User:Captain Tyrant/Ktar Ulum

Ktar Ulum joined Mvas Halum after the fall of the covenant. He has a slightly deluded sense that he thinks he is better than he really is. He is a powerful swordsman and an excellent marksman.

=Biography=

Early Life
Born after the fall of the covenant, Ulum did not have to worry about the deluded prophets or the war against humanity. Being a Sangheili he still trained for combat at an early age. He was skilled but ambitious, and it shown even during his early years.

He was offered power if he leaked some information about his commanding officer to a lower ranking officer. Ulum, seeing this as an opportunity to gain some ground within the military helped the lesser officer. Ulum gave away some secret information that the officer did not need to know, and the higher officer was sacked. The lesser officer promoted Ulum as a reward for his actions.

When Rtas Vadum refused to have Ulum in his fleet Ulum was outraged and sought revenge on the famous shipmaster. Mvas Halum, another veteran from the covenant war, caught him trying to sabotage the Shadow of Intent. Ulum managed to avoid getting caught, and Halum couldn't prove Ulum was doing anything so Ulum got off free, or so he thought. He was placed, to his dismay, under the command of Shipmaster Mvas Halum.

Halum
Ulum boarded the Truth of Lies only to be greeted by Halum's sword. "Take one step out of line and it will be the last step you ever take.  Understood?" Ulum understood. Understood that Halum was now, or at least in Ulum's eyes, an enemy that was to be destroyed later on.

Ulum discovered that he was not the only one that despised Halum, there were many on the ship who hated him, and were placed on the ship just to be watched by Halum. Ulum soon became the leader of this group. His second was Kar the jackal. Kar had a history with Halum. Halum had thrice stopped him from enacting revenge on his commanding officers.

Initial Strike
Ulum organized a rebellion against Halum. He and his followers attacked the Truth of Lies in an attempt to capture it and kill Halum. Ulum and his people were newer soldiers, and had not seen battle like Halum and the crew that was still loyal to him had. Ulum's group hesitated when it came to killing their crewmates that fought against them. Halum's group, having seen battle, didn't have that problem. Qrui Ilun, who was piloting the destroyer at the time, tilted it to give Halum the upper ground. So while Ulum and his team were climbing up the floor to get to their goals, Halum and his were sliding down.

The A.I.
Ulum's team took a rarely used passage and made their way to capture their bridge, but were met by three veteran elites. Ulum, having fifteen with him at the time, was sure he could take them. Ulum did not think why the three veterans were wearing oxygen tanks, and by the time he did it was too late. The ship's A.I, Orca, had already cut off the oxygen in that area. Ulum and three others managed to escape, while the other eleven suffocated or were cut down by the veterans.

Ulum's forces took the hanger, and planned to use the vehicles to their advantage. They forgot to deactivate the cameras, so Orca was spying on them the entire time. When they finished mounting their vehicles Orca opened the main hanger doors and many of the vehicles were lost to the vacuum of space.

Determined not to be outsmarted by Orca for a third time, Ulum decided to upload a virus into the ship's mainframe. Orca was caught off guard by the sudden attack, but Ilun anticipated it, and was ready to launch a counterattack of his own. Ilun ordered a team of elites with clocking to follow him into the hall which lead to the bridge. He opened both ends then he and his team hid. Ulum, thinking his virus was the one that caused the doors to open, charged down the hall. Ilun closed the doors and locked the rebels in and the invisible elites struck, dealing massive casualties to Ulum's forces. Ulum managed to escape into an air vent.

Surrender
Ulum's last hopes rode with Kar, who's team was inside the bridge. Halum was there too. The jackal stood no chance against the massive elite shipmaster, and was killed quickly. Without a leader the rebels scattered and fled from the bridge. Ilun found Ulum and brought him to Halum. Halum knew that the win would just give Ulum a greater incentive to defeat him, and it would allow him to rally troops easier. Halum decided that to permanently defeat Ulum, he had to make it so none would follow him. So Halum promoted him to second in command. Ulum was outraged. Now the crew would not believe him when he said he wanted Halum killed, because his last attempt just got him promoted.

Torak
When a Halo ring was discovered near Orpheus IV, Halum mobilized his crew. Ulum wanted to see this ring of legend. The ring that caused the great war that nearly wiped out all sentient life in the galaxy. Before they set off, a grunt boarded the ship, and took the place of second in command. Ulum was furious, surely a grunt was not as good as he? He did not want to be Halum's second in command, but he defiantly did not want a grunt as a superior, so he challenged Torak to a fight. Torak didn't even activate his sword. Instead when Ulum charged he sidestepped then slammed the back of Ulum's head with the hilt of the energy sword, knocking him out. Ulum now had a greater goal than killing Halum, destroying this grunt.

Index
Halum, Torak, Ulum and a group of soldiers went in search of the index. They found it and met up with the monitor 820 Shadowed Sympathy and SPARTAN-417 Kio. Ulum saw this as the perfect time for his revenge. He could take the index and then activate the ring, killing all those that once ridiculed him and make Halum and his grunt friend fail the galaxy as all the life was destroyed. So he grabbed the index and fled. On the way out he tried to kill Torak, but only managed to stab his shoulder. Torak managed to cut off one of Ulum’s right toes.

Halberd
Ulum discovered he was not the only one going to activate the ring, a native to Orpheus IV called Halberd was also. Halberd was the leader of the alien life, he held absolute command over them all, and his word was law. Halberd teamed up with Ulum to activate the ring. SPARTAN-288 walked in on them, and Ulum hid with the index as Halberd moved to fight the super soldier. The SPARTAN prevailed and Halberd was forced to flee, but he also bought Ulum time to get away with the index. Ulum captured a marine on his way to the control room and handed him over to Halberd, because he had no idea how to activate the ring. Halberd took the index and the marine and forced him to activate the rings, then he killed him.

Showdown
SPARTANS 417 and 288 along with Halum breeched the control tower after the ring was activated. Ulum, having looked at the system, saw that two people could deactivate the ring. So he went after Halum and got Halum to follow him. Halberd lead SPARTAN-417 away from the controller also, leaving SPARTAN-288 alone to deal with the ring. Halum destroyed Ulum in combat, and pinned him to the ground, sword ready to strike. “Surrender now or dies Ktar. Help me deactivate this ring or I shall kill you here.” Ulum took the chance to strike Halum’s leg, then ran. Halum couldn’t chase him because of the injury, but he didn’t need to for Torak was waiting at the exit.

Ulum saw it as the perfect chance at revenge, he had already disabled Halum, and now he could kill this grunt, take the ship and flee before the ring went off. Ulum knew Torak was a skilled fighter, but by the time he found out that Torak was also a berserk Ulum found himself disarmed and a split second later beheaded.