User blog comment:Dtuck010/Who is The Light's Partner?/@comment-72.200.169.248-20120628134056

it's definitely an agent of the Reach. the Kroloteans call him "The Competitor." this is because Kroloteans aim to take over planets much like the Reach does. in Salvage, you can clearly see the outline of the cannon used by the Partner was an exact match of Blue Beetle's sonic cannon (I can't explain why HIS sonic attack worked when Blue Beetle's didn't, but It's undeniably the same exact design).