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As Intrepid Eye is responsible for the murders, the victims' bodies appear to have been brutally killed by an individual with incredible strength or by someone using a [[powered exoskeleton]]. [[Special Inspector]] [[Veta Lopis]] of the GMoP, raised by her anti-UEG parents to despise the UNSC, is skeptical about the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-IIs]] and [[SPARTAN-III program|IIIs]] of Blue Team—composed of Spartan-IIs [[Fred-104]], [[Kelly-087]], and [[Linda-058]], and Spartan-IIIs [[Tom-B292]], [[Lucy-B091]], [[Ash-G099]], [[Mark-G313]], and [[Olivia-G291]]—and believes that one of the [[Human augmentation|augmented humans]] may be responsible for the murders. While Lopis and members of her team are investigating a crime scene alongside the Spartans and several UNSC personnel, [[UNSC Marine]] Private [[Hayes]] arrives at their location and informs his UNSC superiors of a newly discovered murder victim. Major [[Ira Halal]] of the [[UNSC Judge Advocate General's Corps]] covertly has Hayes bring him to the body, without the knowledge of the GMoP investigators, so he can document the crime scene without their interference. The two arrive at the crime scene, where they spot Roams Alone. The Huragok attempts to greet the humans, but he catches them by surprise and Hayes attempts to assault Roams Alone. In response, Intrepid Eye kills the two humans, but not before Halal is able to wound Roams Alone. Intrepid Eye discovers a fragment of [[smart AI]] [[Wendell]] attached to Halal's [[TACPAD]]; the AI informs her that her homeworld of Shaps III is now ruins, leading to Intrepid Eye removing Wendell's memories of their conversation. Meanwhile, after returning the the UNSC's temporary headquarters at the [[Montero Vitality Center]], Lopis eavesdrops in on a conversation between Fred and Commander Nelson and learns that the UNSC's investigation on the planet involves [[Sentinel]]s and an ancilla. Unfamiliar with the latter term, Lopis relays her discoveries to [[Minister of Protection]] [[Arlo Casille]]. Casille, currently aboard his [[patrol corvette]]—''[[Esmeralda]]''—is meeting with representatives from the radical [[Covenant]] [[Covenant remnants|sect]] [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] and the [[insurrectionist]] [[Venezian Militia]]. Casille intends to overthrow [[President of the Gao Republic|President]] [[Tejo Aponte]], believing him to be a coward for allowing the UNSC to land on the planet; [[Dokab]] [[Castor]] of the Keepers and [[Reza Linberk]] of the Venezian Militia agree to help Casille in his coup. Learning of an ancilla on Gao from Lopis, Castor insists that he must retrieve the "holy Oracle". Casille and Linberk agree, but both individually plan to steal the ancilla for their respective factions. | As Intrepid Eye is responsible for the murders, the victims' bodies appear to have been brutally killed by an individual with incredible strength or by someone using a [[powered exoskeleton]]. [[Special Inspector]] [[Veta Lopis]] of the GMoP, raised by her anti-UEG parents to despise the UNSC, is skeptical about the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-IIs]] and [[SPARTAN-III program|IIIs]] of Blue Team—composed of Spartan-IIs [[Fred-104]], [[Kelly-087]], and [[Linda-058]], and Spartan-IIIs [[Tom-B292]], [[Lucy-B091]], [[Ash-G099]], [[Mark-G313]], and [[Olivia-G291]]—and believes that one of the [[Human augmentation|augmented humans]] may be responsible for the murders. While Lopis and members of her team are investigating a crime scene alongside the Spartans and several UNSC personnel, [[UNSC Marine]] Private [[Hayes]] arrives at their location and informs his UNSC superiors of a newly discovered murder victim. Major [[Ira Halal]] of the [[UNSC Judge Advocate General's Corps]] covertly has Hayes bring him to the body, without the knowledge of the GMoP investigators, so he can document the crime scene without their interference. The two arrive at the crime scene, where they spot Roams Alone. The Huragok attempts to greet the humans, but he catches them by surprise and Hayes attempts to assault Roams Alone. In response, Intrepid Eye kills the two humans, but not before Halal is able to wound Roams Alone. Intrepid Eye discovers a fragment of [[smart AI]] [[Wendell]] attached to Halal's [[TACPAD]]; the AI informs her that her homeworld of Shaps III is now ruins, leading to Intrepid Eye removing Wendell's memories of their conversation. Meanwhile, after returning the the UNSC's