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I think I've found out the Arbiter's real name, and I can fill in a correct bio for whoever's playing him if needed. Actually, I'm just going to post all the information I've found.

Role

The rank of Arbiter is bestowed upon a Covenant Elite by the High Prophets during a time of extraordinary crisis. The Arbiter acts as an agent of the Prophets, going on missions specifically dictated by the Prophets to resolve whatever difficulties the Covenant is experiencing. During incidents such as the Taming of the Hunters, the Grunt Rebellion, and most recently, the threat of heresy, and everything up to, but not including, the Covenant Civil War, the Arbiter of the time has emerged to lead the Covenant to victory. Many, especially Grunts, see the Arbiter as their savior or protector, presumably because only Elites of extraordinary skill and leadership attain the rank. The Arbiter is commonly referred to as "The Will of the Prophets" or similarly "The Blade of the Prophets". The Arbiter wears ancient armor that differs from that ordinarily worn by Covenant Elites.

Every Arbiter has been martyred in the undertaking of their momentous tasks. The corpses (or perhaps only memorials of some sort) are housed in identical caskets stacked upon each other in the great Mausoleum of the Arbiter, located on High Charity. In the center of this room a floating pod contains the sacred armor of the Arbiter, highly decorative and fully functional (although some subsystems are out-dated, such as the active camouflage) despite its apparent age. The mausoleum houses 168 visible caskets (and more may be set underground), reaching high into the air, and references of Arbiters settling the Grunt Rebellion and aiding the Taming of the Hunters would indicate that the office has existed for quite some time - at least before the Covenant was fully formed and its castes defined. The Arbiter can only be an Elite (the characteristic armor is tailored to Sangheili anatomy), as they are traditionally seen as the guardians and protectors of the Covenant.

As a member of the Covenant, it is believed that the Arbiter is held in the capacity of maintaining the integrity of the Covenant, and his creation is necessitated only in momentous events like those mentioned above. Of course, he also serves as a political tool, an embodiment of the Hierarchs' power as well as an example of true faith, a warrior-martyr showing loyalty at times of division.

History

The Arbiter in Halo 2 was previously an Elite Supreme Commander, having commanded the Fleet of Particular Justice, the fleet that destroyed Reach and followed the Pillar of Autumn to Alpha Halo in Halo Combat Evolved. The reason the ship was even allowed to land in the first place was due to the risk it might pose to the ring; a minor Prophet onboard one of the first ships to engage the Pillar of Autumn refused to allow the ship to be destroyed with plasma torpedoes, instead ordering it to be captured by boarding parties. This error allowed the Pillar of Autumn to land on Halo's surface, and events spiraled out of control, leading to the Master Chief and Cortana detonating the Pillar of Autumn's fusion drive and destroying the ring. In Halo: First Strike, it is also hinted that he was responsible for the loss of the Ascendant Justice.

Looking for a scapegoat for the destruction of the "Sacred Ring", and unable to blame the Prophet, the Covenant High Council turned to the Supreme Commander, branding him a heretic and stripping him of his rank. To signify this, he is branded with the Mark of Shame over his left pectoral by Tartarus in front of a large crowd. Though his execution (hung by his entrails and his corpse paraded through the city as an example) was soon to follow, he was spared by the High Prophets.

During a meeting with the Prophets of Truth and Mercy within the Mausoleum of the Arbiter, they reveal that they were quite aware that the council only wanted a scapegoat, and that branding the Supreme Commander a heretic was the only way to quell their malcontent. Rather than have him slain outright, the Prophets of Truth and Mercy gave him a chance to regain his lost honor and serve the Covenant again; he would become the Arbiter and be set loose against the true 'heretics', lead by one Sesa 'Refumee, and quell their uprising before it caused further division amongst the Covenant. As they explain to him, the council will get their corpse one way or another, as he is likely to die in the face of the overwhelming odds they are pitting him against.

