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On [[2550#November|November 23]] the [[Official Secrets Act of 2550]] was handed down, regulating the confidentiality and nondisclosure of any official [[messenger satchel]].<ref name="HJ112350"/> This additional measure struck Halsey as onerous and when she made inquiries regarding it to [[Michael Stanforth|Stanforth]] he uncharacteristicallt deflected them. Catherine speculated in her journal that the new regulation might relate to [[Visegrád]] or some of the other rumored [[Forerunner|sites]] she'd been collecting data on, and while she did appreciate the need for secrecy she did not appreciate relevant data being kept from her. If indeed Visegrád was [[Forerunner|what]] she and others all thought it might be, she reasoned—and if there were other such sites, she wondered who could be positioning themselves to assay the larger picture.<ref name="HJ112350">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''November 23, 2550''</ref> By [[2551#February|February 20, 2551]] the {{UNSCShip|Hopeful}}, the UNSC's largest medical facility, had departed Reach with a minimal escort.<ref name="HJ22051">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''February 20, 2551''</ref> According to Halsey's own sources, it was accompanied by one ONI prowler in addition to a single destroyer. The ''Hopeful'''s A.I. was unusually tight-lipped when [[Kalmiya]] asked about its destination. This, plus the late addition of carcinogenic, mutagenic, and experimental chemicals to its manifest among other oddities, piqued the doctor's curiosity. She questioned in her journal why Stanforth would keep any clandestine [[ONI Section Three|Section Three]] medical experiments from her. To her irritation, inquiries she made on the matter were met with dead ends.<ref name="HJ22051"/> The facility returned by February 27 and Vice Admiral [[Ysionris Jeromi|Jeromi]] even invited Halsey to come aboard for a look at its new [[Flash cloning|flash-clone organ]] facility.<ref name="HJ22751">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''February 27, 2551''</ref> Once they were together he abruptly steered their conversation to tell her he knew she was "fishing" before she could even ask him anything related to the ship's short absence. He also claimed that he knew very little himself and couldn't tell her what he did know, under threat of death.<ref name="HJ22751"/> | On [[2550#November|November 23]] the [[Official Secrets Act of 2550]] was handed down, regulating the confidentiality and nondisclosure of any official [[messenger satchel]].<ref name="HJ112350"/> This additional measure struck Halsey as onerous and when she made inquiries regarding it to [[Michael Stanforth|Stanforth]] he uncharacteristicallt deflected them. Catherine speculated in her journal that the new regulation might relate to [[Visegrád]] or some of the other rumored [[Forerunner|sites]] she'd been collecting data on, and while she did appreciate the need for secrecy she did not appreciate relevant data being kept from her. If indeed Visegrád was [[Forerunner|what]] she and others all thought it might be, she reasoned—and if there were other such sites, she wondered who could be positioning themselves to assay the larger picture.<ref name="HJ112350">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''November 23, 2550''</ref> By [[2551#February|February 20, 2551]] the {{UNSCShip|Hopeful}}, the UNSC's largest medical facility, had departed Reach with a minimal escort.<ref name="HJ22051">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''February 20, 2551''</ref> According to Halsey's own sources, it was accompanied by one ONI prowler in addition to a single destroyer. The ''Hopeful'''s A.I. was unusually tight-lipped when [[Kalmiya]] asked about its destination. This, plus the late addition of carcinogenic, mutagenic, and experimental chemicals to its manifest among other oddities, piqued the doctor's curiosity. She questioned in her journal why Stanforth would keep any clandestine [[ONI Section Three|Section Three]] medical experiments from her. To her irritation, inquiries she made on the matter were met with dead ends.<ref name="HJ22051"/> The facility returned by February 27 and Vice Admiral [[Ysionris Jeromi|Jeromi]] even invited Halsey to come aboard for a look at its new [[Flash cloning|flash-clone organ]] facility.<ref name="HJ22751">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''February 27, 2551''</ref> Once they were together he abruptly steered their conversation to tell her he knew she was "fishing" before she could even ask him anything related to the ship's short absence. He also claimed that he knew very little himself and couldn't tell her what he did know, under threat of death.<ref name="HJ22751"/> | ||
[[File:Babd catha forerunner complex.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Forerunner ship]] | [[File:Babd catha forerunner complex.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Forerunner ship]] | ||
By [[2551#May|May of 2551]] Catherine had begun to lead the excavation of an ancient [[Forerunner]] [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|vessel]] that lay [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|buried]] beneath ONI's [[SWORD Base]] within the [[Babd Catha Ice Shelf]] in northern [[Eposz]].<ref name="DD2">[[Data Drop]] [[Data Drop/Two|#2]]</ref><ref name="DD3">[[Data Drop]] [[Data Drop/Three|#3]]</ref><ref name="HRTP">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[The Package (level)]]''</ref> On May 8 she was interviewed by analyst [[B.M. Parkes]] so that they might conduct a [[Hemley and Aubourn Behavior Analysis|Hemley and Aubourn behavior analysis]] of her.<ref name="DD3"/> Following the encounter Parkes recorded that she had not been terribly forthcoming and ultimately recommended assigning two to three handlers to her at both sites where she was working. Parkes also was confident she needed to be surveilled were she to be called off-planet, though her leaving Reach was something they and their colleagues strongly discouraged at that time.<ref name="DD3"/> | By [[2551#May|May of 2551]] Catherine had begun to lead the excavation of an ancient [[Forerunner]] [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|vessel]] that lay [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|buried]] beneath ONI's [[SWORD Base]] within the [[Babd Catha Ice Shelf]] in northern [[Eposz]].<ref name="DD2">[[Data Drop]] [[Data Drop/Two|#2]]</ref><ref name="DD3">[[Data Drop]] [[Data Drop/Three|#3]]</ref><ref name="HRTP">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref> On May 8 she was interviewed by analyst [[B.M. Parkes]] so that they might conduct a [[Hemley and Aubourn Behavior Analysis|Hemley and Aubourn behavior analysis]] of her.<ref name="DD3"/> Following the encounter Parkes recorded that she had not been terribly forthcoming and ultimately recommended assigning two to three handlers to her at both sites where she was working. Parkes also was confident she needed to be surveilled were she to be called off-planet, though her leaving Reach was something they and their colleagues strongly discouraged at that time.<ref name="DD3"/> | ||
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