Margaret Parangosky: Difference between revisions

===SPARTAN-III===

In [[2531#May|May of 2531]], [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] told Vice Admiral [[Michael Stanforth]] his assistance would be needed in order to get Parangosky to allow Cole to use her assets to manipulate energy in [[slipspace]] in what he was sure she would consider an "extreme risk" operation.<ref name="HEILPDPC"/> Cole was proposing that [[ONI Section Two|Section Two]] of ONI begin broadcasting prerecorded carrier signals from antiquity in order to attenuate and obfuscate the radio signatures already in [[slipspace]], hoping that doing so would prevent the [[Covenant]] from triangulating [[Earth]]'s location.<ref name="HEILPDPC">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''</ref> Later that year, on [[2531#October|October 24]], Margaret met with [[Rear Admiral]] [[Ned Rich]], [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]], and Captain [[Aaron Gibson]] aboard the {{class|Point Blank|stealth cruiser}} {{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}} while it was in interstellar space of [[Sector B-042]].<ref name="HGOO2"/> Now a vice admiral and the [[Commander-in-Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence]] (CINCONI), she had made the ship her base of operations.<ref name="HGOO2"/><ref name="HE74">''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'', ''page 74''</ref> She, Gibson, and Rich entered the room variously known as "the cage" or "[[Odin's Eye]]" shortly after 0500 hours that day where the colonel was already waiting.<ref name="HGOO2"/> Before she seated herself at the conference table she told Ackerson that he'd better have a good reason for dragging them all there through back channels. He implored her and the two others to examine a document he'd prepared for them on reader tablets, but Parangosky told him to just come to his point after seeing the file dealt with something she was already very familiar with: [[Catherine Halsey]]'s [[Spartan-II]] project. The colonel then proposed a making a new generation of [[Spartan]]s—[[Spartan-III]]s. Parangosky was immediately interested by the proposal and asked if she was right to assume what he was suggesting would have no public presence. He confirmed her suspicion and further explained that Spartan-IIIs could be sent on missions against high-value Covenant targets that traditionally would never be considered. Such "suicide missions" could potentially slow the enemy down, essentially allowing the Spartans' lives to be traded for time the [[UNSC]] needed to think, plan, and come up with a better way to fight. Though the notion gave her pause, Parangosky had to agree the lives of a handful of men and women were well worth saving a single planet or setting the Covenant even just a few weeks back. She announced she knew the perfect location to use as the Spartan-III program's staging area—Onyx. When Ackerson said he would need a [[Spartan-II]] to train the [[Spartan-III]] recruits Parangosky agreed. She advised that he tread very lightly in procuring [[Kurt-051|one]] and not allow anyone in [[ONI Section Three|Section Three]] to find out about either. She was especially concerned that Doctor Halsey never find out. Before taking their leave the vice admiral and the other two naval officers erased the files from their tablets.<ref name="HGOO2"/>