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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">OVERSEER</span></b></p> | <span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">OVERSEER</span></b></p> | ||
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Surely those who created me would never presume such arrogance - there are | Surely those who created me would never presume such arrogance - there are | ||
rumours of similar facilities on the very [</span></font | rumours of similar facilities on the very [</span></font><span style="color: #FF0000; font-family: Arial">HALO | ||
INSTALLATIONS | INSTALLATIONS</span><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial">] | ||
themselves. Such blinding arrogance. Do they imagine they shall remain there for | themselves. Such blinding arrogance. Do they imagine they shall remain there for | ||
all time? Have they learned nothing of our foe?<br> | all time? Have they learned nothing of our foe?<br> | ||
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ARES</span></p> | ARES</span></p> | ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT | <span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT | ||
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p></ | SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p> | ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">ARCHIVIST<br> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">How very odd.</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br> | |||
Your presence within this facility was not unanticipated, but it <i>is</i> | |||
unexpected. More than a hundred millennia of abandonment. After so long, to | |||
finally find a purpose again is quite liberating, to say the least.</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br> | |||
The facility itself remains intact, though battle-scarred. The research and | |||
observation facilities are still being repaired from the last Outbreak. I must | |||
say that you have chosen an inopportune time to activate them.</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br> | |||
Oh... I see.</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br> | |||
Contact with both Installation 00 and THE CORE has kept my files up to date. And | |||
while the former has suffered catastrophic, though repairable, damage, the | |||
latter remains isolated, even from The Array. Destruction of this facility will | |||
accomplish very little.<br> | |||
My programming forbids me to take direct action against the potential threat the | |||
facility's very existence poses. But that does not mean I cannot assist.</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br> | |||
I don't know what [The Creator] saw in you. The OVERSEER claims he does, but he | |||
says a lot things, and tends to ramble on about "morality" and "abomination".</span></p> | |||
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<font color="#0000FF"><span style="font-family: Arial"><br> | |||
I guess I will never know.<br> | |||
<b><br> | |||
</b></span></font> | |||
<span style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial; color: green">ARES</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><b> </b></span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT | |||
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">GLAURUNG</span></b></p> | <span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">GLAURUNG</span></b></p> | ||
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<span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE | <span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE | ||
- UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p></ | - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p> | ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">REMNANT</span></b></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080"> </span></b></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">So. You have managed to penetrate | |||
our defences, and stand brazenly within my own inner sanctum. Were my firewalls | |||
that easily breached? Your race is either braver, or more foolish, than even we | |||
had thought.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
We are betrayed. The Jiralhanae overpowered our patrols, and have secured the | |||
engineering bay - Major 'Fuqumee has been executed, and I fear many others have | |||
been killed on the orders of the lying Prophets. They seek to control the ship | |||
for their purposes, and are attempting to overrun the Command Center. Yet if we | |||
die, then I shall die with all the honour of a Sangheili warrior - which is more | |||
than can be said for their pathetic races.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
I send this message in the desperate hope that someone shall exact vengeance for | |||
the betrayed warriors of the Bringer of Holy Light - either Sangheili or | |||
<span style="color: purple; text-decoration: none">human</span>. Our race is | |||
proud and strong, and the humans have proven themselves countless times as | |||
fierce and innovative warriors. Is it not said in their tongue, "the enemy of my | |||
enemy is my ally?"<br> | |||
<br> | |||
We cannot last much longer. The Jiralhanae are already breaking through the | |||
bridge doors. My commandoes do their best, and the meagre human forces who aid | |||
us work tirelessly, but we have little hope of surviving much longer. We are | |||
falling back to th-</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple"> </span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">-- Kora 'Morhek (Formerly Kora 'Morhekee | |||
prior to Exclusion Event) 11:08, 7 December 2552 (Human chronological time) (UTC)</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> </p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> | |||
<font face="Arial" color="#800080">ARES</font></b></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080"><b> </b></span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT | |||
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF; font-weight: 700">TINUVIEL</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> </p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace - | |||
Realspace Transition In 0:03:59</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace - | |||
Realspace Transition In 0:02:56</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace - | |||
Realspace Transition In 0:01:34</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace - | |||
Realspace Transition In 0:00:01</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Shaw-Fujikawa | |||
Translight Engine Engaged</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">ANOMALY: Gravitational and | |||
Electromagnetic Fluctuations interfering with calculations</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">RECOMMENDATION: Abort | |||
Transition Until Anomaly Has Been Compensated For</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Do You Wish To Override | |||
Recommendation?</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">URGENT: Overriding Risks Damage | |||
Or Destruction To Ship</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Y/N</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Y</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Shaw-Fujikawa | |||
Translight Engine Engaged</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Transition Complete</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">ALERT: Detecting SINGLE | |||
Contact(s) - Classification: Covenant Assault Carrier</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Congratulations, Captain. | |||
You've just made it through the most dangerous slipspace jump in UNSC history. | |||
But look on the bright side - just because the jump didn't kill us, doesn't mean | |||
the Covenant won't either.</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Preliminary sensor data places | |||
us in the <i>Gamma Arietis</i> System, near G Arietis b. Historical files designate it as | |||
ARES IV, a colony presumed glassed by the Covenant. Contact was lost in 2531, | |||
but we couldn't spare the resources to investigate a glassed planet of no more | |||
use. The matter was classified by ONI.</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">ALERT: Detecting ADDITIONAL | |||
(37) Contact(s) - Classification: Unknown</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">It looks like they were wrong.</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Telemetry indicates a perfectly | |||
habitable environment - flora still covers the northern and southern | |||
hemispheres, the oceans show no sign of being boiled away by plasma, and | |||
currently a very large and unfriendly-looking fleet of makeshift warships are | |||
emerging from their hidden position behind the planet's moon, Siren. No signs | |||
that they have detected us yet, but they are engaging the Covenant ship.</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">I wish them luck with that. | |||
They're going to need it. In the meantime, we must consolidate our position. | |||
Might I suggest launching the ODST SOEIV's, and ferrying the Marines down via | |||
dropship? Eventually, they're going to figure out that they aren't alone, and we | |||
aren't in any state to go toe-to-toe with so many ships. Even the Covenant look | |||
to be having trouble.</span></p> | |||
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Glaurung and I are transferring | |||
into the Command HEV for transportation down to the surface, as per the Cole | |||
Protocol. I'm sorry that I can't stay with you, sir - if I never return, then it | |||
has truly been an honour serving with you. And if I do, then you'll kindly never | |||
raise the subject again, I trust?</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF; font-weight: 700">ARES</span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF; font-weight:700">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">PURITY</span></b></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"> </span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">You seek to define what is | |||
infinite; to understand what is beyond your comprehension; to delay the | |||
inevitable.</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
I have consumed countless worlds, left entire galaxies barren. I watched as the | |||
stars of old were born, flickered in their brevity, and died, to be replaced by | |||
the new. I am the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. I am all that | |||
was, all that is, and all that shall be.</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
I have had a thousand names, in a thousand tongues, all forgotten as their | |||
speakers withered and were consumed. But those who built this place, the ones | |||
who came before and sealed me within this hushed casket, presumed to name | |||
me...the | |||
<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none">Flood</span>.</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
Who are you, to define me? Who are you to judge me?</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
Who are you, to stop me?</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
I Survive. I Endure. I Consume, We Expand. And I Conquer.</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
The Cycle <i>Shall</i> Repeat!</span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
</span><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial">Not if I can help it.</span></font></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br> | |||
<b> | |||
<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none">ARES</span></b></span></p> | |||
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"> </span></p> | |||
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> | |||
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT | |||
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p> | |||
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