Like the Arbiters before him, the Prophets expected the Arbiter to die early in his tour of duty, completing his apparent "death sentence", but he survived both the destruction of the heretics and the storm that followed. Thus, they send him on another suicidal mission, this time to retrieve the "Sacred Icon" (Halo's Index) from the Library on Delta Halo. To be sure it would kill him, they secretly order Brute Chieftain Tartarus to do so in the unlikely event that he survives the attempt. When the Arbiter succeeds, Tartarus throws him down the central shaft of the Library. Though Tartarus is convinced that he succeeded, the Flood Intelligence Gravemind rescues the Arbiter for his own purposes.

During the game, the Prophets slowly begin to replace the Elites with Brutes, a species that has shown to be both stronger, more resilient, and more blindly devoted to the commands of the Prophets than Elites. Once there are enough Brutes in place, they instigate a bloody genocide, wiping out the Elites. This sparks a massive civil war, disguised as a Brute insurrection to the Elites and their allies, and as an Elite revolt to the other Covenant factions (excluding the Brutes). On one side, there are the loyalists: the Brutes, the Drones, and the Jackals, covertly sanctioned by the Prophets. On the other, the Elites lead the Hunters and the Grunts.

The Arbiter, after meeting his human counterpart, the Master Chief, while being held captive by the Gravemind, discovers the Brutes' massacre of a number of his fellow Elites and receives word that the Elite High Council members have been murdered. He joins forces with the separatists and becomes a central figure in the Covenant Civil War.

In order to keep Tartarus and his Brutes from activating Halo, the Arbiter forms an uneasy alliance with their enemies, the human United Nations Space Command, to stop the mutual threat. At the end of the game, the Arbiter confronts Tartarus in the control room of the installation. While he had originally, and perhaps stubbornly, refused to believe the truth about Halo, the common belief of the heretics, Master Chief, the Gravemind, and Sergeant Johnson that Halo would bring devastation finally convinces him to ask 343 Guilty Spark the truth about the rings. Though the Arbiter accepts this truth, Tartarus does not, activating the weapon anyway. The Arbiter triumphs in killing Tartarus and the humans stop the activation of Delta Halo, though the others are armed as a result. In the final scene, Guilty Spark explains to the Arbiter and the humans that the Halo network can be activated from the Ark, but when asked the location of it by the Arbiter, the scene ends.

I will not explain what happens in Halo 3, as this isn't the time for it yet. That's all the information I found.

Arbiter won't be in this. Thanks for the informative read, though.

Name: Vtras R'yum

Gender: Male

Rank: Ultra (silver/white armored elites)

Physical Description: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Image:UltraElite01.jpg
(and is missing a finger. Due to a weapons malfunction)

Somewhat detailed background: Vtras, had average training as a child, and at adulthood he was a minor elite for an extensive amount of time. Seemingly never growing in rank. However at one point him and his team set out on a regular mission. There had been some disturbance on Installation 04 (halo 1) after walking through a graveyard of his own kind his team encountered the flood outbreak. His entire team save him and an injured partner were the soul survivors and they barely made it out alive. He began to grow quickly in rank fighting marines and flood. He luckily escaped Halo before its destruction and was awarded the rank of honor guard. However once the brutes came into control he became an ultra once more and fought back.

Primary Weapon: Shotgun

Secondary Weapon : Needler

Special Skills : He's excellent with a shotgun. Able to get off shots with it quicker than most beings in the universe.

Great work guys....we should be ready to go soon.
I am going to post my bio for one of my characters...the one who will be seeing the most action. I will also be playing the Captain of the cruiser BattleAxe....but since nobody is playing as a shipboard officer, I don't feel the need to post her bio.....but info is available upon request.

Name: Hannah Victoria

Gender: Female

Rank: 1st Lieutenant UNSC ODST Corps

Physical Description: Lt. Victoria stands 6' tall in full combat rig. Her neck length black hair is usually kept in a tight bun under her helmet and her pale green eyes sparkle when amused but have been known to put the fear of god into recruits. She has a faint scar running down the left side of her face, the result of an accident during Basic.

