Short stores and lore thread

[Admiral-Sabree]

there effects failed, the spartans were sorely under equipped and when Haberle called in ONI it was over. The 27th Blades brought with them a elite special ops team, Raven lead by the Notorious General Blight and his Artificial Ai with all its enhancements. The 3 spartans were branded as traitors with a one million credit bounty placed on each of there heads. Loads of the most elite bounty hunters came to collect. Hunted by ONI, branded traitors to the UNSC unable to sway even the likes of General Grant that they were innocent and that Haberle was the traitor. Any chance at rest, destroyed by the countless bounty hunters tirelessly hounding them, there time was running out but there was hope, they were not alone.....

An assassin named Clarissa found them and was making them feel like she was going to kill but then joined forces with them to help overthrow leadership. Clarissa got their armor painted and also taught them how to blend into a crowd. While on the run the 3 Spartans discovered her horrible secret. She told the 3 Spartans that Haberle killed her husband and only son. The group kept running until they could find a decent safe house. Their safe house became not so safe when the special ops task force came. Clarissa knew at that moment that it was time to retaliate. The 3 Spartans suited up while escaping the building by jumping off the 3rd floor. They ran and ran until they reached the local military base. They killed anyone in their way whilst running towards the armory. They make it into the armory and gear up. They prepare to hit the door's control panel when...

The door opened with top ONI agent coming out on the door with a SAW using th element of surprise one of the spartans choked him to death and stole his uniform and gun his plan was going great until...

The alarm went off resonating throughout the walls of the building. Not seconds later that halls were filled with hostile ONI agents. The Spartans were outgunned and outmanned but they had someone on the inside. Spshhhhhhh the halls were gased the Spartans helmets filtered out the nock out juice so they found themselves in a hall of unconsies solders.
One of the Spartans grabed there budy in the officer uniform and moved down the hall. In the door on the far end stood a old friend. They were....

[Roebuck]

An assassin named Clarissa found them and was making them feel like she was going to kill but then joined forces with them to help overthrow leadership. Clarissa got their armor painted and also taught them how to blend into a crowd. While on the run the 3 Spartans discovered her horrible secret. She told the 3 Spartans that Haberle killed her husband and only son. The group kept running until they could find a decent safe house. Their safe house became not so safe when the special ops task force came. Clarissa knew at that moment that it was time to retaliate. The 3 Spartans suited up while escaping the building by jumping off the 3rd floor. They ran and ran until they reached the local military base. They killed anyone in their way whilst running towards the armory. They make it into the armory and gear up. They prepare to hit the door's control panel when...

The door opened with top ONI agent coming out on the door with a SAW using th element of surprise one of the spartans choked him to death and stole his uniform and gun his plan was going great until...

The alarm went off resonating throughout the walls of the building. Not seconds later that halls were filled with hostile ONI agents. The Spartans were outgunned and outmanned but they had someone on the inside. Spshhhhhhh the halls were gased the Spartans helmets filtered out the nock out juice so they found themselves in a hall of unconsies solders.
One of the Spartans grabed there budy in the officer uniform and moved down the hall. In the door on the far end stood a old friend. They were....

Escorting them to a helicopter head straight towards...

[Admiral-Sabree]

The door opened with top ONI agent coming out on the door with a SAW using th element of surprise one of the spartans choked him to death and stole his uniform and gun his plan was going great until...

The alarm went off resonating throughout the walls of the building. Not seconds later that halls were filled with hostile ONI agents. The Spartans were outgunned and outmanned but they had someone on the inside. Spshhhhhhh the halls were gased the Spartans helmets filtered out the nock out juice so they found themselves in a hall of unconsies solders.
One of the Spartans grabed there budy in the officer uniform and moved down the hall. In the door on the far end stood a old friend. They were....

Escorting them to a helicopter head straight towards...

The main structure up the stairs quick. There a pelican waiting for you go.

They ran up the stairs and were greated at the top by...

[Roebuck]

The alarm went off resonating throughout the walls of the building. Not seconds later that halls were filled with hostile ONI agents. The Spartans were outgunned and outmanned but they had someone on the inside. Spshhhhhhh the halls were gased the Spartans helmets filtered out the nock out juice so they found themselves in a hall of unconsies solders.
One of the Spartans grabed there budy in the officer uniform and moved down the hall. In the door on the far end stood a old friend. They were....

