PROGRESS REPORT/OPERATION HYPODERMIC

PROGRESS REPORT/OPERATION HYPODERMIC were a set of reports sent to ONI Section Three's secure antenna array Omega in Reach's FLEETCOM Military Complex, between Codename: COALMINER and Codename: SURGEON, regarding the progress on Operation: HYPODERMIC.

July 19, 2532

On July 19, 2532, COALMINER sent a report detailing the arrival of the SPARTAN-III Alpha Company candidates to Onyx.

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///AUTOMATED REROUTE UNSC SHIP REG-96667
ABY/// FILE ACCESS GRANTED///WORM-PROTOCOL FIREWALL
ENABLED/FILE ERASED///

PLNB TRANSMISSION XX087R-XX
ENCRYPTION CODE: GAMMA
PUBLIC KEY: N/A
FROM: CODE NAME COALMINER
TO: CODE NAME SURGEON
SUBJECT: PROGRESS REPORT/OPERATION HYPODERMIC
CLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY, CODE-WORD [BLANK] TOP SECRET (SECTION THREE X-RAY DIRECTIVE)

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INSTITUTIONAL RECORD ALTERED AS PER INSTRUCTION.
INITIAL CONTACT WITH BASE AI MADE. HELPFUL, BUT I DON'T TRUST IT.
PACKAGES DELIVERED. SELECTION PROCESS STARTED. OPERATION UNDERWAY AND ON SCHEDULE.
CANDIDATES EXHIBIT MARKED AGGRESSION WELL OUT OF BOUNDS OF THE SMITH-KENSINGTON INDEX. AS MUCH WORK TRAINING THEM AS IT IS KEEPING THEM FROM MURDERING EACH OTHER. THEY'RE REAL HELL-CATS.
LIEUTENANT CLAIMS ALL UNDER CONTROL. HE HAS A PLAN FOR EVERYTHING. UNSURE WHERE HE'S GETTING THIS CONFIDENCE, BUT I DO BELIEVE HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. ARE YOU SURPRISED?

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August 29, 2552

On August 29, 2552, COALMINER sent a report in which Cortana's inquiries into HYPODERMIC had been detected and were reported. Because of Cortana's intrusion, Template:UNSCship was removed from the station's records, keeping the Cole Protocol from being enacted on Circumference during the Battle of Reach.

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PLNB Priority Transmission XX087R-XX

Encription Code: GAMMA

Public Key: N/A

From: CODENAME: COALMINER

To: CODENAME: SURGEON

Subject: PROGRESS REPORT/OPERATION HYPODERMIC

Classification: EYES ONLY TOP SECRET (SECTION III

X-RAY DIRECTIVE)

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Secured space-dock repair bay. Corvette Circumference

undergoing final stealth upgrades. Shipyard records suc-

cessfully altered.

Queries detected from transient AI. Operation deemed AT

RISK of being uncovered.

As per contingency plan TANGO: ship registration num-

bers scrambled; hard isolated from dockside computer

network; counterintrusion software implemented; Alpha se-

curity protocols enacted onboard.

Just as you call it, sir. Don't worry––as far as the sta-

tion computers are concerned, Circumference never even

existed.

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