Background:
Hannah Victoria was born on December 14, 2525 on the colony world of Reach. Her father, a Commander in the Navy, was MIA and the Navy wasnt talking. The loss of her father is something she hold the Covenant personally responcible for to this day.
Her mother was a research scientist. She worked with Dr. Halsey and others in Castle Base on several projects. Usually talkative and open with her daughter, Hannah mother became unusually quite and jumpy. She would no longer talk about her work. When Hannah was 12, her mother disappeared. No one on the base could figure out where she had went, she was just gone. Hannah was left to fend for herself. Having always been an excellent student and a somewhat brilliant strategist, Hannah was looked after by Dr. Halsey.

Being to old for her Spartan II program, Dr. Halsey made sure Hannah received the best education to be had and at the age of 18, Hannah was selected for, and entered the Naval Academy on Reach. Here she excelled. Entering the Marine track, Hannah completed Basic the summer of her junior year, and graduated the following summer 19th in her class. Accepting a commission into the Marines, Hannah almost immediately volunteered for the ODST Corps and was accepted a few months later. The year was now 2547.

2nd Lieutenant Victoria was sent to a camp on Reach to train for the added rigors of being an ODST. She was taught the ins-and-outs of the HEV and learned the fine art of HALO jumping. She was also schooled in the martial arts, including the ancient Earth form of Krav Manga. She, and half the number that had started the school 4 months ago, completed the school in time for New Years 2548.

Given command of a platoon under the 517th, she and her platoon were assigned to the UNSC light cruiser BattleAxe. She and her platoon were charged with peacekeeping duties in the outer colonies. Here she saw action against forces loyal to the URF. Her platoon ammased an empressive record, but sadly almost her entire platoon was wiped out, save for herself, her platoon sgt, as well as two of her soldiers, in an ambush towards the end of their deployment.

She and her remaining men were processed back to Reach to await reinforcements and BattleAxe was called away to the colony world of Victoria to quell a URF uprising there. The year: 2552, month: July.

Receiving reinforcements, she and her platoon sgt. begin the long process of breaking in the greenhorns. She doesnt realize that they are all about to grow up real fast.
August 2552: A Covenant armada arrives in orbit around Reach. An invasion on a planetary scale is launched. Lt. Victoria and her men, having been out on a live fire training exercise, are unaccounted for and overlooked when the Covenant round up and slaughter the occupants of Castle Bases' Garrison. Discovered a few days later she and her men conduct a fighting retreat back to a system of caves, where they conduct gorilla warfare against Covenant patrols sent to root them out. Reach is glassed. Fortunately, Lt. Victoria and her men find themselves in an area that escapes the fire, they survive.

Several days later, after the Covent fleet leaves the Reach System, believing all humans to be eradicated forever, an ONI Prowler detects UNSC RDF tags from orbit. She and her team are rescued and sent to Earth for debriefing. Two months later, in September of 2552, she and her team, still awaiting a shipboard assignment, take part in the 1st Battle for Earth. During this battle she and her team are directly responsible for the rescue and safe evacuation of the Governor of New Mombasa. She is field promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

Assigned to the Chawla facility in Boston, MA UNAP, she and her men took part in the 2nd Battle for Earth. Conducting an organized retreat and evacuation of Chawla Base and the city of Boston, her team and the Garrison's Marines held out for the better part of a month before being forced to evacuate under heavy fire. Sent back to the city, she and her team are charged with securing the Yankee Station facility and rescuing the scientists and Marines trapped within.
**present day**

Primary Weapon: BR55HB SR Battle Rifle

Secondary Weapon: M6C sidearm

Special Skills: Hannah has picked up many useful skills over the years, however the one that seems to serve her the most is her Krav Manga. Her men once watched her wrist of an elite that was getting too close, the unfortunate creature than had its neck broken. Needless to say, years of training and practical application have had an effect. She is also an excellent shot with the M6C. Having shot the pistol competitively at the Academy, she obtained Distinguished Expert ranking and hold on to the older weapon even with the introduction of the M6G. She is an excellent leader, learned from her time at the Academy and from watching her platoon sgt as a young 2nd Lt. She has earned the respect of her men.

