Halo – First Strike - ADJUNCT

ADJUNCT

Amy,

My name is Charles VanKeerk, and for the last five years I’ve been working alongside your husband to protect the dreams that demand so much from us. I am so sorry that in all the time I’ve spent with Sam I never had a chance to meet you in person. As you know, our situation prevents us from being able to move about as we wish or see those we fight for, and because of this I am a stranger to you… and it pains me that you have to receive this message from a stranger:

Sam is gone.

For your protection, I can’t give you any details on where or how he died, but know that he was a hero, and he died as one. Everyone who fought alongside him these last years loved him as a brother, and his determination and gentle spirit were strengths to us all. It is a tragedy that Sam was forced to this fight, but forced he was, as we all are, by the most important need we have—the need to be free.

I know words can’t help right now, but please don’t doubt the value of Sam’s sacrifice or the wisdom of our fight, even in these terrible times. You will ask why, in the face of such an overwhelming external threat, we would take up arms against our own kind rather than fight against the Covenant. We struggle with this question every day… Sam fought with it every day. But what keeps us going is the certainty that there’s no future in helping those who would only put us in a cage for helping them win.

You’ve seen how the UNSC treats us, taking and taking but only offering empty promises in return… any planet outside their precious inner circle is plundered and left to suffer starvation, plague, or the onslaught of the Covenant. If only more of us would find the strength Sam had, perhaps we could make the UNSC recognize that it doesn’t matter if you come from Earth or Harvest or anywhere… we’re all equal, and we should all be treated as equals. Until that day comes, however, we have to fight every threat to our way of life… be it human or Covenant.

I write all of this to try to give you some comfort, some justification for such a terrible loss. I hope you can believe in our cause as much as Sam did, and I hope you can believe me when I say we all miss him terribly. Despite whatever you may have seen or read recently in the UNSC-controlled media, Sam’s death was a proud death. A noble death. He died for all of us, and I know for a certainty that he died for you.

My heartfelt condolences on your loss,

Charles

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Halo – First Strike

ADJUNCT

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ADJUNCT

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