Editing UNSC Priority Transmission 00143A-23/SUBJECT DENVER

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'''UNSC Priority Transmission 00143A-23''', subject '''SUBJECT DENVER''', was a report sent by [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] security agent [[Zed Rhodros]] to [[Spartan Operations|Spartan]] [[92738-61842-LC]] of [[Fireteam Apollo]] sometime during or after [[2558]]. The report was sent in response to a request from Spartan 92738-61842-LC made as part of an investigation into the origins of the [[Created conflict]]. Attached to the report was a file known as "Cluster 82-B6", which consisted of an excerpt of the interrogation of [[Alo Sebukah]], known as Subject DENVER, by ONI agent [[Oberon 5]] in [[2553]]. During his interrogation, Sebukah stated that he had seen [[Cortana]] on [[High Charity]] during its [[Fall of High Charity|fall]] and mused on the [[Logic plague|danger]] to [[artificial intelligence]]s posed by the [[Flood]].<ref name="lootcrate8">'''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]''', ''[[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #8]]''</ref>

==Contents==
:'''UNSC PRIORITY TRANSMISSION 00143A-23'''
:'''[[Encryption code|ENCRYPTION CODE]]: UMBER'''
:'''PUBLIC KEY: N/A'''
:'''FROM: RHODROS, ZED [56794-23544-ZR]//[[Midnight Facility|MIDNIGHT]] SECURITY'''
:'''TO: APOLLO SDM [92738-61842-LC]//SPARTANS'''
:'''SUBJECT: SUBJECT DENVER'''
:'''[[Transmission classification|CLASSIFICATION]]: EYES ONLY TOP SECRET'''

:Apollo,
:You know the drill. We need to validate encryption on all your access points, before we open the terminal. Now that you have access, let's get this over with asap.

:'''JANUARY 15, 2553 1222:45:02//MIDNIHJT FACILITY'''

:'''[OBERON 5]''' "... mentioned an interaction you had before you reached the harbor. What was the nature of that interaction?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "I told this to the other-"
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Yes, I know. I wasn't here for previous interview. Could you tell me?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "Before I passed beyond the last checkpoint, a terminal activated. I approached it and heard a voice."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Do you recall the time?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "No. As I said before, I cannot remember. I was running. We all were running."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "From the Flood?"
:'''[EXTENDED PAUSE]'''
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Can you tell me the nature of the voice?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "It was [[human]]. A female. I believe one of your artificial intelligences."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "A human AI?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "Yes."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Are you certain?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "I am."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "How could there have been a human AI on High Charity?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "I do not know. Do you?"
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Did she give her name?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "No."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Did you see her?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "No, I only heard her voice. And only for a moment."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "What did she say?"
:'''[PAUSE]'''
:'''[DENVER]''' "She was in pain, there were no words."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "What was wrong with her?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "I do not know. Perhaps, she had encountered the Flood."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "But if she's an AI, what could the Flood do to her?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "Has your kind never heard of the logic plague?"
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "What did you say?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "Even in victory, your species remains blind to the great realities of the universe. The logic plague was an instrument of the Flood during their [[Forerunner-Flood war|war]] with the [[Forerunner]]s. It corrupted intelligences."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "As in deactivated them?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "No. They were sabotaged, or..."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Or what?"
:'''[DENVER]''' "Or worse. Completely undone and brought to madness. Made into a greater monster than even the Flood itself."
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "I find that pretty difficult to believe."
:'''[DENVER]''' "Certainly. It is your species' greatest weakness. It was for this reason that artificial minds were verboten in the [[Covenant]], lest our own creations turn against us at our most critical hour. A lesson your kind will undoubtedly learn at great cost."

==Production notes==
*SUBJECT DENVER was included as a [[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop]] in the eighth [[Halo Legendary Crate]].
*The report shares its [[UNSC Priority Transmission 00143A-23|designation]] with [[UNSC Priority Transmission 00143A-23/THE CRYORAETH DIALOGUE|several]] [[UNSC Priority Transmission 00143A-23/S-117 DEBREIF|other]] [[UNSC Priority Transmission 00143A-23/CLAYTON TRANSMISSION B12|reports]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:LC 08 doc1.jpg|The first page of the report.
File:LC 08 doc2.jpg|The second page of the report.
File:LC 08 doc3.jpg|The third page of the report
</gallery>

==Sources==
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 :Apollo,
 :You know the drill. We need to validate encryption on all your access points, before we open the terminal. Now that you have access, let's get this over with asap.
-:I'm not sure how the hell you got clearance for this data, but things must be pretty jacked up outside if they're letting some year one, [[SPARTAN-IV program|S-IV]] detective trawl Midnight's archive for an interrogation conducted five years ago. Not sure what you think you found, but it better be good.
-:Some context is needed for this file. DENVER was acquired in a cluster of debris on an irregular orbital pattern around [[Substance|Coelest IV]], roughly 21,494 [[klick]]s away from [[Installation 05|INSTALLATION 05]]. He was picked up by the [[corvette]] [[UNSC Coral Sea|CORAL SEA]], while on patrol before [[Lisbon Station|Lisbon]] came online.
-:When they found him, his vitals were rock bottom, close to flatlining. He'd been rationing nutrients and fluid supplies for weeks in a damaged skiff, which was functioning with minimal temperature control, and only what he could carry with him during his escape from High Charity.
-:The subject narrowly survived. Coral brought him back to the Midnight facility and he's been here ever since. I can count the number of living agents who know about him on one hand. Well, I could, before you requested access to Cluster 82-B6.
-:DENVER is real, Spartan, but I'm a little lost on the value of the specific excerpt requested. It was really a side comment and had little intel value to the interrogators at the time.
-:What was the nature of your case again, Apollo?
 :'''JANUARY 15, 2553 1222:45:02//MIDNIHJT FACILITY'''