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By July 23 contact with the relay hub had been lost.<ref name="HJ72352">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''July 23, 2552''</ref> Given how the communications network had been hardened years back and the urgency and demand for secrecy in Sorvad's message, Halsey ruled out a rudimentary malfunction, believing the loss to be more than a coincidence. She made a short list of possible explanations for the blackout, none of which were pleasant. She figured either internal subterfuge within ONI, [[Insurrectionist|insurgent]] action, or even the Covenant could be to blame. Halsey made sure Stanforth, who had personnel addressing the situation, was aware of her vital staff in the area. She also shared her thoughts on the potential causes with him and was told she'd be notified when her people were located.<ref name="HJ72352"/> The next day she caught a rumor that a [[UNSC Special Forces|special forces]] unit had been sent to investigate the hub but that it too had disappeared.<ref name="HJ72452">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''July 24, 2552''</ref> Halsey learned that a second unit named "[[NOBLE Team]]" would be sent to investigate next, but she could not get anyone to give her any further details. Without even knowing what branch of the [[UNSC Armed Forces|armed forces]] this NOBLE Team belonged to, she resolved in her journal to follow up on it as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the doctor was also receiving scattered data from the usual suspects concerning atmospheric anomalies along with radar and slipspace monitoring glitches. She compared these events to those recorded near [[Sigma Octanus IV]] but there were no matches.<ref name="HJ72452"/> | By July 23 contact with the relay hub had been lost.<ref name="HJ72352">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''July 23, 2552''</ref> Given how the communications network had been hardened years back and the urgency and demand for secrecy in Sorvad's message, Halsey ruled out a rudimentary malfunction, believing the loss to be more than a coincidence. She made a short list of possible explanations for the blackout, none of which were pleasant. She figured either internal subterfuge within ONI, [[Insurrectionist|insurgent]] action, or even the Covenant could be to blame. Halsey made sure Stanforth, who had personnel addressing the situation, was aware of her vital staff in the area. She also shared her thoughts on the potential causes with him and was told she'd be notified when her people were located.<ref name="HJ72352"/> The next day she caught a rumor that a [[UNSC Special Forces|special forces]] unit had been sent to investigate the hub but that it too had disappeared.<ref name="HJ72452">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''July 24, 2552''</ref> Halsey learned that a second unit named "[[NOBLE Team]]" would be sent to investigate next, but she could not get anyone to give her any further details. Without even knowing what branch of the [[UNSC Armed Forces|armed forces]] this NOBLE Team belonged to, she resolved in her journal to follow up on it as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the doctor was also receiving scattered data from the usual suspects concerning atmospheric anomalies along with radar and slipspace monitoring glitches. She compared these events to those recorded near [[Sigma Octanus IV]] but there were no matches.<ref name="HJ72452"/> | ||
[[File:Jorge Deployment Details.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Halsey's attempt to access restricted information concerning Jorge-052 prompted a personal message being sent to her from [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]], who had operational control of NOBLE Team.<ref name="HJextras">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', additional materials</ref><ref name="HRNobleA">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[Noble Actual]]''</ref>]] | [[File:Jorge Deployment Details.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Halsey's attempt to access restricted information concerning Jorge-052 prompted a personal message being sent to her from [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]], who had operational control of NOBLE Team.<ref name="HJextras">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', additional materials</ref><ref name="HRNobleA">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[Noble Actual]]''</ref>]] | ||
By 1126 hours on July 26 [[SWORD Base]] had come under attack by an {{Class|SDV|heavy corvette}} and Covenant ground forces from the [[Fleet of Valiant Prudence]].<ref name="HROSB">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref> Following the attack's repulsion Halsey requested permission to debrief with NOBLE Team, the six members of which met her within the base's science wing thereafter. Upon seeing them her suspicions were confirmed: they were [[SPARTAN-III program|Spartan]]s, as incomprehensible as that was to her at the time. Only one of them, [[Jorge-052]], was one of hers. She had already begun conversing with the team's leader, [[Carter-A259]], when Jorge and [[SPARTAN-B312|sixth member]] of the team finally joined them. She was in the midst of telling Carter to dispense with telling her about the recent engagement outside so she could hear about what happened in [[Visegrád]] when Jorge's entrance made her stop mid-sentence to greet him. She couldn't help but ask after the obvious modifications made to his armor before returning to the matter of the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrád relay]], and Doctor Sorvad's death in particular. From Carter, Jorge, and [[Spartan-B312]] she learned that [[Devoted Sentries|a group of three]] [[Sangheili]] [[Sangheili Zealot|Zealot]]s were likely responsible. The same had ambushed NOBLE Team when they'd arrived at the relay and the one which appeared to be their leader had gotten away from the Spartans. Halsey dismissed mention of Sorvad's daughter [[Sára Sorvad|Sára]] in the interest in maintaining focus on the Elites and what their leader might have escaped with. She bristled at Carter's defense of his order not to pursue the last zealot, worried that it might have stolen valuable ONI excavation data. She let them know about the supposed latchkey discovery Sorvad had made and emphasized its importance, stressing that they should hope a [[data module]] found on his corpse contained what was so important. At this [[Kat-B320]] handed the module over to the doctor through a transaction drawer, as a wall of glass separated her from NOBLE. She let the lieutenant commander know she'd been alerted when she'd tried to access its contents, threatening her with imprisonment for attempting to interfere with her work. This prompted Carter to rush to Kat's defense, citing the [[WINTER CONTINGENCY]] directive and the provision against civilian interference with a Spartan deployment to make the same threat to Halsey. Jorge lingered when the rest of the team began to leave, but Halsey told him they'd talked enough, allowing him to move on as well.