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CL 20.18.08.29.2337
//FILE: COMMUNICATION LOG 20.18.08.29.2337//
//MODIFIED: CE.08.29.2337//
//STATUS: INCOMPLETE//
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A: I’ll meet you soon. The last evac flights are launching in less than an hour. God damn them to hell.
A: Uploading last of the system’s data to the shipboard AI, just a few minutes and I’ll enact protocol. I’ll need your code for the system wipe. Not in the mood for manual this time.
M: One moment, strange readout here...
A: No. No it’s too soon they can’t be here already- my family
M: Enact protocol, just stay calm [M], we’ll be out of here soon
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A: Right, okay. Uploading code now.
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A: Oh god help us.
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M: I am ordering you to enact protocol! Do it now Seargent Major!
A: The evac flights are launching in fifteen minutes I don’t have time! My family!
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M: That’s an order Sergeant! Initiate the system wipe now-
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>>1904 HOURS COVENANT DETACHMENT EXITED SLIPSPACE COLE PROTOCOL HAS BEEN ENACTED SYSTEMWIDE ALL UNSC PERSONNEL TO COMPLY EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY<<
M: DO IT NOW.
A: I can’t just leave them [A]! I can’t do this I-.
M: GODDAMNIT DO IT NOW
A: I, I
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M: You’ve doomed us all.
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M: Commence Emergency shutdown, purge all data. AUTH_CODE:*********
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ALPHA-LIMA-LIMA-YANKEE
//FILE: ONI S-1 OPERATIVE ALPHA-LIMA-LIMA-YANKEE//
//MODIFIED: CE.08.14.2337//
//STATUS: CLASSIFIED TIER II//
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A: Requesting Access. AUTH_CODE: *********
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M: Request acknowledged, pending approval.
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M: Access Granted.
A: There’s a report on the way, something to do with that lost operative, a scouting mission finished just this morning.
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FILE: 4MOD923
A: Notice section 15-30-0. This matches the description of the vehicle last assigned to [Foxtrot-Romeo].
M: Are you suggesting acquisition is no longer possible?
A: Affirmative.
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A: Permission to begin emergency procedures?
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M: Permission granted.
A: Commence Protocol: MIDSTROKE
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CRASH SITE ALPHA THREE
//MODIFIED: 23.34.08.11.2337//
//STATUS: INCOMPLETE//
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M: Request Granted.
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M: Scouting Group INDIA has an ETA of two days, seven hours, and should arrive on site by August 12.
A: And the 77th? Have they made contact? Information relays are unreliable at best here at [INSTALLATION BCRAVO-C].
M: Yes, they’ve landed. We have troops en route to the site, just waiting on that elephant now. We’re not sure yet if there are any survivors but the higher ups are taking all precautions.
M: Of course, this isn’t my operation. I’m still waiting on that damn colonel to let me off system. Heavens know one of their damned fleets won’t be short behind. I still can’t believe they found a backwater like us.
A: This planet is fine, [M] after all its only a cargo barge. One stray Covenant supply ship does not mean we’re doomed. Besides, at the rate we’re building ships this “Covenant” will be ousted in a few months. We got Harvest back you know.
M: At a cost. Don’t be so positive [A], it gives me hope.
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Rainier
//FILE: MEDICAL RESEARCH FACILITY 24 “RAINIER”//
//MODIFIED: CE.00.00.08.16.2337//
//STATUS: UNKNOWN//
//LOG ENTRY 21.03.08.14.2337//
BK: This is log entry five for today. It is a just past 21 hours and some new samples just came in from the crash site.
BK: It’s strange- they are certainly organic but analysis shows they are neither human nor Covenant in nature, this despite the ship easily classified as a Covenant cargo barge.
BK: [FR] believes it may have been transporting prisoners or livestock, it’s not unlikely there are other Covenant species we haven’t met as of yet.
BK: Still, something about these samples... is just unsettling. I’ve treated the most gruesome of wounds as everyone else here has, but this-
[indistinct chatter]
BK: No, I don’t believe we’re dealing with any new threats. Probably just disfigurement from the crash.
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BK: It’s been a few hours and the readings are very unusual. As far as I can tell these samples are infested tissue from some sort of parasitic organism. It’s diificult to tell, its likely whatever creature this was perished long before the crash, years even.
BK: I’m going to try and replicate some of this tissue in the lab, see if we can bring back whatever this is. It should prove quite interesting to study.
