one? are you sure? yes. they called it the pillar of autumn wHYy was it not destroyed with the rest of their fleet? it fled as we set fire to their planet. but i followed with all the ships in my command when you first saw halo, were you blinded by its majesty? blinded? paralyzed? dumbstruck? nOOoo yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring, and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps ! noble hierarchs, surely you understand that once the parasite attacked (booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo) there will be order in this council ! you were right to focus your attention on the flood, but this demon, this master chief by the time i learned the demon's intent, there was nothing i could do (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo) (hehehehehehhehhheh) noble prophet of truth, this has gone on long enough. make an example of this bungler ! the council demands it ! you are one of our most treasured instruments, long have you led your fleet with honor and distinction. but your inability to safeguard halo was a colossal failure naYyy !!! it was hERrrEsy !!!!! (booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo) i will continue my campaign against the humans ! no ! you will not. (bark) soon the great journey shall begin, but when it does, the weight of your heresy will stay your feet, and you shall be left behind. (aaaaarrrrreaeaarbooooaaaaaeaeaerrrghhhhh) (heretic ! heretic !) you've drawn quite a crowd if they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed are you sure ? there can be no greater heresy, let him be an example for all who would break our covenant ! (bark) (tssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss) (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa) how much further must we heft this baggage? any cell will do ! why not toss him in with this lot ? (blarg) they could use the meat them? what about us? my belly AChes ! and his flesh is seared just the way i liKe it quIEt ! you two whimper like grUnts fresh off the teet ! he's not meant for the jails, the hierarchs have something special in mind > : ) noble prophets of truth and mercy, i have brought the incompetent you may leave, tartarus but, i thought and take your brutes with you release the prisoner the council decided to have you hung by your entrails and your corpse paraded through the city. but ultimately the terms of your execution are up to me i am already dead indeed. do you know where we are ? the mausolEum of the arbiter quite so. here rests the vanguard of the great journey, every arbiter from first to last, each one created and consumed in times of extraordinary crisis the taming of the hunters, the grunt rebellion. were it not for the arbiters, the covenant would have broken lOng ago ! even on my knees i do not belong in their presence halo's destruction was your error, and your rightly bear the blame. but the council was . . . overzealous we know you are no heretic. this is the true face of heresy (bleepbloop), one who would subvert our faith and incite rebellion against the high council our prophets are false ! open your eEYYyes my brothers, they would use the faith of our forefathers to bring ruin to use all ! the great journey is a this heretic and those who follow him must be silenced their slander offends all who walk the path what use am i ? i can no longer command ships, lead troops into battle not as you are, no. but, become the arbiter, and you shall be set loose against this heresy with our blessing what of the council? the tasks you must undertake as the arbiter are perilous ! suiCIdal ! you will dIIEee, as each arbiter has before you. the council will have their corpse what would you have your arbiter do?