Great work guys....we should be ready to go soon.
I am going to post my bio for one of my characters...the one who will be seeing the most action. I will also be playing the Captain of the cruiser BattleAxe....but since nobody is playing as a shipboard officer, I don't feel the need to post her bio.....but info is available upon request.

Name: Hannah Victoria

Gender: Female

Rank: 1st Lieutenant UNSC ODST Corps

Physical Description: Lt. Victoria stands 6' tall in full combat rig. Her neck length black hair is usually kept in a tight bun under her helmet and her pale green eyes sparkle when amused but have been known to put the fear of god into recruits. She has a faint scar running down the left side of her face, the result of an accident during Basic.

Background:
Hannah Victoria was born on December 14, 2525 on the colony world of Reach. Her father, a Commander in the Navy, was MIA and the Navy wasnt talking. The loss of her father is something she hold the Covenant personally responcible for to this day.
Her mother was a research scientist. She worked with Dr. Halsey and others in Castle Base on several projects. Usually talkative and open with her daughter, Hannah mother became unusually quite and jumpy. She would no longer talk about her work. When Hannah was 12, her mother disappeared. No one on the base could figure out where she had went, she was just gone. Hannah was left to fend for herself. Having always been an excellent student and a somewhat brilliant strategist, Hannah was looked after by Dr. Halsey.

Being to old for her Spartan II program, Dr. Halsey made sure Hannah received the best education to be had and at the age of 18, Hannah was selected for, and entered the Naval Academy on Reach. Here she excelled. Entering the Marine track, Hannah completed Basic the summer of her junior year, and graduated the following summer 19th in her class. Accepting a commission into the Marines, Hannah almost immediately volunteered for the ODST Corps and was accepted a few months later. The year was now 2547.

2nd Lieutenant Victoria was sent to a camp on Reach to train for the added rigors of being an ODST. She was taught the ins-and-outs of the HEV and learned the fine art of HALO jumping. She was also schooled in the martial arts, including the ancient Earth form of Krav Manga. She, and half the number that had started the school 4 months ago, completed the school in time for New Years 2548.

Given command of a platoon under the 517th, she and her platoon were assigned to the UNSC light cruiser BattleAxe. She and her platoon were charged with peacekeeping duties in the outer colonies. Here she saw action against forces loyal to the URF. Her platoon ammased an empressive record, but sadly almost her entire platoon was wiped out, save for herself, her platoon sgt, as well as two of her soldiers, in an ambush towards the end of their deployment.

She and her remaining men were processed back to Reach to await reinforcements and BattleAxe was called away to the colony world of Victoria to quell a URF uprising there. The year: 2552, month: July.

Receiving reinforcements, she and her platoon sgt. begin the long process of breaking in the greenhorns. She doesnt realize that they are all about to grow up real fast.
August 2552: A Covenant armada arrives in orbit around Reach. An invasion on a planetary scale is launched. Lt. Victoria and her men, having been out on a live fire training exercise, are unaccounted for and overlooked when the Covenant round up and slaughter the occupants of Castle Bases' Garrison. Discovered a few days later she and her men conduct a fighting retreat back to a system of caves, where they conduct gorilla warfare against Covenant patrols sent to root them out. Reach is glassed. Fortunately, Lt. Victoria and her men find themselves in an area that escapes the fire, they survive.

Several days later, after the Covent fleet leaves the Reach System, believing all humans to be eradicated forever, an ONI Prowler detects UNSC RDF tags from orbit. She and her team are rescued and sent to Earth for debriefing. Two months later, in September of 2552, she and her team, still awaiting a shipboard assignment, take part in the 1st Battle for Earth. During this battle she and her team are directly responsible for the rescue and safe evacuation of the Governor of New Mombasa. She is field promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

Assigned to the Chawla facility in Boston, MA UNAP, she and her men took part in the 2nd Battle for Earth. Conducting an organized retreat and evacuation of Chawla Base and the city of Boston, her team and the Garrison's Marines held out for the better part of a month before being forced to evacuate under heavy fire. Sent back to the city, she and her team are charged with securing the Yankee Station facility and rescuing the scientists and Marines trapped within.
**present day**

