SO ATRIOX - AND THAT'S THE BLOODY THING ABOUT ATRIOX - HE REPRESENTS THE BANISHED. IN FACT, HE'S THE LEADER OF THE BANISHED. AND IN CONTRAST, WE HAVE MASTER CHIEF, WHO - ROUGHLY SPEAKING - REPRESENTS THE UNSC. BUT MASTER CHIEF, IN HIS BITTER RESENTMENT, IN HIS-HIS POST-COVENANT CULTURAL ONI IDEOLOGY, HE TRIES TO TAME THE BANISHED- AND THAT'S A BAD IDEA MAN, IT'S LIKE-IT'S LIKE IF YOU TRIED TAMING THE FLOOD, IT'S JUST GOING TO LEAVE YOU INFECTED. BUT MASTER CHIEF, HE TRIES ANYWAY, MOTIVATED BY A LUST FOR DUTY- AND IT'S LIKE - GOD IT'S SO SAD - IT'S LIKE YOU'RE BROKEN! YOU'RE BROKEN BY ME, AND NO POSTMODERN RATIONALIZATION WILL CHANGE THAT. THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR. THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE IS EXPLICIT ON THIS MATTER. AND SPEAKING OF TAMING THE FLOOD- WHAT HAPPENS BY THE END OF MASTER CHIEF'S "FIGHT"? THE FIGHT IS NOT FINISHED, QUITE THE OPPOSITE, IT'S ACTUALLY ENDLESS. AND THIS DEMONSTRATES EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 26TH CENTURY IN REACH. HALSEY WRITES ABOUT IT IN THE REACH JOURNALS- THE BLOODY ONI SPOOKS ATTEMPTED TO QUELL THE FLOOD, BUT IN DOING SO THEY MERELY FUELED IT. AND WELL ACTUALLY, THEY DID QUITE A BIT MORE. YOU CAN'T PRETEND TO BE GRIZZLED IF YOU'RE NOT. YOU'LL END UP GETTING SCATTERED - HUNTED EVEN. YOU TRIED THAT EXPERIMENT MONTHS AGO, AND IT WAS A BAD IDEA MAN! AND IT. IS. NOT. A. ROUTE. YOU. WANT. TO. GO. DOWN