Arthur Onegin

"You want to know the future, Victoria? Imagine a boot stamping on a face—human, alien, whatever. Forever. Win or lose, that's the happy ending that's waiting for us at the end of this war. But it doesn't have to be that way. I can stop it. I have to."

- Arthur Onegin to Victoria O'Connell

"Arthur Onegin, you are the key. The one worthy to shoulder all the evil in this wicked galaxy."

- The Chastener

Arthur Onegin (also known as "The Butcher of Omelas") was an operative who was active during both the  and the post-war era. A gifted tactician, he attained the rank of Commander and was given command of a stealth craft at the age of twenty, the youngest officer ever to achieve such an honor in the UNSC's history. Disgraced after the vessel under his command annihilated the colonial city of Omelas with nuclear weapons, Onegin was relieved of command and vanished from the regular military. He resurfaced as an ONI wet-work operator, though there were rumors that he was a freelance agent who offered his services to anyone willing to pay him.