Primary Weapon: BR55HB SR Battle Rifle

Secondary Weapon: M6C sidearm

Special Skills: Hannah has picked up many useful skills over the years, however the one that seems to serve her the most is her Krav Manga. Her men once watched her break the wrist of an elite that was getting too close, the unfortunate creature than had its neck broken. Needless to say, years of training and practical application have had an effect. She is also an excellent shot with the M6C. Having shot the pistol competitively at the Academy, she obtained Distinguished Expert ranking and hold on to the older weapon even with the introduction of the M6G. She is an excellent leader, learned from her time at the Academy and from watching her platoon sgt as a young 2nd Lt. She has earned the respect of her men.

sry for the 2x post...my comp was acting up >_<

anyways...are there anymore bios still floating around out there, any question about what we are doing?
Ask and ye shall be answered, otherwise I will set the scene in my first post.

how we doing...everyone still here?

Here

With the addition of me being Sergeant Johnson, I would like to be a UNSC Shipboard Officer aboard Battle Axe.

Yeah I'm here. Hopefully we can jump in asap. I think everyone who is going to join right now has. And once again if it'd be helpful I can play as an enemy to, seeing as everyone else is good.

Rodgort: ok, but how much do you know about how a navy ship runs?
M: yeah...good call...go for it

we will be starting soon, got to finish up some school work first and than I will post the first section/ intro

So.. how long do I have to wait before Spartan goes to me?

Name: Crono

Gender: Male

Rank: Chieftain

Physical Description:
without armor

with armor

Somewhat detailed background: He grew up with an immediate hate for the elites. They were smug and as brutes were only used for small tasks, given their lack of tactical abilities they were often tossed aside, and elites were relied on. Crono decided that he wouldn't be a mindless...well...brute. He studied the elites tactics, their plans and their flaws. Soon he became a great tactician and brutes came into control. He proved his worth on the battlefield, answering personally to Tartarus at the time, killing several large elite squads. Crono prefers to stay out of the bulky armor created for his kind, seeing as it slows him down, the only time he wears it is in a time of crisis.

Primary Weapon: Gravity Hammer

Secondary Weapon (M6C, plasma pistol etc...): Mauler

Special Skills (sniping, heavy weapons ect......): Tactics, proficient with most weapons

Originally posted by Menetnashté
Yeah I'm here. Hopefully we can jump in asap. I think everyone who is going to join right now has. And once again if it'd be helpful I can play as an enemy to, seeing as everyone else is good.

Darth Extecute is bad 😄

Right so explain to me what we do and how I join and what characters there are...in other words the full run down...in short everything.

Fardin Vassisk:
We are on Earth
Boston MA, UNAP
Cambridge......there is a ground control facility there run by ONI personnel and research scientists called Yankee Station..named after the ODP that it is paired with.

To join...post a bio. You can play as a covenent, a marine, Militia resistance fighter, Navy, or ODST trooper.
NO HERO CHARACTERS PLEASE.....Sgt. Johnson is beng allowed only because i didnt catch it in time.

For other info read the first post.

Red Spartan: green light on your Spartan character...your good to go. ONly thing is i might have you make an appearance later on, not right away. If you keep your marine character he will enter into this right away.

Hmm explain the OSD or what ever lol

ODP = Orbital Defense Platform

sry guys, im in the military so I tend to use acronyms a lot :-/
in case anyone was wondering...UNAP stands for United North American Protectorate.

I'll be anything with guns.

Originally posted by archangel01
Fardin Vassisk:
We are on Earth
Boston MA, UNAP
Cambridge......there is a ground control facility there run by ONI personnel and research scientists called Yankee Station..named after the ODP that it is paired with.

To join...post a bio. You can play as a covenent, a marine, Militia resistance fighter, Navy, or ODST trooper.
NO HERO CHARACTERS PLEASE.....Sgt. Johnson is beng allowed only because i didnt catch it in time.

For other info read the first post.

Red Spartan: green light on your Spartan character...your good to go. ONly thing is i might have you make an appearance later on, not right away. If you keep your marine character he will enter into this right away.

Just give me the green light on when to enter