temporary headquarters at the [[Montero Vitality Center]], Lopis eavesdrops in on a conversation between Fred and Commander Nelson and learns that the UNSC's investigation on the planet involves [[Sentinel]]s and an ancilla. Unfamiliar with the latter term, Lopis relays her discoveries to [[Minister of Protection]] [[Arlo Casille]]. Casille, currently aboard his [[patrol corvette]]—''[[Esmeralda]]''—is meeting with representatives from the radical [[Covenant]] [[Covenant remnants|sect]] [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] and the [[insurrectionist]] [[Venezian Militia]]. Casille intends to overthrow [[President of the Gao Republic|President]] [[Tejo Aponte]], believing him to be a coward for allowing the UNSC to land on the planet; [[Dokab]] [[Castor]] of the Keepers and [[Reza Linberk]] of the Venezian Militia agree to help Casille in his coup. Learning of an ancilla on Gao from Lopis, Castor insists that he must retrieve the "holy Oracle". Casille and Linberk agree, but both individually plan to steal the ancilla for their respective factions. | ||
After losing contact with them, Fred, Ash, Mark, Olivia, Lopis, and her partner [[Cirilo]] return to the Montero Cave System to search for Halal and Hayes. They eventually arrive at their location and discover their corpses. Fred recovers Wendell from Halal's damaged TACPAD and places him into his helmet's [[Data crystal chip|data chip]]. While investigating the scene, Cirilo finds a trail of [[blood]] from Roams Alone and the team follows it. Meanwhile, having infiltrated Wendell's systems from their previous encounter, Intrepid Eye | After losing contact with them, Fred, Ash, Mark, Olivia, Lopis, and her partner [[Cirilo]] return to the Montero Cave System to search for Halal and Hayes. They eventually arrive at their location and discover their corpses. Fred recovers Wendell from Halal's damaged TACPAD and places him into his helmet's [[Data crystal chip|data chip]]. While investigating the scene, Cirilo finds a trail of [[blood]] from Roams Alone and the team follows it. Meanwhile, having infiltrated Wendell's systems from their previous encounter, Intrepid Eye is using the AI to spy on her pursuing humans. Realizing that she is running out of options to escape, Intrepid Eye contacts Wendell and orders him to have the Spartans stand down. The AI refuses and the ancilla sends her last four remaining [[Aggressor Sentinel]]s to attack the humans in response. After a brief engagement, the humans are eventually able to destroy the Sentinels, but Cirilo is killed and Olivia's legs are badly wounded. Fred leaves to investigate the area, while the rest remain in a small cavern. Lopis, realizing that the Spartan-IIIs are barely even teenagers, is furious that the UNSC recruited children for use in the [[Human-Covenant War]]. The three Spartans explain to Lopis that they—as Spartan-IIIs of [[SPARTAN-III Gamma Company|Gamma Company]]—require regular doses of a drug they refer to as "Smoothers" to counter another drug added to them during [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|their augmentations]] that allows them to fight more aggressively when in danger or under heavy stress. Without the Smoothers, they could potentially become more prone to impulsive, instinct-driven behavior. This discovery causes Lopis to list the Spartan-IIIs of Gamma Company, particularly Mark, as her prime suspects in the murder case. Meanwhile, Roams Alone's curiosity causes him to disobey Intrepid Eye's command to remain hidden and the Huragok spots the resting humans near the pile of rubble. As the Huragok greets them, the Spartans are glad to learn that Roams Alone—as a Huragok for the Forerunner [[Lifeworker]]s—is capable of treating the Spartans' injuries. They contact Fred, who had just discovered Covert Support Base 4276, and inform him of their discovery. Wary of investigating a mysterious, camouflaged Forerunner installation alone, Fred agrees to return with the rest of the team to Gao's surface with Roams Alone. | ||
