Public Key: Red Rover Red Rover

Public Key: Red Rover Red Rover was the transmission sent to the Fleet Admiralty from Reach Station Gamma's Space Dock Quartermaster AI Doppler, during the start of the Battle of Reach on August 30, 2552. In it, it is disclosed that the Covenant tried and failed to hack the computer system of REACH DOC NET. It also entails that the Covenant have discovered a ship docked to the station that was separated from the system and had intact navigational data.

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Alpha priority channel: To Fleet Admiralty from REACH Space Dock Quartermaster AI-8575 (a.k.a. Doppler)/

/triple-encryption time-stamped public key: red rover red rover/

/start file/

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

Item: Covenant data invasion packets detected penetrating firewall of REACH DOC NET. Counterintrusion software enacted. Resolution: 99.9 percent certainty of neutralization.

Item: Initialization of triple-screening protocol discovered the corvette Circumference/Bay Gamma-9/ isolated from REACH DOC NET.

Item: Covenant ships detected on inbound Slipstream vector intersecting Bay Gamma-9.

Conclusion: Unsecured navigation data on the Circumference detected by Covenant forces.

'''Conclusion: VIOLATION OF THE COLE PROTOCOL. IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED.'''

/end file/

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Fall of Reach