Zuro Dun 'Xoram

Fleet Master Zuro Dun 'Xoramee is one of the most distinguished officers among the Covenant's main fleet, and has engaged almost every enemy the Covenant has faced in recent years - from the Human fleets, to Jiralhanae uprisings, to the Heretic factions scattered throughout the Covenant empire. His long history of serving with distinction has seen him command several famous ships, including the Purity of Spirit and the Bringer of Holy Light.

History
Born into a family with strong ties to the Covenant Army, Zuro was the first of his family to achieve entrance into the elite Iruiru War College. At first looked down upon for his relatively low social status, his almost innate tactical and strategic ability soon earned him the envy of his fellow students. In mock exercises against other Sangheili teams, Zuro's factions consistently scored far higher. In full-scale War Games against his own teachers, his tactics and strategies left elder Sangheili, veterans all of the Unggoy Rebellion, confused at how a small group of barely trained students could overwhelm their own forces.

Though his family pressured him to attept to earn the rank of Field Master, following in his ancestors footsteps, the bureocracy and and lack of autonomy instead led him to persue a career in the Covenant Navy, where as a Shipmaster he would be able to govern his own ship and crew. Though bitterly disappointed by his choice, his family is still proud of him, and his achieving the rank of Fleet Master has only heightened that pride.

Career
At first given command of a lowly Frigate, his performance in conjunction with other Covenant ships during the orbital skirmishes with human space forces above Harvest earned him his own commission rapidly, and his first ship, the Frigate Undying Hope, was destroyed in battle with human forces - though Zuro and his crew managed to excape in lifepods, recovered by a larger destroyer.

Later, Zuro would be given command of the Purity of Spirit, a CCS-Class Battlecruiser, and deployed to the Oth Sonin System as part of the regular Covenant patrol. During his third rotation, Jiralhanae malcontents staged an attempted coup on teash, one moons of the Jiralhanae homeworld, Doisac. With boarders attempting to take control of the ship while it was docked, Zuro personally lead his security forces to repel the invaders, and destroyed two captured Frigates attempting to engage them. Though the Jiralhanae managed to capture many of the Covenants frigates and destroyers docked on the small world, Zuro rallied the remaining Covenant ships in overwhelming them.

Sending word to High Charity, he urged the High Council to send further troops to Teash to pacify the uprising. His recommendations were ignored, until a massive and widespread uprising gained control of the majority of the Teash spaceports, slaughtering the Sangheili personnel, and forcing Zuro and his fleet to flee through slipspace. Upon returning, at the helm of a much larger fleet, Zuro fought the Battle of Teash, his ships utterly crushing the hastily assembled Jiralhanae knock-offs and captured Covenant craft, landing seven Legions on the moon. Within a few months, every participant of the uprising had been killed or captured, and even Jiralhanae from Doisac itself lending aid in the effort to put down the rebellion, having no wish to share their space with an autonomous world. Zuro nevertheless maintained a deepseated dislike of all Jiralhanae from his experiences.

Later, Zuro and his ship were deployed to several worlds, including Cloistering Expectancy, to deliver diplomats and special operations teams to combat the spreading Heretic movement as it blossomed in the outer fringes of Covenant space. Engaging the makeshift Heretic fleet, better equipped and crewed than the Jiralhanae fleet, Zuro and his ships managed to deal much more damage than they took, eventually isolating the Heretics on the planets - where the Commandoes could slaughter them with ease. His courageous actions, putting his fully shielded ship in harms way to save a Carrier with depleted shields, earned him citations for bravery, to join those for merit he earned against the Jiralhanae.

His last mission aboard the Purity of Spirit was to join the Fleet of Particular Justice as it assembled at the Unyeilding Hierophant to excavate the Ark. The stations destruction not only obliterated most of the fleet, but badly crippled the pUrity of Spirit. Managing to dispatch a frigate to High Charity to alert the High Council of the calamity, Zuro personally led the effort to regroup and organise search patrols for escape pods. His quick actions saved the lives of thirty one survivors of the Battleship Dedication and Fury, who would later join him as crewmembers aboard the Bringer of Holy Light.

Summoned to High Charity soon after, he gave testimony before the Council Tribunal as to the events and facts of the situation - the sudden appearance of the Ascendant Justice, the flaunting of the captured relic, and the detonation of the Unyeilding Hierophants reactors. The Purity of Spirit, which had so long remained stalwart, was deemed unfit to continue duty and scheduled for decommission - Zuro was given command of the Assault Carrier Bringer of Holy Light, and promoted to Fleet Master, tasked with leading the Covenant fleet to secure the Ark.

First Battle of Earth
Arriving at the Solar System, the shocking presence of so many ships stunned most of the Ship Masters in Zuro's fleet, though their Fleet Master rallied them, attempting to penetrate their defences using the two Assault Carriers, using the Cruisers as a diversion. Though their sistership managed to reach the surface, the Bringer of Holy Light was catastrophically damaged by one of the Covenant's own anti-matter bombs, planted by Spartan-117 himself. Though the ship survived, its slipspace capacitors activated, plunging the ship into a random course heading, and dragging the UNSC Carrier Aeneas and the Prowler Hunters Arrow with it. Their current whereabouts are unknown.

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