Escorting them to a helicopter head straight towards...

The main structure up the stairs quick. There a pelican waiting for you go.

They ran up the stairs and were greated at the top by...

NOt only oni they also met may elites

[charliebucket]

Escorting them to a helicopter head straight towards...

The main structure up the stairs quick. There a pelican waiting for you go.

They ran up the stairs and were greated at the top by...

NOt only oni they also met may elites

But hiding 50 meters away, behind a sharp and jagged rock were the greatest hit-squad the universe had ever seen: ATLAS! Their leader was GreenSpartan, who was in ONI's custody and ATLAS had to break him out, with the help of some new found friends...

[Admiral-Sabree]

Communication: Captain Arnold Benedict
 
Sender: General Christan Grant - UNSC High Command
 
Captain. I wanted to thank you personally for undertaking this endeavor. I have to inform you however that you will be unable to find the original crew of the Washington. I decided to tack a gander into the subject matter but my investigation was immediately cut short by ONI. The matter was classified by the highest order of ONI's command structure, even I don't have access to the information unless its a need to know bases. I gathered do too who was handling the situation that asking any more would have resulted unfavorably for me. Lucky for me I don't need official channels. I called in a favor from a special friend of mine. After 4 hours of haphazard jargon back and forth they managed to sneak me clearance codes to the information. This leads us too a new problem for thought. The entire crew stationed aboard the Washington at this time all perished shortly after. ONI records list them as unknown causes, its the first time I've ever seen ONI confused as to what happened. There not behind the crews disappearance or death, but simply the cover up.
 
This is where everything gets twisted. There's at least 30 some reports from ONI agents all around the Draconis cluster. Its a bunch of crazy nonsense reports back and forth that barley make sense. After piecing all the reports together I got a general idea of what happened. The Washington was back in rout to Harvest to restock and resupply for its next expedition when the captain of the ship reported a sort of sickness. One agent who spoke on comms with the commander of the vessel said he sounded sporadic. Stuttering and slurring his words. Another reported that the Washington failed to check in at its assigned relay station. She was order to contact the vessel, upon doing so however she was greeted with static and someone screaming into the comms some sort of passage or script. She wrought down some words, a piece of her report follows " I tried to scratch down what he was yelling at me but the static made it hard to hear it was something like dead stars screaming in the all spires of space or something. Then the line just went dead" She went on about the ship's subsystems and that the vessel was broadcasting a emergency signal yet was jamming itself. Multiple reports track the Washington's final location to Alpha Draconis and the planet Cyan-129. Within hours the entire planet fell silent. ONI classified the entire incident immediately, General Lougin dispatched strike team Raven, Manticore, and Verdan. The last piece of information revolves around the sol survivor of the strike team, Sergeant Seth Blight. He has filed his own report and i'll include it at the end of this message. Ill sum up what his report says.
 
