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User: McCallen, James
Serial Number: 10145-00643-JM
Rank: Colonel
Password: Babylon
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Command: Data Retrieval
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REQ:/97|91_251|211/
p/Code: X24-77321-35
Type: (#PO743-80786)
Item: Archive Module
SCI 20||3441||24
09/E75,86.12,-0.31,-3.64
234.5mm x 167.6mm x 210.6mm
Unit Weight 2.677lbs
Lot: ALTA34211-34 |SX|1467
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Security Classification: Top Secret
Class:SSSS
Specat:VT
LMF:ONI-3-5
CIC: SPEAR
Presecence:
ACT: CL
INFO: JV
DISTR:
Limited/Code-Word Restricted
ORIG MSG IDENT:
06774312
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Code-Word: Plataea
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Subject: Operation Thermopylae. (OH364312). Operation and Special personal. Date: 04-12-2551 (Inclusive). REF. UNND 5312. 9-S.
Recipient must sign for box and contents, which will be inspected and de-blind verified that content is intact and unaltered(Before and after viewing).
Recipient must be searched as per UNSC-JAG 490-OUU special protocols for top secret special-circumstance viewing of any and all undeclared devices, substances, or passive network links.
Failure to comply with any and all regulations pursuant to military protocols of handling DBL-Code-Word classified objects are subject to a minimum of twenty-five years imprisonment, and in wartime, death under the official secrets act of 2550.
Declassify by: N/A By special executive order 0-65-532S.
Chain of custody:
From: ONI/S3/ZEBRA 2/ || To: UNSCCENTCOM/K6/
Special Instructions: Not to be removed from DBL-BLIND PROTOCOL
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Confirmation: Confirm
Code-Word: Plataea
Signature: James Alastair McCallen
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\-/OPERATION: THERMOPYLAE\-/
Office of Naval Intelligence.
Clearance Section III
From: Three-star admiral, Parangosky Margaret Commander-in-Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
To: Colonel, McCallen James Commander of the UNSC 125th and 126th Marine Expeditionary Force Corps.
Ref: (a) ONI Mission Briefing of Operation Thermopylae. #04Mar51-GMCT-4006-2CXT
1. Operation Thermopylae Dictates the Defense of New Birka under Colonel James McCallen. Covenant Have Appeared Out of Slipspace in High Pursuit of The UNSC Kronstadt, Hull Classification Symbol DD-993, Diligence-class Destroyer. They Were Pegged the Moment They Left the Covenant Controlled Planet of Heian, After a High Classified Prioritized Mission.
2. The Covenant Fleet Consists of Three CPV-Class heavy Destroyers(Esteem, Proclamation's Tithe, Graceful Pursuit), One Covenant frigate(Twilight Compunction), Three CAR-class frigates(Contrition, Penance, Swift Vengeance), and One ORS-class heavy cruiser(Blight of the Profane). The Fleet Has Not Engaged the Planet as of Yet, Currently Being Held Back By a Small Part of the UNSC Fourth Fleet Ships in Area.
3. An ONI Facility Located on the Planet is Where High Prioritized VIPs are Currently Undergoing Surgery. A SPARTAN-II and Three of the most incomparable Surgeons in the UNSC. The SPARTAN-II was Critically Injured On Heian after Receiving a Blow From a Type-2 Energy Weapon/Hammer.
4. (a.)Your mission is to Escort another VIP(Catherine Halsey) to the ONI compound. (b.) Guard the Facility While Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1 is initiated and completed. (c.)The four VIPs are to Completely Their Work on the Spartan-II; All VIPs Must be Evacuated Off Planet To the UNSC Hopeful. (d.)Proceed to Help Evacuate ONI Personal. Everything Else is a Secondary Objective Until Those are Carried Out.
5. You and Your Men are to be Transported in By a Punic-Class Supercarrier(The Roaring Mountain) Effective Immediately. Any Further Details Regarding This Matter Will be Given and Can be Found At the Bottom of This Module.
Get This Done Colonel, Failure is Not an Option. We Expect Nothing Less Than a Victory and We Know That You Can Get This Done.
