Lax (Earth-2124)

"«Your destruction... is the will of the gods!»"

- - Lax

Lax is a kig-yar smuggler and mercenary.

History
Following the end of the First Contact War, Lax became a jobless immigrant. In 2559, he acquired a lethal biological weapon that only affected humans. He traveled to the human Outer Colony Sedra, delivering the bio-weapon to a sangheili terrorist on Belarus Lake. Unknown to both him and the terrorist, he was seen by a Sedra Colonial Guard camera drone and the place of the transaction was found by a squad of the Office of Naval Intelligence. After their business was finished, the sangheili departed from the lake, with the ONI agent Gregory Ramos arresting the kig-yar. Afterwards, the sangheili carried a terrorist attack on Novi Grad, killing hundreds of human civilians. Following the attack on the city, Lax was brought to question by the Sedran Colonial Guard sergeant Samantha Wisner.

Supported with a translation software, Wisner interrogated the kig-yar smuggler, who insisted he was a legal colonist. His lies and lack of cooperation led Wisner to brutally beat his head on the table and hold him at gunpoint until he revealed the truth of the terrorist attack, to which he revealed he knew nothing. Accompanied by Colonel Randall Aiken, the ONI operative Jameson Locke entered the interrogation room and communicated with the kig-yar in Digom, the Covenant's lingua franca, manipulating him into revealing all he knew, to which he did.

Personality
Unlike most of his species, Lax was an ardent believer and followe of the Path, even seven years following the end of the Covenant and the First Contact War. While he was brutally interrogated by Samantha Wisner, Lax did not let his conviction go and insisted the Great Journey was real and that humans had no place in it. However, he had some common sense in mind, regretting having dealt with a sangheili, labeling the entire race as "fools". An established smuggler and mercenary, Lax operated into the former territories that belonbged to the Covenant, and was fluent in both Digom and the kig-yar language.