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{{Quote|no=three|q1=You want to trade ''lives'' for ''time''.|Margaret Parangosky|q2=Yes, ma'am. Isn't that the job of a soldier? Is there another option? How many worlds are now cinders? How many billions of colonists have died? If we save a single planet, gain a few weeks, isn't that worth a handful of men and women?|James Ackerson|q3=Of course it is. God help us all. Yes, Colonel. Yes, it is worth it.|Margaret Parangosky|Vice Admiral Parangosky concedes the uncomfortable point made by Colonel Ackerson.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HGOO2}} | {{Quote|no=three|q1=You want to trade ''lives'' for ''time''.|Margaret Parangosky|q2=Yes, ma'am. Isn't that the job of a soldier? Is there another option? How many worlds are now cinders? How many billions of colonists have died? If we save a single planet, gain a few weeks, isn't that worth a handful of men and women?|James Ackerson|q3=Of course it is. God help us all. Yes, Colonel. Yes, it is worth it.|Margaret Parangosky|Vice Admiral Parangosky concedes the uncomfortable point made by Colonel Ackerson.}}{{Ref/Reuse|HGOO2}} | ||
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/Reuse|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| | 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/Reuse|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|prowler}} {{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}} while it was in interstellar space of [[Sector B-042]].{{Ref/Reuse|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/Reuse|HGOO2}}<ref name="HE74">''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', ''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/Reuse|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/Reuse|HGOO2}} | ||
Almost six years later another meeting was held within "Odin's Eye" while the ''Point of No Return'' was at a classified location.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} On [[2537#July|July 30, 2537]] Vice Admiral Parangosky, Rear Admiral Rich, and Colonel Ackerson were joined by Senior Chief Petty Officer [[Franklin Mendez]] and Lieutenant [[Kurt Ambrose]] shortly after 0900 hours to go over the performance of [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|the first]] Spartan-III company.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]], apart from a small number of Spartans whom had been previously extracted for reassignment elsewhere, had just been totally obliterated during [[Operation: PROMETHEUS]].{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}}<ref name="HM76">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', ''page 76''</ref> Parangosky and Rich were seated opposite one another when Ackerson showed Mendez and Ambrose in, already reviewing the Spartans' operational records.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} She scrutinized the lieutenant, him being the [[Spartan-II]] who'd been handpicked to train the threes, before telling directing both he and Mendez to sit. She told them she was impressed with those they'd trained and asked Kurt to tell her about the selection process for the next class. Together he and Ackerson communicated that while three hundred and seventy-five candidates had been identified, a lack of data was preventing them from finding additional matches. To this Parangosky suggested microscopic samples could be taken from children in the Outer Colonies during vaccinations administered as part of an official immunization program and also asked if they could perhaps loosen the genetic criteria for selection. Kurt pointed out that doing so would dramatically increase the failure rate during biological [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentation]]. It was Parangosky who then steered the conversation to Operation: PROMETHEUS, the end results of which were still unknown to Mendez and Kurt. She told the former Spartan-II that Alpha Company's loss was regrettable, but that she and the other officers present would order the operation again if presented with a similar opportunity. The Spartan-IIIs had stopped the Covenant from being able to manufacture any further ships at the asteroid [[K7-49]], and to hear Parangosky tell it this made them heroes. Once Kurt indicated he'd understood what she was saying, the vice admiral let him know she'd put him in for a promotion and that he was to be commended for his Spartans' performance. But as there was still a war to win, she also wanted him to focus and accelerate the training of those who would form the second company.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} | Almost six years later another meeting was held within "Odin's Eye" while the ''Point of No Return'' was at a classified location.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} On [[2537#July|July 30, 2537]] Vice Admiral Parangosky, Rear Admiral Rich, and Colonel Ackerson were joined by Senior Chief Petty Officer [[Franklin Mendez]] and Lieutenant [[Kurt Ambrose]] shortly after 0900 hours to go over the performance of [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|the first]] Spartan-III company.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]], apart from a small number of Spartans whom had been previously extracted for reassignment elsewhere, had just been totally obliterated during [[Operation: PROMETHEUS]].{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}}<ref name="HM76">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', ''page 76''</ref> Parangosky and Rich were seated opposite one another when Ackerson showed Mendez and Ambrose in, already reviewing the Spartans' operational records.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} She scrutinized the lieutenant, him being the [[Spartan-II]] who'd been handpicked to train the threes, before telling directing both he and Mendez to sit. She told them she was impressed with those they'd trained and asked Kurt to tell her about the selection process for the next class. Together he and Ackerson communicated that while three hundred and seventy-five candidates had been identified, a lack of data was preventing them from finding additional matches. To this Parangosky suggested microscopic samples could be taken from children in the Outer Colonies during vaccinations administered as part of an official immunization program and also asked if they could perhaps loosen the genetic criteria for selection. Kurt pointed out that doing so would dramatically increase the failure rate during biological [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentation]]. It was Parangosky who then steered the conversation to Operation: PROMETHEUS, the end results of which were still unknown to Mendez and Kurt. She told the former Spartan-II that Alpha Company's loss was regrettable, but that she and the other officers present would order the operation again if presented with a similar opportunity. The Spartan-IIIs had stopped the Covenant from being able to manufacture any further ships at the asteroid [[K7-49]], and to hear Parangosky tell it this made them heroes. Once Kurt indicated he'd understood what she was saying, the vice admiral let him know she'd put him in for a promotion and that he was to be commended for his Spartans' performance. But as there was still a war to win, she also wanted him to focus and accelerate the training of those who would form the second company.{{Ref/Reuse|HGOOC8}} | ||