Tragedy of the Silent Stretcher

The Tragedy of the Silent Stretcher is an event that took place during the Human-Covenant War on the planet Harvest. During the Battles on that planet Covenant and Humans alike would find hideously disfigured and distorted bodies of soldiers that were apparently tortured and mutiliated by some kind of sick killer. Both teams initially blamed the other for the killings, but they both soon realised that the killer was hunting both Humans and Covenant, and a truce was called to investigate the matter.

The Yautja were next to be blamed, but scans reported no Yautja activity in the area at all and very little in the surrounding systems. Nevertheless, the killings continued.

Alarmed and growing increasingly worried, the Covenant forces pulled out of Harvest and retreated back to their nearest base, the space station ''Apparently Safe. ''However, the killings continued even on the space station. Meanwhile, the killings stopped on Harvest.

Realising that the offender was one of their own, the Covenant abandoned the station and actvated the self-destruct. However, at the last second the self-destruct system overloaded and exploded, and the station began to fly away. Shocked, the Covenant realised that the killer had just hijacked their station. Panicking, the Covenant leaders initiated a pursuit of the station but it simply turned its weapons around and annihiliated the fleet, before flying away. The station, and the killer, was never seen again. Since the killings on Harvest had stopped, the Humans celebrated a victory but also held memorials for their Covenant enemies that had been so brutally killed by this sick monster.