Hunt the Truth Season 1/Blog posts

Overview Benjamin (Blog): A few months ago I was hired to do an in-depth profile of the Master Chief. Join me each week for a new episode.

Benjamin (Blog): An investigation into the origins of modern-day superhero Master Chief, this digital log serves as part docu-diary, part audio archive. Join me each week for a new episode as we question everything and assume nothing. Journalist. War photographer.

Benjamin (Blog): For decades, I’ve served the galaxy as a journalist and war photographer. I’ve covered human-interest stories on Earth and in the Inner and Outer Colonies. I’ve also contracted for the government, covering military affairs. I was at New Mombasa when the Master Chief first appeared to combat the Covenant attack.

The end is only the beginning Benjamin (Blog): Join me next Sunday 3/29 as we dig deeper.

The Assignment

Benjamin (Blog): Here’s the offer letter from ONI, outlining the assignment. Sounded so easy when it all started. How could I say no? The Death Record

Benjamin (Blog): Here it is. An old, tattered census record with one line of basic information and a single letter next to John’s name: D. Master Propaganda

Benjamin (Blog): This is the infamous photo I took that fateful day at New Mombasa. Perfectly polished propaganda. But to give you the whole picture, here’s the original with UNSC and ONI notes. Never before seen. Katrina’s Diary

Benjamin (Blog): These are just a few of the screens Katrina sent me after we spoke. Diary entries from when she was seven years old. Proving she knew John. Proving she was there when John died. Glassed Planets

Benjamin (Blog): This is a photo I shot on a previous assignment. But it never saw the light of day because it didn’t pass UNSC standards. Very few got to see a planet firsthand after a Covenant glassing. To look out over all that death and destruction. The desolation is devastating. A petrified sea of what once was. This image has haunted me for years. Greetings from Castellaneta

Benjamin (Blog): Here's a postcard Walker sent me from Castellaneta. The "sunny side" of Saturn looks nice. Not a bad place to retire. Word on the Street

Benjamin (Blog): Mshak sent me this picture of some UNSC recruitment posters featuring the Master Chief, all tagged to hell. The relationship between Spartans and ODST has always been a little shaky, but this seems like something else entirely. Cancel/Confirm

Benjamin (Blog): I stared at this screen for what felt like an eternity. I was one click away from tucking my tail and being the good dog Sullivan hired me to be. Or I could take door #2 and crack this story wide open. Just this one click that would determine the rest of my life. I guess you know which path I chose. Notice of Violation

Benjamin (Blog): Here’s the Notice of Violation and penalty I got slapped with for “unruly and uncooperative behavior.” Not a nice note to wake up to after getting tranquilized and knocked-out in flight. Major Breakthrough

Benjamin (Blog): After being holed up in my place for weeks, it was about time I had a few visitors… This was not the kind of visit I was expecting.

A Message from Sully

Benjamin (Blog): Since going live with my story a few weeks ago, my inbox has been overflowing with an insane influx of messages. I’ve been archiving them as they come in, but I’ve kept Michael Sullivan’s at the top as a glaring and terrifying reminder of ONI’s thinly veiled threats. You can listen to a few of the message that came in here.

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False Advertising

Benjamin (Blog): I couldn't believe my ears. From hocking Hogs on Ganymede to shilling fake stories about the Master Chief, Walker's taken us all for a ride.

Contact

Benjamin (Blog): I jumped to my feet when the voice buzzed in, stinging my ears from the other room. She was finally here.

Peace Talks

Benjamin (Blog): This image has been haunting me ever since I first saw the video from Biko. I feel like the Master Chief is looking right at me. The incident report was bad, but this makes it so much worse.

Fallen Heroes

Benjamin (Blog): It felt like all of humanity was in mourning. Memorials were everywhere. But it was the one on Biko, where they found Richard Sekibo’s body, that I couldn’t put out of my mind.

Panic In the Streets

Benjamin (Blog): Going incognito had cut me off completely. Shuttered schools, the paranoia... the thousands-deep crowds of colonists, shouting for ONI's head. The Twins

Benjamin (Blog): The report wasn’t nearly as unsettling as the thought that there might be more. How many incidents—how many deaths—had been erased to protect the SPARTAN program? Xenophobia

Benjamin (Blog): Sapien Sunrise propaganda was pretty common in the Outer Colonies, but I'd never thought of the group as much more than pamphlet-pushers. Turns out ONI made the same mistake. Sapien Sunrise



Benjamin (Blog): I had to give it to them – for a group of terrorists, they had a good marketing department.