"I see," Even though Onyx was off the beaten trail, they'd heard about the fall of Reach. The complete loss of Noble, a team he'd helped to assemble and handpick was just another insult added to injury.

"So it's true then? About the Halo array?" Considering the Halo array being but back into service had been what was apparently causing all the strife in his life back home...well, could you blame him?

Kurt was still horribly unsettled by this talking dog of John's and quite pointedly gave Arachidamia a lot of personal space as they made their way back out of the cargo area. "This doesn't look like any Covenant ship I've ever seen. Who did this, I wonder?"