In [[Montero Jungle]], just outside of the village of [[Wendosa]] where some elements of the 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion have set up camp to prevent hostile forces from entering the nearby cavern entrances, Castor and five hundred of the Keepers' [[Jiralhanae]], [[Kig-Yar]], and human forces have landed and are preparing to retrieve the ancilla. Intending to search for the ancilla in the Montero Cave System, Castor's forces begin to enter an undocumented entrance to the caverns while he converses with Linberk and [[Petora Zoyas]], Minister Casille's representative. The [[Committee to Preserve Gao Independence]] had intentionally triggered UNSC alarms throughout the encampment at Wendosa to distract the forces at the village to give the Keepers a better chance of entering the caves unnoticed. After Zoyas continues to insist that they need an escape plan after they find the ancilla, Castor realizes that Casille's allies and the Venezian Militia intend to steal the ancilla for themselves, although he was not worried as he had loyal human forces infiltrate the militia and Ministry of Protection. Castor sends his second-in-command [[Orsun]] to lead the forces in the caves and has Zoyas accompany them to serve as a guide, while Castor and Linberk remain back to direct forces into the caverns. In Wendosa, Kelly, Linda, Tom, and Lucy are delivering one of the bagged murder victims to a [[Pelican]] [[dropship]], when they are spotted by the Keepers. Believing the bagged object to be the ancilla the Spartans are trying to extract, Castor forgoes his original invasion plan and orders his forces to attack the village and retrieve the ancilla. The Keepers shoot down the Pelican and fire mortars on the town, while the UNSC responds with heavy sniper firing, killing Linberk. At the Montero Vitality Center, Commander Nelson realizes that Gao's [[Well of Echoes]] is an entrance to the Forerunner Support Base and attempts to recall the Spartans to investigate, however he learns that this is impossible when he is informed of the attack on Wendosa. Major [[Tereem Wingate]] launches a Pelican and two [[UH-144 Falcon]]s to support the battalion's forces at the village, but the Keepers attack the Vitality Center and shoot down the Pelican and one of the Falcons while the surviving aircraft flees the attacks. | In [[Montero Jungle]], just outside of the village of [[Wendosa]] where some elements of the 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion have set up camp to prevent hostile forces from entering the nearby cavern entrances, Castor and five hundred of the Keepers' [[Jiralhanae]], [[Kig-Yar]], and human forces have landed and are preparing to retrieve the ancilla. Intending to search for the ancilla in the Montero Cave System, Castor's forces begin to enter an undocumented entrance to the caverns while he converses with Linberk and [[Petora Zoyas]], Minister Casille's representative. The [[Committee to Preserve Gao Independence]] had intentionally triggered UNSC alarms throughout the encampment at Wendosa to distract the forces at the village to give the Keepers a better chance of entering the caves unnoticed. After Zoyas continues to insist that they need an escape plan after they find the ancilla, Castor realizes that Casille's allies and the Venezian Militia intend to steal the ancilla for themselves, although he was not worried as he had loyal human forces infiltrate the militia and Ministry of Protection. Castor sends his second-in-command [[Orsun]] to lead the forces in the caves and has Zoyas accompany them to serve as a guide, while Castor and Linberk remain back to direct forces into the caverns. In Wendosa, Kelly, Linda, Tom, and Lucy are delivering one of the bagged murder victims to a [[Pelican]] [[dropship]], when they are spotted by the Keepers. Believing the bagged object to be the ancilla the Spartans are trying to extract, Castor forgoes his original invasion plan and orders his forces to attack the village and retrieve the ancilla. The Keepers shoot down the Pelican and fire mortars on the town, while the UNSC responds with heavy sniper firing, killing Linberk. At the Montero Vitality Center, Commander Nelson realizes that Gao's [[Well of Echoes]] is an entrance to the Forerunner Support Base and attempts to recall the Spartans to investigate, however he learns that this is impossible when he is informed of the attack on Wendosa. Major [[Tereem Wingate]] launches a Pelican and two [[UH-144 Falcon]]s to support the battalion's forces at the village, but the Keepers attack the Vitality Center and shoot down the Pelican and one of the Falcons while the surviving aircraft flees the attacks. | ||
