What makes this even better is that the Shipmaster is voiced by Roger Cross, the same man who voiced Ulysses in Lonesome Road from Fallout New Vegas. He adds so much depth when narrating the reflection of ones mistakes and the folly of ones culture and how with the loss of a purpose, one struggles to find meaning in ones own action.
mad pariah I'd recommend reading either Halo: Broken Circle or Halo: Shadow of Intent. The first follows the rise and fall of the Covenant while the other follows what the Shipmaster from Halo 2 and 3 was up to after the Human-Covenant War.
Now I have talked, and now you will listen! Love you all homies of halo 2. My mother forgotten it one Christmas in the trunk of a car, happiest moment of my life to find halo 2 sitting there for me in 2005
A lot of Sangheili actually really regretted the war. Namely the Swords of Sangheilios, and a few other factions/clans/states. I don't know who this one belongs to or leads, but they seem to support or are part of the swords of sangheilios.
@@skyraider87 I think he’s part of a clan who at least backs the swords. Most members of the swords have lost faith in the forerunners while this one clearly hasn’t, so I don’t think the arbiter would let him be so high ranking in the swords yet still believe in the false beliefs that enslaved their kind in the first place.
@@skyraider87 Its been a very long time sense i was big into the halo lore, but as i recall there were factions who came to respect the humans for the tenacity of their fighting spirit in the face of such overwhelming odds and wanted to incorporate humans into the covenant but were over ruled by the prophets for reasons they would not disclose. ( the discovery that Humans were the reclaimer species referred to in their 'sacred texts' and not the prophets)
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor There's a Show on Disney that has a quote that's relevant to this. Nobody wants to find out they've been following the wrong leader
thing is he wasnt even remorseful for the lives he killed he was more remorseful about the fact he killed them for a false religion, hes looking for reason again
I doubt they cared that much, to be honest. Humanities' endgoal post-war should be destroying the remnant of the Covenant, including the Elites and Brutes.
If this story's taught me anything it's this. There's a difference between following a blind belief and following your honor And while the lines are blurred and concealed one thing is truly certain. Belief can take you so far before it fades. But honor. Honor is the only thing that will never fade. Because if it does then you fade as well.
No, but this universe is dark like that. " I still know how to make humans talk " and you gotta remember this guy is a religious lunatic. Was happy to glass a planet for his religion. If he thought he could find a way to communicate with his gods again, and a single human had some answers for him, do you think he'd just ask nicely or torture him? It's why this story was written. It's supposed to make you think that he's full of remorse for what he did, but it turns out he's only remorseful about why he did it.
@@jhint5519 Oh shoot, that's actually a good analysis, the fact that he was remorseful for why he did it and not that he had done it in general was something I was thinking about but not realizing.
This reminds me of the Headhunters comic. A wounded Elite chastises the Headhunters by saying they are assassins and don’t have true honor. The Headhunter replies: “Says the alien shithead who invented active camo. Yeah, your ‘noble’. How ‘noble’ is glassing a planet from orbit?” I think that’s a perfection summation for what this Elite is realizing
Yeah it burns deep inside to see them die but they were severely out gunned with no support...and this asshole elite doesn't even care about what he did only who he did it for...need a Spartan to rip his head off
midgetydeath The ultimate cause of humans badly losing the war through the entirety of the war was the UNDC’s wartime policy as well as over reliance on “super soldiers”, (which was apart of their wartime policy). They didn’t even let the general public know that they were fighting a a group of alien species bent on genocide, the only time the average citizen new was when they suddenly were under attack from a purple space ship glassing them from above. They should have worked on improving the average soldiers gear and training instead of investing in the tiny amount of SPARTANs made.
Elites were originally designed with tails, but was removed later on. They also looked more like Xenomorphs in their earlier designs. So I think it might have some resemblance to aliens in some way. After all Bungie did say halo’s art style was inspired by the movie a little.
@@helljumperomega5151 the reason that humans aren't allowed in the covenant is this. It's not because one attacked the other. It's because they didn't let us use their glassing beams to make a dick
My favorite part of this is when he has that look of pure horror at 9:00. A lot of Elites seem to forget just how many humans they killed during the war. Nice to see at least one seeing the horrors he had wrought and reacting to them.
Halo 2 technically is one but I could see what you mean, maybe you want a game where you play as just a regular minor elite and fight the humans instead of the elites?
makes sense, most of space battles usually have a lot of UNSC ships against a small dozen covenant ships and it usually topples the covenants favor due to their superior technology and weaponry. For example Reach got literally destroyed and while Earth was also heavily defended most of their defense platforms weren't enough to hold back the entire covenant empire. If it weren't for the Sangheli rebellion, i think humanity would of just lost.
@@adventurethroughtime few millions if you are referring to Kholo in particular. IIRC, Reach the second largest (population wise) colony had a population of 700 million prior to its glassing
Did you know that the Sangheili wanted Humans to join the covenant, most probably to help them against the Jiralhanae, and that they helped Humans greatly by resisting the covenant for as long as they did, weakening the covenant -Random fact about Halo
Mr. Rainbow Sprinkles they attached the humans bc humans are meant to be the next to hold the mantle of responsibility. they knew if the elites found out then they'd lose power and the covenant empire would split. so they ordered the attack on the humans
I love this animated short so much. But the quote at 4:45 . "This world is dead because of me. And now I need this world to tell me how to live." He is a lost soul in the Galaxy after a terrible war. Something that deep down, I think we can all relate to at some point in our lives.
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor That's what happened: just a mass harvest of our worlds. Or it would've been, if we hadn't fought back. Some things are just worth fighting for. It might take you till the end to realize it, but you'll understand.
