Halo Graphic Novel, Page 122

Summary
In the Gallery Art in the Halo Graphic Novel, Pg122, there is a page as shown in the image to the right. On this page are two main boxes of text on the page along with pictures and maps of Operation: KALEIDOSCOPE. The text boxes contain one chat log between two people and the other appears to be a log of a data query. Surrounding the boxes are pictures and maps of Operation: KALEIDOSCOPE and other smaller text area's relating to the Operation. The information provided by the combination of these logs seem to imply that Sergeant Avery Johnson is almost certainly a Spartan from the Spartan I program. One image shows Johnson firng an M99 "Stanchion" from a table, while the other picture shows his target. First the info boxes from Pg 122 of the Halo Graphic Novel:

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Chat Log
2552:09:12:15:25:30:08 - 2552:09:12:15(rest is hidden behind photograph)

mike44236: No, this is not a thinly veiled attempt to query how many ones are still active. I am merely trying to discern what is up with this interest spike on alpha juliett juliett 20114?

echo23023: I don't know? His current proximity to one of the twos MB? Isn't all that junk automated?

mike44236: Thanx and yes. The query was intercepted with the Paris/BS spoof. But what am I supposed to do now?

echo23023: Whaddayamean? Send counter-query right? Isn't there anyone local? WTF? RUnoobMB?

mike44236: Ha ha ha :-P. The query is from the Gettysburg and it's got charlie hotel 4695's thumbs all over it.

echo23023: First that ass juliett alpha 20101: now goddamn charlie hotel 4695!?! It sounds like a big red button time to me, cupcake! I guess the whelps see all that grey hair and figure they can run willy-nilly through their elders' secret dells.

mike44236: Umm... that's what it sounds like to me, too. But you do see the pickle I'm in now, don't you? Uh... The young Masters may be wise in the ways of magick but the Sorcerer Kings have not yet---

echo23023: WTF!?! Lolz!!!!one! Wise in the ways of MAGICK?!?! Sorcerer Kings?2?!?!! Roflmao!!!!!!eleven!!

mike44236: Ok fine! You can make allusions about wolves you SOB but when I try to get creative you've gotta be a total---

echo23023: Sorry sorry! Look I didn't mean it like that. Anyways... what level is your Elf Wizard? (^o^) hehehe!

mike44236: Soooo... alpha20101 and hotel4696 have both made queries and even though both of them have deep deep access, the files they are looking for are SEALED from the TOP and are STICKY to boot!

echo23023: Either of them given you reason to suspect juliett20114 is a one?

mike44236: Hotel4695 didn't, but alpha20101 made several other queries along the line. I didn't counter-query - didn't want to heap that kind of grief on any of ours - so I gave it a red check and forwarded it to Section 0.

echo23023: Well, that's a bit like spinning the cylinder, isn't it? That hammer's gonna drop eventually.

mike44236: Yeah, but not on me! Not with 'golf51979' as Section Head. he was top at Misriah, MISRIAH for Pete's sake!

echo23023: And for some reason you don't think it was a political move? Alpha20101 was a yoan gahn dur tzan sze at one time too, right?

mike44236: ''Be that as it may, golf51979 doesn't play that fiefdom crap like tango12756 did. Golf51979 was a military appointment. Sierra10852 was executed for the Herzog killing.

echo23023: Oh no you didn't!


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Data Query Log
Proof of data query "spoof" voluntarily submitted after submission of official release of information request