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BK: It’s 01:00 hours here. Tests have been somewhat succseful, I’ve managed to bring back a single strain of the organism and have left it to incubate. More research to follow, I’ve never seen anything behave like this before.
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BK: It’s six in the morning now. Under persuasion from my colleagues I am proceeding to inject the strain (it is showing much activity) into live specimens for observation and research.
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BK: This is fascinating! For the first hour or so none of the mice exhibited any unusual behaviors, but then, test subject C2 began acting aggressive. Even as I record I can see some growth in the subject. Some sort of rapid growing tumor it would seem. Scans indicate unprecedented internal changes, the creatures very tissue is mutating.
[Image: Sample cells dividing inside the host.]
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BK: At 7:02 hours specimen C2 perished, but not after damaging its containment unit and losing motor control. It’s a virus, this thing. It takes over and kills you. How it spreads must be via direct contact but more research is needed. Moving now to place it in sterile container.
BK: [loud noise] it bit me! It’s alive oh god!
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Echo-Romeo
//FILE: COMMUNIQUE BETWEEN ONI S-2 OPERATIVES//
//MODIFIED: CE.08.17.2337//
//STATUS: CLASSIFIED TIER II//
//STATUS: CLASSIFIED TIER I//
A: Requesting access...
M: You’ll need a code, operative. Regardless, this is not your domain. Access Denied.
A: Sir, I know this has to do with the incident at [RAINIER].
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M: I am adamant in this matter.
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A: I need access to this data sir and with all due respect you don’t those things like I do. I saw the footage.
A: Requesting Access: AUTH_CODE: *********
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M: I will relinquish this only. Access Granted. AUTH_CODE:********
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A: Thank you, [M].
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A: These reports are more serious than I had previously expected.
M: Know it better, do you?
A: I’ve studied the reports and if I’m right it may be spreading out as we speak.
A: [M], we need to terminate this operation right now. I need permission to begin containment procedures.
M: Containment? We’ve only just begun, what of our forces? You would kill our men to stop this benign disease?
A: If I’m right, Sir, they may already be gone. This infection is not benign. From what I’ve seen, it could very well extinguish this very planet. Send word to Command and get those men away as soon as possible- we don’t have much time.
M: I’ll clear it with comma-
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SIERRA-WHISKEY
//FILE: TARGET PROFILE: SIERRA-WHISKEY//
//LAST UPDATE: N/A//
//STATUS: CLASSIFIED TIER II//
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> envoys have reported numerous accounts of [suspicious] actions.
< We have been improving relations steadily for a while now, significantly on 1/30/12 the year of change.
> It should seem that [Sierra-Whiskey] is now but a gateway.
< Yes, and now with new information regarding [Bravo-Echo-Echo] we may finally decipher the codex.
> There does seem to be much interest in us coming from that [Installation Charlie 2471].
< you suspect a trap.
> No, the relations we have formed suggest that they are sending a message.
< what sort of message?
> it invol-
< wait surely you don’t mean... that
> yes, exactly, I was not expecting it either.
< back in what was it, June?
< all three [operatives] were flatly [rejected].
> but not [compromised]!
< you think there’s been a change?
> absolutely, remember the situation back at the last rendezvous of the [SPARK CORPS]?
< of course the pressure certainly could have instigated a change, now that I think of it.
> yes, I believe loyalties have changed, we need a plan of action.
< and what of the [testudo]
> yes that does mean something.
< after all the other members did not react as such
> irrelevant.
< Perhaps we have been focused on the wrong subjects, pouring our resources and faculties into a false cause.
> I think not, they are responsive to our efforts. Note the [loss] of [Juliet-Victor].
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< and our burden heavier
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> Betrayed. But it is of no matter now. The last of our troops are withdrawing now.
< Yes, but too many yet remain, and more still will never return.
> I wonder if we could have anticipated such events. Whether we could have had some plan of contingency.
< Our foresight was obscured then. We are stronger now.
> Are we really? Did not we bring about the lesser schism?
Was not our desire chief among the reasons for shutdown?
< I’m not sure I follow, sir?
>Among our various campaigns, were not many designed against that state?
< No sir, in this you are mistaken. They were allies, what they did constituted no less than a direct act of betrayal. Do you remember not when we were overrun by the [enemy]?! That when our call was relayed to all stations throughout every sector of our jurisdiction, the message sent to all our allies? Of all of them, only [Sierra-Whiskey] turned on us. No. It was not by our doing that they betrayed us.
