Reja'iri

Reja'iri was a revered Unggoy who led the Unggoy Federation military through the Second Great War. He was in charge of the 1st Assault Force for the entirety of the conflict, something unpredictable for an Unggoy.

Childhood
As with most Covenant Unggoy, Reja'iri (then Reja) was born in the slums of a Sangheili town. His father had commited suicide while Reja was still an infant, likely because of his mental state inflicted upon him by multiple beatings. This left Reja's mother, Ori, to tend to the five children on her own because widows were not permitted to remarry. Reja soon developed a hatred for the Sangheili for multiple. He was set over the top when a pair of Sangheili warriors sexually assaulted and beat Ori almost to the point of death. Reja got a hold of an old Carbine and shot one of the warriors in the upper torso four times, killing him. Reja was then brutally tortured and was kept in prison for the next forty days while he was only eleven years old. He had reportedly been sexually harrased, beaten, burnt by plasma, and had his methane breathing apparatus temporarily taken away from him multiple times, inducing suffocation. A group of rebel Unggoy in the area had heard of this act, and the group of twenty or so rebels raided the prison, killing two guards and liberating two Unggoy, one of them being Reja. Instead of staying with family or joining the rebels, Reja mysteriously exiled himself for four years in the nearby forest. When he returned to civilization, he was quite refined though he still maintained a hatred for the Sangheili. He quickly found out that his family, along with countless others which even included Kig Yar, had been killed by Covenant garrison.

Early Military Career
Eager to leave the place which had scarred his mentality forever, Reja travelled over one hundred miles by hover car to the nearby metropolis, where he faked his age and conscripted into the navy where Sangheili rarely associated with the Unggoy. Just after a few months, however, word had broken out of a new Unggoy nation known as the Unggoy Federation. He quickly moved to this new nation, which was endorsed by the Sangheili, and conscripted into their Navy, which had less than a handful of ships at the time. Due to this overload of servicemen, as many sailors as possible were assigned to researching new ship designs along with constructing them. Reja became one of the "lucky ones" who had the privelage of being temporarily assigned to an ex-Covenant ship until new Unggoy models could be built. The large construction teams proved quite useful, pumping out an Unggoy Assault Ship every week or so.