intent on “total absorption” of the galaxy once again; soon, Nogard and Blackheart did battle, ending in an odd form of truce: Blackheart unsuccessfully infected Nogard, yet his own conscience was destroyed, and somehow his control over the Hydra hive-mind lived on in the now Hydra-infused Nogard. Team Alpha, Dragon Squadron and the Squad of Unrelenting Reparation led a strike force deep behind enemy lines, assaulting the main fortress facility and managed to find Nogard. Confronting Nogard, they dueled with the beast, even as a timer counted down to the destruction of the planet, a self-destruct sequence set off by Nogard himself. In the end, the three teams went down one by one, but as James, Katelynn, Jemsal and Ketynic finally managed to mortally wound the seemingly invincible beast, he managed to turn the tables; however, the planet then began to explode, and, while Nogard was distracted, James grabbed Clayton's rocket launcher, shoved it into a wound in Nogard's stomach and pulled the trigger. As the last of the teams died, they knew their duty was done, and their parents' were avenged......
Or so they thought.......
[edit] ....and Rebirth
Ignito Prime was both just beyond the borders of AUR space and a volcanic, unusable world, so it was little watched and of little importance. So, it was with little difficulty that the Necros scavenged the battered, broken and dead body of Nogard from the planets' wreckage. Using their mechanical prowess, they replaced several damaged body parts and integrated new ones as well: a large, slide-out blade was integrated into Nogard's right arm; his badly damaged left arm was replaced with a mechanical duplicate, ending in a four-piece, revolving gun using Necros piercer rounds; a large cannon was placed in his chest; a cybernetic view-finder replaced his left eye; a grasping, spear-claw was placed onto his tail; both his legs were replaced with mechanical versions; almost in mockery of the mythological Dragons that Humans found Nogard to resemble, a flamethrower was placed in Nogard's mouth; finally, Nogard's wings, which had been practically destroyed, were replaced with a large, precision jetpack, similar in aesthetic design to the USR's Hippogriff.
Nogard was now whole once more, yet at the same time he was restrained, no longer being free to do as he willed. He was a slave of the Necros; a high-ranking slave, but a slave nonetheless: His strengths gave him rank above the lower Necros infantry, and his Precursor knowledge gave him a place of importance in the Necros' grasp for the galaxy's powerful, ancient artifacts. Despite Nogard's official, Necros-oriented objectives, he carried with him one other: to hunt down those that had killed him, those who ended his life in vengeance for their parents he had killed. Blood called for blood, limbs for limbs, death for death........ and Nogard, he that had cheated death itself, would be the one to deliver the sentence with his own claws.
[edit] Vengeance
- "More than once I have been cast aside, left for dead, and more than once I have risen again to have my vengeance"
- ―Nogard
[edit] Searching for The Crucible
[edit] To Defeat the Devil....
- "To defeat the Devil, become a devil yourself!"
- ―Eiji Isayama[1]
[edit] Description
Nogard is tall and strong, not easily hurt or pushed around. Of the senses he has, they are highly tuned. His scales are hard on his back, and can take much punishment, but his front is less resistant, though still tougher than normal human skin. Because of this, he tries to block attacks to his front as much as possible. His wings are also rather thin and flimsy, and when not in use Nogard sheathes them in hard, bone-like coverings that are highly effective melee weapons. Of note is that Nogard's teeth and talons are artificial, made from a unique Precursor material that, while seemingly life-like, is in fact a form of hard metal.
To prevent infection via the Hydra, Nogard possesses several unique traits. His skin has virtually no entrances to the inside: pours, eyes, ears and a "waste excretion point" do not exist. Since he can digest any sustenance any amount of times, this get rids of a necessity for pours or any form of excretion. His sense of hearing isn't true hearing, much more like a radar using something like a shark's lateral line to detect things around him. His sight is not in the normal spectrum, instead being in the infrared. This has both its' advantages and disadvantages, as he can hunt in both dark and arctic environments easily due to his vision picking up only heat. The is a disadvantage when hunting creatures that are cold-blooded or in an already hot environment. His second unique trait is his regenerative capabilities. Small injuries are healed quickly, but major injuries take time to heal. He can do nothing about lost limbs, which take days to weeks to regrow, if he doesn't die before then.
[edit] Weaknesses
While Nogard is powerful, nothing is invincible. As Hydra are semi-clear, vision is a near useless sense, so the Precursors put it to a minimum. Instead, Nogard sees in something close to infrared, but even that is only effective to up to 10 feet. His vision also disadvantages him in hot environments and against cold-blooded opponents. He is also top-heavy, having most of his bulk in his upper torso, so he has trouble with balance, though his tail helps him some. His front side, including his chest and stomach area, is very soft and vulnerable to any sort of attack. Also, if enough of his blood is lost, Nogard will die, as would any other creature.
[edit] Clones
During the Battle of Facility-13, Nogard managed to use some of the Precursor technology to make a small group of clones for himself. While they were highly effective, they were less powerful than Nogard and few in number. All were killed by the end of the battle.
[edit] What If?
In the Alternate Universe, Nogard's history was much the same. He was created, he attacked his makers, he was set into stasis and he slumbered for millenia upon millenia. Strangely, while the Hydra managed to escape the Beacon, Nogard did not. He remained in stasis, and was not found until some time in the 2540's. A small group of Covenant found him and worshiped him as a god.
[edit] Trivia
- Nogard's name was inspired by Dragonclaws. The name is dragon backwards, which Dragonclaws has used before as for a username. As for the picture used, it came from here. It is not mine. The original owner can be found here.
[edit] References
- ↑ From Koumatjutsu: The Coming of Bagan, a fan-fiction written by C. L. Werner (aka Morgoth), posted on Kaijuphile
