Colony (Earth-5875)

"Hold Fast. As one, eliminate."

- - Colony

"Colony" are a pair of mgalekgolo bond-brothers that serve the Banished as one of its leaders, commanding most lekgolo forces during the Second Battle of Installation 00.

Biography
Members of the Banished, Colony only answers to its leader, Atriox, seen to them as a capable and honest leader. They represent and lead the majority of the faction's lekgolo forces, something which was bestowed upon them during the Banished's arrival on the Ark in 2764. Among their operations was the expansion of lekgolo clusters, which were to be used in vehicles.

Despite their allegiance to Atriox, the bond brothers have ulterior motivations of their own, as they focused on activities near the forerunner Keyships. Colony went through numerous missions in order to investigate the site, unknown to everyone else. Little did they know, Atriox was aware of their plotting.

After the Enduring Conviction was destroyed by Isabel during the Second Battle of Installation 00, Colony was tasked with locating a new ship for the Banished. An orokin ship was found, and was reactivated by Colony's huragok Floats Low But Steady, which was regrown from a seed planted on the installation by the Librarian, a Despair-class hunter-killer. But their plans were thwarted with the sudden arrival of Sunray 1-1, an ODST squad.

Personality
Much like the other mgalekgolo who served the Covenant, Colony is described by the other species who composed it as strange and inscrutable. As they report solely to Atriox, Colony ran many missions and operations on Installation 00 without the knowledge of other Banished leaders. Colony has a small rapport with the huragok engineers of the Banished, but the exact level of communication between them is indecipherable to others.

In the battlefield, Colony prefers using many lekgolo-manned machinery and vehicles. However, they have some issues in using other lekgolo to give themselves advantage, as evidenced by Colony losing a battle against the ODST squad Sunray 1-1, despite their collaboration with huragok to create a specialized vehicle blockage containing lekgolo clusters. These vehicles were proven to be deadly to the lekgolo, with their lifespan severely reduced. Colony also refers to "unity as strength", coercing their mgalekgolo warriors to bond into a single, massive gestalt known as Goliaths, despite harmful effects into the bond-brothers that do the bonding. As the mgalekgolo languages are impossible to be translated to Digom, the lingua franca of the former Covenant's species, Colony uses a special translation software devised by the Banished to lead non-mgalekgolo troops in battle.