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Continuing this series of fanmade dossiers explaining the ins and outs of Halo 4, today we look at Jul 'Mdama.
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Dossier: RE: Jul 'Mdama
Overview
After the collapse of the Covenant, the Sangheili have tried to establish their own leadership to replace the void left after the betrayal of the Prophets. The Arbiter, Thel 'Vadam, the Arbiter, has wielded the most influence on Sangheili society. Another contender is Avu Med 'Telcam, head monk of the Servants of Abiding Truth religious cult. His Servants have committed acts of religious terror towards those who reject the Forerunners and their relics as holy and led a short-led civil war against the Arbiter. However, one Elite may end up wielding the most influence with the Sangheili in the post-war world, his name is Jul 'Mdama.
Human-Covenant War
During the Human-Covenant War, Jul 'Mdama was a Shipmaster. It is unknown what the name of his vessel was as it was lost during the war or broke down beyond repair after the war.
Post War Life on Sanghelios
After the war, Jul 'Mdama was the Elder of Bekan Keep in the rural state of 'Mdama. He lived with his wife Raia and their children, though neither they nor he was allowed to truly know the other. Jul spent his day worried about what he saw as inevitable human retribution creeping on the horizon and that the Arbiter was in the hands of the human enemy. 'Mdama accused the Arbiter as such during a meeting of Kaidon’s, or leaders, held by the Arbiter. With the ideological difference between the two, Jul 'Mdama planned to assassinate the Arbiter. However, he had no army or resources to do so. The Servants of Abiding Truth provided all of those things 'Mdama needed.
Jul sought out Avu Med 'Telcam in an attempt to use his growing army of religious zealots for use against humanity once the Arbiter was overthrown. However, Jul was surprised by 'Telcam’s ability to procure so many weapons and tracked the monk to a desolte world where he was shcoked to find the supplier: the human Office of Naval Intelligence. ONI planned to destabilize the Sangheili through a long civil war that would weaken their manpower and destroy what little ships they had left. Jul would’ve leaked this information had he not been captured by the ONI black ops team Kilo-Five and held prisoner. After his arrest, Jul was taken to ONI Research Station Trevelyan, formerly Onyx.
Imprisonment on Trevelyan
While a prisoner of ONI on Trevelyan, Jul was interrogated by Dr. Irena Magnusson. Magnusson also used Jul as a Sangheili guinea pig for a test of poisonous grain native to Sanghelios resulting in him becoming gravely ill. He recovered and was allowed to take walks around Trevelyan while wearing an explosive vest. He was accompanied by a Huragok who survived from the Forerunner Empire’s era named Prone to Drift and was shown Forerunner artifacts. Jul would eventually find a hidden maintenance portal that led to a passageway lined with more portals that would’ve been used by the Forerunners to enter their Shield Worlds from all over the galaxy.
Over time, Jul would find glyphs corresponding to a Forerunner named the Didact, a being according to Prone to Drift who hated humanity. The Didact was hidden away on a world called Requiem, a fact that inspired him to continue his efforts to escape.
Escape
One day, Jul used the explosive vest as a way to force Prone to Drift to remove his vest or face the destruction of Forerunner technology. Jul leapt through a still functioning portal and found himself on a Sangheili colony world called Husduros. On Husduros, the Sangheili there were unaware of the Human-Covenant War’s end. He would reveal its end, but continued to talk about the threat of humanity and the Didact on Requiem. Sadly, when Jul was able to get into contact with his keep, he learned that the Arbiter was still in power and that his wife had died when the UNSC had intervened on the civil war led by 'Telcam.
His rage now justified and personal in his eyes, Jul rallied the colonists and embarked towards Requiem to awake the Didact and claim his vengeance on humanity.
Conclusion
Jul 'Mdama brings a personal fight and motivation to the table as he and his Storm Covenant wage war against humanity on Requiem. The Master Chief has a true nemesis on his hands.
//End Transmission