Joshua stepped out of the pelican; he was in full armour including his helmet. After all the years he still hadn’t got used to the attention that being part of the Spartan program. He made his way to the CIC hoping that he’d catch the briefing. It seemed that he was not in luck when he realised that there was barely anyone left in there. Luckily he had read through the main briefing on the pelican ride to the shuttle. He went to his quarters and through his clothes down into the room, he called up the ship AI and asked about the journey, it was a 12 hour trip it would take him some time by the looks of things. He found he could never sleep during slip space jumps it was impossible. He went down to the armour room and had his armour unattached, it had been a while since it had been removed but it felt good to finally have it off. He made his way down to mess hall in a cap as he always did, hiding his scarring. He sat alone on a table reading through carnage reports of recent battles.
When the ship exited slipspace it didn’t take long before the ship went into alert. ‘Bloody covenant’ he thought to himself. He got up from his quarters and sprinted to the quartermaster to regain his armour, He called on the ship AI asking about the current state of the ship, and mainly what the hell was going on. Was he was suited up he made his way to the bridge to find out for himself what was going on, as he entered the bridge he received a salute and asked them to be at ease. He picked up on the conversation. "Sorry i'm late," He paused as he saluted "Spartan 029, reporting for duty sir,". He had joined just in time for the brief, "Empty pod sounds good, I'm sure we'd all agree It's better not to spend a life before we've begun."