Maladus (Earth-5875)

Maladus, nicknamed Six by Connor Brien, was a jiralhanae stationed aboard the CRS-class light cruiser Valorous Salvation during the Fall of Reach, until its Shipmaster, Parabum, disobeyed orders and invaded the remote human colony Beta Gabriel.

Biography
Maladus and his brother Ceretus were part of a master pack which composed the crew members of the CRS-class light cruiser Valorous Salvation. However, the unified pack was made up of former two separate packs which held animosity for one another, before the Covenant forcibly inducted and enslaved the jiralhanae into its faith. These packs had fought against one another during the First Immolation that nearly drove the jiralhanae to extinction years before the Covenant discovered the species. Ceretus' pack deemed themselves smarter and more disciplined than the pack of Chieftain Parabum, its Shipmaster, and their philosophies and beliefs followed that of the Covenant and the san'shyuum. Meanwhile, the other pack held no respect towards the Path and the Great Journey.

The Valorous Salvation participated during the Fall of Reach under the Fleet of Valiant Prudence, but Parabum broke formations and fled from the battle when Fleetmaster Rho 'Baratumee was killed by the humans, retreating for the small human colony Beta Gabriel, still in the Epsilon Eridani system. Once they arrived, they found no resistance from a few hundred civilians, and started both killing and hunting humans with all the glory they wanted. Maladus and Ceretus did not bother using their Type-25 Spikers and instead proceeded to kill the humans with their bare hands for fun. When the number of humans in the settlement they attacked started to diminish duo to their slaughter, they started killing the unggoy and huragok they had aboard the Salvation, with Parabum drew a line on how many humans they should hunt and eat.

When the crew started starving, Maladus challenged Parabum's cowardice and abandoned of their servitude to the Covenant. Because Parabum was much experienced than Maladus, he pummeled the young Maladus to the ground with no mercy and tore his throat out with his tooth, which deeply enraged Ceretus.