Maribeau Veredi (Earth-5875)

Captain Maribeau Veredi was an officer of the Colonial Administration Authority who served during the start of the First Contact War as the commanding officer of Battle Group 4 aboard the CAA Heracles, being the first human to make contact with the Covenant.

Shanxi
In October 2525, Maribeau Veredi was selected by the Colonial Administration Authority to lead Battle Group 4 aboard the CAA Heracles, alongside two frigates, the CAA Arabia and the CAA Vostok in search of the missing CAA Argo, on Shanxi. Upon arriving in the Epsilon Indi system on October 7th, the battle group witnessed the planet in desolation and incarcerated, in a process later named by humans as "glassing".

First contact
Veredi and the Heracles became the only survivors of the attack of the Covenant cruiser Rapid Conversion. Before his escape in slipspace, however, the Heracles received a Covenant transmission in English, where their Hierarchs stated: "Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument." Veredi and his vessel became the only survivors as soon as they returned to Reach, and after giving the warning to the UNSC, Vice Admiral Preston Cole assembled him and more forces to retake the planet.