User:Captain Tyrant/Truth of Lies

=Truth of Lies=

Truth of Lies

The Truth of Lies, once known as the Insist and Follow was the main ship of the elite Mvas Halum, and later the grunt Torak.

=History=

Insist and Follow
The Insist and Follow was carrying convicts and heretics to be tried at High Charity when it was boarded by the elite Mvas Halum and the grunt Torak. The two freed the prisoners, but most just wanted to run. They were stopped by the brute Lycanin, who had become the leader of the prisoners. Together with Lycanin and Torak, Halum took the ship and killed everyone inside. He then renamed it the Truth of Lies for the covenant believe him to be a lair, when really his "lies" were the truth.

Alpha Halo
Halum wanted to end the covenant great journey as soon as possible, and the only way to do that was to destroy their sacred rings. He heard about the Alpha Halo and took his crew and the Truth of Lies to Threshold, the site of the ring. Before they arrived at the ring they were attacked by Thel 'Vadumee and the Ascendant Justice, the flagship in control of the area. The Truth of Lies put up a good fight, but it just couldn't match the firepower of the Ascendant Justice. Halum jumped into slipspace with his last bits of power at repaired the ship. By the time the repairs were complete the Master Chief had already destroyed Halo. When word reached the Truth of Lies that 'Vadumee was on trial for not defending the ring Halum was proud for he knew it was him that drew 'Vadumee away from the ring.

Delta Halo
When the crew of Truth of Lies gained a chance at redemption they took it, the covenant had found another ring, and Halum wasn't about to let them use this one either. The Truth of Lies was ready to glass the ring when High Charity, and a massive covenant fleet warped to the ring. There was no way Truth of Lies could inflict any damage on the ring with that many ships and High Charity watching it so instead Halum and some of the crew went to the surface in a phantom. They were attacked by the flood and only a few, including Halum, Torak and Lycanin returned. The Truth of Lies was once again unable to destroy a Halo ring.

The Ark
The third chance came at the Ark. Truth of Lies was ready to destroy the Ark as soon as Truth opened the slipspace portal. They went through the portal and opened fired on the waiting covenant fleet, then sent Halum, Torak and Lycanin as well as their forces to the ground. The elite left in charge of the ship while they were gone, Qrui Ilun, took the ship to a nearby destroyed UNSC frigate. Ilun boarded it and found a mainly in-tact bridge, and the A.I program. The A.I was damaged beyond repair, but it's programming was in tact and Ilun and some engineers managed to create an A.I for the Truth of Lies, Orca. Orca took the form of an ODST. With the help of Orca, Ilun and Truth of Lies wrecked havoc on the covenant fleet before being damaged and landing on the surface for repairs. When Halum, Torak and Lycanin returned from their mission they gathered engineers and repaired the ship just in time for Orca to jump them away from the Ark as it's own slipspace portal collapsed around it.

Orpheus IV
Yet another ring was discovered near the planet Orpheus IV, and Halum wasn't about to let this ring get away from him. He reunited with Torak and they set of for Orpheus IV. The ship was shot down before Orca could get them away, but he managed to land the ship all the same. Ilun was left in charge of the ship while Halum, Torak and Ktar Ulum went to destroy the ring.

Ilun and Orca got the ship repaired halfway through the visit on Orpheus, but didn't dare take off in case Halum hadn't yet deactivated the cannons. The monitor 820 Shadowed Sympathy arrived at the ship looking for Halum. Ilun, having not heard from Halum since he left could not help him. Orca told Ilun to put him in a banshee, Ilun did so and Orca set off to find Halum. He flew over and saw the control room exploding, Torak assisting Halum to the Truth of Lies and Ulum's head on the ground, separated from his body.

Orca returned to the ship and got it ready for take off and once everyone was on board they took off. In space the Truth of Lies searched for any human survivors, and they found four, three marines and SPARTAN-417. They later returned and found SPARTAN-331.

Torak
After the Truth of Lies returned to Sanheilios Halum was given control of the flagship Journey's End and the Truth of Lies passed to Torak. Ilun chose to remain on the Truth of Lies because of it's history. Because Ilun stayed Orca stayed, although he was once taken from the ship. The hacked his way through the Sangheili fleet to return to the Truth of Lies. Ilun and Orca taught Torak how to command and control the ship, and Torak joined the allied fleet along with the UNSC Heroes Soul and the Wolfbane.