//radio log – SCS-503 UNSC BUNKER HILL

8.20.52.//

00447-24880AG: Sir, they just folded in, inside our perimeter!

09264-11927YJ: Son, I need you to calm down.

00447-24880AG: Additional contacts coming in – moving to engage.

09264-11927YJ: [static] …your picket back to Rally Point Alpha!

16924-00419NS: Admiral, you can't let them maintain orbit.

09264-11927YJ: I'm trying, General, but we've lost the advantage within the lunar perimeter! [static] My frigates are combat-ineffective, and the fighters…they don't have enough punch to take out a Covenant Assault Carrier!

16924-00419NS: Your pilots let up, and down here, it's the goddamn Apocalypse!

09264-11927YJ:My options are severely limited, General. I can't spare any heavies to engage the Carrier.

16924-00419NS:I'm asking you to retarget the orbitals!

09264-11927YJ: And let more of them slip the kill zone? That's insanity! There's nothing more I can do!

00447-24880AG: The core defense is too intense. Our grid is maxed. I don't think we can last another run.

16924-00419NS: Admiral—

CTN 0452-9: Admiral, tell your men to hold their positions. Reinforcements are on the spoke.

09264-11927YJ: The entire fleet is engaged, Cortana. With respect, what the hell sort of reinforcement have you got?

CTN 0452-9: Sierra-117 prepped for extra-vehicular combat insertion, sir.

02317-62481JL: It's passing below your position, ma'am. Proximity zero.

CTN 0452-9: Admiral, permission to –

09264-11927YJ: Granted…make sure he doesn't miss, Cortana.

CTN 0452-9: Aye, sir. Decompression in 3, 2, 1…

09264-11927YJ: SCS-503, UNSC Bunker Hill, to FFG-142, UNSC In Amber Clad.

01835-94228MK: In Amber Clad responding.

09264-11927YJ: Commander, bring your ship around to course zero one two point nine six. Declination zero zero zero point four one.

01835-94228MK: Copy on course zero one two point nine six, declination zero zero zero point four one.

09264-11927YJ: Head to quadrant four, section two eight. Hold there and retrieve Sierra-117 from EVA mission and head planetside to point of hostile insertion. How copy?

01835-94228MK: Affirmative. Retrieve Sierra-117 at quadrant four, section two eight. In Amber Clad en route.

09264-11927YJ: General, Sierra-117 and In Amber Clad en route to the Carrier. ETA, five minutes.

16924-00419NS: [static]… acknowledged. Thank you, Admiral.

09264-11927YJ: SCS-503, UNSC Bunker Hill, to DD-1194, UNSC Lancelot.

00327-08011CW: UNSC Lancelot, acknowledged.

09264-11927YJ: Chuck, I need you to come about to course one zero five point eight zero. Declination zero one zero point zero one.

00327-08011CW: Roger, course one zero five point eight zero, declination zero one zero point one.

09264-11927YJ: Message K-201, UNSC Andastre, and FFG-027, UNSC Commonwealth. There's a CCS-class Battlecruiser slipping through the hole left by the destruction of ODA-143, UNSCDF Malta. Eliminate it and engage two Covenant Frigates stationed four points off the target's stern. Acknowledge receipt of orders.

00327-08011CW: Orders received. Andastre and Commonwealth acknowledge. Lancelot moving on target.

09264-11927YJ: Helm, bring us to course zero one zero point one five. Declination nine zero --

02317-62481JL: Incoming! Three plasma torpedoes at ten o'clock, high!

09264-11927YJ: Evasive maneuvers. All hands, brace for [static].

09264-11927YJ: SCS-502, UNSC Bunker Hill, to all ships in Battlegroup Gamma. We are drifting [static] …dead in the water. Attempting to [static]…Admiral Haverford in command. Repeat, Haverford in [static]…attempting to stabilize…[static].

//error - corrupted data - possible cause:

[Cole Protocal/ system malfunction/ KIA]

recording ends.//