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor Give me a reason to keep talking to someone who is speaking like an online troll rather than an adult ready to have a conversation. That's a rarity online, but it has happened. But " what are you smoking ? " ( as if I smoke, though you haven't proven anything ) doesn't imply that
I imagine surviving UNSC troops on some of the glassed colonies resorted to guerrilla tactics against the Covenant. Most were on the ground, some were from escape pods plummeting into hell as their ships were breaking up in the terrible space battle above, but there were civilian fighters too including children. It was hot then it was cold, and difficult to breathe. Covenant guns and munitions were seized whenever possible due to ammo and weapon shortages. And it was not uncommon for battered UNSC vehicles to have Covenant armor plating and scavenged plasma cannons mounted on them. Especially on Warthogs to better protect the exposed sides, windshield, and engine block from enemy small arms fire. A Halcyon-class ship found that crash landed onto the great plains was a bonanza for the war effort with its armories, motor pools, and supplies raided and it was used as a base. As the war dragged on, they were like family, but with each one killed in action they had to quickly move on. The seriously wounded had the worst impact on morale, and some had to be killed out of mercy to ease their suffering. An explosive crystalline bolt from a Needler causes horrific wounds to the human torso. On the barren hill they put up a memorial to humanity. When they learned the war was over, there were small celebrations on some worlds and some raised a tattered flag but mainly it was relief. Relief that humanity survived, that they survived hell and could finally rest. Veterans collapsed in exhaustion and took off their helmets, revealing grimy faces that have not bathed for months, others cried for the Chief or at the sight of a small green sprout sticking up out of the charred earth.
The part where he finds a bunker of only skeletal remains including an adult holding a child makes me think of the white phosphorous scene from Spec Ops: The Line.
Dang dude and the most disturbing thing about the covenant the fact it was all a lie all the sacrifice all the dying all the pointless worship and all the fighting and all the unification of the races was all a lie
That elite at the beginning made me wonder....343 should quit the bullshit and let us duel wield Energy swords. Also, this is far fetched, but the elite narrating sounds like he's Jul 'Mdama. (The one from halo 4 Spartan Ops. )
+DexterousCobra He's not. The way the original story was written, you could tell he's not against humans. Also Jul's a Supreme Commander while this sangheili's a Shipmaster.
@@ItsButterBean1020This journey made the elites position in the war existential. 343 made them fanatical and therefore disposable By the time we're introduced to the Didact, the focal point of the story shifts to the human-forerunner war, which presents more scalability in the scheme of things We're no longer worried about whether the covenant will rise up to do bad, or whether the flood will continue to infect planets. The Didact wanted to hold the keys to deletion so far as specimens on the galactic scale. Chiefly humanity And humanity was indeed becoming meddlesome. Where the story goes now is anyone's guess
The Sangheili thought of the humans as worthy beings to join The Covenant (At first anyway). They were baffled when the Prophets refused to allow humans to join The Covenant. I'm pretty sure it isn't bullshit either, but I don't know for sure if this is true so PLEASE don't consider it true or untrue.
Michael Haynes maybe the prophets didn't allow them to join because they feared they would lose their power if the covenant found out the humans were to take the forerunners place?
Yes, the Sangheili wanted the human race to join the Covenant. They saw how brave and smart we are. However, the Prophets knew that the human’s were the chosen ones by the Precursors to take the Mantle. They didn’t want to lose any power to us. So they made the human race the Covenants enemies.
I would like that story element too but it turns out he feels bad for WHY he did it instead of THAT he did it. Just goes to show the savage nature that still is still being represented in this war-torn universe.
But he is still ashamed that he did it though, the elites questioned why they were exterminating the humans because they saw how bravely and honorably they fought, he is ashamed to exterminate for a lie
@@cowgod1945 Well yes because that's how elites were brought up, to be toughened and to train hard to become the very best warriors of their clan, zealously. Of course they would resort to such things. It's just their nature. They're a warrior race. They know not of true compassion.
seal shepherd no 8:50 he is bewildered by how many bodies, and explains how nobody wants to face the end of all they know alone(the people in the bunker), he then exclaims how he didn’t know nor did his men. Also the reason he did it along with the trillions of other covenant members was the promise of becoming one with divinity and transcendence from a doomed existence, that’s like if you were promised an unlimited supply of whatever you like or want. And after finding out all the slaughtering, the death, the agony was all for nothing just LIES, false/empty words that never were true in their nature.
@@m.v.a.l7669 @M.V.A.L My thinking hear is that he regrets what he has done. He is searching for him self and what he believes in. In truth Idk if he is sad by Human def. If anything he has a lot of regrets. From what we know and how the prophets acted. To me the story is sad. Thus I portray him as being sad. As for the ending bit I think he stills sees humans as disgusting. I mean that is all that he knows. Especially if it's for his own gain. He would rather see the human suffer than him self. But I also could be misinterpreting that. My evidence here is he only saves the human after he needs him. A murderer still can be sad but still keep on doing evil. Or have a sad story but still be the bad guy in the end. I would imagine that marines would shoot this Elite on sight even after the Elites freed them selves. So the feeling must be mutual. Also wow, 3 years ago that comment was. LMAO I defiantly would have explained that differently today.
Well, the Sanghili is Rtas Vadam from Halo 3. I like how he turns good. Also, he saved that human survivor from the jackals. this is only the start of Rtas being heroic :).
Elites have more character than humans. NOT INCLUDING GOD JOHNSON! And Badass chief. Not even mister arby. Just focusing on basic elites. Like this one.
Kinda of sucks man sgt johnson and the chief are the most interesting and developed human characters in the series but basically all the elite characters are interesting hell even jul mdama which is kinda sad lol All the new halo humans suck there way too emotional of completely emotionless like psychopaths trying there hardest too like normal humans and failing miserably.
Actually he's a bad guy for the Storm Covenant, in the beginning he sounds like and acts like a "good sangheili", but when he says "I will find a way to make you talk" and 2 banshees and a ship come towards him, he's talking about torture
relapsing into old war methods, remember that they are not above torture. but its most likely the the human from the camp will cooperate. they are research probably founded by ONI assets, but civies. he will take to take the diplomatic approach with their captors.
