The Former Disciple

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To Lezo ‘Gohom, coward of our kind:
Before, you were a mighty Evocatus, charged with the most honourable tasks for our Sacred City. Your combat prowess had given you honor and respect among those whomst served you, yet you cast away your honor, your pride, and your reputation, all with those whispers amongst your lances towards the end. 
They spoke of mercy for those defenceless insects, they questioned the righteousness of our path towards the divine beyond.  We were forced to band with the worms to defeat the treasonous San'Shyuum and Jiralhanae, yet you willingly festered with the insects in their home in the aftermath? 
It is only by my respect for your service as one of the minors under your command in the shield world decades ago that prevents me from simply sending this message normally and having the Didact’s Hand track and discover your location. He certainly desires your head after your call to arms had taken a small handful of his captains and generals, an offense he will not forgive.
I plead to you, former Ultra of the Fleet of Glorious Interdiction, come back to the right side of this conflict. Let us do away with the flesh bags as allies and establish the Sangheili in their birthright as the might of the universe.  Join my forces in the search for the Domain and return to your true brothers. Do not force me to reveal to the rest of the Covenant your location and cause more bloodshed.
This is my final request, I will not ask again. Join us, it is the only way for your survival.
-Righteous Disciple Jegi Haram
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To the so-called Righteous Disciple:
Are you truly so far gone that you believe that coward Jul, is worthy of leading anyone?  I still reminisce on the shield world, fighting both the humans and the all-consuming parasite, and how your lance was almost overwhelmed without the previous Arbiter to aid you. You found no reason to protest my assistance when I led my lance, without support, to force our way through the parasite.
You found no reason to protest on how we were tasked to escort the Hierarch back to High Charity. No complaints when we quelled any uprisings over the years, or in our battles against the humans. Did you not see what my lances and I saw? Did you only see a primitive race, that only caused pain and suffering for our Former Covenant? They were as sentient as us and cared for their young and old. We spent the entire war, never questioning the Covenant. Yet when whispers began to circulate, it is already deemed heresy?
You held promise, young one. But your arrogance blinded you, even now and when you “gifted” me the minor at the human’s fortress world. I reported to you that he had been executed for heretical speak, but it should be obvious now that the report was false, for even then my lances and I had our doubts of the Covenant festering then.
You believe this to be a simple period of disillusion for me and my brothers. Yet I am the one wide awake, slowly awakening since that savage Moramee ‘led’ us. Jul is no savage warrior like Moramee, nor a tactician like the mighty Xytan. Jul ‘Mdama is a coward and a slithering liar, nothing more. The Covenant is gone, wiped from the galaxy with the death of Truth and the fall of High Charity to the parasite. Inform your self-proclaimed Didact’s Hand where we are. Better yet, Settle this matter yourself at Shrivi. Through with the report I received, along with your courier’s delivery, it’s interesting that your pleas for me are demanding when the “righteous” have their allies turn on you.
It is in indeed your final message. Your faction crumbles, deluded disciple. Settle this matter directly, rather than through a simple parchment. Prove your word through actions, not through the words of the snake you worship. Unless you’d rather run and squirm, like he does.
-Lezo ‘Gohom, Shipmaster of the Grandiose Crusade.
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To Lezo ‘Gohom, traitor of our kind
My ship is occupied over Kamchatka but know that soon after the Didact’s Hand has finished his task in the planet below, your fleet will not survive my wrath.
I had been tolerant with your blind spats and blasphemy for years, but I can no longer abide. I will burn your ships, execute the survivors, and show others that put misplaced trust to the undisciplined ilk will result in dishonourable deaths. Your confession on the minor on the human’s ruined world only proves to me that you are beyond redemption. Death will not absolve of your sins, nor will any help towards the divine path.
Your defeat will be my next offering to the gods before I continue my search for the Domain and the secrets it holds. I will end your insurrection as swift as death’s touch and I will relish in bringing your dishonoured and defeated body to the Didact’s Hand as my offering to him. Tell your soldiers, for they will not return home alive. Their families will also pay their price in due time.
I will end your crimes, and walk the path you have abandoned so long ago.
-Jegi Haram, Fleetmaster of the Blessed Lance
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