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As the Wyverns deploy [[Gao battle-jumpers]] to engage them, the Spartans and Lopis hold off their attackers until Blue Team regroups, now with the HAVOK. As they escape in Warthogs, Fred sheds his armor and Kelly extracts the data chip carrying the ancilla. Fleeing the pursing Wyverns in the Warthogs, the Spartans embark towards the Well of Echoes to drop the HAVOK into to destroy the installation. Meanwhile, Intrepid Eye becomes resigned to her fate of helping the UEG and humanity as a whole, realizing that the inheritors of the Mantle were more resourceful than she initially realized. However, she decides to eventually escape captivity to contact the rest of the ecumene. Aboard the Warthogs, Lopis receives a call from Casille. The newly elected president offers her the position of Minister of Protection if she helps his Wyverns locate the Spartans to "rescue" her from her UNSC "captors"; Casille realizes that Lopis is hardly a hostage, a fact that she is aware of. Before ending the call, Lopis misleads Casille into believing that the Spartans were traveling to the nearby [[Singing Grottos]], causing most of the Wyverns to change course. Soon, the humans arrive at the Well of Echoes, just as an Owl insertion craft—{{UNSCShip|Silent Claw}}—arrives at their position to extract them. The humans board the craft, where they are greeted by Rear Admiral [[Serin Osman]]. Osman offers Lopis the opportunity to place Intrepid Eye's data card on the nuke before it detonates to make the ancilla face justice for her crimes, but Lopis realizes that the data card was not the one containing the ancilla and denies her offer. | As the Wyverns deploy [[Gao battle-jumpers]] to engage them, the Spartans and Lopis hold off their attackers until Blue Team regroups, now with the HAVOK. As they escape in Warthogs, Fred sheds his armor and Kelly extracts the data chip carrying the ancilla. Fleeing the pursing Wyverns in the Warthogs, the Spartans embark towards the Well of Echoes to drop the HAVOK into to destroy the installation. Meanwhile, Intrepid Eye becomes resigned to her fate of helping the UEG and humanity as a whole, realizing that the inheritors of the Mantle were more resourceful than she initially realized. However, she decides to eventually escape captivity to contact the rest of the ecumene. Aboard the Warthogs, Lopis receives a call from Casille. The newly elected president offers her the position of Minister of Protection if she helps his Wyverns locate the Spartans to "rescue" her from her UNSC "captors"; Casille realizes that Lopis is hardly a hostage, a fact that she is aware of. Before ending the call, Lopis misleads Casille into believing that the Spartans were traveling to the nearby [[Singing Grottos]], causing most of the Wyverns to change course. Soon, the humans arrive at the Well of Echoes, just as an Owl insertion craft—{{UNSCShip|Silent Claw}}—arrives at their position to extract them. The humans board the craft, where they are greeted by Rear Admiral [[Serin Osman]]. Osman offers Lopis the opportunity to place Intrepid Eye's data card on the nuke before it detonates to make the ancilla face justice for her crimes, but Lopis realizes that the data card was not the one containing the ancilla and denies her offer. | ||
Mark drops the nuke into the Well of Echoes and it detonates shortly after the Owl departs, destroying the Covert Support Base. The Owl heads to rendezvous with the rest of the UNSC task force near Gao. Ten minutes later, aboard [[Basilisk|Basilisk forward command-and-control craft]] ''[[Independence]]'', President Casille and Minister Baez overlook the destruction caused by the HAVOK. Casille informs the "Aponte loyalist" that he intends to withhold the information about the Forerunners' presence on Gao, as well as Lopis' betrayal. Instead, he decides to claim to the public that Lopis died with the rest of her team at the Vitality Center and his forces sent the UNSC into retreat after he learned that the Spartans were murdering tourists in the Montero Cave System. Requiring a way to keep the hundreds of Gao soldiers aware of the truth quiet, Casille offers to keep Baez—an experienced commander—on his Cabinet if he can accomplish that. Baez agrees, beginning a partnership between the two former political rivals. Aboard ''Silent Claw'', Osman, Lopis, and the Spartans discuss the Gao events as the Owl detours to avoid patrol corvettes. Osman congratulates Lopis for passing one of her tests; she realized that the data card that Osman claimed to contain Intrepid Eye was fake in four seconds, nor was she afraid of the armed HAVOK. Additionally, Osman claims that the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] requires someone with her investigation skills. Before Lopis can decline, Osman reveals that she has to list the Gamma Spartan-IIIs are [[KIA]], since if the public ever became aware of