> Months prior to the [Great Fall] we invaded their territory, a direct violation of both our [Mantle] and the agreement we held with [that state]. That in itself is an act of hostility- at which point they could no longer consider us as allies.
< What say you of hostility? Invasion? What we did we did only as last resort. With our walls breached and our allies beyond reach, what else could we do but seek refuge in the only place left to us?
> There were other ways. It is our duty to uphold the [Mantle], to uphold the code, without our values, we are no better than [the enemy]. The invasion was unwarranted, a merger or a new treaty might just as well been arranged. It was [him] that made that decision, with neither consent of the council or the permission of the [Mantle].
< That is very well sir, but [Sierra-Whiskey] must now be considered an enemy. The lies, the subterfuge, the ignorance and denial have led to such profound bloodshed and loss on both sides, surely she is at fault for the [Great Fall].
> [Seirra-Whiskey] has always been selfish in conduct, ignorant, and decieving. You, as well as I were aware of that long before our betrayal. It is not our place to make enemies, less so of our former friends and supporters.
< That is foolish, these ideals are the very reason we fell so far.
> and why we were able to rise again.
< No, the [Mantle] has since been amended.
> Yet it remains.
> Listen now, there is no way to know what ideals they hold lest we ask of them ourselves. I believe it is time to reestablish contact.
< What of the council.
> They are divided on this matter, I wish to take this endeavor upon myself.
< If you are discovered, sir?
> Then may reason light their way.
BETA-KILO
//FILE: SUBJECT PROFILE: BETA-KILO//
//LAST UPDATE: CE.08.17.2014//
//STATUS: CLASSIFIED TIER II//
DESIGNATION: ******** ******
BORN: CE.**.**.1996
HOMEWORLD: EARTH, SOL SYSTEM
LOCATION: **** ****** CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EARTH, SOL SYSTEM
AFFILIATION: N/A
RANK: N/A
CONTACT NO#: 1.310.304.5084.7.3XS.2662.5
JULIET-SIERRA
//FILE: OPERATIVE PROFILE: JULIET-SIERRA//
DESIGNATION: ****** * ********
BORN: CE.**.**.1996
HOMEWORLD: EARTH, SOL SYSTEM
LOCATION: [REDACTED], UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EARTH, SOL SYSTEM
AFFILIATION: UNSC HIGH COMMAND
RANK: GUNNERY SERGEANT GRADE III
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Foxtrot-Romeo
//FILE: SOUTING GROUP INDIA 08:00 HOURS STATUS REPORT//
//MODIFIED: CE.08.00.08.12.2337//
//STATUS: MIA//
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M: You’ve returned.
FR: Yes, it’s been awhile
A: I trust you found it then?
FR: That I have, is this line secure?
A: No, it’s being recorded as we speak.
FR: The data I’ve collected is... Sensitive. I require assurance of the strength of our connection-
A: One moment.
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M: Alright then, what is this data.
A: What locals did Henson mess with this time?
FR: This is serious, you already know it was a Covenant barge. What we found inside was- messy. Some organic substance disfigured beyond recognition. We’re not even sure if it’s Covenant, but its definitely not human.
FR: I’ve attached an image below, a small sample. What are our orders?
[DISPLAY IMAGE (Y/N)]
M: Y
M: I’ll relay your findings, for now take the samples to [RAINIER] and quarantine the crash site. No one gets in or out until we have results.
FR: At once. I will report when done.
A: Copy that.
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INDIA
//FILE: COMMUNICATION LOG 23.16.08.17.2337//
//MODIFIED: CE.23.16.08.17.2337//
//STATUS: UNKNOWN//
M: At 07:53 hours contact was lost with Medical Research Facility 24, also known as Rainier.
M: This audio is the only information we’ve recieved from them. Analysis indicates probable casualties up to 100%.
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HOTEL-SEIRRA-VICTOR-WHISKEY
//FILE: SUBJECT PROFILE: HOTEL-SEIRRA-VICTOR-WHISKEY//
//MODIFIED: CE.09.3.2015//
//STATUS: CLASSIFIED TIER III//
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HOMEWORLD: EARTH, SOL SYSTEM
LOCATION: **** ****** CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EARTH, SOL SYSTEM
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> Hello?
> Is anyone there?
> I’ve been waiting a while but I can wait longer still, I just need to know if you will be there if I do,
> Please return
> Please
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