To put it simple the teams were sent to different parts of the planet to locate the Washington, The colony on the planet and the UNSC command base Cassine. Our guy Blight was on the team sent to the command base. He starts his report stating that his CO Commodore Nero started acting strange immediately upon their entry into the system. This didn't seem to be a problem to him as he assumed his CO was just a bit jumpy. As they made touch down the team split up into four groups of four. He was amazed by what seemed to have happened. Apparently the entire base was scorched and damaged, he said there was plasma and rocket scorching, armor, guns, and ammo everywhere but they didn't find anything. Nothing to verify what happened. He explained and pointed out that his CO knew exactly where they were going, as if he was in some sort of trance. Private Rigs, one of the men with him, tried to ask Nero where they were going but he didn't answer. They entered the command center of the base, Blight and everyone else had just received a message from Verdan. He wrought that the message was scrambled so badly he couldn't make out a word. Then it all went to crazy as he says. The entire base announced that Quarantine had been disabled. Nero then shot and killed Rigs and wounded there other man Private Mike. Blight had to take out his own commander but it didn't end there. He elaborates as the rest of strike team raven come on the comms calling for everyone to fall back. They were under attack by some sort of biological abominations. Blight helped Mike through the halls, it seems mike made him leave him behind? They were attacked by something, he didn't elaborate on what, just that it was, human. Blight regrouped with a few of the other members of strike team Raven. One of the other soldiers had some vials that were extrapolated from one of the surviving crew members of the Washington. They believed it held answers to what happened to the crew aboard the Washington and that it might explain what happened to the base. They made it back outside and made a run for the pelicans. There they were ambushed by a squad of there men and the things that were in the base. Blight the man with the vials and another guy made it to one of the pelicans. They managed to get airborne but not before one of them was bitten by one of the things. While exiting the planets orbit one of the men started to break down freaking out while the other who was bitten was expressing pain throughout his whole body. Blight tried to contact the other teams from the cockpit, Verdan he got nothing but static. Manticore on the other managed to get a message out, it was on a continues loop. It was sent to the other teams to evacuate the planet immediately, the ship had been overran by a unknown biological life form. They demanded that anyone who gets off the planet is too immediately order in a full orbital bombardment of the planet to contain the threat, the message was cut off from there and was just silent for a few minutes before it repeated. Blight went back down to the bay of the pelican orbiting the planet to inform the others of everyone else's fate. What he was greeted with was a mess, the man who was bitten killed the other guy. Blight wasted no time in mowing down the solder. He recovered the vials from the bay and then sealed the doors and remained in the pelicans cockpit broadcasting a distress message. The Dimata arrived and without question the planet was glassed and all logs related to the subject matter were classified at level Zero Red Alpha Omega. Blight was extracted from the cockpit of the pelican and the ship was destroyed in orbit of the planet. He notes that he handed the vials to a man named Johnson Frank. He received a promotion for his assignment and was told to discuss the events and subject matter of his operation to no one.
 
I have a request, I can't discuss it here on theses dispatches, Meet me on Mars when you get the chance, there's a lovely bar called the Red Grave. We can discuss this matter in more private without anyone else listening in. Get back to me when you will be there. Also as promised blights full report from his OP it's a mess, read it if you have time but you might want something to help take it all in.
 
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2553-03-01

Communication: General Christin Grant

Sender: Captain Arnold Benedict- Colonial affairs

I'm sorry for my belayed response. I'm not sure what to say on how you got that information, and yet I find myself regretting ever looking into this hole affair at all. Since my search In to the Washington would end up being a bust anyway I desided to investigate the after reports from the system and the long range scans that were regularly gathered. I'll send you the data but it appears to be some sort of mass field or something. I'm not entirely sure yet. I've contacted a good friend of mine to help draw a conclusion as to what this field is and if or not it may present a danger to anyone within range of its effects.

As for this meeting, what do you have in mind. I know the place and I can give you the time but I need to know if it really warents me to schedule a trip back to SOL. As is this hole affair has been rather streunis and I'm afraid my health is beginning to suffer for it. If you sincerely believe that you simply can't tell me over these communication logs so be it but, you better have a darn good reason to drag me all the way back to that dustbowl. Heres the data file. As said a good colleague of mine is looking into it and we should have more information soon.

(htcp)SCAN-163846-zero_alpha_nine-srg.

2553-03-08

[Admiral-Sabree]

Communication: Captain Arnold Benedict
 
Sender: General Christan Grant - UNSC High Command
 
Captain. I wanted to thank you personally for undertaking this endeavor. I have to inform you however that you will be unable to find the original crew of the Washington. I decided to tack a gander into the subject matter but my investigation was immediately cut short by ONI. The matter was classified by the highest order of ONI's command structure, even I don't have access to the information unless its a need to know bases. I gathered do too who was handling the situation that asking any more would have resulted unfavorably for me. Lucky for me I don't need official channels. I called in a favor from a special friend of mine. After 4 hours of haphazard jargon back and forth they managed to sneak me clearance codes to the information. This leads us too a new problem for thought. The entire crew stationed aboard the Washington at this time all perished shortly after. ONI records list them as unknown causes, its the first time I've ever seen ONI confused as to what happened. There not behind the crews disappearance or death, but simply the cover up.
 