I see a bunch of comments here talking about how the elite commander regrets what he did, but I think a lot of you misunderstand why he regrets it. He isn’t filled with regret because he killed innocents, he’s filled with regret because for all his life, he believed he was serving the will of the gods, when in reality, he was only serving the will of the prophets. His eyes have been opened to the fact that he and his people were betrayed, but only that fact. The gods, the forerunners, still exist, and their will must be obeyed, but what do they want? Without the prophets, they are rudderless. How are they supposed to figure out what the gods want? So, you see, this is why he recoils at the sight of the dead humans, but implies that he will torture the injured human to figure out what they were doing there, and why they had the schematics of the Oracle. He doesn’t regret that he is directly responsible for multiple mass murders across many planets, he regrets that he, potentially, wasn’t fulfilling the will of the gods. I mean, if the gods decide that genociding humans was a bad thing, then he’ll agree with that. But if they think genociding humans was a good thing, then he’ll agree with that. He only cares about the will of the gods.
i think his regret goes deeper, and icthink he is filled with both, regret for genociding an enemy that wasnt really an enemy and not fulfilling the will of the prophets
Could you imagine a lost elite discovering a rouge squad of UNSC and trying to explain the great schism, that he is on their side. And the rest of the level you play as a high ranking elite fighting alongside the marines killing brutes! Fighting for the same cause but so much tension between the two! Would be sick, the dialogue would be insane
just in case anyone is interested, this takes place in 2559, after halo 5 guardians, at least in the short story, he says that the walls stand even after its glassing 20 years ago and Kholo was glassed in 2539
GawsHawg If I understand the lore correctly I think the monitors of the installations are the oracles and he doesn’t know about Mendicant Bias but yes that is him from what it looks like
Mendicant isn't an "Oracle" because the "Oracles" are monitors like Guilty Spark. Mendicant is an AI that was infected by the logic plague hundreds of thousands of years ago
The Shipmaster They can. Very easily. Atriox, being the only one to defy the Covenant and live. I'm sure the Covenant tried to attack the Banished but failed epically. Granted I don't remember how long the Banished have been an enemy of the Covenant or if it was a Prophet led Covenant or Jul M'Dama led Covenant.
Giovanny Morales I think a great majority of them regretted fighting humanity when the truth came out. They realize that they had slaughtered so many people for a cause that was based on a lie
@@redaug4212 not really. He might just be very calm and understanding. The Sangheili as a whole weren't very big on torturing human prisoners, as far as I know. That was a brute thing, really.
@@skyraider87 So when the elite said "I still remember how to make you Humans talk", what do you think he was going to do if not torture him? Please don't say tickle lol
@@redaug4212 dammit, I was going to say tickle! Maybe... Asking, not demanding answers? Try being civilized, not barbaric? Or maybe tickling, who knows? But he definitely seemed against hurting humans at that point. So no interrogations.
Always wanted a mass effect style Halo game set after the war. Running a round with your own crew mixed with humans and ex-covies. He would make a great member, an elite looking for meaning after losing his faith.
This needs to become a game where you play during the flashbacks attacking the humans and the narraration is during cutscenes and it could tell a really cool story
Ah. Back when Halo was about more than just the Spartans. Back when the writers actually considered how competent their audience actually was. Now they don’t believe ANY story will gain traction unless there’s a Spartan on the cover.
I always loved this short story and the animation adaption of it. Halo Evolutions was in general a brilliant collection of short stories that really helped expand the halo universe beyond the games and the (six or seven) novels and collection of comic series developed under the Bungie era of the Halo Franchise.In truth I wish 343 had used some of the Short stories as thier jumping point for the future of the series (when i say this not i mean the universe as a whole this meaning the books, comics, spin of tv shows and especially the games) The Return and The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole which both were set in a post UNSC/Covenant War focusing on both the possibility of future entanglements between UNSC and Covenant Forces not to mention possible insurrectionist forces.
ChiefAnator 117 Halo Fractures is by 343i and is just another book full of short stories like Evolutions. I believe even one of them deals with post-Guardians stuff.
I really wish 343 would cut the crap and give us a game where you play as an elite or brute or a prelate (a really bad ass prophet) during the war and give it a proper M rating
I remember watching this years and years ago on Halo Waypoint great video recommended to anyone who wants to learn more about Elite glassing lol and lor
This shipmaster still sees the Forerunners as gods, so he'd probably join Jul M'Dama's forces. They really did Jul dirty in halo 5. They just killed him off like nothing.
They definately neeed to make more videos like this about former Covenant soldiers that defected and joined the Separatists (later the Sword of Sanghelios) and allied with the UNSC. Former Covenant soldiers who express their regret and remorse for their actions after they realized that the Prophets were manipulating them with lies all those centuries, that is.
this makes me think of the fallout new vegas dlc lonesome road were the courier walks through a colony he/she destroys accidentally. tho here kolo was destroyed intentionally
Ah, the heyday and the foregone legacy of the Covenant, shown in one story in a nutshell.. beautiful yet also tragically poignant. Also, the very first visual depiction of the unhealed results of glassing and the rituals needed to enact them.
many seem to think he feels remorse that he feels sorry for the genocide comitted under his command instead he only feels shame for having folowed the prophets who betrayed him and his species and were never the messengers of his gods, gods which he still very much believes in his goal is to find something or someone that can reconnect him to those gods, to the forerunners he may in fact be the commander of those forces that submitted themselves to the didact in halo 4 and spartan ops
He's not part of the elites of Halo 4 - 5 There are a lot other factions that still believe in the forerruners without following the path of any kind of covenant. He felt regret for killing humans in a way without honor. For the sangheili killing the defendless is not their way. But a lot of sangheilis blindly thought about the humans as creatures with no sense of honor, inteligence, etc (unholy creatures, ironically like demons). So there was nothing bad about killing them with the "cleansing". Watching the corpses of the mother and the child made him see that humans truly have a lot of qualities that makes them worthy creaures. So he dishonored them and himself for killing them in that way. There's an elite with a similar case: Usze 'Taham. He was a skilled fighter and a responsible for killing a lot of humans, and now he's a diplomat within the UNSC and the Swords of sanghelios. Regardless of that, he says that he doesn't regret about killing humans because he always respected them as worthy foes and cosidered them formidable creauters, leaving his honor intact (He only fought as a foot soldier, he never did a cleansing). He's a diplomat because he wants prosperity along side the species that he considerates as equals to the sangheili. (Of course thanks to that he shared moments with some humans after the war. He appears in the book 'Hunters in the dark").
@Kristopher Prime Most of the sangheili see unworthy to kill other sentient creatures with advantage. That's what I meant; and like I said, most of them saw humanity as impure beings, not sentient.
its a real shame we never got a continuation of this in one form or another. could be interesting to see what could be done with this shipmaster and his crew.
