Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox I

ONI Section Zero Board//Surveillance transcription of internal communications

between subjects 'D' and 'S', 02.15.2550 0313 hrs//Full transcript available on

request//

['D'] Whatever it is you woke me for it had better be good. I have a 0600 with

Zero and I'm going to need my full four hours to keep ahead of them.

['S'] Yes, sir. It's one of the Unggoy we captured. It's offering information in

exchange for a deal.

['D'] A grunt? Why are you wasting my time? Those things don't know HOW to

tell the truth. Besides, something that far down the chain won't have access to

plans. Not beyond kitchen duty anyway.

['S'] You're right, sir. But it's not about the Covenant. The Unggoy says he was

snatched from the Covenant. You remember the attack on Carter Guard Armory

six weeks ago?

['D'] I'm still trying to make up the losses from the fallout. They took everything

we had and left no survivors. I've never seen the Covenant take our gear like

that before. Are you telling me we have a splinter group to contend with now?

['S'] Maybe. Whether they're our problem too is another matter. I started doing

some digging and the group's targets seem to be chiefly Covenant. I guess hit

what you know, eh? Anyway, I pulled the security vids of the raid to get the

Unggoy to identify the leader.

['D'] And did the grunt ID? Do we have a visual?

['S'] Pulling it up now. It's a little blurry, but what you're about to see is the

leader, a Jiralhanae, fighting a squad of ODSTs. There's a lot of blood, sir. It's not

an easy watch.

['D'] Good lord. Is he beating that ODST with...? Do we have a name?

['S'] We do, sir. From the Unggoy. Says his name is Atriox.

['D'] Make sure no one else talks to that grunt. I want this compartmentalized.

Some at ONI will see this as a problem to be fixed, not an opportunity. Find out

all you can on this Atriox and keep me informed.