FROM: CODENAME DIRE
TO: HEAD OF PROJECT S.P.A.R.E, Dr. Andrew Davis
SUBJECT: WHEREABOUTS OF PROJECT 'ARTEMIS'
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Dear Doctor Davis, I have only heard great and glowing reports coming out of the Moro Research Facility on New Cebu.
As the current head of the joint service operation known as Special Projects Assessment, Recovery, and Evaluation, you have overseen the recovery of important assets and lost war materiel on the behalf of the UNSC, the Office of Naval Intelligence and many of the major civilian and military contractors who are essential to the survival of the human race.
I am particularly impressed by the recovered assets that have recently evaluated and incorporated into projects such the newer generation of power armor for the SPARTAN IV program and the Air Force's upgrade and refurbishment program for their interceptors and transport vehicles. It appears that the decision to expand Moro's testing and fabrication capabilities was indeed a wise decision with a man such as yourself at the helm.
However, none of recovery missions so far have brought back any assets from the project that you were interned to before its lost during the invasion of Skopje, Project HADES.
For all of the retrospective flak that it gets from our small community of intelligence officers nowadays, it was a solid and well-thought concept that was on its way to acceptance and mass production during a desperate period of time in the war: a cheaper, stronger, and a less ethically charged alternative to the SPARTAN program that could utilize assets already in use by the program such as armor and special weapon developments.
It had everything poured into it: priority funding, the best scientists and researchers in their respective fields and an advanced production facility, and yet internal feuds that only you truly know about are what brought it to its knees before the invasion sealed the project's fate.
Until now, it was assumed that most of the major assets and personnel were lost, including both project co-heads, Doctors Hawkwood and Robinson, and that you are the only surviving member of the project that is in possession of copies of all the documents, plans, and schematics that were on hand before your "reassignment" to other projects such as the improvements to combat-ready prosthetics for the SPARTAN program.
However, it is with great pleasure that I can inform you that the story didn't end there.
Scouts working under my jurisdiction have compiled a report (attached to this communication) that provides strong evidence of not only the survival of Dr. Robinson and HADES, but also the survival of the secondary project code-named ARTEMIS.
The short version goes as follows:
While it appears that Dr. Hawkwood did indeed die during the invasion, the director of another project that has since been shut down and investigated had sent his operatives to the planet sometime after the glassing, recovering what they could, including what we are to assume were all of the assets related to the ARTEMIS project.
During their digging through, they discovered security footage and logs (of which were recovered from a recent raid on a storage facility on Earth) that indicate that Dr. Robinson managed to escape with HADES assets, though there is nothing to indicate where she and the project escaped to after getting off the planet.
From this information, including reports made by one of your field officers during his time as an agent of section three, we have good reason to believe that ARTEMIS assets are in storage in a base that is located on a planet in your current theater of operation, this base being one of the most isolated UNSC facilities taken by the other project before its demise.
If you feel that the evidence I have provided is strong enough to warrant action, I would suggest sending out one of your scouts to the location first before committing to a full recovery operation, as I know your time out in the field is near its end for the season and your primary focus is to support the UNSC operation assaulting an insurrectionist-held world that which happens to be home to abandoned facilities that formerly belonged to major arms manufacturers including Hannibal and Misriah.
As long as this doesn't lead you to another dead end, maybe this will finally be the first real step in putting all the pieces back together of what could have been a true game-changer in the heat of the war.
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