their Smoother problem, it could destroy the newly created [[Spartan (branch)|Spartan branch]]. Instead, Osman offers to create a top-secret investigations and black operations team composed of the three Spartans and led by Lopis. Realizing that she can not return to Gao and seeing the opportunity in applying her skills on a much larger scale, Lopis accepts the opportunity alongside Ash, Mark, and Olivia. Meanwhile, in the Montero Jungle, the mortally wounded Castor is being aided by Orsun as the two slowly walk to the Keepers' rendezvous point to escape the planet. Realizing that he is going to die, Castor orders his second-in-command to leave for the rendezvous point without him or else he will be left behind, but Orsun refuses. As they continue, the two Jiralhanae are greeted by Roams Alone. The Huragok heals Castor's wounds and prepares to leave. Orsun grabs Roams Alone so that the Keepers can have an effective medic, but Castor orders him to leave the Huragok alone, as he believes Roams Alone's work is a gift from the "Oracle". As the two Jiralhanae continue to the rendezvous point with new-found strength and speed, Castor plans to eventually enact revenge on Casille. | Mark drops the nuke into the Well of Echoes and it detonates shortly after the Owl departs, destroying the Covert Support Base. The Owl heads to rendezvous with the rest of the UNSC task force near Gao. Ten minutes later, aboard [[Basilisk|Basilisk forward command-and-control craft]] ''[[Independence]]'', President Casille and Minister Baez overlook the destruction caused by the HAVOK. Casille informs the "Aponte loyalist" that he intends to withhold the information about the Forerunners' presence on Gao, as well as Lopis' betrayal. Instead, he decides to claim to the public that Lopis died with the rest of her team at the Vitality Center and his forces sent the UNSC into retreat after he learned that the Spartans were murdering tourists in the Montero Cave System. Requiring a way to keep the hundreds of Gao soldiers aware of the truth quiet, Casille offers to keep Baez—an experienced commander—on his Cabinet if he can accomplish that. Baez agrees, beginning a partnership between the two former political rivals. Aboard ''Silent Claw'', Osman, Lopis, and the Spartans discuss the Gao events as the Owl detours to avoid patrol corvettes. Osman congratulates Lopis for passing one of her tests; she realized that the data card that Osman claimed to contain Intrepid Eye was fake in four seconds, nor was she afraid of the armed HAVOK. Additionally, Osman claims that the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] requires someone with her investigation skills. Before Lopis can decline, Osman reveals that she has to list the Gamma Spartan-IIIs are [[KIA]], since if the public ever became aware of their Smoother problem, it could destroy the newly created [[Spartan (branch)|Spartan branch]]. Instead, Osman offers to create a top-secret investigations and black operations team composed of the three Spartans and led by Lopis. Realizing that she can not return to Gao and seeing the opportunity in applying her skills on a much larger scale, Lopis accepts the opportunity alongside Ash, Mark, and Olivia. | ||
Meanwhile, in the Montero Jungle, the mortally wounded Castor is being aided by Orsun as the two slowly walk to the Keepers' rendezvous point to escape the planet. Realizing that he is going to die, Castor orders his second-in-command to leave for the rendezvous point without him or else he will be left behind, but Orsun refuses. As they continue, the two Jiralhanae are greeted by Roams Alone. The Huragok heals Castor's wounds and prepares to leave. Orsun grabs Roams Alone so that the Keepers can have an effective medic, but Castor orders him to leave the Huragok alone, as he believes Roams Alone's work is a gift from the "Oracle". As the two Jiralhanae continue to the rendezvous point with new-found strength and speed, Castor plans to eventually enact revenge on Casille. | |||
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*******[[717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion]] | *******[[717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion]] | ||
********[[Alpha Company]] {{1st}} | ********[[Alpha Company (717th)|Alpha Company]] {{1st}} | ||
********[[Charlie Company ( | ********[[Charlie Company (717th)|Charlie Company]] {{1st}} | ||
********[[Sierra Company]] {{1st}} | ********[[Sierra Company]] {{1st}} | ||
****[[Spartan (branch)|Spartan]] {{Mo}} | ****[[Spartan (branch)|Spartan]] {{Mo}} | ||