What makes this even better is that the Shipmaster is voiced by Roger Cross, the same man who voiced Ulysses in Lonesome Road from Fallout New Vegas. He adds so much depth when narrating the reflection of ones mistakes and the folly of ones culture and how with the loss of a purpose, one struggles to find meaning in ones own action.
I KNEW I RECOGNIZED IT! I love him in NV, Ulysses is probably my favorite character in the game. He's absolutely fucking insane and I love him.
That means this is just the halo equivalent of Lonesome Road.
@@manuelcartagena8052 I NEVER KNEW THAT BEFORE!!!
The bear and the bull, the old world, the divide
Me and my friends were just looking this up
343 needs to make more vids from a covenant perspective
I'd like a game who's protagonist would be an elite.
*cough*Halo2*coughcough*
Cinzas Pt That's only for half the game , I meant a full game .
mad pariah I'd recommend reading either Halo: Broken Circle or Halo: Shadow of Intent. The first follows the rise and fall of the Covenant while the other follows what the Shipmaster from Halo 2 and 3 was up to after the Human-Covenant War.
+Max Kline Both of those books are awesome, you get a second recommendation.
The planet is a monument to his sins.
And it has listened through rock and medal and time now it shall talk and he shall listen
ONI, Section 3
I think “ONI Section 2” would better suit an account on social media
Fawkes. That is deep my friend
It is not his grave, but he is welcome in it...
Now I have talked, and now you will listen! Love you all homies of halo 2. My mother forgotten it one Christmas in the trunk of a car, happiest moment of my life to find halo 2 sitting there for me in 2005
The odd thing is, I love how he actually freaked out when he saw the pile of bodies
A lot of Sangheili actually really regretted the war. Namely the Swords of Sangheilios, and a few other factions/clans/states. I don't know who this one belongs to or leads, but they seem to support or are part of the swords of sangheilios.
@@skyraider87 I think he’s part of a clan who at least backs the swords. Most members of the swords have lost faith in the forerunners while this one clearly hasn’t, so I don’t think the arbiter would let him be so high ranking in the swords yet still believe in the false beliefs that enslaved their kind in the first place.
War is one thing. Genocide is another.
@@skyraider87 Its been a very long time sense i was big into the halo lore, but as i recall there were factions who came to respect the humans for the tenacity of their fighting spirit in the face of such overwhelming odds and wanted to incorporate humans into the covenant but were over ruled by the prophets for reasons they would not disclose. ( the discovery that Humans were the reclaimer species referred to in their 'sacred texts' and not the prophets)
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor There's a Show on Disney that has a quote that's relevant to this.
Nobody wants to find out they've been following the wrong leader
8:50 was a great scene we never get to see the reaction of the covenant towards the civilians they’ve killed but this really brings perspective.
There was a time they caught Marines at the barracks and they waited for them to get armor and weapons before shooting
@@rubenlopez3364 it was Thel's squad
I had goose bumps at this
thing is he wasnt even remorseful for the lives he killed
he was more remorseful about the fact he killed them for a false religion, hes looking for reason again
I doubt they cared that much, to be honest. Humanities' endgoal post-war should be destroying the remnant of the Covenant, including the Elites and Brutes.
If this story's taught me anything it's this.
There's a difference between following a blind belief and following your honor
And while the lines are blurred and concealed one thing is truly certain.
Belief can take you so far before it fades.
But honor. Honor is the only thing that will never fade.
Because if it does then you fade as well.
LORD EXTINCTION sorry for a super late response but this is too perfect, i want you know i screenshotted your comment and set it as my lock screen
That's deep
hunter Randolph ok
Honor is key to many things, including how your actions are defined
Depends honestly
It's nice to see an elite feeling remorse and guilt over the destruction he wrought in the name of false prophets.
but he then captured a human to torture him.
@@jhint5519 Did he? Was the story continued afterwards?
No, but this universe is dark like that. " I still know how to make humans talk " and you gotta remember this guy is a religious lunatic. Was happy to glass a planet for his religion. If he thought he could find a way to communicate with his gods again, and a single human had some answers for him, do you think he'd just ask nicely or torture him? It's why this story was written. It's supposed to make you think that he's full of remorse for what he did, but it turns out he's only remorseful about why he did it.
@@jhint5519 Oh shoot, that's actually a good analysis, the fact that he was remorseful for why he did it and not that he had done it in general was something I was thinking about but not realizing.
Shiftycharacter 1 the sangheili and all species who were in the covenant deserve to be wiped out
I felt like that Elite was about to drop a Jazz single at any second.
I'd listen to it.
@@donkeymanusa6364 the voice of half mandible is a singer
This reminds me of the Headhunters comic.
A wounded Elite chastises the Headhunters by saying they are assassins and don’t have true honor. The Headhunter replies:
“Says the alien shithead who invented active camo. Yeah, your ‘noble’. How ‘noble’ is glassing a planet from orbit?”
I think that’s a perfection summation for what this Elite is realizing
Love that dialogue. There's a difference between honor and belief.
I know it's a video game series, but it was a damn good fight those marines fought hard. It's sad to see honestly.
Yeah it burns deep inside to see them die but they were severely out gunned with no support...and this asshole elite doesn't even care about what he did only who he did it for...need a Spartan to rip his head off
Skull King did you not witness 8:50 ? Or when he exclaims “he didn’t know and this his men didn’t either”. ?? -_-
midgetydeath The ultimate cause of humans badly losing the war through the entirety of the war was the UNDC’s wartime policy as well as over reliance on “super soldiers”, (which was apart of their wartime policy). They didn’t even let the general public know that they were fighting a a group of alien species bent on genocide, the only time the average citizen new was when they suddenly were under attack from a purple space ship glassing them from above. They should have worked on improving the average soldiers gear and training instead of investing in the tiny amount of SPARTANs made.
@@skullking2247 except he would probably rip the Spartans head off he’s sorry for what he’s done
@@gabenewell3955 I doubt he could stand up to a III in SPI gear maybe a IV with his skill but against a II? Its no challenge
Its funny that this is set 6 years after the war and im watching this 6 years after the video was made
Lol yeah
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Take a shot every time an Elite drop kicks something in this one.