This is where everything gets twisted. There's at least 30 some reports from ONI agents all around the Draconis cluster. Its a bunch of crazy nonsense reports back and forth that barley make sense. After piecing all the reports together I got a general idea of what happened. The Washington was back in rout to Harvest to restock and resupply for its next expedition when the captain of the ship reported a sort of sickness. One agent who spoke on comms with the commander of the vessel said he sounded sporadic. Stuttering and slurring his words. Another reported that the Washington failed to check in at its assigned relay station. She was order to contact the vessel, upon doing so however she was greeted with static and someone screaming into the comms some sort of passage or script. She wrought down some words, a piece of her report follows " I tried to scratch down what he was yelling at me but the static made it hard to hear it was something like dead stars screaming in the all spires of space or something. Then the line just went dead" She went on about the ship's subsystems and that the vessel was broadcasting a emergency signal yet was jamming itself. Multiple reports track the Washington's final location to Alpha Draconis and the planet Cyan-129. Within hours the entire planet fell silent. ONI classified the entire incident immediately, General Lougin dispatched strike team Raven, Manticore, and Verdan. The last piece of information revolves around the sol survivor of the strike team, Sergeant Seth Blight. He has filed his own report and i'll include it at the end of this message. Ill sum up what his report says.
 
To put it simple the teams were sent to different parts of the planet to locate the Washington, The colony on the planet and the UNSC command base Cassine. Our guy Blight was on the team sent to the command base. He starts his report stating that his CO Commodore Nero started acting strange immediately upon their entry into the system. This didn't seem to be a problem to him as he assumed his CO was just a bit jumpy. As they made touch down the team split up into four groups of four. He was amazed by what seemed to have happened. Apparently the entire base was scorched and damaged, he said there was plasma and rocket scorching, armor, guns, and ammo everywhere but they didn't find anything. Nothing to verify what happened. He explained and pointed out that his CO knew exactly where they were going, as if he was in some sort of trance. Private Rigs, one of the men with him, tried to ask Nero where they were going but he didn't answer. They entered the command center of the base, Blight and everyone else had just received a message from Verdan. He wrought that the message was scrambled so badly he couldn't make out a word. Then it all went to crazy as he says. The entire base announced that Quarantine had been disabled. Nero then shot and killed Rigs and wounded there other man Private Mike. Blight had to take out his own commander but it didn't end there. He elaborates as the rest of strike team raven come on the comms calling for everyone to fall back. They were under attack by some sort of biological abominations. Blight helped Mike through the halls, it seems mike made him leave him behind? They were attacked by something, he didn't elaborate on what, just that it was, human. Blight regrouped with a few of the other members of strike team Raven. One of the other soldiers had some vials that were extrapolated from one of the surviving crew members of the Washington. They believed it held answers to what happened to the crew aboard the Washington and that it might explain what happened to the base. They made it back outside and made a run for the pelicans. There they were ambushed by a squad of there men and the things that were in the base. Blight the man with the vials and another guy made it to one of the pelicans. They managed to get airborne but not before one of them was bitten by one of the things. While exiting the planets orbit one of the men started to break down freaking out while the other who was bitten was expressing pain throughout his whole body. Blight tried to contact the other teams from the cockpit, Verdan he got nothing but static. Manticore on the other managed to get a message out, it was on a continues loop. It was sent to the other teams to evacuate the planet immediately, the ship had been overran by a unknown biological life form. They demanded that anyone who gets off the planet is too immediately order in a full orbital bombardment of the planet to contain the threat, the message was cut off from there and was just silent for a few minutes before it repeated. Blight went back down to the bay of the pelican orbiting the planet to inform the others of everyone else's fate. What he was greeted with was a mess, the man who was bitten killed the other guy. Blight wasted no time in mowing down the solder. He recovered the vials from the bay and then sealed the doors and remained in the pelicans cockpit broadcasting a distress message. The Dimata arrived and without question the planet was glassed and all logs related to the subject matter were classified at level Zero Red Alpha Omega. Blight was extracted from the cockpit of the pelican and the ship was destroyed in orbit of the planet. He notes that he handed the vials to a man named Johnson Frank. He received a promotion for his assignment and was told to discuss the events and subject matter of his operation to no one.
 
I have a request, I can't discuss it here on theses dispatches, Meet me on Mars when you get the chance, there's a lovely bar called the Red Grave. We can discuss this matter in more private without anyone else listening in. Get back to me when you will be there. Also as promised blights full report from his OP it's a mess, read it if you have time but you might want something to help take it all in.
 
