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Captain Osman had [[Lian Devereaux|Devereaux]] identify the best covert insertion sites outside [[New Tyne]] before they even left Sanghelios behind them, so by the time they dropped out a few hours from Venezia and took up station at 100,000 kilometers from the planet, a clear plan was in place.<ref name="G18"/> All they needed were coordinates from Spenser regarding where to meet him. Stored video footage from Phillips' worn camera begin to play the moment they entered Orso space. The ODSTs went to ground. Mal and Vaz met up with Spenser wile Dev waited at the dropship, now named the {{UNSCship|Tart-Cart}}. Both Osman and Naomi eventually went to the captain's day cabin to go over the ''Infinity'' specs some more. In the middle of their studying, Black-Box suddenly projected himself right between them with urgent news from [[Ontom]] on [[Sanghelios]]. Professor Phillips had evidently been clandestinely handed a message from 'Telcam that indicated the Servants would be moving against the Arbiter soon and that they could shelter him in their sanctuary. Osman wanted to talk with the Bishop right then, but BB was unable to establish a connection. Naomi offered to extract Phillips, but Osman knew she BB might take him out before that became an option. As it turned out, 'Telcam actually approached Phillips then and Osman and Naomi had a live view of the encounter via Evan's hidden camera. The former field master guided him to the entrance of an ancient building and without warning, a huge explosion from somewhere knocked the professor off his feet. It was impossible to tell exactly what was going on, but 'Telcam was adamantly shouting that the blast hadn't been the Servants' doing. Osman wasted no time ordering Dev to get Mal and Vaz and to return now. Their priority was Sanghelios again.<ref name="G18"/> She sent a message to Admiral Parangosky to update her and asked that she enlist Hood's assistance with rescuing Dr. Phillips.<ref name="TTW1">''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'', ''chapter 1''</ref> | Captain Osman had [[Lian Devereaux|Devereaux]] identify the best covert insertion sites outside [[New Tyne]] before they even left Sanghelios behind them, so by the time they dropped out a few hours from Venezia and took up station at 100,000 kilometers from the planet, a clear plan was in place.<ref name="G18"/> All they needed were coordinates from Spenser regarding where to meet him. Stored video footage from Phillips' worn camera begin to play the moment they entered Orso space. The ODSTs went to ground. Mal and Vaz met up with Spenser wile Dev waited at the dropship, now named the {{UNSCship|Tart-Cart}}. Both Osman and Naomi eventually went to the captain's day cabin to go over the ''Infinity'' specs some more. In the middle of their studying, Black-Box suddenly projected himself right between them with urgent news from [[Ontom]] on [[Sanghelios]]. Professor Phillips had evidently been clandestinely handed a message from 'Telcam that indicated the Servants would be moving against the Arbiter soon and that they could shelter him in their sanctuary. Osman wanted to talk with the Bishop right then, but BB was unable to establish a connection. Naomi offered to extract Phillips, but Osman knew she BB might take him out before that became an option. As it turned out, 'Telcam actually approached Phillips then and Osman and Naomi had a live view of the encounter via Evan's hidden camera. The former field master guided him to the entrance of an ancient building and without warning, a huge explosion from somewhere knocked the professor off his feet. It was impossible to tell exactly what was going on, but 'Telcam was adamantly shouting that the blast hadn't been the Servants' doing. Osman wasted no time ordering Dev to get Mal and Vaz and to return now. Their priority was Sanghelios again.<ref name="G18"/> She sent a message to Admiral Parangosky to update her and asked that she enlist Hood's assistance with rescuing Dr. Phillips.<ref name="TTW1">''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'', ''chapter 1''</ref> | ||
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{{Quote|no=three|q1=I'm not being callous, but it would ver very useful to monitor the situation as well as finding the professor. If this is the revolution, we don't want anyone winning outright, after all.|Margaret Parangosky|q2=When you say monitor... you mean hands-on assistance.|Serin Osman|q3=I mean a route into both sides of the argument, but it might require more than just supplying hardware.|Margaret Parangosky|The admiral leaves Kilo-Five's mission parameters open-ended, with only the goal of keeping the Sangheili divided of tantamount importance.}}<ref name="TTW4"/> | |||