By:Three-star admiral, Parangosky Margaret Commander-in-Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Copy To: Admiral, Buros Adonis Commander of Fourth Fleet
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Code-Word: Resurrection
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Article Identification:
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Name: Cal XXXXX(Ruoho)
Birthplace: XXXXX(Earth)
Born: October 16, XXXXX(2511)
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: XXXXX(39)
Height: 6" 9.5' in
Weight: 264.45lb
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Amber
Rank: Chief Petty Officer
Service Number: S-141
Status: Currently undergoing surgery, inactive. Listed as M.I.A. on 04-10-2551. Critical damage done to right side cranium, frons, and cervicis. Internal bleeding, torn musicals, and major damage on right shoulder and dorsum. Skull fractures in multiple places, a clavicle comminuted fracture, and an extra- articular unifocal non-impacted metaphyseal fracture. No brain activity, heart rate: flatline. Clinically dead on time of operation.
Chance of survival in regular hospital: 4.52%
Chance of survival in a ONI hospital: 11.67%
Chance of survival with top doctors in a ONI facility: 23.89%
Chance of survival with VIPs and Dr. Halsey in a ONI facility: 36.73%
Doctor's Notes: Any other human would be a bloody mess taking a T2 EW/H to the head and shoulders. These Spartan's are far more resistant than I could have imagined. This spartan even has a chance of living after a sure death blow! Simply astonishing. Granted it is a very slim chance, but I am hopeful that we can revive the spartan. To think that I was chosen for this task, working with Dr. Halsey will be, exhilarating in the very least.
Signature: Dr. Oswald Fleischer
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Code-Word: Redemption
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Prior Mission: OPERATION: HEADLESS SNAKE, Cal-141 along with four Orbital Drop Shock Troopers she commanded, to assassinate a Minor Prophet(Prophet of Redemption) and gather intel of unknown ruins on a Covenant-held planet, XXXXX(Heian). The squad consisted of Corporal Taylor Henry Miles(Dutch), Private Greer O'Brien, Master Sergeant Cortez Vega, and Private Tai Balewa(Checkman). Only three remained after the drop, as Tai Balewa was killed in the upper atmosphere during the orbital insertion. After landing, Cal rescued O'Brien from drowning in a swamp.
During the operation, Cal fought a Jiralhanae chieftain that nearly killed O'Brien from behind. After gouging out the chieftain's right eye and pushing it over a waterfall, Cal rescued O'Brien from near death as he hung off the side of a cliff.
While waiting for the Prophet to arrive, the Brute chieftain that Cal had apparently killed the day before ambushed the humans. Cal spotted the Brute as it was about to strike O'Brien and quickly pushed the ODST sniper out of harm's way. She was hit across the head and right shoulder by the chieftain's gravity hammer, resulting in XXXXX(Fatal) injuries, despite her armor taking the blow.
After Taylor killed the Brute, the trio removed Cal's helmet to inspect her injuries. They were stunned that Cal was a female, as opposed to the squad believing she was a male, especially O'Brien and Cortez. Cal, realizing that with her badly damaged arm, as well as her blurring vision due to her head injuries, she would no longer be able to take the shot, ordered O'Brien to kill the Prophet, which he succeeded in doing.
After O'Brien killed the Prophet, the ODSTs tried to tend to Cal's wounds, but she knew that she would not be able to make it back to the destroyer that deployed them to Heian. In her XXXXX(dying) words, Cal asked Cortez to make a delivery to XXXXX(Dr. Halsey). This delivery consisted of an optical chip from Cal's helmet, which contained intelligence of the planet the mission was carried out on, as well as ruins that were XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX(neither human nor Covenant). Cortez tried to assure her that she would be able to give the chip to XXXXX(Halsey) herself, but Cal replied that the two of them knew it was not going to happen as she felt her XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX(death already moments away).
The spartan AND the ODSTs were brought aboard the UNSC destroyer right away and were given specific orders by XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX(ONI-Section III), to get the SPARTAN-II into a Cryo chamber. The spartan remained there until brought planetside on XXXXX(New Birka).
Mission report end.
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Kyuubi: Well of course I had to make a Halo fan fiction, especially when I found out my favorite 'Halo: Legends' story doesn't have a fan fiction! Really? Okay, it's time to change that! This story takes place right after 'The Babysitter'. The XXXXX's are blacked out words, places, and people(Only the reader can see what's in here! Lucky you, you little punks!). Well, see you in the first chapter since this is only a Mission Briefing!