Saul Lewis

"It's time to start over. But with peace. Not war."

- Saul Lewis

Saul Lewis was a political activist and the founder of the Outer Haven movement. An officer in the 's during the, Saul was dishonorably discharged after he refused to participate in combat operations on his homeworld of  during the planet's failed secession attempt. The short but brutal conflict claimed the lives of nearly a quarter of Mamore's population, including that of Saul's own daughter. Disgusted by what he saw as a descent into amoral militarism on the part of the UNSC and by the increasingly savage tactics of the renewed, Saul began campaigning for a reborn secession movement on Mamore and surviving Outer Colony worlds that had been left impoverished by the war and the subsequent shift in galactic politics. Naming the movement Outer Haven, Saul and his supporters strove to use peaceful, legal methods in order to secure their client planets' independence from the Earth-based. In his quest to improve living conditions on the frontier, Saul found an unlikely ally in the wealthy entrepreneur Tobias Lensky. Faced with assassination attempts from both the and the criminal underworld, Saul also hired the renegade Spartan Simon-G294 to serve as his personal bodyguard and operative.