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ONI//S3 DATA NODE THREE
Posted By: IESUproductions<iesuproductions@gmail.com>
Date: 4 November 2011, 4:59 am
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OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE/SECTION 3
DUE DILLIGENCE REPORT - A340021
0749 HOURS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2552
CLASSIFIED TOP-SECRET
COMM-SCRIBED/PTS 9386-9
00654-00403-JA//COL ACKERSON, JAMES EDWARD
00230-00923-MP//ADM PARANGOSKY, MARGRET OLIANDA
RE: GREY TEAM
I know you haven't heard from me. I have to keep this brief. Long story short, the top brass saw fit to sic Charlie Hotel on me. CHARLIE [[REDACTED]] HOTEL. I'm encrypting this message as much as I know how, and I'm going to delete all records of it after you've seen it. I pray to whatever gods may be that I don't get dead before I hit send.
All I've managed to find are Cortana's catalogued metrics for the Grey Team on the Autumn, along with what I think are key staff/assets relating to them and herself (for some damn reason). I've affixed some notes of my own as well for context.
You won't be hearing from me again, but keep digging. As I hope you can see from what I've found, there's some very dark stuff going on around whatever Grey Team is. Harry says that sometimes he feels like we're going to hell for the things we do. I feel like this is one of those.
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FULL NAME: ISAIAH 499
SERVICE NUMBER: S-499
DATE OF BIRTH: [CLASSIFIED]
HEIGHT: 195.58cm
WEIGHT: 123kg
MJOLNIR MARK V INTEGRATION:
HEIGHT IN ARMOR: 205cm
WEIGHT WITH UNDERARMOR: 149kg
WEIGHT WITH FULL ARMOR: 444kg
BRANCH: UNSC Navy, Naval Special Weapons
RANK: Senior Chief Petty Officer
BIRTHWORLD: Earth
CURRENT RESIDENCE: N/A
Damn it. This thing won't let me attach the full service record, so I guess I'll just have to summarize. As far as engagements are concerned, this reads about like a typical SPARTAN CSV, which is to say it reads like a career composite of three full Tier-1/L5 ODST squads, back to back for two and a half decades. Trouble is none of these deployments are on any official records. If I didn't have the mother of all SPARTANs barking at my heels, I'd swear it was all fabricated.
Now here's the fun part: the record shows a number of psych evals, all within parameters that should declare him unfit for duty, but apparently he passed them all with flying colors. As far as I can tell, he fits the bill of a homicidal sociopath with suicidal tendencies. Say what you will about the twos (and I'll agree with you) but they're generally held to a certain standard of sanity, and as far as I can tell it's about the same with the ones on Onyx. This makes me think Grey's a part of a different Class altogether.
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FULL NAME: PAUL-127
SERVICE NUMBER: S-127
DATE OF BIRTH: [CLASSIFIED]
HEIGHT: 199.4cm
WEIGHT: 127kg
MJOLNIR MARK V INTEGRATION:
HEIGHT IN ARMOR: 209cm
WEIGHT WITH UNDERARMOR: 174kg
WEIGHT WITH FULL ARMOR: 542.3kg
BRANCH: UNSC Navy, Naval Special Weapons
RANK:
BIRTHWORLD: Luna
CURRENT RESIDENCE: N/A
Now this is a weird one. He seems to have been diagnosed and misdiagnosed with a number of different diseases. Everything from epilepsy, to migraines, to tubercluosis (which was cured about 500 years ago) and schizophrenia. All this seems to to be an attempt to explain his habit of kneeling at the foot of his bed and muttering to himself every night.
That's right: A SPARTAN that believes in God. Belief in God isn't really a SPARTAN trait. The drugs they give them tend to engineer all that stuff out. Probably means that, whatever they're giving that boy, it ain't working. I'd likely extend that to the rest of Grey Team as well. If I'm right, it means that they have a relatively human capacity for emotion (and all the [[REDACTED]] insanity that goes with it)
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FULL NAME: MARY
SERVICE NUMBER: N/A
DATE OF BIRTH: [CLASSIFIED]
HEIGHT: 196.3cm
WEIGHT: 115kg
MJOLNIR MARK V INTEGRATION:
HEIGHT IN ARMOR: 206cm
WEIGHT WITH UNDERARMOR: 164kg
WEIGHT WITH FULL ARMOR: 434.3kg
BRANCH: UNSC Navy, Naval Special Weapons
RANK: First Lieutenant
BIRTHWORLD: Coral
CURRENT RESIDENCE: N/A
Now next to Grey Leader, the stone-cold killer of men, and Grey Three, the good Christian SPARTAN, this one seems like she's kind of middle of the road. Now, on paper, her psych evals are all within legal limits and unremarkable, aside from some mild claustrophobia and occasional "depressed thoughts", but a trained eye can see that she's headed for a fall if she ever sees any real devastation.