Helljumper425 Like getting kicked by a horse that's gonna stab the shit outta you a few seconds later
Helljumper425 Like getting kicked by a horse that's gonna stab the shit outta you a few seconds later
I’ve always wondered why the elites have legs like that
Elites were originally designed with tails, but was removed later on. They also looked more like Xenomorphs in their earlier designs. So I think it might have some resemblance to aliens in some way. After all Bungie did say halo’s art style was inspired by the movie a little.
@@spade3779 legs like that are stronger than human legs, hence wjy animals with legs like those can jump far and high
Dang, that voice is so good...
Captain Fox It's like if Morgan Freeman was an Elite
@@Dave_Chrome Mor'gann Freemanee.
Zanny is that you
That's roger cross, also the voice of Ulysses from fallout: nv
@@julianwhite5430 That's awesome!
"faith destroy them with faith, and plasma bombardment"
NotYour AverageGamer human extinction is 90% faith 10% plasma
If humans had done it, I have no doubt we would have glasses a dick onto a planet
Your comments are criminally underliked!
@@helljumperomega5151 the reason that humans aren't allowed in the covenant is this. It's not because one attacked the other. It's because they didn't let us use their glassing beams to make a dick
It’s like the “I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found” meme
My favorite part of this is when he has that look of pure horror at 9:00. A lot of Elites seem to forget just how many humans they killed during the war. Nice to see at least one seeing the horrors he had wrought and reacting to them.
see that's why we need a covenant/Elite Spin-off game !!!
Burhan Hodzic just play halo 2 😂
Burhan Hodzic like the arbiters story in halo 2, but more in depth than a couple missions
Adam Reyna I would agree with your comment but there would be more continuation of him from halo 3-5
Halo 2 technically is one but I could see what you mean, maybe you want a game where you play as just a regular minor elite and fight the humans instead of the elites?
@@akush42069 spin off game. Not half of a main game. It's like saying "if you want to play as a marine just play ODST"
And this is just one lil fleet out if the entire Covenant Empire. And one of the hundreds of human worlds destroyed.
And just a few billion of the lives lost.
adventurethroughtime LOL
makes sense, most of space battles usually have a lot of UNSC ships against a small dozen covenant ships and it usually topples the covenants favor due to their superior technology and weaponry. For example Reach got literally destroyed and while Earth was also heavily defended most of their defense platforms weren't enough to hold back the entire covenant empire. If it weren't for the Sangheli rebellion, i think humanity would of just lost.
Hakuru15 Teach wasn’t literally destroyed only the population centers.
@@adventurethroughtime few millions if you are referring to Kholo in particular. IIRC, Reach the second largest (population wise) colony had a population of 700 million prior to its glassing
Did you know that the Sangheili wanted Humans to join the covenant, most probably to help them against the Jiralhanae, and that they helped Humans greatly by resisting the covenant for as long as they did, weakening the covenant
-Random fact about Halo
Zack Riley Makes a lot of sense, dude, thanks.
True
Yup a few (or one) of the Prophets found out what Halo was for and so to not lose power they kept it a secret.
Mr. Rainbow Sprinkles they attached the humans bc humans are meant to be the next to hold the mantle of responsibility. they knew if the elites found out then they'd lose power and the covenant empire would split. so they ordered the attack on the humans
and in the end because of that little fact especially the betrayal is what got Truth killed poetic justice if you ask me
I love this animated short so much. But the quote at 4:45 . "This world is dead because of me. And now I need this world to tell me how to live." He is a lost soul in the Galaxy after a terrible war. Something that deep down, I think we can all relate to at some point in our lives.
It was a harvest
@@Chino56751 what?
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor That's what happened: just a mass harvest of our worlds. Or it would've been, if we hadn't fought back.
Some things are just worth fighting for. It might take you till the end to realize it, but you'll understand.
@@Chino56751 I understand, but I have to ask, wtf are you smoking?
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor Give me a reason to keep talking to someone who is speaking like an online troll rather than an adult ready to have a conversation. That's a rarity online, but it has happened. But " what are you smoking ? " ( as if I smoke, though you haven't proven anything ) doesn't imply that
I imagine surviving UNSC troops on some of the glassed colonies resorted to guerrilla tactics against the Covenant. Most were on the ground, some were from escape pods plummeting into hell as their ships were breaking up in the terrible space battle above, but there were civilian fighters too including children. It was hot then it was cold, and difficult to breathe. Covenant guns and munitions were seized whenever possible due to ammo and weapon shortages. And it was not uncommon for battered UNSC vehicles to have Covenant armor plating and scavenged plasma cannons mounted on them. Especially on Warthogs to better protect the exposed sides, windshield, and engine block from enemy small arms fire. A Halcyon-class ship found that crash landed onto the great plains was a bonanza for the war effort with its armories, motor pools, and supplies raided and it was used as a base. As the war dragged on, they were like family, but with each one killed in action they had to quickly move on. The seriously wounded had the worst impact on morale, and some had to be killed out of mercy to ease their suffering. An explosive crystalline bolt from a Needler causes horrific wounds to the human torso. On the barren hill they put up a memorial to humanity. When they learned the war was over, there were small celebrations on some worlds and some raised a tattered flag but mainly it was relief. Relief that humanity survived, that they survived hell and could finally rest. Veterans collapsed in exhaustion and took off their helmets, revealing grimy faces that have not bathed for months, others cried for the Chief or at the sight of a small green sprout sticking up out of the charred earth.
The way he looked at the corpses in the bunker really shows how much the elites regretted blindly following the prophets
The part where he finds a bunker of only skeletal remains including an adult holding a child makes me think of the white phosphorous scene from Spec Ops: The Line.
Same
*In shipmaster's dank ass black guy accent*
"It was then I realized. Dang. I could have landed my ship closer to the gawd dayum smoke"
Clive LFRC "but it knew if I loaded all the elite to travel 57 (miles?) They would think me a fool. And in my church shoes, I pressed forth."
The part at 16:00 ? I hit it at that perfect timing
We seriously need MORE OF THESE!!!
Dang dude and the most disturbing thing about the covenant the fact it was all a lie all the sacrifice all the dying all the pointless worship and all the fighting and all the unification of the races was all a lie
Skyler Mudge the fact that there are people people like that irl is scary as well
Guilty spark stated that the San'Shyuum where known deceivers before the first firing of the rings.
The creator of this clearly loved lonesome Road.
jack cordiner The original source was written in 2008
Yeah this gives hella New Vegas vibes.