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2553-03-01

Communication: General Christin Grant

Sender: Captain Arnold Benedict- Colonial affairs

I'm sorry for my belayed response. I'm not sure what to say on how you got that information, and yet I find myself regretting ever looking into this hole affair at all. Since my search In to the Washington would end up being a bust anyway I desided to investigate the after reports from the system and the long range scans that were regularly gathered. I'll send you the data but it appears to be some sort of mass field or something. I'm not entirely sure yet. I've contacted a good friend of mine to help draw a conclusion as to what this field is and if or not it may present a danger to anyone within range of its effects.

As for this meeting, what do you have in mind. I know the place and I can give you the time but I need to know if it really warents me to schedule a trip back to SOL. As is this hole affair has been rather streunis and I'm afraid my health is beginning to suffer for it. If you sincerely believe that you simply can't tell me over these communication logs so be it but, you better have a darn good reason to drag me all the way back to that dustbowl. Heres the data file. As said a good colleague of mine is looking into it and we should have more information soon.

(htcp)SCAN-163846-zero_alpha_nine-srg.

2553-03-08

Communication: Captain Arnold Benedict

Sender: General Christan Grant - UNSC High Command

Thank you for the data. The ramifications of this, are disturbing. I haven't seen anything like this for a long time. I thought it had simply gone away, that it was all just in my head. Perhaps I was wrong? These scans are worrisome but untill we have a more conclusive answer I don't think we can uncover anything else. I've asked my contacts to dig into this as well. She's a slippery one, likes to play cat and mouse with ONI. If they have something she will get it. Ill share what information she can gather with you when I get it myself.

As for the other matter I'm afraid so. I can't risk the information, you know these blasted things Don't have security. Any pirate with two thumbs can hack in. Don't worry though, SOL isn't as run down as you think it is. I learned quite some time ago that a return to your roots isn't so bad every once in awhile. I've informed 3rd fleet that your going to need a express flight. Should be rather quick and straight to the point. I'll see you there I pressumbe.

2553-03-11

[Admiral-Sabree]

Communication: Captain Arnold Benedict
 
Sender: General Christan Grant - UNSC High Command
 
Captain. I wanted to thank you personally for undertaking this endeavor. I have to inform you however that you will be unable to find the original crew of the Washington. I decided to tack a gander into the subject matter but my investigation was immediately cut short by ONI. The matter was classified by the highest order of ONI's command structure, even I don't have access to the information unless its a need to know bases. I gathered do too who was handling the situation that asking any more would have resulted unfavorably for me. Lucky for me I don't need official channels. I called in a favor from a special friend of mine. After 4 hours of haphazard jargon back and forth they managed to sneak me clearance codes to the information. This leads us too a new problem for thought. The entire crew stationed aboard the Washington at this time all perished shortly after. ONI records list them as unknown causes, its the first time I've ever seen ONI confused as to what happened. There not behind the crews disappearance or death, but simply the cover up.
 
This is where everything gets twisted. There's at least 30 some reports from ONI agents all around the Draconis cluster. Its a bunch of crazy nonsense reports back and forth that barley make sense. After piecing all the reports together I got a general idea of what happened. The Washington was back in rout to Harvest to restock and resupply for its next expedition when the captain of the ship reported a sort of sickness. One agent who spoke on comms with the commander of the vessel said he sounded sporadic. Stuttering and slurring his words. Another reported that the Washington failed to check in at its assigned relay station. She was order to contact the vessel, upon doing so however she was greeted with static and someone screaming into the comms some sort of passage or script. She wrought down some words, a piece of her report follows " I tried to scratch down what he was yelling at me but the static made it hard to hear it was something like dead stars screaming in the all spires of space or something. Then the line just went dead" She went on about the ship's subsystems and that the vessel was broadcasting a emergency signal yet was jamming itself. Multiple reports track the Washington's final location to Alpha Draconis and the planet Cyan-129. Within hours the entire planet fell silent. ONI classified the entire incident immediately, General Lougin dispatched strike team Raven, Manticore, and Verdan. The last piece of information revolves around the sol survivor of the strike team, Sergeant Seth Blight. He has filed his own report and i'll include it at the end of this message. Ill sum up what his report says.
 