Osman was seated and bracing for the transition to [[slipspace]] when the three ODSTs finally returned and took their own seats on the bridge.<ref name="TTW1"/> She asked how the brief meeting with Spenser had gone, but Mal told her she'd want to wait until she had at least five minutes for them to go over it in detail. She didn't hesitate, however, to give them the rundown on what was going on with Phillips. After they jumped, she began to put together a plan for exfiltrating him. Before she could get very far with it, she asked Mal to now fill her in on Venezia. He hesitated and Vaz answered her instead, saying that they had seen [[Naomi]]'s [[Staffan Sentzke|father]] and that not only was he still alive on Venezia, but he was an [[insurrectionist]] on the [[UEG]]'s [[terrorist]] watch list.<ref name="TTW1"/> | Osman was seated and bracing for the transition to [[slipspace]] when the three ODSTs finally returned and took their own seats on the bridge.<ref name="TTW1"/> She asked how the brief meeting with Spenser had gone, but Mal told her she'd want to wait until she had at least five minutes for them to go over it in detail. She didn't hesitate, however, to give them the rundown on what was going on with Phillips. After they jumped, she began to put together a plan for exfiltrating him. Before she could get very far with it, she asked Mal to now fill her in on Venezia. He hesitated and Vaz answered her instead, saying that they had seen [[Naomi]]'s [[Staffan Sentzke|father]] and that not only was he still alive on Venezia, but he was an [[insurrectionist]] on the [[UEG]]'s [[terrorist]] watch list.<ref name="TTW1"/> | ||
[[File:Sanghelios Halo5.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The UNSC had not been able to acquire much reconnaissance imaging of Sanghelios during the war. Observations made by the {{UNSCship|Iceni}} and the ''{{UNSCship|Port Stanley}}'' changed that.<ref name="TTW3"/>]] | |||
Naomi was intentional to make it clear she was unfazed by the news. The conversation returned to the upcoming operation on [[Sanghelios]].<ref name="TTW3">''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'', ''chapter 3''</ref> Osman suggested that they might consider sneaking into Ontom by sea, but Naomi objected the idea due to her [[Mjolnir|armor]]. At this, the captain told her she would not be participating in the op simply because Osman didn't want to lose one of the last remaining [[Spartan-II]]s unnecessarily. Moving on, she brought up Naomi's dad, [[Staffan Sentzke]], again and said they would need to verify his identity at the soonest point they could. She confirmed from Vaz and Mal that Spenser hadn't alerted Parangosky about him while they'd been present and stated she would contact the admiral herself as soon as they existed slipspace. She made sure Naomi understood that no matter how they chose to respond to his presence on the colony, someone was going to get hurt. The Spartan communicated that she was fine with this and would show no partiality. Concluding with hope that Hood could successfully negotiate Kilo-Five landing [[marine]]s on Sanghelios, she retired to her day cabin to catch up on signal traffic.<ref name="TTW3"/> | |||
''Port Stanley'' dropped out of slipspace in Sangheili space five hours ahead of schedule and just two million klicks adrift from its target destination.<ref name="TTW4"/> BB let the captain know she had lots of messages for her, though there was no new information about Phillips. One of these messages was from Parangosky and relayed that Hood had opened negotiations with the Arbiter to see if they might be permitted to land a search party to find the professor. Osman asked BB what time it was for her mentor then, and the A.I. let her know that while it was just after three o'clock [[Military Standard Time|MST]], he already had Parangosky standing by waiting to speak with her. Serin requested that he patch the contact into her day cabin so they could speak alone and try to reach 'Telcam as well. Taking her leave of the bridge, she also instructed that he take the ship in close enough to begin their surveillance orbit of the Elite homeworld at fifty thousand klicks. From her location onboard the {{UNSCship|Infinity}} in the [[Sol]] [[Oort cloud]], Admiral Parangosky informed Serin that [[Blooding Years|fighting]] had apparently broke out in a number of cities on [[Sanghelios]]. Though they were there to get Evan, she reminded her protégé that it would not be in their interest for any particular side of the violence to win too quickly and that she ought to feel free to use Kilo-Five to assist in making sure that didn't happen. However, she stressed that nothing should be done until Hood had concluded his talks with 'Vadam. Switching gears, the admiral offered to return Adj, who had been offloaded earlier, along with [[Leaks Repaired|another]] newly-created [[Huragok]]. She intended for the Forerunner biomechanical constructs to retrofit ''Port Stanley'' to have completely accurate slipspace navigation and slipspace-capable comms. When Osman brought up their latest intel regarding Venezia, namely that Naomi's father was a player there, Parangosky told her Osman was confident she could handle it herself as she saw fit, provided it wasn't causing any operational problems for the team.<ref name="TTW4">''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'', ''chapter 4''</ref> | |||
After signing off from the conversation and being told that 'Telcam wasn't answering any calls, Osman took a slow walk around the ship's deserted passages.<ref name="TTW4"/> She asked BB if Mal and Vaz were okay, as she had sensed some tension earlier, and he assured her they had just had a disagreement over whether to tell herself or Naomi about Naomi's dad first, but that they were getting over it. Given that nothing could be done until further information about Lord Hood and the Arbiter arrived, she returned to the bridge to watch as the topography of [[Sanghelios]] was mapped in real time. Mal eventually brought her [[coffee]] after at least two hours. Soon after this, BB appeared with confirmation that they had permission to land a squad, given that an escort meet [[Tart-Cart|their dropship]] to guide it to the landing zone.<ref name="TTW4"/> | |||
===Mission on Sanghelios=== | ===Mission on Sanghelios=== | ||
