User:Captain Tyrant/Torak

Torak is a berserk grunt, not to mention a giant among his kind. He is one of the few grunts that have ever held an energy sword, yet alone know how to use one, and he is quite skilled with it. His skill rivals some elites. He usually uses needlers, because they are extremely effective and can quickly dispatch a foe. When faced with something larger he pulls out his fuel rod gun. This recklessness caused him several injuries, included a two year coma for when he tried to engage a very skilled elite in a sword fight.

=Biography=

Early Life
Like most grunts during times of war he was thrown into the Covenant military as another soldier, but when he arrived at High Charity the prophets thought he would do well other places. The prophets believed that a giant grunt along with his berserk nature would make him and excellent test subject for some special drugs they had "created". They were actually recovered from Reach, originally used for SPARTANS. They gave it to Torak, who went into a coma for some time, but when he recovered he had changed. It didn't make him stronger or faster, but smarter and more reckless. During training he was angry with an elite and shot him with a plasma pistol. The prophets declared this heresy and threw him in jail.

Escape from High Charity
Not too long afterwords an elite, Mvas Halum was also thrown in jail with him for acts of heresy. Halum managed to steal three energy swords from the honor guards. Halum kept two for himself but gave one to Torak. Torak had secretly practiced with energy swords before and was quite handy with them. It came time for their escape. Halum managed to get away but Torak was caught between four brutes. Halum could do nothing to help so Torak was on his own. He stuck two of the brutes with plasma grenades. They blew up and temporarily blinded the other two. Torak took advantage of this and slice off one of their head's then sliced the other in the leg, where he apparently had a previous injury from Halum in an earlier fight.

Torak ran towards the docking bay, and was not bothered because no one would have expected a single grunt to take on four brutes. He picked up some swords off of some Honor Guards Halum kill and ran to the upper floor of the bay. He saw Halum below, unarmed and being closed in on by brutes. He threw two of the swords to Halum, then threw two plasmas at the brutes, sticking and destroying two of them. He activated his swords then jumped beside Halum. The two killed the remaining brutes, then Halum threw both his swords at the Prophet of Salvation, who was fleeing. Then he grabbed Torak and threw him. Torak barely got hold of the prophets chair, and he stabbed him through the chest. Then the two escaped in a phantom.

Truth of Lies
Halum and Torak managed to escape in the phantom, and boarded the covenant destroyer, Insist and Follow, which happened to be carrying convicts and heretics to be tried at High Charity. Halum and Torak released the prisoners who assisted them in taking the ship. The prisoners were so astounded at Halum's and Torak's fighting they joined them. Halum renamed the ship Truth of Lies because the covenant believe him to lie about the great journey being a lie, but in reality it was the truth.

Torak was so fierce in the capture of Insist and Follow that even the Jackals aboard the ship showed him respect. Of the prisoners on the ship there where multiple elites, grunts and jackals, no hunters, but one Brute, Lycanin, who agreed to assist Halum in his quest to destroy the prophets and the covenant.

Delta Halo
After Halum and his team failed to invade Alpha Halo, they saw Delta Halo as the chance for redemption. Halum and a team of elites, Lycanin, and Torak descended to the ring world to assist the humans in destroying the ring, but they were attacked by the Flood. Lycanin's gravity hammer managed to save himself, Halum and Torak along with a few of the other elites but overall the majority of their party was killed or taken by the flood and they had to retreat. Like Alpha Halo, the team had failed to destroy the Delta Halo.

The Ark
The third chance they had was the Ark, the controller of all Halos. The Truth of Lies crew split into three groups, the initial assault, the heavies, and the rear guard. Torak lead the initial assault on the covenant ground forces, who feared this grunt they heard fought elites, brutes, and flood and was still alive to tell the tale. Lycanin followed behind him along with two hunter pairs and two wraiths. Finally Halum came up the rear and defended the teams back from aerial assault along with killing anything left behind.

Halum left to assist the Arbiter in deactivating the second shield tower, and left Torak in charge while he was away. Much of the group disobeyed Torak because he was a grunt, but that soon changed when Lycanin took out his gravity hammer and threatened to impale all those who disobeyed orders. Torak thanked the brute, who replied that any grunt who is able to take so many lives deserves the respect to those who cannot. Halum returned and they left just in time to see the Halo ring explode and the Ark collapse within it's own slipspace portal.

Reunion
Twenty years after the Ark Torak was on his way to Sangheilios when he spotted an all too familiar vessel before him; the Truth of Lies. He flagged his friend's destroyer and boarded, ready for his next adventure. The elites on board that had never seen Torak before were outraged when Halum gave him second in command, and one challenged him to a fight. His opponent, Ktar Ulum, was a skilled elite, but he was too over confident and Torak sidestepped the elites charge and he drove the hilt of his energy sword into the back of the elite's head, knocking him out. Many of the elites avoided Torak after that, but Ulum swore he would get his revenge.

Destroying the Ring
Torak followed Halum and the SPARTANS to the control room, but waited outside for the one he sought, the traitor Ulum. As he expected Halum let him live and Ulum attacked him and fled. Torak stood at the exit when Ulum appeared down the hall. He saw Torak and roared that he would have his revenge. Torak defeated Ulum and took his head.

Aftermath
Halum took off and they searched for survivors, only finding three marines and a SPARTAN, SPARTAN-417. They brought the marines to Earth, then returned to Orpheus for one last look, and found SPARTAN-331 floating in a Cryo-tube. Torak took control of the ship while Halum revived her, and they returned her as well to Earth.

Return to Sangheilios
When they returned to Sangheilios, the elites offered Halum control of the Journey's End, a flagship. Halum accepted the offer, on the condition that he could give the Truth of Lies to anyone he wanted to. The elites granted him that, but did not expect what happened next. Halum gave the Truth of Lies to Torak, who became the first grunt in the Sangheili fleet. The other elites were outraged by this, but they did not go back on their deal and Torak kept control of the ship, and Halum's fleet was soon joined by the UNSC Heroes Soul and the Wolfbane. Captained by SPARTAN-417 and Lycanin respectively.