Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox II


 * ONI Section Zero Board//Surveillance transcription of internal communications between
 * subjects 'D' and 'S'. 11.17.2550 1453 hrs//Full transcript available on request//


 * ['S'] Sir, did you receive the report on Codename: Slow Dive? I thought you
 * should see it.


 * ['D'] I did, although I'm not sure why I'm looking at it. Hit and run, neutralize
 * Covenant forward outpost...break it down for me, what am I missing? Why is
 * this an ONI concern? Did we lose anything vital?


 * ['S'] No sir - in fact we suffered no casualties at all. When the team arrived at
 * the outpost it had already been wiped out. Every Covenant dead, every weapon
 * and vehicle gone. The only vehicles left look to have been sabotaged.


 * ['D'] Crossed lines happen all the time. I take it you've already had a discrete poke
 * around the other departments. Did we have a Spartan black ops mission there?


 * ['S'] No one's heard a peep, sir and l was very thorough. I've annotated the
 * report for you. The ballistics report confirms the majority of the damage came
 * from spikers, brute weapons. Remember our discussion about Atriox?


 * ['D'] Ah. You think this could be his work. What did that Grunt call them, 'The
 * Banished'? Still out there, are they?


 * ['S'] Once I saw the ballistics report I requested the last six months of mission
 * reports—under a proxy of course—and I believe I've found other similar
 * incidents; five months ago a rookie marine trips an alarm during a mission
 * against a Covenant training camp. The team dig in, fearing the worst but no
 * Covenant troops respond. The team sweep the camp only to find a few dead
 * Sangheili in a warehouse. Everything else is gone, vehicles, weapons, even the
 * rest of the Covenant that were stationed there. Once I started looking I found
 * five other similar cases, all against Covenant targets.


 * ['D'] So he's not just stealing armaments, he's recruiting. At the moment he's still
 * using guerrilla tactics, which means he's still small time. Still, I'm impressed he's
 * still alive. If he's got a grudge against the Covenant we may be able to use his
 * attacks to our advantage, coordinate our operations with his raids. See if you
 * can find a pattern, I want us to follow him more closely. Who knows, we may be
 * able to come to some kind of agreement.