[h2][b]Eri 'Moram - [i]Resurgence[/i] Briefing Room[/b][/h2]

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After parting ways with Jerus, Eri returned to the quarters her team had been given. The meeting was coming up soon enough, though she momentarily found her mind occupied by her dissatisfaction at the result of her duel with the Jedi. Provided she accepted his explanation of the "Force" being a natural ability, that meant that he had a power beyond anything she could naturally attain. She was still not convinced he was a more [i]skilled[/i] swordsman, but she still could not match him. Regardless of the reason for it, that was not something she could accept. She wondered, briefly, if this Force was something unique to this universe, or some sort of cosmic force that her own universe had not discovered. Perhaps it was something that the Forerunners knew of, but had given a different name? Was he correct that it was something that one had to be born with, or was it something she could learn? Regardless, even without that power, she would just have to grow her skills even farther to compensate. 

Eri donned her combat harness once again, with the exception of her helmet. She was not on her own ship and did not feel comfortable being without her armor for extended periods, but she at least felt that showing a bare head served as some compromise between combat-readiness and being "diplomatic." Serving as a delegate for the Aegis was far from her preferred role, but she was expected to be able to take on irregular missions for the benefit of the Swords of Sanghelios. Usually, that involved infiltration, assassination, or sabotage, but if her mission required talking, then she would talk. 

Eventually, it was time for their meeting. Delegates from every ship in their fleet would be gathering in the [i]Resurgence's[/i] briefing room. Eri was not exactly hurrying, but as she was already on the ship, she expected to be one of the earlier arrivals. Somewhat annoyingly, Supreme Commander Erthos himself was not going to be leading the meeting, at least not at first. Evidently, he had another matter to deal with that he deemed more important. In his place, the head engineer Kham Rho, a Cathar, would be representing the [i]Resurgence[/i]. Eri had been surprised to learn that there were more species than Humans that crewed the ship, considering she had not seen any among their boarding party. The majority of the ship's warriors were supposedly clones of one another.

When Eri made her way to the briefing room, she found that she was not the first to arrive. In addition to Kham Rho and several clone guards, there were a group of Humans. Even without recognizing the individuals, there was no mistaking who they were. There was an officer in a familiar uniform and, even to Eri's surprise, a team of Spartans. She had seen a Spartan before, though these seemed rather noticeably larger than what she remembered. In any case, since the [i]Aegis[/i] had not yet arrived, the UNSC personnel would not have known about the presence of the Sangheili, or any of the other former-Covenant species. Here and now would be when they would learn about them, and now, Eri supposed she would learn quickly if they had been taken from a point in time before or after the end of the Human-Covenant war. 

Eri, of course, made no aggressive movements, but she was certainly ready to engage her hardlight shield on a moment's notice.