<ref name="HROSB"/> | By 1126 hours on July 26 [[SWORD Base]] had come under attack by an {{Class|SDV|heavy corvette}} and Covenant ground forces from the [[Fleet of Valiant Prudence]].<ref name="HROSB">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref> Following the attack's repulsion Halsey requested permission to debrief with NOBLE Team, the six members of which met her within the base's science wing thereafter. Upon seeing them her suspicions were confirmed: they were [[SPARTAN-III program|Spartan]]s, as incomprehensible as that was to her at the time. Only one of them, [[Jorge-052]], was one of hers. She had already begun conversing with the team's leader, [[Carter-A259]], when Jorge and [[SPARTAN-B312|sixth member]] of the team finally joined them. She was in the midst of telling Carter to dispense with telling her about the recent engagement outside so she could hear about what happened in [[Visegrád]] when Jorge's entrance made her stop mid-sentence to greet him. She couldn't help but ask after the obvious modifications made to his armor before returning to the matter of the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrád relay]], and Doctor Sorvad's death in particular. From Carter, Jorge, and [[Spartan-B312]] she learned that [[Devoted Sentries|a group of three]] [[Sangheili]] [[Sangheili Zealot|Zealot]]s were likely responsible. The same had ambushed NOBLE Team when they'd arrived at the relay and the one which appeared to be their leader had gotten away from the Spartans. Halsey dismissed mention of Sorvad's daughter [[Sára Sorvad|Sára]] in the interest in maintaining focus on the Elites and what their leader might have escaped with. She bristled at Carter's defense of his order not to pursue the last zealot, worried that it might have stolen valuable ONI excavation data. She let them know about the supposed latchkey discovery Sorvad had made and emphasized its importance, stressing that they should hope a [[data module]] found on his corpse contained what was so important. At this [[Kat-B320]] handed the module over to the doctor through a transaction drawer, as a wall of glass separated her from NOBLE. She let the lieutenant commander know she'd been alerted when she'd tried to access its contents, threatening her with imprisonment for attempting to interfere with her work. This prompted Carter to rush to Kat's defense, citing the [[WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY]] directive and the provision against civilian interference with a Spartan deployment to make the same threat to Halsey. Jorge lingered when the rest of the team began to leave, but Halsey told him they'd talked enough, allowing him to move on as well.<ref name="HROSB"/> | ||
The data in Sorvad's last message to her had been compromised along with the entire relay hub, which had been effectively destroyed.<ref name="HJ72652"/> Following her meeting with NOBLE Team Halsey noted in her journal that security measures were under way to preserve ONI's discoveries in the [[Viery Territory]] and to integrate and update [[Cortana]] with the latest intelligence from the [[Visegrád]] site. In addition, she was able to confirm definitely that the five with Jorge were indeed Spartans. She pulled Jorge's service record, but more was redacted than was usual even for a Spartan and she had trouble reconciling his recent activity with [[Naval Special Weapons]]. Seeing how he had seemed to grow in the past two decades, she made a note to herself to check [[Wikipedia:Pituitary gland|pituitary]] and [[Wikipedia:Human growth hormone|human growth hormone]] levels for enduring catalytic side effects. Halsey figured Jorge must be glad to be back on Reach, even given the circumstances, but was unsure whether or not she was only displacing or projecting her own feelings onto him. The others on NOBLE Team, of course, were a mystery to her, but seeing them did remind her once more that Mendez was missing. If time had permitted, she would have pursued this thread, but as all the pieces for [[Operation: RED FLAG]] were almost in place, she had to wait. The Covenant's presence on Reach was also enough to get her to begin preparing for [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]], which involved denying the enemy access to classified data.<ref name="HJ72652"/> | The data in Sorvad's last message to her had been compromised along with the entire relay hub, which had been effectively destroyed.<ref name="HJ72652"/> Following her meeting with NOBLE Team Halsey noted in her journal that security measures were under way to preserve ONI's discoveries in the [[Viery Territory]] and to integrate and update [[Cortana]] with the latest intelligence from the [[Visegrád]] site. In addition, she was able to confirm definitely that the five with Jorge were indeed Spartans. She pulled Jorge's service record, but more was redacted than was usual even for a Spartan and she had trouble reconciling his recent activity with [[Naval Special Weapons]]. Seeing how he had seemed to grow in the past two decades, she made a note to herself to check [[Wikipedia:Pituitary gland|pituitary]] and [[Wikipedia:Human growth hormone|human growth hormone]] levels for enduring catalytic side effects. Halsey figured Jorge must be glad to be back on Reach, even given the circumstances, but was unsure whether or not she was only displacing or projecting her own feelings onto him. The others on NOBLE Team, of course, were a mystery to her, but seeing them did remind her once more that Mendez was missing. If time had permitted, she would have pursued this thread, but as all the pieces for [[Operation: RED FLAG]] were almost in place, she had to wait. The Covenant's presence on Reach was also enough to get her to begin preparing for [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]], which involved denying the enemy access to classified data.<ref name="HJ72652"/> | ||