@@boochie-yj7un Well the voice of the Elite also voiced Ulysses in Lonesome Road.
War..... war never changes
yes it does
: nuke s and plazma bombardment
Fallout and that hole 'war...war never changes' it really takes about the basics of war
It was more of a harvest
10:46 mark made me laugh, those honour guards are just the cut and past image from the halo 2 guide XD
I think its because its the only image of them defending a Prophets chamber
Yeah I noticed that too
That elite at the beginning made me wonder....343 should quit the bullshit and let us duel wield Energy swords. Also, this is far fetched, but the elite narrating sounds like he's Jul 'Mdama. (The one from halo 4 Spartan Ops. )
+DexterousCobra He's not. The way the original story was written, you could tell he's not against humans. Also Jul's a Supreme Commander while this sangheili's a Shipmaster.
+DMC4EVERUCCI so this is the arbiters brother
DMC4EVERUCCI Supreme Commander... but truly Leader of ye dead covy.
Go read the Kilo-Five trilogy i you're interested in knowing more about Jul 'Mdama
But uhhhhh this a halo 3 design elite not a halo 4 one
The scene were he sees all the dead civilians is really powerful and I thought it made him more human
more sangheili u mean ;)
@@el_chico1313 u right u right!
they need to make more episodes following this guy would love to see his story continue
I’d love to see whether he found more in his search for inspiration
@@ItsButterBean1020This journey made the elites position in the war existential. 343 made them fanatical and therefore disposable
By the time we're introduced to the Didact, the focal point of the story shifts to the human-forerunner war, which presents more scalability in the scheme of things
We're no longer worried about whether the covenant will rise up to do bad, or whether the flood will continue to infect planets. The Didact wanted to hold the keys to deletion so far as specimens on the galactic scale. Chiefly humanity
And humanity was indeed becoming meddlesome. Where the story goes now is anyone's guess
If Morgan Freeman fought for the Covenant
Your Nan ha
don't ever dephile or compare the voices of the Elites to something so overrated
Mor'gaan Freemann
Sounds nothing like Morgan Freeman
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s what I was thinking lmao
The Sangheili thought of the humans as worthy beings to join The Covenant (At first anyway). They were baffled when the Prophets refused to allow humans to join The Covenant. I'm pretty sure it isn't bullshit either, but I don't know for sure if this is true so PLEASE don't consider it true or untrue.
Michael Haynes both species also kinda respect/feared eachother tho
Michael Haynes maybe the prophets didn't allow them to join because they feared they would lose their power if the covenant found out the humans were to take the forerunners place?
Michael Haynes Tge prophets wanted tge humans to be destroyed because of the ancient human-forerunner war
Yes, the Sangheili wanted the human race to join the Covenant. They saw how brave and smart we are. However, the Prophets knew that the human’s were the chosen ones by the Precursors to take the Mantle. They didn’t want to lose any power to us. So they made the human race the Covenants enemies.
Michael Haynes first contact, right?
I like how he feels bad for killing all those people
I would like that story element too but it turns out he feels bad for WHY he did it instead of THAT he did it. Just goes to show the savage nature that still is still being represented in this war-torn universe.
But he is still ashamed that he did it though, the elites questioned why they were exterminating the humans because they saw how bravely and honorably they fought, he is ashamed to exterminate for a lie
Then he proceeds to admit to his plan to torture the only human survivor for information
@@cowgod1945 Well yes because that's how elites were brought up, to be toughened and to train hard to become the very best warriors of their clan, zealously. Of course they would resort to such things. It's just their nature. They're a warrior race. They know not of true compassion.
seal shepherd no 8:50 he is bewildered by how many bodies, and explains how nobody wants to face the end of all they know alone(the people in the bunker), he then exclaims how he didn’t know nor did his men. Also the reason he did it along with the trillions of other covenant members was the promise of becoming one with divinity and transcendence from a doomed existence, that’s like if you were promised an unlimited supply of whatever you like or want. And after finding out all the slaughtering, the death, the agony was all for nothing just LIES, false/empty words that never were true in their nature.
This story makes me tear up every time I watch it. The Sangheili is so sad. I hope he see this guy in a game someday :(
Dude he isn't sad. He is sad why he did it. At the end he is literally going to torture the lone survivor at the end
@@m.v.a.l7669 @M.V.A.L My thinking hear is that he regrets what he has done. He is searching for him self and what he believes in. In truth Idk if he is sad by Human def. If anything he has a lot of regrets. From what we know and how the prophets acted. To me the story is sad. Thus I portray him as being sad.
As for the ending bit I think he stills sees humans as disgusting. I mean that is all that he knows. Especially if it's for his own gain. He would rather see the human suffer than him self. But I also could be misinterpreting that. My evidence here is he only saves the human after he needs him. A murderer still can be sad but still keep on doing evil. Or have a sad story but still be the bad guy in the end. I would imagine that marines would shoot this Elite on sight even after the Elites freed them selves. So the feeling must be mutual.
Also wow, 3 years ago that comment was. LMAO I defiantly would have explained that differently today.
Well, the Sanghili is Rtas Vadam from Halo 3. I like how he turns good. Also, he saved that human survivor from the jackals. this is only the start of Rtas being heroic :).
@@roseradke7212 Is that really true? I always assumed this was a different Elite commander. My bad if miss understood who was being portrayed.
Elites have more character than humans.
NOT INCLUDING GOD JOHNSON!
And Badass chief.
Not even mister arby.
Just focusing on basic elites.
Like this one.
Well... I mean if you call a ship master basic... sure lol.
Kinda of sucks man sgt johnson and the chief are the most interesting and developed human characters in the series but basically all the elite characters are interesting hell even jul mdama which is kinda sad lol
All the new halo humans suck there way too emotional of completely emotionless like psychopaths trying there hardest too like normal humans and failing miserably.
I want to see an adaptation of the ODST story in Halo Evolutions. I liked that story the best.
There is a comic called helljumpers
Dirt. My fav halo story
same
The Henry David Thoreau of the Covenant.
Straight up didn’t think I’d get so many likes. Thanks, homes!
Tomato Llama nah there's already an elite named Henry
11:30 11:33 Jeff Sweitzer.
Brutes with Energy Swords? I've never seen that before.
