User:SPARTAN 119/James Warren

Dr. James Warren is an exobiologist studying a newly discovered race of alien parasite similar to the Flood known as the Contagion. Dr. Warren is best known for his bestselling book Meeting the Parasite, on his adventures during a research expedition of 2556 and a for his many scientific publications of the newly discovered parasite.

Contagion Expedition of 2556
In 2556, after hearing rumors of an alien parasite similar to the Flood being discovered a year earlier in a massive Forerunner installation orbiting Onyx by a Covenant Seperatist fleet, only a fraction of whom survived, Dr. Warren took a huge gamble in traveling to the Forerunner installation on a grant from the Scientific and Technological Division of the UNSC. Dr. was dropped off at the installation by a UNSC Pelican Dropship, equipped with equipement for gathering samples of DNA and tissue form the Contagion, a survival kit with emergency food, water, and medical supplies, and an M-90 shotgun with 50 buckshot and 25 rifled slug shells. Dr. Warren began walking through the labyrinthine corridors of the installation, before coming upon what looked like a dried splatted of bluish liquid. "Blood", Dr. Warren said to himself, "looks to be Unggoy and Sangheillian in origin." Dr. Warren heard a high pitched shriek form around the corner, and a creature the size of a small dog with reddish skin, a praying mantis-like stance and two sharp tipped arms. Dr. Warren raised his shotgun. The alien lunged at Warren, but missed. Warren fired his shotgun at the alien, and was amazed to see it dodge the rifled slug. The pumped the action and fired again, his round was a buckshot. The creature ducked down to dodge one of the buckshot, but was struck by several other shot and fell to the floor, dead. Dr. Warren examined the creature and took out his digital camera and photographed the creature before taking blood and tissue samples and writing in his notebook: "Incredible reflexes capable of dodging bullets, sharp appendages appear to inject a substance, possibly venom (Note to self: analyze sample). Does not fit Covenant description of "Contagion."