
He lost it during the war to an Elite who turned out to be N'tho 'Sraom, and sees his chance for revenge when the two are assigned together for the expedition. Artificial Limbs: Spartan Kodiak has a prosthetic left arm, though it's usually disguised by long sleeves or additional armor.Instead it just turns out there are worse predators in the area, enormous tusked chaefka. Always a Bigger Fish: When the blind wolves that attack the party start fleeing, the group first assumes Olympia's attempt to trick them and the Elites' show of force worked.Usze, normally fairly aloof, shows pity and tells her that she hasn't failed as a mediator she's still done so much for peace with Elites and Humans, and still has more she can do. Alas, Poor Villain: After Tragic Solitude is destroyed, Olympia laments in private to Usze that she feels guilty for being unable to convince him to relent from annihilating all sentient life.Olympia wonders at one point if maybe he too was also damaged, hence why he's become a sociopath. Is a Crapshoot: Tragic Solitude has turned into an Omnicidal Maniac as a result of millennia alone and thirst for revenge for the inadvertent damage to the Ark. Rather than comfort her, Olympia finds speaking to a machine that looks like herself to be rather disconcerting. When conversing with Olympia, Tragic Solitude takes the form of a hologram identical to herself, claiming it's to put her at ease around him. A Form You Are Comfortable With: Subverted.For a pacifist mechanic, Tragic Solitude rightly considers him the greatest threat of the party.
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Badass Pacifist: That said, though peaceful he's capable of disarming stronger opponents, can survive extreme temperatures, float fast enough to keep up with a Sangheili at full sprint, and even forces Tragic Solitude into submission when he hacks into the monitor's data stores.Though familiar with the Human-Covenant War, Luther telling him about The American Civil War gives him pause, as he's never imagined the concept of humans warring against each other. Actual Pacifist: Like all Huragok, Drifts Randomly is a pacifist.Action Girl: Olympia Vale is a civilian, not a soldier, but her combat instincts and training are enough to impress even the Spartans.


Hunters In the Dark brings back old characters like N'tho 'Sraom and Usze 'Taham (the third and fourth player Elites from Halo 3 co-op) and introduces many new ones, including Olympia Vale, who has a major role in Halo 5: Guardians.

Tensions broil between the two species from old wounds inflicted during the previous war, but the dangers aboard the Ark will put their cooperation to the test. But the portal to the Ark from Earth has been inactive for years, so the UNSC are forced to ask the Sangheili for help in restoring access, with the expedition itself slated to be a joint-species affair. Fearing that the Halos may have been reactivated and will fire upon the galaxy once time's up, the Office of Naval Intelligence plans for an expedition back to the remains of the Ark, the enormous space station that controlled the rings. Set in 2555 (two years after the end of Halo 3 and two before Halo 4) the novel follows a joint UNSC/Sangheili expedition to the Ark to solve a mystery that threatens everyone in the galaxy.ĭuring an expedition to the seventh Halo ringworld, scientists Luther Mann and Henry Lamb uncover a strange alien signal emanating from the Halo array, which turns out to be a Forerunner countdown reading five weeks from today. Halo: Hunters in the Dark is the 15th novel-length book in the Halo franchise, written by Peter David in 2015.
