Eternal-Rest-of-Desire

"And even if the firing of the rings succeed, what good is there? We'll all die at the hands of our creations."
--Eternal-Rest-of-Desire
Eternal-Rest-of-Desire, was a Forerunner Warrior-Servant who served during both the Human-Forerunner War and the Forerunner-Flood War. He would eventually sacrifice himself to ensure that his allies would be able to escape Opson.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Eternal-Rest-of-Desire was born on an unknown planet somewhere around 110,900 B.C.E to Ambition-of-Renewed Faith and Accord-of-Lost-Vision. At an early age, his father (Accord) would allow him to spend many hours looking at Forerunner mega-structures. At age thirteen, he was attacked by two unknown Forerunners and lost his left eye after he was stabbed. It was later revealed to be a simple assault case (common on his home planet) Other than that, nothing much is known about his early life.
=== Human-Forerunner War ===
Eternal was one of the many Forerunner Warrior-Servants to fight in the Human-Forerunner War. He fought during the Battle of Charum Hakkor for the whole fifty years. After the fall of human forces, he discovered that his parents, his wife, and his children were killed. This fueled his hatred for humanity, and led him to agree with the idea of wiping out humanity with the Halo Array, which he would later realize was in violation of the Mantle of Responsibility.
=== Forerunner-Flood War ===
Eternal-Rest-of-Desire played a major role in the Forerunner-Flood War. For six-hundred years, he along with other Warrior-Servants fought across several planets. He would eventually gain fame for securing a Forerunner Gas Mine with only a few soldiers on extremely tight supplies. In 98,045, he gained notifications that his home planet had been completely infested by the Flood. Shortly after this, he became the leader of a strike-team on a mission to retake the planet. This operation failed horribly, and cost the lives of four out of ten of the strike-team members.
==== Battle of Opson ====
Distraught about this situation, Eternal attempted to contact Faber for the next six-hundred years with no response. He then was sent onto the planet of Opson, one of the last remaining Forerunner-controlled planets in the galaxy to devise a plan to ambush the flood using regular warships disguised as Flood infested ones. This plan failed, and resulted in the eventual infestation of Opson. Within four days, he was notified of the fall of Maethrillian. Eternal, along with the remaining strike-team members, attempted to escape using Forerunner warships. This plan only succeeded due to Eternal's sacrifice. He had stayed behind to explode multiple Phaetons using bombs (a plan that had been set up for weeks prior) strapped to them. This allowed the team to escape while the Flood was confused and focusing on the explosions. The enjoyment of escaping was short lived, as the Halo rings fired moments later.
It is not known how Eternal had died, some believed that he had died within seconds of the ships taking off. Some believe that he managed to fight until the array's activation. No matter how or when he died, Eternal-Rest-of-Desire was remembered in the strike-team's final moments as a hero.