Thomson Nguyen I guess they just wielded those when they killed elites
They probably sometimes do, but most likely brutes are more smashy smashy than stabby stabby because of their nickname
I’m willing to bet there was an entire clan of brutes that specifically only used energy swords
There were meant to be energy sword wielding Brutes in Halo 3 but it got cut.
I want to see how this continues, it's a amazing story
You and me both Brother.
Yeah!!
Damn....wanted this guy in Halo 4 than Jul M dama.
Maybe in Halo5 as a friend from the arbiter?
Actually he's a bad guy for the Storm Covenant, in the beginning he sounds like and acts like a "good sangheili", but when he says "I will find a way to make you talk" and 2 banshees and a ship come towards him, he's talking about torture
relapsing into old war methods, remember that they are not above torture. but its most likely the the human from the camp will cooperate. they are research probably founded by ONI assets, but civies. he will take to take the diplomatic approach with their captors.
come on. It dont will make anything bad. Its in a travel for redemption, i dont think he will torture. Their fleet was going to help him
It's not redemption, he's looking for what to do next.
I see a bunch of comments here talking about how the elite commander regrets what he did, but I think a lot of you misunderstand why he regrets it. He isn’t filled with regret because he killed innocents, he’s filled with regret because for all his life, he believed he was serving the will of the gods, when in reality, he was only serving the will of the prophets. His eyes have been opened to the fact that he and his people were betrayed, but only that fact. The gods, the forerunners, still exist, and their will must be obeyed, but what do they want? Without the prophets, they are rudderless. How are they supposed to figure out what the gods want? So, you see, this is why he recoils at the sight of the dead humans, but implies that he will torture the injured human to figure out what they were doing there, and why they had the schematics of the Oracle.
He doesn’t regret that he is directly responsible for multiple mass murders across many planets, he regrets that he, potentially, wasn’t fulfilling the will of the gods.
I mean, if the gods decide that genociding humans was a bad thing, then he’ll agree with that. But if they think genociding humans was a good thing, then he’ll agree with that. He only cares about the will of the gods.
He has a whole thing about this world being dead because of him.
He can feel both things
i think his regret goes deeper, and icthink he is filled with both, regret for genociding an enemy that wasnt really an enemy and not fulfilling the will of the prophets
Could you imagine a lost elite discovering a rouge squad of UNSC and trying to explain the great schism, that he is on their side. And the rest of the level you play as a high ranking elite fighting alongside the marines killing brutes! Fighting for the same cause but so much tension between the two! Would be sick, the dialogue would be insane
Nah, I think he'd probably just kill them honestly.
This is definitely my favorite adaptation of the short stories that they did.
just in case anyone is interested, this takes place in 2559, after halo 5 guardians, at least in the short story, he says that the walls stand even after its glassing 20 years ago and Kholo was glassed in 2539
I loved the dark feeling of the Human covenant war in this Short.
man i love the shipmaster's voice....its so deep ,revering and commanding
18:57
Could the forunner Oracle he talks about be Mendicant Bias? The paper in his right hand even has a picture that resembals him.
GawsHawg If I understand the lore correctly I think the monitors of the installations are the oracles and he doesn’t know about Mendicant Bias but yes that is him from what it looks like
Most powerful ancillas look like that. Mendicant is still on the Ark if I remember rightly, if he's even still functioning.
I’m pretty sure it’s just a monitor..
Most forerunner Ali’s had the same frame as Mendicant..
Mendicant isn't an "Oracle" because the "Oracles" are monitors like Guilty Spark. Mendicant is an AI that was infected by the logic plague hundreds of thousands of years ago
No, its exuberant witness, that camp was probably infinity running from the guardians
so crazy that the only enemy that the Covenant couldn't kill was the banished
The Shipmaster I heard the banished would destroy the covenant
The Shipmaster They can. Very easily. Atriox, being the only one to defy the Covenant and live. I'm sure the Covenant tried to attack the Banished but failed epically. Granted I don't remember how long the Banished have been an enemy of the Covenant or if it was a Prophet led Covenant or Jul M'Dama led Covenant.
MatthiusVanOfSalt so they tried to destroy them but not that bad like humanity right
The Shipmaster Well, to clear up any confusion, I meant the Banished could destroy the Covenant easily lol
MatthiusVanOfSalt damn
Half expected him to start talking about bulls and bears and walls
Bear Bull Bull Bull Bull Bear
I think he was the few elites to ever regret killing humans
Giovanny Morales I think a great majority of them regretted fighting humanity when the truth came out. They realize that they had slaughtered so many people for a cause that was based on a lie
Even then it seems more like he only regretted killing Humans for the prophets. At the end he more or less admits "yea, I'm gonna torture this Human".
@@redaug4212 not really. He might just be very calm and understanding. The Sangheili as a whole weren't very big on torturing human prisoners, as far as I know. That was a brute thing, really.
@@skyraider87 So when the elite said "I still remember how to make you Humans talk", what do you think he was going to do if not torture him? Please don't say tickle lol
@@redaug4212 dammit, I was going to say tickle! Maybe... Asking, not demanding answers? Try being civilized, not barbaric? Or maybe tickling, who knows? But he definitely seemed against hurting humans at that point. So no interrogations.
One of those stories with an un resloved ending i want more of this elites adventure
The shipmasters voice fits
I'm loving these Evolutions films!
They need to make a part 2 to this.
Always wanted a mass effect style Halo game set after the war. Running a round with your own crew mixed with humans and ex-covies. He would make a great member, an elite looking for meaning after losing his faith.
is it just me or dus this reminds me a lot of fallout NV longsome road
thats exactly what i was thinking haha
Modded fallout NV anyone?
Henry Badger
all about dat modded NV
AverageWohl JUst started playing New Vegas. Guess I'll have to find out
JITCY9107
you are gong to love it!
This needs to become a game where you play during the flashbacks attacking the humans and the narraration is during cutscenes and it could tell a really cool story
Ah. Back when Halo was about more than just the Spartans. Back when the writers actually considered how competent their audience actually was. Now they don’t believe ANY story will gain traction unless there’s a Spartan on the cover.
War is even fought between different species
It shall never change for all species were born for war
War war never chage
Need more stories like this. Of the Covenants Humanity, as backwards as that is.
