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{{Quote|'''Investigative abstract:''' refer to operational document #ONIS3-33456-SO Retribution for full report on assassination of UNSC Admiral Graselyn Tuwa, associated abduction and murder of her husband and two dependents, and subsequent utilization of security unit Papa-10 in failed effort to recover antibodies and erase evidentiary links to rogue science officer Lieutenant Bartalan Craddog.|From an internal ONI intelligence finding detailing the events that launched Operation: RETRIBUTION and its outcome.}}<ref name="R27"/> | {{Quote|'''Investigative abstract:''' refer to operational document #ONIS3-33456-SO Retribution for full report on assassination of UNSC Admiral Graselyn Tuwa, associated abduction and murder of her husband and two dependents, and subsequent utilization of security unit Papa-10 in failed effort to recover antibodies and erase evidentiary links to rogue science officer Lieutenant Bartalan Craddog.|From an internal ONI intelligence finding detailing the events that launched Operation: RETRIBUTION and its outcome.}}<ref name="R27"/> | ||
'''Operation: RETRIBUTION''' was an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[operation]] undertaken by [[Blue Team]] and the [[Ferret]] team lead by [[Veta Lopis]] in [[2553#December|December of 2553]].<ref name="R1"/> Lopis' team had been training at the [[Mill]] and elsewhere since its formation just months prior, but RETRIBUTION was the first true mission given to the joint Spartan and civilian unit.<ref name="R1"/><ref name="R23"/> Veta Lopis and the two groups of Spartans were assisted by the crew of the {{UNSCShip|Silent Joe}}, a {{Class|Sahara|prowler}}.<ref name="R4"/> The operation was conceived as a response to the murder of [[Vice Admiral]] [[Graselyn Tuwa]] and the kidnapping of three of her family members.<ref name="R2"/> The initial evidence pointed toward the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] bearing the responsibility for this heinous crime, but the Keepers had actually been framed by [[Dark Moon Enterprises]], itself being | '''Operation: RETRIBUTION''' was an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[operation]] undertaken by [[Blue Team]] and the [[Ferret]] team lead by [[Veta Lopis]] in [[2553#December|December of 2553]].<ref name="R1"/> Lopis' team had been training at the [[Mill]] and elsewhere since its formation just months prior, but RETRIBUTION was the first true mission given to the joint Spartan and civilian unit.<ref name="R1"/><ref name="R23"/> Veta Lopis and the two groups of Spartans were assisted by the crew of the {{UNSCShip|Silent Joe}}, a {{Class|Sahara|prowler}}.<ref name="R4"/> The operation was conceived as a response to the murder of [[Vice Admiral]] [[Graselyn Tuwa]] and the kidnapping of three of her family members.<ref name="R2"/> The initial evidence pointed toward the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] bearing the responsibility for this heinous crime, but the Keepers had actually been framed by [[Dark Moon Enterprises]], which itself was secretly being directed by the [[Forerunner]] [[ancilla]], [[Intrepid Eye]].<ref name="R2"/><ref name="R21"/> | ||
The Spartans' first objective was to discover the location of the base the missing Tuwas were likely being held at, and to do this, Lopis' team went undercover as [[pirate]]s on [[Venezia]].<ref name="R1"/> A feigned shootout with [[Blue Team]] enabled them to sell their cover stories and as a result, they were granted admission aboard a [[Kig-Yar]] vessel bound for the [[moon]] [[Taram]].<ref name="R6"/> The four managed to survive a betrayal by their hosts and also escaped from a Keeper boarding party that met them at their destination.<ref name="R7"/> The bodies of the victims they were searching for were found eventually, where they had been planted by Dark Moon operatives still present on Taram.<ref name="R12"/> Blue Team inserted from the ''Silent Joe'' and helped aid the Ferrets in escaping a firefight with the Keepers, who captured a few survivors from the Dark Moon squad.<ref name="R15"/> Following forensic analysis of the corpses recovered, it became evident that someone had targeted the Tuwas based on a shared genetic mutation that had allowed them survive [[Barugi incident|a deadly outbreak]] of [[Asteroidea merozoite|protozoal disease]] years prior.<ref name="R17"/> The ''Silent Joe'' next made haste for [[Gao]], where the Keepers had already struck the [[New Leaf Field Complex|research facility]] where the Tuwas had been taken to and killed.<ref name="R18"/> A conversation with the [[President of the Gao Republic|president]] of the [[Gao Republic]], [[Arlo Casille]], revealed that Administrator [[Sloan]] of [[Pinnacle Station]] on [[Meridian]] had approached him on behalf of Dark Moon in order to let the corporation use the lab.<ref name="R19"/> The UNSC teams arrived at Pinnacle Station just behind the Keepers once more and pursued both a group of them and [[Papa-10|a rogue ONI team]] to the surface.<ref name="R22"/><ref name="R23"/> In the end, [[cryo-jar]]s housing the Tuwas' organs were destroyed and everyone who might have been able to explain why they had been harvested were killed.<ref name="R26"/> Intrepid Eye's plans to use anti-asteroidea merozoite antibodies to create a vaccine that she would selectively expose only those she thought worthy to bear the [[Mantle of Responsibility]] to were foiled.<ref name="R5"/> | The Spartans' first objective was to discover the location of the base the missing Tuwas were likely being held at, and to do this, Lopis' team went undercover as [[pirate]]s on [[Venezia]].<ref name="R1"/> A feigned shootout with [[Blue Team]] enabled them to sell their cover stories and as a result, they were granted admission aboard a [[Kig-Yar]] vessel bound for the [[moon]] [[Taram]].<ref name="R6"/> The four managed to survive a betrayal by their hosts and also escaped from a Keeper boarding party that met them at their destination.<ref name="R7"/> The bodies of the victims they were searching for were found eventually, where they had been planted by Dark Moon operatives still present on Taram.<ref name="R12"/> Blue Team inserted from the ''Silent Joe'' and helped aid the Ferrets in escaping a firefight with the Keepers, who captured a few survivors from the Dark Moon squad.<ref name="R15"/> Following forensic analysis of the corpses recovered, it became evident that someone had targeted the Tuwas based on a shared genetic mutation that had allowed them survive [[Barugi incident|a deadly outbreak]] of [[Asteroidea merozoite|protozoal disease]] years prior.<ref name="R17"/> The ''Silent Joe'' next made haste for [[Gao]], where the Keepers had already struck the [[New Leaf Field Complex|research facility]] where the Tuwas had been taken to and killed.<ref name="R18"/> A conversation with the [[President of the Gao Republic|president]] of the [[Gao Republic]], [[Arlo Casille]], revealed that Administrator [[Sloan]] of [[Pinnacle Station]] on [[Meridian]] had approached him on behalf of Dark Moon in order to let the corporation use the lab.<ref name="R19"/> The UNSC teams arrived at Pinnacle Station just behind the Keepers once more and pursued both a group of them and [[Papa-10|a rogue ONI team]] to the surface.<ref name="R22"/><ref name="R23"/> In the end, [[cryo-jar]]s housing the Tuwas' organs were destroyed and everyone who might have been able to explain why they had been harvested were killed.<ref name="R26"/> Intrepid Eye's plans to use anti-asteroidea merozoite antibodies to create a vaccine that she would selectively expose only those she thought worthy to bear the [[Mantle of Responsibility]] to were foiled.<ref name="R5"/> | ||