To put it simple the teams were sent to different parts of the planet to locate the Washington, The colony on the planet and the UNSC command base Cassine. Our guy Blight was on the team sent to the command base. He starts his report stating that his CO Commodore Nero started acting strange immediately upon their entry into the system. This didn't seem to be a problem to him as he assumed his CO was just a bit jumpy. As they made touch down the team split up into four groups of four. He was amazed by what seemed to have happened. Apparently the entire base was scorched and damaged, he said there was plasma and rocket scorching, armor, guns, and ammo everywhere but they didn't find anything. Nothing to verify what happened. He explained and pointed out that his CO knew exactly where they were going, as if he was in some sort of trance. Private Rigs, one of the men with him, tried to ask Nero where they were going but he didn't answer. They entered the command center of the base, Blight and everyone else had just received a message from Verdan. He wrought that the message was scrambled so badly he couldn't make out a word. Then it all went to crazy as he says. The entire base announced that Quarantine had been disabled. Nero then shot and killed Rigs and wounded there other man Private Mike. Blight had to take out his own commander but it didn't end there. He elaborates as the rest of strike team raven come on the comms calling for everyone to fall back. They were under attack by some sort of biological abominations. Blight helped Mike through the halls, it seems mike made him leave him behind? They were attacked by something, he didn't elaborate on what, just that it was, human. Blight regrouped with a few of the other members of strike team Raven. One of the other soldiers had some vials that were extrapolated from one of the surviving crew members of the Washington. They believed it held answers to what happened to the crew aboard the Washington and that it might explain what happened to the base. They made it back outside and made a run for the pelicans. There they were ambushed by a squad of there men and the things that were in the base. Blight the man with the vials and another guy made it to one of the pelicans. They managed to get airborne but not before one of them was bitten by one of the things. While exiting the planets orbit one of the men started to break down freaking out while the other who was bitten was expressing pain throughout his whole body. Blight tried to contact the other teams from the cockpit, Verdan he got nothing but static. Manticore on the other managed to get a message out, it was on a continues loop. It was sent to the other teams to evacuate the planet immediately, the ship had been overran by a unknown biological life form. They demanded that anyone who gets off the planet is too immediately order in a full orbital bombardment of the planet to contain the threat, the message was cut off from there and was just silent for a few minutes before it repeated. Blight went back down to the bay of the pelican orbiting the planet to inform the others of everyone else's fate. What he was greeted with was a mess, the man who was bitten killed the other guy. Blight wasted no time in mowing down the solder. He recovered the vials from the bay and then sealed the doors and remained in the pelicans cockpit broadcasting a distress message. The Dimata arrived and without question the planet was glassed and all logs related to the subject matter were classified at level Zero Red Alpha Omega. Blight was extracted from the cockpit of the pelican and the ship was destroyed in orbit of the planet. He notes that he handed the vials to a man named Johnson Frank. He received a promotion for his assignment and was told to discuss the events and subject matter of his operation to no one.
 
I have a request, I can't discuss it here on theses dispatches, Meet me on Mars when you get the chance, there's a lovely bar called the Red Grave. We can discuss this matter in more private without anyone else listening in. Get back to me when you will be there. Also as promised blights full report from his OP it's a mess, read it if you have time but you might want something to help take it all in.
 
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2553-03-01

Communication: General Christin Grant

Sender: Captain Arnold Benedict- Colonial affairs

I'm sorry for my belayed response. I'm not sure what to say on how you got that information, and yet I find myself regretting ever looking into this hole affair at all. Since my search In to the Washington would end up being a bust anyway I desided to investigate the after reports from the system and the long range scans that were regularly gathered. I'll send you the data but it appears to be some sort of mass field or something. I'm not entirely sure yet. I've contacted a good friend of mine to help draw a conclusion as to what this field is and if or not it may present a danger to anyone within range of its effects.

As for this meeting, what do you have in mind. I know the place and I can give you the time but I need to know if it really warents me to schedule a trip back to SOL. As is this hole affair has been rather streunis and I'm afraid my health is beginning to suffer for it. If you sincerely believe that you simply can't tell me over these communication logs so be it but, you better have a darn good reason to drag me all the way back to that dustbowl. Heres the data file. As said a good colleague of mine is looking into it and we should have more information soon.

(htcp)SCAN-163846-zero_alpha_nine-srg.