2552:09:12:04:16:22:01

C:\>sftp-ks 1024 sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil Connecting to ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil (1024 mbit tunnel) Connected to ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil 220 ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil SFTP server ready User (ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil:(none)): HALSEYSRB4695 Password: <  > sftp> hash Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes /hash mark). sftp> get 48789-20114-AJ.txt 450 file unavailable, please retry sftp> get 48789-20114-AJ.txt 200 PORT command okay. 150 Opening data connection for  48789-20114-AJ.txt(FAE;144:FEAC:67:CCF8187:AEAA:81:322).<BR> 226 Transfer complete.<BR> 16494 bytes sent in 0.98 seconds (16 Kbytes/s)<BR>
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hunter>watching *;*;*;*;*;*;* sftp.marmedrec.mil (ARP)<BR> hunter> sftp init EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83 *> sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil [1024 mbit tunnel]<BR> hunter>RACE START sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil [36k CPU utl]<BR> hunter><BR> hunter><BR> hunter><BR> hunter> RACE FINISHED [1024 mbit tunnel in 0.239238s]<BR> rly sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil<BR> blk PUT:GET:SEND<BR> hunter> sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil> Connected to ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil<BR> hunter> sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil> ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil SFTP server ready<BR> hunter> sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil> User (ely.sol.terra.au.marmedrec.mil:(none)):<BR> hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83> HALSEYSRB4695<BR> hunter> sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil> Password:<BR> hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83> dOc7OR$Ord3r5<BR> < < Login page data excised for brevity > ><BR> hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83>hash<BR> hunter> sftp.unsc.marmedrec.mil> hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/has mark)<BR> hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83>get 48789-20114-AJ.txt<BR> hunter> BLK 48789-20114-AJ.txt<BR> RPUT c:\files\P_BS48789-2011-AJ.txt ON NEXT GET<BR> hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83>get 48789-20114-AJ.txt<BR> hunter> PUT c:\files\P-BS48789-20114-AJ.txt<BR> hunter> 200 PORT command okay.<BR> Hunter> 150 Opening data connection for <BR> 48789-20114-AJ.txt(FAE;144:FEAC:67:CCF8187:AEAA:81:322).<BR> hunter> ###########<BR> hunter> 226 transfer complete<BR> hunter> 16494 bytes sent in 0.98 seconds (16 Tbytes/s)<BR>


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The Players
Looking at the Chat log we see that echo23023 and mike44236 are talking in code. From another patch on the page we see this text:

Project: ORION/RESTRICTED ACCESS CRPL Johnson, Avery Junior 48789-20114-AJ

Therefore putting two and two together we can conclude that alpha juliet juliet 20114 is code for Sergeant Avery Johnson. The alpha juliet juliet stand for his initials, Avery Junior Johnson, and the 20114 is part of his serial number in his dog tag(look up).

This is also backed up by another character that is talked about, charlie hotel 4695 which is Dr. Catherine Halsey. The 4695 is revealed in the Data Log when Dr. Halsey requests Johnson's medical log aboard the UNSC Gettysburg.

The third character talked about is juliet alpha 20101. Due to the subject matter Juliet Alpha 20101 is probably Colonel James Ackerson because Ackerson's projects were often competing with Dr. Catherine Halsey's projects for funds. So he was always trying to find out info on the Spartan program in hopes of sabotaging Halsey's work.

mike44236 and echo23023 also talk about ones and twos meaning Spartan I and Spartan IIs

mike44236 and echo23023 may be in Section 3 of ONI because they talk about forwarding the information to Section 0.

So a legend would look like this:


 * alpha juliet juliet 20114 = Sergeant Avery Johnson
 * charlie hotel 4695 = Dr. Catherine Halsey
 * juliet alpha 20101 = Colonel James Ackerson
 * ones = Spartan I
 * two = Spartan IIs
 * Section 0 = (See ONI)

Analysis
Looking at the date we see that the events are dated, September 12th, 2552. From the Halo novel, Halo: First Strike, we know that about this time, on the UNSC Gettysburg, Dr. Halsey is talking to Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson about how Johnson survived the Flood. On pg.224 Halsey talks about how Johnson wasn’t infected by the Flood because he developed Boren's Syndrome on Paris IV.

This brings up an interesting point as in the conversation mike44236 says, ''Thanx and yes. The query was intercepted with the Paris/BS spoof. But what am I supposed to do now?'' Paris/BS spoof? Paris/BS spoof could mean the method used to bring Halsey's data query to mike44236 's attention or it could mean something quite different.

