Maribeau Veredi

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Maribeau Veredi Biographical information Physical description Rank Captain Species Human Gender Male Chronological and political information Notable Facts Led the battle group that first encountered the Covenant. Affiliation UNSC Navy
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Captain Maribeau Veredi was a UNSC Naval officer during the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. He was the commanding officer of the UNSC Heracles.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Harvest 1.2 First Contact 1.3 Second Battle of Harvest 2 Sources

[edit] Biography

[edit] Harvest

Captain Veredi led UNSC Battlegroup 4, the battlegroup that firstly encountered the Covenant. The battle group consisted of his own ship, the destroyer UNSC Heracles and two known frigates, UNSC Arabia and UNSC Vostok. Their deployment was aimed to discover the fate of the colony on the planet, Harvest ^[1].

They entered the Harvest System only to discover that everything on the planet had been completely incinerated and the surface melted down to glass. This was later dubbed "glassing".

[edit] First Contact

In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship, which proceeded to attack the battle group, destroying both Arabia and Vostok and badly damaging the Heracles. Before the ship attacked the Battlegroup, Veredi attempted to follow the UNSC's first contact protocol to no avail.

Intercepted communications identified the enemy as "The Covenant". The message stated, "Your destruction is the will of the Gods, and we are their instrument." It was translated into English for UNSC personnel.

[edit] Second Battle of Harvest

Captain Veredi was later mentioned as being at the Second Battle of Harvest where he again commanded the repaired UNSC Heracles and accompanied Vice Admiral Preston Cole into the system.

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 96-98