2553-03-08

Communication: Captain Arnold Benedict

Sender: General Christan Grant - UNSC High Command

Thank you for the data. The ramifications of this, are disturbing. I haven't seen anything like this for a long time. I thought it had simply gone away, that it was all just in my head. Perhaps I was wrong? These scans are worrisome but untill we have a more conclusive answer I don't think we can uncover anything else. I've asked my contacts to dig into this as well. She's a slippery one, likes to play cat and mouse with ONI. If they have something she will get it. Ill share what information she can gather with you when I get it myself.

As for the other matter I'm afraid so. I can't risk the information, you know these blasted things Don't have security. Any pirate with two thumbs can hack in. Don't worry though, SOL isn't as run down as you think it is. I learned quite some time ago that a return to your roots isn't so bad every once in awhile. I've informed 3rd fleet that your going to need a express flight. Should be rather quick and straight to the point. I'll see you there I pressumbe.

2553-03-11

Communication: General Christin Grant

Sender: Captain Arnold Benedict- Colonial affairs

Good news and bad news, the good news is I'll be arriving in the SOL system within the next 24 hours, hello Earth or should I say Mars, here I come. The bad news, I haven't heard from my college in the last few days. Now let me explain a little. I got the data back from them, hundreds of logs from the Cygna cluster and I mean hundreds. This gravitational field, its huge. I mean massive on a solar scale. As of right now the field seems to envelope entire systems. I was thinking that this might have been some sort of strange cosmic anomalie of some sort. We have seen something like this before a long time ago but nothing on this scale. Initial reports turned up nothing but these deeper scans picked up something else. There's something else here besides the gravitational field. Its strange, almost I'd like to say on a deeper level then real space. Before my trip here I had one of the captain's go out and conduct some simple slipspace jumps. What ever it is its much deeper then what we can reach with our current technology. This is important, what ever it is. Its far past anything we can do.

I've spent the entire trip deciphering as much of this data as I could, I've been making headway but as of yet I haven't been able to figure out what this is, or its orgine point. I'm trying to relay the data from these scans to find the source but untill I can I'm afraid it will be hard to discern anything else. Now you know me, I'd much rather leave this to the scientists to figure ouy like my college but, I've lost contact with them. As they were part of a task force sent out to get a closer look at this field, they just disappeared. I've been asking around yet haven't gotten anything back. This is, problematic as taking a closer look at Cygna Prime and its placement within the Cygna cluster. Then with there research ship sent within the system and its planned rout, along with the time that the ship disappeared during its voyage. With all the data, based on the size of the field and the ships time of entry in the cluster along with the distance to Cygna Prime the data starts to point to the planet as being the source of this field. I can only imagine the implications it this theory is true.

We will be docking soon, I've been up for the last 3 cycles. I'm going to get some shudyeye before we arrive. Since I'll be seeing you in person, we can trade data there. Also I didn't think about this untill now but it might be worth checking up with UNSC logs of ship movements and placements around the system as well. I should also be able to get the official report on the colonization of the planet. Surprisingly there are no images of the system on open records. So I'll meet you at the Red Grave tomorrow 1800 hours.

2553-03-22

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I'm confused with this line. There are like 3 short stories going on. Let me make a new forum for it...

[Admiral-Sabree]

Gasping, short respirations, air burning. I can't see, i can't hear. The vortex, did it work. Dust, I can taste, grit, decay. Where am I, where are we. Are we dead, or is this, worse than death. I feel empty. I feel far away. I feel cold. Is this our future, our past, I see with clarity. Yet the silence stings, I see them, I see it. I know what can be, what must be, what can't be. There's nothing left, is there. Gasping for breath now. I'm falling. Falling through the dark. I fade away. I fade to nothing. Grasping, I feel the waves of time wash over me. I reach, but I am tiny and small. Arms hold no reach, faint, distant, so I see it through the dark. The stars are silent. I see it for what it is, and I am lost. Endless sleep wash over me. Spiraling in the dark something, I see, only a glimpse, for one moment I am at Peace. Then there is nothing. Gasping, harsh, short, stuttering breaths of air. The light trickles in through the dark. The things i want to say. I know the truth.I know our future, but i don't say these things. There's not words for these. The dust, the ruble, the pain flows through me. I breath, ascendance. What is lost must not be found until the moment of realisation. Perception is a key, but it can only be so if seen for what it is. I close my eyes now, as they lift me up to safety. I doubt I'll recall, but that is the way of things that can't be known. I am ready. I breath.