Luro 'Taralumee (Earth-5875)

"Weakness? You have faced these lowly creatures while your warriors perished. That tells me only one thing, 'Lodamee. You have not the heart to die with honor."

- - Luro 'Taralumee to Thel 'Lodamee

Luro 'Taralumee was a sangheili warrior of the Covenant and Fleetmaster of the Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence during the First Contact War.

Biography
After commanding the forces and glassing of the human colony Kawlang during the Battle of Kawlang, one of Luro 'Taralumee's warriors, Thel 'Lodamee, was able to capture the scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey, who placed her aboard the Fleetmaster's flagship Resplendent Fervor. However, they were unable to jump to slipspace duo to a magnetic interference in the system they traversed. Realizing that the UNSC would try to stop them, he created numerous decoys with antimatter charges to eliminate the potential reinforcements. When SPARTAN-II Blue Team attacked in an attempt to save Halsey, one of them, Solomon-069, became one of the trap's victims. After this, the rest of the team realized where Halsey was located, and headed to the Resplendent Fervor. Luro remained confident the SPARTANs would not enter his ship, arguing the matter with 'Lodamee, who warned him about not underestimating the humans. As a response, 'Taralumee could only show his contempt for Thel not dying in battle alongside the rest of his warriors.

Following the boarding of the ship by the SPARTANs, they advanced to Halsey's position, killing countless of jiralhanae, unggoy and kig-yar along their way. As they raged on, 'Taralumee tried to kill them by ordering each of the ship's sections to be detached, despite the fact his own warriors would die. After the fleet was able to clear the magnetic interference, it began jumping into slipspace, breaking the entire lower section in another attempt to kill the humans. One of his bridge officers recalled such an action would abandon 'Lodamee, but 'Taralumee noted that all that remained for him was either death of become an Arbiter, which unknowlingly saved the lives of John-117 and Halsey.

Following the end of the First Contact War, 'Taralumee did not remove the -ee suffix from his clan name, and continued to follow the Path to the forerunners despite his hatred for the san'shyuum and the jiralhanae. Some sources claim he have been consolidating his power for unknown reasons, which placed him at the black list for both the Unified Earth Government and the Swords of Sanghelios.