Fira 'Demal (AAO)

Fira 'Demal is a character in the story The Darkest Hour.

When Fira first met Autel 'Vadam at the military city Stoic Courier, he had not been intrigued by his pale-skinned appearance, but soon became friends with him. He seemed to be very familiar with technology, helping Autel with a training helmet during a practice.

Fira's family line was Demal, whom had a lot of soldiers in the Covenant during the Age of Doubt and early Age of Reclamation. Over the Human-Covenant War, most of them were killed by SPARTAN-IIs during ground actions, and the only remaining soldier of his generation in the Demal family was Sona 'Demalee. When Randall-078 was taken to Stoic Courier for execution in 2551, Fira expressed a silent rage at seeing the human soldiers that had eliminated so many of his family.

When Tartarus and his Jiralhanae came to Stoic Courier, Fira was suspicious of their presence and smuggled two Plasma Pistols out of the training facility. When Autel realized the Jiralhanae were killing recruits in their sleep, Fira helped him reach the main facility and warn Field Master Bata 'Noromee. Upon discovering Tartarus' cruiser headed for Sanghelios, he headed to a hangar bay to warn the Prophets. Fira was separated from Autel, and the damaged dropship he was on landed on the moon Suban to make repairs.

When he returned to Stoic Courier after formulating a plan to free the Sangheili imprisoned there, he met then-Special Operations Officer Sesa 'Refumee and allowed him to keep the Sangheili safe. Ironically these recruits became heretics when 'Refumee's corvette was forced into Slipstream space due to a high-priority crisis (the destruction of Halo). When Fira used three nuclear mines to overload Stoic Courier's reactors to destroy the city, Jiralhanae captain Cerberus inconveniently brought it into Slipspace as well. Fira launched a 3-Sangheili assault on the main facility, killing Cerberus, freeing the last prisoners that they could find, and escaped in a pair of dropships after bringing Stoic Courier back to normal space. His current whereabouts are unknown.