Post by Durant, M. on Sept 15, 2014 11:58:04 GMT -5
<//SECNET Transmission Entry 5-1-2542//>
SNAKESKIN (0900, 5-2-2542): Proctor.
PROCTOR (0901, 5-2-2542): Snakeskin. What's your SITREP?
SNAKESKIN (0901, 5-2-2541): I read over the reports from [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. We've got problems. Our initial theories on the cause of the [REDACTED] were way off.
PROCTOR (0902, 5-2-2542): What happened, Lieutenant?
SNAKESKIN (0902, 5-2-2542): The Captain broke protocol. He entered unauthorized coordinates in hopes of better testing the slipspace capacitors we reverse engineered. He showed criminal negligence, and would have been apprehended.
PROCTOR (0902, 5-2-2542): Would have been?
SNAKESKIN (0903, 5-2-2542): Yes, sir. The Captain, along with most of the crew were killed. [REDACTED] found bodies scattered across the ship, apparently having been shot by our own weapons. The same on the bridge. The Covenant killed them.
PROCTOR (0903, 5-2-2542): The Covenant? My God... wait. The Covenant never use our weapons or tech. It's beneath them.
SNAKESKIN (0904, 5-2-2542): These weren't regular Covenant. [REDACTED] identified them as SpecOps. They apparently boarded the ship from the exterior hull, blasting their way in. Then, once they had the place secured, they landed Spirit drop-ships for future exfil.
PROCTOR (0904, 5-2-2542): The Dragon Lady isn't going to like this. So everyone was killed? Even the BETA-5 troopers?
SNAKESKIN (0904, 5-2-2542): Two ODSTs survived. [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. The rest of their unit is KIA.
PROCTOR (0905, 5-2-2542): Jesus... that's a lot of bad news.
SNAKESKIN (0905, 5-2-2542): It gets worse, sir. I don't knkow how, but the Covenant were able to halt the deletion of the NAV records as per Cole Protocol. They were able to get the coordinates to one of our colonies.
PROCTOR (0906, 5-2-2542): Lord in Heaven... which one, Lieutenant? I'll need to send a threat assessment immediately to the CINCONI and NAVCOM. Was it Reach? Earth?... what?
SNAKESKIN (0907, 5-2-2542): Phoenix III, sir. It's on the border. An Outer Colony.
PROCTOR (0907, 5-2-2542): Roger that. Lieutenant, I'll be filing a threat assessment. I want a full report from you, and I'll need you to forward me those AARs. I have to go now. Remember, everything we have discussed, and this entire op is to be considered clasified. Top secret, eyes only. Violation of secrecy is treason, which is punishable by execution by firing squad, under the Official Secrets Act, and yada yada.
SNAKESKIN (0908, 5-2-2542): Understood, sir.
PROCTOR signed offline.
SNAKESKIN signed offline.
SNAKESKIN (0900, 5-2-2542): Proctor.
PROCTOR (0901, 5-2-2542): Snakeskin. What's your SITREP?
SNAKESKIN (0901, 5-2-2541): I read over the reports from [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. We've got problems. Our initial theories on the cause of the [REDACTED] were way off.
PROCTOR (0902, 5-2-2542): What happened, Lieutenant?
SNAKESKIN (0902, 5-2-2542): The Captain broke protocol. He entered unauthorized coordinates in hopes of better testing the slipspace capacitors we reverse engineered. He showed criminal negligence, and would have been apprehended.
PROCTOR (0902, 5-2-2542): Would have been?
SNAKESKIN (0903, 5-2-2542): Yes, sir. The Captain, along with most of the crew were killed. [REDACTED] found bodies scattered across the ship, apparently having been shot by our own weapons. The same on the bridge. The Covenant killed them.
PROCTOR (0903, 5-2-2542): The Covenant? My God... wait. The Covenant never use our weapons or tech. It's beneath them.
SNAKESKIN (0904, 5-2-2542): These weren't regular Covenant. [REDACTED] identified them as SpecOps. They apparently boarded the ship from the exterior hull, blasting their way in. Then, once they had the place secured, they landed Spirit drop-ships for future exfil.
PROCTOR (0904, 5-2-2542): The Dragon Lady isn't going to like this. So everyone was killed? Even the BETA-5 troopers?
SNAKESKIN (0904, 5-2-2542): Two ODSTs survived. [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. The rest of their unit is KIA.
PROCTOR (0905, 5-2-2542): Jesus... that's a lot of bad news.
SNAKESKIN (0905, 5-2-2542): It gets worse, sir. I don't knkow how, but the Covenant were able to halt the deletion of the NAV records as per Cole Protocol. They were able to get the coordinates to one of our colonies.
PROCTOR (0906, 5-2-2542): Lord in Heaven... which one, Lieutenant? I'll need to send a threat assessment immediately to the CINCONI and NAVCOM. Was it Reach? Earth?... what?
SNAKESKIN (0907, 5-2-2542): Phoenix III, sir. It's on the border. An Outer Colony.
PROCTOR (0907, 5-2-2542): Roger that. Lieutenant, I'll be filing a threat assessment. I want a full report from you, and I'll need you to forward me those AARs. I have to go now. Remember, everything we have discussed, and this entire op is to be considered clasified. Top secret, eyes only. Violation of secrecy is treason, which is punishable by execution by firing squad, under the Official Secrets Act, and yada yada.
SNAKESKIN (0908, 5-2-2542): Understood, sir.
PROCTOR signed offline.
SNAKESKIN signed offline.