Boren's Syndrome Hoax
Other users have gone over the same data and come to the conclusion that the Boren's Syndrome explanation is all a hoax. They use the Paris/BS spoof as their evidence. Where Paris stands for Paris IV, BS stands for Boren's Syndrome and spoof meaning that Boren's Syndrome was a hoax to throw people off that Johnson is a Spartan I and THAT's why he wasn't infected by the Flood. Also when the Master Gunnery Sergeant from the Halo 2 level: the Armory, asked, "how did you get back alive?" Sergeant Johnson replied, "Sorry Guns, that classified."

Perhaps more incriminating is the Data Query Log.

First Halsey tries to get the somekind of medical records related to Johnson, 48789-20114-AJ.txt

sftp> get 48789-20114-AJ.txt 450 file unavailable, please retry sftp> get 48789-20114-AJ.txt

When Halsey first tries to get the file she gets a file unavailable message, but she gets it to work on the second try. However, this file was a spoof. We find out what happened in the second part of the query log.

hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83>get 48789-20114-AJ.txt hunter> BLK 48789-20114-AJ.txt RPUT c:\files\P_BS48789-2011-AJ.txt ON NEXT GET hunter> EA15EE95CE32:EE28:AA34:3:3283:EA83>get 48789-20114-AJ.txt hunter> PUT c:\files\P-BS48789-20114-AJ.txt hunter> 200 PORT command okay. hunter> 150 Opening data connection for 48789-20114-AJ.txt(FAE;144:FEAC:67:CCF8187:AEAA:81:322). hunter> ########### hunter> 226 transfer complete hunter> 16494 bytes sent in 0.98 seconds (16 Tbytes/s)

Halsey tries to get the file but hunter stops the first request. Hunter then sets up so that the second request goes through and sends P_BS48789-20114-AJ.txt(P_BS which means Paris/Boren's Syndrome spoof). The Hunter, who might be an ONI security AI or some kind of ONI admin, watched Halsey's request and either gave her the requested file or somekind of bogus "spoof" file to hide Johnson's past.

ONI cover up
If ONI is trying to cover up that Johnson is a Spartan, one has to ask why? Some speculate that the coverup is not that Johnson is a Spartan but that Spartans can't be infected by the Flood. However, it is shown in Breaking Quarantine that Johnson escaped the Flood without any attempted infection, unlike the story he told and the cutscene in Halo Combat Evolved.

48789-20114-AJ.txt
On the same page of the Halo Graphic Novel it appears to reveal the contents of file 48789-20114-AJ.txt. It is another patch and doesn't reveal if the file is the real one or the spoof sent to Halsey. It does however offer more evidence that Johnson is a Spartan because it link's him with The ORION Project or the Spartan I program.

First Patch reveled on the the Page:

Project: ORION/RESTRICTED ACCESS System: Harvest Operation: KALEIDOSCOPE 2502:09:19:14:50:23:13 Project: ORION/RESTRICTED ACCESS CRPL Johnson, Avery Junior 48789-20114-AJ

Another article Operation: KALEIDOSCOPE talks about the contents of the other patchs, and the killing of Jerald Mulkey Ander.

Trivia
On this page there is a Marathon reference.

mike4436: Yeah, but not on me! Not with golf51979 as Section Head. he was top at Misriah, MISRIAH for Pete's sake!

Looking at the reference to MISRIAH we see in Marathon:

On January 6, 2345(Earth A.D.), at the United Earth Government Misriah food distribution center, what had begun as a commonplace food riot turned into a massacre. The UEG riot troopers who arrived at the scene had been informed that the rioters were armed. As the UEG troopers approached the scene in their Randal Hovertank, plasma fire began spraying upwards. In a flash decision, the commander of the Hovertank ordered his crew to open fire upon the crowd. It took only five seconds for over five hundred starving Martians to be incinerated.

Also, 'Top' may or may not refer to the Marine slang terminology for 'Master Sergeant'.