Marius

Marius was one of the two Chieftains who not only helped set up, but then also Co-Ruled the Jiralhanae Republic, along with his Brother, Gauius.

Early Life
Marius was born of the same litter as his future Co-Ruler Gauius, on the Brute home-world of Doisac. Marius was brought up within the ranks of the fleetling Covenant Loyalists, and Marius loyally looked up to the Brute warriors of old, taking a keen interest of the pre-Covenant Brutes, as his Brother Gauius explained to him the many falseties of the Great Journey. Marius would watch Gauius be bludgeoned by his Father, a stout believer in the Journey, who claimed the the Idealology no longer mattered, but that thousands of his bretheren died for it, and he wouldn't let it be so easily forgoten. Marius often felt sorry for his Brother, but also felt conflicted, still looking up to his Father, and wanting to be a warrior for the Jiralhanae race, thus though Marius tried to comfort Gauius, he also often left him isolated as the trained vigourously at Combat Training.

Marius was not only a brilliant combattent, but also a promising strategist, at one point for his teachers amusement, taking on the rest of his class in training, and winning, after great hesitation in taking down his siblings that also occupied the class. Academically Marius excelled, at a level on parr with his brother Gauius, though their achievements went unnoticed, not only by peers, but also from their father, thus Marius grew to deem academic studies worthless for his journey as a soldier, though none the less encouraged Gauius, in an effort to stop him from attempting suicide again.

Amongst the War Pack
Marius, like the majority of Brutes, was forced into the army by his parents, along with his other siblings. His first skirmish was the capture of a United Sangheli Republic Cargo ship, something that went smoothly, with no casualties, bar the ships crew, the majority of which Marius killed single-handedly, after cornering them.

Marius continued to excell in the many skirmishes he was thrown into, eventualy his abilities becoame not only highly noted, but also highly regarded by his speriors for his bravery and skill. Marius was made a chieftain, with much of his original team from combat Training still under him, including his brother Gauius, who he made his body-gaurd.

In one skirmish, Marius saved his brothers life, by pulling him out of the way of a vollley of plasma, Gauius is believed to have snapped after this incident, his allready lacking self-confidence becoming completely crippled, Gauius screamed at him to stop his charity and that he wasn't worth Marius risking himself, before running straight on into the Elites gaurding the ship, and being gunned down before he was within distance to swing his hammer. Marius watched his brother fall, and it left him unable to properly function mentally for the rest of the battle, leading to the Brutes failure, and withdrawel.

After this, Marius went back to Doisac, where he consulted his Father, who took no remorse at the news of his sons death, something that shocked Marius. Marius returned to the front-lines, now emotionally distraught, by both his loss of Gauius and his loss of respect for his Father. During the Boarding of a Voren ship, Marius found himself in combat with several Vanguards, one of them being a pre-Magistrate Crassus Liberi. The Vanguards quickly defeated the small group of Brutes and Grunts, with Crassus defeating Marius in single-combat. Crassus kept Marius and the Brutes prisoner, injecting them with several substances before explaining to them the many follies of the Loyalists, giving an indepth presentation on their many failures, against humans, not even being able to take on one "demon", and even just the foly of their systems as a whole. This Process was similar to what was used on Voren Prisoners in an attempt to rid them of Criminal behaviour, and it acted similarily on Marius. Thus Crassus released the Brutes back to their homeworld.

Upon Marius's return he joined an under-ground governmental group, the seekers seeking to overthrow the Loyalists with a solely Jiralhanae republic. Marius did several tasks for both them, diverting supplies to colonies, giving false information on the locations ofresources to authorities, all the while, whilst also keeping up the guise of a loyal Chieftain, continueing to raid Cargo ships, and even participating in one of the Loya;ists few last Major Battles.

The leader of Seekrs, Kipokulus, grew favourable of Marius, seeing him as a worthy comrade, not only because he successfully pulled off so many of the groups activities, but also becase he could provide them with information on the Loyalist agenda, thanks to his high status. His trust would soon be betrayed however, as Marius secretly turned on the Group, leaving obvious information for one of his underlings to discover, pointing to Kipokulus being responsible for all the Seekers activities, thus Marius personally killed him, feigning to the other members that he did this solely to stp Kipokulus from speaking out against any of them. Thus Marius became the new leader of the Seekers.

Return of Gauius
Not son after this, Gauius flew to Doisac aboard a Prison shio, full of Brutes though lost, loyal to him. Gauius had survived the Skirmish years prior, and had been taken prisoner and became leader of a gang, that had rioted and taken control of their vessel. Upon his return, Gauius was heavily rewarded and praised by the Loyalists, being deemed a hero, though Marius took him aside, revealing the Seekers to his brother, who immediatly joined. Marius also lied to his brother, claiming their father to be dead, believing that a confrontation with his Father, could lead to Guaius finally succeding in a suicide attempt, thus Marius confronted his Father himself, and killed him, placing him so as to have it look as though he'd slipped in a public bathroom.

With Gauius by his side and still gaining popularity, so did Marius, and the Seekers gained many more members thanks to subtle publicity. The organisation continued to disrupt Loyalist society, making it seem in the eyes of many to be faultering, especialy when compared to the many other civilsations around them. Thus feeling timing right, Marius declared the Jiralhanae republic, and with consultation with his now friend, Crassus, he succeeded in seizing Doisac, then after further deliberation with the United Sangheli Republic, the entire Doisac system was taken over and transferred to the new Republic. Marius tried to make himself the Chieftain of the entire new Brute society, however he found himself lacking of popularity, as many of the Brutes joined under Gauius's influence, thus Marius came up with a new system of Rule, by which two Chieftains would seem to co-exist, side by side, stating that therefore if one chieftain died, the system wouldn't collapse, as had happened with Tartarus, decades ago.

Though the system seemed fair, and Gauius agreed to it, Marius ensured that Gauius's self-confidence remained lacking, so that Marius himself could appear to be ruling fairly, with Gauius agreeing with everything he put forth, though in reality Gauius was so helplessly depressed he would have gone along with anything.

From here Gauius became Marius's puppet, acting as the Public figure of the two, keeping his image, and his Brothers image popular with the people, and Gauius did very little as Marius built up the Republic new around him.