Boy am I late to the party but I'm sure glad I found this. Covenant perspective is one of my main reasons for loving H2 and the books so dearly
Just found this after looking for like a week, I loved this short film then, and I still love it now.
I always loved this short story and the animation adaption of it. Halo Evolutions was in general a brilliant collection of short stories that really helped expand the halo universe beyond the games and the (six or seven) novels and collection of comic series developed under the Bungie era of the Halo Franchise.In truth I wish 343 had used some of the Short stories as thier jumping point for the future of the series (when i say this not i mean the universe as a whole this meaning the books, comics, spin of tv shows and especially the games) The Return and The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole which both were set in a post UNSC/Covenant War focusing on both the possibility of future entanglements between UNSC and Covenant Forces not to mention possible insurrectionist forces.
ChiefAnator 117 Halo Fractures is by 343i and is just another book full of short stories like Evolutions. I believe even one of them deals with post-Guardians stuff.
I really wish 343 would cut the crap and give us a game where you play as an elite or brute or a prelate (a really bad ass prophet) during the war and give it a proper M rating
The beginning of the video is what i feel like when I win a game of invasion as elites
I remember watching this years and years ago on Halo Waypoint great video recommended to anyone who wants to learn more about Elite glassing lol and lor
The prophets tasked me with it's ritual destruction. (Chanting lady)YAI-AAII-YAAAY!!!!!!! YAY!!!!
"It is time for me to speak to them myself."
wait till he realizes he's been doing it all this time, every time he's interrogated a human.
I want MMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!
Thank you for uploading!
This shipmaster still sees the Forerunners as gods, so he'd probably join Jul M'Dama's forces.
They really did Jul dirty in halo 5.
They just killed him off like nothing.
Yeah I wish Jul got more in Halo 5
I love how they got the actor that plays Kratos from God of War 4 & God of War: Ragnarok
His name is Christopher Judge
i really wish that 343 would decide what they want the Kig Yar to look like, and then-- for gods sake--stick with it.
There's like three subspecies. The ruuhtians are the ones with the skinny faces. The ones with the huge underbites are Ibie'shans.
@@superscaryguy01 And the feathered ones, although probably more identifiable hence the omission, t'vaoans.
The ones we see here, ruuhtians.
I want more please!
Fasho, seems like everyone wants to see more of these. I'll record and upload another one tomorrow!
awesome thank you man
They definately neeed to make more videos like this about former Covenant soldiers that defected and joined the Separatists (later the Sword of Sanghelios) and allied with the UNSC.
Former Covenant soldiers who express their regret and remorse for their actions after they realized that the Prophets were manipulating them with lies all those centuries, that is.
i wish there were more
For YEARS I had the "Mhh.. jackals" living rent free in my head and I could never figure out what it was from. Today I found it again.
These are the kind of stories i want new halo games to tell
8:49 how’s-it feel to see your sins first hand, and know it was all for nothing?
They NEED to make an animated halo series. I'd follow this particular elite he's so cool
Indeed no more live action. This is the way
@@m.v.a.l7669 indeed, this is the way
They really should make a book about what happens next.
+Indigo Julze Or they could adapt it into an all elite game... like ODST.
LeftwardGlobe16 id love that
this makes me think of the fallout new vegas dlc lonesome road were the courier walks through a colony he/she destroys accidentally. tho here kolo was destroyed intentionally
I swear he sounds like Ulysses from Fallout
New Vegas
God I love the music for this
Ah, the heyday and the foregone legacy of the Covenant, shown in one story in a nutshell.. beautiful yet also tragically poignant. Also, the very first visual depiction of the unhealed results of glassing and the rituals needed to enact them.
I fucking love the elite’s voice
Way better than the halo show
Why the heck is this elite not a poet like this for example” This planet is dead because of me but now I need to tell me how to live “
It's a society of warrior poets.
someone call spielberg, this needs to be a movie
i do love seeing the parts of halo that arent all rock guitars and badass
Kholo didn't stand a chance.
6:20 That is just terrifying.
I know for certain that's the voice of Ulysses from Fallout New Vegas. It's perfect for voicing a Sangheili.
Makes you think if other elite commanders or even some brute ones felt this after the war ended.
I want a p2 so bad
many seem to think he feels remorse
that he feels sorry for the genocide comitted under his command
instead he only feels shame for having folowed the prophets who betrayed him and his species and were never the messengers of his gods, gods which he still very much believes in
his goal is to find something or someone that can reconnect him to those gods, to the forerunners
he may in fact be the commander of those forces that submitted themselves to the didact in halo 4 and spartan ops
He's not part of the elites of Halo 4 - 5 There are a lot other factions that still believe in the forerruners without following the path of any kind of covenant.
He felt regret for killing humans in a way without honor. For the sangheili killing the defendless is not their way. But a lot of sangheilis blindly thought about the humans as creatures with no sense of honor, inteligence, etc (unholy creatures, ironically like demons). So there was nothing bad about killing them with the "cleansing". Watching the corpses of the mother and the child made him see that humans truly have a lot of qualities that makes them worthy creaures. So he dishonored them and himself for killing them in that way.
There's an elite with a similar case: Usze 'Taham. He was a skilled fighter and a responsible for killing a lot of humans, and now he's a diplomat within the UNSC and the Swords of sanghelios. Regardless of that, he says that he doesn't regret about killing humans because he always respected them as worthy foes and cosidered them formidable creauters, leaving his honor intact (He only fought as a foot soldier, he never did a cleansing).
He's a diplomat because he wants prosperity along side the species that he considerates as equals to the sangheili. (Of course thanks to that he shared moments with some humans after the war. He appears in the book 'Hunters in the dark").
@@reptahv1954 wasn't that elite diplomat also one of the elites you play as in coop halo 3?
@@lordreiman8352 Yeah, the red /crimson one actually.
@Kristopher Prime Most of the sangheili see unworthy to kill other sentient creatures with advantage. That's what I meant; and like I said, most of them saw humanity as impure beings, not sentient.
I hope Halo can return to this
its a real shame we never got a continuation of this in one form or another. could be interesting to see what could be done with this shipmaster and his crew.
Is voice is so soothing no cap
9:10 That face expression though...
Gives me Mona Lisa flashbacks