She's teetering on the precipice of some severe PTSD, which if Reach is any indication, is about to hit her full on in the face if she stays on the front lines. If what Grey Team is headed to on Coral (her home planet no less) doesn't kill her outright, then I hope Grey Three prays his little heart out for God to have mercy on her soul. She's going to need it.
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FULL NAME: JOSEPH HICKS
SERVICE NUMBER: 02543-10938-JH
DATE OF BIRTH: April 20, 2505
HEIGHT: 172.72cm
WEIGHT: 71.21kg
BRANCH: UNSC Navy
RANK: Vice Admiral
BIRTHWORLD: Earth
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Eiradanus II
What can I say about Hicks? He goes AWOL for the better part of ten years, gets court martialed and thrown in the gulag, then escapes and stops an innie uprising almost singlehandedly, then gets commended, promoted and now he's running the flagship of Lord Byron's fleet.
A lot has been rumored about his relationship to Halsey (mostly due to her behavior in the ten years Hicks was gone) but I don't believe it. It's gossip. Halsey's too much of a cold bitch to get into it with a hard man like that. Now her and Keyes? That I believe. Keyes is a {[REDACTED]]. A pushover. A good man, and a great soldier, but he fancies himself too much of a "gentleman" to put his foot down with a woman. Just the kind of man Halsey would like. Why am I talking about this? God, now I look like a [[REDACTED]].
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SHIP NAME: UNSC WARBOUND
REGISTRY: C-709
CLASS: Marathon-class cruiser
LAUNCH DATE: December 1, 2510
REFIT DATE: March 19, 2550
LENGTH: 1,171m
BEAM: 352m
ENGINE CONFIG:
Deuterium Core Reactor - Main (1)
ARMAMENT:
MAC (2)
Missile Delivery System (10 pods x 60 missiles, M58 "Archer") Point Defense System (40 guns, 50mm M910 PDN), Fusion rocket (5)
If nothing else, the Warbound is certainly true to it's name. It was made for WAR. Two MAC guns, ten oversized Archer Missile pods, and five (overpowered and wildly impractical) Fusion rockets. When you absolutely, positively have got to kill every mother [[REDACTED]] in the galaxy, accept no substitutes. Grown men have wept at its magnificence.
What's strange is that the Warbound is actually the flagship of Byron's fleet. The official line is that by having a Vice Admiral at the helm (and putting Byron's fleet in the middle of no-one-knows-where) it keeps one of the few Marathon-class cruisers we have off the enemy's radar. But do you know what I found out? Byron and Hicks go way back.
They fought together. There's records of them operating on Coral (although large portions of those records are covered in black ink). I think Byron was just doing his friend a solid. Not to mentioned putting in a good word for him after his desertion/arrest/escape fiasco. Even what he did to push back those innies wouldn't have made that go away without outside influence.
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CORTANA
SERVICE NUMBER: CTN 0452-9
ACTIVATION DATE: November 7, 2549
BRANCH: UNSC Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence
RANK: Smart AI Construct
Again, I'm not sure why she put herself on here. Seems like she just needed a place to put her disjointed ramblings about what "freedom" is and "love" means. I swear some of this stuff sounds straight out of a deranged teenage girl's diary. Here's an excerpt:
[[It is certainly mindless, though for reasons I have yet to understand, it appears to have an unhealthy preoccupation with my mother. It is a blurred line that lies at the edge of Godhood and Insanity. Guess which side of it I am on. Feeling lucky?CortanaXOXOXOX]]
See what I mean? If I didn't know better, I would say she's on her way to becoming metastable and killing us all. Hell, I'm not really sure I do know better.
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Well, that's it. That's all I could find before Halsey made it impractical for me to keep looking. I just hope it doesn't kill me. No, you know what? [[REDACTED]] it. I lived a good life.
morituri te salutant
Sincerely,
Colonel James Ackerson
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